A thriving trade with India brought pearls, ivory, and other treasures to Mesopotamia in exchange for goods such as wool and olive oil. Precious metals including copper and silver served as currency for the traders. Societies had not yet devised coinage; instead, the metal was weighed on a scale to determine its value. Sargon used taxes he collected from the merchants to pay his soldiers and support royal artists and scribes, who glorified his deeds in sculptures and inscriptions.
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These expeditions took him east to Iran, apparently as far west as Lebanon, to the north in Anatolia, and, finally, to the south of Mesopotamia, which allowed him to unite the two regions. Later stories about Sargon offer much more detailed descriptions of his campaigns. Another intriguing text refers to Sargon eating bread with 5, men every day.
This contemporary text is likely a reference to a standing army; if so, this is the first recorded army in history. Sargon founded a new capital, Akkad or Agade, from which to rule his lands. This capital has not been discovered to date. Sargon could use a new city to invoke a new era, surrounding himself with temples and art that could celebrate him without any awkward references to earlier legitimate rulers that he overthrew.
Later rulers would also establish new capital cities, always an important event. One of the most significant decisions that Sargon made to consolidate his power was to install his daughter Enheduanna as the high priestess of the moon god Nanna at Ur. This gave her control over the temple lands in Ur and also other property controlled by the cult in southern Mesopotamia.
She may also have served some priestly function at Uruk, which could represent a unification of these powerful religious centers. Sargon was the military leader and his daughter became a very prominent religious leader. While serving as high priestess, Enheduanna composed hymns to the goddess Inanna and many other deities, making her the first known author in history. After Sargon, it became traditional that a ruler who claimed the allegiance of more than one city would also place his daughter in the cultic position.
Sargon ruled for 55 years and the length of his reign undoubtedly contributed to its success because it allowed him to ensure succession after establishing his control.
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