me and a friend had a heated decussion about this the other day he says they are the same empire i say they are not becuse the persian capital was in iran and the babylon captital was in iraq so who is rhight on this ?
2006-08-09 10:03:39 · 9 answers · asked by ryan s 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
The Persians conquered the Babylonians. To this day, the people who live in modernday Iran and Iraq remember this and it is the key to understanding their dislike of one another. The Babylonians were not an arab people. The peoples of Iraq only took on the culture and language of Arabia during the rise of Islam. There has been some arab migration and intermarriage there but it is culture and language that makes most Iraqis "arab." One of the main reasons the people of the area allowed arab invaders in was that they were convinced that such a military force could fend off and defeat the Persian threat to the east. Back to your question: No, Babylonians and Persians are not the same people and did not have the "same" empire. Persia attacked and swallowed up Babylonia.
2006-08-11 04:00:21 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are. The Persian Empire conquered the Babylon Empire. Nebuchadnezzer of Daniel fame was a Babylonian Emeror and Darius of Daniel fame was a Persian Emperor who helped conquer Babylon. They covered the same area and there were many Babylonian Empires including Hammurabi's time around 1500 BC
2006-08-09 11:47:19 · answer #2 · answered by bumpocooper 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, they were not. Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon was replaced by King Darius of Persia.
King Darius of Persia attacked and defeated Babylon during a drunken party hosted by King Nebuchadnezzar's son, Belshazzar.
Read the whole story in the Old Testament book of Daniel...very interesting historical reading. (Daniel 5:1-2, 23-31) The Bible mentions the victors as Medes; they were the Medo-Persian Empire.
2006-08-09 12:22:30 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are, although their empire sometimes overlapped, Persia and Babylon were seperate empires. Babylon was centered in Iraq close to present day Baghdad. Persia was centered in present day Iran and eventually conquered Babylon
2006-08-10 19:57:36 · answer #4 · answered by Ken W 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You are right - although their land areas overlapped, the Babylonian Empire was conquered by the Persians.
2006-08-09 10:11:24 · answer #5 · answered by Spel Chekker 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
u are right, the babylon was on present day Iraq and persia on present day Iran, and both empires took place on different times in history
2006-08-09 16:13:31 · answer #6 · answered by Slim Dogg 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, the Persians conquered the Babylonians.
2006-08-09 10:14:37 · answer #7 · answered by Randy G 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The ancient babylonians were arabs. The persian empire were persians. They were separate in time and self description.
2006-08-09 10:11:28 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
They were totally different - the Babylonian empire being much older for a start.
2006-08-10 18:24:25 · answer #9 · answered by brainstorm 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