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Paragon21XX posted...

Good thing no one is asking you, because that sort of take is fallacious at its very foundation. A people's identity does not disappear just because they've been exiled from their homeland.

They were also gone no more than a few decades: Neo-Babylon/Chadaea survived for less than a century between overthrowing the Assyrians and being conquered by Cyrus the Great.
It was the last Mesopotamian empire.

Edit: Like, literally, Nebuchadnezzar II reigned for 43 years, and he's the Babylonian King mentioned by the Bible. He died in 562 BCE, and Cyrus conquered the city in 549 BCE, just 13 years later. Assuming the conquest of Judea and the deportation occurred towards the beginning of his reign, that gives us an exile of around 50 years at max.