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Posted by SARGONID (U14121283) on Friday, 4th September 2009
Bearing in mind the Assyrians and Babylonians were both the same people; Akkadian Semites and absorbers of the Sumerians, if the political entities had always been as one would they have been able to fend off Persia, the Macedonians, Greeks, Romans and Arabs?
Would we have a very different middle east today?
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Bearing in mind Assyria was able to defeat and rule the Persians, Medes, Elamites, Egyptians, Hittites, Mittani, Hurrians, Arabs, Phoneciains, Israelites, Urartians, Arameans, Putrians, Ethiopians, Nubians and Greeks at the height of its power, also Babylon.
But the constant internal struggles between Assyria and Babylon within Mesopotamia itself weakened it terribly.
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MM, divided we fall, stuff. You could say the same about any adjacent countries of strength - or me and my neighbour with the leylandi.
Actually when I started sending their tree Christmas cards of prettier trees, they called in and said they were getting the point and had theirs removed. We are now a force that our local District Council finds rather formidable - which proves your point.
Regards, P.
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Thanks for that post.
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