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TIL The Gutians were a pale & blond people from modern Iran who conquered the Akkadian Empire and briefly conquered the Sumerian Empire before disappearing from records in 2050 BC. Historians believe they might have been part of a recent wave of Indo-European migration into the Middle-East

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