{4,000 Years BC[E] – Commentary (1) [continued]}[15th October 1990]

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I had hoped to unearth something interesting* in Mesopotamia,** but the situation there is confused.*** All one can really point to at this stage of ‘broad vision’ is a roughly 1000 (+300?) year political history**** which might sit happily within the fixed 2048 year cycle.

The justification for this is that cultural# history – which tends to predominate in the history of isolated or self-contained kingdoms#* – seems (and can be expected) to fill out its cycles towards the beginning and end, whereas political history – often all we have for competitive states such as those of Mesopotamia#** – frequently appears #*** late, eg around M~, or ¼[-]way into the cycle, and/or finishes early, eg around G~, ¼-cycle before the end.

For an example, compare the Biblical cycle of the Jews with their impact on history: if it wasn’t for their own records, which take us back nearly to c2048bce, they would appear in history around 1024bce; and it may be only a quirk of history,#**** in the form of Cyrus the Great’s generous treatment of subject peoples, which allows the Jews to feature as a state in that cycle beyond about 512bce.

*[cf last previous entry]

**{cf [[Redbook8:156-157][19901224:2322]{Mesopotamian Long Cycles}[24th December 1990],] 156}

***Nothing changes!

****(for Babylon and Assyria)

#eg that of the Greeks

#*eg China; Egypt

#**{? – see later []!}

#***[relatively]

#****Yes, we still have them

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