Age of Gold for Babylon At the beginning of the sixth century BC under the rule of Neubuchadnezzar, Babylon became reborn from the recent successful conquests and new wealth. After the Babylonians had promoted resistance under Sennacherib, their city had been destroyed only one hundred years earlier. Babylon first blossomed under the rule of Hammurabi. At the end of his reign Babylon had dominated an empire that stretched reaching almost to the sources of the Euphrates and down to the river's disgorging point in the Persian Gulf. After Hammurabi's reign Babylon, meaning the Gates of God, went through a period of over 400 years of independence. Inevitably Babylon was brought down under the rule of the Assyrians, though in 612 BC the father of Neubuchadnezzar, Nabopolassar, took advantage of the Assyrians weakness to conquer its empire and bring Babylon....

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