Sargon & the Pax Akkadiana
A History of Mankind (18)
In contrast with the stately procession of Egypt's pharaohs, coming one after the other with little fuss, the city-states and mini-countries of Mesopotamia and the surrounding regions spent much of the 3rd millennium BC raising armies to fight for dominance.
The brief ascendancy of Ur was halted, not for the last time, by Elamite raids and the hostility …
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