Marina's+Essay

The Rise of The Akkadian Empire Back

The Akkadian Empire’s rise teaches the world today that anything is possible. __Without taking chances there would be neither successes nor failures.__ The Akkadian Empire was the first Empire in human history. (http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Akkadian_Empire) Like a child learning from an adult, the world learns from this Empire. The Akkadian Empire had it’s ups and downs, but it’s success will never be forgotten. In this essay I will be covering who, what, when, where, why and how this Empire came to be. The empire took many risks and chances, and faced the consequences whether it were it’s successes or it’s failures.

A regular human being had a brilliant idea to start an empire, to change history, to become independent. That human being was known as Sargon of Akkad. First of all, Sargon created this empire, which right away proves he was a risk taker. He along with other’s planned to gain control over the south (Simer), the west ( Amurru Canaan), the east (Elam) and the north (Hurrians). ([] ) Sargon gathered an army of 5000 soldiers to invade these areas and win over their land. Sargon’s goal was to join all the cities as one under his control. Sargon’s army was a great success because eventually they did succeed in winning over all that land and becoming a large Empire. The akkadian’s taught the world that you can become independent and win over land, this could both have positive or negative effects on the world.

The Akkadian Empire taught the world how to be organized and have some control. From bringing cities together as one to being under control of one leader. The Akkadian Empire was the first organization that had a government system. The rulers above all people were Sargon, Rimush, Manishtusu, Naram-Sin, Shar-Kali-Sharri who all together ruled for 147 years. ([])The Akkadian’s worked as a standard government. Sargon always at the top as King. Then below him, his family, below them the army and workers. The Akkadian Empire was also recognized as at monarchy government. Also males were always more powerful than the women. When Sargon started his government he risked rejection from the rest of the population, that was not the case as he was successful in becoming King and ruling this Empire.

The Akkadian’s were not perfect and had their amount of failures. During the Empire’s rise it was success after success but when Sargon was gone and the Empire was left with other leaders it slowly started breaking apart. One of the Akkadian’s major failure was loosing the western part of Elom. (http://knowledgerush.com/kr/encyclopedia/Akkadian_Empire/) Sargon's big army no longer cut it and other’s started attacking to win back the land that Sargon took. The Akkadian’s had some great accomplishments such as inventing the axe and the composite bow. All in all this Empire was the most successful in their army portion. They were the largest and strongest army at that time. The Akkadian’s are lead to be known as the father of war. They started these battles over land and over time more and more countries started to fight and now in present day there has not only been one world war but two.

In conclusion, the Akkadian’s had some great successes and some terrible failures. Having the largest army and being the strongest Empire, the only Empire made them independent and forever unique in the world history. Sargon and this Empire took a chance, took a risk and __without taking chances there would be neither successes nor failures__ to look up to and learn from.