The principal economic basis of Assyrian society was agriculture based on farming villages. The Assyrian government also levied higher taxes on Non-Assyrian subjects and used corvee labor. The Assyrian economy was supplemented with tribute and booty taken from vassal states and enemy states respectively.

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