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What do inscriptions in the temple of the god Enlil in Nippur suggest?
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Sargon's campaign began as a defensive countermeasure against Lugalzagesi's attack on Akkad but ended with his defeating Lugalzagesi and fifty other city rulers and a campaign against the strongholds of Ur and Lagash.
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How did Sargon expand his empire?
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By leading successful military campaigns in northern Mesopotamia and against the tribal Amorites to the west, the Syrian states of Mari and Ebla, and Elam in western Iran.
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By 2200 B.C. internal conflict and external pressure left the ________ Empire in disarray.
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Akkadian
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Who was one of the most famous local rulers of the time?
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Gudea or Lagash
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Gudea's building and furnishing of many temples in Lagsh was sometimes referred to as the earliest beggining of the ______________, or Sumerian Renaissance.
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Neo-Sumerian Revival
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Around 2113 B.C., the warrior-king ___________ founded the last dynasty of Sumerian kings.
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Ur-Nammu
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Which empire encouraged the construction of monumental architecture, including the first known proper ziggurats.
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Ur III Empire
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Name some ways Ur III's policies continued the trends of their Sargonic predecessors.
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Temple building, appointment or royal daughters as high priestesses at Ur.
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What are ensi?
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king-appointed civil and military governors
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What was Ur-Nammu probably best known for?
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His administrative and legal reforms.
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