Mesopotamia and the Near East · Iron Age
Neo-Assyrian Empire
The first empire to span three continents
911 BCE – 609 BCE · 302 years
An Iron Age empire whose military and administrative reach stretched from Egypt to the Persian Gulf.
Where it sits on the calendar
Government
Centralized empire
Writing system
Cuneiform (Akkadian)
Estimated peak population
8,000,000
How it ended
Invasion or conquest
Traits
How Neo-Assyrian Empire ended
Capital Nineveh was destroyed by a coalition of Babylonians and Medes in 612 BCE.
See other civilizations that fell the same way →Notable for
- Library of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh
- Innovations in siege warfare and road networks
- Systematic imperial administration
Who else was alive at the same time
8 other civilizations in this dataset overlap with Neo-Assyrian Empire's 302-year span.
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