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| | Mesopotamian Astrology 2,000 B.C. - O.A.D. |
 | | Around 1,000 B.C. Assyrian domination began, reaching its height in about 700 B.C., and in 612 B.C. the Assyrian Empire was destroyed by the Second Babylonian Empire, whose most well known king was the Biblical Nebuchadnezzar. |
 | | The astrology contained in the tablets is based on the rising and setting of planets and is exclusively mundane, that is, concerned with making predictions for the entire country, and the King, who was regarded as the personification of the country. |
 | | Soon after 600 B.C. the Greeks began to study astronomy, and the hellenistic and Mesopotamian worlds started the gradual process of cultural mixing which was to reach its climax with the conquests of Alexander the Great some 300 years later. |
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