Who were the biggest badasses of the ancient near-East?

Assyrians

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>>2647927
>you will never flay the skins of your enemies and stitch them to the columns of your palace

why even live

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The guys who managed to rule it for 600 years while expanding into Europe.

Unlike the other beta nerds who couldn't even keep it for atleast a century without falling cause of civil war or those who laster longer fell to outside threats, namely us.

>>2647914
Parthia

>>2647944
>the eternal t*rkroach is back
I missed you

Which can I learn the most from? Who have the most to teach?

>>2647944
You know, I've actually missed you. Stay safe cockroach and beware the Caucasus nations.

>>2647914
GIRUGAMESH

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this mutherfocker

have you ever killed a lion from horseback?

Assyrians didnt fuck around. They killed you in the most painful way possible. They make the Persians look soft in comparison.

I guess you could argue Leonidus and his Spartans were bad ass to kill about .5 percent of Xerxes army. The Spartans sure talked the talk like a badass.

You could also claim the Scythians were the most badass since their horse archer tactics pretty much could not be stopped for hundreds and hundreds of years and even when the gun was invented people still found it difficult to defeat them.