Editing Population transfer (section)

===Ancient Assyria===
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[[File:Deportation of Jews by Assyrians.svg|thumb|right|150px|The Jews were one of the many peoples forcibly mass deported by the Assyrians.]]
In the ancient world, population transfer was the more humane alternative to putting all the males of a conquered territory to death and enslaving the women and children. From the 13th century BCE, [[Assyria]] used [[military history of the Neo-Assyrian Empire#Deportations|mass deportation]] as a punishment for [[List of revolutions and rebellions|rebellions]]. By the [[9th century BCE]], the Assyrians regularly deported thousands of restless subjects to other lands. Assyria forcibly resettled the inhabitants of the [[Kingdom of Israel (Samaria)|Northern Kingdom of Israel]] in 720 BCE; these became known as the [[Ten Lost Tribes]].