<P> My mother was a changeling, my father I knew not . The brothers of my father loved the hills . My city is Azurpiranu (the wilderness herb fields), which is situated on the banks of the Euphrates . My changeling mother conceived me, in secret she bore me . She set me in a basket of rushes, with bitumen she sealed my lid . She cast me into the river which rose not over me . The river bore me up and carried me to Akki, the drawer of water . Akki, the drawer of water, took me as his son and reared me . Akki the drawer of water, appointed me as his gardener . While I was gardener Ishtar granted me her love, and for four and (fifty?)... years I exercised kingship . </P> <P> Later claims made on behalf of Sargon were that his mother was an "entu" priestess (high priestess). The claims might have been made to ensure a descendancy of nobility, considering only a highly placed family can be made such a position . </P> <P> Originally a cupbearer (Rabshakeh) to a king of Kish with a Semitic name, Ur - Zababa, Sargon thus became a gardener, responsible for the task of clearing out irrigation canals . This gave him access to a disciplined corps of workers, who also may have served as his first soldiers . Displacing Ur - Zababa, Sargon was crowned king, and he entered upon a career of foreign conquest . Four times he invaded Syria and Canaan, and he spent three years thoroughly subduing the countries of "the west" to unite them with Mesopotamia "into a single empire". </P> <P> However, Sargon took this process further, conquering many of the surrounding regions to create an empire that reached westward as far as the Mediterranean Sea and perhaps Cyprus (Kaptara); northward as far as the mountains (a later Hittite text asserts he fought the Hattian king Nurdaggal of Burushanda, well into Anatolia); eastward over Elam; and as far south as Magan (Oman)--a region over which he reigned for purportedly 56 years, though only four "year - names" survive . He consolidated his dominion over his territories by replacing the earlier opposing rulers with noble citizens of Akkad, his native city where loyalty would thus be ensured . </P>

Who was the king of the akkadians who conquered all of mesopotamia