The were especially known for their brutality toward their…
The were especially known for their brutality toward their captives. King Ashurnasirpal II recorded this account of his treatment of prisoners: “3,000 of their combat troops I felled with weapons. . . . Many of the captives taken from them I burned in a fire. Many I took alive; from some of these I cut off their hands to the wrist, from others I cut off their noses, ears, and fingers; I put out the eyes of many of the soldiers. . . . I burned their young men and women to death.” Hegemon, Hoplites, Etruscans, Intermediate, Thermopylae, Carthage, Sparta, Cuneiform, Rhetoric, Canuleian, Assyrians, Satraps, Civilization, Ziggurat, Hortensian, Gaugamela, Peloponnesian, Spartacus, Athens, Mountains, Vestal Virgins, Hanging Gardens, Julius Caesar, Code of Hammurabi, Hannibal