The Assyrian Empire After the Late Bronze Age Collapse

The assyrian empire managed to somehow survive, despite the pressures it faced from the aggression of aramian nomads. The big technology advance of the assyrians after the late bronzage collapse was the mastery of ironmongery. We have evidence of assyrians having their own version of the bronze sickle sword, which is called a sapara. It hape is very much like the egyptian copesh.