Charts - Ancient Babylon Series

Charts from the Ancient Babylon Series. Charts are added to this collection periodically.
 
Current Contents:
 
01 - Agricultural Development Chart - featuring the timeline of agricultural development in the Fertile Crescent and Mesopotamia
 
02 - Token Chart - By 8000 BC, small clay tokens of various shapes were employed by Near Eastern farmers to keep inventory of their commodities. For instance, a cone-shaped token might represent a specific quantity of barley stored in a granary. This system would undergo significant expansion during the subsequent Uruk Period, which began around 3900 BC.
 
03 - Cuneiform Chart - The Near East always had people speaking various languages who lived side by side. All languages could be written in cuneiform script which was the dominant writing system in the region until it was later supplanted by the alphabetic script of the Phoenicians.
The most popular languages of Mesopotamia was Sumerian and Akkadian. The Sumerian language was spoken throughout the third millennium in the south of Mesopotamia. By the early second millennium, it was only used by bureaucrats and cult personnel. The date of its disappearance as a spoken language remains unknown. Akkadian was the Semitic language related to Hebrew, Arabic, and many other languages of the Near East, but of a different grammatical structure.