Sargon d\' Akkad

Sargon, “the saved child of water”

Sargon was born in a Semitic small town from the edges from the Euphrate (perhaps Azuprianu). His/her mother was a large priestess and did not have the right to raise of child. It deposited it in a basket in reeds coated with bitumen and entrusted it to the river. It was saved by a gardener of the name of Aqqi. According to a myth, the goddess Ishtar noticed it and raised it with royal dignity. Become the servant of the king of Kish, Ur-Zababa, he reached to the row of wine waiter the court of the king, then of prince.

Sargon decided to leave the court with some companions. He revolted against his benefactor, the détrona and went on the town of Uruk where reigned the Sumérien of Umma, Lugal-zagezi which had taken the title of king and imposed his suzerainty of the the Mediterranean on the Persian Gulf. Sargon conquered the city by surprise, made destroy its ramparts and captured the large king during the battle. Sargon made lock up Lugal-zagezi in a yoke and made it transport to the temple of Enlil to Nippur, the spiritual capital of the Mésopotamie.

The reign of Sargon

Sargon was made establish with Nippur and became thus the first king of the dynasty of Akkad. It was conquered an empire by subjecting Low the Mésopotamie. Sargon had to be concerned with protect the trade from the sumériennes cities and Semitic, trade which made their fortune. Campaigns allowing him to bring back the raw materials which missed at the towns of its empire. A naval forwarding led it to Dilmun (island of Bahrain), the large warehouse of the Persian Gulf. Did another countryside take it along in septentrional Arabia where it subjected the country of Magan and of Meluhha (Valley of the Indus?) who provided him copper, diorite and dates. In north and the east, it beat the people of the Subartu (Mésopotamie septentrional dominated by princes Hourrites) and mounts of the Zagros. Under does pretext of Semitic merchants oppressed by their Sukkallu , it seize the country of Ibla (Cappadoce?) where was Purushkhanda, city of the god Dagon. Towards the end of its life, Sargon had to face rebellions inside its empire and was even besieged in its own capital Akkad. It succeeds in overcoming the rebels whom it continued until the Subartu, assisted by his/her son Rimush.

Sargon died in 2279 av. J. - C. Its sons Rimush and after, Manishtushu succeeded to him. Its military superiority was based on a new tactic of mobile warfare with javelins, arcs and arrows against slow and heavy the phalange sumérienne with the long lances and the large shields.

It created a service of station with officers every 50 km.

It made town of Akkad its capital. It made build an immense palate and double ramparts of fortifications. There it made widen the port in order to be able to accommodate larger ships.

His/her daughter, Enheduanna was high with the rank of large priestess of the temple of the god-moon, Nanna.

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