Identifier: colliersnewencyc01newy (find matches)
Title: Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ... with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps
Year: 1921 (1920s)
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Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : P. F. Collier
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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Assyrian yoke.There are some tablets relating to thisprince which show that during his rulethe N. E. provinces were invaded by apowerful confederation of Aryan and Tu-ranian tribes, Medes, Cimmerians, andArmenians, under the command ofCyaxares. The meager character of theinscriptions about this date, and the ap-parent number of claimants to the throne,indicate that after the death of Asshur- the Ottoman Turks from 1638, at whichperiod it was wrested from the Persians. People and Language.—The Assyriansbelonged to the northern branch of theSemitic family, a race of people whospread over the country and mingledwith or supplanted the original inhab-itants, while their language took theplace of the Akkadian, the latter becom-ing a dead language. Their languagediffered little from the Babylonian, andboth retained traces of the Akkadian. Religion.—The religion of Assyria,though essentially of Babylonian origin,was much simpler, and although poly-theistic in character, was free from the
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ASSYRIAN SCULPTURE. THE SACRED TREE, WITH EAGLE-HEADED DEITIES banipal a period of disruption and an-archy set in, followed, about 606 B. c,by the siege and destruction of Ninevehby the combined forces of Cyaxares andNabopolassar. Assyria became a Medianprovince in 606 B. C, and afterward, inconjunction with Babylonia, formed oneof the satrapies of the Persian Empire.In 312 B. c. Assyria became part of thekingdom of the Seleucidae, whose capitalwas Seleucia, on the Tigris. It was after-ward subject to the Parthian kings, whosecapital was Ctesiphon, and was morethan once temporarily in possession ofthe Romans. When the Persian mon-archy of the Sassanidae, which succeededthat of the Parthians, was destroyed^ bythe Mohammedans, Assyria was subjectto the caliphs, whose seat was at Bagdadfrom 702 A. o. till 1258. It has been under multitudinous pantheon of the more an-cient empire. At the head of the pan-theon was the god Assur, the nationaldeity. He was symbolically representedby a winged

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