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	Babylonia and Assyria - LoveToKnow 1911
		Assyria, however, was aided by civil war in Elam itself; the country was wasted with fire and sword,, and its capital Susa or Shushan levelled with the ground.
		In Babylonia the abundance of clay and want of stone led to the employment of brick; the Babylonian temples are massive but shapeless structures of crude brick, supported by buttresses, the rain being carried off by drains, one of which at Ur was of lead.
		Babylonia on the shores of the Persian Gulf; that its kings were contemporaneous with the later kings of Dynasty I. and with the earlier kings of Dynasty III.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Babylonia_and_Assyria (14655 words)

	Assyria
		In treating of Assyria it is extremely difficult not to speak at the same time of its sister, or rather mother country, Babylonia, as the peoples of these two countries, the Semitic Babylonians and Assyrians, are both ethnographically and linguistically the same race, with identical religion, language, literature, and civilization.
		Geographically, Assyria occupies the northern and middle part of Mesopotamia, situated between the rivers Euphrates and Tigris; while the southern half, extending as far south as the Persian Gulf, constitutes the countries of Babylonia and Chaldea.
		Further valuable help may be obtained from the so-called "Synchronous History" of Babylonia and Assyria, which consists of a brief summary of the relations between the two countries from the earliest times in regard to their respective boundary lines.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/a/assyria.html (9782 words)

	Assyria
		Her religion was a gross and complex polytheism, comprising the worship of thirteen principal and numerous minor divinities, at the head of all of whom stood the chief god, Asshur, who seems to be the deified patriarch of the nation.
		Whereas in Babylonia the temple was the chief public building, in Assyria the royal palace dominated everything, the temple being merely a royal chapel attached to the palace.
		Babylonia had fallen into decay and been forced to protect herself from the rising power of Assyria by forming an alliance with Mitanni (Mesopotamia) and Egypt, and subsequently, when Mitanni had been absorbed by the Hittites, by practically becoming dependent on the Hittite king.
	holycall.com /biblemaps/assyria.htm (6151 words)

	Babylonia and Assyria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The sister-states of Babylonia and Assyria differed essentially in character.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Babylonia_and_Assyria (208 words)

	Babylonia
		Babylonia (Babylonian Bâbili,"gate of God"; Old Persian Babirush), ancient country of Mesopotamia, known originally as Sumer and later as Sumer and Akkad, lying between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, south of modern Baghdâd, Iraq.
		Babylonia later fell under the rule of the dynasty of the Sea-land, at least for a brief period.
		They were eventually successful, and Babylonia became so weak that it fell prey to the Elamites who invaded it from the east, deposed its Kassite king, and practically reduced it to a state of vassalage.
	members.tripod.com /al_3irakia/babyloni.htm (2710 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Babylonia
		A most remarkable feature of Babylonian geography is that the land to the south encroaches on the sea and that the Persian Gulf recedes at present at the rate of a mile in seventy years, while in the past, though still in historic times, it receded as much as a mile in thirty years.
		The cornfields of Babylonia were mostly in the south, where Larsa, Lagash, Erech, and Calneh were the centres of an opulent agricultural population.
		In North Babylonia we have again, southernmost, the city of Kish, probably the Biblical Cush (Genesis 10:8); its ruins are under the present mound El-Ohemir, eight miles east of Hilla.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/02179b.htm (9466 words)

	Babylonia
		Babylonia, named for its capital city, Babylon, was an ancient state in the south part of Mesopotamia (in modern Iraq), combining the territories of Sumer and Akkad.
		The invasion of Babylonia by Cyrus was doubtless facilitated by the existence of a disaffected party in the state, as well as by the presence of foreign exiles like the Jews, who had been planted in the midst of the country.
		Astronomy was of old standing in Babylonia, and the standard work on the subject, written from an astrological point of view, later translated into Greek by Berossus, was believed to date from the age of Sargon of Akkad.
	www.link-ex.net /wiki_en/?title=Babylonia (2584 words)

