TCP/IP, transmission control protocol/internet protocol - a set of protocols (including TCP) developed for the internet in the 1970s to get data from one network device to another. etiquette - rules governing socially acceptable behavior.
The Early Dynastic period was brought to an end when Sargon (2334-2279) created the world's first empire, stretching the length and breadth of the fertile crescent. The impact of Sargon's unification of Sumer and Akkad resonated down through the history of Mesopotamia for the next two thousand years.
The Assyrian King list describes the first rulers in this area as dwelling in tents, i.e. nomadic. While northern Mesopotamia was under the control of the Akkadian and Ur III empires, after the collapse of the latter, Assyria went its own way.