Babylonia
[,bæbi'lɒnjә]
Definition
(noun.) an ancient kingdom in southern Mesopotamia; Babylonia conquered Israel in the 6th century BC and exiled the Jews to Babylon (where Daniel became a counselor to the king).
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Examples
- It was an age of historical inquiry and learning in Babylonia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This history is even as the history of Babylonia, Assyria, and Egypt in the older times. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We find that later Babylonia severely limited the rights of property in slaves. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It possessed also those Jews who remained in Babylonia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The records of As syria and Babylonia, like those of Egypt, are fragmentary and still in need of interpretation. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The priestly _class_, in comparison with the equivalent class in Egypt and Babylonia, was small and insignificant. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Mo dern excavations have demonstrated that the sides or the corners of the temples and palaces of Assyria and Babylonia were directed to the four cardinal points of the compass. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- They are presented as patriarchal Bedouin chiefs, living the life of nomadic shepherds in the country between Babylonia and Egypt. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In the case of Babylonia these were nomadic Semites, the Bedouin, like the Bedouin of to-day. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But Babylonia and Egypt swarmed with Greeks before his time; he was not the cause, he was a part of the Hellenization. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- So far as one can gather, that was the general state of affairs in both Egypt and Babylonia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There is reason to believe that he also visit ed Babylonia. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- There can be little doubt of a great body of such thought and utterance in Babylonia, Egypt, and throughout the Semitic east. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Nabonidus, the last of the Babylonian rulers, was, as we have already told, digging up old records and building temples in Babylonia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The struggle between palace and temple came into Egyptian history, therefore, at a different angle from that at which it came into Babylonia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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