Early Empires Part 2

3200 B.C.: First Pictographs start being used

3000 B.C.: Pictographs turn into signs to write Sumerian

2400 B.C.: Signs turn into Cuneiform

2350 B.C.: Mesopotamia united under Sargon of Akkad (The Akkadian Empire

2150 B.C.: The Akkadian Empire crumbles

1792 B.C.: Hammurabi creates a new empire (The Babylonian Empire)

1595 B.C.: Babylonian Empire crumbles

The Akkadian Empire eventual crumbled in about 2150 B.C.

fell due to attacks from the outside as well as cities revolting from the inside (a common pattern in empires)