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Lightbulb still hasnt went off yet huh? I told you that you white people were dumb. Who was Cush?Where does it say Black people didnt found it even though its written by a white boy? We have an older source that says it was founded by a Black guy. Look up Nimrod you dumb cave monkey.Tell us who founded Babylon? I'll wait.That was first thing they did. They established civilization in not just one spot but several. Then they educated you whites. Worst mistake they ever made and then they repeated it by bringing you whites out of the dark ages in europe. Its hard teaching whites. They cant seem to pick up the things that really matter. No wonder they have never done anything original. Even your example of Algebra is from Africa you dumb cave monkey.![]()
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That was first thing they did. They established civilization in not just one spot but several. Then they educated you whites. Worst mistake they ever made and then they repeated it by bringing you whites out of the dark ages in europe. Its hard teaching whites. They cant seem to pick up the things that really matter. No wonder they have never done anything original. Even your example of Algebra is from Africa you dumb cave monkey.![]()
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The Babylonians pioneered many of the basic usages of algebra. A tablet dated between 1900 and 1600 B.C. contains Pythagorean triples and other advanced mathematics. There is also evidence of rudimentary algebra in Ancient Egypt, including a document on linear equations that is one of the earliest mathematical proofs ever discovered. While the Ancient Greeks were better known for other forms of mathematics, they did devise a form of geometric algebra that used the sides of objects to represent algebraic terms. Mathematicians from present day India and China also developed early versions of algebra, with the modern algebraic term "Modus Indorum" referring specifically to an algebraic method devised in India.
Two of the most important people in the history of algebra are Diophantus and al-Khwarizmi. The former is frequently referred to as "the father of algebra," and his treatise "Arithmetica" was the first to use symbols to represent unknown numbers. Al-Khwarizmi was the first to distinguish algebra from geometry and arithmetic, and he pioneered the concept of balancing and reducing the sides of an equation. The word algebra refers to his work "Hidab al-Jabr wal-Muqubala," or "The Book of Restoration and Balance."
Since then, Europeans like Francois Viete and Gottfried Leibniz and scholars from other parts of the world, such as Seki Kowa, have refined mathematicians' understanding of algebra.Ancient Babylon: Center of Mesopotamian CivilizationTell us who founded Babylon? I'll wait.That was first thing they did. They established civilization in not just one spot but several. Then they educated you whites. Worst mistake they ever made and then they repeated it by bringing you whites out of the dark ages in europe. Its hard teaching whites. They cant seem to pick up the things that really matter. No wonder they have never done anything original. Even your example of Algebra is from Africa you dumb cave monkey.![]()
bwaaaaaa
That was first thing they did. They established civilization in not just one spot but several. Then they educated you whites. Worst mistake they ever made and then they repeated it by bringing you whites out of the dark ages in europe. Its hard teaching whites. They cant seem to pick up the things that really matter. No wonder they have never done anything original. Even your example of Algebra is from Africa you dumb cave monkey.![]()
bwaaaaaaaaaaa
The Babylonians pioneered many of the basic usages of algebra. A tablet dated between 1900 and 1600 B.C. contains Pythagorean triples and other advanced mathematics. There is also evidence of rudimentary algebra in Ancient Egypt, including a document on linear equations that is one of the earliest mathematical proofs ever discovered. While the Ancient Greeks were better known for other forms of mathematics, they did devise a form of geometric algebra that used the sides of objects to represent algebraic terms. Mathematicians from present day India and China also developed early versions of algebra, with the modern algebraic term "Modus Indorum" referring specifically to an algebraic method devised in India.
Two of the most important people in the history of algebra are Diophantus and al-Khwarizmi. The former is frequently referred to as "the father of algebra," and his treatise "Arithmetica" was the first to use symbols to represent unknown numbers. Al-Khwarizmi was the first to distinguish algebra from geometry and arithmetic, and he pioneered the concept of balancing and reducing the sides of an equation. The word algebra refers to his work "Hidab al-Jabr wal-Muqubala," or "The Book of Restoration and Balance."
Since then, Europeans like Francois Viete and Gottfried Leibniz and scholars from other parts of the world, such as Seki Kowa, have refined mathematicians' understanding of algebra.
By Owen Jarus
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According to legend, 6th-century Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar had a colossal maze of waterfalls and dense vegetation planted across his palace for a wife, who missed her lush homeland. Archaeologists still debate the garden's existence.
Credit: Photo Credit: A 16th century depiction of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon (by Martin Heemskerck)
Located about 60 miles (100 kilometers) south of Baghdad in modern-day Iraq, the ancient city of Babylon served for nearly two millennia as a center of Mesopotamian civilization.
One of its early rulers, Hammurabi, created a harsh system of laws, while in later times the Babylonian language would be used across the Middle East as a way of communicating across borders. Another great accomplishment, if the ancient stories are true, is the construction of the Hanging Gardens, a wonder of the ancient world, which some believe was built by the biblical king Nebuchadnezzar II.
Today, Babylon is a site in peril, a place impacted by modern-day wars and in need of extensive conservation and archaeological work. Its history, however, is one that continues to thrive in religious stories, ancient artifacts and popular culture.
“Babylon, in all its manifestations, is at once remote to us and all around us. Like no other city, its history has become bound up with legend...” write researchers Irving Finkel and Michael Seymour in the book "Babylon" (Oxford University Press, 2008).
Early beginnings
Archaeologically little is known about the early history of Babylon. Ancient records suggest that more than 4,000 years ago, at a time when the city of Ur was the center of an empire, Babylon appears to have been a provincial administration center. “Babylon had not been an independent city,” writes researcher Gwendolyn Leick in her book "The Babylonians" (Routledge, 2003).
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This inscription, made in the name of Tiglath-pileser I, a king of Assyria, records the conquest of Babylon. It was made more than 3,000 years ago.
Credit: The Schøyen Collection MS 2063, Oslo and Londo
She notes that in 1894 B.C., after the Ur-based empire had collapsed, the city was conquered by a man named Samu-abum. He was an Amorite, a Semitic-speaking people from the area around modern-day Syria. He proceeded to turn Babylon into a petty kingdom made up of the city and a small amount of nearby territory. Babylon would remain this way until, six kings later, a man named Hammurabi (1792-1750 B.C.) ascended the throne. He was the ruler who would go on to turn this once small kingdom into a great empire.
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