The Assyrians were invaded since they controlled the Fertile Crescent
<span>The 17th century saw Sweden as an European "Great Power" and one of the major military and political combatants on the continent during the Thirty Years' War. By mid-century, the kingdom included part of Norway, all of Finland and stretched into Russia. Sweden's control of portions of modern Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania and Germany made the Baltic Sea essentially a Swedish lake.</span>
The core Idea was manifest destiny. God gave us power so why not use it? Whenever we kicked mexico's behind we realized we could really accomplish this ambition