Babylon
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The Babylonians were one of the great ancient civilizations (encarta Babylon) and were
believed to have existed from the 21st century to about the 1st century BC, but the Babylonians
were only mentioned in any documents until the late 3rd century BC. This ancient country was
located where southern Iraq is today, and preceded upwards in a crescent like shape to the
Mediterranean sea (hotbot babylon). The capital Babylon, one of the most important cities of the
ancient world (Encarta Babylon) , was located between the two great rivers, Euphrates and
Tigris. The City today now lies in ruins about 90Km south of Bagdad.
Babylon was believed to have originated from the Mesopotamia tribes in the Euphrates
Valley, which were believed to come from Mongolian ancestry, these tribes were than taken over
by the northern kingdom of Akkad. The semitic invaders, however, eagerly adopted, improved,
and widely spread the beliefs and knowledge of the civilizations they conquered( Hotbot
Babylon). The Akkads, although widely debated, are believed it be the Aborigional Babylonians.
"The First was Eridu, then a seaport on the Persian Gulf, where their earlyest myths represent the
first man, Adapu (Adam), speading his time fishing"(Hotbot Babylon). From the little known
information about this culture, they were believed to be a considerably culture for being so early
in development.
Babylonians were a very technological advanced people and known for their tall, highly
fortified walls construction and waterways, such as canals and aqueduct (grolier 254). This made
them a hard country to conquer because the highly fortified walls, so that the position could not
get in and because they had water running throughout the city, to make it hard to cut off the
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water supply (Hotbot...
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