- 22 Jun 2016 08:14
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They went one better and tried to destroy him, personally. Towards the end of his life, after ruling over most of the known world for almost half a century, there was a massive uprising against him by his subject peoples. The records relate that Sargon was besieged by a vast host of enemy troops at his capital, Akkad. They also relate that he personally led his troops out against them and utterly crushed and scattered them. The lion had bared his claws one last time....
Sargon of Akkad - the original badass!
Well, if they really hated him badly enough, maybe they would have destroyed his biography!
They went one better and tried to destroy him, personally. Towards the end of his life, after ruling over most of the known world for almost half a century, there was a massive uprising against him by his subject peoples. The records relate that Sargon was besieged by a vast host of enemy troops at his capital, Akkad. They also relate that he personally led his troops out against them and utterly crushed and scattered them. The lion had bared his claws one last time....
Sargon of Akkad - the original badass!
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies." - Marx (Groucho)