Chapter Twenty-Four: Urzapapa, King of Kish
readx;? Ku-Baba, reigned 40 BC, 2513-2473 BC. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
He was a contemporary of Psul-Nila of Akshak, N. Shakush Anna, King of the Second Uruk Dynasty, Lugar Ann Montu, King of the Atab Dynasty, and Kiku Sivi Temti, King of the Elaman Awan Dynasty.
At about the same time as the Third Kish Dynasty, the Atab Dynasty and the Second Uruk Dynasty were established.
King En Shakush Anna of the Second Uruk Dynasty was a shrewd and capable dynasty that grew in power and began to grow stronger, challenging the regional overlord of the Eastern Semites.
In 2490 BC, En Shakush Anna captured Shamash, and Uruk became the new political center of the two river valleys. En Shakush Anna became the regional hegemon. Ku Papa, who founded the Third Dynasty of Kish, submitted to him.
At this time, the Atab dynasty, which was established at about the same time, began to grow stronger, and the king of the Adab dynasty, Lugar Ann Montu, was ambitious and intended to become the Sumerian overlord, so Uruk, who stood in his way, had to be weakened.
Lugar Ann Montu chose to ally himself with Kish Queen Ku Papa against En-Shakush Anna, and the queen was naturally happy to join in the fight against Uruk.
In 2485 BC, the combined forces of Attab and Kish attacked Uruk, but N. Shakush Anna was unable to resist and had no choice but to submit to the stronger Atab, Uruk lost his supremacy, and Atab became the new overlord, and Queen Kish was happy to gain independent status as an ally of Attab in the alliance, and its power reached as far as some parts of the Persian Gulf coast.
Psul Sheen, reigned 25 years. BC 2473--2458. Suffix: Luna Sin.
Psul Sheen is recorded in some sources as Akugale.
In 2473 BC, Queen Ku Papa's son, Psul Sin, succeeded to the throne of Kish.
After Ku Papa's death, her son Psul Sheen no longer wanted to accept the fact that the alliance was under the Ataab, and should become the leader of the alliance due to Kish's strong national power and historical connections. The two sides engaged in many open and covert battles over the issue of the alliance leader, which eventually turned into a war.
In 2470 BC, Lugar Ann Montu led an army to defeat Psuor Sin, and Kish submitted to him, but the strength of the Kish Third Dynasty was greatly weakened, and they temporarily fell behind in the long competition with Uruk.
Later in the reign of N. Shakush Anna, while both were subject to Atab's hegemony, Uruk and Kish were in constant conflict, and Atab acted as a mediator as the leader of the alliance. During these conflicts, Uruk maintained military superiority over King Kish, Psul Sin, due to the loss of Kish's strength.
Your Zappaur-, reigned 40 BC, 2458-2418 BC. Suffix: Kish Patron Zhapapa.
Your Zappapa is recorded in some sources as Aianatum and also translated as Messirim.
In 2458 BC, Psul Sin's son, your Zappapa, succeeded to the throne of Kish.
Your Zappa was an active development of the country, and his reign was the strongest period of the Third Kish Dynasty and one of the strongest periods in Kish's history.
In 2439 BC, King Ur Zappa, King of Kish, defeated Uruk in one fell swoop, forcing King Lugar Uri of the Second Dynasty of Uruk to sign an alliance under the city, ceding land, demarcating the border between the two countries, and erecting the boundary monument and altar of Messirim. However, since then, the two countries have continued to fight each other, and the boundary pillars have been destroyed repeatedly.
Your Zappa's defeat of Uruk led the city-states to submit to him. And Uruk had to endure your Zappa's finger-pointing in a nutshell.
Although he had become the overlord of the Sumerian states, your Zappa was content with this influence, which made Kish's commerce more developed, and although Kish (Lagash) became rich and powerful because of commerce, he also had a short-sighted thinking because of commerce, and did not seize the opportunity to make full use of his influence, and failed to truly unify Mesopotamia.
Your Zappapa did not destroy these vassal states, but only made them recognize his supremacy, a method similar to that of the Spring and Autumn Five. Of course, through the war, Kish expanded his territory, and from then on established a "Kish Empire".
At that time, your Zappa was not blindly tyrannical, but actively maintained the internal peace of the Sumerians, and often participated in the mediation of state conflicts, so his name was widely distributed in various city sites, and he played a role similar to the role of the United States to the world today.
However, it is not known whether the names on the list are due to the inheritance of various languages, so it is found that the name engraved on it is: King Kish Messirim, not your Zappa nor another name, Anna Toum, in fact, all three names refer to a person.
Therefore, later historians called this period the era of Messirim, which was named after these widely distributed stone tablets.
Because the king was an Eastern Semite, he adopted many Eastern Semitic children to serve in the palace, and the later king of Akkadian, Sargon, served as a sommelier in his later years.
In 2425 BC, Mari launched an attack on the state of Nagar, which occupied the canal's waterways, and defeated Nagar, blocking the trade route between Ebra and the city of Kish in southern Mesopotamia. The move caused strong resentment from King Ul Zappapa, King of the Third Dynasty of Kish.
Subsequently, the Kish Third Dynasty formed an alliance with the Ebla and Nagar dynasties (both in Syria) against the Maris.
In 2420 BC, the coalition forces made contact with Maris near Tergar, and the Ebla Prime Minister, Ibi Subishh, fired the first shot of the war, and he led the coalition to victory. The coalition forces also attacked and captured Amiarmi, appointing Ib-Supish as the governor (governor) of his son Ens Malik.
Eventually, the coalition invaded Mari, after which the nations withdrew, and only the younger brother of Urzapapa, King of the Third Dynasty of Kish, led an army to garrison Mari, leaving the city of Kish empty.
Kish reached his zenith and his influence reached as far as Silesia in northern Mesopotamia, and your Zappa had de facto control over all of Mesopotamia (the area between Iraq's two rivers).
Originally, it was expected to dominate Mesopotamia, but as the saying goes: boom and bust.
Your Zhapapa's expedition to Mari has caused concern among many of the Semitic regimes in the Akkadian region.