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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
Babylonian astronomers name many of the constellations and identify the planets
c. 1750 BC
Priests in Babylon make loans from the temple treasure, introducing the concept of banking
c. 1750 BC
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
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