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By Abigail Wiard
WHY IS BABYLON FAMOUS
 Babylon
 Was a city thousands of years ago
 In area called Mesopotamia
 Mesopotamia means “Land between 2 rivers”
 Euphrates River
 Tigris River
WHY IS BABYLON FAMOUS
 Babylon famous for
 Buildings
 Writings
 Studies of stars
 World’s first written records
 On clay tablets
 Babylon was
 One of first cities in the world
 The Biggest city in the world
WHY IS BABYLON FAMOUS
 Famous Tower of Babel
 In the Bible
 Babylonians wanted it to reach
heaven
 God was angry with them
 God caused different
languages
 They could not finish tower
WHY IS BABYLON FAMOUS
 Wrote on Clay Tablets
 Songs
 Math
 Laws
 Stories
 LoveLetters
 Cuneiform (instead of letters)
WHY IS BABYLON FAMOUS
 Nobody here understands Cuneiform, right?
 I translated one of the tablets to English
STORIES
 Gilgamesh was a famous story in Babylon
 Written on a clay tablet

 Gilgamesh was like an ancient super hero

STORIES
 The story of Gilgamesh was about
 Love, friendship, and adventures
 Gilgamesh and Enkido fought and killed the
bull of heaven!
BABYLONIAN KINGS
 Babylon had lots of kings – not Presidents
 2 famous kings
 King Hammurabi
 King Nebuchadnezzar II

 Hammurabi was famous because he made

the code Hammurabi.
 It was the law
THE CODES
 The code of hammrabi has 282 laws.
 If a son hit his father, the sons hand wuold be
cut off.
THE CODES
 I think they should have had just one law
 Remember this one?
KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR II
 Famous for building huge garden on top of
palace
 Hanging Gardens of Babylon
 One of Ancient Wonders of the World
 Built for a woman
PLANETS AND STARS
 They named 5 planets
 Mercury
 Venus

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 Mars
 Saturn
 Jupiter
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN
BABYLONIANS AND US
 Homes with flat roofs
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FLAT ROOFS ZZZZ
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 No electricity
 No air conditioning

 Sleeping on house
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FLAT ROOFS Z!!

 What if…?
FLAT ROOFS Aaaaahh
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 Don’t Sleep on Your Roof! hhhhhhh!
!!
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN
BABYLONIANS AND US
 Other differences
 They did not have lunch
 They pretty much had no schools
 If they did have school, no girls went to school
 But…