Akkadians
Sargon's imperial subjects
The Akkadians were a Semitic people of ancient Mesopotamia who established the Akkadian Empire around 2334 BCE under Sargon of Akkad—often called history's first empire.
Their language, Akkadian, became the lingua franca of the ancient Near East for over a millennium.
The term now refers to the people, their language, or their cultural legacy: Akkadian cuneiform tablets, the Akkadian period.
Tigris-Euphrates river region
- SargonAkkadian empire founder
- empireDomain under unified control
- cuneiformStylus-impressed ancient script
- BabylonAncient Mesopotamian capital
Sumer · city-states · irrigation · ziggurats · Tigris · Euphrates · bronze · temples
Akkadian empire founder
- dynastySuccessive family rulers
- conquestDefeating and seizing control
- empireDomain under unified control
- collapseSudden structural failure
succession · reign · campaigns · monuments · stele · annals · chronology · rulers
Mesopotamia
Tigris-Euphrates river region
- SargonAkkadian empire founder
- empireDomain under unified control
- cuneiformStylus-impressed ancient script
Babylon · Sumer · city-states · irrigation · ziggurats · Tigris · Euphrates · bronze · temples · palaces
Sargon
Akkadian empire founder
- dynastySuccessive family rulers
- conquestDefeating and seizing control
- empireDomain under unified control
collapse · succession · reign · campaigns · monuments · stele · annals · chronology · rulers · unification
Semitic
Of Hebrew or Arabic peoples
- cuneiformStylus-impressed ancient script
- SumerianEarliest known civilization
- loanwordsAdopted foreign vocabulary
syllabary · tablets · inscriptions · bilingual · lexicon · grammar · phonology · dialects · Babylonian · Assyrian
Ishtar
Babylonian goddess of love
rituals · omens · divination · mythology · pantheon · offerings · incantations · prayers · festivals · afterlife