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Sentence Examples He has just told us that the date palm supplies the people with food, honey, and wine and that Assyria is the world's largest producer of grain. Centuries before Christ, Nineveh was the capital of the great Assyrian Empire, when Assyria held sway over Egypt. Before there were Greek, Roman, and British colonies, there was a Babylonian colony in Assyria. Roman legionnaires, for example, were not radically different in their equipment from the soldiers of Assyria a millennium before. He spends all of Judah's money to please the King of Assyria and even worships Assyrian gods. 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. The Lemon tree seems to have originated in Assyria. It spread eastward and became particularly well established in India later moving westwards. The strong tradition in the material, religious and intellectual culture of Assyria remains connected to the site and its region. When Tyre fell under the domination of Assyria, a Punic trading empire was established based on the former Phoenician colonies in the western Mediterranean. In this short book of four chapters, Jonah is commissioned by Yahweh to go to Nineveh, the capital of Assyria, to preach repentance. The barbarians are hacking down the legacy of Assyria while we quietly deprive our state school children of the wonderful gifts of the Greeks. The way to understanding ancient Babylonia and Assyria and much of biblical history now lay open. He had to carefully preserve the unity of Egypt in order to face the growing threat of Assyria. In ancient Mesopotamia, many rulers of Assyria, Babylonia and Sumer were absolute monarchs as well. The lathe is an ancient tool, dating at least to ancient Egypt and known to be used in Assyria and ancient Greece. Moab had become a tributary of Assyria by the late 8th century bc and was conquered by the Babylonians in 582 bc, upon which the Moabites disappeared from history. Anatolia is a melting pot where cultures from Sumer, Babylon and Assyria interacted for centuries with peoples such as the Hattis, Hittites and Hourrites. In Assyria around three millennia ago clay tablets had small clay labels attached to them to make them easier to tell apart when they were filed in baskets or on shelves. And let us not forget the Caduceus, which can be found in the myths and cultures of ancient Egyptian, Greece, Rome, Assyria and Sumeria, and is still used by today's medical profession. Show More Sentences By the mid 21st century BC, the Akkadian speaking kingdom of Assyria had risen to dominance in northern Iraq. It remained insignificant for over a century, overshadowed by older and more powerful states, such as Assyria, Elam, Isin, Ehnunna and Larsa. The empires of Assyria, Babylon, Carthage and Rome exacted tribute from their provinces and subject kingdoms. Merchants and merchant networks were known to operate in ancient Babylonia and Assyria, China, Egypt, Greece, India, Persia, Phoenecia and Rome. Having won Mesopotamia, vavilonjane and their northern neighbours in Assyria have inherited culture of Sumer and Akkad, have accepted akkadsky language, having kept myths shumerov and worship their gods. This line of kings, through whom the scepter promise was given, now reigned over a people that had long before been taken into captivity by Assyria. From Syria, the Romans invaded western parts of the region several times, briefly founding Assyria Provincia in Assyria. Akkad, Assyria and Babylonia all used the written East Semitic Akkadian language for official use and as a spoken language. Much of the history of the Hittite Empire concerned war with the rival empires of Egypt, Assyria and the Mitanni. It is from the period of Hammurabi that southern Iraq came to be known as Babylonia, while the north had already coalesced into Assyria hundreds of years before. Open air, public markets, where merchants and traders congregated, were known in ancient Babylonia and Assyria, China, Egypt, Greece, India, Persia, Phoenecia and Rome. Trade of these objects was done with Persia, Assyria, Egypt and Crete. Reade identifies the motivation for Median attacks on Assyria as similar to that behind previous incursions by Guti and Kassites, and subsequent invasions by Persians. Examples from Classical Literature While the Kassite dynasty was reigning, a new kingdom arose in the north, that of Assyria. Assyriology, the study of the monuments of Assyria, chiefly in a Biblical interest. So, in autocratic Assyria, sculpture reaches a certain point and becomes for ever conventionalised. Both Urartu and Assyria were sufferers from the brigandage of these allies. It is impossible to fix the year in which Phoenicia became independent of Assyria. He had evidently been left in peace by Assyria, and the monument he erected to his god is of aramaean workmanship and design. But Assyria itself had been equally an adapter and intermediary. Coequal in antiquity with the cult of anu in Assyria is that of Dagan. There remains, as the only god peculiar to Assyria, the god Ashur. Not to believe in Assur was a crime, since Assur represented Assyria. We read that in Assyria deadly influences were ascribed to the moon. Ramman-nirari's reign marks a turning-point in the history of Assyria. Many such customs must have been in vogue in Babylonia and Assyria. The last king of Assyria, sardanapalus, burnt himself in his citadel. Maspero, Gaston, A History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Vol. Strabo carries the western frontier of Assyria as far as Syria. Oannes of Assyria had the sign of Pisces, the Fish, and is thus figured. He finds Assyria and the Mounds of Cholula at his door, and himself has laid the courses. The first wooden lock was discovered by archaeologists in ruins of palace of Khorsabad near Nineveh, the ancient capital of Assyria. The lion was another sun-animal both in Egypt and in Chaldea and Assyria. Show More Sentences The second is a king who was a vassal of Tiglath-Pilezer, king of Assyria. Could this be said of Assyria, and shall it not be said of England? Find more words! 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