What is the difference between Babylonia and Sumeria? What are their similarities?

Question

What is the difference between Babylonia and Sumeria? What are their similarities?

Answer 1

Sumer, which flourished from as early as 4500 BCE until about the time of Hammerabi, 1700 BCE, included most of the region between the Tigris & Euphrates Rivers, as well as southward towards the Persian Gulf...

Babylon was one city, in what had been the Sumerian region, which came into power much later...appx. 600 BCE.

An interesting note: The Jews were "taken" into captivity in Babylon, around 600 BCE, and that is where the Old Testament was originally recorded, after being passed on by Oral Tradition, for several thousand years (The Jewish Calendar's year One, was appx.3751 BCE)...

Answer 2

Babylonia and Sumeria were both City-states in Mesopotamia (Iraq basically) in the bronze age (3000-1200BC). So was Ur, Uruk (where we get Iraq), to name a few others.

There were a series of small empires, leading to progressively larger empires in the region dominated by one city-state or another until the end of the Bronze Age in 1200 BC.

The NEO Assyrians and NEO Babylonians proceeded the Persians, and it was the NEO Babylonians (Chaldeans technically) who conquered Ancient Israel and, as was their policy, relocated the population.  Their thinking was you were less likely to rebel if you weren't in your ancestor's homeland.

Answer 3

one difference is their languages. Babylonian is a semitic - based language while Sumerian is a linguistic isolate.