Assyria

The Assyrian Empire
Here is a map of modern day Assyria. Red airplanes represent all of the places that have been bombed.
Capital	Anus (later Ninevah)
Official language(s)	Akkadian
Government	Monarchy (aka Dictatorship)
National Hero(es)	Nimrod, Gilgamesh, Hammurabi, Sauron
Religion	Paganism Polytheism
Major exports	Anything shiny including gold, silver, and bronze coins & even the famed 2-cent piece

Assyrius was known for having a rump that "..gleamed golden like the eyes of Ra."

Assyria was one of the greatest empires of Antiquity, situated on the Northeast bank of the Tigris. The word Assyria is derived from mât Aššur, which is the ancient Mesopotamian term for "Land of Assyrius," the flying Minotaur god of Assyria. The western and eastern parts of Assyria consist of two alluvial plains, where irrigation enables agriculture; a vital part of Assyria's economy. The capital of Assyria, which is located between the eastern and western plains at the southern base of the Tigris, is named after the ancient Assyrian god Anuus.

Society and Economy

An aerial photo of early Assyria. Under Seamus III's rule, Assyria was divided into 70 provinces.

It is believed that Assyria's civilization resulted from the immigration of a tribe of nomadic goat herders into the area from Middle Earth around 2500 BCE. These people settled in small villages on the wide open plains of Assyria, and then created an intricate system of irrigation that would eventually feed their thriving agriculture. Soon some of the small villages developed into larger cities, and these cites would eventually serve as trade and craft centers, driving Assyria's budding economy.

As society progressed, artists and craftsman flocked to Assyria's many cities. Sculptures and clay carvings became a central part of Assyrian culture, and showed high skill in craftsmanship. Although the mainstay of Assyrian economics was farming exports, arts and crafts were traded and sold, as well as direct barter with neighboring countries for products and land. With the inevitable expansion of Assyria over time, more mature, undeveloped land area brought new economies to Assyria, like mining and forestry.

The Golden Age

Assyria had a traditional form of monarchy, in which the king answered only to his court, and the king's son would normally take over as the new ruler after the old king bit the big one. Local administration was organized around area land rulers who paid taxes to the king as well as provided men for the army. The Assyrians were noted for their vast knowledge in warfare and organization. As Assyria extended its territories through military campaigns and land acquisitions, local rulers were allowed to continue to govern their old regimes, as long as they fulfilled their duties to the new Assyrian king. Thus, Assyrian monarchy was far superior to American democracy.

Coins and paper money became a coveted art form in Assyria.

Among the finest cultural achievements of Assyria was literature, in which they used funny looking symbols on clay tablets called cuneiform. Later an Aramaic script written on parchment predominated. Along with their laundry lists, their literature dealt with a number of subjects like legal issues, medicine, and history. Assyrian architecture mostly used mud bricks, and occasionally small stones. Houses and buildings never exceeded one story and usually had round dome-shaped roofs. The Assyrian race was stronger, smarter, and more advanced than any human race known to date, and it's inventions and products, both cultural and technological, were better in all facets than any modern creation.

Important Battles

An early prototype of the ancient Assyrian war chariot. Way better than that horse-drawn thing.

• 626 BCE: King Assinasling dies from his wounds sustained hunting Babylonian scarlet women in the forests of Persia.

• 644 BCE: At the Battle of Sai Pon Valley the Assyrian forces crush a Pheonician fleet, sinking several boatloads of Egyptian gold and celebrating by singing drunken karaoke, burning all the papyrus money.

• 659 BCE Assyrians declare Egypt has been pacified by verbally mocking everyone who looks at them in a funny way.

• 700 BCE: Tyre. After a long siege and being forced to listen to Assyrian 'love poetry' loudly recited over an early brass stenophone, the people of Tyre surrender.

• 825 BCE: The Assyrian army and a Coalition of Babylonians and Medes fight at the Battle of Uruk. The Assyrians win and their King Adadnarari II orders an account of the battle chiselled out on a stone stelae. It says he did it all on his own.

In 841 BCE King Shalmaneser of Assyria makes the unruly King Jehu bow and submit to his will, which he advertises to the Assyrian people by depicting it on this Black Obelisk.

• 910 BCE: The capital Nineveh is taken and destroyed. Assyrians disappear into the Golden Afterlife, which I guess cannot be counted as a victory. The Egyptians would have disappeared too but got stuck in a battle with the Judeans outside a dust bowl town called Armageddon.

Decline and Fall

After all known civilizations in the world had been mercilessly subjugated, the Assyrians grew so bored they destroyed themselves. Modern scholars are still hotly debating this issue. Nevertheless, just to spite us, the Assyrians took all their wondrous inventions with them. From written records scientists estimate that our current technology is only about one-fifth as advanced as any random piece of crap thrown together by a mentally-handicapped Assyrian child. However, such an Assyrian child probably never even existed because they were all just so darned smart.

Fun Facts

Bert, from the popular television show Sesame Street, was a hairy Assyrian.

• Orcs from the Lord of the Rings were descendents of the Assyrians. They were known throughout the ancient world for their great cruelty and sadism, such as making pyramids of human heads outside their city gates.

• The beard of an adult Assyrian man was approximated to be as durable as titanium alloy and would offer its proud owner protection on the battlefield similar to Kevlar, which was also invented by the Assyrians.

• The only ideas we have today that were not previously invented by the Assyrians are incredibly stupid pop-culture music fads.

• While Assyrian archers have 40% increased fire rate, they are unable to upgrade to Improved Bowman or Heavy Horse Archer.

See Also

• Atlantis

References

• Forgotten Assyrian God Revived To Name Sports Drink

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