Babylonia

PhD dissertation, Department of Economic History, University of Illinois, Illinois. Assyrian education was mostly meant to be given to the higher class, however, in Babylonia, almost everyone had access to education and everyone knew how to read and write including some slaves (19). Orville Keister shows how record keeping in Mesopotamian societies was essential to keeping track of the smallest details in their everyday…

Writings most unique attribute is its ability to last centuries unaltered. Some documents are created for the present alone such as to do list and letters while some documents are created to last for centuries and are written to survive the trials of time. In general, durable writing materials required excessive time and labor to produce. Written eye witness testimonies became more reliable and trusted than recited oral history. Through deciphering and translation, writings from all times and…

We all know that the earliest writing systems were drawings usually done on rock, sides of mountains and cave walls. Doesn’t that seem pretty tedious? Though of course it’s beautiful, imagine writing a 10,000-word essay for a college class all done on several clay slabs with thousands of pictures. Aren’t you glad we evolved our way of writing? The earliest writing systems evolved separately and at pretty much the same time in Mesopotamia and Egypt, but current information shows that…

It is hard to tell when the first established communicative signals of mankind started to exist and it is only known that the primitive writing system was developed by 4000 BC in the region of Sumer in southern Babylonia. One thing that hasn’t changed till these days is the fact that language, as a particular human phenomenon, can be divided into two main forms: spoken and written. Even if both languages bear some similarities, such as the status marking of the sentences (is it a question, a…

operation that helped Jews emigrate from Iraq to Israel, it was put into place for the people who felt as if Israel was their home. The operation was named after Ezra and Nehemiah because in biblical times these two characters led the Jewish Jews out of Babylonia back to Israel in order to rebuild the Temple. At least 90,000 Jews signed up to go back to Israel through Operation Ezra & Nehemiah. Operation Ezra and Nehemiah ended leaving only about 6,000 Jews in Iraq. The operation was very…

Code of Hammurabi The impact of The Code of Hammurabi. It is massively influential in that it created a standard of law and consequence. The code itself showed society the consequences of harsh punishment surrounding laws and it’s effects on deterrence. The Code of Hammurabi was created by the Babylonian ruler, Hammburabi. He governed Babylon, which he extended to cover a large portion of Mesopotamia, from 1792-1750 BC. Laws, judgements, and declarations were fused into the 282 laws that make…

Empire. Major influences from these civilizations and empires have contributed to Western Civilization. Mesopotamian civilization developed between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers and evolved to three definite societies: Sumer (2000s B.C), Babylonia (1000s B.C.), and Assyria (after 700s B.C.). The first known cities were founded by the Sumerians using architecture of mud and brick. The location of the cities was extremely important due to the availability of water. The need for water in…

____________________________________ This is BREAKING NEWS for all Time Travelers. On the month of September, all students in Honors World History 9 choose a civilization from the civilizations to 1500 A.D. diagram that the teachers gave us in the first weeks of school. Abdi-kareem Anthony, which is me, choose the Sumer civilization. The civilizations were from top to bottom, oldest to Place holder picture ___________________________________ newest, and I choose the Sumer civilization…

ethnography and feminist anthropology along with textual and archeological materials. Moreover, Elisabeth Tetlow and other scholars’ research revealed that women enjoy almost equal rights as men in the oldest civilizations of Sumer, Old Assyria, and Old Babylonia. Contrary to modern scholarship, many scholars conclude women’s high status in the OT; Richard Davidson cogently argued, with extraordinary depth and extensive bibliography, that the rapid decline of women’s status came about only…

After years of being controlled by Babylonia, a warlike people called the Assyrians took control of the northern area of Mesopotamia. During their reign, they became known for their centralized government rule and feared for their military strength. They employs the “Deputy system” to support the empire’s administration. These deputies could replace their superiors whenever needed to ensure flexible and resilient. While the Persian Empire had 23 governors followed the “Satrapy system.” Each…