Genesis10:8-12 relates that Cush was a grandson of Noah and father of the legendary Nimrod, who ruled andbuilt such cities as Babylon, Erech, and Akkad from his base in Sumer, before constructing cities inAssyria, including Nineveh.
The empires of Akkad, Assyria, Phoenicia, Minoan Crete, and Egypt came to the fore.Their histories are both well documented and well known.
The early Etruscans, the Phœnicians, including the Carthaginians and the Shumero-Akkads, were branches of this race, while the Basques of to-day have probably more of the Akkadian than of any other blood which flows in their veins.
Heroes: Sargon of Akkad
Key Locations: Akkad (Exact location unknown, but believed to be near modern-day Baghdad, Iraq)
Genesis 10:10-12 states: "The first centers of his kingdom were Babylon, Uruk, Akkad, and Kalneh, in Shinar.
Nimrod as a Historical Figure: The third approach seeks to identify Nimrod with historical figures, including Sargon of Akkad, the first of Assyria, or even Egyptian pharaohs like Nemrutash or Aramaean rulers like Ben-Hadad.
References to Babylon, Uruk, and Akkad suggest ties to Babylonia.
The decipherment of a vast quantity of cuneiform texts has allowed modern Assyriologists to piece together a more accurate history of Sumer, Akkad, Babylonia, Assyria, and Chaldea.
Rulers such as Sargon of Akkad and later Assyrian and Babylonian kings campaigned in the Zagros to secure their borders and exert influence over the highland tribes.
Sargon of Akkad: An earlier Mesopotamian legend tells of Sargon, a great Akkadian king, who was placed in a basket and set adrift in a river by his mother.
They passed through the Sumiro-Akkad Empire into Turkestan, and through a Confederation of Turanian feudatory States.
The Akkads, who later formed the Babylonian Empire, tried to revive Chaldaean traditions, but their efforts produced only a pale imitation.
These spoilers were in their turn driven out by the Akkads from the northern hill-country — AtlanteanB still, but of the sixth sub-race ; and these, coalescing gradually with the remnants of the old race and with other tribes of Turanian type, made up the Sumiro Akkad nation out of which the later Babylonian Empire developed.
Pazuzu, the ancient Mesopotamian wind demon, is an example of a desert spirit, a primordial jinn, who struck terror in the hearts of city dwellers of Eridu, Ur, Nippur, Uruk, Akkad and other Sumerian cities some 4,000–6,000 years ago.