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Relate the events of the reign of Nabonidus and the fall of Babylon to Cyrus.
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Relate the events of the reign of Nabonidus and the fall of Babylon to Cyrus. (Apologies for certain lapses in grammatical English. However, the information is correct and this essay recieved a mark of 63%) 1. What are the events of the reign of Nabonidus? Nabonidus became king as a usurper, after Labasi-Marduk had been killed in a palace intrigue. There has been a little confusion of the date of the beginning of his reign, since Nabonidus was recognized as king in Nippur from 25. May 556 BC. but he is first recognized as the king in Uruk and Sippar as late as the end of June. This gives reason to believe that the Uruk and Sippar regions were faithful to the earlier royal family. An indication for this is also given by the facts that Nabonidus first went to Sippar with a present of gold and silver, and that he...
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