The Pinnacle & Fall of the Akkadian Empire
Description
Following in the footsteps of greatness is never an easy thing, especially at the dawn of history. This was the Bronze Age, when glory could not be bought or borrowed or bartered, except with the price of blood. Sure, there was praise to be earned for building roads and consecrating temples and giving grain to the hungry. All of that was very well and good. However, it was the virtues of war, not peace, that enabled a man to be great. There was no other playbook -- only the one written by Sargon in the blood of his enemies. And his successors followed it to the very letter, even as it became certain that their creation could never last. The last episode in our series on the Akkadian Empire, including a dramatic reading of an abridged version of the Curse of Akkad, one of the finest stories to emerge out of Mesopotamia.
Theme track used: The Age of Empire (Zero Project)
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