Babylonize

With later streams of immigration coming from the West, as, for instance, in the Nisin dynasty (third millennium B.C.), the name in its original form continued to be brought into the country; but coming in when the early Sumerian forms of the Semitic names, as well as the religion, had been babylonized, they were treated as distinct deities.

But eventually the Syrian Hittites succumbed, and though they retained much of their own culture, including their peculiar hieroglyphic system, yet their art became entirely babylonized or assyrized, as we see it in the later sculptures of the Aramaean palaces of Sinjirli and Sakjegözü.

Disobedience to the God of Heaven, the effect of Nebuchadnezzar's intention to babylonize these young people, would have brought not only the foursome's demise, but the destruction of the entire Babylonian people.

Later on, Babylonian influence found on the Sumerian origin of the Elamite culture a fruitful ground for its propagation, and eventually Elamite art, like the rest of Elamite culture, became entirely babylonized (see P- 195).

Nebuchadnezzar had that name given to Azariah, for the same reason that he changed the name of Daniel to that of Belteshazzar. It was done in order to nationalize—or rather to Babylonize—all the four throughout, by giving them Chaldean names, bearing the names of the gods Bel and Nego or Nebo.

The king intended to "Babylonize" these young Israelites so they would forget their past and acquiesce to their new cultural environment.

The conquered peoples were gradually "Hellenized",* whereas earlier Middle Eastern empires had not attempted to "Assyrianize" or "Babylonize" their subject peoples but had merely collected taxes.

The Arameans showed much less inclination to Babylonize; and, even though some of them settled in the old cities, they tended to retain Aramean names and to remain aloof from the government of Babylonia.