What on Earth made the Assyrian Empire so Resilient?
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4 min readJan 16, 2021
The Assyrian Empire (850–605 BCE) manages to survive despite kingdoms as the Egyptians are facing collapse as the Iron Age goes on. The former was named after God Assur and settled at the beginning of their existence in the upper Tigris Valley, at around 2000 BCE.
From the beginning of their settlement, there were three eras of Assyrian dominance with the first one being…
