WORLD CIVILIZATION

Detailed explanation-1: -Sargon marched on Uruk and took it. Lugalzagesi marched his army from Kish to meet Sargon in battle and was defeated.

Detailed explanation-2: -Sargon, king of Akkad, overseer of Inanna, king of Kish, anointed of Anu, king of the land, governor of Enlil: he defeated the city of Uruk and tore down its walls, in the battle of Uruk he won, took Lugalzagesi king of Uruk in the course of the battle, and led him in a collar to the gate of Enlil.

Detailed explanation-3: -Before Sargon took power, the prominent Sumerian city-states of Ur and Uruk contended with Kish to their north, in Akkad, near modern-day Baghdad. Sargon began his rise as a cupbearer to the king of Kish, whom he eventually overthrew.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Sumerian king list records Sargon’s birth as well, describing him in different versions as the son of a gardener or as the cupbearer of Ur-Zababa, the king of Kish. Sargon likely overthrew and probably assassinated Ur-Zababa to take the throne of Kish and, from there, expanded his rule.

Detailed explanation-5: -Mesopotamia, the land between the rivers, is where the earliest human societies were formed. Its prime location between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and led to the name Fertile Crescent. Sargon took advantage of this location as he built his capital city, Akkad, in the prime location of Mesopotamia.