The Births of the Fertile Crescent and the Akkadian Empire, the Rise of the World's First Civilization of the Middle East

The one of the three first civilizations of the human kind was formed in the Fertile Crescent, which forms the present territories of Iraq. The City State of Sumer had united the Southern Mesopotamia while the City of Akkad had united the north. The City of Akkad of Northern Mesopotamia have united the entire region and it formed the first empire in the world under the leadership of its talented king, Sargon the Great.