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[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 24 points 2 days ago

In the 800s BC, Jehu, King of Israel, gifted a golden bowl, vases and other trinkets to Neo-Assyrian King Shalmaneser III as tribute to end his expansion during the Assyrian conquest of Aram.