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EXAM PROBLEM

A Civilization is defined as an advanced position of development in society that's marked by

complex social and political association, and material, scientific and cultural progress. As
humans started to settle down, the world’s foremost metropolises came the mecca of
civilization.
Although little is really known around the antiquated megacity of Babylon to draw a brief
comparison between the ways of life, and homogenies between the Babylonians, and the
Athenians, their ways of life, conviction fabrics, their artificer, design, ago much of the
sumptuous design didn't survive, there are still conceivable issues for productive comparison. In
the event that one must look upon the homes of both Babylonia and Athens, that is, their geology,
one can see that both were set up close extensive water bodies, bigger than aqueducts.
Though traces of neolithic agreement live, Babylon’s development as a major megacity was
late by Mesopotamian norms; no citation of it was before the 23rd century BCE. After the fall
of the 3rd dynasty of Ur, under which Babylon had been a parochial centre, it came the nexus of
a small area established in 1894 BCE.

https://www.britannica.com/place/Babylon-ancient-city-Mesopotamia-Asia
The name of Athens, connected to the name of its patron goddess Athena, originates from an
earlier Pre-Greek language. The origin myth explaining how Athens acquired this name through
the legendary contest between Poseidon and It even became the theme of the sculpture on the
west pediment of the Parthenon. Both Athena and Poseidon requested to be patrons of the city
and to give their name to it, so they competed with offering the city one gift each. Poseidon
produced a spring by striking the ground with his trident, symbolizing naval power.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Athens
The Greeks initially had an Oligarchy shape of government. This implies that it was
ruled by exceptionally few individuals. Babylonians stood alone with a Ruler. Most of the Greek
rules were chosen to lead since of their riches. Numerous didn't just like the ways of the
Oligarchy, so it before long changed to a majority rule government. Greece was the primary
majority rule government within the history of the world. Greece utilized branches of
government to speak to its citizens and the Romans utilized these branches to portray the
distinctive levels of its society. The Babylonians utilized a political structure that was a supreme
Ruler. The ruler was the head and beneath him were a bunch of governors and chairmen. Amid
the rule of Hammurabi (1792-1760) a set of laws was made called "The Code of Hammurabi."
In spite of the fact that a note of distinction lies in that although Babylon was encompassed by a
water body, a bit like Athens, be that as it may, the Euphrates was the as it were source of water
huge sufficient to maintain the civilization; the rest of the topography was to a degree a leave,
with few sources of water, while Athens was never brief of water, nor was there much hazard of
a dry season striking (since its encompassed by oceans and seas for miles. All of this did affect
the way of life of the individuals, and what they gave significance to, and who ruled over what.
When it came to the social progressions administering these lands, Babylon was ruled by a lord,
while Athens was the people's state.
The religion of both Antiquated Athens and Babylon was tragically polytheistic, where different
godly beings were deified. The normal Athenian would venerate a aggregate of 12 major god, in
any case truly multitudinous held genuine to a distinctive god rather of fair one god; one family,
or community living in a stoa would venerate either Apollo, or Achilles, or Athena. It was to the
point that multitudinous atrocious sanctuaries were developed right inside Athens itself. The
popular sanctuary of Zeus, and the Parthenon committed to Athena. These fantastic structures
were what gave Greek Divine beings and Goddesses a effective print on the present day man, in
comparison to sumptuous Divine beings and Goddesses. In malignancy of the fact that a similar
frame of secularism was rehearsed in old Babylonia, with Ishtar, and Marduk within the center,
and both were compared to Zeus- Ishtar actually being a goddess of political control, adore, and
excellence, and both had imperative structures similar as the ziggurat committed to adore, and
give up, for a many reason they weren't truly seen as able, or honored as able in comparison to
Athenian Divine beings. The Athenian Divine beings stunk of pride, control, glory, respectability,
vision, and more critically flawlessness.
Flawlessness was the perfect, not so important in Babylonia, where scholarly accounts,
composing, and attestation of history was given further significance. Flawlessness was looked
for after by the common Athenian, right down to their artificer and engineering. Since Babylon
was a to begin with major megacity, much of the center was given to survival, and
effortlessness, and accordingly, multitudinous of the structures in malignancy of the fact that
were fantastic in estimate, weren't ornamented. secerning this with the Doric, Ionic, and
Corinthian orders of centrals in an Athenian column, the ziggurat since it was made of slush,
can truly as it were shape itself into introductory shapes like 3d shapes, and cuboids, not at all
like the marble design of the sanctuary of Zeus, and citation numbers, in malignancy of the fact
that citation was still helpless within the test of time, which was why multitudinous of the
Greek numbers were subsequently revamped with marble.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Athens.
2. https://www.britannica.com/place/Babylon-ancient-city-Mesopotamia-Asia.
3. https://ntcities.hcommons.org/2019/01/25/athens/.
4. https://harpers.org/archive/2002/10/the-road-to-babylon/.
5. https://www.ushistory.org/civ/4b.asp.