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Re: What was the history of Mesopotamian?
Wed Jan 09, 2019 3:11 pm
so that links between Syrian and Palestinian scribal schools and Babylonian civilization during the Amarna period
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Re: What was the history of Mesopotamian?
Wed Jan 09, 2019 3:11 pm
(14th century BCE) may have had much older predecessors.
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Re: What was the history of Mesopotamian?
Wed Jan 09, 2019 3:11 pm
At any rate, the similarity of certain themes in cuneiform literature
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Re: What was the history of Mesopotamian?
Wed Jan 09, 2019 3:12 pm
and the Hebrew Bible, such as the story of the Flood or the motif of the righteous sufferer
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Re: What was the history of Mesopotamian?
Wed Jan 09, 2019 3:12 pm
is due to such early contacts and not to direct borrowing.
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Re: What was the history of Mesopotamian?
Wed Jan 09, 2019 3:12 pm
The world of mathematics and astronomy owes much to the Babylonians
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Re: What was the history of Mesopotamian?
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for instance, the sexagesimal system for the calculation of time and angles,
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Re: What was the history of Mesopotamian?
Wed Jan 09, 2019 3:12 pm
which is still practical because of the multiple divisibility of the number 60;
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