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The Shang Dynasty (also called the Yin Dynasty) succeeded the Xia Dynasty, and was followed by the Zhou Dynasty. It was located in the Yellow River valley during the second millennium BCE. Citizens of the Shang Dynasty were classified into four social classes: the king and aristocracy, the military, artisans and craftsmen, and peasants.
Mazar, A. 2006c. Concluding Remarks. Pp. 323–30 in Timnah (Tel Batash) III: The Finds from the Second Millennium BCE, N. Panitz-Cohen, and A. Mazar. Jerusalem: Qedem 45, Monographs of the Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Mazar, A., and Panitz Cohen, N. 2001. Timnah (Tel Batash) II: The Finds from the First ...
The Second and Early First Millennium bce. Very few 2nd or early 1st millennium bce astronomical or astrological cuneiform tablets have been identified. Current knowledge of early Babylonian astronomy and astrology is, therefore, reliant on later copies of works which it is believed were composed during this period.
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Sternitzke, Katja. "Babylon in the Second Millennium BCE: New Insights on the Transitions from Old Babylonian to Kassite and Isin II Periods" In Babylonia under the Sealand and Kassite Dynasties edited by Susanne Paulus and Tim Clayden, 125-145. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2020.
Zooarchaeological and isotopic analyses have identified the movement of donkeys from Egypt to the Southern Levant during the third millennium BCE , and ancient DNA analysis has documented the transport of pigs from Italy to the southern Greek mainland and from the Aegean to the Southern Levant during the second millennium BCE .
In this volume, Alhena Gadotti and Alexandra Kleinerman investigate how Akkadian speakers learned Sumerian during the Old Babylonian period in areas outside major cities. Despite the fact that it was a dead language at the time, Sumerian was considered a crucial part of scribal training due to its cultural importance.
