Assyrian Empire -
Akkadian gradually replaced Sumerian as the spoken language of Mesopotamia somewhere after the turn of the 3rd and the 2nd millennium BC (the exact dating being a matter of debate). letter sent by the high-priest lumen to the king of lagash informing his sons death in combat, 2400 BC, found in girsu. these places are were the Assyrians conquered : Syria Babylonia Egypt phoenica and palesine Assyrians was a major Mesopotamian kingdom, and empire, of the,Ancient Near East existing as an independent state for a period of approximately nineteen centuries from c. 2500 BC to 605 BC,spanning theEarly Bronze Age through to the late Iron Age.