Most interesting Ancient/Medieval Scenario?

[St. Just]

2, 4, and 5.

 

[Achaemenid Rome]

My impression was that on fact the Assyrians suffered from several main issues interconnected :
- overextention
- the deep hate of the conquered populations due to their brutal treatment and deportation
- the "colonial" type of exploitation of the conquered lands for the benefit of Metropole
- the dispersal of the loyal native Assyrian population trough the Empire
- the increasing population in Assyrian land which was alien, diverse and held no loyalty to Assyria/do not identify themselves as Assyrians. This was cause of deportations.
- the lack of efficiently assimilate the elites of the conquered countries and of their populations
- not an emphasis on converting people to Assyrian religion
- the decrease of the military base of recruitment.
- passing from militia type to a professional standing army tremendously improved the Assyrian successes but if one or two armies are lost then it became terribly exposed.
- reliance on very strong leaders
- way too many enemies and 0 allies
- bad luck at the end

All true except for the second-to-last one. Ironically, the Assyrian Empire acquired its first true ally at the very end of its existence. Egypt's pharaoh Necho II sent expeditionary troops to try and defend the Assyrian Empire in its last years, but were defeated by the Chaldeans.

 

[calvin1417]

2 for me since I love late antiquity

 

[aegis03florin]

All true except for the second-to-last one. Ironically, the Assyrian Empire acquired its first true ally at the very end of its existence. Egypt's pharaoh Necho II sent expeditionary troops to try and defend the Assyrian Empire in its last years, but were defeated by the Chaldeans.

Hm.... I didn't knew that!
Thanks

 

[John7755 يوحنا]

All true except for the second-to-last one. Ironically, the Assyrian Empire acquired its first true ally at the very end of its existence. Egypt's pharaoh Necho II sent expeditionary troops to try and defend the Assyrian Empire in its last years, but were defeated by the Chaldeans.

Necho's hopeless alliance always struck me as extremely odd. Nevertheless it was in vain.

 

[Achaemenid Rome]

Thanks for the input, everyone. I'll make the Neo-Assyrian Empire timeline and add a link to it here when it's posted.