WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Nineveh was at that time the most powerful city in the Assyrian Empire. Therefore, scholars consider this victory as the end of the Assyrian Empire. Cyrus the Great invaded the Chaldean Empire in 539 B.C.E. and took over the city of Babylon.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Neo-Babylonian Empire or Second Babylonian Empire, historically known as the Chaldean Empire, was the last polity ruled by monarchs native to Mesopotamia.

Detailed explanation-3: -Nebuchadnezzar was the most famous and important king of the Second Babylonian (or Neo-Babylonian or Chaldean) Empire, which fell to the Persian great king Cyrus the Great in 539 B.C.

Detailed explanation-4: -In 626 bce, however, a new king, Nabopolassar, sensed that the hold of Assyria’s rulers was weakening. It took Nabopolassar ten years to expel Assyrian forces from Babylonia itself, and in 616 bce he led an invasion of Assyria.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Chaldean dynasty, also known as the Neo-Babylonian dynasty and enumerated as Dynasty X of Babylon, was the ruling dynasty of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, ruling as kings of Babylon from the ascent of Nabopolassar in 626 BC to the fall of Babylon in 539 BC.