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Babylonia

Babylonia was a region in what is now southern Iraq where a talented people built a great civilation almost 4,000 years ago. Among their accomplishments, the Babylonians developed exact sciences, especially mathematics and astronomy. Because the Babylonias sought to use their science to predict the future, their astronomy gave way to astrology, belief that the motion of the heavenly bodies affects the course of human events. Thus, while the Babylonians laid a foundation for modern science, it remained for the later Greeks to separate science from superstition. The Babylonians were a Semitic people whose language was related to Hebrew and Arabic. They were influenced by a people who lived earlier in the region, the Sumerians. Like the Sumerians, they used a style of writing called cuneiform ("wedge-shaped") and developed a culture built around large cities.