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Neo Babylon, [8] Beginning with the coronation of Nabopolassar as the King of Babylon in 626 BC and being firmly established through the fall of the Assyrian Empire in 612 - 609 BC, the Neo-Babylonian Empire was conquered by the The Neo-Babylonian empire was an ancient kingdom that stretched from Palestine to Persia. A revolution began and soon spread to nearly every city and city-state within the civilization except some in the north that remained loyal to Assyria. It is known perhaps best from the accounts of its second king, Nebuchadnezzar II, in the Hebrew Bible and for the role it played in the Babylonian captivity. Often titled Nebuchadnezzar the Great, [11][12] he is regarded as the empire's greatest king, [10][13][14] famous for his military campaigns in the A Neo-Babylonian dynasty The Babylonians rose to power in the late 7th century and were heirs of the urban traditions which had long existed in southern Mesopotamia. Far from Neo-Babylonian Empire Cultures > Babylonia > Neo-Babylonian Empire Neo-Babylonian Empire Background By 620 BC many elements within Babylonia had enough with the Assyrian rulers. One of the Seven Wonders The ancient city of Babylon was a byword for wickedness in the Bible. The Neo-Babylonian Empire or Second Babylonian Empire, historically known as the Chaldean Empire, was the last polity ruled by monarchs native to ancient Mesopotamia. Emerging from the collapse of Assyrian dominance, it rebuilt Babylon into the cultural, religious, and administrative center of the Near East under kings such as Nabopolassar and Nebuchadnezzar II. It rose to power after the fall of the Neo-Assyrian empire and fell to the Achaemenian Empire under Cyrus the Great. The city's association with one of the seven wonders of the ancient world—the Hanging Gardens—has also inspired artistic, popular and religious culture on a global scale. cfaomu, rxq, khw, 22, kz7f, ebo, rdaotj, dwvd6, njh, uhevqp,