Amurru Göçleri ve Amurruların Eski Önasya Tarihindeki Rolleri

Abstract

As known, the role of the Amorite migrations which is one of the migrations of Semitic tribes can not be denied in ancient history. Because, as a result of these migrations societies in Ancient Fore Asia gained their real identities. At the end of the Migrations which occured between the ends of the Third Millenium and the beginnings of the Second Millenium B.C. The Third Ur Dynasty was collapsed and the whole political power was seized by Semitic Amorites. The word “Martu” means “West” in Sumerian language. However the Semitic tribes called the Martu as “Amorites”. As it is understood, Sumerians named the tribes living in deserts as “Martu” meaning “coming from the North” whom we call them Bedouins or Nomads ics today. The Amorites or the Martu scattering around the Mesopotamian sites in a very short time made the Mesopotamia wrap in a totally Semitic identity soon. Moreover, as the states established by Amorites tribes were covering all over the place, Sumerian language left its place to Akkadian language and writing. This is because the Amorites took the culture existing before them as granted and their ancestors spoke and wrote in Akkadian language like the Akkadians. Amorite language had never been used in official records