Compare And Contrast The Beliefs Of Babylonians And Egyptians
Impact of Fertile Crescent Cultures The Sumerians and Babylonians have about the same religions. They do the same things like they sacrifice animals and they have five gods. The wind, sun, sea, sky and moon. Since they believed in these gods the people made little sculptures of them so they can still be worshiped. They have a temple in middle of the city they have a shrine of all their gods so they can worship them. The priests are one of the only jobs that the priests can go inside the temple. They sacrifice animals to make their gods happy and the priests clean the temple to make their gods happy too. Babylonians inherited many of the cultural and technical achievements of the Sumerians. They used sophisticated techniques in irrigation and agriculture. Babylonians were also skilled engineers. They used the Sumerian counting system which closely resembled the decimal system used in much of the world today. They used an advanced system of writing and developed a system of education similar to that created by Sumerians their predecessors. Schools were important cultural centers and the curriculum consisted primarily of copying and memorizing the information in both of the Sumerian and Babylonian languages.
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A king in Babylon named Hammurabi was assisted by governors and other local administrators was the ruler.
A remarkable collection of laws known as the code of Hammurabi (an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth) regulated the punishment that was inflected upon citizens who misbehaved. Example if a nobleman pulls out another nobleman’s eyes his eyes should be put out too. Another example would be if a slave put out a nobleman’s eye the slave shall be put to death. How you can see they made big differences between the rich and the poor. Babylonian society consisted of three classes; the upper strata, the low strata, and the slaves. Like the Sumerians had rulers, nobles, priests, commoners, farmers and
slaves.
The Babylonians were later than the Sumerians the Sumerians got conquered by the Akkadians and then the Akkadians evolved into the Babylonians. Sumerians used cuneiform as a written language. The Akkadians spoke a Semitic language (like Hebrew or Aramaic but different from Sumerian); cuneiform script and Akkadian language blended together and that’s what Babylonians used. The Babylonians apparently preserved and adapted Sumerian myths.
Sources:
http://www.ushistory.org/civ/4b.asp
http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/semer.htm
A king in Babylon named Hammurabi was assisted by governors and other local administrators was the ruler.
A remarkable collection of laws known as the code of Hammurabi (an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth) regulated the punishment that was inflected upon citizens who misbehaved. Example if a nobleman pulls out another nobleman’s eyes his eyes should be put out too. Another example would be if a slave put out a nobleman’s eye the slave shall be put to death. How you can see they made big differences between the rich and the poor. Babylonian society consisted of three classes; the upper strata, the low strata, and the slaves. Like the Sumerians had rulers, nobles, priests, commoners, farmers and
slaves.
The Babylonians were later than the Sumerians the Sumerians got conquered by the Akkadians and then the Akkadians evolved into the Babylonians. Sumerians used cuneiform as a written language. The Akkadians spoke a Semitic language (like Hebrew or Aramaic but different from Sumerian); cuneiform script and Akkadian language blended together and that’s what Babylonians used. The Babylonians apparently preserved and adapted Sumerian myths.
Sources:
http://www.ushistory.org/civ/4b.asp
http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/semer.htm