Identifier: storyofancientna00west (find matches)
Title: The story of the ancient nations : a text-book for high schools
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Westermann, William Linn, 1873-1954
Subjects: History, Ancient
Publisher: New York : London : D. Appleton and Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ionately fond of hunting wild beasts, cruel in waras they were in the chase, had long since adopted the civ-ilization of Babylonia, including its system of cuneiformwriting; and about 1300 b. c, they entered upon a longstruggle with Babylon for the supremacy over the Mesopo-tamian country and its trade-routes.74. The Assyrian Empire.—This series of ceaseless wars 62 DEVELOPMENT OF THE ORIENTAL NATIONS 63 was broken by the last of the great waves of Semitic migra-tion which flooded Mesopotamia and Northern Babylonia(about 1100 b. a). It was several centuries before the powerof Assyria recovered from this invasion of uncivilized Semites,but in the ninth century, b. c, she again began to extend hersway over Mesopotamia. The real founder of the AssyrianEmpire is Tiglath-Pileser, IV, who ruled from 745 to 728 b. c.His conquests carried him southward into Syria and Pales-tine. After a three-year siege the great city of Damascuswas conquered, and Tiglath-Pileser was free to lead his armies
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Tiglath-Pileser Besieging a Walled City.Assyrian relief. against Babylon. Here, too, he was successful, and becameking of Babylon in the place of its native rulers, unitingBabylonia and Mesopotamia under one rule, in the year728 b. c. 75. The Great Assyrian Rulers. Sargon.— After Tiglath-Pileser there came four strong Assyrian kings, Sargon(722-705 b. a), Sennacherib (705-681 b. a), Esarhaddon 04 CIVILIZATION OF EGYPT AND WESTERN ASIA (681-668 b. o.)j and Ashurbanipal (668-626 b. c). WhenSargon became kin1, all the new territory conquered by Tig-lath-Pileser revolted. By years of fighting, he brought therevolting territories of Babylon and Samaria under thoroughsubjection, and Samaria was made into a province of theAssyrian kingdom. On the walls of his palace Sargon had arecord of his deeds inscribed, from which the following ex-tract is taken: Willi (lie help of I he sun-god who aided me to vanquish myenemies, I besieged, I occupied the town of Samaria, and Ibrought into captivity

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