Facts: - title: king of assyria - caption: sargon ii and dignitary - reign: 722 -- 705 bc - successor: sennacherib - predecessor: shalmaneser v - name: sargon ii - image: sargon ii and dignitary.jpg Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of sargon ii .
sargon ii -lrb- akkadian Sarru-ukin '' he -lsb- = the god -rsb- made firm the king '' ; reigned 722 -- 705 bc -rrb- was an assyrian king .sargon ii became the ruler of the assyrian empire in 722 bc after the death of shalmaneser v .in his inscriptions , he styles himself as a new man , rarely referring to his predecessors ; however he took the name '' sharru-kinu '' -lrb- '' true king '' -rrb- , after sargon of akkad -- who had founded the first semitic empire in the region some 16 centuries earlier .'' sargon '' is the biblical form of the name .