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THE GREATNESS THAT WAS BABYLON

H. W. F. SAGGS

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Subtitle: A sketch of the ancient civiliztion of the Tigris-Ephrates valley, Hawthorn Books, N.Y., 1962, 562 pgs., index, chronology, map , illustrations, notes

 
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Introduction

 
 

Pat I: General and Political History

 

Chapter 1 Mesopotamia before 2000 B.C.

 
 

Chapter 2 Babylonia and Assyria, circa 2000 -1350 B.C.

 
 

Chapter 3 The Rise of Imperial Assyria

 
 

Chapter 4 Assyrian Supremacy

 

Chapter 5 Neo_Babylonian Empire

 
 

Part 2: Social and Cultural History

 

Chapter 6 The Foundations of Babylonian Society and the Babylonian way of Life

 

Chapter 7 Law and Statecraft

 

Chapter 8 Administration

 

Chapter 9 Trade and Economics

 

Chapter 10 Religion

 
 

Chapter 11 The King

 
 

Chapter 12 Literature

 
 

Chapter 13 Mathematics and Astrronomy: Medicine; Chemical Technology; Art

 
 

References

 
 

Amanda Podony - Brotherhood of Kings

 

Amanda Podony - Weavers, Scribes, and Kings

 

Amanda Podony -Mesopotamia

 

Karl Wittfogel - Oriental Despotism

 

Michael Roaf - Mesopotamia, and the Ancient Near East

 

Ebla - Wikipedia entry 

 

Sumer - Wikipedia entry

 

 

 

 

 

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