WORLD CIVILIZATION

Detailed explanation-1: -842–746 bce). In the 8th century bce the northern kingdom was overrun by the Neo-Assyrian empire, with Samaria, the capital, falling in 722/721.

Detailed explanation-2: -In 721 B.C. Assyria swept out of the north, captured the Northern Kingdom of Israel, and took the ten tribes into captivity.

Detailed explanation-3: -The later Assyrian rulers Sargon II and his son and successor, Sennacherib, were responsible for finishing the twenty-year demise of Israel’s northern ten-tribe kingdom, although they did not overtake the Kingdom of Judah.

Detailed explanation-4: -At the end of the seventh century, the Assyrian empire collapsed under the assault of Babylonians from southern Mesopotamia and Medes, newcomers who were to establish a kingdom in Iran.

Detailed explanation-5: -Shalmaneser V, (flourished 8th century bc), king of Assyria (reigned 726–721 bc) who subjugated ancient Israel and undertook a punitive campaign to quell the rebellion of Israel’s king Hoshea (2 Kings 17).