	Geography of Babylonia and Assyria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The name Assyria itself was derived from that of the city of Assur or Asur, now Qal'at Sherqat (Kaleh Shergat), on the right bank of the Tigris, midway between the Greater and the Lesser Zab.
		The alluvial plain of Babylonia was called Edin, though the name was properly restricted to "the plain" on the western bank of the river where the Bedouins pastured the flocks of their Babylonian masters.
		After the Kassite conquest of the country, northern Babylonia came to be known as Kar-Duniyash, "the wall of the god Duniyask," from a line of forts similar to that built by Nebuchadrezzar between Sippara and Opis, to defend his kingdom from attacks from the north.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Geography_of_Babylonia_and_Assyria (1498 words)

	Assyria
		Assyria (ancient Ashur, Ashshur, or Assur), ancient country of Asia, extending from about the northern border of present-day Iraq south to the mouth of the Little Zab River, in the northern part of Iraq.
		To the east of Assyria lay the Zagros Mountains; to the north, terrace upon terrace led up to the Armenian Massif; the Mesopotamian plain stretched to the west.
		The best-known cities of Assyria, all situated in the territory of present-day Iraq, were Ashur, now Ash Sharqâþ; Nineveh, now the excavated mound Kuyunjik; Calah, now Nimrud; and Dur Sharrukin, now Khorsabad.
	members.tripod.com /Al_3irakia/assyria.htm (188 words)

	Geography
		Assyria was a major empire in Mesopotamia that impacted the history of Israel and Judah particularly during the 8th and 7th centuries BCE.
		Babylonia succeeded Assyria as the dominant empire in the Near East during the Old Testament period.
		Because many of the political and religious leaders were taken into Babylonia where, as exiles, they sought to preserve their traditions, the Old Testament was significantly impacted by the culture and literature of ancient Babylonia.
	faculty.maryvillecollege.edu /cowan/geography.htm (2063 words)

	Mesopotamia - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		When Assyria grew into an empire, it was divided into smaller parts, called provinces.
		It was later called Babylonia, which meant "the gateway of the gods." It also became one of history's greatest centers of learning.
		The region then came under the rule of the Persian Achaemenid Empire, apparently as two satrapies, Babylonia in the south and Athura (from Assyria) in the north.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Mesopotamia (4424 words)

	History of Assyrians
		Assyria is located in north Mesopotamia and spans four countries: In Syria it extends west to the Euphrates river; in Turkey it extends north to Harran, Edessa, Diyarbakir, and Lake Van; in Iran it extends east to Lake Urmi, and in Iraq it extends to about 100 miles south of Kirkuk.
		To the north and east of Assyria lie the Taurus and Zagros mountains.
		This is from where Assyria derived her strength, as it could feed a large population of professionals and craftsman, which allowed it to expand and advance the art of civilization.
	www.aina.org /aol/peter/brief.htm (2747 words)

	The Historical Geography of Mesopotamia
		Babylonia and Assyria lay within a stretch of more or less fertile soil which, next to the huge arid subcontinent of Arabia.
		The geography of this area certainly played a central role in the importance and influence of these lands.
		Geography has had a heavy hand in the culture and history of Mesopotamia, as it does in all areas of the world.
	ejw.i8.com /geog/99/meso.htm (2174 words)

	International Politics and the Ancient Israelite State
		They were semi-nomads, or donkey nomads, despised by the residents of Babylonia because of their primitive ways but feared because of their fierce fighting qualities.
		The northern kingdom of Urartu had expanded into Assyria’s northern regions and eventually controlled all Assyrian territory north of the Assyrian heartlands, from Iran in the east to N. Syria and the Mediterranean in the west.
		Assyria gets the support of its erstwhile Egyptian vassals (613), but the Babylonians and Medes are not to be beatn.
	www.ucalgary.ca /~eslinger/genrels/ANEEmpires.html (2877 words)

