Original sentence: An Assyrian general, Ashur-uballit II, became king of Assyria, and set up a new capital at Harran after ejecting the Babyloniand and Medes.He was from the city of Harran in Assyria, and therefore he was likely to have been Assyrian, and certainly not Chaldean.In 615 and 614 BC attacks were made on Assur and Arrapha and both fell.Nabonidus's background is not clear.Nabopolassar resisted repeated attacks by Assyria over the next seven years, and by 616 BC, he was still largely in control of southern Mesopotamia.The Assyrians had managed to maintain Babylonian loyalty through the Neo-Assyrian Empire (911-608 BC), whether through granting of increased privileges, or militarily, but that finally changed in 627 BC with the death of the last strong Assyrian ruler, Assurbanipal, and Babylonia rebelled under Nabopolassar the Chaldean the following year
Edited sentence: An Assyrian general, Ashur-uballit II, became king of Assyria, and set up a new capital at Harran after ejecting the Babylonians and Medes.He was from the city of Harran in Assyria, and therefore he was highly likely to have been Assyrian, and certainly not Chaldean.In 615 and 614 BC attacks were made on Ashur and Calah and both fell.Nabonidus's background is not clear and it seems he was not of royal lineage.Nabopolassar resisted repeated attacks by Assyria over the next seven years, and by 616 BC, he was still largely in control of southern Mesopotamia despite heavy fighting in Babylonia.The Assyrians had managed to maintain Babylonian loyalty through the Neo-Assyrian Empire (911-608 BC), whether through granting of increased privileges, or militarily, but that finally changed in 627 BC with the death of the last strong Assyrian ruler, Ashurbanipal, and Babylonia rebelled under Nabopolassar the Chaldean the following year