Amorites, progeny of Ham’s son Canaan, settled after the Tower of Babel on the upper Euphrates at Carchemish (near Urfa where Abram grew-up), and having adopted the Hebrew language, Hammurabi an Amorite conquered Babylon circa 1750 b. c. instituting the worship of Marduk (or Merodach), from the Hebrew verb marad meaning to rebel, the name Nimrod (a son of Kush) of that etymology.