What is the difference between Babylonia and Sumeria? What are their similarities?
one difference is their languages. Babylonian is a semitic - based language while Sumerian is a linguistic isolate.
What is the difference between the Babylonians, Sumerians and the Persians?
Languages are a big deal. You can definitely look this up in Wikipedia. Sumerian is not classified as either Afro-Asiatic (like Babylonian) or Indo-European (like Persian). It is distinctive. The Sumerians are the very first people to put herding together with simple farming and relocate themselves to a likely place to build large settlements (the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates River, which also had great defensive possibilities). Their life prior to this move onto that rich alluvial soil was very interesting. They did this thousands of years before we have any clear records of either the Babylonians or the Persians (Parthians).
What are the differences between Sumerian and Persian civilizations in terms of their distinctive features and statecraft?
Sumerian vs Iranian(/Persian) Civilization:please pay attention there is not any civilization related to Sumerian today but Iranian civilization is alive yet!!the Sumerian and the iranian traders dealt togheter, The Sumerian side had Salt etc The Iranian trader had horses Semi-precious stones (there are tons of Flower Tablet, in fact these are Contract with Seal)Sumerians were not good warrior they had a agricultural life but iranian were warriors!and they used devices made by Stone but Iranian had metallic devices! because Iran is very rich land in the mineral wealth.The Sumerian language was stronger than Semitic so that it was official/religion language in Akkad Babylon Government - in similar Situations, Persian language broke all enemies’ language tooThe Sumerian land never was as rich as the Aryan lands, Iran is surrounded by Mountains (natural wall) it defends Iran .Iranians were those who created SWORD at the first !etcIt was my opinionPlease pay attention the correct name of Persia, is IRAN. Iran is the native word!!!
Who were the Akkadians, Assyrians, Sumerians, Babylonians, and Chaldeans? How do they differ from the Mesopotamians, the Persians, and each other?
My very short explanation for you and corrections on Lara’s answer.Mesopotamians: all people who lived until the Persian Empire in and around the arable areas between Euprates and Tigris rivers between 4000 BC–500 BC, where: Iraq, language: Sumerian and Akkadian variantsSumerians: the first recorded civilisation, start of history, starter of modern world 4000 BC - 2000 BC, where: southern Iraq, language: Sumerian, an agglutinative language resembling North Eurasian languagesAkkadians: Semitic guest workers in Sumeria who eventually adopted and inherited their civilisation, 2500 BC–500 BC, starting from Akkad, where: Iraq, language: Akkadian, a Semitic language similar to Arabic and Hebrew, common diplomatic language of the world between 2000 BC - 500 BCAssyrians: Semitic people similar to Akkadians 2500–500, not to be mixed with Assyrian ethnicity today, where: Northern Iraq and Southeastern Turkey, language: Assyrian is a dialect of AkkadianBabylonians: Akkadians centred in Babylon, central Iraq, with centralised government with Babylon as its capital, where: Central Iraq, all Middle East, language: Babylonian, a dialect of AkkadianChaldeans: Biblical reference to people who were likely to be continuation of Elamites, who lived between 3000 BC- 1000 BC, but adopted a Semitic language, where: South West Iran, language: Chaldean, a variant of AramaicPersians: imperial people adopting Middle Eastern civilisation and setting up the first large empire in the world as well as with the first recorded widespread monotheistic religion, 700 BC - 700 AD, direct ancestors of modern Iranians, where: Iran centred, Middle East, Central Asia, and Balkans, language: Persian, an Indo-European language, also Aramaic as the imperial common languageModern Assyrians and Chaldeans are different from ancient Assyrians and Chaldeans with languages descending from Aramaic directly and identities based on Christianity. They are mostly in Northern Syria and Iraq and Southeastern Turkey with a prominent expatriate community in Sweden. They are Catholic Christians, accepting authority of Vatican but with own rites and traditions with Assyrian Church (Süryani Kilisesi) and Chaldean Church (Keldani Kilisesi) belonging to Eastern Churches.Faruk Süren, popular chairman of Turkey’s Galatasaray sports club in its best days winning European Championships, was an Assyrian
Sumerian, akkadians, babylonians, assyrians,chaldeans persia??
A few very rudimentary thoughts: Sumerians - Geography: grassland alluvial plain (later leveed and irrigated), Tigris-Euphrates delta, Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq - Characteristics: had black hair? (called themselves 'black-headed people') - Language: Sumerian, not clearly related to any other language - Contribution: invented cuneiform (i.e., originated one of the first WRITING technologies in the world, the reed-lines-on-clay-then-fired system) Akkadians - Geography: grassland alluvial plain (later leveed and irrigated), lower Tigris-Euphrates, Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq - Language: Akkadian, an eastern Semitic language - Contribution: site of one of the first UNIFICATIONS of several city-states under one secular head, in this case the lugal Sargon I Babylonians - Geography: irrigated alluvial plain, Euphrates River, Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq - Language: a dialect of Akkadian - Contribution: origin of one of the best preserved example of 'LAW-giving' by one of its most famous head-of-state, Hammurabi, developed MATHEMATICS beyond simple counting Assyrians - Geography: highlands around upper Tigris; later pan-Mesopotamia - Language: a dialect of Akkadian; later co-existed with a dialect of Aramaic, a western Semitic language - Contribution: one of the first in the world to systematize EMPIRE-building, from military innovations to facilitate conquest to deportation of indigenous peoples to erase pre-conquest identity Chaldeans - Geography: grassland alluvial plain (later leveed and irrigated), mouth of the Tigris-Euphrates, Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq - Language: a dialect of Akkadian - Contribution: (not sure) Achaemenid Persians - Geography: desert plateau; later pan-Iranian Plateau, pan-Mesopotamia, southwest Central Asian steppes, Canaan, Egypt, and Anatolia - Language: Old Persian for own use, Elamite in courts, Aramaic as lingua franca of empire - Contribution: one of the first ethnically diverse sovereignties, adapting native languages and customs as means of CONTROL, added to military developments with the myriad and heterogeneous ARMY drawn from SATRAPS