Sargon conquers Sumer
c. 2334 BCE (traditional) · Event
The cupbearer-turned-king of Kish defeats Lugalzagesi of Uruk, leads him in a neck-stock to Nippur and washes his weapons in the Persian Gulf — the first empire of Mesopotamia.
On these timelines: Mesopotamia & the Ancient Near East, The Bronze Age, Master
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