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  Chapter four of one thousand one Questions and Answers on General History. This is
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  a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more
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  information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. One thousand and one
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  Questions and Answers on General History by Benjamin Hathaway. Babylonia. One Where was
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  the Babylonian Empire in southwestern Asia along the Euphrates and Tigers Rivers? Two?
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  By what name is it known at present? The province of Baghdad? Three?
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  What other names have been given to the same territory? The plains of
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  Shinar Genesis ten, ten, the plain of the Sea, et cetera.
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  Four? What is the source of the richness of the soil the overflow of
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  the Euphrates and Tigris. Five What is said of their alluvial deposit? It
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  was marvelously fertile in it wheat grew so ranked at people mowed it twice to
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  make it ere. The field was from fifty to a hundredfold. Six.
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  What is the Euphrates sometimes called the Nile of Babylon? Seven? What was
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  another name for Babylonia Chaldea? Eight? What is known of the antiquity of
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  Chaldea. Recent archaeological discoveries point to the remote date of three thousand, eight
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  hundred b C for a king Sargon the First, who built palaces and temples
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  and found it libraries. Nine What is known of the history of Chaldea.
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  The people were conquered by their northern neighbors, the Assyrians, in the thirteenth
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  century b C, and they remained in servitude for several hundred years. Ten
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  What was the capital of Assyria? Nineveh? Eleven What was the chief city
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  of the empire Babylon? Twelve When did the Chaldeans become masters of Babylon?
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  They captured Nineveh and six O six b C. And Babylon, after the
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  ruin of its rival, again became the capital of the East. Thirteen Who
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  were the Chaldeans? They were the highest caste in Babylonia. Fourteen What were
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  their national powers? They decided politics, commanded the armies, and held the
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  chief offices. Fifteen What may be said of the education of the Chaldeans.
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  They were highly educated. Astronomical calculations taken by them as far back as two
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  thousand b C were found to be correct. They were also astrologists. They
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  interpreted dreams and omens, gave instruction in the arts of magic, and conducted
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  pompous religious ceremonies. Sixteen When did they lose their power when Babylon was destroyed
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  by Cyrus five hundred and thirty eight b c. Seventeen What was the location
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  of Babylon on the river Euphrates, three hundred miles from its junction with the
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  Tigris eighteen What is the modern name the city Hilla, which was built out
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  of its ruins and near the ancient site of Babylon in the year eleven o
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  one nineteen? What was used for building material in the empire brick made of
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  the native clay twenty What was the Meetian Wall, a great wall built of
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  brick on the northern boundary of the empire from the Euphrates to the Tigris Twenty
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  one. What may be said of the canals? The country was an entire
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  network of canals used to convey the water to the already rich fields and gardens.
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  Twenty two. What are these canals called in biblical literature the rivers of
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  Babylon where the captive Jews hung their harps and the willows along their banks and
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  wept over the desolation of Zion Twenty three. What was the size of the
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  city fifteen miles square? It was larger than any modern city of the world.
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  Twenty four. What was the most important building of Babylon The Palace of
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  nubukad Neza twenty five? When was it built? Six hundred years b c.
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  Twenty six? What was the size of the palace six miles in circumference?
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  Twenty seven? What great structure was considered a wonder of the world?
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  The Hanging gardens twenty eight? Why were they built for the gratification of the
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  queen who longed for mountain scenery? Twenty nine? How were they built?
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  An artificial mountain was made four hundred feet high and terraced on all sides.
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  These terraces were sustained by piers, the whole being bound together by a wall
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  of twenty two feet thick. Thirty What were planted on these terraces large trees
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  and flowers? Thirty one How were the plants watered? Water was drawn by
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  machinery from the river Euphrates thirty two. Who was the queen for whom all
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  this was built? Ametis, the queen of Nebukanetsa Thirty three. Did Nebukantzar
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  extend his territory he did, from Persia on the east to Egypt on the
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  west thirty four. What captivity occurred in his reign? The captivity of the
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  Jews thirty five. Who was the last king of Babylon Belshazzar thirty six.
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  How is Belshazzar's reign brought to a close by the invasion of Cyrus and the
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  destruction of the city five thirty eight b C. Thirty seven What country governed
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  the Babylonian Empire subsequent to the year five thirty eight b C. It passed
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  into the control of the Medo Persian Empire thirty eight. What was the writing
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  of the Chaldeans wedge shaped characters? Thirty nine? What are they called Cuneiform
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  letters from Cuneus a wedge forty upon? What were they made played tablets?
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  As there was no stone in Chaldea forty one? How many characters have been
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  deciphered three hundred now large numbers still remain unknown forty two. Describe a Babylonian
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  book. It consisted of several flat, square clay tablets written on both sides
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  and piled one upon another in order. Forty three what is said of the
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  Chaldean account of the Creation and the Deluge? They are like the narrative in
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  Genesis, though written hundreds of years before Moses was born. Forty four.
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  How did the early Chaldeans bury their dead in large clay jars or in dish
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  covered tombs? Forty five What is told of some of the industries of Babylonia.
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  Their carpets were celebrated throughout the ancient world, and the elaborate designs of
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  their embroideries served as models for the earliest Grecian urns. End of Chapter four.