Akkadian Empire (1 gen 2334 anni a. C. – 1 gen 2154 anni a. C.)

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"In 2331 B.C.E., Sargon, the king of a city to the north of Sumer, conquered a number of Sumerian cities with what was probably the world’s first permanent army and created a large state."

"Sargon tore down the defensive walls of Sumerian cities and appointed his own sons as their rulers to help him cement his power. He also appointed his daughter, Enheduana (2285–2250 B.C.E.), as high priestess in the city of Ur. Here she wrote a number of hymns, especially those in praise of the goddess Inanna, becoming the world’s first author to put her name to a literary composition."

"Then his empire collapsed, in part because of a period of extended drought, and the various city-states became independent again. One group of immigrants into Mesopotamia were the Amorites (AM-uh-rites), who migrated from the west. The Amorites were initially nomadic pastoralists, not agriculturalists, but they began to raise crops when they settled throughout Mesopotamia. They founded several city-states after Sargon’s dynasty ended, one of which was Babylon along the middle Euphrates, where that river runs close to the Tigris. Babylon became more than a city-state, growing to include smaller territories whose rulers recognized the king of Babylon as their overlord."

“The Assyrians had inhabited northern Mesopotamia since the third millennium B.C.E., forming a kingdom that grew and shrank in size and power over the centuries. During the time of Sargon of Akkad (r. ca. 2334–2279 B.C.E.), they were part of the Akkadian empire, then independent, then part of the Babylonian empire under Hammurabi, then independent again.”

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