Who built the city of Babylon?

Answer 1

Accounts indicate that the garden was built by King Nebuchadnezzar, who ruled the city for 43 years starting in 605 BC (There is an alternative story that the gardens were built by the Assyrian Queen Semiramis during her five year reign starting in 810 BC). This was the height of the city's power and influence and King Nebuchadnezzar is known to have constructed an astonishing array of temples, streets, palaces and walls. According to accounts, the gardens were built to cheer up Nebuchadnezzar's homesick wife, Amyitis. Amyitis, daughter of the king of the Medes, was married to Nebuchadnezzar to create an alliance between the two nations. The land she came from, though, was green, rugged and mountainous, and she found the flat, sun-baked terrain of Mesopotamia depressing. The king decided to relieve her depression by recreating her homeland through the building of an artificial mountain with rooftop gardens.

Answer 2

There is a lot of debate about who founded Babylon,

The earliest source to mention Babylon may be a dated tablet of the reign of Sargon of Akkad (ca. 24th century BC). The so-called Weidner Chronicle states that it was Sargon himself who built Babylon in front of Akkad.

Another chronicle likewise states that Sargon, dug up the dirt of the pit of Babylon, and made a counterpart of Babylon next to Agade.

Some scholars, including linguist I.J. Gelb, have suggested that the name Babil is an echo of an earlier city name. According to Dr. Ranajit Pal, this city was in the East. Herzfeld wrote about Bawer in Iran, which was allegedly founded by Jamshid; the name Babil could be an echo of Bawer. David Rohl holds that the original Babylon is to be identified with Eridu. The Bible in Genesis 10 indicates that Nimrod was the original founder of Babel (Babylon).

Historical resources inform us that Babylon was at first a small town, that had sprung up by the beginning of the third millennium BC (the dawn of the dynasties). The town flourished and attained prominence and political repute with the rise of the first Babylonian dynasty. It was the "holy city" of Babylonia by approximately 2300 BC.

Answer 3

The ancient city of Babylon was originally built by Nimrod around the 3rd millennium BC.

Answer 4

It was ruled by the Acadian kings until the Persian took it.

Answer 5

Slaves. The main guiding hand was Nebuchadnezzar II.

Answer 6

i think it was nebuchadnezzer's army

Answer 7

Probably Cush (Genesis 10:8-10)

Answer 8

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