In the related links box below, I posted the Babylonia wikipedia article.
The Babylonian Empire
fighting eating and drinking
The Persian Empire succeded and tookover the Babylonian Empire.
they both leaders and rule the world
By that time, Hammurabi was the King and he had all the territories gathered by then.
Rule by the Assyrian Empire and then a series of brutal civil wars.
70 years.
Rule by the Assyrian Empire and then a series of brutal civil wars.
The Babylonian exile was caused by the conquest of the Kingdom of Judah by the Babylonian Empire in 586 BCE. This was a result of the political and religious unrest in the region, as well as the failure of the Judean kings to submit to Babylonian rule. The Babylonians destroyed the Temple in Jerusalem and forced many Judeans into exile in Babylon for about 50 years.
The amelu are the first of the three classes of the Babylonian rule of Hamurabi and were the patricians. The other two were the mushkenu and the ardu.
First the Assyrian, then copied by the Babylonian, then the Persian.
Hammurabi, the Babylonian King from 1792 to 1750.