Biography of king sargon of akkad

Founder of Akkadian Empire

This article is about the Akkadian king.

Biography of king sargon of akkad

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Sargon of Akkad (; Akkadian: 𒊬𒊒𒄀, romanized: Šarrugi; died c. 2279 BC),^[3] also known as Sargon the Great,^[4] was the first ruler of the Akkadian Empire, known for his conquests of the Sumeriancity-states in the 24th to 23rd centuries BC.^[2] He is sometimes identified as the first person in recorded history to rule over an empire.

He was the founder of the "Sargonic" or "Old Akkadian" dynasty, which ruled for about a century after his death until the Gutian conquest of Sumer.^[5] The Sumerian King List makes him the cup-bearer to King Ur-Zababa of Kish before Sargon became a king himself.^[6]

His empire, which he ruled from his archaeologically as yet unidentified capital, Akkad, is thought to have included most of