
Episode 1: The Tower of Babel (Cuneiform)
Literature and History
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The History of Mesopotamia
The cuneaform tablets discovered in the 18 nineties were letters. Cuneiform had not only been the key ingredient of civilization's development, it had also been a tool that geographically dispersed civilizations used to make peace with one another and exchange knowledge across borders. Assyria was the youngest son of old sumer peoples of the ancient world knew the assyrians to beco mercially inventive, militarily dominant and exceptionally brutal with kingdoms who rebelled against them.
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