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The city experienced two major periods of ascendancy, when Babylonian kings rose to dominate large parts of the Ancient Near East: the First Babylonian Empire (or Old Babylonian Empire, c. 1894/1880–1595 BC) and the Second Babylonian Empire (or Neo-Babylonian Empire, 626–539 BC).
The Old Babylonian Empire, or First Babylonian Empire, ... The chronology of the first dynasty of Babylonia is debated; there is a Babylonian King List A [1] ...
The Babylonian king Nabonassar overthrew the Chaldean usurpers in 748 BC, and successfully stabilised Babylonia, remaining untroubled by Ashur-nirari V of Assyria. However, with the accession of Tiglath-Pileser III (745–727 BC) Babylonia came under renewed attack. Babylon was invaded and sacked and Nabonassar reduced to vassalage.
The early Kassite rulers are the sequence of eight, or possibly nine, names which appear on the Babylonian and Assyrian King Lists purporting to represent the first or ancestral monarchs of the dynasty that was to become the Kassite or 3rd Dynasty of Babylon which governed for 576 years, 9 months, 36 kings, according to the King List A.
For the Neo-Babylonian kings, war was a means to obtain tribute, plunder (in particular sought after materials such as various metals and quality wood) and prisoners of war which could be put to work as slaves in the temples. Like their predecessors, the Assyrians, the Neo-Babylonian kings also used deportation as a means of control.
Ruling title of the Old Babylonian kings. [25] Title employed by some Assyrian kings who ruled over Babylon. [18] Example users: Sargon II, [18] Esarhaddon [26] Kassite king [27] šar Kaššu [27] Title used by the Kassite dynasty of Babylon. [27] Example users: Agum III, [27] Karaindash [27] King of Akkad [28] šar māt Akkadi [28] Literally ...
The Kassite dynasty, also known as the third Babylonian dynasty, was a line of kings of Kassite origin who ruled from the city of Babylon in the latter half of the second millennium BC and who belonged to the same family that ran the kingdom of Babylon between 1595 and 1155 BC, following the first Babylonian dynasty (Old Babylonian Empire; 1894-1595 BC).
Neo-Babylonian kings (3 C, 8 P) Pages in category "Kings of Babylon" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent ...