In this narrower period we see the regeneration of the Egyptian civilization as the New Kingdom, bringing Egypt to one of its most prosperous period At the same time the Hebrew people break away from their Egyptian benefactors turned enslavers and establish a line of prophets that lasts for centuries Babylonia reaches its peak as a major regional power and its most well known ruler, Hammurabi, presents one of the first codes of law During this time the ancient sacred hymns of the Vedas were compiled and the Vedic religion thrived in India. The more pure Aries influence, outside the influence of the cusps of the earlier Taurus and the later Pisces, was experienced between about 1700 and 600 BC. The Libra (the Scales) influence is an especially important secondary influence, since during this period the first codes of justice in known history were recorded. Additional influences during this age are of Cancer in the summer solstice, Libra in the autumnal equinox, and Capricorn in the winter solstice. It is the age defined by the Sun being in the constellation of Aries on the spring equinox. The Age of Aries, or the Ram, spans approximately the period between 2200 and 100 BC. Ram headed sphinxes at the entrance to the Karnak Temple in Luxor, Egypt (photo by Dennis Jarvis, Halifax, Canada)
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