Are Babylonians, Sumerians and Mesopotamians the same?

In summary, Sumer is the first of those civilizations and named that way by the Akkadians. Later, the Akkadians took over Sumer and established Babylonian civilization. Much later, the Greeks came and called the region Mesopotamia - the land of two rivers. read more

Sumer was one of the ancient civilization in southern Mesopotamia during the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze age. read more

Babylonia was a state in southern Mesopotamia, in modern Iraq, combining the territories of Sumer and Akkad. The earliest mention of the city of Babylon can be found in a tablet from the reign of Sargon of Akkad, dating back to the 23rd century BC. read more

The indigenous Sumerians and Akkadians (including Assyrians and Babylonians) dominated Mesopotamia from the beginning of written history (c. 3100 BC) to the fall of Babylon in 539 BC, when it was conquered by the Achaemenid Empire. read more