What's the difference between accadian and assyrian?
Accadian
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to a race supposed to have lived in Babylonia before the Assyrian conquest.
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Assyrian
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Assyria, or to its inhabitants.
(n.) A native or an inhabitant of Assyria; the language of Assyria.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Assyrian Empire, though it did fluctuate in strength, had gone down finally over six hundred years before this scene is set.
(2) Damn them and their hands for what they are doing.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest The video, released on Thursday, showed men smashing up artefacts dating back to the seventh century BC Assyrian era, toppling statues from plinths, smashing them with a sledgehammer and breaking up a carving of a winged bull with a drill.
(3) They included a 7th-century BC Assyrian inscription that, she discovered, had been mistranslated in the 1920s, reducing passages to "absolute nonsense".
(4) After 18 years of study, Stephanie Dalley of Oxford University has concluded that the garden was built by the Assyrians in the north of Mesopotamia – in modern Iraq – rather than by their great enemies the Babylonians in the south.
(5) Formed in October 2015, the SDF, an alliance of Kurdish, Arab, Assyrian, Armenian, Turkmen and Circassian militias, has seized swaths of territory in north and north-east Syria from Isis.
(6) Assyrian militias have supported and fought alongside the YPG against Isis.
(7) As well as many Assyrians, thousands of Iraqi Chaldeans have also fled to Lebanon since Isis took control of Mosul in a lightning offensive last summer.
(8) Ethnically, Mosul was home to Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, Armenians and Assyrians.
(9) Iraq for instance has Kirkuk, once the ancient Assyrian capital of Arrapha, founded around 2,200BC, and with the ruins of a 5,000-year-old castle to prove its bona fides.
(10) Clashes are ongoing near Tal Tamr, an Assyrian town that straddles the river, where forces from the Syriac Military Council militia and the People’s Protection Units (YPG) – the militia that emerged victorious in the battle for the border town of Kobani – are defending the town.
(11) The desire for a long and healthy life was expressed often by Assyrian kings in their extant public texts from the 14th through the 7th centuries BC.
(12) She said the other major site under threat from the militants was Ashur, a Unesco world heritage site on the banks of the Tigris not far from Mosul , named after the chief god of the Assyrian pantheon.
(13) Christopher Jones, a PhD student in ancient history at Columbia University who blogs about the neo-Assyrian empire, said: “What is at risk?
(14) The destruction follows a similar incident this week when Isis fighters bulldozed the ancient Assyrian archaeological site of Nimrud, south of Mosul.
(15) In the vault for archeological fragments drawers that once held evidence of Sumerian, Assyrian and Babylonian culture have been pulled out and stripped.
(16) A photograph of a handwritten list has emerged purporting to show the names of the captured Assyrian Christians.
(17) The occurrence of congenital malformations had been documented by the Assyrian and Babylonians about 2,800 B.C.
(18) How the ancient city of Palmyra looked before the fighting – in pictures Read more Isis considers the preservation of such historical ruins a form of idolatry and has destroyed temples and historic artefacts, as well as ancient Assyrian sites in Nineveh in Iraq, after conquering the province in a lightning offensive last year.
(19) "That's OK if they are writing about Assyrian archaeology, but if you're writing those papers to use for public policy then there's an obligation on people to criticise what needs to be criticised."
(20) He followed a magnificent – if at times halting – procession of clerics from the Assyrian church of the East, the Oriental Orthodox churches, the Orthodox churches and the Roman Catholic church clad in purple, scarlet, black and white.