b. Military technologyi. Siege towersii. Horsesiii. They built roads to

get places faster

To see the king, you had to make an appointment

Then you had to walk through these:

iii. Then you had to walk down a hallway full of pictures like this:

iv. Then you got to meet the king

d. Policy of Exile:i. Exile: forced removal from one’s own homelandii. When the Assyrians conquered a country, they would sometimes send the people that lived there someplace else

a. First: They attacked their neighbors the Mitanni

b. King Tiglath-Pileser:

i. Conquered Babylon

ii. Conquered the Urartu

iii. Beat up the Medes

iv. Conquered Syriav. Conquered

Phoenicia

vi. Attacked Israela. There were two Hebrew kingdoms at the time

vii. Conquered thema. He exiled them to other parts of the Assyrian Empire

viii. Conquered the Philistines

x. Judah paid tribute (in the Bible: 2 Kings 17)1) Tribute: money paid to a foreign ruler for protection

d. King Sennacherib:i. Went to war with Judah

a. Attacked Jerusalem b. His army got sick and died

ii. Babylon rebelled i. He destroyed

Babyloniii. He was killed

e. King Ashurbanipal

i. Babylon rebelled again

a. He defeated themii. Conquest of Elamiii. Conquest of Egypt

a. The Medes attacked the Assyrian homeland

b. The Babylonians came to helpc. The Assyrian army was spread out all

overi. To keep people from rebelling

d. The Assyrians lost

a. They were killedi. The Assyrian cities

were destroyedii. Only farming

villages were left

b. Assyria was never powerful again