What are the advantages of iron tools and weapons over stone and copper.

1 What are the advantages of iron tools and weapons over stone and copper. 2 What military innovations did the Assyrians use? 3 About what books were written from the library of King Ashurbanapal? Why didn’t the library die in burning Nineveh?

1. Iron tools had advantages over stone and copper ones, as they were more reliable and durable.

2. The Assyrians included engineering troops, that is, they used various types of battering guns: battering rams, catapults, trebuchets, ballistae, etc.

3. The Ashurbanipal library was one of the most famous in the ancient world, where medical treatises, scientific knowledge, magical knowledge, mythical legends and so on were preserved.

4. After the destruction of Nineveh, most of the books were able to survive for the reason that most of them were written on clay tablets, which could not be harmed by fire.