Mineral Resources

Pastoral Activities

External Trade

Travel

Aftermath of Combat

Bibliographies in Sources

Borrowing and Lending

Mercantile Business

Individual Enterprise

Priesthood

Personal Names

Household

Nuclear Family

Extended Families

Kinship Terminology

Chief Executive

Spirits and Gods

Organized Ceremonial

Ordering of Time

Inheritance

Gender Status

Celibacy

Adoption

Litigation

Real Property

Changes in Property Rights

Labor Relations

Taxation and Public Income

Mode of Marriage

Arranging a Marriage

Nuptials

Termination of Marriage

Polygamy

Sanctions

Judicial Authority

Legal and Judicial Personnel

Trial Procedure

Slavery

Infant Feeding

Infant Care

Child Care

Theory of Disease

Magical and Mental Therapy

Medical Personnel

Magicians and Diviners

Identification

External Migration

History

Settlement Patterns

Territorial Hierarchy

Form and Rules of Government

External Relations

Location

Topography and Geology

Writing

Rules of Descent

Beverage Industries

Drinking Establishments

Division of Labor by Gender

Multi-Ethnic Community Relations

Classes

Community Councils

Cities

Executive Household

Administrative Agencies

Population

Composition of Population

Reviews and Critiques

Occupational Specialization

Speech

Linguistic Identification

Special Languages

Peacemaking

Mnemonic Devices

Ornament

Public Structures

Religious and Educational Structures

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Visual Arts

Domesticated Animals

Tillage

Alcoholic Beverages

Medium of Exchange

Miscellaneous Facilities

Towns

Sorcery

Revelation and Divination

Magic

Burial Practices and Funerals

Eschatology

Residence

Material Not Relevant

Sacred Objects and Places

CULTURE SUMMARY: BABYLONIANS

ETHNONYMS

ORIENTATION

HISTORY AND CULTURAL RELATIONS

SETTLEMENTS

ECONOMY

KINSHIP

MARRIAGE AND FAMILY

SOCIOPOLITICAL ORGANIZATION

RELIGION AND EXPRESSIVE CULTURE

CREDITS

IDENTIFICATION AND LOCATION

DEMOGRAPHY

LINGUISTIC AFFILIATION

SUBSISTENCE

COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES

INDUSTRIAL ARTS

TRADE

DIVISION OF LABOR

LAND TENURE

KIN GROUPS AND DESCENT

KINSHIP TERMINOLOGY

MARRIAGE

DOMESTIC UNIT

INHERITANCE

SOCIALIZATION

SOCIAL ORGANIZATION

POLITICAL ORGANIZATION

SOCIAL CONTROL

CONFLICT

RELIGIOUS BELIEFS

RELIGIOUS PRACTITIONERS

CEREMONIES

ARTS

MEDICINE

DEATH AND AFTERLIFE

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Babylon was a major political and cultural center in the Near East during the early second and late first millenniums BCE, an heir to the Sumerian and Akkadian empires, and competitor with the Assyrian empire. Although politically unified, Babylonia was a dynamically multicultural, multiethnic, and multilingual population, with successive emigrant populations and dynastic Aramaic-speaking elites, who adopted the formal cuneiform writings of Sumer and Akkad. Agriculture, animal husbandry, and fishing were the bases of subsistence. Temple and palace institutions maintained large land holdings and a dependent labor force, controlling a fundamentally redistributive economy. A parallel entrepreneurial economy operated throughout the ancient Near East and into the Indus Valley. City gods and cults, along with grand myths and associated rituals, made up a rich religious tradition.

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