Gangs of Mesopotamia: Bloodthirsty Assyrian & Babylonian Warlords

A History of Mankind (27)

The Hittite assault on Babylon caused ripples that lasted for centuries, and came as a shock to everyone involved. For well over a millennium, Anatolia had been a source of valuable trade products and plunder for the Mesopotamian warrior kings, even those before Sargon, and no significant power had emerged there.

The main danger had always come from the…