Chapter 51: The Destruction of Mitanni
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Numerous cities from Taitu to Iretu, as well as Mount Kahiar to Eruhat, Sutu Sudu Fortress and Haranu to Calkemysh on the banks of the Euphrates were conquered by Assyria.
The Assyrians captured Kahat, the last capital of Mitanni, and built a temple to the Assyrian god Atad in the city. The kingdom of Mitanni perished.
Mitanni experienced a total of 14 kings and a total of years.
> period of Hanigalbat province
The kingdom of Mitanni, known to the Assyrians as Hani Galbat. Therefore, the area of the Habur River and the Balik River Valley, where Mitanni lived in the core, was annexed by Assyria and named the province of Hanigalbat by Assyria.
Emperor Salmanesel I appointed the Assyrian Grand Vizier Eli Ipata as King of Mitanni, effectively the military and civil governor, at the forefront of the confrontation with the Hittites.
The governor's palace was located in Tayl Sabi Abiyad and was under the jurisdiction of the Tamit, the central Assyrian authority.
Assyria built a series of front-line fortresses facing the Hittites on the banks of the Balik River.
Assyria not only maintained military and political control over Mitanni, but also dominated the economy and trade. During the reign of Salmanesel I, the names of Julian or Mitanni do not appear in Assyrian texts.
A part of the Hulian people was expelled from the province of Hanigalbat to the cities of Assyria in the south and enslaved. Meli Sa, mayor of the Assyrian city of Nahur, received barley from the central government and distributed it as seed and food to the people who had been expelled from Shutuhu and the cattle they had brought with them.
During the reign of the Assyrian king Tukuleti Ninur Erta I, a large number of Julians were expelled from Mitanni to Ashur, probably to build a new palace.
At this time, the Hittites invaded the province of Mitanni, and the Julians of Mitanni took the opportunity to rebel and show support for the Hittites. The Julians still elected Kadmuhu and then Papho as their chieftains.
During this period, numerous cities in the province of Mitanni were sacked. The Assyrian governorate in the province of Mitanni has disappeared by the time.
During the reign of Ashur Nilari III, the Phrygians and other peoples invaded and destroyed the Hittite Empire, which had in fact been severely weakened by Assyria.
Part of the province of Mitanni under Assyrian rule was also occupied by the Phrygians. Although Assyria defeated the Phrygians and restored most of Mitanni.
During the early Iron Age, the province of Mitanni was occupied and settled by an invading confederation of Semitic Alamesan tribes.
Over the centuries of the annexation of Vashukani by Assyria, the region of Mitanni had been completely Assyrianized, or Alamea. The use of the Julian language began to die out during the Neo-Assyrian Empire.
Later Assyrian rulers gradually divided the province of Mitanni into cities under the direct jurisdiction of the Assyrian rulers.
From the 10th century BC to the 9th century BC, around the time of Attad Nelari II and Salmanesel III, Mitanni was still used as a geographical term.
> Mycenaean civilization
The Mycenaean civilization is the ancient Greek Bronze Age civilization, which was named after the city of Mycenae in the Peloponnese, with Mycenae, Tyrins, and Pyros as the major states. The Mycenaean civilization was an important part of the Aegean civilization, inheriting and developing the Cretan civilization.
When the Peloponnese Peninsula was thriving, the Achaians, a yellow Indo-European language from the north, led a tribal alliance to invade the ancient Greek region, destroying the city-states and destroying the cities, and the ancient Athenians became a slave-like ruling class, and the Achaians annexed the Peloponnese.
In the beginning, the civilization of the Achaeans was still stuck in the age of clans and tribes. This period lasted for about fifty years and is known in history as the Shaft Tomb Dynasty period. The Peloponnese fell into a civilizational regression.
Shaft Tomb Dynasty Reign: years. i.e. the period of tribal rule.
The chronology of the Mycenaean civilization was compiled by Swedish scholars according to the type of objects found and the strata to which they belonged, and although there are some criticisms, it is widely used.
Year: Late Bronze Age I
This period corresponds to the transition period between the middle and late Bronze Age, when the archaeological culture of the Mycenaean civilization began.
Year: Late Bronze Age> Shaft Tomb Dynasty period, basically following the form of shaft tombs of the early Cretan civilization.
The burial form is a burial chamber made of upright stone, sometimes in a cave, after which the chamber is buried with earth. Later there were cemetery-style bone pits that housed many remains. Before burial, the flesh was boiled from the bones or placed in an isolated chamber to decompose, and then the bones were collected. The chamber is repurposed. As for the coffin, the size is generally small, and the body inside is curled up, with the knee against the chin. They are mostly found in excavated basements or pits.
The main artifacts of the Shaft Tomb dynasty are the two necropolises found inside and outside the Mycenaean castle. There are many royal tombs in the park, and the number of gold and silver funerary ornaments is rare in the world (there are more than 870 pieces in one tomb alone). The level of craftsmanship is also very high, most of which are Cretan specialties, but there are also from Egypt, Asia Minor, and Syria. This shows that the Mycenaean royal family and nobles once served in Crete and Egypt as mercenary leaders, and with the close exchanges with overseas advanced civilization areas, Mycenae's economy and culture developed rapidly, and the national strength was strong.
The Yuanjing Tomb Dynasty - the period of the Mycenaean Kingdom, that is, the period of city-state civilization:
Year: Late Bronze Age>