…and then running off but taking the land taking the city, destroying the city, making it yours. This comes along at the time of Sargon I, that's about 2250 BC. And those texts raise your hair when you read them. How he slew the people of this King's…

…righteousness in doing so, that begins as far as I know in the near east in the third millennium BC, about the time of Sargon I, 2750 BC Something like that. Are there any cultures that have a mythology of peace as contrasted with a mythology of war?…

…of the personality is quite secondary. Over here there is a totally different idea that comes in about 2500 with the semitic empires of Sargon and Hammurabi. The idea there is that god makes man and god is not man and man is not of the same substance…

…civilization in northwest India. Looking westward, this is the period in the near east of ancient Akkad and mesopotamia, the period of Sargon I to Hammurabi, about that time in there in Egypt It's the period of the middle and early late kingdoms and it…

…exception is aberrant, and so we have a totally new kind of way of regarding the universe. Now we come to 2350 b c Sargon I. This is the first known important semitic emperor in this zone. These people have come in from the syro Arabian desert. They…

…the syro Arabian desert. They come in as conquerors and then as rulers. His date: 2350 b c a beautiful bronze. Now the story of Sargon. He was born of a humble mother in the upper reaches of the river, the tigris, and she put him in a little basket…