By the command of Assur, the great Lord, my Lord, [64] with them I fought. A destruction of them I made. [65] Their chariots, their war-carriages, their war-material I took from them. [66] 20,500 of their fighting men with arrows I slew. [67] In my seventh year to the cities of Khabini of the city of Tel-Abni I went. [68] The City of Tel-Abni, his stronghold, together with the cities which (were) dependent on it I captured. [69] To the head of the river, the springs of the Tigris, the place where the waters rise, I went

73] In my eighth year, 1Merodach-suma-iddin King of Gan-Dunias [74] did Merodach-bila-yu'sate his foster-brother against him rebel

And women in Shang civilization were subservient to men

They saw nature as numerous gods using magic, gods called kuei-shen, a word for ghost or spirit. They had a god they thought produced rain

The people of Shang civilization believed in an invisible heaven

Zhou emperors told those they had conquered that they, the Zhou, had ousted the ancestors of Shang emperors from heaven and that heaven was occupied by their supreme god, a god they called "The Lord on High," who, they said, had commanded the downfall of the Shang emperors. Like emperors in West Asia, Zhou emperors claimed that they ruled by divine right

gods could exercise either benevolent or malevolent magic

emperors the local rulers received gifts such as chariots, bronze w

a married aristocrat became infatuated with another woman, rather than drive his wife from his home he could bring the other woman into the family as a concubine, where she would rank beneath his wife