Sargon of Akkad

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• Sargon of Akkad
• The First World Empire

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• From around 5000 years before Christ

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• farmers settle in the wide valley

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• between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers

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• in the actual Iraq

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• This area become known as

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• Mesopotamia

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• Mesopotamia means land between rivers

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• The southern part of
• Mesopotamia
• was Sumer

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• Each city in Sumer was run by a group of Nobleman

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• but in war times they chose a war-leader.

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• As war become most frequent

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• The war-leaders become kings

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• Sargon was one of this kings.

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• Around the year 2334 before Christ

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• he came from Akkad, the land just north of Sumer

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• He was a skilled soldier

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• and has control of a huge army

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• He conquer the whole Summer and Akkad

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• Creating the worlds first Empire

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• this mean the first multiethnic state

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• Sargon is almost entirely know by legends

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• He was the first man try to conquer the known word

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• His example was followed by

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• Alexander the Great 2000 years later

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• but this is other history

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• The End