To which country belong 'Assyrian' history?
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Its territory covered approximately the northern part of modern Iraq. However they were a mighty military empire that ruled the known world for a time. The Assyrians were known for their excessive cruelty. They seemed indestructible. Fear gripped the nations around them. Kings committed suicide instead of falling into the Assyrians' cruel hands. Yet the Babylonians defeated them at Nineveh and so ended this indestructible empire. Then Babylon was supreme until the Medes and the Persians came along. One lesson here: All empires, and in modern times super powers, rise and fall in a consistent repeating pattern. Spain was big, France was big. Great Britain was big. No more. Now the U.S. is big, but a day is coming when we will be a super power no more. \nSomebody else will be big. China? A coalition of Muslim countries? United States of Europe? We'll see, and perhaps in our own life-time.
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Ancient Israel\n\nhttp://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/GRAPHICS/ATLASES/ANISRAEL.GIF&imgrefurl=http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/HEBREWS/ANISRMAP.HTM&h=515&w=310&sz=31&tbnid=TscmXVW_UWhvTM:&tbnh=128&tbnw=77&hl=en&start=1&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dancient%2Bisrael%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DN\n\n\nSouthwest Asia and other maps\nhttp://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/asia.html
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Thanks to the Mesopotamians, who invented everything from the wheel , to glass, to math, etc.... We Assyrians are the decedents of the Mesopotamians, not the Arabs that live in the Iraq today. Those are descendants of the invading Arabs who wished to convert us to Islam, so my people wished to die, therefore they killed off thousands to millions of Assyrians, forever ended the Assyrian rule of Iraq, our homeland. If the Assyrians (who were the first people to accept Christianity) ruled Iraq/Mesopotamia, the Middle East would be a very different place today.
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Eritrea is a breakaway from Ethiopia. Both have experienced famine. Before they broke apart, they were known as Abyssinia and part of the relatively small German presence in Africa (Namibia was too)
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Right in the center of Iraq, next to Iran, Kuwat, Jordan, Syria, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia. It used to be part of Babylon back 6,000 yrs ago
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Indo-China 1800-1200 BCE\nin the Near East 1300 BCE\nChina 600 BCE\nAfrica 1400 BCE\nEastern Europe 900 BCE\nCentral Europe 800 BCE\nEngland 500 BCE\nnon-Germanic Scandinavia 3000 BCE
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IT WAS IN FACT...IRAQ.   any doubt as to why we are there now fighting someone else's  Holy war?
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There are three main options to learning Assyrian in Chicago. You may first attend an Assyrian Church (St. Andrews, St. Gewargis, etc...) and ask to be taught Assyrian from the teachers. The second option you have is to call Oakton Community College and register for an introduction to the Assyrian language. There you will be able to learn Assyrian from a fresh start. Or you can try to teach yourself Assyrian online. Hope I helped!
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Adad-nirari I (reigned 1295 BC–1263 BC) was a king of Assyria. He is the earliest Assyrian king whose annals survive in any detail.\n\nAdad-nirari I was a king of substantial military consequence in the development of the Assyrian kingdom. In his reign, Assyria began to play a large role in history of Mesopotamia.\n\nHe conquered northern Mesopotamia and subdued the Mitanni empire. His surviving records indicate that he defeated King Nazimaruttash of Kassites, at the battle of Kar-Ishtar. He also defeated Mitanni kings Shattuara I and his son Wasashatta. This victory led his to incorporate all Mesopotamia under his rule. In wars against Hittites, he again lost large parts of Mesopotamia. In the east, he successfully defense his kingdom against the mountain tribes.
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The original capital was Ashur, but Ashurnasirpal II, the son of Tukulti-Ninurta II, changed it to Calah.  Even later, King Sennacherib changed it yet again to Nineveh.  Nineveh remained the capital until 612 BC when The Medes and the Babylonians conquered it and put the final nail in the coffin of Assyria.
