The History of Assyria

The life of an assyrian soldier was a tough one. Adad nerari's armies were made up primarily of men drawn from the fields. They would spend much of their year working on farmsteads with their families. And then, when the spring came, the rains stopped and the winter mud hardened cross the land. This rhythm of a season of harvest in the autumn and a season of war in the spring formed the heart beat of the assyrian empire. It was a drum beat of expansion and conquest that was continued by the king who came to the throne in the year eight, 83 b c - ashur nazipal the second.