SARGON II DURING HIS NORTHERN MILITARY CAMPAIGNS

Sargon II during his northern military campaigns

Sargon II during his northern military campaigns

Introduction

Sargon II the Assyrian King became a co-regent with Shalmaneser; he was the only ruler of the Assyria Kingdom in 722 BC after Shalmaneser V. It cannot be justified that whether Sargon II was the son of Tiglath-Pileser III or whether he belonged to the royal family or not. His style rarely reflects and refers to his ancestors. Sargon II faced a lot of problems in the beginning of his kingdom, sooner he made a deal with the Babylonian king Marduk-apla-iddina II. He did justice with all the temples and the residents of the towns of Assur and Harran and made a tax free envirnoment (Pijoan, 2008,, 45).

Sargon II during his northern military campaigns

In 720 BC Sargon conquered an Aramean union at Qarqar, gaining power of Arpad, Simirra and Damascus. In 710 BC Sargon thought that he was safe to go against the Babylon and he laid a siege against the Babylon during that time. Sargon was a great man of war, and known for the great victories on the kingdoms around it, stretching from Babylon in the south and east to the material in Cappadocia in the north, Syria and Palestine and Egypt in the west, known as good mastery of drawing and construction.

The Murdoch Baladan stayed in Babylon, after he paid tribute to Hmanosr , then went on as a head of a strong army and was defeated in 710 BC and crowned himself king of Babylon in the year 705 BC. Mqnola died in his palace, and his son, King Sennacherib took his place. The detection limit for Almlqubon Sargon in Khorsabad near Nineveh have been found in the palace with many implications, including a huge winged bull preserved in the University of Chicago.

The long reign of seventeen years in wars and conquests and the first work done by that completed the conquest of Samaria and destroyed the kingdom of Israel in (721 BC) and open the rest of the cities of Syria and the Palestinian coastal Phoenician occurred at the beginning of his rule that erupted King Chaldean named (Murdoch Baladan) of the Kingdom of house Iaykini in the far south and took in cooperation with the Elamites to Babylon, and left Babylon under the rule of Murdoch Baladan more than ten years and worked Sargon which strengthen the Kingdom of Assyria in the north and open cities Aramaic in Syria and Palestine He spent the crusaders, which were held at the instigation of the Pharaoh of Egypt and the moves of tribes Aryan severe then filled the north of the East in the plateau Iran's North West coast of Asia Minor, then went Sargon seconds to Babylonia supported by a strong army could not (Murdoch Baladan) to withstand in front of him did not respond and help from the Elamites and fled to the south and left Babylon to the Assyrians and that was in (709 BC) and ...