Amorites

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The Sun Elven Amorites were a nomadic people for the centuries predating the founding of their holy city Kazallu. As a nomadic people they trekked around the mountainous plains of Amurru west of the Urudu river. Like many of the nations in the area, forming cities often made you a target of the legendary ancient black dragon Kur who dwelt in the Zagros mountains to the east. Kur lorded over all of Sumeria, dominating all the peoples in the region, he was just as likely to destroy your cities as plunder the entirety of all your valuables. Living a simple and nomadic lifestyle was the saving grace from his hegemony. Their lives as shepherds and traders however, would change with the rise of the Akkadian Empire under the legendary king Sargon of Akkad, or Sargon the Great.
Rise of Sargon the Great
There are many versions of his victory over Kur, no one can really say the truth of it. Felling a dragon is always a near impossible task, this is true even after Convention. The origins of the man himself leaves many mysteries as well. The oldest cuniforms kept in the temple of Marutuk in Seleucia are fragmented and only pieces of the story is known, the later version was conceived during the Assyrian Empire, over a millennium later. Both stories tell of a lowborn upbringing and with divine intervention, of Inanna, blessed him and somehow he ascended the throne.
His ascension to the throne of the city state of Kish predates his victory over Kur, this is mostly confirmed. In one story, Sargon parlayed with Kur at the gates of Kish on one of his spur of the moment arrivals for tribute and slaves. Sargon challenged the beast to a duel at a place of his choosing, what the stakes exactly were, we do not know. Kur, more humored than anything accepted. The spot was on the east bank of the Aranzah river, north east of Kish which settled along the east bank of the sister river Urudu. Sargon arrived first and waited several hours before Kur showed up, Kur came from the sky, landing in front of Sargon, which shook the ground. Sargon said "I have chosen these grounds to fell you, for your blood will bless the waters, and your bones will bless the dirt, and your life will bless me, the chosen of Anu." Kur laughed with amusement before charging Sargon, only armed with a spear.
The dragon opened its maw and the flames lit up his gullet. Unbeknownst to the dragon, the tip of Sargon's spear was tipped with a large lump of gold, coated with lead to hide that fact. Sargon threw the spear into the dragons large mouth, making its way down its throat before the flames could exhume. The immense heat from the fire melted the metals inside of the dragon, Kur choked, his savage breath stopped and the heat within the beast cooled. The gold quickly cooled and hardened preventing Kur from drawing breath. He fell to the ground, and soon died. Sargon went on to found the city of Akkad where the dragon fell. Other stories are less heroic, a ferocious fight took place and Sargon barely survived, or even Sargon brought an army to defeat the beast. Some legends say he subdued the dragon and rode it into battle, carving out his empire, there is evidence he rode a dragon or wyvern into battle. Some other sources, maybe ones created by his political enemies or maybe the truth, is that Kur is Sargon, it is well known dragons can take the shape of mortals.
From Grass to Stone
There are many myths about the man, but what is for sure is his legacy on the continent that would soon be named after him. He as seen as the staple ruler, one many tried to emulate. He would go to form the very first empire in history, conquering all the great cities of Sumeria, including subduing the Amorites. The Amorite tribes were split on their view of him, those who opposed him were vanquished by those who supported him. For their service and fealty they were granted fertile land in the region of Abar-Nahara along the banks of the Urudu river. There they founded Kazallu, a city that would become one of the most majestic cities in the known world.
Akkadian Struggles
The importance of these life giving rivers Urudu and Aranzah can't be understated, they originate from the Tahtali mountains to the north, Urudu spanning over seventeen hundred miles and Aranzah over eleven hundred miles, both pouring out into the Median gulf to the south. Both of these rivers have given rise to many great cities and empires for millennia, including the original Akkad, and the powerful cities of Uruk, Eridu, Lagash, and Nineveh. After the death of Sargon, his son Rimush ascended to the throne and fought valiantly to keep it, on the ninth year of his rule he was assassinated by some of his own courtiers. His elder brother Manishtushu succeeded him, even after a great battle against his enemies and the popularity of his reign, he like his brother, was also assassinated. Manishtushu's son and successor, Naram-Sin, due to vast military conquests, took the imperial title 'King of the Four quarters" the four quarters being a reference to the entire known world at the time. Eventually he took on the title "God of Akkad" in opposition of the previous religious belief that kings were only representatives of the people to the gods.
