Babylonia was an ancient cultural region in central-southern MesopotamiaIn Babylonia, an abundance of clay, and lack of stone, led to greater use of mud brick. Babylonian temples were massive structures of crude brick.The walls were brilliantly coloured, and sometimes plated with zinc or gold, as well as with tiles. In Babylon the king was on top of the social class. then there were the nobles, free citizen , which contained of soldiers in the military, and lastly there were the slaves. their social levels were divided into three basic groups: awilu, which is a free person from the upper class, wardu, or slave, and the mushkenu, which were normal free people.Although Babylon was quite a small state in the Sumerian, it grew tremendously throughout the time of Hammurabi's rule. He was known as “the law maker”, and soon Babylon became one of the main cities in Mesopotamia. Hammurabi created the laws of the city which were pretty much in an "eye for eye"style law. For the most part the only education that a young Babylonian might have recieved would have been of a scribal type. those who were sent to school to train as a scribe had to be children of wealthy or influential parent.Boys were admitted and possibly girls as well. Babylonian mythology is a set of stories depicting the activities of Babylonian deities, heroes, and mythological creatures. These stories served many social, political, ceremonial purposes, and at times tried to explain natural phenomena. Babylonian mythology and religion was largely centered around civilization. Babylonian economy was based upon agriculture, animal husbandry, manufactured goods and foreign trade. The chief economic institutions were the palace and temples, which owned large areas of land and were also involved in manufacturing and trade.There were in addition private landholders and business firms, and goods were exchanged on a barter system with silver as the standard of exchange.
