Victory at Carchemish and Peak of Nebuchadnezzar II
605 BCE
Nebuchadnezzar II defeats Egypt at Carchemish, annexing the Levant and making Babylon a global metropolis.
Sources and References
Donald Wiseman, Nebuchadrezzar and Babylon (Oxford Univ. Press)
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Mesopotamia clusterSumer, Akkad, Babylon, Assyria: writing, law codes, Fertile Crescent empires.
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