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Survey of the Ancient World
obtain prosperity from the gods and how to avoid their dis-
pleasure. Among such teachings were methods of foretelling the
future by reading the stars. This art, now called " astrology/'
formed the beginnings of astronomy (§§ 137-138).
113. Higher A journey through Babylonia to-day could not tell us such
life of Baby- r 1 , n
lonia: art, a story as we found among the monuments on our voyage up
Education"6' the NiW 5 for the Babylon of Hammurapi has perished utterly.
There seems to have been no painting; the sculpture of the
Semites is in one instance (Fig. 40) powerful and dramatic,
but the portrait sculptor was scarcely able to make one indi-
vidual different from another. Of architecture little remains-
There were no colonnades and no columns. The main lines
were all straight verticals and horizontals, but the arch was
. used over front doorways (Fig. 38). All buildings were of
brick, as Babylonia had no stone. The chief architectural crea-
tion was the temple-tower (as in Fig. 43), but of the temples
no example has survived. The beautiful gem-cutting of the
Babylonians, as we find it in their seals, was their greatest art
(see Fig. 41 and especially Ancient Times, Fig. 106, A). There
were schools where boys could learn to write cuneiform, and
a schoolhouse of Hammurapi's time still survives, though in
ruins {Ancient Times, Fig. 95).
114. Fall of After Hammurapi's death his kingdom swiftly declined.
Unhand-315'S Barbarians from the mountains poured into the Babylonian
Babylonian** PIain- The most important thing about them was that they
civilization brought with them the horse, which then appeared for the first
time in Babylonia (twenty-first century b. a). They divided and
soon destroyed the kingdom of Hammurapi. After him there
followed more than a thousand years of complete stagnation-
Progress in civilization entirely stopped, and there was no revival
until the triumph of the Chaldeans (Section 14).
115. Sum- As we look back, over this first chapter of early human
retrospect progress along the Two Rivers, we see that it lasted about a
thousand years, beginning a generation or two before 3000 B.C-
The Sumerian mountaineers laid the foundations of civilization
Survey of the Ancient World
obtain prosperity from the gods and how to avoid their dis-
pleasure. Among such teachings were methods of foretelling the
future by reading the stars. This art, now called " astrology/'
formed the beginnings of astronomy (§§ 137-138).
113. Higher A journey through Babylonia to-day could not tell us such
life of Baby- r 1 , n
lonia: art, a story as we found among the monuments on our voyage up
Education"6' the NiW 5 for the Babylon of Hammurapi has perished utterly.
There seems to have been no painting; the sculpture of the
Semites is in one instance (Fig. 40) powerful and dramatic,
but the portrait sculptor was scarcely able to make one indi-
vidual different from another. Of architecture little remains-
There were no colonnades and no columns. The main lines
were all straight verticals and horizontals, but the arch was
. used over front doorways (Fig. 38). All buildings were of
brick, as Babylonia had no stone. The chief architectural crea-
tion was the temple-tower (as in Fig. 43), but of the temples
no example has survived. The beautiful gem-cutting of the
Babylonians, as we find it in their seals, was their greatest art
(see Fig. 41 and especially Ancient Times, Fig. 106, A). There
were schools where boys could learn to write cuneiform, and
a schoolhouse of Hammurapi's time still survives, though in
ruins {Ancient Times, Fig. 95).
114. Fall of After Hammurapi's death his kingdom swiftly declined.
Unhand-315'S Barbarians from the mountains poured into the Babylonian
Babylonian** PIain- The most important thing about them was that they
civilization brought with them the horse, which then appeared for the first
time in Babylonia (twenty-first century b. a). They divided and
soon destroyed the kingdom of Hammurapi. After him there
followed more than a thousand years of complete stagnation-
Progress in civilization entirely stopped, and there was no revival
until the triumph of the Chaldeans (Section 14).
115. Sum- As we look back, over this first chapter of early human
retrospect progress along the Two Rivers, we see that it lasted about a
thousand years, beginning a generation or two before 3000 B.C-
The Sumerian mountaineers laid the foundations of civilization