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2) The greatness that was Babylon: a sketch of the ancient civilization of the Tigris-Euphrates Valley
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An accurate and detailed view of Babylonian history. Each aspect - economics, religion, politics, art, literature, social mores. Beginning with a basic cultural history of Mesopotamia before 2000 B.C.
4) Babylonians
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"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...