History And History Of Babylonian

Babylonia was an empire of Semitic nation, located on the southern of Mesopotamia which today is Iraq. Babylon was Babylonia's capital city. Babylonia was a major power of the region during Hamurabi's period and created Acadian Empire. Now a day Babylonia is one of memorable empire in the modern modern world because of several things, such as mathematic, religion, and Hanging Garden of Babylonia that is one of 7 Wonders.

Babylonian played a very important role on modern mathematic, they invaded a lot of number ideas that still uses until today. Such as, 360 degrees of circles, concept of dozen which is 12, concept of 60 minutes per hours, and 12 months per year. During that period Babylonia was far in front of other empire about numeral. They didn't use number with base 10 which can be only 5 and 2, but they used 60 which could separate into 10 factors, and they use 60 as a principle to allocate time. They set up the theory that 1 year have 12 month, 1 month have 4 weeks, 1 week have 7 days, 1 day have 24 hours, 1 hour have 60 minutes, and 1 minute have 60 seconds. Babylonia was o...