Answer:
Yes and No.
Explanation:
By today's standards, they would be considered barbaric, but back then, compared to the babylonians, they were kind. They were the first nation in the world too use puppet states, and allow thier western regions in the middle east to self govern, they were still conqueres though, and when the Greeks invaded them, pushing them all the way into India, they reformed the process of puppet states more. So thus, its yes and no.
The land between rivers, the euphrates and the tigris rivers
The 8th amendment, I believe. i could be wrong
The lack of democracy, economic backwardness and crisis in the Soviet republics eventually accelerated the crisis of socialism in the late 1980s. In 1989 the Berlin Wall falls and the two Germanys are reunited.
In the early 1990s, then-president of the Soviet Union Gorbachev began to accelerate the end of socialism in that country and its allies. With economic reforms, agreements with the US, and political changes, the system has been weakening. It was the end of a period of political, ideological and military clashes. Victorious capitalism was gradually being implanted in the socialist countries.
