Babylonia

In the year 576 BCE the Babylonian King, Nebuchadnezzar commissioned his builders to construct and design a monumental gate on the outskirts of the city. The gate was situated at the main entrance to the promenade, north of the city’s border to the temple of Marduk, chief God of Mesopotamian. The monument was dedicated and named after Ishtar, the Babylonian Goddess of; love, fertility, war and sex. (Wikipedia) If thou openest not the gate to let me enter, I will break the door, I will…

not his children. That the had a different father. This seemed to work since Xerxes became next in line for king. Darius, in 490 B.C., tried to invade Greece but failed. Darius then appointed Xerxes viceroy of Babylonia. Viceroy is a person who rules over a certain area. The viceroy of Babylonia is a huge accomplishment…

The article “Degrees of Freedom: Slavery in Mid-First Millennium BC Babylonia” the author, H.D. Baker examines slaves of the Egibi family in Babylonia throughout the sixth and fifth centuries BC. Baker points out the status of slaves, the ways of gaining slaves, the freeing of slaves, the work and the age of beginning to work for slaves, the escaping of slaves, and the ownership of slaves by women. While there is not a lot mentioned in the status of slaves, it is made clear that there different…

attacked and conquered Babylon taking control of Babylonia. With no immediate king in place the Kassites, in 1531BC, took control of Babylonia. The Sealand Dynasty of 1732 to 1460BC coexisted at the same time along with the First Babylonian Dynasty. This dynasty was a separate dynasty in the far southern part of what was Sumer known as Sealand. It was ruled by native Akkadians who claim to be descendants of the First Dynasty of Isin. After the fall of Babylonia the Sealand Dynasty became a…

by Kalissa herself and we just had to ask her a few questions. Our first question for Kalissa was “What interested you in wanting to build a time machine?” She gave us the response of, “As a little girl I was always interested in the history of Babylonia and always told myself that I would one day build a time machine to go back to the Babylonian civilization.” The question followed was “How does it feel to be the first person to ever invent a time machine and for it to actually work?” Kalissas’…

down in history. Hammurabi is one of these men. He was the most famous of all of the Babylonian kings. Before his time, Babylonia was a prominent society, but during his reign, he made it the number one society of the era. He revolutionized the idea of civil law. And, not only did he revolutionize law, he also improved architecture and irrigation in the city-state of Babylonia. His code of law is the oldest written code of law to date. He was not only a king, but a hero to his people. His work…

to water the plants. Considering that Babylonia is a fairly dry area and doesn’t receive very much rain, keeping the plants alive and healthy was going to be a challenge. The result to this problem was that the men would have to walk down to the river and back with bucket full of water to water the plants. In conclusion, the Hanging Gardens were located in Babylonia and is one of the seven wonders of the world. King Nebuchadnezzar who was the ruler of Babylonia built the Gardens for his wife…

the Western 21st century has laws and rules that citizens need to abide by. Hammurabi at the time was very advanced and developed a governing system called the Hammurabi’s Code which was a set of 282 laws and standards that all of the citizens of Babylonia needed to abide. Hammurabi’s codes included set punishments that each citizen shall face if he wore to break one the laws that were set (Hammurabi). Although Hammurabi’s codes punishments were much more violent and sever than the punishments…

The Ancient Records of Assyria point out the strategic importance of ancient Assyria, Egypt, and Babylonia. The Ancient Records of Assyria are extremely hard to accurately depict because the historians in these civilizations did not detail enough information of these places and the people who lived there. These records detail the history of the ancient Near East civilizations. (Larsen 2000) The records of Ancient Assyria go far beyond the history of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome; they records…

The three key crisis of Israel that the prophetic literature reacts to are the Assyrian, Babylonia, and the Restoration Crisis. The Assyrian Crisis: The fall of the Northern Kingdom. This era consisted of the following factors that involve Assyria’s expansion into the region of Israel and Judah. This increase led to a complex series of alliances between the various kingdoms involved, as well as fighting-Syria Ephraimitic war. The war was Assyria attempts to expand, Syria and Israel allies for…