This article stresses the importance of speed as an analytical category for the historian of the early Mesopotamian empires. Therefore, it outlines the development of Mesopotamian political organization from the rise of the first city to the first occurrence of empires in the 3rd millennium BC. It is argued that empires can be understood as accelerators. This is because of the immense territories they rule, in the case of Mesopotamia from the Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf, and in order to actually dominate these huge areas all empires have to accelerate their army, their communication and the transportation within their realm.
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