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| c. 870 BC |
| | | An annual event in Assyria is the departure of the army in spring for an expedition of ruthless and brutal conquest | |
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| -868 BC |
| | | Ashburbanipal II extracts tribute from the cities of Phoenicia, beginning a period of Assyrian domination of the region | |
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| c. -850 BC |
| | | The Assyrians develop the battering ram into a mobile and powerful siege engine | |
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| c. -800 BC |
| | | The Assyrian army makes good use of the new technology by which iron can be hardened into steel suitable for weapons | |
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| 722 BC |
| | | The Assyrians overwhelm the north of Israel and the ten northern tribes vanish from history - the majority of them probably dispersed or sold into slavery | |
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| 710 BC |
| | | The first known lock and key is fitted in the new palace of Sargon II at Khorsabad, in Assyria | |
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| c. 700 BC |
| | | Sennacherib moves the Assyrian capital to a new site at Nineveh | |
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| 663 BC |
| | | The Egyptian city of Memphis falls to an Assyrian army, soon to be followed by Thebes | |
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| c. 650 BC |
| | | Ashurbanipal commissions a great library of cuneiform clay tablets at Nineveh | |
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| c. 645 BC |
| | | Ashurbanipal commissions a magnificent relief of a lion hunt for his new palace at Nineveh | |
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