HISTORY
HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE EAST
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Question
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cavalry
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chariots
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barter
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iron
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Detailed explanation-1: -They were well organized into various units of charioteers, cavalry, bowmen, and lancers. Assyrian armies also had a corps of engineers who employed movable towers and iron-headed battering rams for sieges on walled towns.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Assyrians had several advantages that they had been developing for generations while other empires came and went. They were the first in the area to develop iron weapons, which were superior to the bronze weapons their enemies were using.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.
Detailed explanation-4: -As already noted, battering rams, tunneling, sapping, and scaling ladders are all tactics used against the enemy cities.