What is the importance of Babylon in the book, When God Was a Woman?

The kingdom forms ca. 1900 BCE when the Akkadians supplant the Sumerians culturally and politically. Babylon adopts the Akkadian language but keeps the Sumerian Goddess worship. By 1600 BCE, the Kassites, ruled by Northern invaders, gain control of Babylon and female deities give way to males, as Marduk murders Tiamat. Babylonian women retain some independence, as is seen in the Code of Hammurabi, the sixth king of Babylon, who extends the empire to Mesopotamia. Babylonian women own possessions that husbands can use, but which revert to them in case of widowhood or divorce; they can acquire property, take legal action, enter contracts, and share in their husband's inheritance. As late as the eighth century BCE, Babylonian women still serve as judges and magistrates, and some priestesses act as oracles, providing military and political advice to royalty, but they are admittedly fewer than male oracles.