King Nebuchadnezzar's Life

During Nebuchadnezzar’s life, he married Amytis of Media. Amytis is the daughter of the king of Medes, Cyaxares. Nabopolassar already had an alliance before, but they had to recreate one when Nabopolassar died. His idea of marrying a lady from a different place was very smart and helpful to Nebuchadnezzar overtime. Once he married Amytis, an alliance was created between Babylon and the king of Medes, who is the father of Amytis and his people, but when Medes started to expand it became a problem. Nebuchadnezzar noticed that Medes was coming very close to the Babylon border with their expansions outward. Nebuchadnezzar thought this could be a sign of attack and he didn’t want to take any risks, so before Medes could take any action against king Nebuchadnezzar and his amazing city, he took his troops, prepared for battle, and attacked Medes without any warning.The battle didn’t last long because of the fact that Nebuchadnezzar believed he got a sign from god. …show more content…
Babylon attacked until such time as the strange solar eclipse happened which confused both sides of the battle. Nebuchadnezzar talked to every one of his soldiers to explain the sign, and he ordered them to step down, but historians think he also needed an excuse to end the battle because of the fact that defeating Medes was not going to happen in the near future. Medes and Babylon signed a truce and returned to their alliance shortly after they ended the battle. The battle between Medes and Babylon was pointless because neither civilization was affected significantly during this