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Did Conquered People Become Slaves in the Ancient Near East? - The Bureaucratic Machinery of Assyrian Deportation | Sleepy Facts About History
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Between roughly 744 and 609 BCE, the Neo-Assyrian Empire transformed the forced removal of entire populations into a bureaucratically managed technology of rule. This episode examines how the empire moved tens of thousands of households across vast distances, breaking local resistance, supplying labor for massive building projects, and repopulating agricultural lands. By following the imagined journey of a family of bronze workers from the conquered city of Hamath, we explore the…
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