Babylon

The hanging gardens of Babylon are believed to be one of the seven wonders of the world. It is believed that the hanging gardens of Babylon were built because Nebuchadnezzar II wanted to cheer up his wife after she had to leave an area filled with green grass and hillsides.

It is the first written body of laws used to organize society.

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It was built by King Nebuchadnezzar the second, for his wife, Amytis, because she was homesick. He imported plants from her homeland which was Media.

it was the first ever for of written laws and were the building blocks for other laws for civilizations

After defeating Babylon, Cyrus the Great of Persia allowed the Jews (and other people) to return to their homeland in 538 BCE.

it was the first time that a state's laws were set down in writing

That was the Babylonian Empire.

In Babylon

When Rome concurred other empires they often would adopt religious or political figures into their own. If you read the history of Rome as early as 100 BC this was the practice. At the time of Augustus Caesar there were priest who worshiped the Sun god and the chief priest was called Pontiff Maximus. As you may know later this name was given to the pope in 313 ad.

Ahere were four deportations of Jews to Babylon in 605 BCE, 597 BCE, c. 587 BCE, and c. 582 BCE.

Some of the world's earliest civilizations developed in the Fertile Crescent in the Middle East.

Some of the civilizations are: Sumer, Mesopotamia, and Akkadian.

At first Greek militarist consisted of aristocratic cavalry soldiers, or nobles on horseback. After 700 BC it changed the military system to hoplites, heavily armed infantry soldiers, or referred to as foot soldiers. These soldiers carried a round shield, a short sword, and a very long spear.

According to accounts, the gardens were built to cheer up Nebuchadnezzar's homesick wife, Amyitis. Amyitis, daughter of the king of the Medes, was married to Nebuchadnezzar to create an alliance between the two nations. The land she came from, though, was green, rugged and mountainous, and she found the flat, sun-baked terrain of Mesopotamia depressing. The king decided to relieve her depression by recreating her homeland through the building of an artificial mountain with rooftop gardens.

Create a stable society

camels and elephants and they climbed up to the top of the palace with big water supplies on their backs, and poured the water into a big hole. there where pipes every where that led to the hanging gardens, and the people would open the gates, and late out some water to the hanging gardens.

Mesopotamia's 6th Babylonian leader Hammurabi made 282 laws.

hammurabis code was the first first written code of laws in the history of the world.

Hammurabi's Code of Law was written in about 1700 BCE [Before Common Era], so it has been around 3700 years since it was written.

15 July 1965 by Bill Harrington

Daniel, already in exile in Babylon, supplies us this scripture:

Daniel 9.2. In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.

And this revelation inspired him to pray and repent for himself and for his people, in Daniel 9.3 to 21

Grey Gardens - musical - was created in 2006.

You have a lot of work ahead but I posted a website with everything you should know about this topic in the related links box below. But be careful, a mist the history involved, there certain things the writer got wrong.

Babylon is actually the capital of the ancient city Babylonia in the middle east.