Assyria

Royal Inscriptions of Shalmaneser I

Recording the conquest of the rival kingdom of Hanigalbat and campaigns against Urartu's predecessor states, Shalmaneser I's inscriptions argue that Assyria's expansion from a regional city-state into an imperial power began under him, a full century before Tiglath-Pileser I's more famous annals.

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