The Mesopotamian

mixing Bowl
Between 2004 – 1750 BC
-What happened to Mesopotamia after the
III dynasty

-How is power shifting between rulers.

-Who became the new overlord of he

region.

-Who is Hammurabi and what is his plan.

Now Isin Dynasty is fighting the cities of Larsa and Eshnunna
Isin Dynasty >>> Ishbi-erra>>>>>> Ishbi- Erra son (no name)
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Cities in the North like (Assur and Mari) are bulding high walls and creating trade routes.
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Later, fifth king of larsa (Gungunum) Attacks and controls the cities of Susa, Nipur, and Ur)
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A village of Babylon starts to bulid walls and becomes a city ruled by (Sumu-abum)
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The Elamites attack and capture a weakened Larsa and (Rim-sin) becomes ruler.
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Shmshi-Adad invades and controles Assur, Ekallatum and mari. Also Arbela and Nineveh.
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In 1792 Hammurabi comes to power of Babylon.

After the sack of Ur, most of the scattered cities which had once been under
the protection of the Third Dynasty kings had not managed to reassert
themselves as powers in their own right. There were only three possible
challengers: two ancient Sumerian cities that had managed to retain some
independent power after the Ur III collapse, and the Elamites themselves.

The first of these cities, the city of Eshnunna, was far to the north, along the
right-hand bend of the Tigris river. Almost as soon as Ibbi-Sin began to run
into difficulties, Eshnunna had taken advantage of its distance from the
capital and rebelled. The city was certainly a threat to Ishbi-Erra’s power, but
it was also a long way away from Isin (and there were Amorites in the path).
On the other hand, the second independent city of old Sumer, Larsa, was
right on the southern plain that Ishbi-Erra coveted. It too had rebelled against
Ibbi-Sin’s rule, but its kingship had been claimed by an Amorite.
Up in the north, cities which had
once been under the watchful eye of
the Third Dynasty of Ur started to
reassert their own independence.
Assur rebuilt its walls and began
trading with the Western Semites
and also Mari did the same thing
The fight with Larsa had gone on
all this time, and Larsa, weakened
by constant battle, was an easy
target when the Elamites staged a
partial comeback. Sometime around
1834, a warrior-chief from
northwest Elam took Larsa for his
own and—not long afterwards—
captured Ur and Nippur as well. He
gave Larsa to his younger son,
Rim-Sin, to rule on his behalf.
three cities were worried enough
about Larsa’s growing might to
put aside their historic
differences and join together
against the common threat. The
king of Isin, the Amorite ruler of
Uruk, and the Amorite chief of
Babylon.
Rim-Sin wiped it out and
marched over to Uruk.
An invader appeared outside Assur’s
damaged walls. This warrior, a man
named Shamshi-Adad. Shamshi-
Adad had spent some years in
Babylon, and then had moved up
from Babylon and “seized the town
Ekallatum,”. Then he marched on
Assur, deposed the Eshnunna deputy,
and ascended the throne himself.
Shamshi- Adad put his older son
Ishme-Dagan in charge of
Ekallatum and Assur’s northwest
lands, and then seized control of the
land between the Tigris and
Euphrates. He marched west as far
as Mari, defeated Mari’s defensive
line.
IN 1792, the Amorite chief of Babylon died, and his
son Hammurabi succeeded him.
Hammurabi, according to the Babylonian king list,
was the great-great- great-grandson of Sumu-abum.
The massive holdings of Rim-Sin and Shamshi-Adad
sat on either side of Hammurabi’s Babylon like two
giants on either side of a man with a slingshot. If he
wanted to expand his holdings any more, Hammurabi
had to look either north or south. He turned south;
Rim-Sin’s conquest of Isin had left the city’s defenses
shattered. In 1787, five years after taking the throne
of Babylon, Hammurabi attacked Isin and took
control of it away from its Larsan garrison.
Even then, Hammurabi did not
immediately move north into
Assyrian territory. He bided his
time, building canals and
temples, reinforcing cities, and
strengthening his army. He
even established more-or-less
friendly relations with
Shamshi-Adad’s son Yasmah-
Adad, still ruling as king at
Mari, and also with the king of
Eshnunna, north of Babylon.