Civilization · Middle and Late Bronze Age · Babylonia

Babylonia

c. 1894–539 BCE

Babylonia was the great civilization of southern Mesopotamia, centered on Babylon. Hammurabi gave it the most famous law code of the ancient world. Its last king, Nebuchadnezzar II, built Babylon into a wonder before Persia took it.

Facts

Founded: c. 1894 BCE, as an Amorite kingdom at Babylon.; Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Babylonia
Ended: 539 BCE, conquered by Cyrus the Great of Persia.; Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Babylonia
Heartland: Southern Mesopotamia, capital Babylon.; Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Babylonia
Major rulers: Hammurabi, lawgiver of the eighteenth century BCE; Nebuchadnezzar II, builder of the new Babylon.; Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Babylonia

Images

The law stele of Hammurabi, top showing the king receiving the laws from the sun god. (Wikimedia Commons)

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