While our great Assyrian World Order has gone through ups and downs, it has persisted for more than three millennia and has spread from its tiny beginnings to envelope the globe, thanks to our virtue of strength and practice of crushing any opposition without mercy.. We have had several close calls, especially in our great struggle with the Chines, but one early one that few people think of is the attempt of the Medes and their cavalry to destroy our mighty capitol of Ninevah. Had this occurred, as it so nearly did, imagine the world of feeble weaklings we might have now. Alternately, would we have a world of multiple nations with atomcore weapons, instead of a single world hegemon as we truely do? Perhaps the planet would be an oversized moon by now which glows on its nightside. What would you say?