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- Tuesday, August 24 2004, 0:59:58 (CEST) from  Australia -  Windows XP -  Internet ExplorerWebsite: Website title: |
That was Sennacherib's campaign against the Babylonains who had not only killed HIS son, the vice regent of Babylon but had aided the Elamites to try and overthrow the Empire. Years later after years of beseiging the ancient capital he took out his rage and wrath upon its people. Much like what we did to the villagers of Konsharay in 1918. "Thus, the Assyrian king, in perpetrating actions - sometimes including atrocities - which put the enemy into panic, thought of himself as, in the most literal sense, putting 'the fear of God' into those who might have it mind to oppose Assyria. This represented a conscious use by the Assyrians of terrorism not for sadistic purposes, but for psychological warfare. ...The psychological aspect of Assyrian warfare is also brought out by the manner in which bas reliefs with war scenes were used. In Ashur-nasir-pal's palace at Calah, scenes of war predominated in the bas reliefs only in the hall which probably served as an audience chamber; it is a reasonable conclusion that this predominance of war scenes was to reinforce in the minds of visiting rulers and ambassadors their consciousness of Assyrian military might. In other rooms of the palace the scenes were mostly of religious or ceremonial topics." (H.W.F. Saggs, The Might That Was Assyria, p. 249) --------------------- |
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