Akkadian

Refugees from the drought-stricken areas flooded major cities downriver, and the influx ultimately toppled the Akkadian civilization, the world's first empire.

Conditions in various regions have shifted abruptly and repeatedly, perh aps even at the time of the Akkadian collapse.

While the Egyptian unification involved city-states of similar language and culture, Sargon ruled over peoples with different languages and cultures, his Akkadians being dominant over the others.

The Akkadian language was of a type that came to be called Semitic.

The Akkadians invented the world's first body armor.

The Akkadians emphasized training and technology and used both to prevail for centuries against hostile Gutian, Elamite and Hurrian hill tribes to the East and marauding Amorite desert tribes to the West.