History of Europe, ancient and medieval: Earliest man, the Orient, Greece and Rome . ad been introduced among the 1 The leading Assyrian emperors of the dynasty of Sargon II are as follows: Sargon II ... 722-705 Sennacherib . . ... 705-681 b. c. Esarhaddon CS ,_66s b. c. Assurbanipal (called Sardanapalus by the Greeks) 66S-626 b. c Western Asia: Babylonia, Assyria, and Chaldea 53 Assyrians. The Assyrian forces were therefore the first largearmies equipped with weapons of iron. A single arsenal roomof Sargon IIs palace was found to contain two hundred tons ofiron implements. The bulk of th
History of Europe, ancient and medieval: Earliest man, the Orient, Greece and Rome . ad been introduced among the 1 The leading Assyrian emperors of the dynasty of Sargon II are as follows: Sargon II ... 722-705 Sennacherib . . ... 705-681 b. c. Esarhaddon CS ,_66s b. c. Assurbanipal (called Sardanapalus by the Greeks) 66S-626 b. c Western Asia: Babylonia, Assyria, and Chaldea 53 Assyrians. The Assyrian forces were therefore the first largearmies equipped with weapons of iron. A single arsenal roomof Sargon IIs palace was found to contain two hundred tons ofiron implements. The bulk of the Assyrian army was composed of archers, sup-ported by heavy-armed spearmen and shield bearers. Besidesthese, the famous horsemen and chariotry of Nineveh became thescourge of the East (Fig. 26). For the first time, too, the Assyriansemployed powerful siege machinery, especially the battering-ram. This machine was the earliest tank, for it ran on wheelsand carried armed men (see Ancient Times, p. 140). The sun-dried-brick walls of the Asiatic cities could thus be battered Fig. 26. An Assyrian King hunting Lions ? and no fortified place could long repulse the assaults of the fierceAssyrian infantry. The Assyrian soldiers, moreover, displayed acertain inborn ferocity which held all Western Asia in abjectterror. Wherever the terrible Assyrian armies swept through theland, they left a trail of ruin and desolation behind, and therewere few towns of the Empire which escaped being plundered. 80. Civilization of the Assyrian Empire. While this plun-dered wealth was necessary for the support of the army, it alsoserved higher purposes. As we have seen, the Assyrian palaceswere now imposing buildings, suggesting by their size and splendorthe far-reaching power of their builders. In the hands of theAssyrian architects the arch, inherited from Babylonia, for the 54 History of Europe first time became an imposing monumental feature of architec-ture. The impressive triple arches of the
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