Good News In History, August 10
Good News In History, August 10 Today is the approximate date for the fall of Nineveh, capital of the Ancient Assyrian Empire, one of the most brutal and despotic of all Near-Eastern states. Though this history column never suggests the conquering of a people or the destruction of a city as a good thing, the fall of Nineveh essentially liberated a half-dozen other states from a tyrannical yoke, and recentered power around Babylon, which seems, as we view it today, to have prepared the table for the arrival of the modern Mediterranean. READ more about this mega-battle from history… (612 BCE) A painting entitled the Fall of Nineveh – public domain At the beginning of the 7th century BCE, Assyria controlled or had reduced to vassalage the whole of Antiquity. From Nubia to Egypt, to Iran and the Caucasus, the Assyrians held the final word. Yet theirs was an empire built on terror, which lasts only as long as their subjects remain terrified. As such, the Assyrian army for generations was cont…
