Answer: Conditions. A number of factors arose which would ultimately lead to the fall of Babylon. The population of Babylonia became restive and increasingly disaffected under Nabonidus. The Marduk priesthood hated Nabonidus because of his suppression of Marduk's cult and his elevation of the cult of the moon-god Sin.
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I do not see the "the following states". If you put it down in the next 3 mins I will be able to answer
the answer is (A) the announcement of the Athenian defeat at the battle of the Marathon
Although none of these are technically exactly very true, the best answer is that "containment was successful". this is because the war ended in a military stalemate.
