Babylon After Hammurabi and the Fall of the First Dynasty

In this final episode on the Old Babylonian Period, we take a look at what happened after Hammurabi's reign came to an end. The Old Kingdom of the First Dynasty of Babylon continued to hold power for several decades afterward, though it gradually lost territory and was eventually overthrown by an unexpected foe. Don't miss the final chapter on how the Old Babylonian Kingdom of Hammurabi came to an end.
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[@karlabird2543]

Is it wrong to be happy my husband went to sleep? so I can stay up and watch my favourite KZbin channel 🤗🙋‍♀️ thank you Cy !!

[@HistorywithCy]

Haha no I don't think it's wrong... I'm thrilled! As always, thanks so much, glad you're still a fan of these!

[@bogdantoda6748]

Thank you again for initiating my interest for ancient history 3 years ago... You have allowed me to gather some more widespread knowledge, by distancing myself from a traditional Eurocentric approach to history, to wich my education exposed me. I often watch again some of your content and find myself a little more knowledgeble today... The discovery of the Hittites, Assyrology, Ancient Egypt, the Levant peoples etc is the result of viewing a few channels, along yours of course, since then. Always nice to watch you again... Keep up with the Egyptian dynastic king (pharaohs) lists 👍

[@Amadeu.Macedo]

Hello Cy, I'm delighted that you returned to cover Babylon. Look forward to more on them, as well as my new favorites, the brutal, cultivated Assyrians... Not sure how I missed this episode for over a year... I suppose it must be blamed on the pandemic... BRAVO!

[@ReidarWasenius]

Very well made - including the choice of music. I gave a thumbs up as soon as the video started and I was not disappointed.

[@HistorywithCy]

Thank you, so glad that you liked it and thanks for stopping by!

[@rigulur]

it must suck to be the child of a Great Person. you have a loooot of ground to cover, tens of thousands of people are counting on you as much as they did your legendary father/mother, and one wrong action can ruin everything for you, your family and your people.

[@blueeyes6852]

Yay! Been waiting for you! Thank you Cy! 💯👏😊

[@HistorywithCy]

Hope it was worth the wait! Thanks so much, as always, I greatly appreciate the support! More to come soon!

[@michaellewis7959]

Always love these notifications!!

[@HistorywithCy]

Thank you, as always I really appreciate it!

[@stephenmichalski2643]

Damn.......another History with Cy vid??!!!???already???!!???I'm gettin spoiled......but don't stop.....I'm lovin em all

[@HistorywithCy]

No worries my friend, no plans of stopping...working on the next one right after I finish replying...thanks for stopping by, I really appreciate it!

[@guilhermecontiero96]

nice way to end to day , with a good history vídeo

[@HistorywithCy]

Thanks, glad I you ended the day this way!

[@ragheedidrees4711]

Amazing content my man!

[@HistorywithCy]

Thanks, appreciate the kind words...more to come, stay tuned!

[@hanshull6687]

It has been fascinating to follow the story of Babylon through the several episodes. Like later kingdoms and nations, the ancient city states affected each other in a complex fashion with multiple alliances and breakups. As I had earlier followed the Hittite stories I was waiting for them to come along and upset the applecart.

[@HVLLOWS1999]

I learned about Shirruken(Sargon), Hammurabi, Ashurnasirpal, & Nebuchadnezzar II in 6th grade. Learning about these for guys helped sparked my interest in ancient history at a young age. As well as documentaries on Greece, Egypt and Rome when the History channel was still the History channel my dad would put on instead of me watching cartoons when I was like 4 so it was normal for me. What sparked your interest Cy?

[@HistorywithCy]

HI! For me it also started when I was really young. My name is actually Cyrus (Cy is my nickname, what fam and friends call me) and so one day I wanted to learn more about the origin of my name and any stories behind it which as you may have guessed, led me to king Cyrus the Great of Persia. The more I learned about him, the more I also began hearing of all of the places within the Persian Empire: Babylon, Lydia, the cities of the Ionian coast, etc and so I wanted to learn more about all of these places. That's what started my interest and it hasn't waned since!

