"...conqueror of Samaria and of the entire Israel, who despoiled Ashdod and Shinuhi [, who caught the Greeks of the sea like fish, who exterminated Kaska, Tabal, and Cilicia, who chased out Midas, king of the Phrygians, who defeated Egypt at Raphia, who declared Hanno, king of

Gaza, a captive, who subdued the seven kings of Cyprus, who dwell in the sea, a distance of a seven-day journey."

The events referred to in the inscription above can be most accurately said to

have been impossible without the accomplishments of .

A. Hammurabi of Babylon

B. Sargon of Akkad

C. Akhenaten of Egypt

D. Ramses of Egypt

The correct answer is B) Sargon of Akkad.

The events referred to in the inscription above can be most accurately said to have been impossible without the accomplishments of Sargon of Akkad.

We are talking about the first Emperor of the Akkadians, Sargon the Great. He was the "terror" of many Sumerian city-states. He was feared and respected for all the above-mentioned accomplishments. Babylonian and Assyrian recorded history wrote about Sargon that he was a great ruler that led his warrior troops to conquer many regions of Mesopotamia. This literature renown him as a man that overcome poverty in his childhood and became a great Emperor.  

it was displayed because they had a love for war