Invaders
swept
into
Mesopotamia
after
Hammurabi's
____________________
in
1750
B
.
C
.
Hundreds
of
years
____________________
before
the
Assyrians
,
a
people
of
northern
____________________
,
united
the
region
____________________
.
In
time
,
the
Assyrian
empire
gave
way
to
the
powerful
____________________
empire
.