Assyria from Tiglath-pileser I to Ashurnasirpal II
Assyria from Tiglath-pileser I to Ashurnasirpal II
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亚述从提革拉毗列色一世到亚述纳西尔帕二世
DOI:
10.1093/oso/9780190687632.003.0037
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2023
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Daisuke Shibata
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赤堀侃司;時崎久夫・桑名保智;MATSUI Dai;Daisuke Shibata
Assur was just a small city-state until the first half of the second millennium bc, but it succeeded in subduing the surrounding territories in the fifteenth and fourteenth centuries bc, thereby transformed itself into a territorial state, the “Land of Aššur”(māt Aššur), which we today call the kingdom of Assyria. 1 This state reached a first peak in the thirteenth century bc when it succeeded in establishing a strong system of governance that brought most of Upper Mesopotamia under its control, from the region of the Tigris and both Zab rivers to the Euphrates, turning many of the territories into the Assyrian provinces. However, from the first half of the twelfth century bc, large-scale migrations centered in the Eastern Mediterranean contributed to the collapse of some of the major regional powers, including the Hittite Empire (chapter 31 in volume 3). While the kingdom of Assyria was less affected by these events, the twelfth century bc saw three coups d’état over the succession to the Assyrian throne, and internal conflicts involving neighboring Babylonia