Sargon of Akkad; also known as Sargon the Great. Akkadian emperor famous for his conquest of the Sumerian city-states in the 24th and 23rd centuries BC. The founder of the Dynasty of Akkad; Sargon reigned during the penultimate quarter of the third millennium BC.

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