The Assyrians

The Assyrians

12/3/2020

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The Fall of the Babylonian Empire

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Babylon Sacked

• After Hammurabi, later rulers slowly lost sections of the empire

• The empire faced attacks from the people known as the Hittites

• Babylon (the capitol of the empire) was eventual sacked by the Hittites

The Rise of the Assyrians

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The Assyrian Empire over Time

• The Assyrian empire is split into 2 main sections in time

• The Old Assyrian Empire

• The Neo-Assyrian Empire

• A mysterious event caused the Old Assyrian Empire to fall apart

• The Assyrians returned better then ever a few centuries later

• The empire crumbled and their capitol was destroyed in 609 B.C.

Assyria's Contributions

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Military

• Assyrians created new machines of war

• Used iron weapons, superior to bronze

• Used military strategies like the siege

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Culture

• King Ashurbanipal collected cuneiform tablets in a massive library. Over 20,000!

• They created an extensive system of government officials to rule the empire

• They built grand palaces depicting their military conquests