Mesopotamia gave rise to history’s first imperial conquerors: the Akkadians. But they could never have done it without the Sumerians, who had already invented cities, kingdoms, and civilization itself. This video tells their story.
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This is the first episode in a series covering the Akkadian Empire.
Sources & further reading:
Dawn of Civilization (David Graeber & David Wengrow)
Mesopotamia: The Invention of the City (Gwendolyn Leick)
A History of the Ancient Near East, ca. 3000-323 BC (Marc Van de Mieroop)
Ancient Iraq: Third Edition (Georges Roux)
Ancient Mesopotamia: Portrait of a Dead Civilization (A. Leo Oppenheim)
Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others (Stephanie Dalley)
Pre-Sargonic Period: Early Periods, Volume 1 (2700-2350 BC) (Douglas R. Frayne)
The Age of Agade: Inventing Empire in Ancient Mesopotamia (Benjamin R. Foster)
Akkad, the first world empire: structure, ideology, traditions (Mario Liverani)
0:00 - Migratory tentshow
0:50 - Intro to Akkadian Empire
1:46 - Origins of Mesopotamian civilization
5:26 - Uruk Period: temple rule
13:26 - Early Dynastic Period: rule of “great men“
17:48 - End of the Early Dynastic Period
20:47 - Sargon of Akkad arrives...
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