To date, servility and servile systems in Babylonia have been explored with the traditional lexical approach of Assyriology. If one examines servility as an aggregate phenomenon, these subjects can be investigated on a much larger scale with quantitative approaches. Using servile populations as a point of departure, this paper applies both quantitative and qualitative methods to explore Babylonian population dynamics in general; especially morbidity, mortality, and ages at which Babylonians experienced important life events. As such, it can be added to the handful of publications that have sought basic demographic data in the cuneiform record, and therefore has value to those scholars who are also interested in migration and settlement. It suggests that the origins of servile systems in Babylonia can be explained with the Nieboer-Domar hypothesis, which proposes that large-scale systems of bondage will arise in regions with plentiful land but few workers. Once established, these systems persisted and were reinforced through Babylonia’s high balance mortality, political ideologies, economic incentives, and social structures.

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巴比伦人口，奴役和楔形文字记录

迄今为止，巴比伦尼亚的奴隶制和奴隶制已经用传统的词法方法进行了探索。如果人们将奴役性视为一种总体现象，则可以使用定量方法对这些主题进行更大范围的调查。本文以奴役人口为出发点，同时运用定量和定性两种方法来研究巴比伦的人口动态。特别是巴比伦人经历重要生活事件的发病率，死亡率和年龄。因此，它可以添加到在楔形文字记录中寻求基本人口统计数据的少数出版物中，因此对那些也对移民和定居感兴趣的学者具有价值。这表明巴比伦尼亚奴隶制度的起源可以用尼伯-多马尔假说来解释，它建议在土地多而工人少的地区会出现大规模的奴役制度。这些系统一经建立，便会继续存在，并通过巴比伦的高平衡死亡率，政治意识形态，经济激励措施和社会结构得到加强。