Years -2330

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Events

Sargon, former Semitic officer (wine waiter) of the king of Kish Our-Zababa, the détrône, then cuts down Lougalzagesi, king of Uruk. It seizes its kingdom, then of Ur, Lagash and Umma. It founds a new capital, Agadé or Akkad, close to Kish, whose exact site remains ignored. Grace in particular to the invention of a powerful arc with long range, it increases its empire during a series of campaigns towards the east and the west: thirty-four victories in Syria (Ebla), Élam (Awan and Warahshe), Iran (country of Anshan of Marhashi), Oman, etc It is made main of a vast part of the territory near Eastern to the the Mediterranean to south-west to the Iran.

creation by Sargon of the first empire known to have had the privilege of a certain duration marks for the Mésopotamie the end of the mode of the city-States, the testing period of a capacity in definitely Semitic matter, the introduction of a new unit ideology and the test of new administrative experiments.

Under the empire of Agadé, first known experiment of unit monarchy carried out on the scale of Mésopotamie, Sargon and its successors appear to have acted with a certain administrative flexibility, in particular with regard to the distant and nonSemitic provinces, as Élam which preserved its institutions. Elsewhere the king placed as often as possible ensi (governors) to replace the local authorities, while leaving of use the traditional titles.

the practical empire akkadien a maritime trade with the valley of the Indus (Meluhha), the coasts of the Arabic peninsula (Magan) and the island of Bahrain (Dilmun).

the legends sumériennes of Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, are put in writing (- 2330, - 2000). They amongst other things report the first version of the flood.

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