Babylon (In Our Time)
1,800 BCE · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the truth about Babylon. Six thousand years ago, between the Tigris and the Euphrates, the first cities were being built. The great empire to spring from the region was Babylon, which held sway for over a thousand years and in that time managed to garner an extraordinarily bad press: it’s associated with the Tower of Babel, wi
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Around 1800 BCE
- Maya civilisation (2000 BCE)
- New Kingdom of Egypt (1550 BCE)
- Shang dynasty (1600 BCE)
- Code of Hammurabi (1754 BCE)
- Abraham (1813 BCE)
- Mycenaean civilisation rises (1600 BCE)
- Minoan civilisation flourishes on Crete (2000 BCE)
- Indus Valley Civilisation ends (1900 BCE)
- Eruption of Thera (1600 BCE)
- Hammurabi (1810 BCE)