Life in Assyria- lives of the Assyrians were built on what they learned from other Mesopotamian peoples, had law codes, but their punishments were harsher,based their writing on Babylonian writing,worshipped many of the same gods,large temples and palaces filled with wall carvings and statues,wrote and collected stories,king named Ashurbanipal built one of the world's first libraries,held 25,000 tablets of stories and songs to the gods,Farming and trade were important,brought wood and metal to supply their empire with material to build