• Sumerians conquered the Akkadians -2350 B.C
• Akkadian gods took place of Sumerian gods
• Hammurabi of Babylon creates a series of laws known as Hammurabi's code- Laws based of "an eye for an eye" It has laws about marriages, and punishments for all sorts of crimes
• The expansion of Mediterranean civilization
• Indo-europeans were people from the grasslands of Russia who introduced the horse to the new east
• The warlike indo- europeans tribes know as the Hittites  settled in Asia minor
• The Hittites had trade and conquered nearly all of their neighbors, even threatening Egypt.