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Assyria - Sargon II "ended the northern Kingdom of Israel"

Time: 720s BC

Place: Northern Canaan

Details: Sargon II quickly took Samaria, effectively ending the northern Kingdom of Israel and carrying 27,000 people away into captivity into the Israelite diaspora. He was forced to fight a war to drive out the Scythians and Cimmerians who had attempted to invade Assyria's vassal states of Persia and Media.

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