The achievements of the people of Babylonian civilization were important in the field of art and science.
These achievements can be understood under the following points :
- Calculation was based on decimals and hexadecimal system in the field of maths in ancient Babylonia.
- Here resideftts were more interested in astrology. They equated Jupiter to ‘Marduk’, mercury to’-‘Nebu’, Mars to Negerle, Moon to sin, Sun to Shamas, Saturn to Ninish and Venus was Considered as a goddess.
- They knew the exact time of sunrise and sunset, moonrise and moonset. Calculating the time of day and night, the whole day was divided into 24 hours.
- There are 60 seconds in a minute and 60 minutes in an hour. The Babylonians were the first to do this division.
- They divided the year into 12 months. There were 354 days in their year.
- The people of Babylon made the maps of the provinces and cities for the first time. Later, these arrangements also spread to other parts of the world.
