Jonathan’s+Assyrian+Attack

The Assyrians Attack One morning in Uruk while in the middle of fall I, Jonathan an 11 year old boy, went to help my dad in the fields while my mom was making food for my brother Christopher who was 9. After we finished in the fields we were heading home we heard a battering arm hitting the wall of our city-state. I knew that it was the Assyrians because we heard stories of them. I hid in a secrete place with my mom and brother that no one would find us we could hear the horses stomping on the ground and the wheels of the chariots going by our secrete place. Then my brother went outside to get some food and we told him to stay back but before we could say anything an Assyrian staved my brother in the chest and I saw the red blood coming out. The Assyrian didn’t saw us and left but they took about 15 people to be slaves. After a while I could feel some slimy liquid on me so I taught and I remembered that my brother was killed and that my brother’s blood came out. When they were all gone we looked at our home and it was destroyed the crops were all gone because the Assyrians set it on fire. When we went to look at the city we saw no city. We set to find food but we only found dirt so we travel miles to Babylon and my dad told them what had happen to our city and they let us be citizens. While we were looking around I spotted it was the 282 Code of Laws written by Hammurabi. After six years of living in Babylon I was living alone because my parents had passed away. I told the king if I could be in the army with his warriors. I told the king that I only wanted to be in the army because I wanted to avenge my brother for what they did to him and the king accepted me to be in the army. Every day I practiced for 3 straight hours and ate cow meat and drank water. I knew that it was our turn to be attacked because they had gotten almost all Mesopotamia except for us. Finally the day it was the day that the Assyrians would attack all of us were getting ready to fight. I saw everybody starting to hide somewhere and saving some food to eat when they knocked the wall down we were prepared. I saw people’s guts, blood, and intestines coming out from us and Assyrians’. When I wasn’t paying attention to my back and a person got me and took me to his house. When it was night I heard the Assyrians knocking on the doors so I knew that we had lost. Then they took me to be a slave. It was hard being a slave you had to wake up at 3:00’clock in the morning. We first started to water the grains and other crops. Later we had to wash the soldiers’ clothes for 3 hours. At six we had to make the soldiers food and leave some food to the priest. Finally we had to construct new homes for nine hours until it was nine. One day I was constructing a house when the wall of it fell down on me and i died.