Compare And Contrast Egyptian Empire And Akkadian Empire

An empire in lamest terms is a political unit, that is ran by a single leader, that controls a large group of people and other territories. I like to think of it as a government on steroids. The Akkadian Empire for example was originally under the authority of Sargon. He controled thousands of people, the Mesopotamian area, and several city-states. The Akkadian Empire was a Monarchy. They operated under a chain of father-to-son ruling this was called a dynasty, in specific the Sargon dynasty. Before any of the sons became ruler of the empire they first became governers over some of the major cities and once the leader became too old to rule or passed away, the eldest son would become the new leader. When they had daughters, they were made high priestesses. Sargon was best known for being the first leader but he is also commonly known for being controversially the strongest leader as well. He expanded his land and constantly challenged other nearby civilizations. He was known as "King of the Universe" for the amount of land that he had conquored. A notable accomplishment that Sargon made was conquoring the Sumerians. He died in 2279 b.c. Rimush(2278–2270 BC) ruled for only a period of 9 years before he was assisinated by some neighboring territories. Similarly, Manishtushu(2269–2255 BC)

Akkadian culture was just basically Sumerian culture with a few modifications. They adopted the Sumerian calendar, weights and measurements, religion, numbers, business methods and art. So basically they stole their whole culture and added onto it. One thing that they didn 't steal was Sumerian language. Akkadians had their own language which thankfully is easy to pronounce. Their language was known as Old Akkadian, yes it 's very creative. Old Akkadian is the earliest Semite known. Semite was basically the collective term to describe all of Western Asia. This language must have been as easy to speak as it was to say because this language was still used as late as the 6th