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How did Sumerians and Akkadians come to dominate Mesopotamia?

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Because they were there. The Sumerians and Agade peoples werethe first settlers of that region, indeed the Sumerians are generally considered to be the first civilisation at all. How could they not come to dominate it? read more

Bronze head of Sargon of Akkad was the first Mesopotamian ruler to control both southern and northern Babylonia, thus becoming the king of Sumer and Akkad and inaugurating the Akkadian Empire. ( Wikimedia Commons ) In 2350 BC, Sargon conquered all the Sumerian city-states, uniting them under his rule, creating the first Mesopotamian Empire. read more

The earliest urban settlements were Sumerian -- speaking a language with no obvious relations to any modern language. By around 2500 BC Sumerian was overtaken by Akkadian as the main language of the region -- Akkadian being an eastern Semitic language related to, but not directly ancestral to Arabic. read more

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