Dr. Paul Collins

So each year was given a name based on a spectacular event that had happened either the year before or earlier in the year in question. And it tells us a lot about what they thought was important in terms of events. And very often it's about conquests, it's about building, it's about great achievements of individual kings.

So each year was given a name based on a spectacular event that had happened either the year before or earlier in the year in question. And it tells us a lot about what they thought was important in terms of events. And very often it's about conquests, it's about building, it's about great achievements of individual kings.

Komplett. Und das wird der Standard, in dem die mesopotamischen Könige ihren Welt, ihren Zeitraum bis etwa 1500 B.C. und dann einige neue.

Komplett. Und das wird der Standard, in dem die mesopotamischen Könige ihren Welt, ihren Zeitraum bis etwa 1500 B.C. und dann einige neue.

Komplett. Und das wird der Standard, in dem die mesopotamischen Könige ihren Welt, ihren Zeitraum bis etwa 1500 B.C. und dann einige neue.

Teasing out from these very different types of sources, we get a sense that Sargon... Es emerge in diesem Weltraum von Stadtstädten. Und der wichtigste Stadtstaat, scheint es sich, im Mittelpunkt des dritten Jahrhunderts B.C. ist die Stadt Kish.

Teasing out from these very different types of sources, we get a sense that Sargon... Es emerge in diesem Weltraum von Stadtstädten. Und der wichtigste Stadtstaat, scheint es sich, im Mittelpunkt des dritten Jahrhunderts B.C. ist die Stadt Kish.

Teasing out from these very different types of sources, we get a sense that Sargon... Es emerge in diesem Weltraum von Stadtstädten. Und der wichtigste Stadtstaat, scheint es sich, im Mittelpunkt des dritten Jahrhunderts B.C. ist die Stadt Kish.

Lokiert ziemlich nahe an der modernen Stadt Bagdad, in der Nordenhalb dieser reichen, alluvialen Pläne der Mesopotamien, hat Kish, scheint es sich, große Bereiche der Region dominiert. Und Sargon, so seem the texts to imply, emerges out of this important political center and establishes his own base.

Lokiert ziemlich nahe an der modernen Stadt Bagdad, in der Nordenhalb dieser reichen, alluvialen Pläne der Mesopotamien, hat Kish, scheint es sich, große Bereiche der Region dominiert. Und Sargon, so seem the texts to imply, emerges out of this important political center and establishes his own base.

Lokiert ziemlich nahe an der modernen Stadt Bagdad, in der Nordenhalb dieser reichen, alluvialen Pläne der Mesopotamien, hat Kish, scheint es sich, große Bereiche der Region dominiert. Und Sargon, so seem the texts to imply, emerges out of this important political center and establishes his own base.

However he does it, he gathers together followers in sufficient numbers that he can rival the king of Kish in power and establish his own authority. And it is from that authority he marches out and conquers the other city-states of southern Mesopotamia.

However he does it, he gathers together followers in sufficient numbers that he can rival the king of Kish in power and establish his own authority. And it is from that authority he marches out and conquers the other city-states of southern Mesopotamia.

However he does it, he gathers together followers in sufficient numbers that he can rival the king of Kish in power and establish his own authority. And it is from that authority he marches out and conquers the other city-states of southern Mesopotamia.

Well, it's thought that he probably was a commoner in the sense that he's not a member of the royal family, although it's very hard to be certain about that, very difficult to be certain that he wasn't in some way related to a royal family. Yes, it's more kind of affirming his status, isn't it?

Well, it's thought that he probably was a commoner in the sense that he's not a member of the royal family, although it's very hard to be certain about that, very difficult to be certain that he wasn't in some way related to a royal family. Yes, it's more kind of affirming his status, isn't it?

Well, it's thought that he probably was a commoner in the sense that he's not a member of the royal family, although it's very hard to be certain about that, very difficult to be certain that he wasn't in some way related to a royal family. Yes, it's more kind of affirming his status, isn't it?

Nein, also der König von Kish ist natürlich ein primärer Teil der Macht im Norden der alluvialen Pläne der Mesopotamien. But to the south are the great cities of Ur and principally Uruk. And it is those cities that represent, as it were, the opposition to Sargans authority over the entire region.

Nein, also der König von Kish ist natürlich ein primärer Teil der Macht im Norden der alluvialen Pläne der Mesopotamien. But to the south are the great cities of Ur and principally Uruk. And it is those cities that represent, as it were, the opposition to Sargans authority over the entire region.

Nein, also der König von Kish ist natürlich ein primärer Teil der Macht im Norden der alluvialen Pläne der Mesopotamien. But to the south are the great cities of Ur and principally Uruk. And it is those cities that represent, as it were, the opposition to Sargans authority over the entire region.