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Sargon, the obscure adventurer who had emerged as though from nowhere to nurture this proud ambition, to extinguish the independence of neighbouring city-states and to rule supreme over the ‘totality of the lands under heaven’,4 had always remained the model of a Mesopotamian strongman.
Persian Fire: The First World Empire, Battle for the West - 'Magisterial' Books of the Year, Independent
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