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Life in Ancient Mesopotamia
Author: Shilpa Mehta-Jones
language: en
Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company
Release Date: 2005
In between the fertile banks of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, in what was called the cradle of civilization, the first known civilization on earth evolved. Life in Ancient Mesopotamia describes the lives of ancient Sumerians, Babylonians, and Assyrians, and explores the gifts they brought to the world, including the wheel, plow, and sailboat. Great lawmakers such as Hammurabi, the architectural beauty of ziggurats and the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, along with the invention of cuneiform writing are also featured.
A Tale of Two Plantations
Author: Richard S. Dunn
language: en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date: 2014-11-04
Richard Dunn reconstructs the lives of three generations of slaves on a sugar estate in Jamaica and a plantation in Virginia, to understand the starkly different forms slavery took. Deadly work regimens and rampant disease among Jamaican slaves contrast with population expansion in Virginia leading to the selling of slaves and breakup of families.
Women's Writing of Ancient Mesopotamia
Author: Charles Halton
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2018
This anthology translates and discusses texts authored by women of ancient Mesopotamia.