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ASSyria & Persia (The Iron Age (Beginning of Iron Smelting (1100 BCE:…

- - - - Bronze required both Tin & Copper
        
        Bronze mainly produced in palace workshops
        
        Depended on long distance trade
      - The palaces are fucking dead man holy shit did you not read the last coggle
    - - Workshops more decentralized
      - Iron ore found throughout the middle east
      - Iron produced in bloomeries
    - - Already being used in Jewelry
  - - - Underground pipes for water transportation
  - - - Alphabetic Scripts
      - Makes writing easier
        
        Less power to palaces
  - - - More remote regions now in trade network
      - Nomadic lifestyle completely independent of city
        
        Growing military importance of nomads
        
        Mercs
        
        Recruits
  - - - Empires turn into city states
    - - Relevance of previously trash tier areas
        
        Iran & The Yemem
    - - Large villages & Small Cities new economic & cultural centers
- - - - 546 BCE: Conqures Lydia in Anatolia
      - 539 BCE: Cops Babylon
      - 530 BCE: Cyrus dies
        
        Dynasty goes to Cambyses
    - - 522 BCE: Comes to power after a rebellion
        
        Claims Achaemenid dynasty but prob nahh
      - 520-510 BCE: defeats other rebellions
        
        Cops Egypt
        
        Administrative Reform
        
        486 BCE: Dies as the most powerful ruler in the world
  - - - Like Precedors
    - - Custom of pastoral groups
  - - - Exclusively Persian
        
        First apperance of Race
      - Core of army
    - - Professional managers ran estates of High Officers
        
        High officers simply took revenue from estates
  - - - Run by Satraps
        
        Only Persian
      - Sends fixed taxes to kings
  - - - Created Good and Beautiful World
        
        The lie got into the world, making bad shit happen
        
        Only in last days will good triumph over evil
        
        Earth place mixed with good & evil
        
        Humans decide their side
        
        King of Kings leader of the good side
        
        Purpose to unify the world
        
        Prepare for final battle with the lie
    - - Written in Akkadian
        
        Made by some magistrate in Babylon
        
        Yo Cyrus is a good guy
        
        Approval by God of babylon
        
        Integration of other religions into Persian Religions
        
        Babylonian king is trash
- - - - Expansion Accelerates
      - Vassalized kings in the Sham
        
        Babylon
        
        Syria
        
        Palestine
    - - Subjects Babylon to tribute
      - Vassalized
        
        Phonecia
        
        Armenia
        
        Iran
    - - 625 BCE: Chaldaean Nabopolassar conquers Babylon
        
        After popular uprising
        
        Pastoral Group
      - 620 BCE: Pastoral Groups create a coalition and defeats Assyrian Army
        
        Medes
        
        Chaldaens
      - 609 BCE: Assur ceases to exist
        
        Cities Razed
        
        End of Assyrian history forever
  - - - They protect natural order for god of Assur
        
        Those who resist are resisting the damn universe
        
        Cities razed to the ground
        
        Populations deported
        
        Rebels punished in terrible ways
        
        Represented proudly in art
        
        Assurbanipal account of the reconquest of Egypt
        
        Violence is proudly celebrated
        
        Violence's place in religion
  - - - First ruled by rich
        
        Then moved to Eunuchs
    - - Paid tribute to Assyria
        
        Tributes led to great wealth
        
        Bomb ass cities
        
        Library of Ninevah
        
        Assyria wants not only all power in the world, but all the knowledge