Women's Rights in Pre-Christian Assyria

My daughter was watching a documentary about this how women  I think about 2500 BC were divided into 5 groups of women. In the 3 highest classes women could wear veils which protected them from rape. In the two lower classes which was prostitutes or Slave women I guess they had to be ready for sexual congress with anyone anytime. Wearing a veil for the two lowest classes when they didn't want to be bothered was punishable by having nose and ears cut off.

 However, before that in the Sumerian culture women had equal rights in relation to men, including in business. However, in the Ancient Assyrian culture it was warrior based and women were only possessions of men. 

So, often now people associate wearing veils and Hijabs with Islam but that is not where it originally came from. It came about 4500 years ago now from the Assyrian warrior Paternal culture not Islam. Islam only maintained the tradition and that's all. 

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assyrian_people#Pre-Christian_history

 

Pre-Christian history

Main articles: History of the Assyrian people, Arameans, Achaemenid Empire, and Achaemenid Assyria

In prehistoric times, the region that was to become known as Assyria (and Subartu) was home to Neanderthals such as have been found at the Shanidar Cave. The earliest Neolithic sites in Assyria belonged to the Jarmo culture c. 7100 BC and Tell Hassuna, the centre of the Hassuna culture, c. 6000 BC.
The history of the Assyrian people begins with the formation of Assyria perhaps as early as the 25th century BC,.^[50] The Assyrian king list records kings dating from the 25th century BC onwards, the earliest being Tudiya, who was a contemporary of Ibrium of Ebla. However, many of these early kings would have been local rulers, and from the late 24th century BC to the early 22nd century BC, usually subject to the Akkadian Empire.
In the traditions of the Assyrian Church of the East, they are descended from Abraham's grandson (Dedan son of Jokshan), progenitor of the ancient Assyrians.^[51] However, there is no historical basis for the biblical assertion whatsoever; there is no mention in Assyrian records (which date as far back as the 24th century BC).
The Assyrian people, after the fall of their empire, fell under foreign domination ever since. The Persian Empire was founded, which consumed the entire Neo-Babylonian or "Chaldean" Empire in 539 BC. Assyrians became front line soldiers for the Persian Empire under Xerxes I, playing a major role in the Battle of Marathon under Darius I in 490 BC.^[52]
The Assyrian army accounted for three legions of the Roman army, defending the Parthian border. In the 1st century, it was the Assyrian army that enabled Vespasian's coup. From the later 2nd century, the Roman Senate included several notable Assyrians, including Tiberius Claudius Pompeianus and Avidius Cassius.
From the 1st century BC, Assyria was the theatre of the protracted Roman–Persian Wars. It would become a Roman province (Assyria Provincia) between 116 and 363 AD. Despite the influx of foreign elements, the presence of Assyrians is confirmed by the worship of god Ashur, all proof of the continuity of the Assyrians.^[53] The Greeks, Parthians, and Romans had a rather low-level of integration with the local population in Mesopotamia, which allowed their cultures to survive.^[54]