Rise and Fall
According to historical records, what were the specific years that the Assyrian Empire lasted?
2025 BCE - 609 BCE
The practice of stealing religious statues from conquered temples to lower enemy morale and prevent gods from hearing prayers.
'Godnapping' (stealing religious statues)
This primary material was produced at a 'nearly industrial level' by enslaved labor and traded for silver and luxury goods.
Textiles (weaving)
Historians typically divide the long history of the Assyrian Empire into which three distinct chronological periods?
Old Kingdom, Middle Empire, Neo-Assyrian Empire
The tactic of moving conquered populations to different parts of the empire to make cities less unified and less likely to rebel.
Relocating or deporting conquered peoples
According to Assyrian law, high-ranking women were required to wear this specific status symbol while in public.
What was the name of the original Assyrian capital city that was once ruled by the Akkadian Empire before gaining its own independence?
Asur (originally ruled by Akkad)
The specific metal technology that the Assyrians were among the first to adopt for mass-producing superior weapons.
Iron
Name two distant regions the Assyrians connected with through their extensive overland or sea trade routes.
Egypt, Indus Valley, or Afghanistan
Unlike the Akkadians who were crippled by dust, what was the primary internal reason the Assyrian Empire eventually crumbled?
Financial and administrative burden of expansion
The title given to female officials who wielded political power and served as palace administrators.
Sakintus
The Assyrians created this dual infrastructure system to connect the region internally and improve the speed of trade and communication.
Roads and postal system
As the empire expanded, which city eventually became the later capital of the Assyrian Empire after being dominated by Asur?
Ninevah
Unlike the 'hands-off' Akkadians, the Assyrians used this method of control by appointing governors to oversee conquered cities.
Micromanagement and appointing governors
This specific group of people was forced to perform the most difficult and dangerous agricultural work along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
Enslaved prisoners of war