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Wisdom from the Late Bronze Age, by Y. Cohen [author] [PDF]
, 2013 This volume presents the original texts and annotated translations of a collection of Mesopotamian wisdom compositions and related texts of the Late Bronze Age (ca.
Cohen, Yoram
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The caliph and the falcons: a ninth‐century history from Iceland to Iraq
Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.In the late ninth and early tenth centuries, an extraordinary number of falcons were given to the ʿAbbāsid caliphs in Baghdad, many of which were white. Gifts from competing dynasties in the northern provinces of the Caliphate, at least some of these birds were almost certainly gyrfalcons from near the Arctic Circle.
Caitlin Ellis, Sam Ottewill‐Soulsby
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Tell Brak y Hamoukar: urbanismo en el norte de Mesopotamia en la primera mitad del IV milenio a.C.
Espacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie I, Prehistoria y Arqueología, 2015 Las excavaciones arqueológicas de los últimos años en la alta Mesopotamia han revelado la existencia de importantes centros urbanos que remontan sus orígenes al V milenio a.C. en el contexto de la cultura Ubaid.
Antonio Pérez Largacha
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Ancestral Irrigation and Women's Political Empowerment
Kyklos, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the adoption of irrigation agriculture during the preindustrial period is a predictor of contemporary cross‐country variation in women's political empowerment. Countries whose populations historically relied on irrigation agriculture as their primary subsistence mode tend to ...
Roberto Ezcurra
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Tyndale Bulletin, 2001 There are many studies exploring the idea of innocent suffering and the concept of theodicy as it occurs in the literature of ancient Mesopotamia and Israel, but this is not so much the case with ancient Egyptian literature.
Daniel P. Bricker
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Constructing a concept of number [PDF]
, 2018 Numbers are concepts whose content, structure, and organization are influenced by the material forms used to represent and manipulate them. Indeed, as argued here, it is the inclusion of multiple forms (distributed objects, fingers, single- and two ...
Overmann, Karenleigh
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Weighing Stones in Ancient Mesopotamia
Historia Mathematica, 2002 The article analyses the Old Babylonian text YBC 5652, a catalogue of problem statements (with appurtenant solutions but no description of the procedure) of the type: I found a stone; I did not weigh it I added/removed \(p\) I added/removed \(q\) (of the resulting weight); 1 mana (resulted), \(p\) and \(q\) being mostly aliquot parts, at times absolute
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Why Do Prosocial People Dislike Markets in Some Countries and Like Them in Others?
Kyklos, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Based on the doux commerce thesis, which suggests that people in market‐oriented societies hold stronger prosocial values than those in less market‐oriented ones, one can expect prosocial and pro‐market values to be positively associated. The fact that the association holds for cross‐country observations but does not universally hold for cross‐
Pál Czeglédi
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Punishments Connected with Person of Offender in Selected Countries of Ancient World
Journal on European History of Law, 2011 The article deals with sanctions directly connected with the person of offender in the established group of selected ancient states (Egypt, Mesopotamia, Hittite Empire).
Michaela Uhlířová
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Modeling Strategic Decisions in the Formation of the Early Neo-Assyrian Empire [PDF]
, 2015 Understanding patterns of conflict and pathways in which political history became established is critical to understanding how large states and empires ultimately develop and come to rule given regions and influence subsequent events.
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