ASSYRIA

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ASSYRIA . The two

great

GREAT

empires, Assyria and Babylon, which grew up on the banks of the

Tigris

TIGRIS (Old Persian Tigrd, Diklat of the cuneiform inscriptions, Hiddekel of the Old Testament, Diglath of the
Targum
- TARGUM
, Digla of the
Arabs
- ARABS
)

and Euphrates, can be separated as little historically as geographically. From the beginning their history is closely intertwined; and the power of the one is a measure of the weakness of the other. This inter-dependence of Assyrian and Babylonian history was recognized by ancient writers, and has been confirmed by

modern

MODERN

discovery. But whereas Assyria takes the first place in the classical accounts to the exclusion of Babylonia, the decipherment of the

inscriptions

INSCRIPTIONS (from Lat. inscribere, to write upon)

has proved that the converse was really the case, and that, with the exception of some seven or eight centuries, Assyria might he described as a province or dependency of Babylon. Not only was Babylonia the

mother

MOTHER

country, as the tenth chapter of

Genesis

GENESIS
GENESIS (Gr. 'ybeo-es, becoming; the
term
- TERM
being used in
English
- ENGLISH
as a synonym for origin or process of coming into being)

explicitly states, but the religion and culture, the literature and the characters in which it was contained, the arts and the sciences of the Assyrians were derived from their southern neighbours. They were similar in race and language. (See BABYLONIA AND ASSYRIA.)

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