ABSTRACT
Territorial divisions and their wider implications – i.e. in which areas people live,what economic resources they have at their disposal, and how their territorial particularities affect their society and culture in general – still play a fundamental role in the history of Iraq at present, as may be deduced from the daily chronicles of war and peace of the last few years. It thus seems particularly fitting, within the framework of an overall investigation on ancient Babylonia, to draw attention to a specific case-study in environmental and social history together, such as is represented by the tribally based Arameans and Chaldeans of the first half of the first millennium BC.
