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    The Babylonian Map of the World (or Imago Mundi) is a Babylonian clay tablet with a schematic map and two inscriptions written in the Akkadian language...
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  • rather to show the political power and territorial extent of a local ruler’s domain of the early Bronze age. A Babylonian world map, known as the Imago Mundi...
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    representations, notably including the Babylonian Map of the World. Evidentiary limitations include that the majority of surviving texts are administrative...
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  • "Map of the World", a 2010 song by Plain White T's from Wonders of the Younger A General Map of the World, or Terraqueous Globe Babylonian Map of the World...
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    14th century. Flat Earth, world view Mappa mundi, mediaeval world map Babylonian Map of the World Williams 1997, p. 13: "...the Isidoran tradition as it...
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    The Neo-Babylonian Empire or Second Babylonian Empire, historically known as the Chaldean Empire, was the last polity ruled by monarchs native to Mesopotamia...
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    The Babylonian captivity or Babylonian exile is the period in Jewish history during which a large number of Judeans from the ancient Kingdom of Judah...
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    The oldest known world maps date back to ancient Babylon from the 9th century BC. The best known Babylonian world map, however, is the Imago Mundi of...
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    kingdom centered around the city of Babylon. Like Assyria, the Babylonian state retained the written Akkadian language (the language of its native populace)...
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  • Sippar (category Populated places established in the 3rd millennium BC)
    Sippar was the site where the Babylonian Map of the World was found. Map of the World from Sippar, Mesopotamia, Iraq. 6th century BCE. The British Museum...
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