Politics Axis
Sack and Fall of Nineveh to Babylonians and Medes
612 BCE
An alliance of Nabopolassar and Cyaxares razes the Assyrian capital, destroying the Assyrian Empire.
Sources and References
LITERATURE
Bible (Livre de Nahum)
Reliability index : ★★★★★
Semantic cluster
Mesopotamia clusterSumer, Akkad, Babylon, Assyria: writing, law codes, Fertile Crescent empires.
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Sack of Thebes by Assyrian Emperor Ashurbanipal
663 BCE
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Victory at Carchemish and Peak of Nebuchadnezzar II
605 BCE
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Destruction of Solomon's Temple and Babylonian Exile
586 BCE
- Same cluster
Erection of Ishtar Gate and Etemenanki Ziggurat
575 BCE
- Same cluster
Creation of Ashurbanipal's Royal Library at Nineveh
668 BCE
- Same cluster
Capture of Babylon by Cyrus the Great and Cyrus Cylinder
539 BCE
- Semantic bridge
Founding of XXVIth Dynasty and Saite Renaissance
664 BCE
- Semantic bridge
Birth and Philosophy of Confucius (Kong Fuzi)
551 BCE
- Semantic bridge
Enlightenment of Gautama Buddha
528 BCE