Should we dwell on a certain social or cultural category: the "official religion, " the "private religion, " the religion of the "educated".. Should we emphasise a certain city or province: Ebla, Mari, Assyria?
According to Panbabylonism, a school of thought founded by Hugo Winckler and held in the early 20th century among primarily German Assyriologists, there was a common cultural system extending over the Ancient Near East which was overwhelmingly influenced by the Babylonians.