| While the Kassite dynasty was reigning, a new kingdom arose in the north, that of Assyria. |
| Acting against the counsel of the prophet Isaiah, Ahaz appealed for aid to Tiglath-pileser III, king of Assyria, to repel the invaders. |
| This ancient civilization has endowed Iraq with antiquities at Ur, Babylon, Assyria and Nineveh. |
| Roman legionnaires, for example, were not radically different in their equipment from the soldiers of Assyria a millennium before. |
| Before there were Greek, Roman, and British colonies, there was a Babylonian colony in Assyria. |
| Centuries before Christ, Nineveh was the capital of the great Assyrian Empire, when Assyria held sway over Egypt. |
