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The Middle East was populated by independent city-states and tribal peoples. An organised kingdom such as Assyria became was able to use superior power to absorb them one by one, building up its own resources and power as it expanded. It was not until it met a competitor when the Babylonian Empire devloped that it was seriously challenged and faded into obscurity.

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