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Babylonian empire .
"By the rivers of Babylon, there you’d want to sit, indulging your perverted pleasures and grandiose plans of conquering the region. Like the mighty Babylonians, much maligned in the Abrahamic tradition as excessive and obscene, you don’t think that there’s anything wrong with paying disproportionate attention to statues, even offering them food and wiping their mouths after they have their fill. And your favorite wonder of the ancient world? Why, the Hanging Gardens, of course!"
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