Chapter 22: The Shamash Dynasty

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Anyone who has read this book knows that because of the lack of ancient civilization, modern people have different understandings of history, so I am constantly running through the whole thread, so from time to time I will find some information that can overturn some of my previous inferences based on limited information.

For example, the 60 and 360 years of the Sumerian King Table obtained by me according to the limited data mentioned above can confirm the authenticity of the King Table, otherwise the existence of 36,000 years in a certain dynasty such a contrary thing as a common sense can deny the authenticity of the King Table, but archaeology has clarified the authenticity of some of these characters, so it can only be understood in the wrong way. That's why I boldly adopted the method of solving problems by division that no one had used.

The occurrence of such problems will seriously affect the time clue of the book, so it is necessary to constantly rewrite the book. So sometimes you find that your book is sometimes suddenly interrupted for a few days, which may be the time thread of rearranging history. At this point, it doesn't seem so kind to upload it again.

Back to business:

"Kish was defeated and royal power shifted to Shamash. ”

The Semites have always lived a nomadic life. As the climate in the north became more and more severe, the Semitic people began to migrate from the Eurasian steppes from north to south. In 3000 BC, the Semites came to the north of the fertile crescent (Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Israel, Jordan and Turkey on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean) and retained a fairly unified national community.

Unlike the Sumerians who preceded them, the Semitic people began by believing that there was only one God in the universe, which is known as "monotheism". Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are all monotheistic religions, and all three religions are derived from the Semitic idea of monotheism.

Another common feature of Semitic civilization is the belief that history develops in a straight line, that history is an ever-expanding line. God created the world at the beginning of the Harmony, and history begins there, but one day it will come to an end, and this day is called the "Last Judgment Day," when God will judge all the living and the dead.

The role of history is an important feature of the three major religions of the West. They believed that God would intervene in the direction of history, and they even believed that the purpose of history was so that God could accomplish His purpose in the world. Just as he led Abraham to the "Promised Land," he will lead humanity through history toward the "Last Judgment Day."

When this day comes, all the evil in the world will be destroyed. Because of the emphasis on God's role in the historical process, the Semitic people have been paying great attention to historical records for thousands of years, and will not arbitrarily delete and alter historical books like the emperors of China, because even if their sins are covered up, they cannot deceive God, but only aggravate their sins, and they believe that even if they are wrong, as long as they repent to God, God will definitely forgive them, but they cannot hide their mistakes, which is a greater mistake than mistakes. These historical documents later became the nucleus of the Bible.

The most important sense in Semitic civilization was hearing, so the Jewish Bible began with "Hear, Israel!". In the Old Testament we can also read how people "heard" God's Word, and Jewish prophets often began their sermons with the words "Yahweh (God) said." Similarly, Christianity emphasizes that believers should "hear" to God's Word. Whether Christian, Judaic, or Islamic, it is also customary to recite scriptures aloud.

In 2900 BC, the Semites migrated to Nineveh in the Silesian region of northern Mesopotamia (Iraq), and along the Arabian steppes to Syria, Palestine, the Sinai Peninsula, and the Arabian Peninsula.

Over time, the Semitic people who were distributed in northern Mesopotamia were called Eastern Semites because of their location in the east, while the Semitic people from the area west of Mesopotamia to the Mediterranean Peninsula, including the Arabian Peninsula and the Sinai Peninsula, were called Western Semites.

A branch of the West Semites was later called the Bedouins. They have been nomadic to the west, invaded the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt, and settled there, posing a major threat to the security of Egypt, because of the difference in race, they were conquered by the king of the first dynasty of Egypt, Deng, and finally defeated by Deng. This was the first time Egypt was challenged by the Semites, and the challenges continued.

The West Semites were far away from Mesopotamia and Egypt, the centers of civilization, so they never established their own civilization system. They maintained a tribal clan system and a nomadic life, no different from their life in the northern steppes.

The Eastern Semites were widely distributed near the ancient city of Ashur (just to illustrate the location, there was no city of Ashur at this time).

In 2615 BC, the Eastern Semitic tribes formed an alliance under the leadership of Hatanish, the Grand Elder of the Tribal Alliance, usually held by a respected and energetic old man, to attack the Sumerian territory, and first reached the ancient city of Sipal in the Akkadian region.

Most of the Sumerians who had originally lived in the city of Sipal fled the city, and the Eastern Semites entered the city in large numbers and became the main ethnic group of the city. The ancient city of Cipal was once the political center of Sumer before the Great Flood, but after the Great Flood it was neglected in the northern Akkadian region, far from the center of Sumer.

Because there is a temple of the Sumerian sun god Utu, Hatanish went to check it out, perhaps because the Semites originally believed in the sun god, so they were also interested in the Sumerian temple, and later renamed the temple after the Semitic sun god Shamash. But the idol remained unchanged and also respected the feelings of the Sumerians. However, the Sumerians did not attach much importance to the sun god.

According to the Semitic tradition, Hatanish renamed the city of Sipal the city of Shamash and made it the capital of his dynasty, so the first dynasty of the Eastern Semites was called the Shamash dynasty.

Table of Shamash kings:

Hatanish, reign: 7 years, 2615-2608 BC.

After the establishment of the Shamash dynasty, Hatanish began to continue to sweep into the Sumerian region, and for a while, the Akkadian region was full of Eastern Semites, and also invaded the southern Sumerian region. This alarmed the Sumerian overlord Kish II Dynasty, which launched a Sumerian coalition and fought several battles against the Shamash dynasty. By the time of Hatanish's death, there was still no winner.