This polity's institutions included required labor from artisans, and conscription or civil labor tied to holding certain lands, or the iskaru and ilku systems.
This polity's institutions included required labor from artisans, and conscription or civil labor tied to holding certain lands, or the iskaru and ilku systems. The Scythian king Madyes helped raise a siege against its last ruler, Saracus, who allegedly set fire to himself and his capital.  Some 500 years earlier, its king reduced the kingdom of Hanigalbat to a province, founded the city of Calah and assumed the new name of Pulu when he defeated Ukin-zer.  One of its last rulers installed Psamtik as ruler of Egypt, and it suffered a reversal in its struggle against the Kassite rulers of a neighboring kingdom following the death of its ruler Tukulti-Ninurta I. It fell after the Babylonian king Nabopolassar and the Median king Cyaxares allied against it.  FTP, name this empire whose rulers included Sennacherib and Ashurbanipal, known for its capital of Nineveh.
This polity's institutions included required labor from artisans, and conscription or civil labor tied to holding certain lands, or the iskaru and ilku systems.
Neo-{Assyria}n Empire