BABYLONIA (Southeastern Mesopotamia)

(See also Chaldea; Sumer; Ur [City])

Amurru people: it-1 99

Assyria dominates: it-1 238

bricks: it-2 151

Chaldea (Sumer): it-1 37, 238, 425; nwt 1695

cities: it-1 238

Akkad (Accad): it-1 36-37

guardian deities: it-1 974

Kish: it-1 558-559

commerce: g92 1/8 6-8

discussion: it-1 238-239

early Cushite rule: it-1 558-559

Elam dominates: it-1 702; w89 7/1 5

Mesopotamia at times includes: it-2 385

origin of Assyrian civilization: w93 6/1 6-7

origin of mythology: it-1 973-974; sh 39-40

China: sh 50-51

Greece: it-1 978, 1001; sh 44

scribes: it-2 876; w07 3/15 18

Shinar: it-2 932

“wilderness of the sea” (Isa 21:1): it-1 769; it-2 1186; w06 12/1 11; ip-1 215-216