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Assyria
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acquired a large empire. it accomplished this by meand of a highly advanced military organization and state-of-the-art weaponr. for a time, this campaign of conquest made Assyria the greatest power in Southwest Asia
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Sennacherib
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one of the Assyrian Kings, bragged that he had destroyed 89 cities and 820 villages, burned babylon and ordered most its inhabitants killed
-king of Assyria who invaded Judea twice and defeated Babylon and rebuilt Nineveh after it had been destroyed by Babylonians (died in 681 BC) |
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Ninevah
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King Sennacherib who haf burned Babylon also established Assyria's capital at Nineveh along the tigris river
-an ancient Assyrian city on the Tigris across from the modern city of Mosul in the northern part of what is now known as Iraq |
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King Ashurbanipal
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collected more than 20,000 clay tablets from throughout the fertile crescent
-built a magnificent palace and library at Nineveh (668-627 BC) |
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medes and chaldeans
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a combined army others burned and leveled nineveh
-a Southwest Asian people who helped to destroy the Assyrian empire |
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king nebuchadnezzer
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a chaldean king restored the cuty
-Old Testament) king of Chaldea who captured and destroyed Jerusalem and exiled the Israelites to Babylonia (630?-562 BC) |
