Assyrian Imperial Power and How to Oppose It
by Karen Radner
Alexander von Humboldt-Professor for Ancient History of the Near and Middle East, LMU Munich
Honorary Professor of Ancient Near Eastern History, University College London
In the early first millennium BC, the ancient kingdom of Assyria became the dominant power of the Middle East. Attitudes and preferences of the imperial center shaped the lives and lifestyles between the Nile and the Caspian Sea. What made the Assyrian Empire so successful? And was it possible to oppose this exemplary lowland predatory state?
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