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Title: Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ... with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps
Year: 1921 (1920s)
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Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : P. F. Collier
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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lah; his sonTiglath-ninip conquered the whole of thevalley of the Euphrates. The following■^ve reigns were chiefly occupied by warswith the Babylonians. About 1120, adate fixed by Sennacherib, 705-681 B. C», ASSYRIA 309 ASSYRIA Tiglath-pileser I,, one of the greatestof the sovereigns of the first Assyrianmonarchy, ascended the throne, andcarried his conquests to the Mediter-ranean on the one side and to the Caspianand the Persian Gulf on the other. Athis death ensued a period of decline,tvhich lasted over 150 years. Under Assur-nasir-pal, who reigned from 884 to 859B. C, Assyria once more advanced to the Omri, and Jehu of Israel, from whomhe exacted tribute, as also from the kingsof Tyre and Sidon. The old dynastycame to an end in the person of As-surnirari II., who was driven from thethrone by a usurper, Tiglath-pileser III.,in 745, after a struggle of some years.He was the first Assyrian king mentione(?by the Hebrews, identical with Pul. Nosooner was this able ruler firmly seated
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THE ASSOUAN DAM position of the leading power in theworld, his kingdom being greater in ex-tent than that of Tiglath-pileser. History.—In 859 Assur-nasir-pal wassucceeded by his son Shalmaneser II. (859-824), who was the first Assyrian king tohave relations with Israel, and whoseannals are found inscribed on the famousBlack Obelisk in the British Museum,and on the bulls and slabs from his palaceat Calah. His career of conquest wasequally successful. He reduced Babylonto a state of vassalage, and came intohostile contact with Benhadad and Hazaelof Damascus, and with Ahab, son of on the throne than he made an expeditioninto Babylonia, followed by another tothe east in 744. A year later he defeatedthe confederate princes of Armenia,Syria, etc., and, advancing against Syria,overthrew the ancient kingdoms of Da-mascus and Hamath, and in 733 he placedhis vassal Hosea on the throne ofSamaria. Having reduced the west tosubmission the Assyrian King now at-tacked Chaldea, and, after a severe

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