Coalition such as the one including Ahab of Israel in 853 BC might withstand Assyrian might, but when the Miter kingdoms were disunited, the full force of the empire picked them off one at a time. The end result was mass death, destruction, the banishment of tens of thousands of people, the resettlement of thousands of newcomers, and a fundamentally different political and social world. The smaller kingdoms, ever more intense engagement with Assyrian power, shaped them in ways both large and small. Because of the volume of archaeological evidence and the survival of so many texts in the biblical tradition, we know far more about Israel and Judah than their many neighbors, but we have no reason to think that they were unique. In fact, their experiences shed a great deal of light on what the other peripheral polities, such as those of the Airmans, Moabites, and Philistines, were going through at the same time. We can understand their rivalries and infighting and consistent struggle for power with one another and the terrible effects of direct Assyrian attention. So in this sense, Israel and Judah speak not just to the roots of their own specific traditions, which obviously matter in and of themselves, but also as a direct window onto the impact of empire in this time and place. Israel and Judah can speak, albeit indirectly, for the others who can't do so for themselves. Chamanazar III, the king of Assyria who fought the coalition of smaller kingdoms at Carcar and 853 BC, claimed victory in that battle.