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Fall of the First Empire

  • May 15, 2013
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

Called the world’s first empire, Akkad was founded in Mesopotamia around 4,300 years ago and thrived for about a century. Historians thought political strife caused its sudden demise, but scientists found the cause was a severe drought, which lasted 300 years.

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