Talk:Babylonia/Archive 1

rad 2 to seven places, base what?
They calculated radical two to seven places, but are those decimal places, or base-60 places? 7 places in their own base-60 system is way more impressive. Any information on this?  B. Mearns * , KSC 20:14, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Neo babylonians
The "Neo" Babylonians was also called the Chaldean era or dynasty. I have made this important change

Babylon
Lots of the content here actually belongs in Babylon and vice versa; someone with some free time in their hands could revise the two articles together and think more carefully about what should be in each one. --LaloMartins 04:27, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

This articla starts out on the wrong foot. Babylonia was a state, but it was also a region and later it was a province of various empires. Babylon was the capital of Babylonia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.60.247.42 (talk) 18:16, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

Natural resources
Mesopotamia (especially southern Mesopotamia) was very poor in natural resources such as gold, silver, lead, timber, iron, lapis lazuli, etc. Virtually everything had to be imported. And so, I took out a previous statement claiming that Mesopotamia was rich in natural resources (see | edit history).

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Unwelcome political bias.
Re: "Why rich history of this ancient culture has been mostly destroyed by invading armies with no respect for the history and artifacts it contained before they blew it to kingdom come with shock and awe."

This is politically biased anti-American nonsense. Most Babylonian history was lost prior to either Gulf War and that certainly includes the Hanging Gardens. Not wishing to get into political debate Historical articles should be kept clear of politically motivated bias.

That is probably Graffiti (vandelization). Someone did the same to the first sentence. I'll fix it but I believe the page need to be watched out for frequent vandel's. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.176.158.215 (talk) 22:37, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

The first civilisation
Removed a statement claiming that Babylon was "the first ever effective civilisation", as Egyptian civilisation was already extant since 3100 BCE. Joe Gatt 09:48, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Sumer, which - after 3,000 years became Babylonia - is the oldest civilization. Izzedine (talk) 17:08, 21 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Sumer became Babylon by changing languages, populations, rulers, ruling class, location, and capitals. That is it didn't.Nitpyck (talk) 02:15, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

... dating back to the 23rd century BC. ...?!

i presume this should read ... 3rd century BC —Preceding unsigned comment added by Stvnkir (talk • contribs) 14:49, 19 May 2011 (UTC)