The Civilization Of Babylonia And Assyria (e-book) (used book) | bookbook.eu

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s/t: Its Remains, Language, History, Religion, Commerce, Law, Art & Literature
What we understand about ancient cultures of Mesopotamia we know mostly from the Babylonians & Assyrians. These ancient peoples had developed a manner of writing, known as cuneiform, that were preserved on clay tablets & survive to this day. As a result of the combined efforts of explorers, decipherers, archeologists & others, the histories of these civilizations have been raised from beneath the mounds, which hid their secrets for millennia. These city-states are credited with developing some of civilization's firsts, from experiments in agriculture, the domestication of animals, & the establishment of a marketplace, to the origin of mathematics, our concept of time reckoning & a fundamental understanding of our code of laws. Babylonians & Assyrians, along with their predecessors, the Sumerians, provided subsequent civilizations, including our own, the basis for civilized living. This work attempts to present a study of the unprecedented civilizations that flourished in the Tigris-Euphrates Valley thousands of years ago. Spreading northward into present-day Turkey & Iran, the land known by the Greeks as Mesopotamia flourished until just before the Xian era. We know a great deal about these peoples, how they lived, the organization of their palaces, temples & homes; as well as much regarding their daily life & religious ambitions. Many tablets unearthed so far have revealed the nature of commercial intercourse, of judicial disputes & of the complexities of social life. Also found on the tablets was a great deal of literary material, dating from the earliest periods & continuing to the fall of Babylonia & further into the era of Persian & Greek dominion. As the author of a number of books on the religious traditions in the Near & Middle East, Morris Jastrow Jr has utilized his expertise, & that of others in the field, to compile this impressive discourse on Babylonia & Assyria 1st published 100 years ago.