Akkad
['ækæd]
Examples
- Sargon of Akkad, who founded the first Semitic empire in Asia (3800 B.., was brought up by an irrigator, and was himself a gardener. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- In an inscription recording his irrigation work in Sumeria and Akkadia, he begins: When Anu and Bel entrusted me with the rule of Sumer and Akkad----. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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