John Macdonald, Kevin McCoy, Ryan McGarvey, William Plunkett, Robert Weigman FEARSOME. FEARLESS. FRIGHTENING. ASSYRIA.

Esarhaddon Became king of Assyria in 681 B.C after his notorious father, Sennacherib, was assassinated after besieging Jerusalem The first great kind after many poor ones Vassals tried to invade, Esarhaddon’s Assyria conquered and added 2 Vassal provinces

More on Esarhaddonon Created a peace treaty with Elam in Iran Peace treaty is a huge deal because the Muslim, Elam is long time rivals to the Christian, Assyria who is surrounded by other Muslim fundamentalist countries Conquered Egypt, another very successful Muslim state After many years of failing health, Esarhaddon died in 669 B.C on his way to the Nile, in Egypt

4750 B.C. 1 st temple of Ashur built 2371 B.C. - Sargon of Akkad creates 1 st Assyrian kingdom 1307 B.C. Adad-nariri starts 1 st Assyrian empire

1115 B.C. - Tiglath- Pilseser creates 2 nd Assyrian empire 934 B.C. – Period of Neo-Assyrian empire begins; PEAK POWER 752 B.C. - Aramaic becomes official language of Assyria

612 B.C. - Neo-Assyrian Empire collapses 609 B.C. - Ashur-uballit is crowned new king of Assyria in Harran 609 B.C. - Chaldean defeats Egypt, Assyria soon falls

350 B.C. - Assyrians try to reestablish kingdom, Persia squashes efforts 256 A. D. Assyrian Church of East established 0 A.D. 600 A.D. - Period of the Assyrian Religious Empire begins

“I slew one of every two. I built a wall before the great gates of the city; I flayed the chief man of the rebels, and I covered the walls with their skins. Some of them were enclosed within the wall; some of them were crucified with stakes along the wall; I caused a great multitude of them to be flayed in my presence and I covered the wall with their skins.” –An Assyrian King (Cottrell 89)

Conquest above all 1 story houses Sculptures and carvings important Mostly small villages centered around farming Economy mostly farming and treasure from war Ruled by a king who only answers to his court Class system

King Ruling family, *millitary commanders, officials Men of trades Pesants and slaves

If city resists capture: – Citizens butchered; leaders tortured, skinned alive, impaled on stakes – City looted and burned To avoid nationalist revolts, large groups deported Iron swords, lances, metal armor, battering rams Largest ever army in Middle East/ Mediterranean

Polythesitic Assur = main god Conquered people do not have to follow religion King is the high priest and representative of Assur Interpreted events of nature as signs from the gods

Apsu and Tiamat have Assur and Kishar Apsu wants to kill children because they’re too loud Ea kills Apsu because of this Tiamat avenges Apsu, starts war She loses, cut in half Half her body holds up sky, eyes become source of Tigris and Euphrates

Short and Long Term Impacts -They had military taxation and uniform calendar which some countries have today -Were the first civilization and empire -Were roots on which civilizations built on and had a powerful art culture

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