WORLD CIVILIZATION

Detailed explanation-1: -The Assyrians were able to capture an enemy city by using their well trained military to “sap” a city’s walls (Sappers would tunnel underneath the walls and make them collapse). Then the well trained foot soldiers and archers would march against the city, raining destruction in a coordinated attack.

Detailed explanation-2: -He claims to have conquered 42 kings and peoples and wrote, “I carried away their possessions, burned their cities with fire, demanded from their hostages tribute and contributions, and laid on them the heavy yoke of my rule."

Detailed explanation-3: -Sennacherib captured and conquered 46 of Hezekiah’s cities. Sennacherib’s armies used siege ramps, battering rams, and relentless attacks of foot soldiers, using mines, as well as trenches.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Assyrian siege of Jerusalem (circa 701 BCE) was an aborted siege of Jerusalem, then capital of the Kingdom of Judah, carried out by Sennacherib, king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire.