• city was captured by the foreign Amorite conqueror Shamshi Adad I in c. 1808 BC. Shamshi-Adad ruled from the city Shubat-Enlil and established a short-lived...
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    jackhammer by ISIL forces and the gate was utterly destroyed. Adad Gate: Named for the god Adad. A roofing above it was begun in the late 1960s by Iraqis...
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    stories, Solomon imported 100,000 workers from what is now Lebanon. Well, the whole population of Israel probably wasn't 100,000 in the 10th century. Everything...
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    inscriptions refer to the region of "Palashtu" or "Pilistu", beginning with Adad-nirari III in the Nimrud Slab in c. 800 BCE through to a treaty made by Esarhaddon...
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    000 sq mi) 240 BC 2,600,000 km2 (1,000,000 sq mi) 175 BC 800,000 km2 (310,000 sq mi) 100 BC 100,000 km2 (39,000 sq mi) Population • 301 BC 30,000,000+...
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    John the Baptist). The Mandaean population numbers between 60,000 and 100,000 today. Mandaeism flourished in the Parthian and early Sassanid period in...
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    Bagoas, the chief of the eunuchs. Nectanebo II resisted with an army of 100,000 of whom 20,000 were Greek mercenaries. Nectanebo II occupied the Nile and...
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    the city was conquered by the Amorite ruler of Ekallatum, Shamshi-Adad I. Shamshi-Adad's extensive conquests in northern Mesopotamia eventually made him...
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    texts and documents of various different genres. Perhaps comprising over 100,000 texts at its height, the Library of Ashurbanipal was not surpassed until...
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    Yarim-Lim I, who formed an alliance with Hammurabi of Babylonia against Shamshi-Adad I of Assyria. Yamḥad was devastated by the Hittites under Mursili I in the...
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    Bagoas, the chief of the eunuchs. Nectanebo II resisted with an army of 100,000 of whom 20,000 were Greek mercenaries. Nectanebo II occupied the Nile and...
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    Shamshi-Adad V (822–811 BC) inherited an empire beset by civil war which he took most of his reign to quell.[citation needed] He was succeeded by Adad-nirari...
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  • death of Hammurabi in 1699 BCE. Following this, Assyria grew in power under Adad-nirari II. By the late ninth century BCE, the Assyrian Empire controlled...
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    largest and most comprehensive collection of Egyptian antiquities (with over 100,000 pieces) outside the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. A collection of immense importance...
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    Šauška and Assyrian Ishtar of Nineveh, especially in inscriptions of Shamshi-Adad I, who might have introduced religious innovations in Nineveh to compete...
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    of Neo-Assyrian palaces, and was fortified with a wall of its own. At 100,000 square meters (10 hectares; 25 acres), it was the largest Assyrian palace...
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    1962 by Roman Ghirshman with the French Archeological Mission. Almost 100,000 cubic yards of debris were removed in the process, using a crew of 100...
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    what now corresponds to Italy and the eastern Mediterranean Basin. Around 100,000 years ago, olives were used by humans in Africa, on the Atlantic coast...
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    original archive for the same period of time could have been as many as 100,000 Elamite tablets. The edited samples to-date may represent no more than...
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    early 5th century BC. Contemporary estimates place the numbers between 100,000 and over a million. Whatever the number, it was enormous and the Persians...
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    Franck, David and Irene. Timelines of War: A Chronology of Warfare from 100,000 BCE to the Present. Boston: Little, Brown, 1994. Shaw, Ian (1991). Egyptian...
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  • power. However, by the reign of Eriba-Adad I (1390–1366 BC) Mitanni influence over Assyria was on the wane. Eriba-Adad I became involved in a dynastic battle...
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  • present confines of Nagorno-Karabakh inscribed with the cuneiform name of Adad-Nirari, King of Assyria (c. 800 BCE). [citation needed] The first mention...
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  • [underestimating the] jump from the 35,000 [WWI] instructions … to the more than 100,000 instructions on the" AN/FSQ-8. NORAD conducted a Sage/Missile Master Integration/ECM-ECCM...
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  • reigned for 94 years, but alternative readings cite a reign of just 64 years. Adad-guppi, mother of the last king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire Nabonidus apparently...
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    internal power struggles and tensions with Iran. The war ended with more than 100,000 casualties and little achievement for both sides. In March 1970, a peace...
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    and Hittite mythologies, attributes the name to the storm and rain god, Adad, who lived in the surrounding forests. Hittite manuscripts found in the area...
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  • Shashrum, Shurudhum, Bitum-Rabium, Jabru, and Huhnuri c. 1813–1791 BCE Shamshi-Adad I conquered Assur, Mari, Ekallatum, and Shekhna, establishing an empire encompassing...
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    NBRF sold several ADAD units to the Food and Drug Administration, and to large pharmaceutical companies. Building on the success of ADAD, Ledley, Wilson...
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