<P> Originally a cupbearer ( Rabshakeh ) to a king of Kish with a Semitic name , Ur - Zababa , Sargon thus became a gardener , responsible for the task of clearing out irrigation canals . This gave him access to a disciplined corps of workers , who also may have served as his first soldiers . Displacing Ur - Zababa , Sargon was crowned king , and he entered upon a career of foreign conquest . Four times he invaded Syria and Canaan , and he spent three years thoroughly subduing the countries of `` the west '' to unite them with Mesopotamia `` into a single empire '' . </P>
<P> Originally a cupbearer ( Rabshakeh ) to a king of Kish with a Semitic name , Ur - Zababa , Sargon thus became a gardener , responsible for the task of clearing out irrigation canals . This gave him access to a disciplined corps of workers , who also may have served as his first soldiers . Displacing Ur - Zababa , Sargon was crowned king , and he entered upon a career of foreign conquest . Four times he invaded Syria and Canaan , and he spent three years thoroughly subduing the countries of `` the west '' to unite them with Mesopotamia `` into a single empire '' . </P>
who was the king of the akkadians who conquered all of mesopotamia
who was the king of the akkadians who conquered all of mesopotamia
Sargon
Sargon