
Vol 2 Ep 7 - The Assyrian Empire
History of the World podcast
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The Assyrian Empire - The Battle of Nineveh
In six 12 b c e, the medes and babylonians joined forces to besiege the assyrian capital city of nineveh. Nineveh fell in a three-month battle that saw the king shinsharison killed. In six ten b c e both the babylonian king nabod pelassa and the median king siaxeres oversaw the fall of haran on its border with syria. The final word should go to the babylons who slaughtered the land of subarum. I turned the hostile land into heaps and ruins.
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