The Assyrians of the 600s and 500s B.C.E. earned a reputation for being bloodthirsty murderers bent of ethnic and regional hegemony. The were perceived by their enemies as enjoying torturing those in the cities they conquered. So, on the whole, they earned a very negative reputation.

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