Depends. If it's an Akkadian empire that is similar only in name to the real one then I don't think so. If it's obviously meant to be the real one but with whatever changes necessary to fit it into a fantasy novel then I don't see why not.
I feel sure three tickyboxes for four options has redundancy, yet you certainly can't leave out "none" (as then you can't measure the people who didn't tick either box).
I guess you could do:
(radio) I've heard of the Akkadian Empire. (radio) I haven't. [tickbox] I've heard of Sargon of Akkad.
Sargon is [ ] an inert gas [ ] the alien fronting the yell.co.uk idents who eat flowers
The Akkadian Empire is [ ] something to do with nymphs and shepherds [ ] that weird failed project that Simon Le Bon and Nick Rhodes were doing while the other members of Duran Duran were buggering around with 'Power Station'.
I'm surprised to find that there might have been Akkadians around at the same time as Asterix, if WP is to be trusted on the matter, though less surprised that there'd not been any Hittites for many centuries by that point.
That desert was teeming with all sorts: Hittites, Sumerians, Akkadians, Medes, Assyrians, and quite possibly one or two others I've forgotten. I assume most of them were anachronisms inserted for humour value.
I've heard of Sargon of Akkad precisely once, in a quote from I think Carl Sagan of the form "the budget for weapons has exceeded the budget for disarmament at least since the time of Sargon of Akkad".
Sargon: I'd heard the name from $GENERIC_FANTASY before, and back when I was using Saruman as my IRC nick, Sargon was therefore the obvious away nick. It was soon after using it that I heard that Sargon and Akkad went together, but I know no more than that.
Also my knowledge of the Akkadian Empire was that it was in the middle east a long time ago, and they get mentioned in the same breath as the Sumerians (I know little about them, too). Say about 3000-2000BC or so? I could be completely wrong.
Then again, I've spent many hours in the British Museum, and many hours reading up on the history of the area.
I think my favourite single exhibit in the BM is the reconstruction of the Ur grave goods found on the head of a sacrificed servant girl; and the original (http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/me/c/crushed_skull_and_head-dress.aspx) (including the crushed fragments of her skull) which is right beside it.
(Which, admittedly, is Sumerian rather than Akkadian, but you get the idea.)
The downfall of Akkad and Ur is also interesting to me from an academic standpoint, since it may be one of the textbook cases for climate change and the effects of same on a centralised agricultural state.
I feel quite fortunate that I get to dabble in these things - the Stele of Sargon is quite important specifically to what I'm working on, whereas the Akkadians are more of a random interest (it's the cuneiform that gets my attention of course, but I can't read the Akkadian form).
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Date: 2007-07-06 12:15 pm (UTC)I guess you could do:
(radio) I've heard of the Akkadian Empire.
(radio) I haven't.
[tickbox] I've heard of Sargon of Akkad.
But it's not very pretty :)
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Date: 2007-07-06 12:24 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-07-06 12:25 pm (UTC)[ ] an inert gas
[ ] the alien fronting the yell.co.uk idents who eat flowers
The Akkadian Empire is
[ ] something to do with nymphs and shepherds
[ ] that weird failed project that Simon Le Bon and Nick Rhodes were doing while the other members of Duran Duran were buggering around with 'Power Station'.
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Date: 2007-07-06 12:37 pm (UTC)"Terribly sorry; we thought you were Akkadians. We Hittites don't hit it off with the Akkadians; we're at war with them!" — Asterix and the Black Gold
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Date: 2007-07-06 02:22 pm (UTC)Also my knowledge of the Akkadian Empire was that it was in the middle east a long time ago, and they get mentioned in the same breath as the Sumerians (I know little about them, too). Say about 3000-2000BC or so? I could be completely wrong.
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Date: 2007-07-06 02:54 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-07-06 07:20 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-07-06 03:00 pm (UTC)Then again, I've spent many hours in the British Museum, and many hours reading up on the history of the area.
I think my favourite single exhibit in the BM is the reconstruction of the Ur grave goods found on the head of a sacrificed servant girl; and the original (http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/me/c/crushed_skull_and_head-dress.aspx) (including the crushed fragments of her skull) which is right beside it.
(Which, admittedly, is Sumerian rather than Akkadian, but you get the idea.)
The downfall of Akkad and Ur is also interesting to me from an academic standpoint, since it may be one of the textbook cases for climate change and the effects of same on a centralised agricultural state.
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Date: 2007-07-06 05:14 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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