Chapter VIII: The Empire of Akkad and Its Relation to Kish

Sargon of Agade and his significance--Early recognition
of his place in history--The later traditions of Sargon
and the contemporary records of Shar-Gani-sharri's
reign--Discovery at Susa of a monument of "Sharru-Gi,
the King"--Probability that he was Manishtusu's father
and the founder of the kingdom of Kish--Who, then, was
Sargon?--Indications that only names and not facts
have been confused in the tradition--The debt of Akkad
to Kish in art and politics--Expansion of Semitic
authority westward under Shar-Gani-sharri--The alleged
conquest of Cyprus--Commercial intercourse at the period
and the disappearance of the city-state--Evidence of
a policy of deportation--The conquest of Narâm-Sin
and the "Kingdom of the Four Quarters"--His Stele of
Victory and his relations with Elam--Narâm-Sin at the
upper reaches of the Tigris, and the history of the Pir
Hussein Stele--Narâm-Sin's successors--Representations
of Semitic battle-scenes--The Lagash Stele of Victory,
probably commemorating the original conquest of Kish
by Akkad--Independent Semitic principalities beyond
the limits of Sumer and Akkad--The reason of Akkadian
pre-eminence and the deification of Semitic kings