The Akkadians, believed to have come from near modern Baghdad, succeeded in uniting Akkadian and Sumerian speakers in Mesopotamia under what's widely considered the world's first empire ...

Slavery had a long history in the ancient world and was practiced in Ancient Egypt and Greece, as well as Rome. Most slaves during the Roman Empire were ... gave freed men full Roman citizenship.

Photograph by Werner Forman, GTRES This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine ... especially those from the Akkadian Empire, which had dominated ...

the first to proclaim himself divine—and a crucial moment in world history, since it marked the rise of the very first recorded empire”. Among the clay tablets are school texts, Rey says.