Sargon

This evening Breeanna and reviewed Cheop's pyramid, the Great Pyramid and went over the Great Sphinx. We moved to the Mesopotamia region of Sumer and I told Breeanna about Sargon. Like Moses, he was found floating in a basket down the river. The king of the city of Josh found Sargon and raised him. Sargon became the king's cup bearer because the king trusted Sargon not to poison his drink. Sargon, though caused the king's army to rise against him so that he could be king. Sargon fought to unite many city states in the Mesopotamia region. He fought in over fifty wars and his people were known as the Akkadians. His form of government is a military dictatorship. When the conquered cities refused to obey his laws, he left behind soldiers to enforce compliance. Breeanna's history study this evening was a struggle as she prefers fairy tales and lots of colorful picture to accompany the books that she listens to. The argument that history is the story of people that lived a long time ago on this Earth just like her, falls upon deaf ears. The threat that she'll fall behind in her understanding of the world compared to her brother, Bryan doesn't fall within her realm of interest. Finally I threatened her with various consequence that my imagination could conceive of at 8pm. Then, and only then did she concede to allow me to read on the tedious subject of history. Her brother was sooooo much easier to deal with. Sigh. 9/16/2013