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Sumerians were the creators of the first Mesopotamian Civilization.
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Sumerians cities were surrounded by walls made of sun dried bricks.
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Sumerians established a number of independent cities in southern Mesopotamia, including Eridu, UR, and Uruk.
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As cities expanded they started to have political and economic control over the surrounding country side, which formed the city states and that is the basic units of Sumerian civilization.
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Sumerians believed that the gods ruled the cities, making the state a theocracy (government by divine authority).
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The city began its rise to power when King Hammurabi took control in 1792 BC
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Hammurabi was the leader of Babylon who gained control of a new Mesopotamian kingdom after the fall of the akkadian empire.
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they first rose to power when the akkadian empire fell, but in 1781 they fell when their leader died and the babylonian empire took over.
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they rose again, this time they conquered all of mesopotamia which included much of the middle east.
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Also known as the Neo-Babylonian Empire: or something related to the "2nd babylonian empire".
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The Babylonians turned to be the most powerful state when the Assyrians took their fall in 612 BCE
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They took their fall once the Persian king Cyrus took on Babylonians.
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Once again fell apart when the persians conquered the babylon and made it part of the persian empire.