Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of CivilizationCivilization was born eight thousand years ago, between the floodplains of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, when migrants from the surrounding mountains and deserts began to create increasingly sophisticated urban societies. In the cities that they built, half of human history took place. |
Contents
Temple Rule Between c 4000 and 3000 | |
A Caesura in History | |
The CityStates c 3000 to 2300 | |
The Bronze Heroic Age c 2300 | |
The Dirigiste State c 2100 to 2000 | |
The Culmination c 1900 to 1600 | |
Colossus of the First Millennium c 1800 BCE | |
An End and a Beginning After 700 | |
Further Reading | |
Acknowledgements | |