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Babylonians

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"The Babylonian ancient culture reigon occupying South-Eastern Mesopotamia between the Tigris, and Euphrates rivers, and close to Kish, and Nippur. Now it is in Iraq; 59 miles directly SW of Baghdad"

According to bitancca.com

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More Babylonian Facts:

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After Sennacherib "a ruler" died his oldest son, Shamash-shum-ukin headed a revolt against his brother Assur-bani-pal of Assyrian.

"The Fall of Babylon denotes the end of the Neo-Babylonian Empire after it was conquered by the Achaemenid Empire in 539 BCE. ... In 539 BCE, Cyrus the Great invaded Babylonia, turning it into a colony of Achaemenid Persia. Cyrus then claimed to be the legitimate successor of the ancient Babylonian kings."

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"'The Babylon Empire was the most powerful state in the ancient world after the fall of the Assyrian empire"

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Timeline

1220 BCE

Assyrian king Tukuliti-Ninurta 1

attacks Babilonia and takes the

throne. Kassite eventually depose

him, but damage has been done

to the irrigation system.

1125-1104 B.C

Nebuchadrezzar 1 rules Babilon and

retakes the statue of Marduk the

Elamites had taken to Susa.

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2500-1500 bce

2350. The First code of laws written by Urukagina, king of Lagash. 2000. Babylon takes over fertel creasent. 1800-1750. Hammurabi takes over as ruler of Babylon makes the Hammurabi cade and builds a wall around Babylon.

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1500-500

1595- Kassite Dynasty rules over

Babylonia.

1595- King Mursilis of the Hitties sacks Babylon. Begin of the "dark ages"

1595- Nebu regarded as the son of Marduk during the Kassite period in Babylon.

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Fun fact.

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Babylon was the later name given to Babel because Babel ment confusion. The name Babilon is the greek name for gater of the good. Babylon rabeled agenst the assyrian rule under mushezib mardub. The Babylon empire was built on the euphraties river.

Inventions

The Babylonians invented wheel that contentsto the chariot, the sail boat, plow, time astronamy and astralagy, the map and math.

"curse the babylons"

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our sources include anchent history encyclopedia, baghdad.com,encyclopedia, and ancienthistorylist.

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