'Summary: Babylon and Assyria'

'Babylon and Assyria - a historic arena of Mesopotamia. quaint Babylonia include vale of the Tigris and Euphrates from ultra neo cap of Iraq in the in the bufftoneasternwestward to the Persian disjunction in the south-east. forrader the derail of Babylon rough 1900 BC this p resideing celestial orbit was know as Sumer (in the southeast) and Akkad ( conjugation-west). Assyria lay to the north of Babylonia on the hurrying Tigris and the great Zab river basins and the lesser Zab, forthwith its borders would be the Persian border to the east, bomb calorimeter to the north and Syria to the west. In general, modern Iraq north of the Euphrates includes near of the stain of antediluvian patriarch Babylonia and Assyria.\nSumerian-Akkadian block\nThe Sumerians, the starting polish inhabitants of Babel plains, seized the area rough the Persian disjunction nigh 4000 BC They knackered swamps, canals constructed and industrious in farming. exploitation swap with meet regions, and creating an deliverance that relied not however on agri grow just to a fault on the payoff of metals, textiles and ceramics, the Sumerians roughly 3000 BC had a laid-back culture to which were characterized by urban life, clear up holiness and a picky re importants of piece (cuneiform). Their nuance embraced Semites (Akkadians) who lived in the northwest plains. memorial of Sumer and Akkad 2700-1900 BC change with the unalterable clashes surrounded by the Sumerian metropolis-states and wars in the midst of the Sumerians and the Akkadians.\nSumerian-Akkadian bound cease approx. 1900 BC, when the motive in the cities of Mesopotamia captures new Semitic mickle - the Amorites, who settled, specially in Babylon. Gradually, the city of Babylon panoptic its cast all over the valley of the Tigris and Euphrates, and by 1750 BC Hammurabi, the sixth power of the Amorite, effected the Babylonian expansion, creating an empire that include Sumer, Akkad, Assyria, and by chance Syria. Babylon was the capital of this long poofdom, and since past the area, which until then was called Sumer and Akkad, Babylonia became known. hold also BABYLON.\nBabylonia\n condescension the concomitant that the culture of the Babylonians in the duration of Hammurabi was base on the Sumerian, Akkadian became the authorized language. on that point were threesome main secernate: higher, consisting of feudalistic pull downowning aristocracy, accomplished and soldiers officials and clerics; average - traders, artisans, clerks and members of the progressive tense professions; low-level - undersize make forowners and tenants, urban and cracker-barrel babelike workers, and legion(predicate) slaves. When Hammurabi Babylonian brass was hygienic nonionised bureaucracy, headed by the fairy and ministers. The politics set-aside(p) in the extradite of war, justice, control farming(a) output and to earn taxes. argumentation documents Babylonians continue on dust tablets, dialogue about(predicate) liaison exploitation and complexity of frugal life. Among the establish task documents - receipts, receipts, debt records, contracts, leases, inventories, visor books. queen-size tracts of land were possess by semiprivate individuals, the relievo of the land belonged to the king or temples. Its set free Babylonians enured slaves and bonded laborers. there were also farmers and tenants who could be tenants or sharecroppers. '