In alliance with the Medes, Persians, Scythians and Cimmerians, they sacked the city of Nineveh in 612 BC, and the seat of empire was transferred to Babylonia for the first time since the death of Hammurabi in the mid 18th century BC.
Effectively Doubled The Size of The United States. Louisiana Purchase summary: The United States bought 828,000 square miles of land from France in 1803. The French controlled this region from 1699 until 1762 when it became Spanish property because France gave it to Spain as a present, since they were allies.
Interesting Facts about the Louisiana Purchase. The Louisiana Purchase would have cost $233 million in 2011 dollars. That's around 42 cents per acre. Some historians claim that Napoleon had no right to sell the Louisiana Territory to the United States. The issue of slavery in the western lands of the Louisiana Purchase became a major issue in later years and part of the cause of the American Civil War.