13. The Assyrians - Empire of Iron
Fall of Civilizations Podcast
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I Killed a Nahiru in the Great Sea of the Land of Amu
The king at tiglath pilesa also loved to hunt, and he delighted in bringing back live specimens of animals from the far away lands that he campaigned in. The assyrian chronicles even record that he hunted and killed some kind of sea creature known a nahiru. Tiglath pelasa swept his assyrian armies west, and when he conquered the hittite town of pitru, he gained control of the highway to the mediterranean sea. A distant body of water that, for the assyrians, constituted one edge of the entire world.
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