Akkadian
Ancient Mesopotamian tongue
Akkadian is an ancient Semitic language spoken in Mesopotamia, the earliest known member of its language family with written records.
It was the lingua franca of the ancient Near East for centuries, preserved on clay tablets in cuneiform script.
The term also refers to the people and empire centered on the city of Akkad around 2300 BCE: Akkadian inscriptions, the Akkadian Empire.
Ancient Sumerian heroic verse
- Enuma ElishBabylonian cosmogonic narrative
- Code of HammurabiAncient Babylonian legal collection
- omensProphetic signs or warnings
- hymnsReligious songs of worship
incantations · royal inscriptions · treaties · letters · administrative · legal · literary · divination
Tigris-Euphrates river region
- ancientVery old indeed
- TigrisWestern Asian river
- EuphratesMajor Iraqi river
- templesHoly places or head sides
ziggurats · agriculture · irrigation · trade · artisans · religion · Ishtar · Marduk
Stylus-impressed ancient script
- SumerianEarliest known civilization
- SemiticOf Hebrew or Arabic peoples
- BabylonianOf ancient Mesopotamian empire
- AssyrianAncient Mesopotamian people
syllabary · logogram · clay tablets · decipherment · grammar · vocabulary · extinct · ancient
Akkadian empire founder
- MesopotamiaTigris-Euphrates river region
- dynastySuccessive family rulers
- conquestDefeating and seizing control
- Bronze AgeEarly metalworking civilization period
territorial · military · centralization · tribute · expansion · city-states · ancient · collapse
Epic of Gilgamesh
Ancient Sumerian heroic verse
- Enuma ElishBabylonian cosmogonic narrative
- Code of HammurabiAncient Babylonian legal collection
- omensProphetic signs or warnings
hymns · incantations · royal inscriptions · treaties · letters · administrative · legal · literary · divination · astronomical
Mesopotamia
Tigris-Euphrates river region
temples · ziggurats · agriculture · irrigation · trade · artisans · religion · Ishtar · Marduk · mythology
cuneiform
Stylus-impressed ancient script
- SumerianEarliest known civilization
- SemiticOf Hebrew or Arabic peoples
- BabylonianOf ancient Mesopotamian empire
Assyrian · syllabary · logogram · clay tablets · decipherment · grammar · vocabulary · extinct · ancient · phonology
Sargon
Akkadian empire founder
- MesopotamiaTigris-Euphrates river region
- dynastySuccessive family rulers
- conquestDefeating and seizing control
Bronze Age · territorial · military · centralization · tribute · expansion · city-states · ancient · collapse · succession