Person705 BC
Sargon II
King of Assyria (r. 722–705 BCE), who recorded that he took Samaria and deported the people of northern Israel, and built the new capital Dur-Sharrukin (Khorsabad)
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Around 722 BCE Assyria took Samaria, capital of the northern Kingdom of Israel, and deported tens of thousands of its people. The ten northern tribes vanished from history.
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- Early Civilizations and Empires3500 BC – 486 BC
From the first civilizations in the great river valleys to the first empires of the Near East, India and China — comparing their writing, law, religion and rule