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Ancient Mesopotamia

Northern Mesopotamia in the third and second millennia BC saw an explosion in new city states. Although the north was much less developed or advanced than Sumerian civilisation in the south, by 1800 BC there was a thriving network of small cities which vied for supremacy... and survival.

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