Babylon
Babylon
Babylon was an ancient city located on the lower Euphrates river in southern Mesopotamia, within modern-day Hillah, Iraq, about 85 kilometres south of modern-day Baghdad. Babylon functioned as the main cultural and political centre of the Akkadian-speaking region of Babylonia. Its rulers established two important empires in antiquity, the 19th–16th century BC Old Babylonian Empire, and the 7th–6th
"… The region known as Mesopotamia was the home of many civilizations. … the region was invaded and conquered many times, and the successive dynasties spoke and wrote in many different languages. The convention of referring to all the mathematical texts that come from this area between 2500 and 300 BCE as ‘Babylonian’ gives undue credit to a single one of the many dynasties that that ruled over this region."
Babylon"America as a metaphor for Babylon has been a common idea both here and around the world for much of the past" American century." ... To many of those on the far right, Americans are a decadent people, deceived by a mass culture and mass media that serve up madness and mayhem as entertainment hourly in TV programs, films, and popular music."
Babylon
