During this period the dominant powers in the East were Assyria and then Babylonia. Each established an extensive empire that was based on Mesopotamia, and each in turn fell largely through internal strife.
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Volume III Part II carries on the history of the Near East from the close of Volume III Part I and covers roughly the same chronological period as Volume III Part III. It describes the rise and fall of the great empires of Assyria and Babylonia, the sack of Jerusalem and the exile of the Jews in Babylon.
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Old Testament, Iron Age, Asia Minor, Late Bronze Age, New Year, Lower Egypt, Old Babylonian, Twenty-fifth Dynasty, Near East, Eponym Chronicle, Twenty-sixth Dynasty, Persian Gulf, West Asiatic, East Greek, New Kingdom, Red Sea, Royal Scythians, Display Inscription, Late Assyrian, North Africa, Black Sea, Contra Apionem, Fort Shalmaneser, Gebel Barkal, Ramat Rabel New!
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