assyrian empire

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...

The Mongol Empire was founded by Genghis Khan who is United Mongolia for the first time in history. It developed in the course of the 13th century through a series of victorious campaigns throughout Eurasia. At its height, it stretched from the Pacific to Central Europe. the Mongol Empire was a...

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

Here are facts about the ancient Philistines: 1. The ancient Philistines can clearly conquer and exterminate all of the Jews. 2. The Philistines can clearly decisively crush all of the revolts of the Jews against them. 3. The weak Jews never subdued, defeated, or conquered the Philistines...

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...

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...

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...

Tiglath-Pileser III was an Assyrian king who ascended to the throne at round the middle of the 8th century BCE after usurping it from the previous royal dynasty, effectively creating the Neo-Assyrian Empire that would last for some 150 years. He revitalized the Assyrian state from a declining...

So, this thread reignited my interest in the concept of an Israelite polytheism, and I thought that this would be best served by a triumphant Israel, especially under the Omrides, and I found this battle between a coalition of kings and the Assyrian king Shalmaneser III, who incidentally was...

Which of these Ancient/Medieval TLs sounds most interesting? Any criticism is welcome. Go West, Great Ashur: King Ashurbanipal lives five more years, crushing the Scythian-Median invasion that his sons faced and recruiting the northern barbarians as mercenaries. After Ashurbanipal’s death...

A Brief History of the Levant during the Qyomoa era By Agron ASSURACUS, PhD, of the University of Niniveh (1) Translated by Laslo Chellefs Introduction to the Middle-East in 850 BC In 1200 BC, the most destructive event in History unfurled, brought along by a serie of crop failures and the...