how old is Assyria?

Question

i am an assyrian myself and i know that they are one of the first three countries of the world allong with yemen and eithiopia because it is written and i try to search up how old it is but it comes with different answers. some dates were neolithic ,7000BC and i think 9000 or 8000BC my dad says that they go back 10 000 years. what i do know is that assyria was in mesopotamia even though assyria was before mesopotamia

Answer 1

Assyria was one of the first civilizations for which we have written records from almost 5000 years ago, along with Sumer and Egypt. Earlier dates than this depend on archaeological finds, and since it lies in present day Iraq, not much work has been done lately. We do know that there are cities 10,000 yeas old in the middle east, but it is speculation to say there were any that old in Assyria.
http://www.aina.org/aol/peter/brief.htm#Language

If you ever get to Chicago you may want to visit the Oriental Institue on the campus of the University of Chicago. They have a fine collection from Assyria.
http://oi.uchicago.edu/museum/highlights/assyria.html

Answer 2

From what I have gathered Assyria is about 5000 years old.
The first civilazation is mesopotamia, it was Babylonian.
People migrated from this area we know today as Iraq.
In southern Iraq the Tigris meets the Euphrates rivers and this is where earlist man has been known to exist.
In the bible this is where the garden of eden was supposed to have been.
The decendants of the Assyrians today are the modern Germans.
You have a fine heritage, one thing I will say about the Germans are that they are organized and love order. If the country is in economic or social disorder they tend to look for a strong leader to lead them.
Very war like people,the have been feared down thru the ages, German means war man.
German culture even overran Rome, it was the Franks and the Germans that took hold of the Roman empire.
It is Germany today that leads the EU.
Hence the nick name the "strong man of europe"

Answer 3

"In the earliest historical times, the term Assyria (Akkadian: AÅ¡Å¡ur; Aramaic: אתור/ܐܬܘܪ, Aṯûr; Hebrew: אשור‎, Aššûr) referred to a region on the Upper Tigris river, named for its original capital, the ancient city of Assur. Later, as a nation and empire that came to control all of the Fertile Crescent, Egypt and much of Anatolia, the term "Assyria proper" referred to roughly the northern half of Mesopotamia (the southern half being Babylonia), with Nineveh as its capital."

"Early history"

"The most neolithic site in Assyria is at Tell Hassuna, the center of the Hassuna culture."

"Of the early history of the kingdom of Assyria, little is positively known. According to some Judeo-Christian traditions, the city of Ashur (also spelled Assur or AÅ¡Å¡ur) was founded by Ashur the son of Shem, who was deified by later generations as the city's patron god."

"The upper Tigris River valley seems to have been ruled by Sumer, Akkad, and northern Babylonia in its earliest stages; once a part of Sargon the Great's empire, it was destroyed by barbarians in the Gutian period, then rebuilt, and ended up being governed as part of the Empire of the 3rd dynasty of Ur."

"Early Assyrian city-states and kingdoms"

"The first inscriptions of Assyrian rulers appear after 2000 BC. Assyria then consisted of a number of city states and small Semitic kingdoms. The foundation of the Assyrian monarchy was traditionally ascribed to Zulilu, who is said to have lived after Bel-kap-kapu (Bel-kapkapi or Belkabi, ca. 1900 BC), the ancestor of Shalmaneser I."

"Assyria", Wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assyria

"Hassuna is an ancient Mesopotamian site situated in Iraq, south of Mosul."

"By around 6000 BC people had moved into the foothills (piedmont) of northernmost Mesopotamia where there was enough rainfall to allow for "dry" agriculture in some places. These were the first farmers in northernmost Mesopotamia (the region known as Assyria). They made Hassuna style pottery (cream slip with reddish paint in linear designs). Hassuna people lived in small villages or hamlets ranging from 2 to 8 acres. Even the largest Hassuna sites were smaller than [...] Jericho had been 1000 years before and much smaller than Çatal Hüyük, which was still occupied in Anatolia. Probably few if any Hassuna villages exceeded 500 people."

"Hassuna", Wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hassuna