The Assyrian Empire, revering Ashur as the highest-ranking deity, built a huge empire in the northern part of Sumer (currently, around Iraq) and continued wars of invasions into Babylonia, which had emerged after Sumer and Akkad.
アッシュルを最高神と崇めたアッシリア帝国は、シュメール（現在のイラク周辺）の北部に一大帝国を築き、シュメール・アッカドの後に勃興したバビロニアに侵略戦争を繰り返した。