[@HVLLOWS1999]

@@HistorywithCy nice! Cyrus the Great is my favorite monarch of all time!

[@michellenemecek8996]

@@HistorywithCy Lol I wanted to name my son Cyrus and my girlfriend thought it was some obscure weird name and wasn't having it. If only she were a history nut like us. I actually had zero interest in history until I was like 14 and had a real good teacher in 8th grade describe Ice Age People getting hunted down by a sabertooth.

[@HistorywithCy]

@@michellenemecek8996 Cyrus is a GREAT name haha. The only drawback of the name Cyrus is that people keep asking me if I'm related to Billy Ray or Miley Cyrus...I seriously get that a lot.

[@bugsytv6852]

@@HVLLOWS1999 it’s more likely pronounced“ Sha’roo’kh’on not sharukin like sharukin blades from Batman bro haha

[@hazemm440]

Amazing and really nice. Quick questions: 1) is there a follow up video to this one? 2) can you dedicate an entire video to Yamhad? And another to Mari and the Amorites ? Thanks!

[@HistorywithCy]

Hi, thanks so much for stopping by, I really appreciate it! Yes, I have a few older videos on those topics from a long time ago. Here they are: Babylonia: Kassite Dynasty kzbin.info/www/bejne/bpeaoZqvf86IoKc Nebuchadnezzar I kzbin.info/www/bejne/g4SpnqhjeMt6a9U Other: Yamhad kzbin.info/www/bejne/fmOzXpaFr9xppcU Mari kzbin.info/www/bejne/iV7EaXWPosR6o5Y Amorites kzbin.info/www/bejne/fKHIg32ve62efbc Any other questions, please don't hesitate to let me know. Thanks!

[@husambotros3958]

There is something about Mesopotamia that is a bit unique.. you can always bet on a conflict to happen at any time its just endless story. Thanks for sharing the knowledge CY and hope you find the new links more useful, sorry about the first one.

[@HistorywithCy]

Agree with you one million percent! No worries about the link, I was just surprised that a PBS site wasn't visible in North America... strange indeed!

[@husambotros3958]

@@HistorywithCy pbs means lots of other things ..anyhow check the article i sent you there is a link to pbs it should work i guess.

[@HistorywithCy]

@@husambotros3958 Thank you! Here is means "Public Broadcast System" and is relatively popular. I thought maybe it's the same in the UK. Thanks again!

[@husambotros3958]

@@HistorywithCy yes i looked it online and i think because its already on their online watching list you couldn't view it on KZbin thats why just follow the link in the article which takes you to pbs and hopefully will work otherwise try the other links if you don't mind.

[@profthoth2548]

Exhilarating!

[@hazemm440]

In your previous video you mentioned the samharites. Who are they, I’ve never heard of them

[@HistorywithCy]

Hi, thanks for stopping by, I really appreciate it. As far as we know, they were one of the stateless tribes that lived in Babylonia at the time. There's not much known about them other than they were probably nomadic and caused trouble for the authorities from time to time.

[@Sarke2]

Outstanding as always didnt know for sealand dynasty, it is interesting the south or ancient Sumer always raised against its conquerors, Akkadians later Babylonians, it seems even in that time that Southern Iraq was still mostly populated by Sumerian populations who were different to Babylonians, Akkadians and Amorites.

[@HistorywithCy]

Yeah as the power or authority of the king in Babylon declined, you had these new dynasties appearing and declaring their independence in various provinces; the farther away, the more likely they'd break away. Yeah remnants of the Sumerian population were still there, but Akkadian had more or less become the main language. This is probably because along with the original Akkadian speakers, there was a lot of Amorite immigration/migration into the region. Since Akkadian and Amorite are quite similar, it was easier for Amorites to adopt it. Akkadian and Amorite are both from the Semitic family of languages, whereas Sumerian is completely different and probably would have been harder for newcomers to learn. That's my take on it. Thanks again, stay safe!

