This empire established the port colony of Karum Kanesh in modern-day Kultepe.
This empire established the port colony of Karum Kanesh in modern-day Kultepe. Early on, this empire was southeast of the Mittani state, which was destroyed while holding these people as vassals. A king of this empire built an elaborate palace at Khorsabad called Dur-Sharrukin, whose gate included carvings of winged bulls with human-faces called lamassu. Tiglath-Pileser III, who greatly expanded this empire, initiated its (*) pre-Babylonian capitivity of the Israelites, though it never took Jerusalem. Its capital, including a library among the Seven Wonders of the World, was destroyed by Nabopolassar of Babylon in 612 BCE. For 10 points, name this empire ruled by Sennacherib and Ashurbanipal, which was centered at Nineveh.
This empire established the port colony of Karum Kanesh in modern-day Kultepe.
Assyrian empire [or Neo-Assyrian Empire; or Assur]