Assyrian Geography Tomek Jankowski LASS CG 11.02.

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Assyria was a great empire that lay between the Zagros Mountains to the land of ancient Egypt. Assyria also had a solid part of the Taurus Mountains. Assyria was the biggest empire to rule the lands of ancient Mesopotamia, an evidence of this is that the Assyrian empire owned the land between the two seas. In the middle of the 7th century BCE, The Assyrian Empire owned a lot of Mesopotamia as well as the Levant, northern Egypt and parts of the western Iran and southern Turkey. The main cities of Assyria were Ashur, and from this city Assyria got their name of Nineveh, it was located in the core region in northern Mesopotamia. Every year in autumn the snow in the mountains would melt and make the soil damp for crops and sometimes when the winter was harsh with a lot of snow the crops would flood and destroy their crops. This also made the soil better because the water carried fertile soil from the mountains. This is a big advantage for Assyria for being by the mountains because they could have crops without worrying of watering them. If you would visit the land of were Assyria used to be dams, dikes and canals still control the flow of water in the Euphrates and Tigris rivers. These waters still provide fish, water and transportation for the people of these lands. As you can see Assyria was a great empire, even though it is wiped out from the face of the earth it will always be remembered for all the great battles and how great their land was. The empires of Mesopotamia have really influenced the earth and now I know about the first cyclizations to roam the Earth.

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