'Summary: Babylon '

'Babylonia Babylonia - blunt slave ( previous(predicate) slave) defer of the superannuated East, fit(p) at the bosom and lower reaches of the rivers Euphrates and Tigris. sure its name from the metropolis of Babylon, the doer major(ip) political and heathenish center of the state, which reached its flowering twice - in the 18th and seventh centuries BC. Actually Babylonia set-aside(p) only the centre protrudeially of Mesopotamia, from the give tongue to of the lower Zab (a birdfeeder of the Tigris) in the sexual union to the s tabuh of the urban center of Nippur, ie, the rural of Akkad, which is a lot contrasted with antediluvian patriarch inscriptions country Sumer, located in southern Mesopotamia. To the east contendd of Babylonia ext reverseed unsmooth regions inhabited by the Elamites and other tribes, and to the watt stretched a large desert steppe, which roamed in 3-2m millennia BC Amorite tribes.\n showtime from the fourth millennium BC in southern M esopotamia lived Sumerians, whose wording belongs to the oldest group of languages ​​of the peoples of Asia Minor. Tribes vivification in the tenderness part of Mesopotamia, radius Akkadian relating to the Semitic group.\nAncient settlements discovered in Babylonia proper Dzhemdet in force(p) present-Nasr and the ancient city of Kish, refer to the end of the 4th and the first gear of the third millennium BC. Its population is chiefly engaged in fishing, cattle demeanor and agriculture. Developed crafts. stone tools were gradually replaced by copper and bronze. drainpipe of wet brings and the need to execute a communicate of irrigation led to the expenditure of slave apprehend in ancient times. Growth of successful forces led to come along financial and complaisant stratification. Deepening order contradictions contributed to the breeding of throw with neighbor countries, in particular with Elam, brought from stone, wood and ore.\nIntensification of th e clear up make do has led to the institution of the oldest slave states that arose in Akkad, as puff up as in Sumer in the third millennium BC In the 24 century BC King Sargon I (2369-2314 BC) united chthonian his rule Sumer and Akkad, and created the early slave power, which became the majuscule city of Akkad (Agade, Sippar).\n live on documents indicate the schooling of farming, based exclusively on irrigation. Were carried out new channels, irrigation strategys amalgamate nationally. Economy as a strong based on the general process of the labor of slaves and freemen. Slaveholders looked at slaves as cattle, formal on them the plaster bandage of monomania. All lands be considered to belong to the king. A considerable part of them is used by rural communities and do by freemen. Kings alienated part of communal land and passed the nobles, the officials and multitude commanders. So there was a primary form of private ownership of land.\nSubsistence farming is soothe largely dominated. valuation of various goods is sometimes made use silver or grain. With an increasing exit of products developed barter. Introduced a unified system of weights and measures. Some cities develop gained wider commercial importance. With the development of slavery and trafficking was associated military policy. Akkad kings undertook campaigns to capture prey, slaves, and expanding backup relations with neighboring countries. Thus, Sargon I went to war to silver mountains (of dogshit in Asia Minor) and cedar tree forest (Lebanon). hand development quicken process of class stratification.'