By: Alyssa, Ally, Cory, and Eric

 Babylonia thrived under Hammurabi he worked to unite the people of his empire. He made the Babylonian god. He built roads and create a postal service trade helped the empires economy many kinds of crafts people used materials brought from distant land

This writing is called Cuneiform. They started using it around 2700 b.c. The writing has 600 different symbols. When they first started they had a symbol for each word.  It is very complicated, the most complicated to learn and read, it is harder to read. To write they used a styles an object made of wood with a pointed end and flat end. They used the flat end to rub out mistakes.

In Babylon their were many kinds of artists and craftspeople. The metalworkers made practical objects like weapons and cups they also made decorative items like mirrors and jewelry.

The bible reveals that all false systems of religion began in the land of Babylon. The bible records in Genesis 10;10, that, after the great flood, all men spoke one common language and a man named Nimrod built a city and established a common religion. Nimrod was a descendant of Noah’s son Ham. It is interesting that the materials used to build the Tower of Babel were the same as those employed for the construction of the great ziggurat of Babylon and similar ziggurats, according to ancient building inscriptions.

The three main classes of Babylon are the awilu, the muskenu, and the wardu. the awiu means as mentioned in social levels and writing of Babylon the awiu are the three main social classes of Babylonians.

The Babylonians created the accurate calendar, mathematics, and astronomy. Its not much but it came to be very important to us in the modern day.

The End Sources: S.S. Book, Websites, Kids Discovery book, Babylonian book By: Elaine Landau