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The Babylonian Empire was formed out of the older Sumerian and Akkadian states in southern Mesopotamia (modern Iraq); Akkadian, a Semitic language, was used in Babylon for many centuries. Babylon adopted the cuneiform writing system from the Sumerians and built on Sumerian mathematical knowledge.

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