Everyone has heard of Babylonia at least once in their life. Although, very few know much about this civilization, Which means that few know about the impact the Babylonians had on modem day. Agriculture, religion, and social structure. Babylonians is a civilization that was located in what is now known as lrap. The Babylonians thrived from 1894 BC to 539 BC, and even appeared in the Bible. Babylonia also appears in several events in history. We need to acknowledge the fact that all of the things we have today originated from somewhere ,And despite the fact that we can’t give all of the credit to the Babylonians, they still did quite a bit to contribute. During Babylonia’s existence, agricultural development was …show more content…
This was an invention that wasn’t even seen in the west until the nineteenth century. “It remained unknown in the west (Greece and Rome),but when it was introduced in Europe in the nineteenth century, the productivity climbed with no less than 50%.”(Babylonia).The Babylonians were very efficient in their farming methods, and often had a surplus of crops This surplus was used to trade with other nearby civilizations, These trads are the roots of all trading process that we see today. They also helped develop social classifications and somewhat of an economy for the Babylonians empire.
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At this time, tons of new religious were emerging over the globe, However, the Babylonians didn’t have a mane for the religion they followed, only that they had picked it up from
Sumerians. Religious practices from Babylonian fall under what we call polytheism. They worshipped multiple goods that stood for multiple things. Some of the most important gods …show more content…
In fact , not much long after the Babylonian civilization had fallen, Hinduism was introduced in the Mauryan Empire or what is now known as India.
When it comes to social structure, the Babylonians already had a very defined and organized social classification system. The people of Babylonian were separated into 3 social classes; the Awilu the Mushkenu, and the Mandu. The Awilu were people considered precious in the Hammurabi Code and were much richer than the other two classes. The Mushkenu were people considered to be free but didn’t have as many rights as the Awilu. If they committed a crime they could be forced into slavery. The Wardu were the lowest class of people .There people were usually convicts and very poor.” Most of the people form this class were convicts of war, while some were recruited from the social from the innate Babylonians as well.” (Babylonia
Social Hierarchy ). There three classes are much like some of the social classes we have established in our modern society. A perfect example of this would be modern day America .
We are organized into what is known as the upper class, middle class, and the lower class.