Assyrian Empire

• Senacherib's reign


  • Instilled fright and brutality to the places he conquered
  • Expansion to the eastermost part of the Mediterranean Sea caues access to oversea trading
• Assyria

  First established their first city, Assur, on the northern banks of the Tigris river
• After the Assyrian empire collapsed, the Mesopotamian valley was divided with the Chaldeans in the south and the Medians in the north
• Asurbanibal fought his brother in a civil war for the sole control of the empire which caused it to weaken
• Sennacherib's most spectacular achievement


  • Building a library in the royal palace with clay tablets from all over the empire from the oldest of Mesopotamia
  • Collection was continued by his successor, Asurbanibal
• Assyrians


  Semitic people
• Nineveh


  • Sennacherib's city
  • Third and last capital of Assyria
  • Most sophisticated and beautiful
  • Magnificent temples
  • Royal palace
  • Zoos
  • Orchards from the places they conquered
• The medians allied with the chaldeans and attacked and destroyed the city of Nineveh
• Assyrian government


  • King and aristocratic families on the top
  • Royal governors
  • Lower officials
  • Civil and military officials
  • Distant parts of the empire controlled by vassal kings
• Assyrian subsistence

  • Rainfall agriculture
  • Pastorilism