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Israel is associated with the earliest stage in the history of humanity by the "Galilee Skull", while recent excavations in Jericho have produced the oldest evidence of organized city life.  \nThe first known inhabitants of Israel in historic times were the Canaanites from whom the land long took its name. By c. 3000-2500 BCE the inhabitants seem to have been largely Semitic speaking; they introduced the use of bronze and developed cities. The Bible mentions seven tribes which dominated the country. The long struggle for its control between the South (Egypt) and the North (Assyria), which - in varying political forms - was to dominate the local scene down to the 19th cent. had already begun at this time. The country was now divided into large numbers of warring city-states ruled over by petty "kings." \n\nIt first enters into Jewish history with the immigration of Abraham whose descendants continued to consider it their home. The Tel El Amarna letters throw much light on conditions in Canaan in the 15th cent. BCE and on the conquests of the Semitic "Habiru," perhaps denoting or comprising incursions by the Israelite tribes. The Israelite tribes gave the country (henceforth "the land of Israel") its unity and historic significance. Except during the brief Crusading interlude (1099-1187), the concept of "Palestine" has in fact existed only in relation to Israelite and Jewish history. The Israelites' invasion was a slow and difficult process: they first established themselves in the plains, and only gradually obtained control of the hill-country; the process was completed with the capture by King David of Jerusalem in c. 1000 BCE. Meanwhile, the disunited and sometimes warring Israelite tribes, ruled over by regional Judges, were the prey of other invaders from the north and east. The most dangerous were the Philistines, sea-invaders from the Aegean, near Greece, who obtained firm control of the Maritime Plain in the 12th cent. BCE and thence pushed inland.  \n\nFor a time, it seemed probable that they would subdue the whole country. But the threat forged union on the Israelite tribes at last, largely through the spiritual dominance of the Prophet Samuel and the military genius of King Saul who established a monarchy embracing the entire country. His work was completed by his son-in-law King David who finally crushed the Philistine menace and extended the boundaries of the state in all directions. The latter's son King Solomon raised the kingdom to a great pitch of magnificence by his maritime enterprises, his lavish court, and his ambitious buildings, including the Temple at Jerusalem to serve as a religious center. The heavy taxation which all this necessitated resulted in widespread discontent, and after King Solomon's death, the northern tribes revolted.  \n\nHenceforth, the Land of Israel was divided for many years into two rival and sometimes warring states -- the smaller kingdom of Judah in the south [from which derives the word "Jew"], and the larger, more luxurious and more powerful kingdom of Israel (or Shamron-Samaria) to the north. The latter, weakened by internal dissensions between rival dynasties and recurrent wars with the kingdom of Syria (Damascus), succumbed in 721 to the Assyrians, its inhabitants being to a great extent deported and replaced by new settlers.  \n\nThe kingdom of Judah, more secluded geographically and more staunch spiritually and politically, for the moment escaped but succumbed in 586 before the Babylonians (Iraq). Jerusalem was now destroyed, large numbers of the inhabitants deported, and the monarchy abolished. An attempt to renew organized political life in subordination to Babylonia under Gedaliah, a member of the old royal house, was ended by his assassination (582 BCE).  \n\nOn the overthrow of the Babylonian Empire, the Persian (Iranian) king Cyrus permitted the children of the exiles, who had continued to cherish
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Yes. the Garden of Eden was around present day Iraq and Iran. In Genesis 2:14, it says "The 3rd river is named Tigris, the one flowing east of Assyria. And the 4th river is Euphrates." The 1st and 2nd rivers are Pishon and Gihon, which has since dried.
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Iraq. Nineveh is located just where Mosul is now, north close to Syria, Babylon at the location of the modern Al Hillah, just south of Baghdad.\n\nAmusingly, the administrative region of Mosul is still called 'Ninewa governorate' :-)
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israel is jewish land, and has been since 3300 years ago. long before arab/muslim occupiers came to the area. End of story.
