Sargon Of Akkad Conquers Of Mesopotamia

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This paper will be an effort to clarify how Sargon of Akkad conquered several kingdoms of Mesopotamia and turned them into the first empire. As a child he never knew his parents. His mother could not reveal the pregnancy or keep the child therefore she put him in a basket and sent him floating down the river. A man named Akki rescued him from the river and raised him as his own. From the beginning he would create the first ever multi-national empire in history. The story of Sargon of Akkad was long known throughout Mesopotamia and in due time became known as the greatest man alive. Sargon was not the name he was first given when born. He chose it to be his throne name. Sir Henry Rawlinson, an archaeologist, published “The Legend

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