Editing Akkadian Empire (section)

===Rimush and Manishtushu===
{{Main|Rimush|Manishtushu}}
[[File:P1150890 Louvre stèle de victoire Akkad AO2678 rwk.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|Akkadian soldiers slaying enemies, circa 2300 BC, possibly from a Victory Stele of Rimush.<ref name="ML">{{cite web |title=Musée du Louvre-Lens – Portail documentaire – Stèle de victoire du roi Rimush (?) |url=http://ressources.louvrelens.fr/EXPLOITATION/oeuvre-ao-2678.aspx |website=ressources.louvrelens.fr |language=fr-FR}}</ref>]]
Sargon had crushed opposition even at old age. These difficulties broke out again in the reign of his sons, where revolts broke out during the nine-year reign of [[Rimush (Akkad)|Rimush]] (2278–2270 BC), who fought hard to retain the empire, and was successful until he was assassinated by some of his own courtiers. According to his inscriptions, he faced widespread revolts, and had to reconquer the cities of [[Ur]], [[Umma]], [[Adab (city)|Adab]], [[Lagash]], [[Der (Sumer)|Der]], and [[Kazallu]] from rebellious ''[[Ensi (Sumerian)|ensis]]'':<ref name="WJH93"/> Rimush introduced mass slaughter and large scale destruction of the Sumerian city-states, and maintained meticulous records of his destructions. Most of the major Sumerian cities were destroyed, and Sumerian human losses were enormous:<ref name="WJH93">{{cite book |last1=Hamblin |first1=William J. |title=Warfare in the Ancient Near East to 1600 BC: Holy Warriors at the Dawn of History |date=2006 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-134-52062-6 |pages=93–94 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=biyDDd0uKGMC&pg=PT93 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Crowe |first1=D. |title=War Crimes, Genocide, and Justice: A Global History |date=2014 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-1-137-03701-5 |page=10 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tSnFAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT10 |language=en}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable" align="center" style="margin-left: 1em;" style="font-size: 80%;"
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| colspan="7" align="center" cellspacing="0" style="background:lightgrey; color:black" |Sumerian casualties from the campaigns of Rimush<ref name="WJH93"/>
|-
|Destroyed cities:
| align=center rowspan=1 |'''[[Adab (city)|Adab]]''' and '''[[Zabala (Sumer)|Zabala]]'''
|align=center rowspan=1|'''[[Umma]]''' and '''KI.AN'''
| colspan="1" align=center |'''[[Ur]]''' and '''[[Lagash]]'''
| colspan="1" align=center |'''[[Kazallu]]'''
| colspan="1" align=center |'''(Three battles in [[Sumer]])'''
| colspan="1" align=center |TOTAL
|-
| Killed
|15,718
|8,900
|8,049
|12,052
|11,322
|56,041
|-
| Captured and enslaved
|14,576
|3,540
|5,460
|5,862
|_
|29,438
|-
| "Expelled and annihilated"
|_
|5,600
|5,985
|_
|14,100
|25,685
|-
|}

Rimush's elder brother, [[Manishtushu]] (2269–2255 BC) succeeded him. The latter seems to have fought a sea battle against 32 kings who had gathered against him and took control over their pre-[[Arabs|Arab]] country, consisting of modern-day [[United Arab Emirates]] and [[Oman]]. Despite the success, like his brother he seems to have been assassinated in a palace conspiracy.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Stiebing|first1=H. William Jr.|title= Ancient Near Eastern History and Culture|publisher=Pearson Longman; University of New Orleans|year=2009|page=72}}</ref><ref name="WJH93"/>