BABYLONIAN CIVILIZATION

• Babylonian civilization emerged near the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
• “Babylon” is an Akkadian “babilani” which means “The Gate of Gods”
• The Babylonians were great builders, engineers, and architects.
• bablylonian - One of their major contribution is the Hanging Gardens if Babylon, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.
• babylonian One of the important works of this civilization is the “Code of Hammurabi”.
• The Awilu were the free people in the upper class. They’re the ones who received free luxury and they were the wealthy people who did not work nor contribute in the Monarchy of Babylon.
• The Mushkenu Mushkenu, a free person of low estate, who ranked legally between the awilu and the wardu. The position of the mushkenu in society can be surmised from a number of legal provisions in the Code of Hammurabi. Similar to the Awilu. The Mushenku were the one who suffered under poverty in Babylon. Yet they were the ones who also did not give any contribution to go to a higher class of social standings
• The Wardu These people were the slaves that did most of the work by doing the chores. Their contributions were doing the things and working for the Upper classes and the Kings specifically only for them.
• Hanging Gardens of Babylon, ancient gardens considered one of the Seven Wonders of the World
• The Code of Hammurabi was one of the earliest and most complete written legal codes and was proclaimed by the Babylonian king Hammurabi,
• Hammurabi was the sixth king in the Babylonian dynasty
• The Hammurabi code of laws, a collection of 282 rules, established standards for commercial interactions and set fines and punishments to meet the requirements of justice