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	20. The Last Babylonian Empire and the Empire of Darius I. Wells, H.G. 1922. A Short History of the World
		To the south of this in a great crescent was a new Chaldean Empire, the Second Babylonian Empire, which rose to a very great degree of wealth and power under the rule of Nebuchadnezzar the Great (the Nebuchadnezzar of the Bible).
		Cambyses went mad and was accidentally killed, and was presently succeeded by Darius the Mede, Darius I, the son of Hystaspes, one of the chief councillors of Cyrus.
		The Persian Empire of Darius I, the first of the new Aryan empires in the seat of the old civilizations, was the greatest empire the world had hitherto seen.
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	Babylonian Judaism
		Babylonian Judaism adheres to the basic tenets of the Jewish faith: belief in one creator God; belief that Israel is God's chosen people from whom the Messiah, or anointed one of God, will come to unite the Jewish people in the land of Israel; and the authority of the Torah.
		With the fall of the Babylonian empire to the Persian King Cyrus in 538 BCE the Jews were allowed to return to Palestine.
		This was particularly true of the Babylonian Jews when the capital of the Muslim caliphate was moved from Syria to Baghdad in the middle of the 8th century.
	philtar.ucsm.ac.uk /encyclopedia/judaism/babjud.html (844 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Babylonia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Babylonian beliefs held the king as an agent of Marduk, and the city of Babylon as a "holy city" where any legitimate ruler of Mesopotamia had to be crowned.
		Babylonian numerals by sarah nixon this number system was discovered by a 12 year old girl named sarah nixon were written in cuneiform, using a wedge-tipped reed stylus to make a mark on a soft clay tablet which would be exposed in the sun to harden to create a...
		The Babylonian king remained a priest to the last, under the control of a powerful hierarchy; the Assyrian king was the autocratic general of an army, at whose side stood in early days a feudal nobility, aided from the reign of Tiglath-pileser III onwards by an elaborate bureaucracy.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Babylonia (6391 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Marduk (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Nibiru, to the Babylonians, was the celestial body or region sometimes associated with the god Marduk.
		Babylonian texts talk of the creation of Eridu by the god Marduk as the first city, 'the holy city, the dwelling of their [the other gods] delight'.
		As the ruler of the late Babylonian pantheon, he was equated with the Greek god Zeus (Latin Jupiter), hence the name of the planet.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Marduk (2612 words)

	Babylonian Empire
		The Babylonian Empire was the most powerful state in the ancient world after the fall of the Assyrian empire (612 BCE).
		The Babylonian historian Berossus tells that the alliance was cemented by a royal wedding: the Babylonian crown prince Nebuchadnezzar married a princess named Amytis.
		Its population was deported to Babylonia: the beginning of the Babylonian Exile of the Jews.
	www.livius.org /ba-bd/babylon/babylonian_empire.html (0 words)

	Four beasts are four empires (Daniel 7:4-6)
		The lion with wings represents the Babylonian Empire.
		The lion was a symbol of the Babylonian Empire.
		The three ribs are three kingdoms which the Medo-Persian Empire defeated: the Lydian Kingdom (546 B.C.), Chaldean Empire (539 B.C.) and the Egyptian Empire (525 B.C.).
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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Babylonia
		Babylonian plain; for, coeval with the first foundations of their oldest temples, they possessed the cuneiform script, which can be described as a cursive hand developed out of picture-signs by centuries of primeval culture.
		Babylonian Noah, commanded by Ea, builds a ship and transfers hither his family, the beasts of the field, and the sons of the artificers, and he shuts the door.
		Babylonian theologians not only gave him a place in the Pantheon, but in the Epos "Enuma Elish" it is related how as reward for overcoming the Dragon of Chaos, the great gods, his fathers, bestowed upon Marduk their own names and titles.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/02179b.htm (10270 words)

