Following the success of he who became Abraham over Amraphel's Akkadian Empire, it was split into two nations. Abraham's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Assyrian_people Assyrians] took control in the north and later on Nimrod's remnant regrouped to establish Babylonia in the south. The Abrahamic Assyrian lineage is represented by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_R_(Y-DNA) Y-Haplogroup R] while the Babylonian children of the original [[אשור|Ashur]] (whose cities the Abrahamic Assyrians occupied) belonged to Y-Haplogroup J.