WORLD CIVILIZATION

Detailed explanation-1: -They also became highly effective at siege warfare. This technique had soldiers camp outside the city for many days repeatedly attacking until the defenses fell. The used battering rams to destroy walls and tall movable towers that could be rolled up to the walls and gates allowing soldiers to climb over the walls.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Assyrian armies also had a corps of engineers who employed movable towers and iron-headed battering rams for sieges on walled towns. Soldiers used iron weapons, which were much stronger than the bronze weapons of some of their foes.

Detailed explanation-4: -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. A line of Assyrian kings experimented with battering rams to perfect their use.