Many historians cite two names for Babylonia. One is Babylonia, the other term sometimes used is Sumerian empire.
King Hammurabi conquered the neighboor provinces and made the Babylonian Empire.
It was the area of modern Iraq. They became empires. First were the Sumerian followed by the Assyrians. The capital was the city of Nineveh. Then came the Babylon empire which the city was the capital.
The two neighboring sister-states of ancient Mesopotamia competed for dominance and as such grew widely different in character. Assyria and Babylonia were parts of the ancient Mesopotamia. When the Assyrian empire fell in 612 B.C., Babylonia stepped in and became the most powerful state in ancient Mesopotamia. Assyria occupied a highland region north of Babylonia on the east side of the Tigris. Located at the eastern end of the Fertile Crescent, Babylonia was situated between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in what is now present day Iraq.
That is not the way historians see it. After conquering all the Sumerian city-states, Sargon I united them with Akkad, and created the world's first empire. Sargon II did the rest. Babylonia was the capital city and it emerged as a major power when Hammurabi created an empire out of the territories of the former Akkadian Empire.
Neo-Babylonia Neo-Babylonia
Babylonian Empire.
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The Persian Empire absorbed the Babylonian Empire.
Macedonia was an Ancient Greek empire that had Babylonia in it as well as Babylonia when it was an empire, had the ancient kingdom of Macedonia in it.
Babylonia did.
well im just GUESSING that it is somewhere... correct me if im wrong... and that it is called the empire of babylonia occasionally... and it has babylonial people in it... and it is also called babylon... so my answer is this. sorry if i am wrong.
Babylonia emerged when Hammurabi created an empire out of the territories of the former kingdoms of Sumer. In other words, Babylonia began the Empire that Sumer started but they were the same people.
The Assyrian empire was assimilated by Babylonia, which was in turn conquered and assimilated by the Persian empire.
Babylon was the capital city of Babylonia (Babylonian empire)
it was universal throughout the empire
Many historians cite two names for Babylonia. One is Babylonia, the other term sometimes used is Sumerian empire.