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    Leilan Kurda Nineveh Tell al-Rimah Ekallatum The Old Babylonian Empire, or First Babylonian Empire, is dated to c. 1894–1595 BC, and comes after the...
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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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    Babylonia (redirect from Babylonian Empire)
    created a short-lived empire, succeeding the earlier Akkadian Empire, Third Dynasty of Ur, and Old Assyrian Empire. The Babylonian Empire rapidly fell apart...
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  • surrounding region, not only between different states and empires, such as the Old Babylonian Empire, Mari and Eshnunna, but also between different Assyrian...
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    Akkadian Empire, Akkadian, in its Assyrian and Babylonian varieties, was the native language of the Mesopotamian empires (Old Assyrian Empire, Babylonia...
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    Babylon (category Articles containing Old Persian (ca. 600-400 B.C.)-language text)
    established two important empires in antiquity, the 19th–16th century BC Old Babylonian Empire, and the 7th–6th century BC Neo-Babylonian Empire. Babylon was also...
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  • original on 21 February 2015. Retrieved 21 February 2015. "Babylonian Empire - Livius". "The Old Kingdom". "Kingdoms of South Asia - Indian Kingdoms of Assam"...
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    ascendancy, when Babylonian kings rose to dominate large parts of the Ancient Near East: the First Babylonian Empire (or Old Babylonian Empire, c. 1894/1880–1595...
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    Assyria (redirect from Assyrian Empire)
    extensively devastated in the Medo-Babylonian conquest of the Assyrian Empire and the succeeding Neo-Babylonian Empire invested few resources in rebuilding...
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    Hittites (redirect from Old Hittite Empire)
    and sacking Mari and Babylon, ejecting the Amorite rulers of the Old Babylonian Empire in the process. Rather than incorporate Babylonia into Hittite domains...
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    the global flood that destroys all life begins to appear in the Old Babylonian Empire period (20th–16th centuries BCE). The version closest to the biblical...
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    Elam (redirect from Old Elamite Empire)
    Akkadian-speaking Old Assyrian Empire in Upper Mesopotamia, and almost seventy-five years older than the Old Babylonian Empire. This period is said by many...
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    world empire in history. It influenced other empires of the ancient world culturally, administratively, and militarily, including the Neo-Babylonians, the...
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    Kurda, Larsa, Mari, and Ebla, and later founded Babylon and the Old Babylonian Empire. They also founded the Fourteenth Dynasty of Egypt during the fragmented...
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    Kingdom of Judah were forcibly relocated to Babylonia by the Neo-Babylonian Empire. The deportations occurred in multiple waves: After the siege of Jerusalem...
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    Hammurabi (category Articles containing Old Babylonian Akkadian-language text)
    BC), also spelled Hammurapi, was the sixth Amorite king of the Old Babylonian Empire, reigning from c. 1792 to c. 1750 BC. He was preceded by his father...
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  • ancient Near East. They controlled Babylonia after the fall of the Old Babylonian Empire from c. 1531 BC until c. 1155 BC (short chronology). The Kassites...
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  • Jemdet Nasr periods through the end of the Old Babylonian Empire, it was under the control of the Akkadian Empire and then the Third Dynasty of Ur in the...
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    Babylonian Chronicles The Babylonian Chronicles are a loosely-defined series of about 45 tablets recording major events in Babylonian history. They represent...
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  • province of the Neo-Babylonian Empire established in the former territories of the Kingdom of Judah, which was destroyed by the Babylonians in the aftermath...
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    is sometimes known as the Old Assyrian Empire and latterly the 'Empire of Shamshi Adad'. After a few decades of Babylonian domination in the mid 18th...
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  • Kazallu. The city disappears from history with the fall of the Old Babylonian Empire circa 1595 BC. Under its king Kashtubila, Kazalla warred against...
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    1750 BC). The Old Babylonian Empire, however, mostly used Akkadian in inscriptions, sometimes adding Sumerian versions. The Old Babylonian period, especially...
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    Median kingdom (redirect from Median Empire)
    became strong enough to overthrow the declining Assyrian empire in alliance with the Babylonians. However, contemporary scholarship tends to be skeptical...
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  • regions south of Old Babylonian Empire, but termed Second Dynasty of Babylon (complete list) – Ea-gamil, King (fl.c.1460 BC) Middle Babylonian period: Kassite...
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    Nebuchadnezzar II (category Babylonian captivity)
    also spelled Nebuchadrezzar II, was the second king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, ruling from the death of his father Nabopolassar in 605 BC to his...
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  • Shamshi-Adad III, King (1545–1529 BC) Puzur-Ashur III, King (1521–1498 BC) Old Babylonian Empire: Amorite dynasty (complete list) – Ammi-Ditana, King (1620–1583...
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  • between these civilizations. Old Assyrian Empire Old Babylonian Empire Middle Kingdom of Egypt Kingdom of Mitanni Hittite Empire Known by the Minoans and...
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    Fall of Babylon (category Neo-Babylonian Empire)
    marked the total defeat of the Neo-Babylonian Empire to the Achaemenid Empire in 539 BC. Nabonidus, the final Babylonian king and son of the Assyrian priestess...
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    19th century. The tablets were etched around 1700 BCE, during the Old Babylonian Empire, although Edmund I. Gordon, who published the first translation...
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