Amazing Facts about Ancient Civilizations
Published on Mar 28, 2016
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#1: Over 5,000 years ago, the world's first large cities were built in a region called Mesopotamia.
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#2: Mesopotamia was one of the first places where people practiced farming.
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#3:Scientists found the Royal Game of Ur, which is the first like checkers or backgammon.
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#4: Ancient Mesopotamia was not one country. It was made up of four warring groups: the Sumerians, Akkadians, Assyrians, and the Babylonians.
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#5: 1,000 years after the old Babylon failed, a 2nd Babylon, called New Babylonia, began.
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#7: Archaeologists are still searching ancient ruins, trying to find artifacts from ancient Mesopotamia.
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#8: Scribes used a reed stylus to write cuneiform.
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#9: Learning how to measure shapes helped Babylonians to become master builders.
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#10: Nebuchadnezzar II built a wall around Babylon that was 11 miles long.
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#16:The first glass was invented in Mesopotamia.
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#17: The Babylonians had a counting system based on 60. That is why we have 60 seconds in a minute and 60 minutes in an hour.
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#18: Cuneiform was the first type of writing.
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#21: A reconstruction of the Ishtar Gate has 60 lions on each side.
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#22: Ishtar was the most famous goddess in Babylon.
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#23: Many people thought Babylon was an imaginary place until archaeologists uncovered parts of the city in the 1900's.
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#24:In Babylon people used the streets as a garbage dump.
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#25: Almost all the physicians in Babylon were men.
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#26: There were 3 social classes in Babylonia: free men, free laborers, and slaves.
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#28: Babylonians were fascinated by stars and used them to predict omens that would occur.
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#29: The Babylonians believed that the earth was an upside down bowl.
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#30: Religion was at the center of Babylonian life.
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#31: Each Sumerian city-state belonged to a different god.
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#32:Kings' helmets were made of silver and gold, not leather, like their soldiers' helmets.
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#33:Rich and important women wore expensive jewelry.
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