Soldiers fighting in this empire used goatskin bags as flotation devices to cross rivers during campaigns. Hadadezer led a coalition of eleven kings to combat this empire’s conquest of Aram. This empire’s record of the names of those kings is one of the few extra-biblical mentions of King Ahab. According to Herodotus, the army of this empire was (-5[1])crippled (-5[1])when scores of mice chewed threw their (*) bowstrings. (10[1])Remnants of this (-5[1])empire’s army joined an Egyptian army under Necho II to lay siege to the city of Harran, but ended up being crushed by Nebuchadnezzar at the Battle of (10[1])Carchemish. (10[1])Shalmaneser III and Sennacherib (10[2])were rulers of, (10[3])for 10 points, which ancient Near Eastern empire with a capital at Nineveh? (10[1])■END■ (10[2])