> "Canaan's elite was either Akkadian" -- the writing was done by scribes, who were a kind of elite, but the kings did not write these themselves. you cut out

> "Canaan's elite was either Akkadian" -- the writing was done by scribes, who were a kind of elite, but the kings did not write these themselves. you cut out the rest of the sentence, and then just rephrased it ;) "or at least they were educated/influenced from there"