sargon was the king of the akkadians who conquered all of mesopotamia.
sargon was the king of the akkadians who conquered all of mesopotamia.
who was the king of the akkadians who conquered all of mesopotamia?
sargon
eannatum, the sumerian king of lagash, established one of the first verifiable empires in history in 2500 bc. the neighboring elam, in modern iran, was also part of the early urbanization during the chalcolithic period. elamite states were among the leading political forces of the ancient near east. the emergence of elamite written records from around 3000 bc also parallels sumerian history, where slightly earlier records have been found. during the 3rd millennium bc, there developed a very intimate cultural symbiosis between the sumerians and the akkadians. akkadian gradually replaced sumerian as a spoken language somewhere between the 3rd and the 2nd millennia bc. the semitic-speaking akkadian empire emerged around 2350 bc under sargon the great. the akkadian empire reached its political peak between the 24th and 22nd centuries bc. under sargon and his successors, the akkadian language was briefly imposed on neighboring conquered states such as elam and gutium. after the fall of the akkadian empire and the overthrow of the gutians, there was a brief reassertion of sumerian dominance in mesopotamia under the third dynasty of ur. after the final collapse of sumerian hegemony in mesopotamia around 2004 bc, the semitic akkadian people of mesopotamia eventually coalesced into two major akkadian-speaking nations: assyria in the north, and, a few centuries later, babylonia in the south.
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ancient iraq is referred to as mesopotamia and has throughout its history been a multiethnic and multicultural region. historically, ancient peoples who inhabited iraq were the sumerians and babylonians to the south, akkadians in the central-south and assyrians to the north of the country. an arab population has been present in the country as early as the second or third century bc, about four centuries before the islamic conquest in the seventh century. the earliest known recorded language in history is the sumerian language, originating in southern iraq (sumer-babylonia). during the third millennium bc, a very intimate cultural symbiosis developed between the sumerians of the south and the akkadians to further north in central mesopotamia, in which there was very widespread bilingualism of both peoples able to speak the sumerian and akkadian languages. the syriac language (which originated in mesopotamia), as well as christianity, has been present in iraq since the first century, which was introduced by thomas the apostle. christians in iraq are one of the world's oldest continuous communities in the world, and after palestine/israel, iraq is the location of the most biblical history than any other country in the world. before the advent of islam to iraq, the majority of the population who inhabited iraq followed various branches of eastern christianity, judaism or indigenous ancient mesopotamian religions. the pre-islamic people of iraq included people from various ethnic groups in mesopotamia; and the majority of them spoke the syriac language, despite not all being ethnic syriacs, assyrians or christians. syriac christianity first emerged in upper mesopotamia and the nestorian church (church of the east) and its successor churches were established in the major ancient mesopotamian greek-persian city of seleucia-ctesiphon in central-southern iraq. the first arab kingdom outside arabia was established in northern iraq in the second century and was called the kingdom of araba. additionally, the lakhmids were arabs present in parts of central-southern mesopotamia from the third century until the islamic conquest. the lakhmids were nestorian christians following syriac christianity, and were bilingual in both syriac and arabic, and contributed greatly to the church of the east. iraq boasts a rich and vital contribution to christian history, in particular eastern and syriac christianity, which has been the most dominant branch of christianity in iraq since its establishment for over fifteen centuries, and is one of the largest in the greater fertile crescent region (mesopotamia and the levant) as a whole. the lakhmids of mesopotamia have also played a key role in arab history; it was in the arab syriac christian capital of al-hirah where the alphabet of the arabic language was standardised. additionally, during the arab and islamic golden age, iraq and the capital baghdad became the centre of the scientific world for centuries, where the people of the region excelled in the development of medicine, biology, physics, chemistry, astronomy, mathematics, agriculture, economics, architecture, sociology, literature, art, poetry and philosophy, and included not only arabs and muslims, but also persians, syriacs, christians, nestorians, assyrians and others from various ethnoreligious backgrounds, which formed an integral part in the cultivation of arab civilization, of which iraq and its cultural diversity has played a key and major role in.
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