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To: Daffynition; epluribus_2; Cronos

Neo-Sumerians? There were no Neo-Sumerians.

Perhaps you meant Neo-Babylonians, which marked the post-Assyrian revival of Babylon as a major capital. During the (so-called) Neo-Assyrian era, Babylon served as a secondary capital. Both groups used a Semitic language.

The term Neo-Assyrian has itself enjoyed a resurgence, but it is a meaningless term, really. Older survey works refer to Sargon the Great (founder of the Akkadian Empire), Sargon I (eventually dropped, as he turned out to be a modern invention) and Sargon II (now called Sargon, or sometimes Sargon II, now done to differentiate him from Sargon the Great). In the 1960s correspondence was found on a cuneiform tablet showing Hammurabi of Babylonia and King Shamshi-Adad I of Assyria to be contemporaries, and Sargon I just ceased to exist along with about three and a half centuries of phantom history.

As Cronos noted, the earlier Assyrian Empire is and has been referred to as the Akkadian Empire (after the capital city of that period) and overlapped the end of the Sumerian city-states. The Akkadians adopted Sumer’s cuneiform writing system and preserved some of its literature.


24 posted on 12/11/2021 7:16:41 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv; Cronos
Ur III

Not going to argue with you, my darling!


27 posted on 12/12/2021 10:21:17 AM PST by Daffynition (*This admin tells us *A* story; but they don't tell us *THE* story* & :) ~ D Bongino)
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