What is the difference between a citystate and

What is the difference between a city-state and an empire?

In a group of city-states, each city-state is independent and rules by its own king.

No central power controlled all of the city-states.

In an empire, consisting of a nation and the city-states and nations it has conquered, one ruler is in control.

Sargon Usurped the throne, of the King of Kish, to whom he was a servant, then gathered an army and conquered all of Sumer’s city -states.

Sargon �Created the first empire, united several previously independent city-states under one power.

Sargon �Weakened because the conquered city-states continued to struggle against the rule of a central government and because enemies could easily invade the city-states on a flat, open plain. His empire eventually fell to the Guitans, fierce warriors from the Zagros mountains.

Shamshi-Adad �Conquered what is now Lebanon, overthrew the King of Mari and made his son king, and created the empire of Assyria.

Shamshi-Adad �Held his lands together by trade as well as by force; exchanged Mesopotamian products for valuable foreign goods such as copper, tin and silver.

Shanshi-Adad �Was defeated by Hammurabi and his Babylonian army.

Hammurabi �Conquered the lands east to the Zagros Mountains and south to Uruk then marched north and defeated all of Mesopotamia, including Assyria.

Hammurabi �Ruled all of Mesopotamia; maintained a strong central government and sent governors , judges, tax collectors and military commanders to all his lands; created the Code of Hammurabi, 282 carefully chosen laws of Babylonia covering all matters that were important to the people, and had it carved on a slab of stone and made public.

Hammurabi �Began to fall apart after Hammurabi’s death.