ART 155 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Naram-Sin Of Akkad, Long Hair, Municipal Law
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Peaceful for the first 500 - 600 years. The king is a god, he inhabits a divine nature. Sargon akabad (ruler of the four quarters) Head of an akkadian ruler from ninevah (iraq) Akkadian (c. 2250 - 2200 bc) copper. Everyone in the region took parts of the sumerian culture because they set the standards. Need to go far when getting the copper. When taken you destroy the past rulers things so they gauged the eyeballs out and buried the statue for ritual purposes. Victory stele of naram-sin from susa (iran) Akkadian (c. 2254 - 2218) pink sandstone h: 6"7 . Was taken and inscribed saying that it was taken. Climbing up the side of a mountain on top of other people. Take over at a time of civil war. Rule by agreement not by worship of a person. Assumed control of babylon and made it theirs. Saw his life"s work to cause peaceful co-existence.
