Cyrus Takes Babylon, 539 BCE

Investigate how Babylon passed into Persian rule and how its conquerors explained the change. Read the Cyrus Cylinder alongside accounts of Nabonidus, religious legitimacy, and imperial administration without treating royal propaganda as a modern rights charter.

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