assyrian empire
The video below shows the rise and fall of the Assyrian empire:
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The Assyrian Empire lasted from 1700 BC to 612 BC and stretched through Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) through Asia Minor (modern Turkey) and down through Egypt.
Assyria's first king was king Tudiya, although King Shamshi-Adad I founded Assyria. Over time Assyria got very powerful, kings came and went. In 612 BC the ruler was Sin-shara-ishkun and all of of their neighboring enemies attacked them! The Assyrians were great inventors and created many things. They made libraries, iron tools and weapons, a mailing system, battering rams with wheels and canopies (a canopy was like a small roof, it protected soldiers in the Assyrian army), spoke wheels, very powerful and deadly crossbows, a cavalry (a cavalry is an army who fights on horse back), leather boots, the first University, the first lens (some people thought they might have made the first telescope too), an early form of government (the king divided up his land and placed trusted men to rule the lands), paved roads, the degrees on the circle, longitude and latitude, and locks and keys. Those are just some of the things they invented. |