Egyptian- Assyrian competition for the Levant During the era of the modern Assyrian Kingdom 911-612 B.C

Abstract

The Assyrian-Egyptian competition over the Levant during the era of the modern Assyrian kingdom formed the most prominent link in the episodes of competition, due to the political and military capabilities that these two powers possessed for the sake of controlling the Levant, which was in two phases, the first represented by political competition from During the polarization of the heads of government based on the kingdoms formed in the Levant during that period and entering into political alliances and diplomatic treaties with it, their purpose was to guarantee the interests of the two superpowers represented in the modern Assyrian Kingdom on the one hand and the Egyptian Kingdom on the other hand, while the second stage of the phases of A To compete, which is the most dangerous, the armed confrontation between the Assyrian and Egyptian sides was direct. The political importance of the Levant for the two sides of the competition is based on two basic matters, the first relates to the circumstances of the Levant itself, with the second regarding the circumstances of the Assyrian and Egyptian kingdoms as the poles of competition in the region of the emergence of civilizations in the ancient Near East during the first half of the first millennium B.C.