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Local elites - Babylonia - Coggle Diagram
Local elites - Babylonia
Nature of Babylonia
province where we can write the most detailed history during the Achaemenid era, as they have so many cuneiform tablets, found in private archives and those of the temples
there is continuity under Cyrus and Cambyses, some changes under Darius, then sharp change under Xerxes
highly urbanised region, usually one city state in the region dominates the others, and it is quite unified
just before Persian conquest, there was a Neo-Babylonian dynasty which made Babylon the seat of power
Temples
List of animals to be sacrificed in the Eanna temple, 589 BC
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prebends
right to perform a specific service for the deity, usually receiving in return a portion of the offerings or portion of the revenue of the temple
this is a hereditary privilege, or can be sold. certain families monopolise these positions by passing them down
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private archives
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entrepreneur families
those who conduct local/foreign trade, a more risky enterprise than land holding
Under Cyrus and Cambyses
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e.g.
the Ilia family who are attested in the Neo-Babylonian period as landowners, still attested under the reign of Cambyses
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