Babylon

Worksheet Description

The Babylonian Empire rose to power after the fall of the Akkadian Empire. The Babylonian Empire was the first to include all of Mesopotamia. Babylon, located on the banks of the Euphrates river, had long been a Mesopotamian city-state. It was taken over by the Amorites when the Akkadian Empire fell. When King Hammurabi became Babylon’s ruler in 1792 BC, he set out to conquer the surrounding city-states. It only took him a few years to conquer all of Mesopotamia, including the northern lands of Assyria. Hammurabi’s Babylon was the largest and most powerful city in the world at the time, a hub for the trade of both products and culture. Science, music, mathematics, astronomy, and literature flourished here.

What was the Babylonian Empire the first to do?