6 résultats pour "babylonia"
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Babylonia - USA History.
Pharmacology, too, doubtless had made considerable progress, although the only major direct evidence of this comes from a Sumerian tablet written several centuriesbefore Hammurabi. C Legal System and Writing Law and justice were key concepts in the Babylonian way of life. Justice was administered by the courts, each of which consisted of from one to four judges. Often theelders of a town constituted a tribunal. The judges could not reverse their decisions for any reason, but appeals from their...
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Babylonia - history.
Below the house was often located a mausoleum in which the family dead were buried. The Babylonians believed that the souls of the dead traveled to the nether world,and that, at least to some extent, life continued there as on earth. For this reason, pots, tools, weapons, and jewels were buried with the dead. B Technology The Babylonians inherited the technical achievements of the Sumerians in irrigation and agriculture. Maintaining the system of canals, dikes, weirs, and reservoirsconstructed...
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Assyria - USA History.
villages and cities were ransacked and razed, but no attempt was made to annex their territories. In the course of time this pattern of conquest changed, and the Assyrian rulers began to make Assyria the center of a new empire by incorporating the conquered landsinto their domain, although probably not according to a conscious plan. Toward the end of the 10th century BC, for example, Adad-nirari II annexed the Aramaean state centering on Nisibis, east of the Habur River. His son, Tukulti-Ninurt...
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Judaism.
is learned or memorized”), the earliest document of rabbinic literature, edited in Palestine at the turn of the 3rd century. Subsequent rabbinic study of the Mishnah inPalestine and Babylonia generated two Talmuds (“that which is studied”; also called Gemera, an Aramaic term with the same meaning; see Talmud), wide-ranging commentaries on the Mishnah. The Babylonian Talmud, edited about the 6th century, became the foundation document of rabbinic Judaism. Early rabbinic writings also include exe...
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Oper: Nabucco - Texte.
Am Ufer des Euphrat. Die gefangenen Juden beweinen ihr unglückliches Schicksal und erinnern sich ihrer Heimat. Zacharias macht ihnen Vorwürfe wegen ihrer Mutlosigkeit und fordertsie auf, den Glauben an eine Wende nicht zu verlieren. Die Ketten der Sklaverei werden fallen, der Löwe von Judea wird die Babylonier überwältigen. Vierter Teil Erstes Bild Eine Wohnung im Königspalast. Nabucco erwacht aus tiefem Schlaf. In seiner Vorstellung führt er wie einst seine Truppen gegen Jerusalem. Als er drauß...
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Assyrien - Geschichte.
anlegten, gingen diese Gebiete regelmäßig verloren, wenn der gewaltsame Zugriff sich lockerte. Thron- und Nachfolgestreitigkeiten schwächten immer wieder die Macht derZentralregierung. 6 DAS NEUASSYRISCHE REICH (883-612 V. CHR.) Assurnasirpal II., der Sohn von Tukulti-ninurta II., der von 884 bis 859 v. Chr. herrschte, erweiterte den assyrischen Machtbereich im Norden und Osten. Mit grausamenFeldzügen verwüstete er die Länder, die an sein Reich grenzten. Anstelle der alten Hauptstadt Assur wurd...