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.
Battle of Opis. The Battle of Opis, fought in September 539 BC, was a major engagement between the armies of Persia under Cyrus the Great and the Neo-Babylonian Empire under Nabonidus during the Persian invasion of Mesopotamia. At the time, Babylonia was the last major power in western Asia that was not yet under Persian control.