	The Old Babylonian Kingdom of Mesopotamia in Iraq (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Babylonians believed the king held power because of the gods; moreover they thought their king was a god.
		The Epic of Gilgamesh is a Babylonian compilation of Sumerian tales about a legendary king of the city-state of Uruk and a flood story...
		Eventually the Assyrians suppressed them but even that was not the end of the Babylonians for they rose again in the Chaldean (or Neo-Babylonian) era from 612-539 BC; made famous by their great King Nebuchadnezzar.
	ancientneareast.tripod.com /Old_Kingdom_of_Babylonia.html (459 words)

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		Of the reign of the last Babylonian king, Nabonidus (Nabu-na'id), and the conquest of Babylonia by Cyrus, there is a fair amount of information available.
		This is chiefly derived from a chronological tablet containing the annals of Nabonidus, supplemented by another inscription of Nabonidus where he recounts his restoration of the temple of the Moon-god at Harran; as well as by a proclamation of Cyrus issued shortly after his formal recognition as king of Babylonia.
		Cyrus now claimed to be the legitimate successor of the ancient Babylonian kings and the avenger of Bel-Marduk, who was assumed to be wrathful at the impiety of Nabonidus in removing the images of the local gods from their ancestral shrines, to his capital Babylon.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Neo-Babylonian_Empire (872 words)

	The Babylonians: Unifiers of Mesopotamia
		The Babylonians began their rise to power in the region of Mesopotamia around 1900 B.C. This was at a time when Mesopotamia was largely unstable, prone to conflict and invasion, and not at all unified.
		This early period, known as the Old Babylonian Period, is characterized by over 300 years of rule of the Amorites, who had come from west of the Euphrates River, and formed an empire based in the city-state of Babylon.
		It was the nearly half-century rule of Nabopolassar’s son Nebuchadnezzar that again cemented Babylon as the center of the substantial Babylonian empire.
	ancienthistory.suite101.com /article.cfm/the_babylonians (475 words)

	Age of Mythology Odyssey
		The Babylonians traded food surpluses for raw materials like copper, gold, and wood, which they used to manufacture weapons, household objects, jewelry, and other items that could be traded.
		When Cyrus turned against the Babylonians, he was welcomed by a large segment of the population, including the influential priests.
		The first Babylonian empire is best known for the Law Code of King Hammurabi, circa 1750 BC, purportedly handed down by the god Shamah.
	www.angelfire.com /biz6/aom/aoebabylonian.html (1637 words)

	Babylon - Tower of Babel - Crystalinks
		In the subsequent overthrow of the Assyrian empire, the Babylonians saw another example of divine vengeance.
		With the recovery of Babylonian independence under Nabopolassar a new era of architectural activity ensued, and his son Nebuchadrezzar II made Babylon into one of the wonders of the ancient world.
		But following Alexander¹s mysterious death in 323 BC in the palace of Nebuchadrezzar, his empire was divided amongst his generals, and decades of fighting soon began, with Babylon once again caught in the middle.The constant turmoil virtually emptied the city of Babylon.
	www.crystalinks.com /babylon.html (2605 words)

	Babylonia - QuickSeek Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		All these Babylonian institutions influenced the civilization of Assyria and so contributed to the later history of the Middle East and of Western Europe.
		It was only when Darius Hystaspis ("the Magian") acquired the Persian throne and ruled it as a representative of the Zoroastrian religion, that the old tradition was broken and the claim of Babylon to confer legitimacy on the rulers of western Asia ceased to be acknowledged.
		A crystal lens, turned on the lathe, was discovered by Austen Henry Layard at Nimrud along with glass vases bearing the name of Sargon; this could explain the excessive minuteness of some of the writing on the Assyrian tablets, and a lens may also have been used in the observation of the heavens.
	babylonia.quickseek.com (3228 words)

	History & info - Various ancient calendars
		Later, the empires centralized the intercalation, and as late as 541 B.C.E. it was proclaimed by royal fiat.
		Thus, the Babylonian calendar until the end preserved a vestige of the original bipartition of the natural year into two seasons, just as the Babylonian months to the end remained truly lunar and began when the New Moon was first visible in the evening.
		The influence of the Babylonian calendar was seen in many continued customs and usages of its neighbor and vassal states long after the Babylonian Empire had been succeeded by others.
	webexhibits.org /calendars/calendar-ancient.html (6376 words)

