Its late period saw the rise of the Gutians, and the invasion of the Amurrus hastened its decline.  
Its late period saw the rise of the Gutians, and the invasion of the Amurrus hastened its decline.  Its fourth ruler took the title "king of the four quarters of the earth," and modestly had himself called a god.  That king's two predecessors, Manushtusu and Rimush, were both murdered, as was Naram-Sin.  The last of its five major rulers was Shar-kalli-sharri, while the first started out as a cupbearer at the court of King Ur-Zababa of Kish.  This empire reached its greatest extent after seizing the kingdom of Magan, and its people spoke a Semitic language whose Babylonian dialect replaced Sumerian as the common tongue, paralleling the defeat of Luggalzaggisi of Uruk that gave rise to the establishment of this state.  FTP, name this empire spanning all of southern Mesopotamia which was founded by Sargon the Great.
Its late period saw the rise of the Gutians, and the invasion of the Amurrus hastened its decline.  
the Akkadian Empire