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The union of the Medes and Babylon and the extinction of Assyria

What the alliance and efforts of the Elamites, Babylonians and Persians had failed to achieve at the beginning of the seventh century BC, the Medes in alliance with the Babylonians finally accomplished, that is, the destruction and extinction of Assyria.. The main burden of the war was borne by the Medes under the leadership of Hokhashtra II…