neo-assyrian empire

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 Neo-Assyrians had some influence on the development of Judaism politically, even trying to besiege Jerusalem and failing, and their transition from a sort of henothiestic worship of YHWH to full on monotheism, although the latter happened long after the Assyrians were gone. What if...

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...

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...

After seeing a thread about the lack of good Ancient Near East TLs on the forums, I revived a TL that I made last year about an alternate Iron Age. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On an early morning in 874 BC a...

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...

The challenge: Have an expansionist empire conquer a region, resettle the people of that region into the center of their empire, and over time be assimilated by the conquered people in the capital region of the empire. The only historical example I can think of this sort of bottom-up...