"Assyria. The emergence and Fall of the First Empire in planet History": The Birth of a Kingdom

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One sign of the consolidation of the king's power and thus the decline of Ashur's oligarchic and democratic institutions was the emergence of an Assyrian royal court with a full fresh cadre of officials whose main task was to service the needs of the ruler.