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As a result, Sumer and Akkad had a surplus of agricultural products, but was short of almost everything else, particularly metal ores, timber and building stone, all of which had to be imported.

The spread of the Akkadian state as far as the " silver mountain " ( possibly the Taurus Mountains ), the " cedars " of Lebanon, and the copper deposits of Magan, was largely motivated by the goal of securing control over these imports.

One tablet reads " Sargon, the king of Kish, triumphed in thirty-four battles ( over the cities ) up to the edge of the sea ( and ) destroyed their walls.

He made the ships from Meluhha, the ships from Magan ( and ) the ships from Dilmun tie up alongside the quay of Agade.

Sargon the king prostrated himself before ( the god ) Dagan ( and ) made supplication to him ; ( and ) he ( Dagan ) gave him the upper land, namely Mari, Yarmuti, ( and ) Ebla, up to the Cedar Forest ( and ) up to the Silver Mountain ".