Accadians

The primitive inhabitants of this district were called Accadians, or Chaldeans, but little or nothing was known of them until within the last fifteen or twenty years.

Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities Anne C. Lynch Botta 1853

When the Accadians and the Semites intermingled, their religious systems blended to form one of the most influential religions of the world -- one which spread far and wide under the form of Baal worship.

General History for Colleges and High Schools Philip Van Ness Myers

These foreigners were nomadic in habits, and altogether much less cultured than the Accadians.

General History for Colleges and High Schools Philip Van Ness Myers

This form, according to the scholar Sayce, arose when the Accadians, having entered the low country, substituted tablets of clay for the papyrus or other similar material which they had formerly used.

General History for Colleges and High Schools Philip Van Ness Myers

-- We know scarcely anything about the political affairs of the Accadians until after the arrival of the Semites.

General History for Colleges and High Schools Philip Van Ness Myers

The original inhabitants were conjecturally of Turanian race, and are called Accadians.

General History for Colleges and High Schools Philip Van Ness Myers

-- We have already mentioned the fact that the Accadians, when they entered the Euphrates valley, were in possession of a system of writing.

General History for Colleges and High Schools Philip Van Ness Myers

The civilization of the Accadians was given a great impulse by the arrival of a Semitic people.

General History for Colleges and High Schools Philip Van Ness Myers

Out of the Shamanistic element contributed by the Turanian Accadians, grew

General History for Colleges and High Schools Philip Van Ness Myers

He classified and translated into the Semitic, or Assyrian tongue the religious, mythological, and astronomical literature of the Accadians, and deposited the books in great libraries, which he established or enlarged, -- the oldest and most valuable libraries of the ancient world.

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