Ancient Babylon

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Ancient Babylon
Babylon - the largest city
of ancient Mesopotamia,
the capital of the
Babylonian kingdoms in
the 19th-6th centuries. BC,
the most important
commercial and cultural
center of the front Asia.

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Ancient Babylonia
Babylonia - was a
primitive slaveowning state of the
Ancient East, located
along the middle and
lower reaches of the
Euphrates and Tigris
rivers.

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Conquest of Babylon
Ancient Babylon arose on the site
of the more ancient Sumerian city
of Kadingir, whose name was later
transferred to Babylon.
In the 19th century
descended from the
Amorites (a Semitic
people who came
from the southwest)
the first king of the
first Babylonian
dynasty, Sumuabum
conquered Babylon
and made
its capital of the
Babylonian
kingdom.

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POPULATION
The population here was
mainly engaged in fishing,
cattle breeding and
agriculture. Crafts
developed. Stone tools were
gradually replaced by copper
and bronze ones.

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Fall of Babylon
The last ruler of this era,
Nabonidus, clashed with
the Achaemenid kingdom.
As a result, in 539 BC. e.
Babylon was conquered by
the Persian king Cyrus II.
Since that time, Babylon
ceased to exist as a state

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Wonderful architecture of Babylon

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Hanging Gardens to…

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...and after

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...and after

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Ancient Babylon, like ancient
Egypt, was famous for worshiping
cats, lions, panthers and other
members of the cat
family.

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Even the images on the bricks
were dedicated to cats

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In Babylon, writing was also
developed ...

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...and sculpture

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