Nothing must remain
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Nothing must remain
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Some victories are not enough. Some conquerors need to erase. In 689 BC, the Assyrian king Sennacherib floods Babylon — the most sacred city in the world — and steals its god. In 146 BC, Rome destroys Carthage building by building, even though Carthage has already surrendered every weapon it owns. In 1219, Genghis Khan wipes out an entire empire because a governor killed his merchants and a shah beheaded his ambassador — and forty years later, his grandson finishes the job by drowning Baghdad's libraries in the Tigris. And in 1944, the Nazis demolish Warsaw street by street, with special teams for burning and special teams for demolishing, while the war is already lost. Four empires, twenty-seven centuries, and always the same reflex: when power is wounded, it does not simply win. It erases. Easy English for intermediate learners — with vocabulary tips and a false friend of the week.