{"id":45870,"date":"2023-07-24T17:55:26","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T17:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=45870"},"modified":"2023-07-24T17:55:28","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T17:55:28","slug":"history-why-was-assyria-so-powerful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/history-why-was-assyria-so-powerful\/","title":{"rendered":"History: why was Assyria so powerful?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about ancient history: the tutor mentions Assyria.<\/h2>\n<p>\nIf you read the Bible, or hear about ancient history of the Middle East, you&#8217;ll likely take notice of Assyria. Its homeland was in what&#8217;s today northern Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>\nAccording to <a href=\"https:\/\/education.nationalgeographic.org\/resource\/assyrian-empire\/\">National Geographic<\/a>, the Assyrians&#8217; might in battle was partly due to iron weapons as well as engineering: they seem to have been the first to accompany the army with a dedicated engineering body.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Assyrian Empire eventually included Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>\nSource:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldhistory.org\/assyria\/\">worldhistory.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Assyria\">wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about ancient history: the tutor mentions Assyria. If you read the Bible, or hear about ancient history of the Middle East, you&#8217;ll likely take notice of Assyria. Its homeland was in what&#8217;s today northern Iraq. According to National Geographic, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/history-why-was-assyria-so-powerful\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">History: why was Assyria so powerful?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2209],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45870"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45874,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45870\/revisions\/45874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}