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Babylon

This ancient city state of Mesopotamia was known for housing the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one of the wonders of the ancient world. It was in the Fertile Crescent and located just south of modern day Baghdad.

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During the Babylonian captivity the Papal seat was in the city of what?

The Papacy did not exist in the 5th Century BCE. Nor did Christianity in any form - you are six centuries too early.

How are the Egyptian book of dead Hammurabi Code of laws and the epic of Gilgamesh similar?

Those writings have a religious theme about them unlike the Hammurabi code which has a set of codified laws in the epic. A group of about two hundred formulae for securing eternal life, from which a selection is found in manuscripts written for elite burials from the New Kingdom (about 1550-1069 BC) to the end of the Ptolemaic Period. The same formulae are found on many other supports, from tomb walls to single objects placed in the tomb or religious setting, which is in the book of the dead. From The Epic of Gilgamesh, for example, we know something of the people who lived in the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in the second and third millenniums BCE. We know they celebrated a king named Gilgamesh; we know they believed in many gods; we know they were self-conscious of their own cultivation of the natural world; and we know they were literate. These things we can fix or establish definitely. But stories also remind us of things we cannot fix of what it means to be human. They reflect our will to understand what we cannot understand, and reconcile us to mortality.

What did the codes say about Hammurabi as a leader?

It said bring about the rule of the righteous to destroy the wicked and evil-doers so that the strong shoul should not harm the weak

Who was the wisest man in Babylon?

The answer is phrofet Daniel. He was Taken into captivity by Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, he serves the king and his successors until the time of the Persian conqueror Cyrus, all the while remaining true to the God of Israel. Most scholars see the book as a cryptic allusion to the reign of the Greek king Antiochus IV Epiphanes (175-164 BCE), and the broad consensus is that Daniel never existed. A clay tablet from Ugarit dated c.1360 BCE mentions a Danel (Daniel) known for his wisdom and righteousness; much later, in the 6th century BCE, the Book of Ezekiel refers to a legendary Daniel famed for wisdom and righteousness; and later again a 2nd-century work called the Book of Jubilees mentions a legendary Daniel who lived before Noah's Flood. While it is unlikely that Ezekiel or the authors of the Book of Daniel were aware of the Canaanite stories, this legendary Daniel, remembered from long ago, became the human hero of the book that bears his name

Why was writing down hammurabi's code so important?

Hammurabi noticed the short reings of former cruel kings and he dictated the code and made a more civilized citizenship.

What does the Code of Hammurabi tell us about gender and social standing?

The Hammurabi code deals with all kinds of classes of status including slaves. So everybody was involved in the law if you were a Babylonian citizen.

What economy did the Chaldean have?

Chaldea was low on natural resources and they needed to trade for many of their day-to-day items. Some of the things that they traded in Chaldea were Grain, Oils, and textiles, and return, they got timber, wine, and precious metals and stones. It was a primitive economy.

What changes did Hammurabi bring to sumer?

Ur was a Sumer city before the Chaldeans took it. Then came changes to the reigns like the names Sumer, Assyria, Akkadian Empire and then Babylonia. The land was the same and in Hammurabi's rule, he kept build cities and protecting them.

Where did Hammurabi die and was it of natural causes or not?

(The article on "Hammurabi" from the Encylopedia Britannica says he was not a well man towards the end of his reign, and was sick before he died. That would imply it was of natural causes.

What were Babylonia and assyria?

It was the area of modern Iraq. They became empires. First were the Sumerian followed by the Assyrians. The capital was the city of Nineveh. Then came the Babylon empire which the city was the capital.

What is the tulmad?

It is called the Talmud. Rabbinic Judaism used it as central text. It was written when they were captives in Babylon. The term "Talmud" normally refers to the Babylonian Talmud, though there is also an earlier collection known as the Jerusalem Talmud or so they say. Most historians don't agree with that.

What did the Phoenician alphabet make easier for people in the ancient world?

Phoenicia was an ancient Semitic civilization situated on the western, coastal part of the Fertile Crescent and centered on the coastline of modern Lebanon and Tartus Governorate in Syria. The Phoenician alphabet, called by convention the Proto-Canaanite alphabet for inscriptions older than around 1200 BCE, was a non-pictographic consonantal alphabet, or abjad. The Phoenician alphabet developed from the Proto-Canaanite alphabet and it was perhaps the first alphabetic script to be wide used. Phoenician spread around the Mediterranean, particularly to Tunisia, southern parts of the Iberian Peninsula which is the modern Spain, Portugal, Malta, southern France and Sicily, and was spoken until the 1st century AD. Historians do not speak on how the language made what easy in the least part.

How long did the amorites and Babylon last?

The Medes established the rule after the Babylonians. 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. After Nebuchadnezzar and his son died, the queen's father who now was the king of Mede and Persia just marched into the city with no resistance.

Who is English king sent you on an expedition to the indies?

No English King has sent me on an expedition to the indies?

Why was the code of Hammurabi considered to be a major achievement?

Because the Empire did not have a codified line of laws and Hammurabi did the work.

What aws hammurabis code?

A set of laws created by the babylonian king, Hammurabi.

Did the god darius rule Babylon?

Darius was king of the Persian Empire, not a god. Babylon was part of his empire.