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SHOPPER'S DELIGHT

( 4th Millennium BC - 3rd Millennium BC - 2nd Millennium BC )

EVENTS

2334 - 2279 BC ( Short Chronology ) Sargon Of Akkad 's conquest of Mesopotamia .

c. 2285 BC - Enheduanna , high priestess of the moon god Nanna in Ur, was born.

2250 BC - Enheduanna , high priestess of the moon god Nanna in Ur, died.

2217 - 2193 BC - Nomadic invasions of Akkad .

2215 - A Guti army swept down from the Zagros Mountains and defeated the demoralized Akkadian army. They took Agade, the capital of Akkad , and destroyed it thoroughly.

ca. 2202 BC - Last eruption of Mount Edgecumbe, Alaska .

2205 BC - The Xia Dynasty is founded in China .

SIGNIFICANT PERSON

Sargon Of Akkad , founder of the Akkadian Empire and the earliest empire builder in recorded history