heart of Iraq, travel and history

The soothsayers deified the kings of Sumer, the first state in Mesopotamia. What did those kings and soothsayers do for the good of the majority of people?Sargon I - the king of Akkad - swept the Sumerians, conquered their country, and extended his kingdom south to the Gulf and north to the mountains. What did Sargon and his successors do for the good of the majority of people?From the mountains in the east and north, Kedur-Nakhonta, king of Elam, descended with his army. He invaded the country of Sargon, conquered it, and carried the statues of its Chaldean gods to Ashmunah, the capital of Elam. What did this Kedur do, and what did his Elamite successors strive for for the good of the majority of the people?The city of palaces and temples for kings and priests... and ignorance, poverty and slavery for the majority of people!The priests of Astarte in Nineveh, and the priests of Marduk in Babylon, used magic and sorcery, and filled their bellies with the victims of the Temple, while the kings of Babylon and Assyria fought and clashed for sovereignty and glory. Sovereignty and glory belong to the priests and kings, and magic and yoke belong to the masses. Hammurabi was the first of the legislators, and Assyria in Nepal was the first to love knowledge and scholars. Two oases in the desert, two lamps in the deep night.