	All Empires - Assyria
		This first Assyrian Empire did not last long, however; Shamshi-Adad's son, Ishme-Dagan I, (reigned circa 1780-1760 BC),was defeated about 1760 BC by the Babylonian king Hammurabi, and Assyria became part of the Babylonian Empire.
		The viceroy claimed to be the successor of the monarchs whose empire had once stretched to the Mediterranean.
		The great empires that succeeded it learned a great deal from the Assyrians, both in the arts and in the organization of their states.
	www.allempires.com /empires/assyria/assyria1.htm (3118 words)

	The Neo-
		The Babylonian empire under Nebuchadrezzar extended to the Egyptian border.
		Though he had to collect extremely high taxes and tributes in order to maintain his armies and carry out his building projects, Nebuchadrezzar made Babylonia one of the richest lands in western Asia--the more astonishing because it had been rather poor when it was ruled by the Assyrians.
		The collapse of the Assyrian empire had the consequence that many trade arteries were rerouted through Babylonia.
	www.angelfire.com /nt/Gilgamesh/neobabyl.html (1759 words)

	The Rise of Babylon and Exile (640 BC-538 BC): OT History
		The end of the Assyrian Empire unfolded largely during the reign of Josiah, and his death in 609 occurred as the Assyrian Empire was breathing its last.
		The Babylonians, however, were expanding too rapidly for Egypt to contain, and during the reign of Jehoiakim the tiny nation of Judah would totally lose its independence to Babylon and finally disappear into the Babylonian Empire.
		Perhaps the Babylonians were expecting the rebellion, because within a few short months Babylonian armies had arrived in Judah to crush it.
	www.cresourcei.org /othbabylon.html (3361 words)

	Babylonian Pythagoras
		The article Babylonian mathematics gives some background to how the civilisation came about and the mathematical background which they inherited.
		It has on it a diagram of a square with 30 on one side, the diagonals are drawn in and near the centre is written 1,24,51,10 and 42,25,35.
		I feel that the arguments are weak, particularly since there are numerous tablets which show that the Babylonians of this period had a good understanding of Pythagoras's theorem.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/HistTopics/Babylonian_Pythagoras.html (2040 words)

	Biblical Archaeology: Iron Age IIC
		We need to back up and trace the rise of the Neo-Babylonian empire (recall that the Old Babylonian empire was about a thousand years earlier, made famous by Hammurabi).
		During the reign of Asshurbanipal the Median Empire was welded together by Hurakshatra (Ummakishta in Babylonian accounts, Cyaxares in the account of Herodotus).
		But according to Babylonian records, Belshazzar was a co-regent with his father, when the father was away.
	www.christianleadershipcenter.org /bibarch12.htm (5022 words)

	Divine Graffiti: The End of an Empire - John MacArthur
		The root word means "to divide" or "break," indicating that the Babylonian Empire would be broken, or conquered, and taken over by the Medes and Persians.
		Babylonian society was filled with guilt because sin brings guilt.
		American society, like Babylonian society, is characterized by greed, selfish motives, and a lack of honesty and integrity.
	www.biblebb.com /files/MAC/sg27-13.htm (5600 words)

	The Chaldeans
		Suffering mightily under the Assyrians, the city of Babylon finally rose up against its hated enemy, the city of Nineveh, the capital of the Assyrian empire, and burned it to the ground.
		In keeping with Assyrian practice, the "New Babylonians," or Chaldeans forced a large part of the Jewish population to relocate.
		Babylon in 555 BC came under the control of a king loyal to the Assyrians, Nabonidus (555-539 BC), who attacked Babylonian culture at its heart: he placed the Assyrian moon-god, Sin, above the Babylonian's principal god, Marduk, who symbolized not only the faith of Babylon but the very city and people itself.
	www.wsu.edu:8080 /~dee/MESO/CHALDEAN.HTM (390 words)

