Babylonia flourishes and becomes the largest cities under the rule of Hammurabi. After Hammurabi's death, the empire was divided into small states. New rulers founded a Neo-Babylonian Empire that spread across the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean. In 539 B.C., King Cyrus the Great or Cyrus II of Persia conquered Babylon.
Well for the north it boomed for the south they had people known as carpetbaggers coming into town trying to sell things but the south had like no money
