Ashurbanipal was active in administration and was well-versed in the issues of the governance of the northern hill tribes. His teachers were Nabu-shar-usur, a commander, and Nabu-ahi-eriba, a historian and writer. He possessed all scribal and priestly expertise and was able to read Sumerian and abstruse Akkadian letters and languages, as few Mesopotamian rulers had before him.
His athletic abilities were demonstrated via hunting, archery, and horseback. His natural disposition to leadership made him a favored one by his father.
From 900 B.C.E. to 600 B.C.E., the Assyrian Empire was a group of linked city-states that flourished via conflict, supported by new technologies such as iron weaponry.
The secret to its success was a highly trained standing army, iron weapons, advanced engineering skills, effectual tactics, and, most importantly, a complete ruthlessness that came to categorize the Assyrians to their neighbors and fields of study and still attaches itself to Assyria's reputation today.
In their inscriptions about military victories, Assyrian monarchs frequently say, "I demolished, ravaged, and burned with fire" those cities, towns, and territories that opposed Assyrian dominion.
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