An ancient Semitic kingdom and city-state in northern Mesopotamia that flourished around 2350-2200 BCE, famous for its powerful empire under Sargon.
From the Akkadian Agade, the capital city of the ancient empire. The word entered English through archaeological texts and the study of cuneiform inscriptions that documented this civilization.
Akkad created the world's first true empire by conquering dozens of city-states—and they did it so thoroughly that we only know about them through clay tablets they left behind, which archaeologists can still read today.
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