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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 2085481" data-attributes="member: 2205">No, the language of the Assyrians was Akkadian, and since Akkadian is primarily a linguistic designation, the Assyrians, by definition, were Akkadians.  Unless, of course, you use Akkadian to refer only to residents of the city of Agade/Akkad, which were still "proto-Assyrians" and located in the heart of Assyria proper.  Either way, Sargon (the famous one, who created history's first recorded Empire by uniting what was soon to become Assyria with what was already Sumer) was from Akkad, and was an Akkadian in any sense of the word you could use.  I had forgotten, until just now, that there were specifically Assyrian kings named Sargon too (two of them, IIRC) but that doesn't change the fact that there was an extremely high degree of cultural and ethnic continuity from the reign of Sargon of Akkad, through the Assyrian kings, and beyond until the Medes came in from north of Mesopotamia and changed that dynamic.  One could argue that the relatively brief interlude of Kassite domination of a portion of the area was also an ethnic change in the region, but the Kassites seem to have been more or less absorbed into the already dominant Akkadian culture of the region.You are correct in terms of where the center of power for the Assyrians vs. the Babylonians, and in the fact that both spoke an East Semitic language (in this case, the same East Semitic language: Akkadian) but both were essentially ethnically the same.Uh... so, wouldn't it be cool of Sargon led armies of Assyrians on the backs of Triceratopses, and hunted with kennels of velociraptors?  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/nervous.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":heh:" title="Nervous Laugh    :heh:" data-shortname=":heh:" /></blockquote>

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