Polity · 600 BCE – 531 BCE
Neo-Babylonian Empire
- Peak recorded area
- 703,602 km²
- 600 BCE
- Data series
- 15
- 600 BCE–535 BCE
Overview
The Neo-Babylonian Empire or Second Babylonian Empire, historically known as the Chaldean Empire, was the last polity ruled by monarchs native to ancient Mesopotamia. Beginning with the coronation of Nabopolassar as the King of Babylon in 626 BC and being firmly established through the fall of the Assyrian Empire in 612 - 609 BC, the Neo-Babylonian Empire was conquered by the Achaemenid Persian Empire in 539 BC, less than a century after the founding of the Chaldean dynasty. The defeat of the As…
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Territory
3 dated territorial extents on record from Cliopatria. Areas are measured off the recorded polygons; the line steps because each extent holds until the next one is recorded — nothing is interpolated.
The record
The best-attested series in each category; where several projects publish the same quantity, the one with the most observations is shown. Each row is the most recent value the record holds at or before 531 BCE, shown with the year that value belongs to. Some statistical series also publish forward projections — the year column is the honest guide. Nothing on this page is interpolated or estimated by us.
Economy
| Series | Value · year · source |
|---|---|
| Agricultural Sophistication | 0.7725score600 BCE · Seshat Equinox 2020 |
| Monetary Complexity | 0.5score600 BCE · Seshat Equinox 2020 |
Military
| Series | Value · year · source |
|---|---|
| Military Sophistication | 0.25score600 BCE · Seshat Equinox 2020 |
Territory & resources
| Series | Value · year · source |
|---|---|
| Polity Territory | 5.9score600 BCE · Seshat Equinox 2020 |
| Territory km² | 800Ksq km626 BCE · Seshat Equinox 2020 |
Governance
| Series | Value · year · source |
|---|---|
| Admin Levels | 6levels626 BCE · Seshat Equinox 2020 |
| Religious Hierarchy | 4levels626 BCE · Seshat Equinox 2020 |
Development
6 of 8 series| Series | Value · year · source |
|---|---|
| Government Complexity | 0.6score600 BCE · Seshat Equinox 2020 |
| Hierarchy Levels | 5.5score600 BCE · Seshat Equinox 2020 |
| Information Complexity | 0.7615score600 BCE · Seshat Equinox 2020 |
| Infrastructure | 0.8875score600 BCE · Seshat Equinox 2020 |
| Known Ancient Places | 743places535 BCE · Pleiades Gazetteer |
| Known Ancient Settlements | 343settlements535 BCE · Pleiades Gazetteer |
Language & currency
- Official & national languages
- Akkadian
Sources
Every figure above comes from one of these. Nothing on this page is estimated, interpolated or model-generated.
Seshat Global History Databank. Cliopatria: a historical basemap of polity borders (cliopatria.geojson).
Pleiades Gazetteer2024 snapshot
Bagnall, R. et al. (eds.). Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places.
CC BY 3.0
Seshat Equinox 2020Equinox 2020
Turchin, P. et al. Seshat Global History Databank, Equinox 2020 release.
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Wikipedia contributors. Article lead sections, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
CC BY-SA 4.0
Neo-Babylonian Empire is one of the polities with a sourced record deep enough to publish.