HI289 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Jochen Liedtke, Medes, Barding
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Policing the empire: other means: a large successful and relentless army, establishment of assyrian colonies and garrisons, transportation, extensive administration - governors and bureaucrats (est. Bce: establishment of state police for intelligence gathering and elimination of potential threats. The beginning of the end: king ashurbanipal (669-627 bce, incessant wars draining assyrian man power and wealth, forced to rely upon increasingly unreliable auxiliary troops, constant rebellions and threats to periphery; including persians, cimmerians, arabs, and. Great assyrian cities sacked and destroyed: arrapha 615bce, ashur 614bce, nineveh. Allied with the egyptians from this point. Cyrus: 553-550bce: defeats and conquers median empire, 549-547bce: campaigns in iran, armenia, and anatolia, 547-546bce: campaigns in eastern iran and afghanistan; consolidates, 539bce: conquers the babylonian empire; dies in 530bce. Cambyses: 525bce: conquers egypt, succession crises after this, cambyses supposedly dies on way back from egypt. Monday, january 29, 2018: designed with crashing into enemy forces in mind.
