Chapter 150
The MAR.TU who know no grain....
The MAR.TU who know no house nor town,
The boors of the mountains....
The MAR.TU who digs up truffles...
Who does not bend his knees (to cultivate the land),
Who eats raw meat,
Who has no house during his lifetime,
Who is not buried after death.
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— Sumerian writing about the Amorite tribe
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September – 3,390 BC
Earth: Village of Assur
Colonel Mikhail Mannuki’ili
MIKHAIL
It turned out to be more than an all-day run, burdened by a dozen of what had to be his most incompetent new recruits. They didn't get to the border until well after dark. Mikhail showed them how to camouflage their bivouacs [171] while Jamin, Firouz and Dadbeh knelt over the animal tracks, scrutinizing them in the moonlight.
"Mikhail is right," Dadbeh said. "T
