Babylon

marduk is a babylonian god. He is the son of Enki (god of earth and water) and ninhursag. He is usually depicted as part dragon part eagle (both very important symbols in babylonian religion). He defeated a creature called Tiamat (which symbolizes the salty waters of the ocean). In ancient texts on Enki and Marduk it is said that Marduk as the champion of the gods splits tiamat in two like a dry fish. He is also the patorn god of the city Babylon.
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The Code of Hammurabi was one of the first written sets of laws, or legal codes, known to history. It was enacted at the orders of Hammurabi, sixth king of Babylonia and carved into stone and various clay tablets.

During the reign of Hammurabi, the Babylonia Empire controlled the cities of Babylon, Ur, Uruk, Lagash, Kish, ad several others. Biblical records tell us that Babylon controlled the Levant, including Jerusalem, for a time

The territories of modern countries that were within the Babylonian empire at one time or another include Iraq, Syria, Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Iran, Kuwait, Lebanon, Palestine , Israel and Cyprus.

No, the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World have long since been destroyed, except for the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt.

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.

No one knows.

One concept, the conservation of numbers, is evident in most primates (apes) and several other mammals, as well as some non-mammalian species.

The technology they all used was primarily involved with warfare and producing iron weapons, which were increasingly more and more lethal. These allowed effective conquest of neighboring territories. They also used improved road-building technologies to increase the rate of travel and the transmission of information.

No. Not even close.

No country can compare to a legendary, powerful city such as Babylon.

Babylon has contributed so much to the growth of mankind, from science, mathematics, economics, diversity, law, language and architecture.

Babylon was the first to make human rights into law. Babylon's human right laws, later in history, inspired the United Kingdom to write and enforce the first modern human right laws. America didn't have any such laws until over 100 years after the UK (and Europe) implemented theirs.

Even the Ancient Egyptians, Ancient Greek, Ancient Romans and British Empire, some of the most powerful civilisations in history, admitted in literature that nobody will ever be able to replace or replicate the glory of Babylon.

The ruins of Babylon sit in Iraq.

The code dealt with all classes of citizens including the military and the slave.

No. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon have not been identified, archeologically, up to this point in time. (In ancient history, they were described as so beautiful that they were considered one of the Seven Wonders of the World.)

The distance is about 500 miles as the crow flies. By caravans, the route would be about twice since it meanders.

The hanging gardens of Babylon was destroyed by minor disasters like erosion or warfare. It was destroyed in around 600BC. Since then it has levelled with the ground.

In Europe: Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, England & Wales, Belgium, Luxembourg, southern Netherlands, Southern Germany, Switzerland, Lichtenstein, Austria, western Hungary, a slither of western Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Montenegro, Macedonia, Albania, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova, and a slither of Ukraine.

That makes 20 countries and parts of another 6 countries in Europe

In Asia: Turkey, Cyprus, Armenia, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, the norther n coast of the Red Sea in Saudi Arabia. At times Iraq as well.

In Africa: Egypt, coastal Libya, Tunisia, coastal Algeria, and northern Morocco.

It was the first known written record indicating which punishment a could expect for violating a law

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.

They were a written codification of law.

yes. they put the captured elite Hebrews into their education system. They were shadrach, mischak, and abednego. They were big in the study of the stars, astronomy.

"An eye for an eye ..." is a paraphrase of Hammurabi's Code, a collection of 282 laws inscribed on an upright stone pillar. The code was found by French archaeologists in 1901 while excavating the ancient city of Susa, which is in modern-day Iran. When he began ruling the city-state of Babylon, he had control of no more than 50 square miles of territory. As he conquered other city-states and his empire grew, he saw the need to unify the various groups he controlled. In his code, law195 reads: If a son strikes his father, his hand shall be cut off. Not his hands. He reasoned that such a son shouldn't need to run anymore.

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The King of Babylon in 1732 was Hammurabi. He was king from 1728 BC to 1686 BC and founded the Babylon Empire.

The first group to rule after Hammurabi was Hittites.

they were chosen by seeing who could drink the most wine

From 688 B.C. to 627 B.C., the Assyrian Empire was at its largest and most powerful under King Ashurbanipal. During his reign, the Assrians controlled nearly all of the Fertile Cresent. After 627 B.C. Babylon again began to expand its inflence and wealth. In 605 B.C. Nebuchadnezzar 2 was crowned king of Babylon. He took over much of the former Assyrian Empire and the desert land west of Babylon.

A vibrant trading system developed, bringing manufactured goods and raw materials from as far as Turkey, and even India, 1500 miles away. Trade became integral to the economy and the culture. In this lesson, students explore the trade industry in Old Babylonia and its far-flung influence. That was life for the Babylonian citizens.

Grain, oils and textiles were taken from Babylonia to foreign cities and exchanged for timber, wine, precious metals and stones. In addition, merchants from other countries travelled to Babylonia to exchange their goods. Though farming was the main industry of the ancient Babylonian, trade was also an integral part of their life and of Babylonian civilization. A king could not raise taxes for some great war from poor peasants. Trade was the key to wealth. The kings knew that to preserve their own wealth they had to promote trade. They supported the merchants and would often ransom them if bandits or some hostile kingdom captured them. By promoting trade a king could tax people.

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