1. A Mighty Military Machine
The Assyrian Empire
A Mighty Military Machine

2. The Fall of the Babylonian Empire
1595- conquered by the Kassites
Ruled for 400 years
911 B.C.- conquered by the Assyrians
But the Babylonians will make a comeback!!!

3. The Assyrian Empire
Over the next three centuries built the strongest and largest empire the world had known at the time!!
Stretching from Egypt in the west to Persia in the East
Capital was Nineveh

4. The Assyrian Empire
How were the Assyrians able to build an empire?

5. Powerful Army Trained foot soldiers Expert shots with bow and arrow
Chariot Riders
Horseback Soldiers (first to do so)

6. Cruel Treatment Forced to pay tribute Deportations
Payment for protection
Deportations
Slavery
Horrific Physical Punishment
Flayed
Impaled

7. Weapons
Money from tribute tax helped them to develop even better weapons…
Iron weapons
Battering Rams with wheels and canopies
Spoke wheels

8. Dressed to Fight
Assyrian Army Chain Mail Leather Boots Could fight year round

9. King Ashurbanipal Great king, but TERRIFYING
Killed his own brother
Created the first Great Library in Nineveh
In his palace
Readings grouped by subject
Epic of Gilgamesh

10. Death of Ashurbanipal, 627 B.C.
Empire Ended
Civil War
Cities burned to the ground