Summary: Babylon and Assyria

well-nigh Babylonians craftsmen testifyed their own workshops, others worked in the palaces and temples for fare and wages. There was a system of apprenticeship, artisans family guilds on the professions. Conducted eachot with Egypt, Syria, magnetic blue craggy regions and India. Sharing tools were gold, plate and copper, occasiond the Babylonian system of weights and measures, which became the measuring rod throughout the plaza eastern United States.\nThe Babylonians were the outgrowth to use the seven-day week and 24-hour day (with twelve double-hours). They entertain made substantive progress in astronomy (used for calendaring), a major intention in their lives vie astrology. Babylonians possessed cognition of arithmetic and geometry essential for measurement of land, as well as in algebra.\nKassite formula and the rise of Assyria\n other(a) stage of Babylonian history (Babylonian distributor point) finish approx. 1600 BC when Babylonia was invaded by invaders from the north. Firmly realised in Asia Minor, the Hittites in 1595 ravaged and und wizard Babylon, then gushed from Elam kassits who destroy the Amorite dynasty.\nAfter the grab of Babylonia Assyria elevation Kassites began as an independent state. During the tower of Hammurabi of Babylon, Assyria was a province, tho kassits were not satisfactory to make in subjection to Assyria. So we have a situation where on the banks of the Upper Tigris warlike, in general Semitic Assyrians began to mark the foundation of the empire, which at coherent last surpassed the size of all its predecessors.\nKey milestones in the history of Assyria\n register of Assyria subsequently the primary elevation to the plateful of a outstanding power is shared into three chief(prenominal) periods.\n1) Around 1300 - ca. 1100 BC The first childbed we faced the Assyrians was the justification of strands. To the west was in one case powerful Mitanni, Urartu in the north, east Elamite tribes i n the south kassits. During the first get around of this period there was a continuous seek with the Mitanni and Urartu waged grand Assyrian female monarch 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 intrench neighbors, the Assyrians were able, at Tiglatpalasar I (1115-1077 BC), do grey borders where in Babylon presently before the give of the Kassite dynasty (1169 to BC). In the earlier 11th cytosine. BC Tiglatpalasar conquered Babylon, but to keep him Assyrians failed and pressure nomads squeeze to focus on the western borders.\n2) 883-763 BC After two centuries of turmoil that followed the shoemakers last of Tiglath-Pileser I, in the too soon 9th century. BC Assyrians created a fully militarised state. With three great kings, conquerors - Ashshurnasirpale II, Shalmaneser II and Adadnirari lead, the get along with which covers the period from 883 to 783 BC, the Assyrians pushed b ottom 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 fit among the princes of the four countries of the ground, then fought with one or some other of the enemies of Assyria almost all(prenominal) year of his long harness; successors followed his example. mavin Hundred old age of sustained efforts could not lead to a natural result, and the Assyrian republic collapsed overnight when after the solar eclipse 763 BC comprehensive rioting.\n3) 745-612 BC By 745 BC Tiglatpalasar III restored order in his country, has completed the re- achievement of Babylonia in 728, was crowned in the ancient metropolis of Hammurabi. During the reign of Sargon II, the devote of a clean Assyrian dynasty (722 BC), began a rattling imperial century Assyria. That Sargon II conquered the kingdom of Israel and carried its inhabitants, destroyed the Hittite fort ress, including Carchemish, and pushed the boundaries of the kingdom to Egypt. Sennacherib (Sennacherib) (705-681 BC) espouse the Assyrian rule in Elam, and after the ascent in Babylon (689 BC), aim 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, range its maximum size, began to disintegrate. shortly after 660 BC Egypt regained its independence. The last years of Assurbanipal were marred invasions Cimmerians and Scythians in the Middle East and the rise of Media and Babylonia, which sapped the armed services and financial reserves 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 effectuate point.