	Bible Study - Ancient Empires - Babylon
		The Babylonian Empire was one of the most ancient of the major human kingdoms.
		The Old Babylonian Kingdom was at its peak at about the time of God's calling of Abraham (see Abraham, Man Of Faith), who was from Ur Of The Chaldees.
		However, after many centuries of conflict, the old empire eventually became subject to the Assyrians, from about 885 to 607 B.C. It was during that period that the Assyrians (see Ancient Empires - Assyria) conquered and took into captivity the northern kingdom of Israel, from which the "Lost Ten Tribes" never returned (2 Kings 17:1-23).
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	Ethics of Assyrian, Babylonian, and Persian Empires by Sanderson Beck
		Both the Babylonians and the Assyrians fought against the Lullubi tribes in the eastern hills and the nomadic tribes in the western deserts.
		Persian Empire to 500 BC The civilization on the Iranian plateau is very ancient; copper was smelted there about 5500 BC, and Elam in the lowlands lagged only slightly behind Sumer in the development of hieroglyphic writing 5,000 years ago.
		Khusrau ceded territory to the Byzantine empire in the treaty of 591.
	www.san.beck.org /1-6-Persia.html (0 words)

	The Neo-Babylonian Empire
		By then, the Neo-Assyrian Empire was no longer the powerhouse that it used to be.
		That was because the Egyptians, led by Pharaoh Necho II, intervened and installed a new Assyrian king in Harran.
		According to the Old Testament, in an attempt to appease the Babylonians, the residents of Jerusalem killed their king, Jehoiakim, and threw his dead body over the wall.
	www.edhelper.com /ReadingComprehension_42_176.html (707 words)

	Smith's Bible Dictionary \| Christian Classics Ethereal Library
		His name is explained to mean “Nebo is the protector against misfortune.” He was the son and successor of Nabopolassar, the founder of the Babylonian empire.
		Jehoiakim, who, although threatened at first with captivity, (2 Chronicles 36:6) had been finally maintained on the throne as a Babylonian vassal, after three years of service “turned and rebelled” against his suzerain, probably trusting, to be supported by Egypt.
		It may be gathered from the prophetical Scriptures and from Josephus that the conquest of Jerusalem was rapidly followed by the fall of Tyre and the complete submission of Phoenicia, Ezek 26-28 after which the Babylonians carried their arms into Egypt, and inflicted severe injuries on that fertile country.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/smith_w/bibledict.html?term=Nebuchadnezzar,%20Or%20Nebuchadrezzar (635 words)

	The Achaemenid Persian Empire (550–330 b.c.) \| Thematic Essay \| Timeline of Art ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Achaemenid Persian empire was the largest that the ancient world had seen, extending from Anatolia and Egypt across western Asia to northern India and Central Asia.
		Under Darius the empire was stabilized, with roads for communication and a system of governors (satraps) established.
		He added northwestern India to the Achaemenid realm and initiated two major building projects: the construction of royal buildings at Susa and the creation of the new dynastic center of Persepolis, the buildings of which were decorated by Darius and his successors with stone reliefs and carvings.
	www.metmuseum.org /toah/hd/acha/hd_acha.htm (1046 words)

	Babylon (WebBible Encyclopedia) - ChristianAnswers.Net
		When Nineveh fell (B.C. 606) it threw off the Assyrian yoke, and became the capital of the growing Babylonian empire.
		After passing through various vicissitudes, the city was occupied by Cyrus, "king of Elam," B.C. 538, who issued a decree permitting the Jews to return to their own land (Ezra 1).
		This city and its whole empire were taken by the Persians under Cyrus; the Persians were subdued by the Macedonians, and the Macedonians by the Romans; so that Rome succeeded to the power of old Babylon.
	www.christiananswers.net /dictionary/babylon.html (567 words)

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