Babylon

(noun.) the chief city of ancient Mesopotamia and capital of the ancient kingdom of Babylonia.

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• He defeated the Babylonian army, under Belshazzar, outside Babylon, and then laid siege to the town. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Even the slave craftsmen of Babylon and Rome were protected by laws that enabled them to save and buy their freedom and to set up for themselves. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Babylon was full of Aramean traders, who had great establishments, with slaves, freed-men, employees of all sorts. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• After a bout of hard drinking in Babylon a sudden fever came upon Alexander (323 B.C.), and he sickened and died. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Since in Babylon slaves could themselves own property, many slaves saved up and bought themselves. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• They were by no means abject slaves; in later Babylon their lives and property were protected by elaborate laws. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It is to the Ph?nician contingent and to Aramean accessions in Babylon that the financial and commercial tradition of the Jews is to be ascribed. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Alexander marched on to Babylon. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The soldiers of Cyrus entered Babylon without fighting. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The plain fact of the Bible narrative is that the Jews went to Babylon barbarians and came back civilized. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• When Lydia was subdued, Cyrus turned his attention to Nabonidus in Babylon. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• From the days of Cyrus onward Zoroastrianism had prevailed over the ancient gods of Nineveh and Babylon. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Cyrus did, in fact, set up the Persian Empire in Babylon with the blessing of Bel-Marduk. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Landless men worked for wages paid mostly in kind--as they were in ancient Babylon. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Merodach, the Babylonian Jupiter, was carried off by the Elamites, and Babylon did not feel independent until its return. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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