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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s ofSusiana on the E. to the Nile on the W.He was, however, driven from his throneby Shalmaneser IV. (727), who blockadedTyre for five years, invaded Israel, andbesieged Samaria, but died before thecity was reduced. Conquests under Sargon.—His suc-cessor, Sargon (722-705), a usurper,claimed descent from the ancientAssyrian kings. After taking Samariaand leading over 27,000 people captive,he overthrew the combined forces of soldiers in the new palace, in 705 B. c.Sennacher-ib at once had to take uparms against Merodach-baladan, who hadagain obtained possession of Babylon.In 701 fresh outbreaks in Syria led himin that direction. He captured Sidon andAskelon, defeated Hezekiah and hisEgyptian and Ethiopian allies, and forcedhim to pay tribute, after which he re-turned to Assyria to overawe the Baby-lonians, Elamites, and the northern hilltribes. On Dec. 20, 681, he was murderedby his two sons, Adrammelech andSharezer, but they were defeated by theirbrother Esar-haddon, who then mounted
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ASHUB-BANIPAL, CONQUEROR OP EGYPT. FROM AN ASSYRIAN RELIEF TABLET Elam (Susiana) and Babylon. He de-feated the King of Hamath, who, withother princes, had revolted, took himprisoner, and flayed him alive; advancedthrough Philistia, and captured Ashdod;then, pushing southward, totally defeatedthe forces of Egypt p.vi ^aza, at Raphia(719). The revolted Armenians had al-so more than once to be put down. In710 Merodach-baladan was driven outof Babylonia by Sargon, after holdingit for 12 years as an independent king,and being supported by the Kings ofEgypt and Palestine; his allies were alsocrushed, Judah was overrun, and Ashdodleveled to the ground. Sargon afterwardcrossed over and took Cyprus, where heleft an inscription telling of his expedi-tion. He spent the latter years of hisreign in building, in the midst of whichhe was murdered during a revolt of the the throne. Esar-haddon took the titleKing of Sumer and Akhad. The mostimportant event of this reign was theconquest of Egypt, about

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