HIST 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Psamtik I, Shalmaneser Iii, Sumer
20 Jun 2020
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If an assyrian king calls somebody a son of nobody, what did this mean in context of a. That this person might have been an illegitimate ruler, and/or not from a royal family. *the conflicts of the 9th c. bc were not between upper and lower classes, but between ascending and descending elements within the elite. Religious conflicts played no role in the 9th century bc* State formation in israel and judah must be seen within the context of the growing state phenomenon of the syro-palesinian, and syro-mesopotamian regions. The two scholars argue that, since chieftains could collect taxes from their tribes, they began drawing from outside resources. For knauf and guillaume, state formation corresponded to a greater amount of specialization capable of extracting foodstuffs from the producers to feed the state apparatus. Egypt was weaker than assyria, and did not pose a threat to assyria.
