The aboriginal akkadian and Sumerian inhabitants were settled, cultivated and home keeping folk, while the establishment of Babylonian empire had been the work of more vigorous intruders.
"The Ancient East"
D. G. Hogarth
More or less precise chronology does not begin until after 1000 B.C., and at that time Sargon I of the akkadian-Sumerian Empire was a remote memory,...
"Public Opinion"
Walter Lippmann
It is from an old akkadian word, "imga," meaning wise, holy, and learned, and was used as the distinguishing title of their wisest sages, priests, and philosophers, who, as may be supposed, gradually formed a peculiar caste, which merged into the ruling priestly order.
"The-Light-of-Egypt-or-the-science-of-the-soul-and-the-stars-Volume-2"
Burgoyne, Thomas H.