Sargon of Akkad: The First Empire Founder 🌍

Long before my burgeoning YouTube empire, there was Sargon of Akkad.

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Source/Further reading:

https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/akka/hd_akka.htm

https://www.britannica.com/place/Mesopotamia-historical-region-Asia/Sumerian-civilization#ref361196

https://phys.org/news/2019-01-climate-world-empire-collapse.html#:~:text=Akkadia%20was%20the%20world%27s%20first,through%20to%20Syria%20and%20Turkey

https://www.livius.org/sources/content/anet/266-the-sumerian-king-list/

https://www.ancient.eu/Inanna/

https://www.openculture.com/2020/03/meet-the-worlds-first-known-author-sumerian-high-priestess-enheduanna.html

https://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/etcsl.cgi?text=t.2.1.4#

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/people/reference/king-sargon-akkad/

https://www.jstor.org/stable/1005411?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents

https://books.google.ro/books?id=zN2kqjun3VAC&pg=PT228&lpg=PT228&dq=anointed+of+Anu,+king+of+the+land,+governor+of+Enlil:+he+defeated+the+city+of+Uruk&source=bl&ots=CyLrG8_1rS&sig=ACfU3U169XiQ_hpFi9HUFNUOaERBiJn00w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi2wuqU6a_uAhVPhqQKHWSlCDEQ6AEwA3oECAMQAg#v=onepage&q=anointed%20of%20Anu%2C%20king%20of%20the%20land%2C%20governor%20of%20Enlil%3A%20he%20defeated%20the%20city%20of%20Uruk&f=false

https://www.thoughtco.com/which-was-the-worlds-first-empire-121163