Assyria - Sennacherib

Time: 705 BC

Place: Assyria (Present-Day Nineveh Governorate, Iraq)

Details: Sargon II was succeeded by his son Sennacherib who moved the capital to Nineveh and made the deported peoples work on improving Nineveh's system of irrigation canals. Nineveh was transformed into the largest city in the world at the time.

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