Brno 1 History Geographic Zones and Economy Geographic Zones and Economy.jpg Farmers and Shepherds: Rainfall Nissen, Rainfall.jpg Steppe and State: Contraction and Expansion Geography fig 3.jpg Use of Steppe: Tribes Postgate 1-3.jpg Languages and Scripts Geography fig 4.jpg Third Millennium: Sumerians and Akkadians Map Mesopotamia Postgate Modified.jpg Earlier Third Millennium City States Geography fig 6.jpg Later Third Millennium: Akkadian and Neo-Sumerian Empires vdMieroop 4-1.jpg Early Second Millennium: Babylonia vdMieroop 5-1.jpg First Half Second Millennium: Babylonian and Assyrian Empires vdMieroop 6-2.jpg Late Bronze Age: Middle Assyrian Empire Kaartje MAss rijk ca 1200 BC.jpg Late Bronze Age: Final Stages Geography fig 7.jpg Iron Age: Neo-Assyrian Empire vdMieroop 12-1.jpg The End of Cuneiform: Cyrus and Alexander Alexander.jpg