CIVILIZATION
ASSYRIAN
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Question
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Ashurbanipal
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Nebuchadnezzar
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Chaldeans
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Sennacherib
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Detailed explanation-1: -Ashurbanipal, also spelled Assurbanipal, orAsurbanipal, (flourished 7th century bc), last of the great kings of Assyria (reigned 668 to 627 bc), who assembled in Nineveh the first systematically organized library in the ancient Middle East.
Detailed explanation-2: -Ashurbanipal is recognized as one of the most brutal Assyrian kings; he was one of the few rulers to boast of his gory massacres of rebellious civilians. His extensive destruction of Elam is regarded by some scholars as a genocide.
Detailed explanation-3: -The ‘Library of Ashurbanipal’ is the name given to a collection of over 30, 000 clay tablets and fragments inscribed with cuneiform – a type of writing used in Mesopotamia (ancient Iraq). Texts were written by pressing a reed pen into soft clay.