Ancient near east Babylonians

From Sargon- Hammurabi – Fall of Nineveh Akkadian Empire, 2300 Third Dynasty of Ur, Ur III, collapses in 2002 First Amorite Period in Babylon: founding of the city 1894 Rise in power, claims lineage from Sumerians Old Babylonian Empire of Hammurabi Dominated by Assyrians and others -608

Neo-Babylonian Empire, 608-539 'Chaldean Empire' Nabopolassar Overthrows Assyria

Nebuchadnezzar II Battle of Carchemesh 605, defeats Israelites & Egyptians, extends Babylonian Empire to Syria Alliance with Medes Military Campaigns Building projects

Campaign Against Egypt Revolts throughout Canaan Judah backed Egypt against Babylon, so… 597, Captures Jerusalem Destroys Solomon's Temple, mass deportations Babylonian Captivity and Diaspora Subjugates Tyre

Hanging Gardens of Babylon? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/10039773/Hanging-gardens-of-Babylon-were-not-in-Babylon.html

Babylon Reconstructed Triple City Walls Bridges Euphrates, tunnels under Euphrates Ishtar Gate

Belshazzar The writing on the wall n Aramaic names of measures of currency:MENE, a mina (from the root meaning "to count"), TEKEL, a spelling of shekel (from the root meaning "to weigh"), PERES, half a mina (from the root meaning "to divide", but additionally resembling the word for "Persia").[2] The last word (prs) he read as peres notparsin. His free choice of interpretation and decoding revealed the menacing subtext: "Thou art weighed in the balance and art found wanting." The divine menace against the dissolute Belshazzar, whose kingdom was to be divided between the Medes and Persians, was swiftly realized. That very night King Belshazzar is slain, and Darius

Persians take Babylon, 539 Cyrus the Great