| In ancient times, Iraq was home to several civilisations, including the Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, and Assyrians. |
| Certainly in terms of their number system the Babylonians inherited ideas from the Sumerians and from the Akkadians. |
| Batou said that like the American Indians, the native people of Iraq, such as the Assyrians, Chaldeans and Akkadians, lost their homeland. |
| Syria was settled successively by the Akkadians, Arameans, and Canaanites, and formed a valuable province of successive empires, from the Phoenicians to the Byzantines. |
| The Akkadians invented the abacus as a tool for counting and they developed somewhat clumsy methods of arithmetic. |
| The first group of people to take over the Mesopotamia region was the Akkadians. |
