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Sargonid Assyrian Conquests

745 BCE – 631 BCE · 114 years

Tiglath-Pileser III more than doubled Assyria's size. Sargon II destroyed the Kingdom of Israel in 722 BC, deporting its population. Esarhaddon conquered Egypt, creating the largest empire the world had yet seen.

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Belligerents

The main peoples, kingdoms and states involved.

  • Neo-Assyrian Empire
  • Israel, Judah, Babylon, Egypt & Elam

Key moments

Defining events in the Sargonid Assyrian Conquests.

  1. 722 BC Fall of Samaria
  2. 701 BC Siege of Lachish
  3. 671 BC Conquest of Egypt

Elsewhere in Europe at the time

Records whose own span overlaps this one, found by the same test the canvas draws with. The bar under each card is where it sits inside this one.

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Landmark · Europe

Plitvice Lakes

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Europe

Cimerians

Attested 1500 BCE – 700 BCE

Trade route · Europe

Amber Road

1000 BCE – 400 CE

Conflict · Europe

Cimmerian & Scythian Invasions

720 BCE – 650 BCE

Landmark · Europe

Giant's Causeway

3000 BCE – still standing

Polity · Europe

Thrace

Attested 1500 BCE – 700 BCE

Conflict · Europe

Messenian Wars

743 BCE – 668 BCE

Landmark · Europe

Danube Delta

3000 BCE – still standing

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 745 BCE and 631 BCE.

743 BCE Messenian Wars 720 BCE Cimmerian & Scythian Invasions 710 BCE Lelantine War 700 BCE Great Wall of China 700 BCE Thonis

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

Great Wall of China Landmark · East Asia 700 BCE – still standing Dravidians Polity · South Asia 3000 BCE – 700 BCE Nile River Trade Trade route · Middle East 3000 BCE – 30 BCE Kushite Conquest of Egypt Conflict · Middle East 747 BCE – 656 BCE Mulifanua Lapita Site Landmark · Americas 800 BCE – 700 BCE Zhoa Polity · East Asia 1500 BCE – 700 BCE
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