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- catalog abstract "The people of ancient Mesopotamia, who settled in the 'fertile crescent' between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers before the fourth millennium BC, laid the foundations of Western civilization. Some of the earliest experiments in agriculture and irrigation, the invention of writing, the birth of mathematics and the development of urban life began there. Many fundamental developments in human society - from hunter-gatherer to farmer, from village to city-state - first occurred in this area. Biblical associations also are numerous, from Nineveh to the Tower of Babel and the Flood. Professor H.W.F. Saggs describes the ebb and flow in the successive fortunes of the Sumerians, Akkadians, Amorites and Babylonians. Using evidence from pottery, cuneiform tablets, cylinder seals, early architecture and metallurgy, he illuminates the myths, religion, languages, trade, politics and warfare, as well as the legacy, of the Babylonians and their predecessors.".
- catalog contributor b8232612.
- catalog coverage "Babylonia History.".
- catalog coverage "Babylonia Social life and customs.".
- catalog created "c1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "c1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1995.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and indexes.".
- catalog description "The Rediscovery of Babylonia -- Prehistoric Beginnings -- Early Cities -- Agade, the First Empire -- The Third Dynasty of Ur -- The Old Babylonian Period -- Kassite Kings -- Aramaean and Other Migrations -- The Aramaic Language and Ancient Libraries -- The Neo-Babylonian Empire.".
- catalog description "The people of ancient Mesopotamia, who settled in the 'fertile crescent' between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers before the fourth millennium BC, laid the foundations of Western civilization. Some of the earliest experiments in agriculture and irrigation, the invention of writing, the birth of mathematics and the development of urban life began there. Many fundamental developments in human society - from hunter-gatherer to farmer, from village to city-state - first occurred in this area. Biblical associations also are numerous, from Nineveh to the Tower of Babel and the Flood. Professor H.W.F. Saggs describes the ebb and flow in the successive fortunes of the Sumerians, Akkadians, Amorites and Babylonians. Using evidence from pottery, cuneiform tablets, cylinder seals, early architecture and metallurgy, he illuminates the myths, religion, languages, trade, politics and warfare, as well as the legacy, of the Babylonians and their predecessors.".
- catalog extent "192 p., [8] p. of plates :".
- catalog identifier "0806127651".
- catalog isPartOf "Peoples of the past (Norman, Okla.) ; 1.".
- catalog isPartOf "Peoples of the past ; v. 1".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "c1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Norman : University of Oklahoma Press,".
- catalog spatial "Babylonia History.".
- catalog spatial "Babylonia Social life and customs.".
- catalog subject "935 20".
- catalog subject "Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian.".
- catalog subject "DS71 .S24 1995b".
- catalog tableOfContents "The Rediscovery of Babylonia -- Prehistoric Beginnings -- Early Cities -- Agade, the First Empire -- The Third Dynasty of Ur -- The Old Babylonian Period -- Kassite Kings -- Aramaean and Other Migrations -- The Aramaic Language and Ancient Libraries -- The Neo-Babylonian Empire.".
- catalog title "Babylonians / H.W.F. Saggs.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".