This left the Assyrians poised to gain more power in the region. Around B. Adad Nirari II and his successors used new warfare techniques to take over enemy cities one by one. The Assyrians had several advantages that they had been developing for generations while other empires came and went. They were the first in the area to develop iron weapons, which were superior to the bronze weapons their enemies were using.
Their skill at ironworking allowed them to make weapons and protective items more cheaply, so more soldiers could use them. In addition, they were the first army to have a separate engineering unit, which would set up ladders and ramps, fill in moats, and dig tunnels to help the soldiers get into a walled city. They were also among the first to build chariots, which provided greater protection on the battlefield.
These technological advancements allowed the Assyrians to go on the offensive and attack neighboring areas for the first time, which led to the expansion of their empire. The Assyrian Empire maintained power for hundreds of years. But in the s B. The audio, illustrations, photos, and videos are credited beneath the media asset, except for promotional images, which generally link to another page that contains the media credit.
The Rights Holder for media is the person or group credited. Tyson Brown, National Geographic Society. The oldest city in Syria is Damascus and is also the capital of Syria. After the first world war, Syria was being established as a French mandate. Syria got independence in , followed by gaining parliamentary republic status soon after.
Now, Syria is known as the Syrian Arab republic. Assyria was an ancient civilization that existed around the twenty-third century BC and BC. It was situated on the banks of river Tigris.
Assyria was originally named after the Assur city and was also known as Subartu, Ashura, and Asuristan.
After the demolition of the Akkadian empire, which was extended from river Furat to river Dalja, the existence of Assyria took place. After the fall of the kingdom in BC, the united country which had different territories having different leaders having the Akkadian tongue split into two parts: the north being called Assyria, and the south is called Babylon.
The Assyrians were originally Semitic people, and its geographical area was somewhat of modern Syria and present Iraq before the Arabs invaded Assyria to make it their civilization.
The web pages presented by the U. These pages have been developed by individuals, as well as organizations and links have been established between most of the pages. Increasingly, one may observe the use of Syriacor, the Aramaic language on the Internet. But because the Syriac alphabet is different from English, special fonts need to be developed to view the language correctly. Currently, Tim Ericson, an American from Modesto, California is in the process of developing Islamic fonts for use on-line.
The Chaldean web pages and webmaster serve as an information exchange between the website visitor and the various communities trying to bridge the gaps that existed for decades in the Middle East. The hope is to have a unified Assyrian presentation. The struggle of the Assyrian people has always been, and it remains, the preservation of our important heritage. Wherever we may land, Assyrians live in peace within the community, which receives them and they readily accept the responsibilities of their acquired citizenship.
Assyrians seek the same rights and privileges extended to all citizens. We also want to serve as a voice of conscience in the Western community for all of the relatives and fellow Assyrians who remain behind and who continue to exist in Draconian conditions.
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The Assyrian Diaspora After the fall of their empire in the sixth and seventh centuries B. The Assyrian civilian population of upper Mesopotamia was coercively relocated and decimated by the Ottoman Turkish army, together with other allied Muslim peoples, between and , with additional attacks on defenseless migrating civilians enacted by local Arab militias.
The Assyrian genocide took place in the same circumstances as the Armenian and Greek genocides. Since the Assyrian genocide occurred within the setting of the much more extensive Armenian genocide, research discussing it as a distinguished matter is uncommon. Pictured above is a Memorial for the Assyrian Genocide from Wikipedia. The majority of Assyrians residing in what is today modern Turkey were compelled to flee to either Syria or Iraq after the Turkish victory of the Turkish War of Independence.
In , Assyrians declined to become part of the newly established state of Iraq and rather demanded their recognition as a separate nation. Since the Iraq War social turmoil and disorder have produced the unprovoked infliction of Assyrians in Iraq, mostly by Islamic extremists, and Kurdish nationalists.
In areas such as Dora, a community in southwestern Baghdad, the majority of its Assyrian population has either fled abroad or to northern Iraq or have been murdered. Since the beginning of the Iraq war, at least 46 churches and monasteries have been bombed.
Assyrian culture is broadly inspired by Christianity. Common festivals occur during religious holidays such as Easter and Christmas. Others are greeted with a handshake with the right hand only; as according to Middle Eastern traditions, the left hand is affiliated with evil. There are many Assyrian traditions that are prevalent in other Middle Eastern cultures.
For instance, a parent will often place an eye pendant on their baby to prevent "an evil eye being cast upon it". Assyrians are endogamous, meaning they ordinarily marry within their own ethnic community, although exogamous marriages are not regarded as a taboo, unless the foreigner is of a different religion , particularly a Muslim.
Assyrian music is a blend of traditional folk music and western modern music genres, namely pop, but also rap and recently, EDM. Instruments traditionally used by Assyrians include the zurna and davula, but has grown to include guitars, pianos, violins, synthesizers keyboards and electronic drums , and other instruments.
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