He was thought to be the son of the god Nabu | by Zainab Bahrani and Marc Van de Mieroop, University of Chicago Press: Chicago |
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Each of these were named after their main cities, like Nineveh, , and | 6000 Jahre Hochkulturen an Euphrat und Tigris, Stuttgart, ISBN 3-8062-1851-X• Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub, 2005 |
Revised edition completed by Erica Reiner, 1977 | |
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Ancient Mesopotamia: Portrait of a dead civilization | — introduction to Mesopotamia from the• The early prehistory of Mesopotamia - 500,000 to 4,500 BC, Turnhout 2005, ISBN 2-503-50729-8• A history of the ancient Near East |
A Companion to the Ancient Near East.
was the most powerful king in | Van de Mieroop, Marc; 2004 |
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In this way it was easier to keep control of an empire like Assyria | Although Babylon was quite a small in the Sumerian, it grew tremendously throughout the time of 's rule |
It was later called Babylonia, which meant "the gateway of the gods.