Sumerian kings to control any area much larger than two or three cities [but the
Sumerians] were suffering from an increased gap between elite leadership and poor laborers. [The rich] used their combined religious and secular power to claim as much as three-quarters of the land in any given
city for themselves. Sargon's relatively easy conquest of the area (not to mention his constant carping on his own non-aristocratic background) may reveal a successful appeal to the downtrodden members of Sumerian society to come over to his side. (99)
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Truths Wrapped in Fiction: Mesopotamian Naru Literature - Ancient History Encyclopediatween the rich and the poor. The historian Susan Wise Bauer writes on this, commenting: Sargon's relatively speedy conquest of the entire Mesopotamian plain is startling, given the inability of <span>Sumerian kings to control any area much larger than two or three cities [but the Sumerians] were suffering from an increased gap between elite leadership and poor laborers. [The rich] used their combined religious and secular power to claim as much as three-quarters of the land in any given city for themselves. Sargon's relatively easy conquest of the area (not to mention his constant carping on his own non-aristocratic background) may reveal a successful appeal to the downtrodden members of Sumerian society to come over to his side. (99) By presenting himself as a "man of the people" he was able to garner support for his cause and took Sumer with relative ease. Once the south of Mesopotamia was under his control, he wen Summary
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