1. Chapter 4 Section 2 Notes

2. I. A Mighty Military Machine

3. A. Around 850 B.C. the Assyrians from northern Mesopotamia emerge

4. Assyrian Map

5. B. Assyrian king Sennacherib sacked 89 cities, 820 villages burned Babylon and killed most of the inhabitant

6. The Death of Sennacherib

7. C. Glorified military strength

8. D. Iron weapons, chariots, archers, shields

9. E. Savage in their treatment of defeated opponents

10. 1. Impaled or beheaded opponents while women and children were sold into slavery

11. 2. One king bragged of burning 3000 captives to death

12. II. An Expanding Empire

13. A. Between 850 and 650 B.C. Assyria defeated Syria, Palestine, Babylon and eventually Egypt

14. B. Capitol was located at Nineveh

15. C. King Ashurbanipal built the largest world library at that time

16. Ashurhanipal

17. III. The Empire Crumbles

18. A. Spread itself to thin

19. B. In 612 B.C. combined army of Medes and Chaldeans defeated the capitol city of Nineveh

20. Gates of Nineveh

21. C. Chaldean king Nebuchadnezzer restores Babylon to greatness