WORLD CIVILIZATION

Detailed explanation-1: -Ashurbanipal’s collection was the largest, broadest and most important library ever assembled over 3, 500 years of cuneiform culture. Until the Library of Alexandria, it was the most significant library of antiquity. Almost 32, 000 tablets and fragments survive.

Detailed explanation-2: -He ruled the largest empire in the world Ashurbanipal was king of the Neo-Assyrian empire. At the time of his reign (669–c. 631 BC) it was the largest empire in the world, stretching from Cyprus in the west to Iran in the east, and at one point it even included Egypt.