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The "New Babylonians" occupy the Ur ( the major city and later the capital of the Sumerian empire in southern Mesopotamia).
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Mesopotamia is an ancient region in the eastern Mediterranean. Arameans decided to invade Mesopotamia to take all there goods.
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Phrygians invade Anatolia and then later destroy the Hittite empire
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The Babylons are under the Assyria control. Assyria was a Mesopotamian empire that grew out of the city-state of Ashur.
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The hittites were an ancient anatolian people who spoke a language of the Anatolian branch of the indo-European language family and established a kingdom centered at Hattusa in on the central Anatolian plateau in the 18th century BC.
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The Kingdom of Mittani (known to the people of the land, and the Assyrians, as Hanigalbat and to the Egyptians as Naharin and Metani) once stretched from present-day northern Iraq, down through Syria and into Turkey and was once considered a great nation.
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Assyria was a Mesopotamian empire that grew out of the city-state of Ashur. It can be seen to be the first empire in history, as at its peak Assyria extended from Anatolia in the west, to Armenia in the north, to Media in the east, and to Egypt in the south.
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Egypt's empire extended over neighbouring areas, from Upper Nubia to the Euphrates river. But Egypt was also linked to other countries through trade, and many foreigners came to reside in Egypt, producing a cosmopolitan society.
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The Kingdom of Mitanni founded about 1500 BC in northern Mesopotamia was a feudal state with hierarchically organized society. Under the king who was the supreme authority was warrior nobility which received land as inalienable fiefs. Feudalism became predominant form of government throughout the ancient Near East by the middle of 2nd millennium BC.
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Hammurabi (1792-1750 BC) was king of Babylonia, and the greastest ruler in the first Babylonian dynasty. He extended his empire northward from the Persian Gulf through the Tigris and Eupharates river valleys and westward to the coast of the Mediteranean Sea.
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Hammurabi (the maker of the Hammurabi code and Babylonion) destroys the town of Mari
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The Code of Hammurabi is a well-preserved Babyloian law code, dating back to about 1772 BC. It is one of the oldest deciphered writings of significant length in hte world.
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Assyria was a Semitic Akkadian kingdom, extant as a nation state frome the late 25th or early 24th century BC to 608 BC
