Henceforth the Assyrian rule is maintained over the whole of Chaldaea and Babylonia, with few and brief interruptions, to the close of the Empire.

The reluctant victim struggles in his captor's grasp, and now and then for a short space shakes it off; but only to be seized again with a fiercer gripe, until at length his struggles cease, and he resigns himself to a fate which he has come to regard as inevitable.

During the last fifty years of the Empire, from B.C.650 to B.C.625, the province of Babylon was almost as tranquil as any other.
The pride of Sargon received at this time a gratification which he is not able to conceal, in the homage which was paid to him by sovereigns who had only heard of his fame, and who were safe from the attacks of his armies.

While he held his court at Babylon, in the year B.C.708 or 707, he gave audience to two embassies from two opposite quarters, both sent by islanders dwelling (as he expresses it) "in the middle of the seas" that washed the outer skirts of his dominions.

Upir, king of Asmun, who ruled over an island in the Persian Gulf,--Khareg, perhaps, or Bahrein,--sent messengers, who bore to the Great King the tribute of the far East.