Marduk the Babylonian name of alate-generation god from ancient Mesopotamia and patron deity ofthe city of Babylon, who, when Babylon became the political centerof the Euphrates valley in the time of Hammurabi (18th centuryBCE), started to slowly rise to the position of the head of theBabylonian pantheon, a position he fully acquired by the secondhalf of the second millennium BCE. The people in Babylon spokeakkadian and the first akkadian king was Sargon. He was famous forhis conquest of the Sumerian city-states in the 23rd and 22ndcenturies BC. The founder of the Dynasty of Akkad, Sargon reignedduring the last quarter of the third millennium BC. By the time ofHammurabi, the only written texts about Sargon glorified him as godwhich became known as Marduk because of languages. Hammurabi didntcreate this god.

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