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.
552-542 BC. This chart reveals the Kings of the Neo Babylonian Empire (Chaldean). The Babylonian Empire began to be a world power in 625 BC after the fall of Assyria. Babylon continued its reign until 536 BC. During this period Babylon, located along the Euphrates River, was the metropolis of the East and called in the Bible the city of Gold.