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Vol 2 Ep 11 - SUMMARY - The Ancient Near East

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The History of the Akadian Empire

Sargon would take the Sumerian cities one by one including the mighty city of Orr. The official language of this land would change from Sumerian to the Semitic Akadian language. It is even reported in some texts that Sargan managed to successfully conquer the lands of Mary and Ebla meaning that his empire stretched from the Persian Gulf in the southeast to the Mediterranean Sea in the northwest. In the grand scheme of things though the conquests were like nothing ever seen before it would be relatively short lived. An equally short lived and mighty empire rose from the ashes of the Akadian Empire when Ornamu of Or would establish a new neo-Sumirian kingdom known

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