	Mesopotamia - WCD (Wiki Classical Dictionary) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Assyria: encompasses the hilly country east of the Tigris, intersected by the rivers Little Zab and Great Zab.
		West of the Euphrates, we find Eridu and Ur; between the rivers Larsa, Uruk, Umma, Isin, Nippur, Kish, Babylon, and Sippar; east of the ancient course of the Tigris are Lagash (Lagaš) and Girsu.
		As Herodotus writes, "So great is the fertility of the grain fields that they normally produce crops of two-hundredfold, and in an exceptional year as much as three-hundredfold." This is exaggerated, but the real fifteen-fold yields were indeed extremely high.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /wcd/Mesopotamia (581 words)

	Myths of Babylon and Assyria: Chapter XI. The Golden Age of Babylonia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		It was probably during one of the intervals of this stormy period that the rival kings in Babylonia joined forces against a common enemy and invaded the Western Land.
		In Assyria he restored the colossus of Ashur, which had evidently been carried away by a conqueror, and he developed the canal system of Nineveh.
		So great was the political upheaval caused by Rim-Sin and his allies and imitators in southern Babylonia, that it was not until the seventeenth year of his reign that Samsu-iluna had recaptured Erech and Ur and restored their walls.
	www.earth-history.com /Babylon/myths/mba17.htm (5054 words)

	Assyria - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
		The origin of the city (now Kala'at Shergat), which was built on the western bank of the Tigris between the Upper and Lower Zab, went back to pre-Sem times, and the meaning of the name was forgotten (see Genesis 2:14, where the Hiddekel or Tigris is said to flow on the eastern side of Asshur).
		About 2500 BC the country was occupied by Babylonian Semites, who brought with them the religion, law, customs, script and Semitic language of Babylonia (Genesis 10:11,12, where we should read "He went forth to Asshur"; see Micah 5:6).
		At the same time the land of Naphtali was annexed to Assyria, and Yahu- khazi (Ahaz) of Judah became an Assyrian vassal, while in 731 BC, after the murder of Pekah, Hoshea was appointed king of Israel (compare 2 Kings 15-17).
	www.searchgodsword.org /enc/isb/view.cgi?number=T898 (4888 words)

	All about Babylonia
		Its population was deported to Babylonia: the beginning of the Babylonian Exile of the Jews.
		Babylon was the capital of Babylonia, the alluvial plain between the Euphrates and Tigris.
		The king of Assyria and his army encamped against the army of the king of Babylonia, which was stationed in Takrit, and did battle against them for ten days.
	www.skygodproject.net /history/all_about_babylonia.htm (19638 words)

	Hanging Gardens Of Babylonia at Gardening7
		Geography of Babylonia and Assyria; H. Hammurabi; Hanging Gardens of Babylon; K. Kadashman-Enlil I; Kudurru; Kurigalzu
		Flowers were raised for their beauty alone in ancient China, Egypt, Sumer, Babylonia, and Assyria.
		Babylonia was the first of the great kingdoms of Western Asia and...
	www.gardening-plus.info /gardening7/hanging-gardens-of-babylonia.php (228 words)

	Assyria
		To protect its land and water-access, city-states surrounded its territory with pillars and walls (keep in mind the geography of Mesopotamia – flat land, with no natural boundaries).
		In time, the Babylonia Empire was conquered by….
		Assyria was a region of hills between the Tigris River and the Zagros Mountains in northern Mesopotamia.
	www.bow.k12.nh.us /draynard/assyria.htm (947 words)

