Akkadian Empire: A History From Beginning to End (Mesopotamia History)

This book gives an overall but concise history of the Akkadian Empire from Sargon to its ultimate dissolution so that its main city, Akkad, has never (yet!) been found. Very easy to read and the scholarship seems sound.

I just love history, this book was absolutely amazing. I learnt a lot of interesting information about a long bygone age. Kudos for a great book.

I had never heard of this civilization. When I first saw the cover, I wasn't sure if they were pre-Mayan or Asian. Turns out they were the forerunners of the Babylonians and Assyrians, and had a very sophisticated level of technology. No, the British did not invent the postal system. These guys did, thousands of years earlier. As a non-historian, non-archeologist, I thought that this book was written at an appropriate level. Of course, none of these Hourly History books go into a deep discussion of their topic, but they are sure nice to let you learn something you don't know if you're interested in. (As a retired professor, I always told my students to never let school get in the way of their education.)

I must say I've enjoy listening and reading the first and second book in this series. It's really been informative and stimulating!!! I want to read more on this subject because I feel more knowledgeable about regions of Mesopotamia. Thank you !!!

I Found this short concise history of the Akkadian Empire very interesting and and enlightening as I had never heard of this Empire. Some of the names that came up and events were similar to stories In the Christian Bible.

According to a 1992 book "Before Writing" by Denise Schmandt-Bessera, as well as others at later dates, clay tokens were found in Mesopotamia around 8000 BCE, These tokens were of various shapes and apparently represented various commodities such as sheep and barley on a one-to-one basis. The tokens evolved over time to being encased in an envelope, with marks indicating the tokens inside, to just plain clay tablets and finally numerals. This transition took around 5,000 years. "The Sumarians" acknowledge the tokens but not the fact that they were developed some 4500 years before the Sumarians arrived in Mesopotamia.

I've long been curious about the Akkadian Empire. As the very first empire, I'd expect it to be written about extensively, but details about it are sparse. A search of Amazon for the Roman Empire returned “over 6,000” results. “Akkadian Empire” returned 63. That being the case, I was pleasantly surprised that this 43-page book pieced together a rather complete chronicle of all the empire's rulers, together with an assessment of each.

As a student I was omnivorous in the 1960 . besides science I studied a great deal of sociology with some archeology and anthropology. The Sumerians and the Acadians were both good reads . I say this because of the snippets of footnote history included for those who wish to delve deeper .