assyrians

As a fun thought experiment, I would like to know how it could be possible for the rather extravagant beards of the ancient mesopotamians and achaemenid persians to be replaced with a clean shaven face as the male standard of beauty! Bonus points if body hair removal is included :p The Pod...

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...

Challenge: have a state ran by an Assyrian Christian elite that emerges sometime after the Arab conquests. Bonus points if the Assyrian Christians are able to expand and conquer all of Mesopotamia/Iraq. What would this Assyrian state look like, and would it be able to last for very long?

As I understand it, wrought iron weapons are typically less hard and more ductile than bronze weapons, and thus don't hold an edge as well; their advantage in the ancient world was because iron ore was much more common in the earth than copper and tin, and this came to a head with the collapse...