SORU: aşağıdaki parçaya göre cevaplayınız
It can be concluded from the passage that anyone visiting Babylon today
On the Euphrates River, in the land that is now Iraq, ruins of the world's first great city stand
alone in the desert. The city bore the proud name Bab-Ilu, meaning gate of the gods . The
Hebrews called it Babel. In the Greek and Latin languages the name took the form Babylon, and
the plain on which the city stood was called Babylonia. During the first thousand years of its
known history, Babylon was a mere village. It became the capital of the kingdom of Babylon
about 1894 BC and reached its first peak of glory in the reign of Hammurabi, the law-giver. This
great king beautified the city with palaces, temples and lowers and made it the religious and
cultural centre of western Asia. In its temples scholarly priests copied and preserved the writings
of the Sumerians, from whom the Babylonians derived their civilisation.