	The Geography of Mesopotamia \| Special Topics Page \| Timeline of Art History \| The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Assyria, 1365–609 B.C. Early Dynastic Sculpture, 2900–2350 B.C. Geography of Anatolia and the Caucasus
		In antiquity, the world's earliest urban centers develop in Sumer and Akkad, or Babylonia to the south, and later in Assyria to the north.
		Geography of Anatolia and the Caucasus, Geography of Iran, Geography of the Arabian Peninsula, Geography of The Eastern Mediterranean, The Phoenicians (ca.
	www.metmuseum.org /toah/hd/m_wam/hd_m_wam.htm (315 words)

	Geography of Phoenicia Canaan
		For much of the 8th and 7th centuries the town was subject to Assyria, and in 585-573 it successfully withstood a prolonged siege by the Babylonian king Nebuchadrezzar II.
		One of the ancient Phoenician cities on the Mediterranean coast, was founded in the 3rd millennium BC and became prosperous in the 2nd.
		It is frequently mentioned in the works of the Greek poet Homer and in the Old Testament; and it was ruled in turn by Assyria, Babylonia, Persia, Alexander the Great, the Seleucids of Syria, the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt, and the Romans.
	phoenicia.org /geog.html (2120 words)

	Babylonian Tablets
		Babylonians were interested in geography because of their exports of beer and other agricultural surpluses.
		Even before the silk road was built, Babylonia during the Kassite dynasty (1595-1157 BC) imported cobalt for coloring glasses from China (Donald McKenzie, Myths of Babylonia and Assyria, 1915).
		He conquered Assyria and liberated Jews to return to their homeland in 538 BC.
	www.econ.iastate.edu /classes/econ355/choi/bab.htm (744 words)

	The Assyrian identity and the nomenclature
		They were the savants, the magians of Babylonia, astrologers and diviners.
		Consequently when the region came back into the focus of history under the Parthians, it was with an Assyrian, not a Persian let alone Greek, self-identification: the temple of Ashur was restored, the city was rebuilt, and an Assyrian successor state returned in the shape of the client kingdom of Adiabene….
		Consequently, after a detour via Judaism, the Assyrians adopted Christianity and found their heresy in Nestorianism… (And she continues) Hence where Coptic chauvinism was ethnic and linguistic, that of Assyria turned on the memory of a glorious past.
	www.nineveh.com /TheAssyrianidentityandthenomenclature.html (3381 words)

	A History of Babylonia and Assyria--Volume I
		The progress of Assyriology in the past twenty years has been so rapid that every book on the history of Babylonia and Assyria published prior to 1880 is hopelessly antiquated, and many issued much later would need extensive revision.
		The first clue which led to the rediscovery of the ancient language of Babylonia and of Assyria was not found in either of these two lands.
		The story of its finding is worth the telling, not only because it is necessary to any just appreciation of our present knowledge of Assyria and Babylonia, but because it has its own interest, and is instructive as a history of the progress of knowledge.
	www.aina.org /books/ahba/ahba1.htm (19400 words)

	History of Egypt Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, by G. Maspero, Part 3a.
		He had the whole body of a fish, but above his fish's head he had another head which was that of a man, and human feet emerged from beneath his fish's tail; he had a human voice, and his image is preserved to this day.
		Like the Egyptian civilization, it had had its birth between the sea and the dry land on a low, marshy, alluvial soil, flooded annually by the rivers which traverse it, devastated at long intervals by tidal waves of extraordinary violence.
		It was not that the documents were entirely wanting, for the Chaldæans took a great interest in their past history, and made a diligent search for any memorials of it.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/books/gutenberg/1/7/3/2/17323/17323-h/v3a.htm (13886 words)

	Amazon.com: Geography, I, Books 1-2 (Loeb Classical Library®): Books: Strabo,Horace L. Jones (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
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		In outline he follows the great mathematical geographer Eratosthenes, but adds general descriptions of separate countries including physical, political, and historical details.
		A sequel to his historical memoirs, Geography is planned apparently for public servants rather than students—hence the accounts of physical features and of natural products.
	www.amazon.com /Geography-Books-Loeb-Classical-Library/dp/0674990552 (1146 words)

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