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Tukulti-Ninurta I defeated Kashtiliash IV, the Kassite king of Babylonia, and captured the rival city of Babylon to ensure full Assyrian supremacy over Mesopotamia. He set himself up as king of Babylon. After a Babylonian revolt, he raided and plundered the temples in Babylon, regarded as an act...

After the assassination of Tukulti-Ninurta, a long, slow decline of royal power in Assyria followed. Falling pray to Aramean attacks Assyrian Empire progressively lost territory who at times raided deep into Assyrian territory. Whereas Israel peak under David but it was split under his grandson...

Hittites survive the bronze age collapse by defeating the sea peoples and subduing the kaskas. Hittites create a near monopoly on iron. They conquer Egypt, Mesopotamia, Caucasus, Levant and Grecce emerging as the strongest power in world

Some people argue that regions like Britannia, Dacia, Germania and Mesopotamia brought instability to the empire, which was relatively safe with its borders in the Rhine, Danube and Osrhoene/Western Armenia. What do you think? Were these regions really worthy of conquest? Would the empire...

Jews conquer Middle east instead of Assyria by adopting iron smelting and cavalry

What if some ancient Assyrians went and settled deep within Central Europe before the first Persian empire even existed then they fully established a classic powerful ancient Assyrian civilization there with a classic ruthless brutal professional ancient Assyrian military? They were unconquered...

Exactly what says in the title. Would the romans choose to go to battle against the parthians in full force to conquer one of the most wealthy regions of the antiquity instead of just conquering a bunch of celtic tribes in Britannia?

Weave Hangings for Asherah: An Iron Age Timeline A depiction of an Asherah pole, the Tree of Life CHAPTER ONE: I'M THE KING It was late into the third year of Lord Ba'l-mazzer’s reign over the land of Pūt [1] when a group of messengers arrived, reporting news from the south. Elisha, a...

Assyria had been under various foreign powers for a while after the fall of the Neo-Assyrian Empire and never regained its independence ever since. So right after the year 1000, is it possible for Assyria to regain its independence? At that time the Assyrian population hasn't gone through the...

While the Assyrians put up a long, hard, and brutal fight against their enemies before they finally fell, they were soon ejected from Babylonia, and forced to fight in their homeland. Several religious and imperial centers, crucial to Assyrian ideology, military, and economy, were either...

The Qedarites were an Arab tribe or confederation active from the 9th-4th centuries BC, present just south of Mesopotamia, and parts of Sina, mentioned in both the bible, Assyrian sources, and Persian, Greek, and Roman sources. The Arabs were first attested in the written record when Gindibu...

The Kingdom of Lydia was one of the most powerful states in ancient Anatolia, and also one of the richest. They were the ones who invented coins, and their last king, Croesus, entered the minds of many as a byword for a rich man. Today, their culture and religion remain less known, and they were...

Assyria, in it's various forms, was one of the most powerful states in the Near East. Having access to good farmland and easier access towards Asia Minor and the Caucasus, which it could trade with, dominate, and interact with, as well as quickly developing a revanchist Sumero-Akkadian imperial...

The Assyrian Empire, in it's various forms, had a great influence on the history of the ancient Near East, but it's most prominent iteration was the Neo-Assyrian Empire. Though some might disagree, IMO the empire did great when it had competent rulers, but it was based on constant military...

Tiglath-Pileser III was a general and governor of Kalhu who after usurping power and slaughtering the previous royal family went on to take the Assyrian state to new heights. His military, administrative, and economic reforms greatly expanded Assyrian capacity to wage war, re-subjugating...

Fairly straight forward. The idea is do I wish to include into the timeline that I am already working on and in process of; a pod for the American continents. This question is asked, as I am surely interested in realizing a particular thread regarding a maritime Maya civilization. This maritime...

Otl, despite being the homeland of early civilization as we recognize it, Mesopotamia was long dominated by foreign empires. This isn't to say Mesopotamia was without power, but much of its realms were fairly limited, mostly to what are now iraq and Syria, with bits poking into turkey or iran...

The Annals (Assyria) apparently mention that the king of Kadmuhu was captured by Ashur Dan II (last king of the Middle Assyrians) in one of his expeditions north of Assyria. Do we know where exactly he campaigned and at what time?

What is the latest potential period in which an independent and viable Assyrian state could be formed? Could they (like Armenia) have avoided conquest by the Parthians when the Seleucid Empire imploded? Could they potentially wriggle out of Muslim rule during one of the Civil Wars of the...

Introduction to the topic As I have discussed somewhat on the forum regarding the idea of the steppe empire and its forming in response to sedentary empires from more traditionally state-friendly environs (namely river valleys); there should also be a discussion given into the curious example...