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Israel has its modern history in becoming a state in 1948, the same year the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered.  Ever since that time, people have been trying to eradicate the country and the people, much like Hitler's efforts during WW II.  Historically, it is a great shame for the human race that very few people cared a whit about the Jews, barring Poland and Russia on some occasions, until the effects of the holocaust were seen.  Today some even maintain it didn't happen.  Even Christians, so-called, have a bad record at mistreating the Jews.  Maybe we ought to blame that on Augustine, but following things blindly is one's own responsibility.  \nIsrael's early history goes back to the time of Abraham, some 2000 years before the birth of you-know-who. Abraham received the covenant for Israel from God. Israel was named after Jacob, son of Isaac.\nMoses came along around 500 years later and took them out of Egypt, but not from Ramses as the movie says, through 40 years in the desert and up to the Promised Land, although Moses himself was not allowed to go into it.  God left that to Joshua.  \nThe combined kingdom of Israel had three kings.  Its borders were the greatest under Solomon (970-931 BC), son of David (1010-970 BC), the Goliath slayer of fame. Oddly enough, the borders even under Solomon never seem to be as large as what God had promised them.\nAfter Solomon, Israel was split into north and south, the north being called Israel, because it had the majority of the tribes, or Samaria.  Samaria fell in 722 BC because it thought that God wasn't important any more.\nThe southern kingdom, aka, Judah, named by its largest tribe (Benjamin being much smaller) struggled until 586 BC where the Babylonians sacked Jerusalem and tore down the temple.  They thought they could get along without God also. Isaiah talks about that.\nJeremiah talks about what happened when the Babylonians came.  Daniel talks about the time in Babylon and what God will do in the end of times.  It's all very exciting, unless, of course you don't believe in God, in which case Israel really doesn't have any rights to the land at all.  Fortunately, God believes in them and, as you might guess, doesn't break covenants. The temple was rebuilt when they returned from Babylon, but many stayed and, over the centuries, moved elsewhere.\nIsrael was almost most effectively destroyed due to the culture wars after Alexander the Great. The people were encouraged to try new things and give up their old ways and embrace new learning and the Hellenistic way of life.  It reminds one a lot of today.  Judas Maccabeus was a big hero around 161 BC.  The temple was desecrated and Hanukah was born, so to speak.  It's a great story and you should read it in detail to understand God.  After all, without Hanukah, we wouldn't have Christmas, but then you-know-who is out of fashion, I guess.\nYou-know-who predicted the second temple being torn down by the Romans and so it was in 70 AD.  AD means "anno domini" which means "in the year of our Lord."  The Romans in their hatred of the Jews, renamed the land Palestine, which comes from Philistine, which is kind of funny because the Philistines didn't live there ever. That land should always be called Israel because that's what God wanted it to be.\nSome 600 years later the Dome of the Rock was built in Jerusalem.  You can read about the Crusades and the Mamluks elsewhere. The Ottoman Turks controlled the area from the early 1500's until WW I, after which the British got control and didn't know what to do with it.  They gave it back in 1948, mostly because the Jews were a thorn in their side. It was a good move, except to Islam, whose ancestor is also Abraham. The conflict between Ishmael, later to find fame in a Melville novel, and and Isaac as well as Esau and Jacob created the whole thing.  Isn't that amazing?You have to wonder if the Bible has any clues t
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Assyrian Mission Quarterly Reports - Volume IV\nThe Quarterly Reports of the Archbishop of Canterbury's Mission to the Assyrian Christians began publication in October 1890 and ceased with number 99 in April 1915. Their original purpose was to inform and attract supporters of the mission in the west. Along with detailed accounts of mission activities, the reports are full of interesting descriptions of the life and customs of the Assyrians of the time. Volume IV contains numbers 72 to 82, 86 to 90, 98 and 99 (1908-1915). Also included, as an appendix, are chapters 4, 5, 6, 7, and 9 of "Through the East to Rome" by the Rev. G. J. Macgillivray one of the mission priests who later became a Roman Catholic.
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Heres the article from Encarta Encyclopedia:\nhttp://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761559228_2/Mesopotamia.html#s5\n\nAnd another site that may help you:\nhttp://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0859584.html