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. Remnants of this 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 Carchemish. Shalmaneser III and Sennacherib were rulers of, (10[1])for 10 points, which ancient Near Eastern empire with a capital at Nineveh? ■END■ (10[2])