Writing a historical fantasy novel set in Ancient Mesopotamia. What kinds of technology and tactics did the civilizations in that area have access to during sieges?

I'm currently writing a historical fantasy about Mesopotamia during the reign of Hammurabi and Samsi-Adad(circa. 1770-60 BCE). I've done a lot of research(Relative. Odds are I probably still have to do a lot more.) on Assyrian tactics of the time. My question is about what kinds of tactics and strategies were used to defend a city rather than attack it, but I would also be grateful for any interesting tidbits about the offense. For the sake of efficiency this is what I already know: Dirt ramps, battering rams, siege towers, starvation, ladder rushes, machicolation-like battlements, watchtowers and technology of individual weapons like composite bows. Sources would be much appreciated and thank you.

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👤︎ u/KevintheJace

📅︎ Sep 21 2019

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Y'all have heard of North vs South Korea, but did you know of East vs West Korea? Liberals are in the plains and Conservatives in the mountains. Party lines (esp in the far south) generally follow the historical boundary between the eastern (Silla) and western (Baekje) kingdom in Ancient times.

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👤︎ u/StevenEveral

📅︎ Feb 02 2020

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A topic about historical mistake! Age of Empires add 35 medieval civilization into the game, and Georgians are not in the list! reddit.com/r/aoe2/comment…

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👤︎ u/alexshu97

📅︎ Dec 12 2019

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Non-Americans of Reddit, the western expansion is the most overly romanticized period of US history. Films, TV shows and other media have long hyped this era with little regard for historical accuracy. What era in your home country’s history is given similar treatment?

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👤︎ u/Toxicscrew

📅︎ Nov 22 2019

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A lot of us know what "western civilization" is or entails, but what exactly is 'Eastern civilization' and what does it entail

What are the distinct factors that make a civilization 'eastern'

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👤︎ u/redditculture

📅︎ Jan 06 2019

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YA historical fiction novel set in the late 1600s/early 1700s American western Pennsylvanian frontier about a young girl who moves across PA with a group of Irish immigrants and settles in the Pittsburgh area and lives through skirmishes with the French/British/American Indians

This is a repost, I hope that's allowed, since we weren't able to figure it out the first time. It is not Standing in the Light by Mary Pope Osbourne. I'm also fairly certain it was not one of the American Girl Diary books.

I think I read this in the early 2000s at my local library or Barnes and Noble. It was from the POV of a young girl meeting her brother(s?) on the American western frontier, at the time in western Pennsylvania. She travels with a family of Irish immigrants who were escaped indentured servants/slaves (I distinctly remember the father saying they had to flee before their eldest son turned a certain age so an iron collar wouldn't be put on him like the father had had). They make it to the frontier and at one point (I think she had 2) one of her brothers ends up marrying an American Indian woman and having kids with her. I think she falls in love with a British soldier. The ending of novel has a standoff between I think some French/Indians and the British/frontiersmen/other Indians where she smuggles gunpowder/bullets under her skirt to the British/frontiersmen who are trapped in (maybe) a barn. It was a standalone novel and that's pretty much everything I can think of. I know I read this around the time that I read a couple other historical YA novels, Fever 1793 and Girl in a Cage specifically.

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👤︎ u/smokingcaramels

📅︎ Jan 13 2020

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Looking for scientific food lists (Middle eastern, European , Western and Eastern) with showing amount of basic nutritious ingredients in it.

Hey nutrition community,

I'm working on a project on an Arabic website for providing a nutrition service for the Arab community, currently I almost completed the portion for pregnant woman Diet, and I'm wondering if I can find anywhere a scientific and accurate list of food showing how much it contain of :

- Each serving amount (in Grams)

- How much Carbs in the serving

- How much Protein in the serving

- How much Fat in the serving

The Project goal:

- Help the common person : to create their daily diet without the need to visit a dietitian center and to have the ability to choose from wide range of food tables and at the same time get his/her daily nutrition.

- Help the dietitians : to create daily diets for their clients simply and easily.

- Maybe make some money from Ads on the website.

What I already have :

I have already filled a table of about 450 entries, and the website can operate based on that for the time being.

I'm already aware of the NDB website, and have downloaded the food composition tables (for ref: https://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/).

