Assarians and Neo Bab

Assyrians and Neo Babylonians

By Mr. Jack

Assyrians 1375-625 BC

• A Semite city that rules an empire with terror, cruelty, and horror.


• King Ashurnasirpal II wrote that he flayed, impaled, and beheaded rebels.

• His armies burnt families alive, ripped out people’s eyes, cut off fingers, noses and ears.

Other brutal acts include: rape, mutilating men to death, placing heads, arms, hands and lips on the conquered city's walls, skulls and noses atop stakes .They even fed them to dogs.


Some times, the blinded people so they would walk throughout the land and speak of Assyrian terrors.



They enslaved, maimed, cut off body parts in industrial scale

They used forced exile as a form of population control.

For example, the Hebrews out of Jerusalem and into Babylon.


• The Assyrians used iron weapons and war chariots with the manpower of Mesopotamia.


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They built a new capital at Nineveh.


• They built a new capital at Nineveh. .

At Nineveh, they built a great library.

• Assurbanipal's library

Assurbanipal's library

• The plundering wars of the Assyrians helped the money economy grow more quickly and spread culture.

• The natural economy (barter) collapsed time and time again, eventually everyone preferred money rather than barter.

• It’s easier to guard a bag full silver, then a field of barley.

• By the 7th C BCE, the Kingdom of Lydia minted coins, which the other city states quickly adopted.

• Production for the market increases.• Businessmen could go in for speculative cargos

could make better profits.

• Merchants and traders develop Aramaic, a language, so they could communicate with each other. Eventually, it became the official language of the Persian Empire.

Bronze market collapses

• The Kings of Mesopotamia, then Egypt, had kept a monopoly on bronze.

Iron becomes cheap.

• In 1500 BCE iron had been worth double gold, after 1200 BCE it became much cheaper as they learned to harden it by carburetion.

• By 900- 800 BCE cheap iron democracies the economy. Farmers had metal tools, small artisans could own their own tool kits and set up shops.

Iron democratizes Warfare

• Even a group of farmers could fight off a bronze age knight.

• Barbarian states could take on the established civilized states.

• Cheap iron allows kings in the older civilizations to outfit huge armies, unifying vast amounts of land.

In 625, the Neo-Babylonians and Medes destroy the Assyrian Empire and burned Nineveh.

NEO-BABYLONIA 625-539 BCE

Napabolassar 625-605

• After defeating the Assyrians, he rebuilds Babylon grandly.


• The Tower of Babel or Etemenanki ziggurat dedicated to Marduk.

• The Great Ziggurat of Babylon was 91 meters (300 ft) in height.


• The Great Ziggurat of Babylon was 91 meters in height.

Nebuchadnezzar II 604-562

• He held the Jews in Babylon.

Nebuchadnezzar II 604-562

• For his wife, he built The Hanging Gardens of Babylon. Herodotus (Greek historian) named it one of the 7 wonders of the World.

• An Archimedes style screw irrigated the gardens with a minimum of 37,000 liters of water a day.

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