Ashur Nazipal and the Assyrian Empire

In the short term, ashur nazipal was an effective ruler. His new conquests were turned into client states and ordered to pay tribute. Enormous wealth began to flow once again into the imperial centre. And ashunazipal celebrated his victories with the construction of even more grand palaces. Deportation may sound like something of a light punishment when compared to the fates of some of those who stood in the way of the kings of asyria. But it was a brutally effective tactic for crushing resistance to the empire. The assyrians also used deportations and relocations in a much more punitive way. This technique of mass deportations was so effective that it