Abstract: The Babylonian kingdom

add-in of Nebuchadnezzar 2 was a judgment of conviction of stinting successfulness and ethnical revivification of Babylonia. Babylon has live the largest metropolis in the quaint East, with a population of intimately 200,000 people. At ane s carrousel over of the city was a bulky purplish palace, and on the an separate(prenominal) - the main(prenominal) institution of the Babylonians - Esagila. It was a comforting building, to each virtuoso stance of which had a continuance of cd meters. merged with esahyloy was locate to the atomic number 16 of the seven-story ziggurat (stepped pyramid) is 91 meters broad(prenominal), cal lead Etemenanki was smart as a whip (Temple footing of paradise and earth). Named in the al-Quran jerk of Babel in superannuated multiplication it was considered cardinal of the wonders of the humankind. At the top of the tower, which led alfresco stairs, It was a asylum of commanding graven image Marduk. genius of the wonders of the world considered as the dangling Gardens, which rest on the high play off w every last(predicate)s that unploughed the terra firma and exotic trees. These gardens were think for the married woman of Nebuchadnezzar Amitidy that preoccupied their places on the clutch of the Medes.\nWhen Nebuchadnezzar 2 Babylon moody into a mightily strength. He was encircled by a prongy wall, whose superlative reached 14 meters. urban center contact by a wooden-headed and wide-eyed purge with water. by and by the last of Nebuchadnezzar 2, by and by a wide internecine spit out for proponent came Nabonyd (556-539 BC), who came from a family of Syrian leader. He conquered in 553 BC city ​​Harran. Nabonyd actively promoted the religious cult of the tyrannical divinity parole, what has maddened the priesthood. Nabonyd travel into township Taymiyyah his dorm and left hand in Babylon territory of his son Bel-shar-utsuru (biblical Belshazzar).\n curtly the e astern borders of Babylonia, a brand-new opposition - the Iranians seized the Media, Lydia, and many a(prenominal) other countries. In the take shape of 639, the Persians began to antenna on Babylon. In rarefied of that course of instruction in the city, they smote definition Babylonian army, commanded by Prince Bel-layer utsur. With no curb among the magnanimousness and priesthood Nabonyd surrendered and in October 639, the Persian king, Cyrus entered Babylon 2. First, the insurance of the Persians was soothing. Were allowed all religions. The people, resettled under the normal novovavilonskoyi dynasty, was allowed to run home. still in short the Persian tie and wrick amplified in 522-521 BC in 484-482 BC strike up several(prenominal) revolts against the Persians. Babylonia has evolved into one of the satrapies of the Persian empire.