What I'm looking for :

- Any source that provide trusted and scientific food list as described above.

- I'm welling to collaborate with anyone who is interested in this field, maybe create versions in other languages.

I will not post the link to the website to avoid " Self promotion " restriction, however if you are interested to know about the project PM me and Ill reply with the link.

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👤︎ u/Ghojah

📅︎ May 02 2019

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U/Georgy_K_Zhukov explains how a lack of English sources affected western historical perception of WWII’s so-called “Eastern Front” np.reddit.com/r/AskHistor…

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👤︎ u/itsacalamity

📅︎ Jun 10 2019

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In the 2018 period comedy-drama film, "The Favourite", set in Great Britain in 1708, various of the lords/politicians are depicted as wearing large amounts of makeup. Was this a historical practice of the time in reality? If so, when did the practice begin and subsequently fall out of fashion?

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👤︎ u/Kurma-the-Turtle

📅︎ Mar 30 2019

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Just got back from the largest tree and native plant restoration project in the Santa Monica Mountains history (I'm the red one in the middle). We planted hundreds of plants in the aftermath of the Woolsey Fire at Paramount Ranch, famous film set called Western Town that was burnt down.

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👤︎ u/IchTanze

📅︎ Oct 12 2019

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The Last of the Mohicans (1992) 3x Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis stars in the historical epic film set in 1757's French and Indian War. 97% on Rotten Tomatoes, 7.7 on IMDb. movies.netflix.com/WiMovi…

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👤︎ u/CZbwoi

📅︎ Aug 29 2013

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[TOMT] [Movie] it’s set I believe in southeast Asia and I think it is a historical film. There’s a lot of gunfire and people are jumping into a well to escape it.

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👤︎ u/metkja

📅︎ Nov 03 2017

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Guy in /r/conspiracy isn't anti-semitic, he just thinks the Jews are behind a laundry list of historical and current societal ills, including Marxism, socialism, capitalism, slavery, media ownership, big pharma, social media, migrants, and the civil rights movement. archive.is/u9POX

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👤︎ u/generallyaware

📅︎ Apr 14 2019

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The anthracite coal fields of Eastern Pennsylvania experienced violent labor strikes, anti-draft uprisings, and ethnic tension during the Civil War. Philip Francis witnessed the chaos near Pottsville, Pennsylvania as a child and wrote vividly about the time period in his memoirs. wynninghistory.com/2019/1…

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👤︎ u/jakewynn18

📅︎ Nov 10 2019

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[Wojnarowski] Minnesota accomplished one of the goals it set for itself in trade talks: Sending Jimmy Butler to the Eastern Conference, not to a Western rival. A deal with Philadelphia made more sense for the Timberwolves once Miami pulled Josh Richardson out of talks twitter.com/wojespn/statu…

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👤︎ u/mkgandkembafan

📅︎ Nov 10 2018

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[MLS Buzz] “Nashville SC is listed on their official website as being in the Eastern Conference. If that’s the case, that means one of the current EC teams is going to have to move to the Western Conference.“ (Thread hints at Chicago moving to West?) twitter.com/mls_buzz/stat…

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👤︎ u/colewcar

📅︎ Nov 22 2019

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White supremacist in Askaconservative tells a fellow non-white American he needs to go back to his 'ethnic homeland' as only 'Ethnic Western European migrants make sense' and believes 'diversity is worse than a threat; it is a condition of civilization death'... reddit.com/r/askaconserva…

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👤︎ u/jimbolata

📅︎ Dec 29 2019

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Lee Van Cleef taking a beach break while attending the 28th Annual Venice Film Festival in 1967. The 42-year-old actor had been in films since 1952, often working with A list Stars and Directors, finally gaining global stardom thanks to the Spaghetti Western genre in 1965.

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👤︎ u/MattelJones

📅︎ Sep 23 2019

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[TOMT][MOVIE][1990's] Movie set in the near-future, Eastern Europe has collapsed economically and there is a new 'iron curtain' put up by the west to stop economic refugees. People smugglers bring people over through a tunnel system...

