The History Of Babylon Explained

The Persian Empire was destroyed by the Macedonian conqueror Alexander the Great in 331 B.C., perWorld History Encyclopedia. Like the Persians before him, Alexander was awed by Babylon's history and reputation, and he ordered his troops not to sack or tamper with the city and its inhabitants in any way. In fact, he made plans

The Persian Empire was destroyed by the Macedonian conqueror Alexander the Great in 331 B.C., per World History Encyclopedia. Like the Persians before him, Alexander was awed by Babylon's history and reputation, and he ordered his troops not to sack or tamper with the city and its inhabitants in any way. In fact, he made plans to rebuild the city's ziggurat to be even grander than it was before.

However, this was not to be, and Alexander died in 323 B.C. in Babylon. His generals then agreed to the Partition of Babylon, which divided up the empire. It didn't go peacefully, and a series of wars erupted to decide who would inherit his immense empire. These conflicts, known as the Wars of the Diadochi, were bad news for Babylon. The territory was invaded, taken, and then reconquered several times between the different commanders. By the time it was done, Babylon was a shell of its former self.

Babylon slowly decayed, and by the time the Parthian Empire took control of the area in 141 B.C., it was a virtual ruin. Several hundred years later, at the time of the Muslim conquests of the 7th century A.D., the once-great city of Hammurabi and Nebuchadnezzar was gone. Babylon had left the realm of history and entered the kingdom of legend.

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