In 616 BC, Cyaxares, king of the Medes and Persians, made alliances with Nabopolassar, ruler of the Babylonians and Chaldeans, and also the Scythians and Cimmerians against Assyria.
#EMPIRE RISE OF THE MIDDLE KINGDOM SERIES#
Upon the death of Ashurbanipal in 631 BC, the empire began to disintegrate due to a brutal and unremitting series of civil wars in Assyria proper. Newly created bilingualism of the late Neo-Assyrian period was a reflection of cultural diversity within expanding borders of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. During the early Neo-Assyrian period, the Akkadian language continued to be the main language of the Empire, but starting from the second half of the 8th century BC, due to territorial expansion, the Aramaic language was also accepted as an additional language of public life and administration, gradually gaining importance. 2025–1378 BC), and the Middle Assyrian Empire (1365–934 BC) of the Late Bronze Age.
The Neo-Assyrian Empire succeeded the Old Assyrian Empire (c. įollowing the conquests of Adad-nirari II in the late 10th century BC, Assyria emerged as the most powerful state in the world at the time, coming to dominate the Ancient Near East, East Mediterranean, Asia Minor, Caucasus, and parts of the Arabian Peninsula and North Africa, eclipsing and conquering rivals such as Babylonia, Elam, Persia, Urartu, Lydia, the Medes, Phrygians, Cimmerians, Israel, Judah, Phoenicia, Chaldea, Canaan, the Kushite Empire, the Arabs, and Egypt. Iron weapons were first used by Assyrians, and their troops employed advanced military tactics that were highly effective.
Many of the early imperial techniques perfected by the Assyrians became standard in later empires. The Neo-Assyrian Empire ( Assyrian cuneiform: mat Aš-šur KI, "Country of the city of god Aššur" also phonetically mat Aš-šur) was an Iron Age Mesopotamian empire, in existence between 911 and 609 BC, and became the largest empire of the world up until that time.
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