NEW!!! Ancient Empire: - Assyria and Macedonia

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Please Subscribe!The Assyrian history begins around - 2100, in the northern Iraq today, the most direct route between the Upper and Lower Mesopotamia, borrowed by exchanges between Sumer and Akkad and the rich mining regions of Kurdistan , Armenia and Anatolia. Ashur is the object of lust of kingdoms and empires of Mesopotamia: the 23 th century Manishtusu takes Assur for the Akkadians, the Goutis, (from the Zagros Mountains) invade and Ur-Nammu, the 22 th century, Annex to the III dynasty of Ur. It becomes ind endent to - 2025, when the Sumerian empire collapsed under the Elamite and Amorite attacks. The Assyrian political domination is strictly limited to the city itself and its immediate surroundings: it is a city state with a very small area. In the 20th century, Assur grows by trade with Cappadocia, in particular through the karum (counter) Kanesh currently Kult e controlling fifteen associations Assyrian merchants in many cities in Central Anatolia. Assyrian merchants exporting tin and luxurious fabrics to Anatolia, and r ort only the money from the sale of these products and donkeys who wore them. The series explores the motivations of ancient soldiers, as well as how they lived, fought, trained, died, and changed the world. It also uses battle re-enactments and computer graphics to demonstrate military strategy. The warriors covered in the series include: the Assyrians, Celts, Normans, Legions of Rome, Macedonians, Soldiers of the Pharaoh, Spartans, Janissaries, Huns, Knights Templar, Vikings, Highlanders, Irish Warriors, Maurya Warriors of the El hant, Aztecs, Samurai, Shaolin Monks, Hawaiians, Ninja, and Sioux. The Macedonians (Greek: Μακεδόνες, Makedónes) were an ancient tribe that lived on the alluvial plain around the rivers Haliacmon and lower Axios in the northeastern part of the Greek peninsula. Generally described as an ancient Greek people, they gradually expanded from their homeland along the Haliacmon valley on the northern edge of the Greek world, absorbing or driving out neighbouring tribes, primarily Thracian and Illyrian. Although composed of various clans, the Kingdom of Macedon established around the 8th century BC is mostly associated with the Argead dynasty, and the tribe named after it. Traditionally ruled by ind endent families, the Macedonians seem to have acc ted Argead rule by the time of King Alexander I (r. 498–454 BC). Under King Philip II (r. 359–336 BC), they are credited with numerous military innovations, which enlarged their territory and increased their control over other areas, leading to the exploits of Alexander the Great, the establishment of several realms from the Diadochi, and the inauguration of the Hellenistic civilization. Philip of Macedonia transformed a largely peasant society into one of the most effective and successful armies of antiquity. The earliest reference about Greek attitudes towards the Macedonian ethnos as a whole comes from Hesiod's Catalogue of Women. The onymous Makedon and his brother Magnes are made sons of Zeus and Thyia, daughter of Deucalion. The Magnetes, descendants of Magnes, were an Aeolian tribe; according to Hammond this places the Macedonians among the Greeks. Engels also wrote that Hesiod counted the Macedonians as Greeks, while Hall said that "according to strict genealogical logic, [this] excludes the population that bears [Macedon's] name from the ranks of the Hellenes". Two later writers deny Macedon a Hellenic lineage: Apollodorus (3.8.1) makes him a son of Lycaon, son of earth-born Pelasgus, whilst Pseudo–Scymnos (6.22) makes him born directly from the earth. Hellanicus modified Hesiod's genealogy by making Makedon the son of Aeolus, firmly placing the Macedonians in the Aeolic Greek-speaking family. These early writers and their formulation of genealogical relationships demonstrate that before the 5th century, Greekness was defined on an ethnic basis and was legitimized by tracing descent from onymous Hellen. Subsequently, cultural considerations assumed greater importance. Thucydides and Herodotus regarded the Macedonians as either northern Greeks, barbarians or an intermediate group between "pure" Greeks and barbarians. In the Histories (5.20.4) Herodotus calls king Alexander I an anēr Hellēn Makedonōn huparchos, or "a Greek who ruled over Macedonians", which may also indicate that the country was included in the Persian empire's administrative structure.This Ancient Warfare Documentary shows that by the eighth century BC, the Assyrians had created the largest empire to date - stretching from the Persian ... The Assyrian history begins around - 2100, in the northern Iraq today, the most direct route between the Upper and Lower Mesopotamia, borrowed by ... Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeastern Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in what is now the modern country of ... Ancient Warriors - Episode 05: The Macedonians (History Documentary)