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The Rise of Cyaxares
Cyaxares also allied with the Scythians even though they warred against each other a decade earlier. In the year 612 B.C.E, Cyaxares and his army was able to conquer Assur and Cyaxares also claimed the Assyrian capital of Nineveh. The Medians, Babylonians, and Scythians overthrew the Assyrian Empire and destroyed Nineveh in 612 BC. Fighting between the Medes and the Assyrians would finally come to an end in the year 609 B.C.E.

War against Lydia
Before Cyaxares was confronted with the threat of the Lydian army, Alyattes had previously campaigned in the eastern regions of Phrygia and Gordion. After the subsequent interchange of marriage, fighting ceased between the Medians and the Lydians, yet Croesus would later deny any help for Astyages when faced with conflict from Cyrus the Great. Thus showing that while the resulting marriages may have prevented more fighting between the Medians and the Lydians, the two kingdoms were not joined in any type of alliance.