Military Strategies
The Assyrian Capital and Kings
Other Accomplishments
Connections to today and Geography
Life in the Assyrian Empire
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This was the Assyrians greatest accomplishment...
What were military strategies? Military startiges, are their greatest accomplishment because
100
This city was the capital of the Assyrian empire...
What is the city of Nineveh?
100
The Assyrians created the world's first one of these to irrigate crops and to keep land fertile over long distances...
What is aqueducts?
100
Just like today, the Assyrians had full-time soldiers and gave them this to help ensure their victories...
What is a salary?
100
Due to the Assyrian's weakness of having too large of a territory, their empire lasted about this many years...
What is 300 years?
200
The Assyrians used horses and this these type of weapons to help them gain more territory...
What are iron weapons?
200
Palaces were built to honor these people...
What are kings?
200
Assyrian artisans were known for their two dimensional sculptures called this...
What are bas-reliefs?
200
The Assyrian capital is located on the banks of this river...
What is the Tigris River?
200
The Assyrians used this material to decorate chairs, tables, doors, and bed...
What is ivory?
300
The Assyrians used battering rams and this during siege warfare...
What are moveable towers?
300
Even though the kings had a lot a power, they were obliged to follow these people...
What are gods and goddesses?
300
The Assyrians would sometimes do this to the people of the city-states they conquered...
What is to force them out of their homeland?
300
Some police forces used this weapon to break down doors; this invention came from the Assyrians...
What is the battering ram?
300
Artisans made many things such as these...
What are iron weapons, farming tools, and clay tablets?
400
This was spread around far and wide to frighten other enemies...
What is fear?
400
The kings were closely tied to this characteristic of civilization...
What is religion?
400
At the Assyrian empire's height, their territory stretched from this to this...
What is Egypt and the Persian Gulf?
400
Some countries used this kind of strategy in war; which was perfected by the Assyrians...
What is siege warfare?
400
The regular citizens of the Assyrian empire believed that the king was chosen by these people...
What are the gods?
500
These are the reasons military strategies were considered the greatest accomplishment for the Assyrians...
What is a larger territory, a stronger army, and more protection from enemies?
500
Fantasy animals, such as these, were put at the entrances of palaces...
What are winged bulls or lions?
500
These war vehicles accompanied horses in battle...
What are chariots?
500
These two mountain ranges gave protection to the Assyrians from the east and the north...
What is the Zagros and the Taurus Mountain ranges?
500
The Assyrian empire fell to a mixed army of enemies in around the year this...
What is 612 B.C.E.?
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