ABSTRACT
Sargon taxed trade routes, especially between Mesopotamia and Anatolia and Iran, making Akkad very rich. The Akkadian Empire employed regional governors that the state either sent or recruited among loyal locals. They borrowed the idea of cavalry from the Hittites a previous empire based in Anatolia that had briefly conquered Mesopotamia. There had been trade between Anatolia and Mesopotamia from the earliest days of Mesopotamian civilization. The author know much more about Egypt and Mesopotamia than about the Indus Valley civilization. The author have documentary evidence over 20,000 cuneiform tablets, mostly from a trading colony in Kanesh in Anatolia of an Assyrian trade network based in Assur in northern Mesopotamia that traded tin from Afghanistan, textiles from southern Mesopotamia, and minerals from Anatolia, among other things, in the centuries after 2000 bce.
