As far as we know, the world's first empire was formed about 2250 B.C., by Sargon the Great, in Mesopotamia. His empire included the Sumerian cities of the Tigris-Euphrates Delta. After taking control of these, Sargon went into Syria to the Taurus Mountains near Cyprus. Sargon is, less plausibly, said to have gone into Egypt, India, and Ethiopia. The capital of Sargon's empire was at Agade (Akkad), a city whose precise location is not known for certain, but which gave its name to the empire, Akkadian.
790,000 square miles ----------- There is a link to a map of the Ottoman Empire in 1566, when Suleiman the Magnificent died, below.
he was chosen by his people!
What is Polytheism? - The worship of many gods.Who is Gilgamesh? -One of Uruk's kings and the hero of the Akkadian Gilgamesh Epic.How did Sargon build an empire? - He had lots of soldiers and they all defeated the states and eventually got enough land to build the first empire.How did trade affect Sumerian society? - When they traded they would trade for copper gold and crops.How far West did Sargon's empire stretch? - It stretched about 1100 miles long.
as far as Switzerland
Sargon's empire stretched west as far as Anatolia (Turkey) and perhaps even Cyprus.
As far as we know, the world's first empire was formed about 2250 B.C., by Sargon the Great, in Mesopotamia. His empire included the Sumerian cities of the Tigris-Euphrates Delta. After taking control of these, Sargon went into Syria to the Taurus Mountains near Cyprus. Sargon is, less plausibly, said to have gone into Egypt, India, and Ethiopia. The capital of Sargon's empire was at Agade (Akkad), a city whose precise location is not known for certain, but which gave its name to the empire, Akkadian.
As far as we know, the world's first empire was formed about 2250 B.C., by Sargon the Great, in Mesopotamia. His empire included the Sumerian cities of the Tigris-Euphrates Delta. After taking control of these, Sargon went into Syria to the Taurus Mountains near Cyprus. Sargon is, less plausibly, said to have gone into Egypt, India, and Ethiopia. The capital of Sargon's empire was at Agade (Akkad), a city whose precise location is not known for certain, but which gave its name to the empire, Akkadian.
2,500 miles
they were a unified empire that extended for over 1600 miles.
The Mongol Empire streached from China all the way to Eastern Europe.
790,000 square miles ----------- There is a link to a map of the Ottoman Empire in 1566, when Suleiman the Magnificent died, below.
he was chosen by his people!
What is Polytheism? - The worship of many gods.Who is Gilgamesh? -One of Uruk's kings and the hero of the Akkadian Gilgamesh Epic.How did Sargon build an empire? - He had lots of soldiers and they all defeated the states and eventually got enough land to build the first empire.How did trade affect Sumerian society? - When they traded they would trade for copper gold and crops.How far West did Sargon's empire stretch? - It stretched about 1100 miles long.
From today's Libya, through Egypt and the Middle East, to Central Asia and today's Pakistan.
You can not safely stretch tires.
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