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  Babylon timeline
     
c. 1830 BC
 
    
Babylon is a tiny region, about 50 miles across, when Amorites establish there the first Babylonian dynasty       
c. 1750 BC
 
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Babylonian astronomers name many of the constellations and identify the planets       
c. 1750 BC
 
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Priests in Babylon make loans from the temple treasure, introducing the concept of banking       
c. 1750 BC
 
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The Babylonians introduce an important step in the story of arithmetic - the concept of place value in numbers        
c. 1728 BC
 
    
Hammurabi inherits the relatively minor kingdom of Babylon       
c. 1728 BC
 
    
Hammurabi begins a programme of conquest and coalition which will vastly extend the Babylonian empire