Babylon

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It was created about 1770 BC in Babylonia.

It brought justice to the people and they treated them fairly.

It concerns all the Empire and all class of persons being rich or poor.

Hammurabi extended his empire northward from the Persian Gulf through the Tigris and Euphrates river valleys and westward to the coast of the Mediterranean Sea as king of Babylonia, and the greatest ruler in the first Babylonian dynasty. Hammurabi is primarily remembered for his codification of the laws governing Babylonian life.

The king took over Babylonia when the times in Mesopotamia lie in confusion, turmoil, and constant war. King after king manages to rule a city-state or a small empire for a short time by conquering neighboring city-states. But these kings are cruel to the people of the conquered city, rule unjustly, and leave turmoil and a struggle for power. Hammurabi took over to be another kind a king who ruled to unite Mesopotamia under a just law.

Hammurabi's code is similar to that of Rome's Twelve Tables. It was a central basis of law that created a set of rules, much like the United States' Constitution, so that Babylon would not be a lawless anarchy. The code also was bias towards the eldest male of the family (father, grandfather, and on occasion son). For example, if a child hit his/her father, then the hand they struck him with was cut off.

in babylonia. all people were affected by this law. such as a slave can own items and other slaves, property can be disposed by selling, loaning, lease, gift, donation,or pledge, and a merchant had to entrust his goods in a trading agent.

his laws

Hammurabi, and the people of his empire, worshiped several gods. Their chief god was Marduk. The Babylonians built temples, called ziggurats, to worship their gods. The city of Babylon had an especially beautiful temple dedicated to Marduk. It may have looked something like this imagined construction. From the Enuma Elish, the epic poem of this ancient religion, we learn how Marduk becomes the chief god. (The link takes you to a picture of some of the tablets written in Cuneiform, in the Akkadian language.) The people eventually called him "Bel" which means "lord." From the epic creation poem Gilgamesh, we learn how man survived a Great Flood.

He was the King of Babylon from about 605 to 562BC. He built fortification walls,a huge temple and a ziggurat -that was rectangular tower-like building. He conquered Palestine. He destroyed Jerusalem, and for the Jews the "Babylonian Captivity" had started. He built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon -he built it for his wife, Amytis of Media, who missed the flowers and wealth of nature of her birthplace (it was considered one of the "Seven Wonders of the Ancient World" - it was a multi-levelled garden reaching 22 metres height, a special machinery was built in to circulate water, as a result, large trees grew on the roof).

because his laws were meant for everyone and it was fair. If a rich person and and a commoner made the bad thing they would get the same treatment

NOT! In social studies now i am learning about The Sumerians and ancient Sumerian empires. And, A rich person and a commoner would NOT have the same punishment. If you were rich then you would pay back something. Like one of Hammurabi's laws are the following:

If a commoner poked the eye of a man out he would have his eye poked out too.

If a rich commoner poked the eye of another commoners eye out then he would have to sell his wife daughter or son to business for 3 years.

Another thing, if a SLAVE had done something then he would also have more severe punishments. Like this:

If a commoner poked out the eye of another commoners bull's eye out he would pay the amount of that bull double.

If a slave poked out the eye of a commoners bull then he would have his eye poked out too.

and I don't know whats up with the eyes I'm just copying what the teacher (no worksheet) said.

and ill tell you something else i heard about his laws:

What the person did (pd): boy slap his father

Punishment (p): hand would get cut off

pd: Nun went into a wine store to get a drink ( i know crazy! they had wine!)

p:IS killed

PD: a wife disobeys her duties and ignores her husband

P: Killed

that's all i remember but yea.

Tablets dating back to the Old Babylonian period document the application of mathematics to the variation in the length of daylight over a solar year. They used an astrolabe which is an elaborate inclinometer, historically used by astronomers, navigators, and astrologers. Its many uses include locating and predicting the positions of the Sun, Moon, planets, and stars, determining local time given local latitude and vice-versa, surveying, triangulation, and to cast horoscopes.

Nebuchadnezzar

Assyria, a major Mesopotamian East Semitic kingdom and empire of the Ancient Near East, existed as an independent state for a period of approximately nineteen centuries, from the 25th century BCE to the 6th century BC, spanning the mid to Early Bronze Age through to the late Iron Age. For a further thirteen centuries, from the beginning of the 6th century BC to the mid-7th century AD, it survived as a geo-political entity, for the most part ruled by foreign powers, although a number of small Neo-Assyrian states such as Assur, Adiabene, Osroene and Hatra arose at different times between the 1st century BC and late 3rd century AD.