This caused many revolts, which he all crushed. Under his reign the beginning of the end of the Akkadian Empire began, a Goliath people from the east known as Gutians migrated westwards over the Zagros mountains, they practiced hit and run tactics, and would be long gone by the time regular troops could arrive to deal with the situation. Their raids crippled the economy of the empire, travel became unsafe, as did working the fields, resulting in famine. The last Akkadian king Shu-tural would be the last of the Sargonic dynasty, as the Gutian people would overrun Akkad itself and raze it to the ground, Akkad was so thoroughly destroyed that its site is still not known. They then captured the city of Lagash and renamed it Gudea, ruling from there. The Guti proved to be poor rulers, under their crude rule prosperity declined. They were too unaccustomed to the complexities of civilization to organize matters properly, particularly in connection with the canal network. This was allowed to sink into disrepair, with famine and death resulting. They ruled over the old empire for a century before a mass rebellion started led by the city states of Ur and Uruk, they were expelled from Sumeria when Utu-hengal of Uruk defeated Gutian king Tirigan.
Crown for a King
The dynasty of Ur helped revitalize the region from the near state of anarchy it was in, this lasted a little over a century before an outside empire would show up, the Elamites. In their attempted invasion they looted the city of Ur and captured the king and executed him, they didn't make it much further into Sumeria before being stopped and repelled in Amorite territory. The death of the king of Ur would destabilize the make shift empire that was formed after the Gutians and the city states fractured back into independent nations. It was this time the first Dynasty of the Amorites started, Su-Abu was the first Amorite crowned king, he would go to free the neighboring city of Kish from a remnant of the Elamite forces and claim it for the Amorites. The fourth king Apil-Sin would go to expand the kingdoms borders north to the city of Sippar. His son and successor would be Sin-Muballit, he would repel a massive invasion force from the Elamites to the south east who still clung to the southern regions of Sumeria. His son Hammurabi would go to create the first empire of the Sun Elven people.
Reign of Hammurabi
Hammurabi's first few decades as ruler were peaceful, he took this time to undertake a series of public works, including heightening the city walls for defensive purposes, and expanding the temples. This ended with a reinvigorated Kingdom of Elam invading the Sumerian plains and recapturing many cities in the south and east that it once had. Elam then tried to start a war between Hammurabi's Amorite Kingdom and the kingdom of Larsa to the south of Kazallu. Hammurabi and the king of Larsa made an alliance when they discovered this duplicity and were able to crush the Elamites, although Larsa did not contribute greatly to the military effort. Angered by Larsa's failure to come to his aid, Hammurabi turned on that southern power, thus gaining of the entirety of the lower Sumerian plain.
Afterwards Hammurabi would turn north and conquer the remaining northern states until all of Sumeria was under Amorite control, this led to border tension to the Assyrian empire to the north, who they were now neighbors too. Over the years a cold war brewed between the two Empires, both forming alliances with minor states in order to gain the upper hand. Eventually Hammurabi prevailed, outing the Assyrian emperor Ishme-Dagan, the new Assyrian king would be Mut-Ashkur, a puppet to Hammurabi, the new king of Assyria would pay tribute to Hammurabi. Hammurabi would go to have the first written law, known as the code of Laws, a practice later nations would adopt.
In Assyrian Hands
When Hammurabi died and passed the reins of the empire on to his son Samsu-iluna, under whose rule the Amorite Empire would begin to quickly unravel. His reign was marked by violent uprisings of areas conquered by his father. The Amorites would see another four Kings hold onto Hammurabi's conquests until the Hittite Empire from the Anatolian peninsula to the north west would emerge to make war on the ancient Dragonborn kingdom of Kemet to the south and eventually spread south east to Sumeria, culminating into the sack of Kazallu. In this weakened state the Assyrian Empire to the north would take this time to conquer the Amorite Empire.
The Kassites
The Assyrians hegemony would end sometime after the collapse. A catastrophic event that took place after the last hero made convention with the gods, injecting magic into the world. The collapse marked the destruction of almost every kingdom, shifted the climate, resulting in famine, disease, and a large scale population migration. The Assyrian Empire was effected far less than all of its neighbors, possibly due to the many advances in civil administration they developed in need with their conquests of a diverse set of peoples. Sometime during the collapse, a foreign migration from over the Zagros mountains arrived in Kazallu, another culture of Sun Elves from a far away peninsula, the Kassites. Initially this led to more problems as the Sun Elves struggled to survive this period, the extra populace led to less food for an already starving people. At some point they assimilated into the Amorite population, their arrival would go to enrich the Amorites culture and national identity later on.
