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Essay Archive - Age of Gold for Babylon
Age of Gold for Babylon
At the beginning of the sixth century BC under the rule of
Neubuchadnezzar, Babylon became reborn from the recent successful conquests
and new wealth. After the Babylonians had promoted resistance under
Sennacherib, their city had been destroyed only one hundred years earlier.
Babylon first blossomed under the rule of Hammurabi. At the end of
his reign Babylon had dominated an empire that stretched reaching almost to
the sources of the Euphrates and down to the river's disgorging point in
the Persian Gulf. After Hammurabi's reign Babylon, meaning the Gates of
God, went th....
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