![]() ![]() ![]() The Gardens are described by travelers as a green stairs mountain. ![]() Like the one used in building the astonishing Hanging Gardens Of Babylon. They also used their genius in mathematics, geometry and the knowledge of their weather to develop a sophisticated agriculture and irrigation system ![]() In addition to the Hammurabi's code of law, Babylonians used to write poems about the gods, especially Ishtar or Innana and Murdock (The supreme god).Įven the most amazing architectural monuments were the temples that were built for the gods, like the Great Tower of Babylon (that we have seen earlier) and Ishtar's Gate that was taken into Pergame Museum in Berlin.īabylonian System of writing is Cuneiform as all the Mesopotamian Empires. He had built a large fleet both military and commercial in addition, Sargon was in control of the silk road and manipulated the maritime trade in the area. Directly after his rise to power, however, the city-states and their ruling elite hardly accepted Sargon with grace and submission they rebelled against their new ruler and forced him to prove his legitimacy as king through military might.īecause of the large geographic scope that the Akkadian Empire deployed on, they enjoyed prosperity and wealth. Sargon's tale of his humble beginnings as a gardener would have appealed to the large numbers of working-class Sumerians who may have seen him as a liberator and reformer. The wealthiest citizens were able to take as much land as they could hold and the lower classes routinely felt disenfranchised. As in later ages and other cultures, up to the present day, class distinctions in the Sumerian cities had led to a growing resentment by the lower class for the upper elite. His legend established his humble backgrounds which made him a hero in the eyes of laymen. This was an advantage for his military campaigns to control Mesopotamia. Sargon built the greatest empire of his time and with overthrowing Lugalzagesi and seizing power he gained an already united kingdom. Even so, where he came from and even his actual name are unknown. The historian Paul Kriwaczek sums up the impact Sargon had on later generations in Mesopotamia, writing, "for at least 1,500 years after his death, Sargon the Great, founder of the Akkadian Empire, was regarded as a semi-sacred figure, the patron saint of all subsequent empires in the Mesopotamian realm". His story was long known throughout Mesopotamia where, in time, he came to be considered the greatest man who had ever lived, celebrated in glorious tales down through the Persian Empire, along with his grand-son Naram-Sin. The Akkadian Empire was the first political entity to make extensive and efficient use of bureaucracy and administration on a large scale and set the standard for future rulers and kingdoms. He lifted me out as he dipped his jar into the river, The water carried me to Akki, the drawer of water. She cast me into the river, but it did not rise over me, My mother conceived me in secret, she gave birth to me in concealment. My home was in the highlands, where the herbs grow. The brother of my father loved the hills, "My mother was a changeling, my father I knew not, From this very humble beginning, Sargon would rise to conquer all Mesopotamia and create the first multi-national empire in history. 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 who was a gardener for Ur-Zababa, the King of the Sumerian city of Kish. He was born an illegitimate son of a "changeling", which could refer to a temple priestess of the goddess Innana (whose clergy were androgynous) and, according to the Sargon Legend (a cuneiform clay tablet purporting to be his biography) never knew his father. He is equally famous today as the father of the great poet-priestess Enheduanna. Sargon of Akkad (also known as Sargon the Great, Shar-Gani-Sharri, and Sarru-Kan, meaning "True King" or "Legitimate King") reigned in Mesopotamia from 2334 to 2279 BCE. According to Ancient History Encyclopedia and other history books, ![]()
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