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Nebuchadnezzar II

The next great king of Babylon arose a thousand years later. Nebuchadnezzar II, who reigned from 605 to 562 B.C., made Babylon the greatest city on earth. He beautified his capital with structures such as the Hanging Gardens, famed as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Nebuchadnezzar conquered many nations, including the Jews, whose temple in Jerusalem he destroyed in 586 B.C. The long rule of Babylon ended with its capture by the Persians under Cyrus the Great in 539 B.C. At least one great monument of the Babylonians survives, however. The development of modern Iraq is due in large measure to its restoration of the ancient irrigation canal system built by the Babylonians, which made the region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers the most fertile in the world.