The cuneiform text of the “Legend of Sargon of Akkade” tells of a baby hidden in a basket coated with pitch and placed in the Euphrates River. As the basket carried down the river, the basket was opened by Akki, a royal gardener, who adopted the child and raised him as his own. Favored by the goddess Ishtar, the boy grew up and eventually became the ruler of Akkade, called Sargon, conquering lands near and far. While Sargon was late in reign, he commissioned the “Legend of Sargon of Akkade” for the future to read to preserve his military and leader accomplishments, as well as establishing the source of his legitimacy both to secure his legacy as a form of afterlife. During Sargon’s reign, he was the first and greatest Akkadian ruler. He conquered the Sumerians and founded a vast empire from the east to north-east, with his powers felt from Egypt to India. He established his capital city, Akkade, further north in the fertile lands of Mesopotamia. While he was managing the north, he established a calendar with the aid of his priests to organize farming and harvesting, standardized pots for …show more content…
In the story of Moses, the pharaoh of Egypt was seeing a problem with the rising population of the Hebrews which were slaves. He ordered that every first-born male child be immediately killed. Moses' mother loved her child and saw that the only way for Moses to survive was to put him in a basket and let him float down the Nile River. She could only hope that someone would take care of him and raise him. It so happened that the pharaoh's daughter found the little boy in the basket in the river. She begged the pharaoh not to kill him and the pharaoh agreed to raise him as the prince of Egypt along with their own