So what happened to the Assyrians?

所以亚述人到底发生了什么事呢？

Well, that was the case until the Assyrians came along, anyway.

反正亚述人来的时候，情况就是这样的，的情况下， 来了，反正。亚述人有一个当之无愧。

The most important of these were the Sumerians, the Babylonians and the Assyrians.

最重要的部族是苏美尔人、巴比伦尼亚人和亚述人。

Also the neo-Assyrians loved to find would-be rebels and lop off their appendages.

此外，新亚述人喜欢寻找可能的叛乱分子然后砍掉他们的肢体。

In the 6th century BC, both the Assyrians and the Greeks used to poison wells.

公元前六世纪 亚述人和希腊人都曾用过毒井。

But the ancient Babylonians and Assyrians couldn't know that, and so they thought some strange magic must lie behind it.

可是这个事实，古代巴比伦尼亚人和亚述人不可能知道，所以他们认为，其中必有某种神秘的魔术。

The Babylonians, and the Assyrians after them, were disciplined and hardworking, but they didn't paint cheerful pictures like the Egyptians.

巴比伦尼亚人以及后来的亚述人也都是纪律严明的的和勤奋的，但是他们没有画过埃及人那样漂亮的图画。

But Sumerian culture lived on for thousands of years— first through the Akkadians, then the Assyrians, then the Babylonians.

但是苏美尔文化延续了数千年——首先是通过阿卡德人，然后是亚述人，然后是巴比伦人。

Yet the innovations that the Assyrians  pioneered live on.

然而，亚述人开创的创新依然存在。

Now, unlike the Egyptians, the Babylonians and the Assyrians, these noblemen weren't interested in preserving the ways of their ancestors.

但是这些上等人不像埃及人或巴比伦尼亚人和亚述人那样很在乎一切都维持原状。

He lost his wife and his son to the enemy and, after more attacks from the Assyrians, he was finally expelled.

他的妻儿都落入敌手。最终，在亚述的数次进攻后, 他遭到了放逐。

For the administration-minded Assyrians, politics and religion were closely linked.

对于有行政头脑的亚述人来说，政治和宗教是紧密相连的。

Assyrians were military innovators and merciless conquerors.

亚述人是军事创新者和无情的征服者。

In 722 B.C. the Northern kingdom was conquered by the Assyrians and it lost all political and religious significance.

公元前 722 年北国被亚述人征服， 失去了所有的政治和宗教意义。

Researchers say it's a character that was revered by the Assyrians who flourished at around the seventh century bc.

研究人员表示，这个角色受到公元前七世纪左右繁荣的亚述人的尊崇。

She too lusted after the Assyrians—governors and commanders, warriors in full dress, mounted horsemen, all handsome young men.

她贪恋邻邦的亚述人，就是穿极华美的衣服，骑着马的省长、副省长，都是可爱的少年人。

After several years of power struggles, Thebes,   the city of Amun, was sacked by the Assyrians.

经过几年的权力斗争，阿蒙城底比斯被亚述人洗劫一空。

Once the Assyrians conquered an area, they built cities connected by well-maintained royal roads.

一旦亚述人征服了一个地区，他们就会建造由维护良好的皇家道路连接起来的城市。

The Assyrians defeated him with the help of some rebelling Egyptian princes, and drove him out of Egypt in the 7th century BCE.

亚述人在一些反叛的埃及王子的帮助下打败了他，并在公元前7世纪将他驱逐出埃及。

You engaged in prostitution with the Assyrians too, because you were insatiable; and even after that, you still were not satisfied.

你因贪色无厌，又与亚述人行淫，与他们行淫之后，仍不满意。