Assyrians .
Neo-Assyrians are now taking what they need rather than trading for it.
This was where the Assyrians were.
And the Assyrians were being beaten up by the people of Urartu who lived in that area.
about the Assyrians and the Babylonians over in Mesopotamia? 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.
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.
monarchy under King David and Solomon and Assyrians and Persians and Greeks.
cuneiform writing code of the Assyrians .
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.
their worldview Zephaniah does the same thing with the Assyrians when he
David says the stars came and fought against the Assyrians you know we know that that's poetry then there are some places like Genesis 1 chapter 1 uh like
Egyptians and the Hittites, but then Assyrians and Babylonians.
I think of civilizations like those in ancient Mesopotamia, so the Assyrians .
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
But what’s interesting: as the story begins, the Assyrians were the worst neighbors.
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
And we have detailed accounts of how they fought, and how they support-- had fought against the Assyrians mainly.
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.
But interestingly, the rest of them, the Assyrians going down, the Babylonians going down, whatever, none of that would have been enough to
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
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
Instead, what the Neo-Assyrians do after it
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
The Assyrians and the Babylonians, they adapt, but they don't really transform that much because they don't need to.
So I think that's where water comes into play because the Assyrians and the Babylonians are in my category
the one or the two societies that do seem to have had the right people at the right place at the right time are the Assyrians and the Babylonians.
But, Cypriots do okay, Phoenicians do okay, Assyrians and Babylonians do
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.
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