Assyrian deportation; Samaria falls

Tiglath-Pileser III makes deportation state policy; Samaria falls.

In plain words

Assyria's Tiglath-Pileser III makes the deportation of whole peoples state policy, and Samaria, the northern kingdom's capital, falls: a way to end a people without killing them, scattering them among others until the line cannot be found.

The mechanism

SEED ATTACK BY DISPERSAL — you do not have to kill a people to end them. Break them off their ground, scatter them into other populations, and the line stops being findable

Scripture

2 Kings 17

How it was checked

• EvidenceT6 PHYSICAL / MANUSCRIPT; Status: COMMITTED; a capture
• Letter eraTHE PROPHETS AND THE ROAD 776 BC to 4 BC
• Plate — Clay cylinder inscription of Sargon II, from Khorsabad · Israel Museum, Jerusalem · CC0 · source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Clay_Prismoid_Cylinder_with_Inscription_of_Sargon,_King_of_Assyria,_Khorsabad,_late_8th_C._BC_(42501116884).jpg
• SourcesARCHAEOLOGY + SCRIPTURE — the Khorsabad annals and 2 Kings 17, two records of one policy from opposite sides of the ledger