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350 2038 Shu-Sin replaces Amar-Sin on throne of Ur as the em- pire disintegrates. 2029 Ibbi-Sin replaces Shu-Sir increasingly to Marduk. Shu-Sin. tilt 2024 Leading his followers, Marduk marches on Sumer, enthrones himself in Babylon. Fighting spreads to central Mesopotamia. Nippur's Holy of Holies is defiled. Enlil demands punishment for Marduk and Nabu: Enki opposes, but his son Nergal sides with En- a central is lil. As Nabu marshals his Canaanite followers to capture the Spaceport, the Great Anunnaki approve the use of nuclear weapons. Nergal and Ninurta destroy the Spaceport and the errant Canaanite cities. 2023 The winds carry the radioactive cloud to Sumer. Peo- ple die a terrible death, animals perish, the water is poisoned, the soil becomes barren. Sumer and its great civilization lie prostrate. Its legacy passes to Abra- ham's seed as he begets—at age 100—a legitimate Tanne THE WARS OF GODS AND MEN The western provinces Marduk marches on Sumer, heir: Isaac.