The Greatness that was Babylon: A Survey of the Ancient Civilization of the Tigris-Euphrates ValleyBogen giver en beskrivelse af såvel den generelle og politiske som den sociale og kuturelle historie for civilisationen af dalområdet mellem Eufrat og Tigris fra Mesopotaniens opståen før år 2000 f. Kr. over Babylon og Assyrien omkr. 2000-1350 f. Kr., det assyriske imperies rejsning, herredømme og fald omkr. 1300-600 f. Kr. frem til det neobabylonske rige omkr. 600-140 f. Kr. |
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Mesopotamia before 2000 B C | 3 |
The earliest pictographs | 23 |
Babylonia and Assyria circa 20001350 B C | 60 |
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administration Agade Akkadian amongst ancient Aramaean Ashur Ashurbanipal Asia Minor Assyrian Assyrian army Babylon Babylonia Cassite century B.C. certainly Chaldaean city-state cult culture cuneiform death deity divine documents east Egypt Egyptian Elam Elamite empire Enlil Ensi Epic Erech Eridu Esarhaddon Eshnunna Euphrates evidence father Gilgamish goddess gods governor Hammurabi hand Hittite Hurrian incantation inscriptions Ishtar Isin Jemdet Nasr king kingdom kingship Kish known Lagash land Larsa later laws letter lord magical Marduk Mari mentioned Mesopotamia military millennium B.C. myth Nabopolassar Nabu-na'id Nineveh Nippur official Old Babylonian Old Testament omens originally plate priest probably province referred reign religion religious represented ritual royal ruler Sargon second millennium Semitic Shalmaneser Shamash Shamshi-Adad silver slave successor Sumer Sumerian Sumerian King List Syria tablets tamkarum temple Third Dynasty third millennium Tiglath-Pileser Tigris Tilmun tribes Ubaid Ugarit Urartu Uruk vassal whilst Yasmah-Adad ziggurat