Societies, not states, are 'the social atoms' with which students of history have to deal. - Arnold J. Toynbee

In our unidentified society when it was united under the Achaemenian Empire we can trace the process of the peaceful ejection of the elements of culture intruded by Assyrian in the gradual replacement of the Akkadian language and cuneiform script by the Aramaic language and alphabet.

An individual’s adherence to a certain faith is often determined by the geographical accident of the locality of his birth-place.

Civilizations in decline are consistently characterized by a tendency towards standardization and uniformity.