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  1. //  Assyria
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  3. #bc
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  5.  
  6. //  occupied northern Iraq (between rivers) before 2300
  7. #e <t>founding<c>Ninevah<d>4000(500)<n>founding of Ninevah
  8. #e <t>writing<tit>Epic of Gilgamesh<d>650(50)<c>Assyria
  9. #e <t>use<n>convex lenses<c>Assyria<d>680
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  12. //  Kings
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  14. #p <nat>Assyrian<o>king<n>Shalmaneser I<ac>1274<d>1245<c>Ninevah
  15. #p <nat>Assyrian<o>king<n>Tiglath Pileser I<ac>1115<d>1077<c>Ninevah
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  17. #p <nat>Assyrian<o>king<n>Ashurnasirpal II<ac>884(1)<d>859<c>Ninevah
  18. #p <nat>Assyrian<o>king<n>Shalmaneser III<ac>859<d>824<fa>Ashurnasirpal II<c>Ninevah
  19.  
  20. //  Ramman-Nirari III in 803
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  22. #p <nat>Assyrian<o>king<n>Ashurnirari<ac>754<d>745<c>Ninevah
  23. #p <nat>Assyrian<o>king<n>Tiglath Pileser III<b>810(20)<ac>745<d>727<c>Ninevah<info>Tiglath-Pileser III sacked Damascus in 732.  He made Israel a vassal state.  After an anti-Assyrian faction took over Babylonia in 734, Tiglath-Pileser seized the Babylonian throne in 729.  As king there he was called Pul or Pulu.
  24. #p <nat>Assyrian<o>king<n>Shalmaneser V<b>780(20)<ac>727<d>722<fa>Tiglath Pileser III<c>Ninevah
  25. #p <nat>Assyrian<o>king<n>Sargon II<ac>722<d>705<c>Ninevah
  26. #p <nat>Assyrian<o>king<n>Sennacherib<ac>705<d>681<c>Ninevah
  27. #p <nat>Assyrian<o>king<n>Esarhaddon<ac>681<d>669<c>Ninevah
  28. #p <nat>Assyrian<o>king<n>Ashurbanipal<ac>669<d>627<fa>Esarhaddon<c>Ninevah
  29.  
  30. //  last Assyrian king:  Ashur-Uballit II;  reigned for at least 610-595
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  33. //  Battles
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  35. #e <t>battle<n>Assyrians capture Damascus<c>Damascus<d>732<vic>Assyria
  36. #e <t>battle<n>Shalmaneser V captures Samaria<c>Samaria<d>722<vic>Assyria
  37. #e <t>battle<n>Assyrian army defeated<d>609<c>Haran
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