Why is Assyria a part of a great Mesopotamian Civilization?

        Much of what we know about the history of Mesopotamia comes from the thousand tablets found in Assyrian cities.

        Assyria was initially a Sumerian-dominated region. Later, they became subject to the dynasty of the city state of Akkad during the Akkadian Empire.

        Assyrian rulers were subject to Sargon and his successors, and the city of Assur became a regional administrative centre of the Empire.

       Assyria was already firmly involved in trade in Asia Minor by this time; the earliest known reference to their trade post in Hatti was found on later cuneiform tablets describing the early period of the Akkadian Empire.

       After the decline of the Akkadian Empire, the rulers of Assyria once again became fully independent.

       Ushpia appears to have been the first fully urbanized independent king of Assyria. The oldest remains of the city Assur were discovered in the foundation of the Ishtar Gate.