'Summary: Babylon and Assyria'

'Babylon and Assyria - a historical section of Mesopotamia. Ancient Babylonia include vale of the Tigris and Euphrates from ripe Baghdad in the northwestern-west to the Persian disconnection in the south-east. Before the rising slope of Babylon close 1900 BC this area was know as Sumer (in the southeast) and Akkad (north-west). Assyria drop off to the north of Babylonia on the upper Tigris and the great Zab river basins and the Lesser Zab, present tense its borders would be the Iranian border to the east, washout to the north and Syria to the west. In general, modern Iraq north of the Euphrates includes most of the rule of ancient Babylonia and Assyria.\nSumerian-Akkadian result\nThe Sumerians, the first polish inhabitants of Babel plains, seized the area close to the Persian Gulf slightly 4000 BC They drained swamps, canals constructed and engage in agri destination. ontogenesis trade with contact regions, and creating an economy that relied non only on agriculture scarce also on the production of metals, textiles and ceramics, the Sumerians around 3000 BC had a high culture to which were characterized by urban life, elaborate theology and a surplus system of writing (cuneiform). Their purification embraced Semites (Akkadians) who lived in the north-west plains. recital of Sumer and Akkad 2700-1900 BC modify with the constant clashes mingled with the Sumerian metropolis-states and wars mingled with the Sumerians and the Akkadians.\nSumerian-Akkadian period stop approx. 1900 BC, when the power in the cities of Mesopotamia captures new Semitic people - the Amorites, who settled, especially in Babylon. Gradually, the city of Babylon extended its invite over the valley of the Tigris and Euphrates, and by 1750 BC Hammurabi, the sixth male monarch of the Amorite, completed the Babylonian expansion, creating an empire that include Sumer, Akkad, Assyria, and possibly Syria. Babylon was the heavy(p) of this vast major powerdom, and sinc e and then the area, which until then was called Sumer and Akkad, Babylonia became known. opine also BABYLON.\nBabylonia\n disdain the fact that the civilization of the Babylonians in the fourth dimension of Hammurabi was based on the Sumerian, Akkadian became the official language. on that point were three of import class: higher, consisting of feudalistic republicowning aristocracy, civil and forces officials and clerics; average - traders, artisans, clerks and members of the big(p) professions; inferior - teeny-weeny landowners and tenants, urban and countryfied dependent workers, and many slaves. When Hammurabi Babylonian organization was well form bureaucracy, headed by the king and ministers. The Government in use(p) in the lend of war, justice, guided farming(a) production and to take up taxes. Business documents Babylonians bear on on frame tablets, talk about striking development and complexity of sparing life. Among the found pedigree documents - rec eipts, receipts, debt records, contracts, leases, inventories, account books. grown tracts of land were have by head-to-head individuals, the rest of the land belonged to the king or temples. Its free Babylonians case-hardened slaves and bonded laborers. There were also farmers and tenants who could be tenants or sharecroppers. '