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Through the figure of Ashurbanipal, the last of the great Assyrian kings, the professor of Archaeology Fernando Quesada Sanz describes the worldview and structure of this Mesopotamian empire. Assyria was characterized by a hierarchical society, in which the king had a divine nature and war was considered a mandate of the divinity, by a complex bureaucratic and diplomatic system and, especially, by a sophisticated military power, with a permanent army –“the Assyrian army is the inventor of cavalry” indicates the lecturer–. The era of the Neo-Assyrian empire, located between the 9th and 7th centuries BC, is recognizable by its palace-cities, such as Nineveh –in present-day Mosul, Iraq–, and by the iconography of its reliefs, where narratives of war campaigns predominate. #mesopotamia #empires #fundacionmarch #lamarch Subscribe to La March's official YouTube channel! https://www.youtube.com/@lamarch?sub_... More about Empire Makers at • Empire Makers https://www.march.es/es/madrid/confer... November 7, 2019 Juan March Foundation, Madrid ____________ Subscribe to our newsletter: http://www.march.es/boletines Follow us on: Twitter: / fundacionmarch Facebook: / fundacionmarch Medium: / fundacionjuanmarch Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/17uhaPM... Also visit Canal March at http://canal.march.es to discover thousands of audio recordings of conferences held at the Juan March Foundation since 1975