Babylonians

Going still further back, the Project 2025 writers could argue that the “Top Down, One Boss” model worked well for the Babylonians, Sumerians Egyptians for all those great millennia when women knew their place well (with their cats in the case of widows).

Historians estimate that New Year’s resolutions have been a tradition for thousands of years as promises to the gods worshiped by the ancient Babylonians has transformed into a tradition of self-improvement.

So then the New Year occurred not at the end of December but in March at the time of the vernal equinox, which in 2024 will be on March 19. Babylonians would have a religious festival named Akitu, from the Sumerian term for barley.

Besides their role as the hostile “others” to the biblical Hebrews, the Philistines were totally wiped out by the Babylonians around 600 BC.

From Babylonians to the medieval era to the current electronic age, derivatives have existed all this while.

A battle was fought at Opis in the month of June, where the Babylonians were defeated; and immediately afterwards Sippar surrendered to the invader.

After 600 BC, the Babylonians added Dilmun to their empire.

After a bitter struggle lasting five years, the Assyrian king triumphed over his rebellious brother in 648 BC, Elam was destroyed, and the Babylonians, Persians, Chaldeans, Arabs and others were savagely punished.

After the defeat of Pharaoh Necho's army by the Babylonians at Carchemish in 605 BCE, Jehoiakim began paying tribute to Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon.

As the Babylonians had no biomedical understanding of the nature of disease, they attributed the seizures to possession by evil spirits and called for treating the condition through spiritual means.

At the end of their journey they discover the Mulekite people whose ancestors had also come from Jerusalem, but after it was attacked by the Babylonians.

Babylonians and Assyrians divided dreams into "good," which were sent by the gods, and "bad," sent by demons - they also believed that their dreams were omens and prophecies.

Dicks examines the cycle referred to as 'Saros' - which Thales is held to have used and which is believed to stem from the Babylonians.

Elam was destroyed once and for all, and the Babylonians, Persians, Chaldeans, Arabs, Medes, Elamites, Arameans, Suteans and Canaanites were violently subjugated, with Assyrian troops exacting savage revenge on the rebelling peoples.

Eventually freedom did come to many Israelites, when Cyrus the Great overtook the Babylonians in 539 BC.

Eves, Chapter 2. There have been recent discoveries showing that ancient Babylonians may have discovered astronomical geometry nearly 1400 years before Europeans did.

God brings the Babylonians against Jerusalem; Yahweh deserts his people, Jerusalem is razed and the Temple destroyed, and the priests, prophets and royal court are led into captivity.

He also dates the event 5 years after the exile of King of Judah Jehoiachin by the Babylonians, a recurring dating pattern throughout the book.

Herodotus wrote that the Greeks learnt the practice of dividing the day into 12 parts, about the polos, and the gnomon from the Babylonians.

He won first prize there with his next play, The Babylonians (also now lost).