The Assyrian Empire
a. developed in the central desert region of the Arabian peninsula.
b. expanded northward from its original homeland to the Baltic Sea by 700 B.C.E.
c. was skilled at waging both conventional and guerrilla warfare.
d. was the greatest trading center of the ancient world.
e. briefly occupied southern Greece.
c
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British settlements in Australia affected the original inhabitants in all of these ways EXCEPT
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