| Rise of Assyria (669 words) |
 | After his death, the Assyrians, who were still nominally the vassals of Babylonia, threw off all disguise, and Shalmaneser I (1300 BC), the greatgreat-grandson of Assur-yuballidh, openly claimed the supremacy in western Asia. |
| Shalmaneser was the founder of Calab, and his annals, which have recently been discovered at Assur, show how widely extended the Assyrian empire already was. |
| His son Shalmaneser II had a long reign of 3~ years, Shah during which the Assyrian capital was converted into neser"7L, a sort of armed camp. |
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