Someone give me a rundown on the rise and fall of Mesopotamia

they were ARYAN'D

>>2269291
>Sumerians appear, noone really knows where they came from, pretty much invent civilization
>semitic tribes learn from them and build their oen city states
>sumerian cities start to decline due to the lands getting overused by irrigation, some get taken over by Anatolian empires
>bronze age collapse happens and fucks the region up, trade collapses, cities near the coast get looted
>Assyiria gets mostly spared and take over most of the region with iron weapons. They like skinning and deporting people a lot.
>they even take over Egypt for some time but get overextended. Arabs move in to some territoris, some cities get independent and some get taken over by Persians
>Babylonia tries to larp as the new Assyria but they soon get conquered by the Achaemenid Empire

>>2269291
>build kingdom based on agriculture
>ruin your soil
>your kingdom dies

Oh, and something about barbarians raiding.

What is soil degration for $500, Alex.

>>2269291
With Jews, you lose.

Any good books on Mesopotamian history?

>>2269524
>>2269524

Have you ever actually seen an episode of Jeopardy?

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>>2269291
They ran out of Demigods to lead them and rape their women.

>>2269291
Lift ourselves out of stone age
Coalesce villages into larger villages
Allocate manpower under a theocratic ruler
Figure out irrigation, math, and writing
It spreads like crazy
City states everywhere now since we can now support a non agricultural populatiom
Idea of hedgemony since it would be a good idea to reform our land use since the cities are larger and more important
Sargon does it
Invaded from all sides by newly uplifted tribes
Collapse but leave a lasting mark forever and create the idea of empire