Babylon

Babylon was the capital city of the ancient Babylonian Empire, which achieved regional dominance between the 19th and 15th centuries BC, and again between the 7th and 6th centuries BC. The city, built along both banks of the Euphrates river, had steep embankments to contain the river's seasonal floods. The earliest known mention of Babylon is as a small town appearing on a clay tablet from the reign of Sargon of Akkad (2334–2279 BC) of the Akkadian Empire. The site of the ancient city lies just south of present-day Baghdad.

The town became part of a small independent city-state with the rise of the First Babylonian dynasty in the 19th century BC. The Amorite king Hammurabi founded the short-lived Old Babylonian Empire in the 18th century BC. He built Babylon into a major city and declared himself its king. Southern Mesopotamia became known as Babylonia, and Babylon eclipsed Nippur as the region's holy city. The empire waned under Hammurabi's son Samsu-iluna, and Babylon spent long periods under Assyrian, Kassite and Elamite domination. After the Assyrians had destroyed and then rebuilt it, Babylon became the capital of the short-lived Neo-Babylonian Empire, a neo-Assyrian successor state, from 609 to 539 BC. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon ranked as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. After the fall of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, the city came under the rule of the Achaemenid, Seleucid, Parthian, Roman, and Sassanid empires.

It has been estimated that Babylon was the largest city in the world c. 1770 – c. 1670 BC, and again c. 612 – c. 320 BC. It was perhaps the first city to reach a population above 200,000.

The last known mention of the city dates from the 11th century AD, when it was referred to as the "walled village of Babel".

Feel free to reimagine history here. What if Babylon had never fallen? What would it look like today? Download this map to find out. :)

Installation:

• Extract the .cok and .cok.cid files into your folder “AppData/LocalLow/Colossal Order/Cities Skylines II/Maps"
• If there is no "maps" folder yet in this folder, create a Maps folder.

Map Information: THEME: European (will be updated once new themes are available) CLIMATE: -11 - 27 C LATITUDE: Northern Hemisphere BUILDABLE AREA: 84% OUTSIDE CONNECTIONS: All Connections available. Road. Rail. Sea. Air. Power. NATURAL RESOURCES: Fertile land, Oil, and Ore cover most of the map.

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