Summary: The Demise Of Assyria

The Neo-Assyrian empire - in what is now modern-day Iraq - had firmly established itself as a dominating superpower from the early ninth to late seventh century, having extended their reach over much of the Near East region. In relation to the speed of growth and the eventual climax of the ‘cruel and brutal’ empire in eighth century BCE, the decline of Assyria occurred rapidly. The demise of Assyria is commonly attributed to civil wars, political unrest and the final destruction of Nineveh, the capital of the empire – however, as one of the world’s greatest empires at the time, the probability of such a rapid disintegration was relatively unaccounted for. The demise of Assyria should not be entirely attributed to the political unrest from 627BCE onwards, but from additional complex social, political, economic and environmental factors – notably climatic forces such as drought and short-term planning in relation to population management. …show more content…
With only scarce primary sources currently available, his death has been commonly established as the trigger for the struggles of Babylonia and Assyria amongst historians. However, further historical, archaeological and paleoclimatic evidence released from Adam Schneider of the University of California and Selim Adali of the Research Centre for Anatolian Civilization has established evidence supporting the concept that the accumulative effects of drought and overpopulation lead towards the sudden decline of the

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