Sargon of Akkad and the Rise and Unravelling of the World’s First Territorial Empire, c. 2334–2154 BC | Calm Bedtime History
At Uruk, in the middle of the twenty-fourth century BC, the army of Sargon of Akkad defeated Lugalzagesi and brought the southern city-states beneath a new royal house. Beyond the river plain, officials, soldiers and scribes began to connect distant communities to the still-unfound city of Akkad.
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