BABYLONIA AND ASSYRIA


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During the period when they were competing for dominance in Mesopotamia, the neighbouring sister-states of Babylonia and Assyria differed essentially in character. Babylonia was a land of merchants and agriculturists; Assyria became an organized military camp. The Assyrian dynasties were founded by successful generals; in Babylonia it was the priests whom a revolution raised to the throne. The Babylonian king remained a priest to the last, under the control of a powerful hierarchy; the Assyrian king was the autocratic general of an army, at whose side stood in early days a feudal nobility, aided from the reign of Tiglath-Pileser III onwards by an elaborate bureaucracy. His palace was more sumptuous than the temples of the gods, from which it was quite separate. The people were soldiers and little else; even the sailor belonged to the state. Hence the sudden collapse of Assyria when drained of its fighting population in the age of Ashurbanipal.

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★ 'History of Babylonia and Assyria:'


Sumer


History of Sumer


Akkadian Empire


Gutian period


3rd dynasty of Ur "Sumerian Renaissance"


Babylonia


Assyria


Kings of Babylon


Kings of Assyria

Geography of Babylonia and Assyria

★ 'Assyro-Babylonian culture'


Chaldean mythology


Babylonian and Assyrian religion


Babylonian law


Babylonian literature


Art and architecture of Babylonia and Assyria


Social life in Babylonia and Assyria


Cuneiform script

Ancient Orient

Mesopotamia

Assyriology


Classical authorities of Babylonia and Assyria


Modern discovery of Babylonia and Assyria


Chronology of the Ancient Orient


Chronology of Babylonia and Assyria


Chronological systems of Babylonia and Assyria

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