By that time Assyria was grappling with foes nearer at hand, and could make but a poor resistance.
A Semitibsp;people from south-east Mesopotamia, the Chaldeans, bined with Aryan Medes and Persians from the north-east against Nineveh, and in 606 B.C.—for now we are ing down to exabsp;ology—took that city.
There was a division of the spoils of Assyria.
A Median Empire was t up in the north under Cyaxares.
It included Nineveh, and its capital was Ecbatana.
Eastward it reached to the borders of India.
To the south of this in a great crest was a new Chaldean Empire, the Sed Babylonian Empire, whibsp;ro to a very great degree of wealth and power under the rule of Nebuezzar the Great (the Nebuezzar of the Bible).
The last great days, the greatest days of all, for Babylon began.
For a time the two Empires remained at peabsp;and the daughter of Nebuezzar was married to Cyaxares.
Meanwhile Nebsp;II was pursuing his easy quests in Syria.
He had defeated and slain King Josiah of Judah, a small try of whibsp;there is more to tell prently, at the battle of Megiddo in 608 B.bsp;and he pushed on to the Euphrates to enter not a det Assyria but a re Babylonia.
By that time Assyria was grappling with foes nearer at hand, and could make but a poor resistance.
A Semitibsp;people from south-east Mesopotamia, the Chaldeans, bined with Aryan Medes and Persians from the north-east against Nineveh, and in 606 B.C.—for now we are ing down to exabsp;ology—took that city.
There was a division of the spoils of Assyria.
A Median Empire was t up in the north under Cyaxares.
It included Nineveh, and its capital was Ecbatana.
Eastward it reached to the borders of India.
To the south of this in a great crest was a new Chaldean Empire, the Sed Babylonian Empire, whibsp;ro to a very great degree of wealth and power under the rule of Nebuezzar the Great (the Nebuezzar of the Bible).
The last great days, the greatest days of all, for Babylon began.
For a time the two Empires remained at peabsp;and the daughter of Nebuezzar was married to Cyaxares.
Meanwhile Nebsp;II was pursuing his easy quests in Syria.