CIVILIZATION
AKKADIAN
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Question
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Hammurabi
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Sargon
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Ur Nammu
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Ashurbanipal
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Detailed explanation-1: -’In the 2100s BC, the Gutians destroyed the city of Akkad and supplanted the ruling Sargonic dynasty with their own line of kings of Sumer.
Detailed explanation-2: -Displacing Ur-Zababa, Sargon was crowned king, and he entered upon a career of foreign conquest. Four times he invaded Syria and Canaan, and he spent three years thoroughly subduing the countries of “the west” to unite them with Mesopotamia “into a single empire".
Detailed explanation-3: -In 2334 BC king Sargon of Akkad conquered all of Sumer. His empire, known as “the Land of Sumer and Akkad", united the various city-states and reached as far as Lebanon.
Detailed explanation-4: -Sargon, byname Sargon of Akkad, (flourished 23rd century bce), ancient Mesopotamian ruler (reigned c. 2334–2279 bce) who was one of the earliest of the world’s great empire builders, conquering all of southern Mesopotamia as well as parts of Syria, Anatolia, and Elam (western Iran).