A day in the life of an ancient Babylonian business mogul - Soraya Field Fiorio
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It’s 1762 BCE. As dawn breaks in the Babylonian city of Sippar, Beltani— a priestess and businesswoman— receives an urgent visit from her brother. He makes a troubling accusation: her tavern keeper has been undermining the business Beltani relies on in her old age. Now she has just a few short hours to find out the truth. Soraya Field Fiorio details a day in the life of a Babylonian naditu.
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- Educator Soraya Field Fiorio
- Director Keegan Thornhill
- Narrator Susan Zimmerman
- Storyboard Artist Keegan Thornhill
- Animator Tammy Rossouw, Keegan Thornhill
- Background Artist Dwayne de Kock
- Sound Designer Weston Fonger
- Music Jarrett Farkas
- Director of Production Gerta Xhelo
- Editorial Director Alex Rosenthal
- Producer Bethany Cutmore-Scott
- Editorial Producer Elizabeth Cox
- Fact-Checker Eden Girma
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What might have been some advantages to having a class of affluent, educated priestesses with a shrewd grasp of business dealings?
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Dong Hyuk An
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One benefit might be the rewards. With groups of priestesses, they could earn money with also includes in this case grain
Полина Радченко
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Since some of them could not have children and families, they were committed to work and their business, which helped the economy to grow relatively stable.
Никита Левушкин
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Surprisingly, i didn't find ane advantages
Anastasia Semko
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in response to Anastasia Grydina Show comment
There's nothing surprising because that priestesses could have been keeping everything under scrutiny.
Anastasia Grydina
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in response to Aryuna Tsybikova Show comment
that's why their way of thinking about such women could be significantly difficult, even hostile.
Anastasia Grydina
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But at the same time, such people might think that priestesses had to have only one passion - passion for god and nothing else (like business)
Anastasia Grydina
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And of course, they could change something in moldy old men's way of thinking...
Anastasia Semko
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in response to Anastasia Grydina Show comment
I agree with your opinion, also, because of the shrewd grasp of business dealings their business could have been relatively stable.
Anastasia Grydina
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in response to Aryuna Tsybikova Show comment
Great thoughts, presumably, thanks to it modern women could have fewer problems in society because of appreciable historical backlog (to tell the truth it was).
Anastasia Semko
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I want to add that educated priestesses with a shrewd grasp of business dealings could avoid solutions that would be irretrievably damaging.
