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The babylonian empire reached its peak during the reign of Hammurabi. Hammurabi's most enduring legacy is the code of laws he put together.
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Nomadic warriors known as amorites invaded mesopotamia. Gradually, the ammorites overwhelmed the summerian and established at babylon, on the euphrates river.
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The city-states of sumer were almost constantly at war with one another
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A conquerer named sargon defeated the city-states of Sumer. Sargon led his army from akkad, a city-state north of sumer.
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After 25000 BC many summerian city-states came under the rule of dynasties
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after 2500 BC new cities were arising all over the fertile crescent in what is now syria, northern iraq, and turkey
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By 3000 BC the summerians built a number of cities, each surrounded by fields of barley and wheat
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after 3000 BC Wars between cities become more frequent
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people called summerians arrive on the scene
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People first began to settle and farm the flat, swampy lands in southern mesopotamia
