WORLD CIVILIZATION

Detailed explanation-1: -Babylonian astronomy was the study or recording of celestial objects during the early history of Mesopotamia.

Detailed explanation-2: -By the seventh century bc, astronomers in Babylonia-a state in Mesopotamia, present-day Iraq-were conducting detailed observations, largely for astrological forecasting. Previous cuneiform records have suggested that the astronomers predicted where planets would be using arithmetic methods.

Detailed explanation-3: -The first documented records of systematic astronomical observations date back to the Assyro-Babylonians around 1000 BCE. From this cradle of civilisation in Mesopotamia – in the southern part of present-day Iraq – astronomers had built up knowledge of the celestial bodies and recorded their periodic motions.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Babylonians used the innovations of the Sumerians, added to them, and built an empire that gave the world, among other things, codified laws, a tower that soared above the earth, and one of the Seven Wonders of the World. Geographically, the empire of Babylonia occupied the middle and southern part of Mesopotamia.

Detailed explanation-5: -Throughout history civilizations have developed unique systems for ordering and understanding the heavens. Babylonian and Egyptian astronomers developed systems that became the basis for Greek astronomy, while societies in the Americas, China and India developed their own.