essay
The genesis and collapse of the Akkadian empire: the accidental refraction of historical law
akkad : the first world empire : structure, ideology, traditions • 5 • Published In 1993 • Pages: 131-155
By: Weiss, Harvey, Courty, M. A. (Marie-Agnès).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
A new model of the Akkadian empire results from recent archaeological fieldwork on the Habur Plains. This model situates the Akkadian empire at the end of a lengthy period of southern Mesopotamian state economy, evolution, and experimentation. Based on new archaeological data from Habur Plains, the authors describe how the introduction of a dry-farming method by the Akadian imperial government in the northern agricultural region in an attempt to increase production eventually failed because of a region-wide abrupt climatic change which severely disrupted agriculture, settlement, and politic-economic systems from southeast Europe to the Indus Valley. In this article Weiss and Courty describe in detail the effects of this environmental change on the lives of the people of the region.
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Akkadian
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2009
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle East
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Middle East
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle; 2008
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 4334-4113 BP (2334-2113 BC)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Akkadian Period, Mesopotamia: Current countries are Iraq, Syria, Turkey, and Iran
- NotesAdditional notes
- Harvey Weiss and Marie-Agnès Courty
- Proceedings of the Conference 'Akkad. Il primo impero universale: strutture, ideologia, tradizioni' held at the University of Rome 'La Sapienza' on December 5th to 7th, 1990
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 95100216
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Akkadians/Iraq History To 634