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Chronicle VII of XII

Persian, Greek & Parthian Babylonia

Classical Mesopotamia

Babylonia under the Great Kings, Alexander, the Seleucids, and Parthia.

Span
539 BC – 224 AD
Entries
10
  1. 539 BC

    Achaemenid BabyloniaPolitical

    The jewel of the Persian Empire

    Babylonia becomes the wealthiest province of the Achaemenid empire, and its kings winter in Babylon's palaces.

    Meanwhile, elsewhere · 3
  2. 522 BC

    Achaemenid BabyloniaMilitary

    Babylon revolts against Darius

    Twice, pretenders claiming to be a son of Nabonidus raise Babylon in revolt, and twice Darius I crushes them.

    Meanwhile, elsewhere · 3
  3. 482 BC

    Achaemenid BabyloniaPolitical

    Xerxes ends the kingship of Babylon

    After another revolt, Xerxes drops the title 'King of Babylon' and the city's separate royal identity ends.

    Meanwhile, elsewhere · 3
  4. 401 BC

    Achaemenid BabyloniaMilitary

    The Ten Thousand at Cunaxa

    Near Babylon, a Greek mercenary army fights at Cunaxa in a Persian civil war — the march home told in Xenophon's Anabasis.

    Meanwhile, elsewhere · 3
  5. 331 BC

    Macedonian ConquestMilitary

    Alexander enters Babylon

    After his victory at Gaugamela, Alexander the Great is welcomed into Babylon and orders its temples restored.

    Meanwhile, elsewhere · 3
  6. 323 BC

    Macedonian ConquestPolitical

    The death of Alexander

    Alexander the Great dies of fever in Nebuchadnezzar's palace at Babylon, and his empire is torn apart by his generals.

    Meanwhile, elsewhere · 3
  7. 305 BC

    Seleucid EmpireCultural

    Seleucia-on-the-Tigris

    Seleucus I founds a vast new Greek capital on the Tigris, and the population of old Babylon drifts away to it.

    Meanwhile, elsewhere · 3
  8. 141 BC

    Parthian EmpirePolitical

    The Parthians take Babylonia

    Mithridates I of Parthia conquers Mesopotamia, and Ctesiphon on the Tigris becomes the seat of a new empire.

    Meanwhile, elsewhere · 3

  9. 2 more entries, to AD 116