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Sargon of Akkad reigned in Mesopotamia from 2334 to 2279 BCE.

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His mother could not reveal her pregnancy or keep the child, and so he was set adrift by her in a basket on the Euphrates River where he was later found by a man named Akki

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He was born an illegitimate son of a "changeling", which could refer to a temple priestess of the goddess Innana

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`Sargon' was not the name given him at birth but the throne name he chose for himself. It is a Semitic, not Sumerian, name and so it is generally accepted that he was a Semite

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Whatever happened between Sargon and Lugalzagesi, they were as quickly antagonists as they had been allies

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It is possible that he had an affair with Lugalzagesi's wife at this point or that he was sent on a mission which he turned into the first engagement of his own conquest of the region.

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He may also have taken Cyprus and claims to have marched to the Mediterranean Sea and sent ships as far away as India for trade.

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Lugalzagesi marched his army from Kish to meet Sargon in battle and was defeated. Sargon then put him in chains, tied a rope around his neck, and took him to the city of Nippur, sacred to the god Enlil upon whom Lugalzagesi had relied, and forced him to march in humiliation through the Enlil's gate.

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After conquering Sumer, he either built a new city or renovated an older one

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He marched throughout Mesopotamia conquering one city-state after another and expanded his empire as far as Lebanon and the Taurus mountains of Turkey

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He instituted military practices of combining different types of fighting forces in looser formations

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According to the Sumerian king list, Sargon reigned for 56 years and died in old age of natural causes