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Amazing Facts about Ancient Civilizations

Published on Mar 28, 2016

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33 Amazing Facts

about early civilizations

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#1: Over 5,000 years ago, the world's first large cities were built in a region called Mesopotamia.

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#2: Mesopotamia was one of the first places where people practiced farming.

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#3:Scientists found the Royal Game of Ur, which is the first like checkers or backgammon.

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#4: Ancient Mesopotamia was not one country. It was made up of four warring groups: the Sumerians, Akkadians, Assyrians, and the Babylonians.

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#5: 1,000 years after the old Babylon failed, a 2nd Babylon, called New Babylonia, began.

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#6: Experts aren't sure if the hanging gardens of Babylon really existed.

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#7: Archaeologists are still searching ancient ruins, trying to find artifacts from ancient Mesopotamia.

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#8: Scribes used a reed stylus to write cuneiform.

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#9: Learning how to measure shapes helped Babylonians to become master builders.

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#10: Nebuchadnezzar II built a wall around Babylon that was 11 miles long.

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#11: The Ubaid were talented potters.

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#12: The Sumerians invented the wheel.

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#13: Sargon, the ruler of Akkad, and his army fought and won 34 battles.

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#14: The first wheels were probably used for pottery.

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#15: Ziggurats are flat- topped, stepped pyramids.

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#16:The first glass was invented in Mesopotamia.

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#17: The Babylonians had a counting system based on 60. That is why we have 60 seconds in a minute and 60 minutes in an hour.

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#18: Cuneiform was the first type of writing.

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#19:Babylonians created the first sundial.

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#20:What we know about the fall of Babylon came from the Cyrus Cylinder.

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#21: A reconstruction of the Ishtar Gate has 60 lions on each side.

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#22: Ishtar was the most famous goddess in Babylon.

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#23: Many people thought Babylon was an imaginary place until archaeologists uncovered parts of the city in the 1900's.

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#24:In Babylon people used the streets as a garbage dump.

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#25: Almost all the physicians in Babylon were men.

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#26: There were 3 social classes in Babylonia: free men, free laborers, and slaves.

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#27: Many diseases in Babylon were thought to be caused by demons in the body.

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#28: Babylonians were fascinated by stars and used them to predict omens that would occur.

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#29: The Babylonians believed that the earth was an upside down bowl.

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#30: Religion was at the center of Babylonian life.

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#31: Each Sumerian city-state belonged to a different god.

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#32:Kings' helmets were made of silver and gold, not leather, like their soldiers' helmets.

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#33:Rich and important women wore expensive jewelry.

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