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Aug 1, 612
Down fall of Assyrian empire
The Babylonian army took down the Assyrian army. It was then that Egypt began to give active support to their former overlords, in order to keep Assyria as a much weakened buffer state between their regions of interest and the rising powers of the East
Yet Egypt was too weak to be able to withstand the attacks of the Medes for long: Babylon itself in -
Aug 27, 627
Death of King Ashurbanipal
Ashurbanipal's death was nowhere recorded. The final years of his reign are largely undocumented. After his death, a power struggle resulted in the ascendancy of Babylon and the emergence of the new Babylonian Empire. The Greeks knew Ashurbanipal as Sardanapalos and the Romans as Sardanapalus. In the Bible the Assyrian called Osnapper is believed by biblical scholars to be Ashurbanapal. -
Aug 31, 671
Eygpt is conquered bu Assyria
For the first time in their long history, the ancient Egyptians found themselves conquered by a foreign empire. The Assyrians on the whole preferred to exert their control over Egypt through local rulers, who in effect swapped the overlordship of the king of Kush for the (more distant) overlordship of the king of Assyria. -
Aug 31, 701
King Sennacherib of Assyria sacks the city of Lachish in Judah but fails to take the capital Jerusalem.
In 705 bc, the brilliant warrior King Sargon II of Assyria died far from home, fighting against forces led by the otherwise-obscure Eshpai the Kullumaean. He was the only Assyrian king to be slain in the field, and his death in battle represented a serious blow to Assyrian prestige. Armed with what they called ‘the overpowering divine weapon — guidance from the gods — a succession of Assyrian kings had conquered many nations. -
Aug 31, 721
Israel is conquered by Assyria.
In 722 BC, the Assyrians conquered Israel. The Assyrians were aggressive and effective; the history of their dominance over the Middle East is a history of constant warfare. In order to assure that conquered territories would remain pacified, the Assyrians would force many of the native inhabitants to relocate to other parts of their empire. They almost always chose the upper and more powerful classes, for they had no reason to fear the general mass of a population. They would then send As -
Aug 31, 1275
Reign of Assyrian King Adad-Nirari I, Mitanni becomes vassal state.
By around 2500-2400 BC the three cities were well established and thriving metropoli, with Arbel being one of the earliest permanent agricultural settlements. Little is known of the early history of these individual city states. -
Aug 31, 1400
Assyria regains its independence
In 612 BC, after a prolonged civil war, Assyria's two former vassals, the Babylonians and the Medes, conquered and destroyed Nineveh, the capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. The great city went up in flames, never to regain its former status. Three years later the same rebels razed Assyria's Western metropolis, Harran, crushing the last-ditch resistance of Assyria's last king,Ashur-uballit II. -
Hurrians occupy Assyria.
Hurrian, one of a people important in the history and culture of the Middle East during the 2nd millennium bc. The earliest recorded presence of Hurrian personal and place names is in Mesopotamian records of the late 3rd millennium; these point to the area east of the Tigris River and the mountain region of Zagros as the Hurrian habitat. -
Babylon rules over Assyrians region
Babylon rules over the Assyrian region. Underneath the superstructure of the Assyrian administration, the institutions of the Babylonian cities, such as the city assembly and the temple communities, were largely allowed to continue as before. Some cities were even left under the control of local rulers if their loyalty was beyond doubt: the city of Nippur retained its traditional ruler, the šandabakku, while Der was governed by Il-yada', likely a local Aramaean chief. -
Reign of King Shamshi Adad V under whose reign civil war erupts.
"’Mycenaean’ is the name given to the characteristic culture of southern and central Greece in the late Bronze Age The earliest manifestations of the culture are found in the Peloponnese in the sixteenth century BC, especially in he northeast and the southwest.
