readx;? Many people misinterpret the Assyrian royal table, believing that Sargon I and Sargon II in the royal table have nothing to do with Sargon, and it seems that the first two were Akkadians, and the latter were Assyrians. But this is the result www.biquge.info of the forced division of the ethnic groups by later generations, but in fact, the kingdom of Akkad appeared before the kingdom of Assyria, and both Akkad and Assyria were only the collective name of the entire Eastern Semites in a certain period of time. From the perspective of the Eastern Semitic lineage, Sargon is Sargon I, the predecessor of the later Assyrian king Sargon II. They are the relationship between ancestors and descendants in the same lineage.

Sargon's homeland was Azupiranu on the Euphrates, the illegitimate son of an Eastern Semite, whose mother was a priestess who was abandoned in the Euphrates River by his mother as soon as he was born, and the basket drifted along the river, where he was picked up by the gardener Akka, and raised as an adult. Sargon succeeded his adoptive father and became a gardener, and later worked his way up to serving the Kish III king your Zhapapa. As the most powerful king of Mesopotamia at that time, Ul Zappapa, who was also an Eastern Semite, must have made a deep impression on Sargon, and as descendants, we can't help but wonder if he would think that he could replace him as Xiang Yu did when he saw the king of Qin.

As an adult, he was appreciated by his successor and became a vassal of the Kingdom of Kish. It can be seen that Sargon was indeed outstanding at that time, and with his humble background, he could still be promoted by everyone and the king. However, we now know that the kings of the Third Dynasty of Kish were all Eastern Semites, so it is quite normal to choose an Eastern Semitic as his minister.

During this period, the Sumerians formed dozens of city-states (city-states). The larger city-states, such as Kish, Nippur, Uruk, and your, had a population of 150,000 women, including women and slaves, and the number of citizens in each city-state ranged from a few thousand to tens of thousands. Its army is mainly infantry, and it is also divided into heavy and light soldiers, and the basic establishment of the army is a team, with a maximum of 20-30 people in each team, and it is grouped and named after the occupation of citizens, such as the Kish army has a peasant team, a herdsman team, etc. Ordinary city-states generally have only a few hundred people in each battle.

At this time, the Sumerian city-states had entered an era of competition for hegemony, and Kish became the overlord of the north for a time. But there was a prominent figure in the city-state of Uruk - Lugar Zag Si. Lugar Zag Si fought valiantly and led the Uruk army to conquer the Sumerian city-states and defeat Kish, becoming the overlord of the two river valleys, and initially unified the two river valleys. But Lugar Zag Si's hegemony was politically immature, or rather the Sumerians' innate disunity and polytheistic beliefs, which resulted in a confederation of states, not a true empire. However, his war of conquest gave Sargon a chance.

In 2375 BC, King Nania of Sumeria was killed when Kish was defeated by the mighty Uruk III King Lugar Zag Si. At that time, the commoners and slaves took the opportunity to start a rebellion, and Sargon used his status as an inferior person to get the rebels elected as the leader of the rebels, and the nobles and monks could reluctantly accept it because they had been courtiers in the same temple, it was better than those slaves in power!

In this way, Sargon legally took the right to rule the city of Kish, put the crown on his head, and in order to comfort the old nobles, he still took the name "Kish" as the country. Sargon is not actually a name, he means the rightful king.

After Sargon's accession to the throne, the inferior people wanted to improve their lives, and Sargon also wanted to meet their demands, but because of the huge price paid by his predecessor, he did not dare to act rashly. The nobles, wishing to do nothing, saw that Sargon was in close contact with the inferior slaves and commoners, and considered his position problematic, and began to plot to overthrow Sargon. At that time, the main armed forces were controlled by the old aristocracy, including the vested interests of the East Semites and Sumerians. Sargon's form is precarious.

Sargon learned of this and decided to let it go.

At that time, the army was generally not more than 1,000 people in large states, and because of the elite route, it was necessary to be from a noble background to join the army, and because it was a nobleman, it was well paid, but on the contrary, because of the good treatment, the number of soldiers could not be greatly expanded, and the two were cause and effect of each other and influenced each other.

Because the army was all noble, he could not gain the trust of Sargon, so he decided to abandon the question of birth and open the army to the whole people, which can be said to be the first of its kind, when the old nobles were opposed, but Sargon's mind was already decided. You must know that although the successive kings of Kish and many of their generals were from Eastern Semites, they did not dare to arouse the anger of the Sumerians and introduce the Eastern Semites into the Sumerian army in large numbers.

Because they were Eastern Semites, the East Semites, who could only do cheap labor in the city, came to vote, but the Sumerians were more prosperous and generally did not want to join the army. Coupled with the fact that some nobles secretly proclaimed their evil intentions, the Sumerians rarely entered the army.

Although the level of remuneration dropped sharply due to the expansion of the troops, it was simply heaven for the original Sumerian soldiers and for the Eastern Semites. The East Semites took part in the process, and within a few days they recruited four or five thousand strong soldiers, imposed strict "arms control" in the city, and established the second standing army in the history of Western Asia (the first was Abla in Syria), an army of 5,400 elite soldiers under his command, who ate in front of him every day. This was a major move at the time, and it was his basic force in the future to unify the two river basins.

At this time, the Sumerian city-states fought against each other in order to compete for supremacy, which greatly weakened the power of the Sumerians.

After having an army, Sargon realized that only the army was his foundation, and the city of Kish was full of nobles who had bad intentions towards him, which was not a good place to base, and the composition of the army was mostly Eastern Semites, and the surrounding city-states had expressed strong dissatisfaction with Kish's actions, especially Kish's sworn enemy Uruk, and the current leader of the alliance, Lugar Zag Si, was very concerned about this. So Sargon decided to leave the Sumerian region and bring his army to the Akkadian region, where the Eastern Semites would surely welcome him.