How to pronounce “assy” in English

Assyrians. So what we have to realize is there is some level of continuum that life does continue,

Neo-Assyrians are now taking what they need rather than trading for it. And this is when we also begin to see the rise and fall of civilizations. I mean in Hamilton, it talks about oceans, rise,

This was where the Assyrians were.

And the Assyrians were being beaten up by the people of Urartu who lived in that area.

capital city of Assyria has has been very arrogant and thinks it's the center of the universe just the way people some

Nineveh the capital of Assyria deserve compassion and these are people who are now part of the same Empire as Israel so

about the Assyrians and the Babylonians over in Mesopotamia? They're still there. They're now called the Neo-Assyrians and the Neo-Babylonians, the new ones, but they have survived the collapse,

the Neo-Assyrians take over pretty much the entire ancient Near East. Basically all the areas they had been trading with and had commercial and diplomatic and marital ties back in the

that the Assyrians and the Babylonians were able to maintain their government and their religion and their writing systems and all of that might've been just luck of the draw. That they were so far

And if you're a competent Assyriologist, you should be able to sight-read more or less.

monarchy under King David and Solomon and Assyrians and Persians and Greeks.

cuneiform writing code of the Assyrians.

greater tormentor of israel in assyria before the exile that's why we hear from that Zephaniah that god will destroy

so now the fact that the Assyrians have done bad things is attributable to their moral confusion and they are therefore

we have written texts from the Assyrians that do talk about period of drought. They are Hitt.

- Highly controversial. Many Assyriologists would leave the room.

Nineveh, which was the Assyrian capital, there was a great king, king of the world, called Ashurbanipal, and he had a fantastic library and he promoted it. He impounded tablets,

This is a regional cultural palace for a city called Assyut in the south of Egypt that was proposed in 1961,

their worldview Zephaniah does the same thing with the Assyrians when he

and he once he went he says he wants God to destroy Assyria and he says specifically he says that Nineveh the

Egyptians and the Hittites, but then Assyrians and Babylonians. So of those four, Egyptians,

broke down into different arrangements of triangular shapes. And it's most clear on the Assyrian reliefs, where the writing is very big and you can easily

thing that came out of America in all its history, is the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary, which is this long. There's only one

- Yeah. Well, we know it best from this Assyrian library set of tablets. There are 12 of them. It's a 12-tablet work, so it's quite

I think of civilizations like those in ancient Mesopotamia, so the Assyrians.

rise under the burden of foreign kings and princes and indeed Israel was a small country there were great powers like Assyria and Egypt so it was also it

moabite and how wonderful she is and how she's welcomed into the family of israel assyria now now there was probably no

modern day Iraq, basically, you had Assyria and Babylonia. Then elsewhere, you had Cypriot Sensai-Price Egyptians and Egypt Canaanites in Canaan. So overall, these people are

fairly well-known scholars, a seriologist have said that that is why the Neo-Assyrians and the Neo-Babylonians held on for about a hundred years before everybody else, before they were impacted

- Yeah. So, in the 19th century, about 1840, 1850, they started to find these things on excavations in Iraq, the big Assyrian cities and sometimes further south,

can record words and, and grammar and everything else. Now, the thing is, the received law from Assyriology is it was that way round, that

they worked hand-in-glove with the Elamites from Iran. They had a pincer movement, and they beat Assyria, they conquered Assyria. And they ran through

the library. But they wouldn't destroy the library because it was the giant brain from which the Assyrians ran a world empire, and it had all the

how to do it. So, in the modern world, if you go to university to do Assyriology, which I hope you and all of your

- No, I don't think he does. He's called the Father of Assyriology, but I think he's the Stepfather of Assyriology because when he first got these

the National Endowment for the Humanities, and it was for decades and decades of work. And most of the world's best Assyriologists collaborated on it. So the quality of translation

And we have detailed accounts of how they fought, and how they support-- had fought against the Assyrians mainly.

But every now and again, when they dig up something so massive, like this 7th century BC Assyrian statue, of course that's

Around 200 BC, there was a public city called Tok'alum, which was an economic center in what is now known as Co-Assyria. That city was also called

would obey, the day angels, drunk and muddled, stumbled from the bars and all the bells of London were sounded, the day animals spoke to us in Assyrian,

in direct or indirect contact with each other on almost daily basis. The thing is, if they're not in direct contact with somebody, like Mycenaeans and Assyrians, who are quite far apart, they will

or maybe less than three hops, like two hops for the Mycenaeans to the Hittites to the Assyrians, that's a small world network. And in the time period that we're talking about, that's what

would have been enough to bring down the whole thing. But interestingly, the rest of them, the Assyrians going down, the Babylonians going down, whatever, none of that would have been enough to

build everything back up. In other places, the huge empires that had been around, the Hittites, the Egyptians, Assyrians, Babylonians, some of them go away and are replaced by kind of a

pretty much intact. They didn't do as well as the Phoenicians and the Cypriots who I would give a gold star rating to, number one, in my book, but I would give the Assyrians and

'cause they're not there, there's no big Hittite king. Instead, what the Neo-Assyrians do after it

late Bronze Age, they've now just conquered. It's now part of the Neo-Assyrian Empire that stretches all the way to the Mediterranean Sea and down to Egypt in fact at one point.

empires, fall, that's basically what we've got here because yes, the Neo-Assyrians rise up and they're dominant for a while, but then they go down and collapse and the Neo-Babylonians take

better than anybody else. So I put them up in my top category. The Assyrians and the Babylonians, they adapt, but they don't really transform that much because they don't need to. They