NEO-BABYLONIAN

GOVERNMENT

• Monarchy
• The king ruled through a number of officials who were
• directly under and responsible to him but he could intervenen
• personally at any level of government and administration.
• There were 6 kings in new Babylonian history

RELIGION

• Babylonian mythology was greatly influenced by their Sumerian counterparts
• Polythestic

SOCIAL STRUCTURE

• Babylonians Jews Syrians And other Conquered cultures
• Lowest people worked for the land owners

ADVANCED CITIES

• Developed around religion
• Temples were centers of city

SYSTEM OF WRITING

• The Babylonian writing system was based on cuneiform symbols.
• The symbols were written on wet clay tablets which were baked in the hot sun

ARTIFACTS

• Ancient Babylonia left behind some wonderful artifacts like The First Empire,
• the first empire known as Sargon the great,he was the Semitic king
• who ruled the earliest Babylonian Empire.

PRIMARY SORCE DOCUMENT

TECHNOLOGY AND CONTRIBUTIONS

• The Babylonians inherited the technical achievements of preparation of maps,surveys,and involved the
• use of leveling instruments and measuring rods. The Babylonians made distinct contributions
• to the growth of civilization.