So I remember seeing this AGES ago, and the plot revolves around someone who sent their daughter or someone like that with these smugglers but she goes missing and she enlists the help of an ex-cop/detective or someone like that (sorry I am a little vague on the details) to look into it and try and find her. The climax of the movie involves the ex-cop getting 'smuggled' along a rigged tunnel/cave system that ends up electrocuting everyone the people smugglers said they would bring over and the whole thing was a big scam. The ex-cop ends up in a shoot out at the end with the smugglers.

One detail I really remember is the smugglers would make everyone write a postcard from the 'west' just as they got in the tunnel, the smugglers would then send these to make their family think they made it. For some reason that stands out.

For some reason the movie has stayed with me all these years but the name of it hasn't! Can anyone on here help?

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👤︎ u/Hazy_Fantayzee

📅︎ Feb 26 2019

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Trailer of “Atlantis”, new film by Valentyn Vasyanovych. Set in Eastern Ukraine in 2025 after the end of the war with Russia, some striking imagery. youtu.be/Nc5hZBzAfBs

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👤︎ u/Bubich

📅︎ Mar 16 2020

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Who would like to provide a simple timeline of the people’s of the BoM in an historical and Biblical context? I’d do do the research myself, but in my defense, I don’t want to!? I’m wondering where the nephites and lamenites line up historically compared to other civilizations.

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👤︎ u/Tgrimm84

📅︎ Jan 06 2020

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Would really like Rockstar to post a list of Read Dead 2 film,book,television inspiration They mention the inspiration the game after they out thats how I found movies like Eastern Promises (GTA4) and The Proposition (Red Dead) among others So I’m dying to know inspirations behind Red Dead 2s story.

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👤︎ u/zombie0721

📅︎ Jun 04 2018

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"I was chasing eastern New Mexico and western Texas on June 12th, 2012. This very photogenic supercell developed near the state border and as I decided to stay a bit more distant, the shining Milky Way above it made the scene simply stunning," writes photographer Marko Korošec. [1000 x 667] [OS]

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👤︎ u/trot-trot

📅︎ Nov 01 2014

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“There are essentially only two drugs that Western civilization tolerates: Caffeine from Monday to Friday to energize you enough to make you a productive member of society, and alcohol from Friday to Monday to keep you too stupid to figure out the prison that you are living in.” —Bill Hicks

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👤︎ u/Master_Bruno_1084

📅︎ Aug 13 2019

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Happy thanksgiving from the Comedian in Chief who sacrificed his golden years to save western civilization and stop the NWO in their tracks world wide. Thank you and prayers for the entire Trump family and the brave patriots looking out for them. God bless all you, pedes. These are historic times! reddit.com/r/The_Donald/c…

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👤︎ u/PeterCornswalled

📅︎ Nov 22 2018

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The Siege of Jadotville: a historical war film set in the aftermath of Belgian Congo imdb.com/title/tt3922798/

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👤︎ u/KabouterPlop

📅︎ Feb 03 2017

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[XBOX] [H] Simplified list w/only OCTANE decals, WHEELS, and BOOSTS [W] Keys, Cert painted Easterns/Southerns/Westerns, Offers

OCTANE DECALS

Playmaker Saffron Buzzkill
Goalkeeper Cobalt Christmas Tree
Playmaker Burnt Sienna Northern
Striker Dot Rush
Scorer Dragon Lord
Aviator Cobalt Dune Racer
Tactician Titanium White Lone Wolf (overdrive)
Aviator Black Northern
Sweeper Burnt Sienna RLCS
Sweeper Orange RLCS
Striker Titanium White Royal Tyrant
Playmaker Snakeskin
Sweeper Black Thanatos
Goalkeeper Black Tumbling Blocks

WHEELS

Playmaker Sky Blue Apex
Aviator Lime Cauldron
Burnt Sienna Cauldron
Scorer Black Chakrams (pcc)
Forest Green Doughnut
Sky Blue Doughnut
Saffron Doughnut
Striker Lime FGSP
Victor Black Gripstride (not inverted)
Tactician Burnt Sienna Infinium
Tactician Purple Infinium
Striker Titanium White Pulsus
Victor Pink Quimby
Goalkeeper Titanium White Holographic Rocket Forge
Striker Burnt Sienna Triplex
Black Yamane

