Babylon rises to power in Mesopotamia after the fall of the Akkadian Empire.
This Episode’s Sources:
Our Oriental heritage (Durant)
Scientific Astronomy in Antiquity (Aaboe)
World Civilizations (Burns, Ralph)
Babylonia and Assyria (Collier’s Encyclopedia)
Code of Hammurabi (worldhistory.org)
Babylon (Wikipedia)
Babylonia (Wikipedia)
Babylonian Astronomy( Wikipedia)
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