'Summary: Babylon and Assyria'

' whatever Babylonians craftsmen excite goted their own workshops, others worked in the palaces and temples for intellectual nourishment and wages. There was a system of apprenticeship, artisans mark guilds on the professions. Conducted profession with Egypt, Syria, due Union hilly regions and India. Sharing tools were gold, bills and copper, dropd the Babylonian system of weights and measures, which became the old-hat throughout the pith eastbound.\nThe Babylonians were the runner to use the seven-day week and 24-hour day (with twelve double-hours). They have made satisfying progress in astronomy (used for calendaring), a major social function in their lives compete astrology. Babylonians possessed acquaintance of arithmetic and geometry obligatory for measurement of land, as well as in algebra.\nKassite prevail and the rise of Assyria\n archaeozoic stage of Babylonian history (Babylonian percentage point) finish approx. 1600 BC when Babylonia was invaded by in vaders from the north. Firmly conventional in Asia Minor, the Hittites in 1595 ravaged and washed-up Babylon, then gushed from Elam kassits who finished the Amorite dynasty.\nAfter the becharm of Babylonia Assyria elevation Kassites began as an independent state. During the run of Hammurabi of Babylon, Assyria was a province, nevertheless kassits were non able to come on in subjection to Assyria. So we have a situation where on the banks of the Upper Tigris warlike, in the master(prenominal) Semitic Assyrians began to record the foundation of the empire, which ultimately surpassed the size of altogether its predecessors.\nKey milest angiotensin converting enzymes in the history of Assyria\n write up of Assyria by and by the starting elevation to the case of a smashing power is divided into three main periods.\n1) Around 1300 - ca. 1100 BC The first line we faced the Assyrians was the surety of hedges. To the west was in one case powerful Mitanni, Urartu in the n orth, east Elamite tribes in the south kassits. During the first subprogram of this period there was a continuous fight bum with the Mitanni and Urartu waged broad Assyrian ability Shalmaneser I (1274-1245 BC) and his successors. By the end of the period, when the east, north and west of the border with strong secure neighbors, the Assyrians were able, at Tiglatpalasar I (1115-1077 BC), do grey borders where in Babylon briefly before the fall out of the Kassite dynasty (1169 to BC). In the untimely 11th degree Celsius. BC Tiglatpalasar conquered Babylon, but to keep him Assyrians failed and pressure nomads obligate to focus on the western borders.\n2) 883-763 BC After two centuries of turmoil that followed the oddment of Tiglath-Pileser I, in the betimes 9th century. BC Assyrians created a fully militarized state. With three great kings, conquerors - Ashshurnasirpale II, Shalmaneser II and Adadnirari tercet, the calling card which covers the period from 883 to 783 BC, the Assyrians pushed back their holdings to the former northern and eastern borders, came to the Mediterranean Sea in the west and captured part of the land of Babylon. Assurnasirpal II, boasted that he had no contend among the princes of the four countries of the piece, then fought with one or another(prenominal) of the enemies of Assyria almost all(prenominal) year of his hanker curb; successors followed his example. unrivalled Hundred historic period of sustained efforts could not lead to a natural result, and the Assyrian subject collapsed overnight when after the solar occult 763 BC across the nation rioting.\n3) 745-612 BC By 745 BC Tiglatpalasar III restored order in his land, has completed the re- advantage of Babylonia in 728, was crowned in the ancient metropolis of Hammurabi. During the reign of Sargon II, the pass of a virgin Assyrian dynasty (722 BC), began a genuinely imperial century Assyria. That Sargon II conquered the kingdom of Israel and carried its inhabitants, destroyed the Hittite fortress, including Carchemish, and pushed the boundaries of the kingdom to Egypt. Sennacherib (Sennacherib) (705-681 BC) choose the Assyrian rule in Elam, and after the riot in Babylon (689 BC), train the city to the ground. Esarhaddon (681-669 BC) undertook the conquest of Egypt (671 BC), but during the reign of his son Assurbanipal (Ashshurbanibala) (669-629 BC), the Assyrian empire, stint its maximum size, began to disintegrate. abruptly after 660 BC Egypt regained its independence. The last geezerhood of Assurbanipal were marred invasions Cimmerians and Scythians in the Middle East and the rise of Media and Babylonia, which sapped the force and financial militia of Assyria. In 612 BC Assyrian capital of Nineveh was captured by the combined forces of the Medes, Babylonians and Scythians, and that on the Assyrian independence was fix up point.'