How did Nebuchadnezzar II expand the Neo-Babylonian Empire? by creating a new code of law by using tributes to rebuild Babylon by overthrowing the Assyrian Empire by building it through military conquest

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the romans were initially interested in expansion via sicily (which at that time was a cultural melting pot), part of which lay under carthaginian control. at the start of the first punic war (264-241 bc), carthage was the dominant power of the western mediterranean, with an extensive maritime empire