A brief history of the nations and of their progress in civilization . ght back thespoils of victory, and builtpalaces and temples. Progress of Assyrian Con-quests. — Tiglath Pileser a new era. He setabout organizing the coun-tries that were conquered,and sought to establish overthem a permanent system ofgovernment. He defeated theleague of Syria and Judea,and subdued Babylon, as wellas Iran and Armenia. Thesecountries submitted to theAssyrian yoke. Sargon, in722 , captured Samaria,and dragged off as captivesa great part of the people, — called the Ten Tribes, — whomhe dispersed
A brief history of the nations and of their progress in civilization . ght back thespoils of victory, and builtpalaces and temples. Progress of Assyrian Con-quests. — Tiglath Pileser a new era. He setabout organizing the coun-tries that were conquered,and sought to establish overthem a permanent system ofgovernment. He defeated theleague of Syria and Judea,and subdued Babylon, as wellas Iran and Armenia. Thesecountries submitted to theAssyrian yoke. Sargon, in722 , captured Samaria,and dragged off as captivesa great part of the people, — called the Ten Tribes, — whomhe dispersed in various Median cities. At Raphia, in southernPalestine, in 720, in a pitched battle, he vanquished, theEgyptians and their confederates, and then Egypt was forcedto pay tribute. In 717 Sargon captured Carchemish, the cap-ital of the Hittites, and a center of trade with the East. Arevolt in Palestine was put down, and Jerusalem was had renounced its subjection, but its king was car-ried in chains to Nineveh, and Sargon was crowned at King Asshuk-nacir-pal(Relief from Nhnrud, British Jfuseum) 42 EARLIEST GROUP OF NATIONS
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