The son of a gardener, this man started out as a royal cupbearer, but soon rose to tremendous imperial prominence and took a name meaning "true king".
The son of a gardener, this man started out as a royal cupbearer, but soon rose to tremendous imperial prominence and took a name meaning "true king". After becoming king of his home city of Kish, he campaigned against Lugalzagezi of Uruk. This ruler's grandson, who was called a god-king and was  named Naram-Sin, was the last great ruler of the polity this man founded, which collapsed suddenly after an extended drought stopped shipments of grain to Sumer from northern Mesopotamia. FTP, name this man who founded arguably the world's first empire, with its capital at Akkad.
The son of a gardener, this man started out as a royal cupbearer, but soon rose to tremendous imperial prominence and took a name meaning "true king".
Sargon (or Sharru-ken) the Great of Akkad