For 10 points, identify this Mesopotamian city, ruled by Nebuchadnezzar and Hammurabi, and home to some nice hanging gardens.
Alexander the Great ordered the rebuilding of the main temple of this city, Esagila. The Elamite King Shutruk-Nahunte put an end to its Kassite dynasty, and the Hittite king Murshili I deposed Samsu-Ditana, the last king of its first dynasty. The nearby city of Borsippa had a shrine to Nabu, the son of this city's chief god, Marduk. After the defeat of its army at Opis, Cyrus the Great took control of it without fighting, and Strabo attributes its eventual desertion to the founding of nearby Seleucia-Tigris. For 10 points, identify this Mesopotamian city, ruled by Nebuchadnezzar and Hammurabi, and home to some nice hanging gardens.
Alexander the Great ordered the rebuilding of the main temple of this city, Esagila.
{Babylon} [or {B?b}-{?lim}]