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Babylon - Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization (Paperback, Main)
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Babylon - Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization (Paperback, Main)
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Loot Price R359
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In Babylon, Paul Kriwaczek tells the story of ancient Mesopotamia
from the earliest settlements around 5400 BC, to the eclipse of
Babylon by the Persians in the sixth century BC. He chronicles the
rise and fall of dynastic power during this period; he examines its
numerous material, social and cultural innovations and inventions:
The wheel, civil, engineering, building bricks, the centralized
state, the division of labour, organised religion, sculpture,
education, mathematics, law and monumental building. At the heart
of Kriwaczek's magisterial account, though, is the glory of Babylon
- 'gateway to the gods' - which rose to glorious prominence under
the Amorite king Hammurabi, who unified Babylonia between 1800 and
1750 BC. While Babylonian power would rise and fall over the
ensuing centuries, it retained its importance as a cultural,
religious and political centre until its fall to Cyrus the Great of
Persia in 539 BC.
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