La storia dell'Europa, antica e medioevale: prima l'uomo, l'Orient, Grecia e Roma . tantly obbligo di difendere theirfrontiers contro entrambi i loro parentela del deserto su oneside e alpinisti sull'altro. In tal modo gli Assiri weretoughened dal ceppo di guerre frequenti. 75. Fondazione dell'Impero Assiro, ottavo secolo a.c.gradualmente piastrella assiri conquistarono gran parte ulteriori territoryall intorno a loro precedentemente piccola città-regno. Da iioo A.C. loro milizia contadina aveva battuto la western kings in Siria, wherethe Impero Egiziano era caduto due generazioni precedenti (§54).Ci Assiro l s
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History of Europe, ancient and medieval: Earliest man, the Orient, Greece and Rome . tantly obliged to defend theirfrontiers against both their own kindred of the desert on oneside and the mountaineers on the other. Thus the Assyrians weretoughened by the strain of frequent wars. 75. Foundation of the Assyrian Empire, Eighth Century b.c.Gradually tiie Assyrians conquered much additional territoryall around their formerly small city-kingdom. By iioo B.C.their peasant militia had beaten the western kings in Syria, wherethe Egyptian Empire had fallen two generations earlier (§54).There Assyrian soldiers for the first time saw the Mediterranean.Although often repulsed, Assyria had firmly established herselfalong the Mediterranean by the middle of the eighth century b. c.She had also subdued Babylonia, so that the Assyrian Empire Western Asia: Babylonia, Assyria, and Chaldea 51 finally held the entire Fertile Crescent, and the mountains onthe north of it, almost to the Black and the Caspian seas. Itconquered even Egypt (in 670 B.C.) and held it for a short time. - •» ^. 7. ?, *^^ Fig. 25. Restoration of the Palace of Sargon II of Assyria (722-705 B.C.) The city (GGG) was inclosed by a wall [ffff) and was a mile square, withroom for eighty thousand people. The palace building, covering twenty-fiveacres, stood partly inside and partly outside of the city wall {HH) on avast elevated platform (CCCC) of brick masonry, to which an inclined road-way (B) and stairways (A) rise from the inside of the city wall. The kingcould thus drive up in his chariot from the streets of the city below {GGG)to the palace pavement above (CCCC). The rooms and halls are clusteredabout a number of courts [EF) open to the sky. The main entrance (Awith stairs (A) before it leading down to the city) is adorned with massivetowers and arched doorways built of richly colored glazed brick and embel-lished with huge human-headed bulls and reliefs like Fig. 26, all carved ofalabaster. The pyramidal tower
