Chapter 1, Section 3 The First Empires. The Assyrians 1,000 years after Hammurabi a new empire arose in Mesopotamia. It was the Assyrians who lived north.
Nearly 4,000 years ago, a man named Hammurabi became king of a city-state called Babylon. Today Babylon only exists as an archaeological site in.
Fertile Crescent
The Advantaged Old World: Mesopotamia and the Americas.
Fertile Crescent. Where is the fertile crescent? The heart land of the middle East.