Quick questions on Assyrian expansion and the fall of Samaria 722 BC: HSC Ancient History

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What is israel's decline after Jeroboam II?

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Under Jeroboam II (died c. 746 BC) the northern kingdom had reached its height in wealth and territory, a prosperity attested by the earlier Samaria ostraca and denounced by the prophets Amos and Hosea. His death opened a period of political chaos. In roughly twenty-five years Israel ran through six kings, four of them murdered by their successors:

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