Examples of Assyrians in the following topics:
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- The Assyrian Empire was a major Semitic kingdom, and often empire, of the Ancient Near East.
- The history of Assyria proper is roughly divided into three periods, known as Old Assyrian (late 21st-18th century BCE), Middle Assyrian (1365-1056 BCE), and Neo-Assyrian (911- 612BCE).
- In the Old Assyrian period, Assyria established colonies in Asia Minor and the Levant.
- Assyria experienced fluctuating fortunes in the Middle Assyrian period.
- However, a shift in the Assyrian's dominance occurred with the rise of the Middle Assyrian Empire (1365 BCE-1056 BCE).
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- First occupied by the Assyrians, then the Persians, and later the Macedonians and Romans, Egyptians would never again reach the glorious heights of self-rule they achieved during previous periods.
- First occupied by the Assyrians, then the Persians, and later the Macedonians and Romans, Egyptians would never again reach the glorious heights of self-rule they achieved during previous periods.
- Having been victorious in Egypt, the Assyrians installed a series of vassals known as the Saite kings of the Twenty-sixth Dynasty.
- In 653 BCE, one of these kings, Psamtik I, was able to achieve a peaceful separation from the Assyrians with the help of Lydian and Greek mercenaries.
- In 609 BCE, the Egyptians attempted to save the Assyrians, who were losing their war with the Babylonians, Chaldeans, Medians, and Scythians.
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- Later in his reign, he went to war with Assyria and had some initial success before suffering defeat at the hands of the Assyrian king Ashur-Dan I.
- Some initial success in these conflicts gave way to catastrophic defeat at the hands of Tiglath-pileser I, who annexed huge swathes of Babylonian territory, thereby further expanding the Assyrian Empire.
- His successor, Kadašman-Buriaš, however, did not maintain his predecessor's peaceful intentions, and his actions prompted the Assyrian king to invade Babylonia and place his own man on the throne.
- Assyrian domination continued until c. 1050 BCE, with the two reigning Babylonian kings regarded as vassals of Assyria.
- Assyria descended into a period of civil war after 1050 BCE, which allowed Babylonia to once more largely free itself from the Assyrian yoke for a few decades.
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- The Nubians were driven out of Egypt in 670 BCE by the Assyrians, who installed an initial puppet dynasty loyal to the Assyrians.
- Although originally established as clients of the Assyrians, the Twenty-sixth Dynasty managed to take advantage of the time of troubles facing the Assyrian empire to successfully bring about Egypt's political independence.
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- Conflicts between the Amorites (Western Semitic nomads) and the Assyrians continued until Sargon I (1920-1881 BCE) succeeded as king in Assyria and withdrew Assyria from the region, leaving the Amorites in control (the Amorite period).
- Hammurabi also entered into a protracted war with the Old Assyrian Empire for control of Mesopotamia and the Near East.
- After a protracted, unresolved struggle over decades with the Assyrian king Ishme-Dagan, Hammurabi forced his successor, Mut-Ashkur, to pay tribute to Babylon c. 1751 BCE, thus giving Babylonia control over Assyria's centuries-old Hattian and Hurrian colonies in Asia Minor.
- Both the Babylonians and their Amorite rulers were driven from Assyria to the north by an Assyrian-Akkadian governor named Puzur-Sin, c. 1740 BCE.
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- Piye was defeated by the Assyrian king Shalmaneser V and then his successor Sargon II in the 720s BCE.
- Between 674 and 671 BCE the Assyrians began their invasion of Egypt under King Esarhaddon.
- The Assyrians, who had a military presence in the north, then sent a large army southwards.
- Tantamani was routed, and the Assyrian army sacked Thebes to such an extent it never truly recovered.
- Tantamani was chased back to Nubia and never threatened the Assyrian Empire again.
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- By
the 7th century BCE, a group of ancient Iranian people had established the
Median Empire, a vassal state under the Assyrian Empire that later tried to gain its
independence in the 8th century BCE.
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c. 500-400 BCE, Darius the Great and his son, Xerxe I, ruled the Persian Plateau
and all of the territories formerly held by the Assyrian Empire including
Mesopotamia, the Levant and Cyprus.
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- Assyrian warship (probably built by Phoenicians) with two rows of oars, relief from Nineveh, c. 700 BCE.
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- It was ruled by the first dynasty of Babylonia, then part of the Sealand Dynasty, then by the Kassites before falling to the Assyrian Empire from the 10th-7th century BE.
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- The Assyrian Church of the East, otherwise known as the Nestorian Christian Church, was given recognition by the Tang court.