Earlier dynasties[edit source]

The Amorite dynasty, or just the First Babylonian dynasty, was the first dynasty to rule from
Babylon and is the first dynasty of kings of Babylon in most of the Babylonian king lists, such as
Babylonian King List A.[31] As such, modern historians consider it to be the city's first dynasty of
kings.[32][31] Some Babylonian documents and lists of rulers suggest that certain earlier
Mesopotamian dynasties were sometimes considered to be earlier Babylonian dynasties.
The Dynastic Chronicle records rulers from the earliest legendary antediluvian kings of
the Sumerian King List to Babylonian kings of the 8th century BC.[38] There is also evidence that
the kings of Babylon's last native dynasty, the Chaldean or Neo-Babylonian, dynasty looked to
the rulers of the Akkadian Empire as Babylon's real first dynasty and to Sargon of Akkad as the
founder of their kingdom. Inscriptions by Nabonidus refer to Sargon of Akkad as a "king of
Babylon" rather than a "king of Akkad" and Nebuchadnezzar II's inscriptions call Naram-Sin,
Sargon's son, his "forefather", rather than the more common terms "former king" or
"predecessor".[39]

Later dynasties[edit source]

The Babylonians continued to recognize the monarchs of later empires that ruled Babylonia as
kings of Babylon. Recognition of these empires as additional dynasties of Babylon has been
limited and variable in modern scholarship. Beaulieu (2018), who numbered the Chaldean/Neo-
Babylonian dynasty as Dynasty X of Babylon, supplemented the foreign dynasties that ruled
Babylon after the collapse of the Neo-Babylonian Empire to the native ones, designating
the Achaemenid dynasty of the Persian Empire as Dynasty XI, the Argeads of Alexander the
Great's empire as Dynasty XII, the Seleucids of the Seleucid Empire as Dynasty XIII and
the Arsacids of the Parthian Empire as Dynasty XIV.[40]
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