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The End
he Empire of Akkad collapsed in 2154 BCE, after the death of the last emperor Shu-turul, within 180 years of its founding, ushering in a Dark Age period of regional decline. The empire collpsed due to an invasion of barbarian peoples from the Zagros Mountains known as the Gutians. -
Naram-Sin
Naram-Sin takes the power. The empire reaches its apex. He expanded his empire by defeating the King of Magan at the southern end of the Persian Gulf, and conquering the hill tribes to the north in the Taurus Mountains. The economy was highly planned. Grain was cleaned, and rations of grain and oil were distributed in standardized vessels made by the city's potters. Taxes were paid in produce and labour on public walls, including city walls, temples, irrigation canals and waterways, producing hu -
Rebuilt Ishtar
Manishtushu rebuilt the destroyed temple of Ishtar in Nineveh 2260 BCE. Ishtar was the East Semitic Akkadian, Assyrian and Babylonian goddess of fertility, love, war, and sex. -
Manishtushu
Manishtushu takes the power. He was the son of Sargon of Akkad and Queen Tashlultum, brother of En-hedu-ana and the father of Naram-Sin. He sailed a fleet down the Tigris River that eventually traded with 37 other nations as well as plundered silver mines. -
Death of Rimush
Rimush dies -
Rimush
Rimush son of Akkad takes the power and succesfully repressed widespread rebellions -
Daeth of Sargon
His empire immediately revolted upon hearing of the king's death. Most of the revolts were put down by his son and successor Rimush.
Sargon was regarded as a model by Mesopotamian kings for some two millennia after his death. -
Sargon's rise to power
Sargon the Great (who ruled 2334-2279 BCE) who unified Mesopotamia under the rule of his Akkadian Empire and set the standard for future forms of government in Mesopotamia. The stability provided by this empire gave rise to the construction of roads, improved irrigation, a wider sphere of influence in trade, as well as the above mentioned developments in arts and sciences.