WORLD CIVILIZATION

Detailed explanation-1: -Battle of Nineveh, (612 bce). Determined to end Assyrian dominance in Mesopotamia, Babylonia led an alliance in an attack against the Assyrian capital, Nineveh. The city was comprehensively sacked after a three-month siege, and Assyrian King Sinsharushkin was killed.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Neo-Assyrian Empire of the Early Iron Age (911 – 612 BCE) expanded further, and under Ashurbanipal (r. 668 – 627 BCE) for a few decades controlled all of the Fertile Crescent, as well as Egypt, before succumbing to Neo-Babylonian and Median expansion, which were in turn conquered by the Persian Empire.

Detailed explanation-3: -In 612 BCE the city of Nineveh was sacked and burned by the allied forces of the Persians, Medes, Babylonians, and others who then divided the region between them. The area was sparsely populated thereafter and, slowly, the ancient ruins became buried in earth.

Detailed explanation-4: -A people called the Kassites conquered Babylonia in about 1600 bce. Kassite kings ruled for about 400 years. During this time, in the 1300s bce, Assyria broke away from Babylonia. The Assyrians were great warriors.