A SHORT HISTORY OF THE WORLD - 20

by H. G. Wells in English Classic Stories

XX THE LAST BABYLONIAN EMPIRE AND THE EMPIRE OF DARIUS I We have already mentioned how Assyria became a great military power under Tiglath Pileser III and under the usurper Sargon II. Sargon was not this man’s original name; ...Read Moreadopted it to flatter the conquered Babylonians by reminding them of that ancient founder of the Akkadian Empire, Sargon I, two thousand years before his time. Babylon, for all that it was a conquered city, was of greater population and importance than Nineveh, and its great god Bel Marduk and its traders and priests had to be treated politely. In Read Less