A Short History of Babylon

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The history of the Babylonian Empire commences with Nabopolassar, who appears to have mounted the throne in the year B.C. 625; but to keep in mind the real character of the kingdom which he set up, its traditions and its national spirit, we should begin at a far earlier date. We should examine, in on the other hand incomplete and cursory a manner, the middle period of Babylonian history, the time of obscurity and comparative insignificance, when the country used to be as a general rule, subject to Assyria, or at any rate played but a secondary part in the affairs of the East. We will thus prepare the way for our proper subject, at the same time as at the same time We will link at the history of the Fourth to that of the First Monarchy, and obtain a second line of continuous narrative, connecting the brilliant era of Cyaxares and Nebuchadnezzar with the difficult to understand period of the first Cushite kings…

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