A ruler of this polity issued an adê, or covenant, that required its population to actively monitor themselves and others for signs of disloyalty towards him or his successor. The Pazarsik Stele records a military campaign against Kummuh led by this polity’s uniquely powerful Queen Shammuramat, who was later mythologized as Semiramis. Under rulers like Adad-Nirari, this polity stifled local resistance through its imperial policy of forced resettlement, whose best-known instance occurred after this polity conquered the Kingdom of Israel under Tiglath-Pileser III. Many fragments of the Epic of Gilgamesh were discovered at a royal library in this empire founded by Ashurbanipal. For 10 points, a Babylonian revolt led to the collapse of what ancient Mesopotamian empire ruled from Nineveh? ■END■
ANSWER: Assyrian Empire [or Neo-Assyrian Empire; accept Assyrian captivity or Assyrian exile] (Esarhaddon issued the adê in the first line.)
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