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Assyria - End of the Old Assyrian Empire

Time: 1760s BC

Place: Mesopotamia (Present-Day Iraq)

Details: After Shamsi-Adad I's death Assyria was reduced to vassalage by Hammurabi; Mut-Ashkur (1763–1753 BC), Rimush and Asinum were subservient to Hammurabi, who also took ownership of Assyrian trading colonies, thus bringing an end to the Old Assyrian Empire.

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