Semites seem to have achieved preeminence with…

Semites seem to have achieved preeminence with the first Dynasty of Kish and numerous localities to the north of Sumer—where rulers with Semitic names have established themselves by about the third millennium BCE.

One of these, contemporary with the last Sumerian ruler, Lugal-Zage-Si of Uruk, is Alusarsid (or Urumus) who "subdued Elam and Barahs (Barahsi?)"

thus beginning the trend towards regional empire which is here to take the form of the Akkadian Empire, the first Semitic empire, imminently to be founded by Sargon the Great.

In this era, according to the Neo-Assyrian text from the seventh century BCE purporting to be Sargon's autobiography, his “mother was a high priestess, my father I knew not.

The brothers of my father loved the hills.

My city is Azupiranu, which is situated on the banks of the Euphrates.

My high priestess mother conceived me, in secret she bore me.

She set me in a basket of rushes, with bitumen she sealed my lid.

She cast me into the river which rose over me.

The river bore me up and carried me to Akki, the drawer of water.

Akki, the drawer of water, took me as his son and reared me.

Akki, the drawer of water, appointed me as his gardener.” (This tale is similar to the story of Moses.

And of Oedipus, Paris, Telephus, Semiramis, Perseus, Romulus, Gilgamesh, Cyrus, and Jesus.)