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They also extended their rule over a part of Asia Minor, all Syria, and, for a while, even over Egypt. The Assyrians subjugated all of Mesopotamia, including Babylonia, and the border regions. 3 The New Kingdom-900-600 B.C.Īssyria rose to the height of its power at the time of the New Kingdom. There was a decline from 1100 to 900 B.C. Names appear here which are better known in the New Assyrian Kingdom: Ashur-uballit (I), Adad-nirari (I), Shalmaneser (I), Tiglath-Pileser (I). The Middle Assyrian Kingdom arose in the 14th and 13th centuries.

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Mitanni was defeated by the Hittites (1380-1340 B.C.), and thus the Assyrians were free to resume their expansion. Mitanni seems to have controlled Assyria (see Unit 9 for Mitanni). The Period of Decline-1700-1300 B.C.ĭuring this period, Assyria was dominated by others. Hammurabi conquered Mari and perhaps Assyria and began the Old Babylonian Empire. Mari fell back to the original Amorite dynasty through Zimrilim. His son, Ishme-Dagon, was able to retain only Assyria. The whole of upper Mesopotamia was now in his control and the Cappadocian colonies began to show renewed activity. From his Assyrian throne, he moved west and eventually conquered Mari. Assyria had just regained her independence from the south. At any rate, he captured a town on the Tigris River which opened up Assyria to him. 2 He had inherited a territory near Mari with which he came into conflict. The Old Kingdom centers on the person of Shamshi-Adad I (1813-1781 B.C.). There is a governor from the neo-Sumerian period ruling in Assyria (2000-1900 B.C.). These were interrupted by the rise of the Hittite state. The Assyrians had colonies in Asia Minor where they carried on extensive trade (see the Cappadocian Tablets and the unit on the Hittites-see the tablet at ANE #56).

1Īssyria first appeared historically after the time of the Kingdom of Accad to whose sphere of influence it had belonged (2300-2100 B.C., but this early period is vague). It was located strategically on a low bluff on the right bank of the Tigris at a place now called Qalat Sharqat (cf.

The city which gave its name to the country and empire, even as it took its own name from the national god, was Ashur. The homeland of Assyria was in the northeast corner of the Fertile Crescent where the Tigris River flows southward across the plains, and the mountains of Kurdistan loom up in the background.