Herodotus was the first author to give a full description of the Hanging Gardens. According to him, the gardens were built by Nebuchadnezzar II to make his wife Amytis happy because she didn't like the Babylonian desert. She had lived in Persia, which had many plants and fountains. It was about 350 feet tall and was covered with trees, flowers, lawns, plants, fountains, pools, and miniature water falls. It had every kind of plant available in the kingdom. It was made of mud brick and stone, a series of terraces, one on top of the other. The plants couldn't survive without water, so they had to pump water from the Euphrates River to flow down through channels to the plants.

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Reading Herodotus' description, you'll see that what he described was Babylon itself. If you try to sketch out the city plan as he describes it, it can be done. What's more, it's pretty accurate in relation to archaeological maps. In the plan below, Herodotus' Temple of Zeus Belos is the central and above it is his King's Palace where we'd look for the Hanging Gardens. In the early 1900's German archaeologist, Robert Koldewey traced the area where the Hanging Gardens of Babylon had been layed. Only crumbling mud brick can be seen today.

The Code's importance as a reflection of Babylonian society is indisputable. Hammurabi's laws were established to be the "laws of Justice" intended to clarify the rights of any "oppressed man." Mesopotamia society under the Hammurabi code was one of strict penalties for criminal offenses with punishment severe and varied according to the wealth of the individual. Hammurabi's rigidly centralized ruling system prospered from tribute and taxes, which he used to both compensate state dependents and finance extensive state irrigation and building projects. The code also gives us a clear sense of the ways ancient Babylonians invested divine authority in their secular leaders.

The rivers and canals of Babylon gave merchants and traders easy access to trade transport by means of water. In early times, the Babylonians could build ships, and even navigate them from Eridu to Dilmum. Caravans of asses or donkeys also carried exports into Elam and to other countries east of the Tigris, and north into Armenia and Syria. To the west, the caravans headed towards southern Arabia, Egypt, and Sinai. The reason why Babylon became such a trade city was because of its convenient positioning on the Euphrates River. The Euphrates was the route by which the products of India and Arabia found their way to Europe and the islands of the Mediterranean.

The area of Babylon Province is 5,119 square kilometers.

i think he would be mad of he court system of the united states

Under King Nebuchadnezzar's command, his men( the Chaldean army) attacked the city of Jerusalem and destroyed the city of Babylon.

Hammurabi imposed order on Babylon, the so called Law Code of Hammurabi, survives, not the first of its kind. Women are in inferior to men, and wives, like slave, are the personal property of their husband. Slaves enjoyed no legal protection at all, only the protection of their owner

Herodotus was the first author to give a full description of the Hanging Gardens. According to him, the gardens were built by Nebuchadnezzar II to make his wife Amytis happy because she didn't like the Babylonian desert. She had lived in Persia, which had many plants and fountains. It was about 350 feet tall and was covered with trees, flowers, lawns, plants, fountains, pools, and miniature water falls. It had every kind of plant available in the kingdom. It was made of mud brick and stone, a series of terraces, one on top of the other. The plants couldn't survive without water, so they had to pump water from the Euphrates River to flow down through channels to the plants.

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Reading Herodotus' description, you'll see that what he described was Babylon itself. If you try to sketch out the city plan as he describes it, it can be done. What's more, it's pretty accurate in relation to archaeological maps. In the plan below, Herodotus' Temple of Zeus Belos is the central and above it is his King's Palace where we'd look for the Hanging Gardens. In the early 1900's German archaeologist, Robert Koldewey traced the area where the Hanging Gardens of Babylon had been layed. Only crumbling mud brick can be seen today.

Law number 8 in Hammurabi's Code addresses the punishment for a builder whose construction fails and causes the death of the owner's son. The law stipulates that if the building collapses and results in death, the builder shall be put to death. This reflects the strict liability and accountability principles of the time, emphasizing the importance of safety and responsibility in construction practices.

He wrote Hammurabi Law, "a eye for a eye". Meaning if you killed my brother that I should have the authority to kill you. :)

Under Hammurabi's code, all people were not considered equal before the law. The laws varied based on social class, with different penalties for the same offense depending on whether the offender was a noble, a commoner, or a slave. While the code aimed to provide justice and order, it reinforced existing social hierarchies. Thus, the principle of equality before the law was not fully realized in Hammurabi's legal system.