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Babylon

The ians were one of the great ancient civilizations (encarta ) and were
believed to have existed from the 21st century to about the 1st century BC, but the ians
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 ...

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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 Babylonian Technologically). These people are also very intelligent and

educated. The Babylonians were first to believe in the myth of Astrology, the belief that the stars

told the future, which king relied on to predict the outcome of wars. Babylon also created one of

the greatest code of law of ...

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