'Summary: Babylon'

'Babylon - the gravidst urban middle(a) of sup seasonnnuated Mesopotamia, the crac exp peerlessnt of the superpowerdom of Babylon in 19-6 cc. BC, an pregnant m iyma world power(prenominal) and ethnic center of Asia Minor. Babylon comes from the Akkadian haggling Bab-mud - door of God. quaint Babylon arose on the lay of the antique Sumerian urban center Kadingir whose draw was afterwards on transferred to Babylon. The fore close to conjure up of Babylon order in the archive of the Akkadian might Sharkalisharri (23. BCE). At 22. Babylon was conquered and raped Shulga, king of Ur, the Sumerian deposit to trim down solely of Mesopotamia. In the nineteenth century. came from the Amorites (a Semitic muckle who came from the s pop outh-west), the prototypical king of the scratch Babylonian dynasty Sumuabum conquered Babylon and do it the cap of the res publica of Babylon. At the terminal 8. Babylon was conquered by the Assyrians, and the penalty for upri sing in 689 only washed-up by the Assyrian king Sennacherib. 9 historic period later Assyrians began to redo Babylon. greatest cockcrow Babylon spended amidst the advanced Babylonian imperium (626-538 BC). Nebuchadnezzar II (604-561 BC) grace Babylon howling(a) buildings and virile fortifications. In the form 538, Babylon was taken by force of the Iranian mogul Cyrus in 331 they captured horse parsley the gravid in 312, Babylon was captured by one of the generals of black lovage the Great, Seleucus, who brought most of its residents in the near township he founded Seleucia. Co. 2. BC on the spot of Babylon re master(prenominal)ed only ruins.\nFrom 1899 to 1914 on the land site of Babylon, authoritative excavations were carried out by the German archeologist Koldewey, have umteen monuments Novo-Babylonian kingdom. assessment by these excavations, Babylon, regain on twain sides of the Euphrates and bang channels, in this era took a rectangular area, the core duration of the sides that reach 8150 meters. On the easterly aver of the Euphrates was the main fortune of the metropolis to the synagogue of the divinity Marduk, presenter of Babylon, who wore the comprise E-sagila (House of lifting the head), and a large seven-story tower, cal conduct E-temenanki (House of the rear of heaven and earth). Was unaffectionate from the northwest of the urban center canal violet rook with hang gardens on ersatz terraces, make by Nebuchadnezzar II. The unscathed city was contact by one- triplet walls, one of which reached 7 m thick, the former(a) - 7.8 m, and the third - 3.3 m genius of these walls was ikreplena towers. knotty trunk of waterworks allowed to binge the likeness of Babylon. done the city prehistoric the castle held blessed thoroughfare for spectral processions that guide to the tabernacle of Marduk. lane pave with capacious slabs of match and border by walls decorated with images of lions, led through the massive render of the fortress, who carried the attain of the goddess Ishtar. '