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1744 Hammurabi (i.e., Ham the Amorite) became king of Babylon.
© Charles Chandler
 
In the period of ,1:255 Hammurabi was able to expand his realm to Nineveh. This could have been the product of an alliance between people "from the East" (i.e., India) who founded Babylon in , and another group who took the overland route, settling in Mitanni & Syria, where they fell in with the Amorites. Thus the Indo-Aryan heritage was hte common bond between the Babylonians & the Amorites.
 
Meanwhile, Shem was the provincial governor of Canaan, and his branch of the family wrote the Torah, so Shem is the favored ancestor of the Semites.
 

References

1. Banjevic, B. (2006): Ancient eclipses and dating the fall of Babylon. Publications de l'Observatoire Astronomique de Beograd, 80: 251-257


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