Jan 2, 2010
Article abstract: The Neo-Babylonian state was the second of five great ancient empires—the Assyrian, the Medo-Persian, the Greek, and the Roman—that facilitated the spread of civilization in the Middle East and the Mediterranean.
The Neo-Babylonian Empire (626-539 b.c.e.) arose in Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq), which had been a center of culture for more than thirty-five hundred years before the birth of Nebuchadnezzar II. Great societies had come and gone—the Sumerian, the Akkadian, and the Babylonian. All these cultures had...
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