SARGON

LEGACY

• he is remembered for his military exploits
• he appears to have wanted to protect a settled way of life that valued commerce and trade and a society that also protected the weak

CONTRIBUTED TO THE AREA

• he had land in the Fertile Crescent
• he promoted the spreading of great building projects, art works, and religious lit
• Sargon building the first empire made it a little easier to control
• he set up good footsteps that people followed to impose unity over the Fertile Crescent.

RULED IN A FAIR MANER

• He established the regions first Semitic dynasty and was concierges the founder of Mesopotamia military tradition

How was this leader different from others in Mesopotamia

• Sargon lead the city of Babylon to an uprising, from a medium sized city, to a very large city

PERSONALITY

• Sargon of Akkad was a Semitic Akkadian emperor famous for his conquest
• according to folktale Sargon was a self-made man of humble origins
• He was considered a popular and suceesful ruler