| Assyria and Babylonia contrasted - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (186 words) |
 | Babylonia was a land of merchants and agriculturists; Assyria was an organized camp. |
| The Babylonian king remained a priest to the last, under the control of a powerful hierarchy; the Assyrian king was the autocratic general of an army, at whose side stood in early days a feudal nobility, aided from the reign of Tiglath-pileser III onwards by an elaborate bureaucracy. |
| Hence the sudden collapse of Assyria when drained of its fighting population in the age of Assur-bani-pal. |
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