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.
The Louisiana Territory was an area of 828,000 square miles of land that stretched from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains. It was owned by France. France had turned this territory over to Spain in 1762. By 1800, France had gotten the territory back by a secret treaty. Napoleon Bonaparte wanted to make France the greatest global empire of the world. He wanted to use Louisiana as a trade center for the island of Hispaniola where Haitians lived.