A Companion to World History
- Title
- A Companion to World History
- Creator
- Norman Yoffee
- Date
- 2012
- Description
- Norman Yoffee argues that with the collapse of the Assyrian Empire, Assyrian civilization itself fell: there was no regeneration of an Assyrian state, and Assyria’s culture, religion, and language disappeared. The people living in Assyria proper and in the countryside were largely populations earlier conquered and resettled by the empire, and they had no interest in rebuilding an Assyrian polity or temple culture. Only nineteenth-century excavations restored knowledge of Assyria through thousands of reliefs, statues, and tablets.
- Publisher
- Douglas Northrop, ed., A Companion to World History, 2012, p. 166.
- onlinelibrary.wiley.com
