In what way did sargon fail as an empire builder?
a. his empire became too large for him to control.
b. sargon's soldiers settled with the people that they conquered.
c. he failed to maintain order in his government.
d. to find food, sargon's armies made long-distance raids.

I believe the answer is: A.His empire became too large for him to control.

At the peak of its power, Sargon of Akkad managed to control almost all area in Mesopotamia.  

Since the area of his conquest became really large, it is borderlien for him to govern all area in a centralized system like smaller empire does, so he let his territory into several city states and gave them the a certain level of autonomy to govern themselves.

b.

one company controls all the means of production of a product.

~coco

roosevelt believed that in light of the country's recent military successes, it was unnecessary to use force to achieve foreign policy goals, so long as the military could threaten force. this belief, and his strategy of “speaking softly and carrying a big stick,” shaped much of roosevelt's foreign policy.