The Rise of the Neo-Assyrian Empire

Tides of History

Wondery / Patrick Wyman

Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

The Neo-Assyrian Empire has been almost forgotten in comparison to the other massive states of the ancient world, but at its peak, it stretched from the Nile to the Caspian Sea and central Turkey to the Persian Gulf. Assyria was a brutal and dominating force for centuries, and it pioneered the infrastructure and ideology of empire, laying the ground work for everything that came after.

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0:16.8	The archer reached down to pull another arrow out of his quiver.
0:20.6	Blood trickled from the callusist horn off his hand, and he winced in pain as his aching
0:24.6	fingers closed around the shaft.
0:27.4	He knocked the arrow and flexed the tired muscles of his arms, shoulders, and back to draw
0:31.3	the string.
0:32.3	Feeling the wood and horn of the composite bow flexed with the string.
0:36.5	There was his target.
0:37.9	A man standing on the battlements of the city wall just ahead, his head and shoulders pointing
0:42.3	out above the mud break as he aimed his own bow downward at the Assyrian soldiers approaching
0:46.7	the defenses.
0:47.7	He'd pay for that, the archer thought, grinding his teeth in concentration and breathing
0:52.3	in deeply to brace for the shot.
0:54.3	His nostrils flaring at the acrotein of smoke and burning coming from the besieged city.
1:00.2	The bowstring snapped in the arrow-flue, straight, and true.
1:03.8	He watched the defender clutch at the shaft, sprouting from his neck, then fall down, dead
1:08.0	before he even hit the ground.
1:10.7	Another arrow followed, then another, then another, then another.
1:14.0	Some aimed carefully at a new target, and others loosed to discourage an eager defender,
1:18.6	until the archer was shouting for another quiver of iron-tipped shafts.
1:22.9	So were the hundreds of other archers lined up on either side of the field.
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