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in the year 1894 Belatively unknown Amorite Chieftain named sumu abim established a small Kingdom along what was then the Eastern banks of the Euphrates River there was nothing really special about this area other than that it possessed some decent farmland and a small City that in the local Acadian language was called Babalu which one translation reads as Gateway of the Gods [Music] scholars believe that the original name may have been babur or babir which simply means pale white or bright in the old Sumerian language most of us today know the city by the name Babylon Babylon had once been a regional administrative Center during the Reigns of the great Kings of the neo-sumerian Empire who ruled from the city of UR towards the end of the third millennium BC Scholars today referred to this group of Kings as the third dynasty of UR since there are only two other known dynasties from war that preceded it these Kings of which there were five ruled over a relatively enlightened Society wher