Assyrian Period

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    The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold,
    And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold:
    George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    In a period of a people’s life that bears the designation “transitional,” the task of a thinking individual, of a sincere citizen of his country, is to go forward, despite the dirt and difficulty of the path, to go forward without losing from view even for a moment those fundamental ideals on which the entire existence of the society to which he belongs is built.
    Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818–1883)