Assyrians and Chaldeans
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- Villages, towns, among others, answered to the Assyrian king, who held the whole power. The empire sometimes forced people that hated the Assyrian King to move from that place. In some time, however, the Assyrian Empire grew a lot, and their people became tired of being treated so badly. But, by about 626 B.C., the Assyrians were afected by many power struggles. This made possible for the Chaldeans, for a period of time, defeat them.
- The Chaldeans were seminomadic persons who were actually located in thesouthern Babylonia. After overthrowing the Assyrians in 612 B.C., the Chaldeans becamethe ruling power of Babylon and extended their rule over every part of Mesopotamia. Nebuchadne zzar II is the most known and famous Chaldean king. Underhis rule (43 years of ruling), the New Babylonian Empire included Mesopotamiaand all of the Fertile Crescent.
- Though he is recognized very cruel, Nebuchadnezzar made a lot of improvementsto Babylon by rebuilding it and making it more beautiful. From kilometers away,the Tower of Babel, inspired many people. Visitors entered the inner citythrough the colorful Ishtar Gate.
- The slender strip of coast by the Eastern Mediterranean (Lebanon) containedmany good things and resources. This combination was perfect for the start of buyingand selling or commerce. By 1000 B.C., independent city states emerged by thatarea. They shared similarities, including language and trading economy these were called the Phoenicians.
- Phoenicians, (purple dye people). The Phoenicians processed many shellfish intoa colored purple dye used to color dye. This dye was the most famous trade goodfor all of them. They exported wood from their highly wished trees to Egypt,Mesopotamia, among others. From many different lands, they got raw materials, orsubstances than other things are made of. Their artisans made these materialsinto luxury things for the trades.
- [ The Phoenicians had also the ability to build resistent and long ships. These ships carried enormous loads thousands and thousands of miles through the Atlantic ocean. Actually, they were one of the first mediterranean people to sail the Atlantic ocean! But despite al lof ther many latent, their wealthiness, and many more, their military people weye strangers, and a new empire beated them. Even though they lost the battle, they helped a lot spreading cultures from one place to another.
- The most relevant export of Phenicia has been your culture. To record business transactions, the Phoenicians used their own 22 letters alphabet, which has been adapted from the Sumerian cuneiform. Every sign of the Phoenician alphabet represented a noise. First the old The Greeks adopted the the Phoenician´s alphabet, later the old Romans modified it to conform the basis of our modern western alphabet.
- Exemplifying, the redacted term provided relevant advances with the development of Sumer pictography and cuneiform writing and later with the dissemination of the Phoenician alphabet.
- The advances developed in old Mesopotamia form the legacy of the territory, or things, both cultural and technological, that they left us from the past. The Mesopotamian cultural legacy touches our own lives every day.
- Mesopotamia also left us a legacy of ways of regime. The city-state unity that developed in Sumer, Babylon, and Phenicia has become a fundamental form of government on the ancient planet. Equally relevant have been the styles of regime that emerged. Hammurabi highlighted the value of the law. His Code of Laws influenced later legal systems. Cyrus the Great showed the power of tolerance tofuture leaders. In the end, the use of provinces, governors, and good communications is still substantial for modern governments.
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