WORLD CIVILIZATION

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -The Assyrians used a wide variety of weapons including swords, spears, bows and arrows, slings, and daggers. The Assyrians were the first to use iron to make their weapons. Iron was stronger than the bronze used by their enemies and gave them a distinct advantage.

Detailed explanation-3: -Assyrian Battering Rams 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-4: -The Assyrians were perhaps most famous for their fearsome army. They were a warrior society where fighting was a part of life. It was how they survived. They were known throughout the land as cruel and ruthless warriors.

Detailed explanation-5: -In the Middle East (Iraq), Assyrians assembled a powerful military empire and employed a vast and skilled cavalry (900-612 BC). The first surviving text on training cavalry mounts is by the Athenian General Xenophon (400 BC) who reveals a sensitive understanding of the horse.