Mesopatamia

=**The history of ancient Mesopotamia begins with the emergence of urban societies during the Ubaid period (5300 BC). The history of the Ancient Near East is taken to end with either the arrival of the Acheamid empire in the 6th century BC, or with the Islamic Conquest of Mesopotamia and the establishment of the Cali phat, from which point the region came to be known as Iraq.**= =**Mesopotamia housed some of the world's most ancient highly developed and socially complex states. The region was famous as one of the four riverine civilizations where Writing was first invented, along with the Nile valley in Egypt, the Indus Vally in the Indian Subcontinent, and Yellow River valley in China (Although writing is also known to have arisen independently in Mesoamerica).**= =**Mesopotamia housed historically important cities such as Ukur, Nippur, Nineveh, and Babylon, as well as major territorial states such as the city of Ma-asesblu, the Akkadian kingdom, the Third dynasty of UR and the Assyrian empire. Some of the important historical Mesopotamian leaders were Ur-nammu (king of Ur), Sargon (who established the Akkadian Kingdom), Hammumbi (who established the Old Babylonian state), and Tiglath Plesier (who established the Assyrian Empire).**= =**"Ancient Mesopotamia" begins in the late 6th millennium B.C, and ends with either the rise of the Archemid Persians in the 6th century BC or the**= =**Muslim conquest of Mesopotamia in the 7th century CE.**=

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