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So in the 6th century BC Babylon was overrun by the Medes and Persians. The last Babylonian King died as famously recorded in the Book of Daniel.
What if Babylon had endured? If say Cyrus died early and Persia remained fragmented could Babylon have retained its hegemony in the near east?
How would a Babylon dominated near east interact with Egypt? Anatolia? The Greeks?