Topic summary
Sumero-Akkadian
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Babylonia.
Pre-Babylonian Sumero-Akkadian period
Mesopotamia had already enjoyed a long history before the emergence of Babylon, with Sumerian civilization emerging in the region c. 5400 BC, and the Akkadian-speakers who would go on to form Akkad, Assyria, and Babylonia appearing somewhere between the 35th and 30th century BC.