PowerPoint sobre Babilonions

1. The city of Babylon
By Gabriela Matsuyama

2. Babylon
Babylon is a city that was ones ruled by an Amorite family. The King of Babylon
is a man called Hammurabi. Around 730BC, Babylon became part of the
Assyrian empire. In 625BC, a Babylonian called Nabopolassarbecame king. He
and his son, Nebuchadnezzar II, ruebuilt Babylon.

3. Hammurabi
Hammurabi, the the first king of Babylon, had differrent rules. Some of the
rules were that if a surgeon carried out an operation that killed the patient, he
had his hand cut off. Also, if a man owed money to someone but he doesn´t
have, he could lend his wife as a slave.

4. Hanging garden
Nebuchadnezzar II build a giant building callea the Hanging garden.This is
were he lived. He made it for her wife because she missed her home.

5. Religion
The Babylonians had a New Year Festival in which the took out a statue
of their god Marduk. It lasted 11 days. People could see the statue in the
battlements.

6. Gods
The most important gods that they belived in were Marduk, which they
say he created the world building a raft on the ocean and putting dust on
it and Ishtar, the goddess of love and war.

7. Trade and transport
Babylonians nedded to trade because they needed natural items from
other lands. The carried the items on foot, donkey, raft, coracle, golf boat
and cart.

8. The end of Babylon
In the end, at 539BC, the Persians invaded Babylon and became part of
it.