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Assyria

Sennacherib

705 BC
Assyria (Present-Day Nineveh Governorate, Iraq)

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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