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• Akkad

  

  The Akkadian Empire was an empire centered in the city of Akkad (Sumerian: Agade Hittite KUR A.GA.DÈKI "land of Akkad"; Biblical Accad) and its surrounding region (Akkadian URU Akkad KI) in Ancient Iraq (Mesopotamia). It reached the height of its...

• Babylon

  

  Babylon was a city-state of ancient Mesopotamia, the remains of which are found in present-day Al Hillah, Babil Province, Iraq, about 85 kilometers (55 mi) south of Baghdad. All that remains of the original ancient famed city of Babylon today is a...

• Chaldea

• Mesopotamia

  

  Mesopotamia "land between the rivers" (Aramaic: ܒܝܬ ܢܗܪܝܢ "Bet Nahrain", Arabic: بلاد الرافدين translit: "Bilad Al-Rafidayn") is a name for the Tigris–Euphrates region in the eastern Mediterranean, largely corresponding to Iraq, as well as...

• Nineveh

  

  Nineveh (Akkadian: Ninua; Aramaic: ܢܝܢܘܐ; Hebrew: נינוה, Nīnewē; Arabic: نينوى, Naīnuwa), an "exceeding great city", as it is called in the Book of Jonah, lay on the eastern bank of the Tigris in ancient Assyria, across the river from the modern-day...

• Eridu

  

  Eridu (NUN.KI 𒉣𒆠; Sumerian:eridug; from the Sumerian for "mighty place") is an ancient city in what is now Tell Abu Shahrain, in Iraq. Eridu was the earliest city in southern Mesopotamia, founded c. 5400 BCE. Located 12 km southwest of Ur, Eridu was...

• Babylonia

  

  Babylonia was a civilization in Lower Mesopotamia (central and southern Iraq), with Babylon as its capital. Babylonia emerged when Hammurabi (fl. ca. 1696 – 1654 BC, short chronology) created an empire out of the territories of the former kingdoms...

• Sumer

  

  Sumer (Sumerian: 𒆠𒂗𒂠 ki-en-ĝir15 "Land of the Lords of Brightness", Akkadian: Šumeru; possibly Biblical Shinar) was a civilization and historical region in southern Iraq (Mesopotamia). It is the earliest known civilization in the world and is known...

• Hurrians

  

  The Hurrians (also Khurrites; cuneiform Ḫu-ur-ri 𒄷𒌨𒊑) were a people of the Ancient Near East who lived in Northern Mesopotamia and areas to the immediate east and west, beginning approximately 2500 BC. They probably originated in the Caucasus and...

• Babylonia and Assyria

  

  During the period when they were competing for dominance in Iraq, the neighbouring sister-states of Babylonia and Assyria differed essentially in character. Babylonia was a land of merchants and agriculturists; Assyria became an organized military...

• Babylonian law

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