https://padlet.com/21cdwyer/busdkmuiqd0h en-us 2018-02-01 13:10:15 UTC 2024-10-16 03:39:35 UTC hello@padlet.com 21cdwyer https://padlet.com/21cdwyer/busdkmuiqd0h/wish/227010375 Sargon of Akkad reigned in Mesopotamia from 2334 to 2279 BCE.]]> 2018-02-01 13:16:21 UTC https://padlet.com/21cdwyer/busdkmuiqd0h/wish/227010375 21cdwyer https://padlet.com/21cdwyer/busdkmuiqd0h/wish/227011632 He was born an illegitimate son of a "changeling", which could refer to a temple priestess of the goddess Innana ]]> 2018-02-01 13:19:16 UTC https://padlet.com/21cdwyer/busdkmuiqd0h/wish/227011632 21cdwyer https://padlet.com/21cdwyer/busdkmuiqd0h/wish/227012456 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]]> 2018-02-01 13:21:10 UTC https://padlet.com/21cdwyer/busdkmuiqd0h/wish/227012456 21cdwyer https://padlet.com/21cdwyer/busdkmuiqd0h/wish/227013583 `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]]> 2018-02-01 13:23:44 UTC https://padlet.com/21cdwyer/busdkmuiqd0h/wish/227013583 21cdwyer https://padlet.com/21cdwyer/busdkmuiqd0h/wish/227016351 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. ]]> 2018-02-01 13:30:29 UTC https://padlet.com/21cdwyer/busdkmuiqd0h/wish/227016351 21cdwyer https://padlet.com/21cdwyer/busdkmuiqd0h/wish/227016993 Whatever happened between Sargon and Lugalzagesi, they were as quickly antagonists as they had been allies]]> 2018-02-01 13:32:00 UTC https://padlet.com/21cdwyer/busdkmuiqd0h/wish/227016993 21cdwyer https://padlet.com/21cdwyer/busdkmuiqd0h/wish/227018646 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.]]> 2018-02-01 13:35:28 UTC https://padlet.com/21cdwyer/busdkmuiqd0h/wish/227018646 21cdwyer https://padlet.com/21cdwyer/busdkmuiqd0h/wish/227022096 After conquering Sumer, he either built a new city or renovated an older one]]> 2018-02-01 13:41:27 UTC https://padlet.com/21cdwyer/busdkmuiqd0h/wish/227022096 21cdwyer https://padlet.com/21cdwyer/busdkmuiqd0h/wish/227022664 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.]]> 2018-02-01 13:42:28 UTC https://padlet.com/21cdwyer/busdkmuiqd0h/wish/227022664 21cdwyer https://padlet.com/21cdwyer/busdkmuiqd0h/wish/227024101 He marched throughout Mesopotamia conquering one city-state after another and expanded his empire as far as Lebanon and the Taurus mountains of Turkey ]]> 2018-02-01 13:44:58 UTC https://padlet.com/21cdwyer/busdkmuiqd0h/wish/227024101 21cdwyer https://padlet.com/21cdwyer/busdkmuiqd0h/wish/227024988 He instituted military practices of combining different types of fighting forces in looser formations ]]> 2018-02-01 13:46:38 UTC https://padlet.com/21cdwyer/busdkmuiqd0h/wish/227024988 21cdwyer https://padlet.com/21cdwyer/busdkmuiqd0h/wish/227025701 According to the Sumerian king list, Sargon reigned for 56 years and died in old age of natural causes]]> 2018-02-01 13:48:01 UTC https://padlet.com/21cdwyer/busdkmuiqd0h/wish/227025701