Assyria Israel And Phoenicia

The Neo-Assyrian Empire was one of the strongest centers emerged in western Asia and the eastern Mediterranean, after 1000 B.C.E. The Assyrian is located in northern Mesopotamia. It is hillier and has more varieties of temperature and greater rainfall than Babylonia. The history of the Israel is similar to the history of the Middle East. The first Israel people travel from places to places. They later settle down in an area and farm on the land. They fight with their neighbor from time to time. Their settle down to an agricultural way of life and later become a unify state. The Phoenicians were Semitic speaking Canaanites who live on the coast of modern Lebanon and Syria during the first millennium B.C.E. They were the first to invent the alphabetical writing system. They established a number of small city-states and were heavily in commerce.

The Assyrian king has absolute power of the Assyrian Empire. The people of Assyrian believe that the gods chose the king as their representative. The king would normally choose one of his sons to rule the empire after he steps down from the throne. The high priest of Ashur would smear the new king head with oil and handed him a crown and scepter. After the king die, he is buried in Ashur. The king use most of his time to supervising religion, attending elaborate public and private rituals, and overseeing the up keeping of temple. He can’t make a decision of the state without first seeking advise with the god first. The Assyrian won many battle and convince people that their god, Ashur, was the strongest god. Assyrian’s relentless government benefits the king and noble as many people support the military campaigns. The Assyrians didn’t have a good way to govern their large empire. This cause the Assyrian to keep going to war to reclaim it’s territories. The Assyrians used terror tactic to scare off rebel and resistance. They did this by punishing the resistance harshly in pubic so that the people can see that will happen to