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- Esther (5002 bytes)
2: ...505;ְתֵּר''', [[Standard Hebrew]] '''Ester''', [[Tiberian Hebrew]] '''&#...
5: ...age|Persian]] word ''satarah'' meaning [[star]] — the myrtle blossom resembles a twinkling star.
12: Esther was the daughter of Abihail, a [[Benjamin|Benjamite]]. She r...
14: ...rful deliverance. According to traditional Jewish dating this took place about fifty-two years after t...
16: ... and caution, combined with resolution; a dutiful daughter to her adopted father, docile and obedient ... - Ziggurat (6043 bytes)
1: ...viving ziggurat]], however, is in [[Kashan]] Iran dating back to the 5th millenia BC. Ziggurat designs...
7: ...arduk_ziggurat.jpg|frame|center|Reconstruction of Marduk Ziggurat, Babylon]]
9: ...ple of an extensive and massive ziggurat is the [[Marduk]] ziggurat, or [[Etemenanki]], of ancient [[Babyl...
11: ...[[Sumerian language|Sumerian]] and means "The Foundation of Heaven and Earth." Most likely being buil...
13: [[Image:Marduk02.jpg|frame|center|Marduk Ziggurat, Babylon]] - Babylonia (8254 bytes)
2: ... in a tablet of the reign of [[Sargon of Akkad]], dating back to the [[23rd century BC]].
5: ...eir sixth ruler, [[Hammurabi]] ([[1780 BC|1780]]–[[1750 BC]]). He was a highly efficient ruler, ...
7: ...Kingdom of Mari. But Mesopotamia had no clear boundaries, making it vulnerable to attack. Trade and cu...
15: ...gainst his suzerain [[Astyages]], "king of the Manda" or Medes, at Ecbatana. Astyages' army betrayed h...
17: ...dus died. A public mourning followed, lasting six days, and Cambyses accompanied the corpse to the tom... - Babylon (9716 bytes)
4: ...0 [[Mile|mi]]/110 [[Kilometre|km]] south of [[Baghdad]]). The name is the Greek form of ''[[Babel]],''...
8: The earliest mention of Babylon is in a dated tablet of the reign of [[Sargon of Akkad]] ([[...
10: ...aken over by [[Sennacherib]] and Assurbanipal (Kandalanu) again.
27: ...[[Robert Koldewey]] are thought to reveal its foundations, many historians disagree about the location...
31: ...my and mathematics. However, under the reign of [[Darius III]], Babylon began to stagnate. - Tower of Babel (13111 bytes)
15: The supposed one language is also known as the [[Adamic language]]. Along history, several authors hav...
25: ...esponding to the [[Etemenanki]] [[ziggurat]] to [[Marduk]] is thought to have inspired the story of the To...
27: ... founded it, I made it; as it had been in ancient days, I so exalted the summit.''
54: ...not be confirmed in any other literature found to date.
61: In [[Douglas Adams]]'s Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, a "... - Sargon II of Assyria (8855 bytes)
3: ... made a pact with the Chaldean [[Merodach-baladan|Marduk-apla-iddin]]. He freed all temples, as well as th...
4: ...argon was thus trying to gain support in Assyria, Marduk-apla-iddin conquered Babylon with the help of the...
6: ... which gained him control of Arpad, Simirra and [[Damascus]]. Sargon conquered [[Gaza]] in [[Palestine...
10: ...been completely annihilated, and the General Qaqqadanu taken prisoner.
12: ...ntelligence service, that unfortunately cannot be dated exactly, but are believed to have been compose... - Assyria (13688 bytes)
1: :''For the modern-day peoples in northern Iraq and neighboring areas, ...
15: ...[[1920 BC]] – [[1840 BC]] and [[1798 BC]] – [[1740 BC]]. These colonies, called '''''karum...
17: ...ade to continue. Only after the death of Shamshi-Adad and the fall of his sons, did [[Hammurabi]] of [...
19: ...power. Hanilgalbat was finally conquered under [[Adad-nirari I]], who described himself as a "Great-Ki...
21: ... reigns of the Babylonian kings Melishipak II and Marduk-apal-iddin I, another weak period for Assyria.
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