No permanent organization of territorial dominion in foreign parts was established by Semitic rulers till late in Assyrian history.

Its spirit of intrigue, transfused into its most powerful order the Jesuits, was employed for the similar purpose of acquiring territorial dominion.

To some extent, but unfortunately not in all detail, we can trace in the royal records the advance of Assyrian territorial dominion in the west.

The territorial dominions of Sybaris and Crotona extended across the peninsula from sea to sea.