Mills defined sociological imagination as âthe vivid awareness of the relationship between experience and the wider society.â. Seemingly impersonal and remote historical forces may be linked to incidents taking place in an individualâs life.
The capital city of Babylon was sacked. Eventually, the Assyrians would conquer Babylon and Mesopotamia, but the lasting achievements of Babylon included advances in mathematics, astronomy and trade. Assyria is an area located in Upper Mesopotamia, and named after the Assyrians. The Assyrians, a Semitic tribe, migrated to Upper Mesopotamia around 2,000 BC.
The Dead Sea Scrolls, however, suggest that the last ruler of the dynasty, Nabonidus (Ã¢â¬ 539 BC), was the afflicted old monarch, notNebuchadnezzar. The deranged Nabonidus was most likely married to Nebuchadnezzar's daughter. He became king of Babylon in 555 BC. He had always been a scholar and a recluse. He neglected the festivities in honour of the god Marduk. Instead, he had a temple build for the cult of the moon god Sin, and his mother and daughter were its priestesses. This worship of the moon god in favour of the traditional Babylonian deity made Nabonidus' rule disputed. Five years after his succession, his son Belshazzar was named co-regent and thus became the actual ruler of Babylon. In 539 BC Cyrus the Great of Persia invaded Babylon and the city fell without resistance.