WORLD CIVILIZATION

CIVILIZATION

ASSYRIAN

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Check answers that has to do with Assyrians
A
semitic language
B
Babylon was their capital
C
Had a library
D
Had double walls around their capital
E
Was once ruled by Hammurabi
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Assyrians besieged cities using three main methods simultaneously: battering rams for gates and walls, escalade, using earthen ramps and ladders to get over the walls and sapping, digging tunnels underneath the walls to collapse them.

Detailed explanation-2: -In the period of the Assyrian Empire, the capital moved successively to Kalhu (Nimrud), Dur-Sharrukin (Khorsabad), and finally-the grandest city of all-Nineveh. At each of these sites the kings built palaces to glorify their reigns, adorning the walls with superbly carved reliefs in gypsum and limestone.

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