[@Sarke2]

@@HistorywithCy Sumerians are enigma definetely along with Elamites

[@killthecensors58]

Mursili looks like Conan the Cimmerian from the books. Which is kind of great since he ruled like Conan.

[@HistorywithCy]

Haha I didn't know that. I just looked up Conan the Cimmerian to see who he was and got the comic book character...is this the same as Conan the Barbarian? Never read any of those comments but I saw one of the movies with Schwarzenegger years ago.

[@killthecensors58]

@@HistorywithCy The comics are okay and I admit the movie from 1982 is wonderful. But nothing can compare with the original tales from Robert E Howard.

[@HistorywithCy]

@@killthecensors58 Oh cool... I love comics, though haven't read any in the Conan series. I'm actually going to cover Cimmerians in the future so that Conan series might be interesting to check out, assuming it has anything remotely to do with the historical Cimmerians. thanks!

[@killthecensors58]

@@HistorywithCy Robert Howard was educated in the history of Greece and Egypt. The backstory of the saga is that his Hyborian Age (about 12,000 BC) is itself the backstory of the various people of Eurasia. Basically taking all the mythological ideas of ancient people (from the river Stix to the Nemedians of Irish mythology) and creating a world predicated on the idea that these were all real memories from a pre-cataclysm era. Even the gods are real and he goes off the assumption that the Titans and Giants of many "overthrow" theologies were the original gods of ancient peoples and the Aesir and Olympians were real people who became deified after death. So the Aesir and Vanir were real tribes who worshiped Ymir and the Frost Giants. Raucous fun but not much to do with real history. Actually, I've met people who believe that Howard was a channeler or astral voyager or something and that the Hyborian Age is real history and tie it in with legends of Atlantis. Now those were some fun conversations!

[@HistorywithCy]

@@killthecensors58 That is awesome and super interesting. I just found a bunch of Conan the Cimmerian comics on eBay... I think I'm going to order some and check them out. Thanks!

[@shrinilodedra3001]

The Greeks in the subsequent kushan how important 👏 their role was is akin to the medes.

[@davidbarber3821]

👍🏾

[@HistorywithCy]

Thank you!

[@mwhkm2275]

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[@egillskallagrimson5879]

So Hammurabi reign for 42 years, Samsu-iluna for 37y and Abi-eshuh for another 27y... are we sure this is true? I mean they reign more time than the average lifespan of most of their subjects, literally the majority of people died around their 30 something 40 if you were lucky and these dudes reign more than that which means they live almost twice the time than the average person of the time.

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

Pls make video about vlad dracula and mehmed the conqueror

[@HistorywithCy]

Hi! Would love to but that may take some time. But I plan to do a whole series on the Ottoman Empire one day, hopefully sooner than later. Thanks for the suggestion!

[@bugsytv6852]

Ram-sin II was a goose 😂👌 Hammurabi was the real O.G in all this 😅🙏

[@HistorywithCy]

Oh for sure... Hammurabi was GOAT! Check out this video in case you haven't seen it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pYCvlHinhpuHa8k Show's you how powerful and shrewd he really was. Thanks again for stopping by, really appreciate it. More to come, stay safe!

[@bugsytv6852]

@@HistorywithCy just watched this, it was insane haha 🤙 great content Khona ( bro in aramaic ) haha..

[@str.77]

@BugsyTV what do these strange words even mean?

[@hazelanglin5907]

You all are confirming the bible

[@kurdisumeri1526]

Kassiti was Kurd and in Babylon 84 kurdish king ruled Babylon one of them Nebuchadnezzar (buhtunasser al kurdi )

[@fogshadow9112]

Haahahahahahaha

[@aliklc1970]

No

[@aliklc1970]

Kurds are iranized assyrians and aramics in fact