Situation of Assyria in the Reign of the Assyrian King Sin-Shar-Ushkun (622-612 B.C.)

Abstract

The era of the Assyrian king Sin-Shar-Ushkun is of the critical and hard periods in which the Assyrian kingdom has experienced in. The country witnessed many difficulties. The kingdom subdivided into many provinces and districts that were already under the control the Assyrian kingdom during the period of his father the king Assur-Banipal.Similarly there were many problems inland in the capital Nineveh itself. The internal conspiracies were plotted in the Assyrian royal palace. Moreover, there were many political alliances against Assyrian by the neighboring countries like Medians and Scythians. These were behind the dismembering the Assyrian Royal palace. The study sheds light on this vague period due to the paucity of references that are available on this are which could be ascribed to the problems then.

Keywords

History, events, laws