{"product_id":"the-worlds-first-conqueror-marcus-russell-obrien-9798190491234","title":"The World's First Conqueror: Sargon of Akkad and the Birth of Empire","description":"\u003cp\u003eA basket on a river. A gardener's household. A cupbearer pouring another man's wine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNothing about Sargon's origins suggested he would become anything. No noble blood. No inherited claim. Just a name he gave himself: \u003ci\u003ethe king is legitimate\u003c\/i\u003e - a title chosen by a man who fully expected to have his right to rule questioned, and meant to answer before anyone could ask.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe answered by conquering everything. Every walled city-state in Sumer fell to him, one by one, in a war of unprecedented scale. Then he kept going - west to the Mediterranean, east into the mountains of Iran - building something the ancient world had never seen: not just a conquest, but an empire built to last, run by governors and scribes rather than by the sword alone. He installed his own daughter as high priestess at Ur, and she became history's first named author, her poetry still read four thousand years later.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe also, in his final years, watched city after conquered city rise against him - and crushed every rebellion, right up until the day he died undefeated.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis empire outlived him by a century. Then it collapsed so completely that later scribes could only call it a curse, and his capital city vanished so thoroughly that it has never been found - not by armies, not by archaeologists, not by anyone in four thousand years since.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the story of the first man to build an empire - and the first to prove how completely one can be lost.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marcus Russell O'Brien\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798190491234\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/03\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 158\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.44lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.40d","brand":"Marcus Russell O'Brien","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50666079781119,"sku":"9798190491234","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-worlds-first-conqueror-marcus-russell-obrien-9798190491234","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}