BOOSTS

Scorer Purple Helios
Scorer Grey Hot Rod
Tactician Pink Tsunami Beam

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👤︎ u/celebrimbor9

📅︎ Apr 17 2019

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White supremacist in Askaconservative tells a fellow non-white American he needs to go back to his 'ethnic homeland' as only 'Ethnic Western European migrants make sense' and believes 'diversity is worse than a threat; it is a condition of civilization death'... reddit.com/r/askaconserva…

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👤︎ u/jimbolata

📅︎ Dec 29 2019

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Boundaries of historical ethnic homelands in Africa and their partitioning during colonisation. Light grey represents traditional ethnic homelands kept intact as Africa was carved up and divided into nations by western powers. Dark grey are those who were arbitrarily partitioned.

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👤︎ u/archiangelo

📅︎ Mar 02 2020

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What are the chances we get a new set based in Eastern mythology in the near future?

Obviously Magic draws a lot of influence based on Western mythology, especially prevalent with Eldraine and there have been a few sets in the past that had a strong Asian influence, but the majority of Magic does not. With Mu Yanling recently having been introduced and how popular cards like Yuriko have become in Commander, I hope we more sets with Asian mythology. I just want some new ninjas and samurai, dammit (and maybe a better mechanic than Bushido). Is that too much to ask for?

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👤︎ u/Nick3570

📅︎ Mar 23 2020

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Historically speaking, does it make sense for college level history courses, such as Western Civilization, to start in ancient Mesopotamia and end in early Europe?

After just taking my final for my Western Civ class in college, I realized how broad of a timeline we covered. Why does this make sense? Seems kind of weird to cover such a large area and large time span, kind of making "western civilization" just European and Asian civilization. Is there any rationality behind this?

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👤︎ u/cath3r1n3d3m3d1c1

📅︎ Apr 24 2015

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Fan Made Civilization Film Trailer (edited from 32 historical epics) youtube.com/watch?v=5Tckd…

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👤︎ u/JewChooTrain

📅︎ Dec 06 2017

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Shahba exhibit “Call of Civilization” had 48 photos highlighting damage at Afrin archaeological and historical sites due to the Turkish occupation. The Directorate of Antiquities and Museums in Afrin Province appealed to the UN Security Council and UNESCO to stop violations by Turkey. m-syria-d.com/en/858

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👤︎ u/mshelikoff

📅︎ Jul 13 2019

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8.6% of households in Ireland are unable to pay utility bills on time: 10th highest in the EU, and on par with Eastern European countries rather than western peers.

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👤︎ u/SeanB2003

📅︎ Jan 20 2020

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[XBOX] [H] Simplified list w/only OCTANE decals, WHEELS, and BOOSTS [W] Keys, Cert/painted Easterns/Southerns/Westerns, Offers

OCTANE DECALS

Playmaker Saffron Buzzkill
Goalkeeper Cobalt Christmas Tree
Playmaker Sky Blue Northern
Playmaker Burnt Sienna Northern
Striker Dot Rush
Scorer Dragon Lord
Aviator Sky Blue Dune Racer
Tactician Titanium White Lone Wolf (overdrive)
Forest Green Nice Shot
Goalkeeper Black Noooo! (held)
Striker Titanium White Royal Tyrant
Playmaker Snakeskin
Sweeper Black Thanatos
Goalkeeper Black Tumbling Blocks

WHEELS

Playmaker Sky Blue Apex
Aviator Lime Cauldron
Burnt Sienna Cauldron
Scorer Black Chakrams (pcc)
Forest Green Doughnut
Sky Blue Doughnut
Saffron Doughnut
Striker Lime FGSP
Victor Black Gripstride (not inverted)
Tactician Burnt Sienna Infinium
Tactician Purple Infinium
Turtle Lime Ninja
Striker Titanium White Pulsus
Victor Pink Quimby
Goalkeeper Titanium White Holographic Rocket Forge
Striker Burnt Sienna Triplex
Black Yamane

BOOSTS

Aviator Black Flamethrower
Scorer Purple Helios
Scorer Grey Hot Rod
Sweeper Black Powershot
Paragon Titanium White Standard
Striker Black Thermal
Tactician Pink Tsunami Beam

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👤︎ u/celebrimbor9

📅︎ Apr 07 2019

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