Old Babylonian Empire
1,894 BCE–1,595 BCE* · Event
The first Babylonian empire, from Sumu-abum's dynasty through Hammurabi's conquests to the Hittite sack — Babylon's rise from city-state to the centre of Mesopotamia.
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