Its inhabitants were not considered Assyrians; rather, their local rulers held power as subjects of Assyria. Instead of Supplying agricultural goods and manpower, these subordinated states had a great burden of delivering massive amounts of tribute in the form of gold and silver. This wealth went directly to the king, who used it to pay for extravagant court and ever-increasing military costs. The Neo Assyrian Empire put forth an imperial ideology to support and justify its system of expansion. Assyrian inscriptions and art expressed a divinely determined destiny that drove the regime to expand westward towards the Mediterranean Sea. Rulers devised three types of propaganda. They used elaborate architectural cultural complexes to stage ceremonial displays of pomp and power. Secondly they made sure that different types of texts glorified the king and the empire. Third, state officials placed images glorifying the king and the Assyrian army on place walls. Triumphal events were not only evident on palace walls but also in a uniquely Assyrian literary form called annals, which were historical records arranged
Its inhabitants were not considered Assyrians; rather, their local rulers held power as subjects of Assyria. Instead of Supplying agricultural goods and manpower, these subordinated states had a great burden of delivering massive amounts of tribute in the form of gold and silver. This wealth went directly to the king, who used it to pay for extravagant court and ever-increasing military costs. The Neo Assyrian Empire put forth an imperial ideology to support and justify its system of expansion. Assyrian inscriptions and art expressed a divinely determined destiny that drove the regime to expand westward towards the Mediterranean Sea. Rulers devised three types of propaganda. They used elaborate architectural cultural complexes to stage ceremonial displays of pomp and power. Secondly they made sure that different types of texts glorified the king and the empire. Third, state officials placed images glorifying the king and the Assyrian army on place walls. Triumphal events were not only evident on palace walls but also in a uniquely Assyrian literary form called annals, which were historical records arranged