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?Babylonia, named for the city of Babylon, was an ancient state in Mesopotamia (in modern Iraq), combining the territories of Sumer and Akkad. Its capital was Babylon. The earliest mention of Babylon can be found in a tablet of the reign of Sargon of?/akkad.htmlAkkad,?dating back to the 23rd century BC. In the Old Testament it is called Shinar as well as the land of the Chaldeans.?巴比伦尼亚，以巴比伦城来命名，是美索不达米亚的古代国家（在现代的伊拉克），综合了苏美尔和阿卡德地区。它的首都是巴比伦。早期提到的巴比伦，可以在阿卡德的萨尔贡统治期间的一块泥版上找得到，其年代为公元前23世纪。在旧约，它被称为希纳尔（基督教《圣经》中提到的名称，即苏美尔或巴比伦尼亚地区），同时也是“迦勒底人的土地”。Babylon (Babylonian, Bab-ilim or Babil, Gate of God), one of the most important cities of the ancient world, whose location today is marked by a broad area of ruins just east of the Euphrates River, 90 km (56 mi) south of Baghdad, Iraq.?巴比伦（巴比伦尼亚，或者是Bab-ilim 和 Babil，是“神之门”的意思），是古代世界的最重要城市之一，今天是位于离伊拉克巴格达南部90公里处，就在幼发拉底河东部的一个广大的废墟中。Babylonia was located in what is now southern Iraq. Babylonian literature was well developed in the 3rd millennium B.C. Records have been found of highly developed religion, history and science, including medicine, chemistry, alchemy, botany, zoology, math and astronomy. The Babylonians lived in?/meso.htmlMesopotamia, a fertile plain between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.?巴比伦在今天的伊拉克南部地方。巴比伦文学在公元前3000年充分发展。从记载中发现，那里是一个宗教、历史和科学高度发展的地方，包括了医药、化学、炼金术、植物学、动物学、数学和天文学。巴比伦尼亚位于美索不达米亚，一个位于底格里斯河和幼发拉底河之间的肥沃平原。History?历史During the first centuries of the Old Babylonian period (that followed the Sumerian revival under Ur-III), kings and people in high position often had Amorite names, and supreme power rested at Isin.?在“旧巴比伦”时期的头几个世纪（紧接着乌尔三世号召下的苏美尔人复兴运动），国王和地位高的人通常会有亚摩利人的名字，在伊辛（Isin）拥有极高的权力。A constant intercourse was maintained between Babylonia and the West - with Babylonian officials and troops passing to Syria and Canaan, while Amorite colonists were established in Babylonia for the purposes of trade. One of these Amorites, Abi-ramu or Abram by name, is the father of a witness to a deed dated in the reign of Hammurabis g