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Chapter 00 · 1400 – 1077 BCE

Middle Assyrian

Aššur's first imperial expansion.

Assyria comes into its own as a regional power. Tukulti-Ninurta I sacks Babylon and brings its gods and tablets back to Aššur. Tiglath-pileser I leads campaigns west to the Mediterranean and north into the mountains. The Middle Assyrian Laws (MAL), copied at Aššur, are the most extensive legal corpus before the Neo-Babylonian period.