After centuries of assimilation, the Kassites were willing to throw themselves in the coming conflicts to prove their loyalty to their new home. During this turmoil, the Amorites with would expel the Assyrians from Sumeria. Over the next few centuries the Assyrians power would wane, losing territory to succession or outright rebellion from their rule, they would not be finished off though.
Amorite Empire
A century later the Assyrian Empire became powerful once more under the reign of Ashurbanipal, reconquering Kemet from its now Kushite rulers, a dark skinned human people to the south of Kemet and reasserting dominance throughout the Levant and Sumeria. The Amorites, Scythians of the Pontic-Caspian steppes to the far north around the Black Sea, and the Medians to the far east were able to surround and break the Assyrians and their newly vassalized dragonborns. The sack of Nineveh and the battle for Harran marked the end of the Assyrian empire once and for all. All the territories of Assyria fell into the hands of the Amorites who know controlled most of Sargon Minor. From the Southern regions of the Anatolian peninsula to the northwest, to the borders of Kemet, along with vassalizing the Dark Elven Ascalonians bordering the middle sea. This marked the beginning of the century of Amorite hegemony of Sargon Minor.
This period saw the construction of the fabled Hanging Gardens in Kazallu, one of the great wonders of the world, and direct commerce with the nations on the continents of Alkebulan and Etruria. This ended when the king of Anshan and then king of the Medians, Cyrus the Great invaded the Amorite Empire. The Amorite Emperor Nabonidus sent his son Belshazzar to head off the huge Median army; however, already outnumbered, Belshazzar was betrayed by Gobryas, governor of Assyria, who switched his forces over to the Median side. The Amorite forces were overwhelmed at the battle of Opis. Nabonidus fled to Borsippa, after Cyrus' engineers had diverted the waters of the Urudu, drying the canals of Kazallu and forcing the city to surrender under siege. The soldiers of Cyrus entered the city without a fight. Belshazzar is said to of died of dehydration in the siege, voluntarily suffering attrition with his soldiers. Nabonidus was quick to surrender, being deposed as the King of the Amorites, Cyrus claimed the throne of the Amorites, adding it to his ever growing empire.
From Riches to Rags
Under the Achaemenid dynasty the Amorites would thrive and be held up into many positions of power, many joining the counsels that would assist the following Median emperors. This would end when the Hellenic Macedonian young king Archelaus the Great, conquered all of the Median empire in only a few years, never losing a battle, and being outnumbered in every fight. He would eventually claim to be the reincarnate of the the last hero, who also is said to be a reincarnate of Sargon. This would mark the first time that the cultures of Etruria and Sargon would intermingle. Archelaus would go to adopt Amorite customs and make his capital Kazallu, he would also marry the Amorite princess Zakiti, and marry many of his generals to Median and Amorite women. He would continue eastwards pushing the scope of the known world further and further. His men who longed to return home after a decade of being gone were on the verge of mutiny. This made the young king turn back from the new land of Bhutan he marched through.
He would return to Kazallu and die shortly after, at the early age of thirty two. His generals took no time to carve up his empire, these successor kingdoms would go to dominate the eastern hemisphere of the Middle Sea. The kingdom of Macedon would encompass all of Hellas, the peninsula of where the Macedonians originated from. The Kingdom of Pergamon would dominate the Anatolian peninsula and Thrace on Etruria, north west of Anatolia across the Hellespont, a narrow channel between the two continents. The Ptolemaic Kingdom would be formed by Ptolemy in the ancient kingdom of Kemet. The Seleucid Empire would be the rest of Sargon Minor, from the shores of the middle sea to the west all the way east through Sumeria and Assyria, passed Media, to the jungle nations of Bhutan. He would go to one day conquer the kingdom of Pergamon, adding Anatolia to the Seleucid Empire.
Kazallu for a time was the capital of this new great empire headed by the Hellenic usurpers. They would go to build Seleucia and force many of the inhabitants to the new city. Kazallu still stands to this day, but the city is much larger than the current population that dwells within, once it was the most populated city in the world, now it is a reminder of an old world that's already been lived.

Naming Traditions

Feminine names

Belit, Shala, Nin-marki, Munawwirtum, Ni, Banunu, Kishar, Zirat-banit, Zakiti, Bilit taauth, Atanah-ili, Ishtar, Mylitta, Aruru, Rubati

Masculine names

Nin-girsu, Milik-harbatUbaratutu, Seluku, Ramman, Neriglissar, Enusat, Pahas-belUbar, Muranu, Shu-Turul, Lakhmu, Warad-Sin

Family names

Your family name would be 'son or daughter of your father's name' or your name followed by 'of what city you're from'