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    The Neo-Assyrian Empire arose in the 10th century BC. Ashurnasirpal II is credited for utilizing sound strategy in his wars of conquest. While aiming to...
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    instead of cuneiform script. The Neo-Assyrian Empire was the fourth and penultimate stage of ancient Assyrian history. Beginning with the accession of Adad-nirari...
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    as the later history of the Assyrian people after the fall of the Neo-Assyrian Empire in 609 BC. For purposes of historiography, ancient Assyrian history...
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    The queen (Assyrian: issi ekalli or sēgallu, lit. 'Woman of the Palace') of the Neo-Assyrian Empire was the consort of the Neo-Assyrian king. Though the...
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    of the Assyrian Empire in 612 BC, the Neo-Babylonian Empire was conquered by the Achaemenid Persian Empire in 539 BC, marking the collapse of the Chaldean...
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    The Middle Assyrian Empire was the third stage of Assyrian history, covering the history of Assyria from the accession of Ashur-uballit I c. 1363 BC and...
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  • Thumbnail for State communications in the Neo-Assyrian Empire
    The state communications in the Neo-Assyrian Empire allowed the Assyrian king and his officials to send and receive messages across the empire quickly...
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    The Medo-Babylonian conquest of the Assyrian Empire was the last war fought by the Neo-Assyrian Empire, between 626 and 609 BC. Succeeding his brother...
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    Assyria (redirect from Assyrian Empire)
    ancient Assyrian history into the Early Assyrian (c. 2600–2025 BC), Old Assyrian (c. 2025–1364 BC), Middle Assyrian (c. 1363–912 BC), Neo-Assyrian (911–609...
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    The Assyrian conquest of Egypt covered a relatively short period of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from 673 to 663 BCE. The conquest of Egypt not only placed...
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    throughout the Near East, North Africa, The Caucasus, Mediterranean and Balkan regions. The Neo-Assyrian Empire is usually considered to have begun with the accession...
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    the Neo-Assyrian Empire when in the mid-eighth century BC Tiglath-Pileser III introduced Imperial Aramaic as a lingua franca of the Assyrian empire....
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    The religion of the Neo-Assyrian Empire centered around the Assyrian king as the king of their lands as well. However, kingship at the time was linked very...
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    of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from 669 BC to his death in 631. He is generally remembered as the last great king of Assyria. Ashurbanipal inherited the throne...
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    dominated the region as the largest empire the world had seen thus far. Ancient Assyrian history is typically divided into the Old, Middle and Neo-Assyrian periods...
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    Elam (redirect from Neo-Elamite Period)
    vassals of the Neo-Assyrian Empire until the late 7th century.[citation needed] More details are known from the late 8th century BC, when the Elamites...
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    group of people or both a country and its people, without any administrative implication. It mostly incorporated the territories of Neo-Assyrian Empire corresponding...
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    were the preeminent power in Mesopotamia and their realm is sometimes referred to by historians as the Neo-Sumerian Empire. The Third Dynasty of Ur is...
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  • Ashur-uballit II (category Neo-Assyrian Empire)
    the course of Sîn-šar-iškun's reign, the Neo-Assyrian Empire had been irreversibly weakened. A revolt in 626–620 BC had seen the loss of the empire's...
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  • Thumbnail for Timeline of ancient Assyria
    The timeline of ancient Assyria can be broken down into three main eras: the Old Assyrian period, Middle Assyrian Empire, and Neo-Assyrian Empire. Modern...
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    belongs to the son of Ešarra"; Biblical Hebrew: תִּגְלַת פִּלְאֶסֶר‎, romanized: Tīglaṯ Pīlʾeser) was the king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from 745 BC to his...
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    Ziggurat (category Archaeology of Iraq)
    ancient Assyrian. From zaqārum, to be high up. The Ziggurat of Ur is a Neo-Sumerian ziggurat built by King Ur-Nammu, who dedicated it in honor of Nanna/Sîn...
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    Assyria Neo-Assyrian Empire Old Assyrian Empire Middle Assyrian Empire Achaemenid Assyria Asoristan History of the Assyrians Assyrian culture Assyrian cuisine...
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    The Urartu–Assyria War was a conflict between the Kingdom of Urartu and the Neo-Assyrian Empire. The war began around 714 BC, with the invasion of Urartu...
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    short-lived empire, succeeding the earlier Akkadian Empire, Third Dynasty of Ur, and Old Assyrian Empire. The Babylonian Empire rapidly fell apart after the death...
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  • The Early Assyrian period was the earliest stage of Assyrian history, preceding the Old Assyrian period and covering the history of the city of Assur...
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  • The Old Assyrian period was the second stage of Assyrian history, covering the history of the city of Assur from its rise as an independent city-state...
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    king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. The siege concluded Sennacharib's campaign in the Levant, in which he attacked the fortified cities and devastated the countryside...
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    in Neo-Assyrian script, it might have been created near the end of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. Uruk King List (UKL, IM 65066) — the preserved portion of this...
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    Mitanni (redirect from Mittanian empire)
    expanding Assyrian empire..." Barjamovic, Gojko, (2020). "The Empires of Western Asia and the Assyrian World Empire", in: The Oxford World History of Empire: Volume...
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