Babylon: The City at the Center of the World - The Concise History of Babylonia (2000-539 BC)

This program explores the history of the ancient city of Babylon and the land once known as Babylonia. We'll uncover the story of this great city over the course of fifteen centuries and learn about its impact and why it was so beloved as well as hated by so many in the ancient world. We'll also meet an interesting and rather eclectic cast of kings including Hammurabi, Zimri-Lim, Rim-Sin, Samsu-iluna, Marduk-apla-iddina II, Sargon II, Sennacherib, Ashurbanipal, Nabopolassar, Nebuchadnezzar I & II, Nabonidus, Cyrus the Great and many more.
Contents:
00:00 Introduction
04:00 Before Babylon: The Fall of the Neo-Sumerian Empire
05:30 Ibbi-Sin and Ishbi-Erra
09:27 Letter of Puzur-Numushda to Ibbi-Sin
12:21 Fall of Ur and the Birth of Babylonian Civilization
15:11 Dynasties of Isin and Larsa (Isin-Larsa Period)
19:00 The First Dynasty of Babylon
26:32 Hammurabi of Babylon
27:48 Zimri-Lim of Mari
29:48 War with Eshnunna
30:46 The Sukkalmah of Elam
33:12 War with Elam
35:51 Hammurabi and Rim-Sin
39:41 Hammurabi and Zimri-Lim
42:24 The Law Code of Hammurabi
46:07 Rebellions during the Reign of Samsu-iluna
52:30 The Last Four Kings of the First Dynasty
55:29 The Hittite Invasion of Babylonia
58:03 The Kassites take Control
01:03:45 The Kassites Reunite Babylonia
01:06:30 Rivalry with Assyria
01:09:05 Assyria show Babylon who’s Boss
01:11:40 Tukulti-Ninurta’s Conflict with the Kassites
01:14:35 The Second Sack of Babylon
01:18:37 Elamite Incursions
01:20:10 Babylon Bounces Back
01:22:36 The End of the Kassite Era
01:25:55 The Second Dynasty of Isin
01:27:23 Nebuchadnezzar I Avenges Babylon
01:33:50 Life under the Second Dynasty of Isin
01:34:56 Literary Works: Enuma Elish and Sakkiku
01:37:24 More Assyrian Meddling
01:43:43 Dark Age and Mysterious Dynasties of Babylon
01:44:40 Second Dynasty of the Sealand
01:47:43 The Bazi Dynasty
01:48:11 The Elamite Dynasty
01:49:10 Dynasty E
01:53:52 Tiglath-pileser III and the Neo-Assyrian Era of Babylon
02:01:48 Marduk-apla-iddina II of Babylon and Sargon the II of Assyria
02:11:19 Sennacherib
01:24:50 The Destruction of Babylon
02:27:50 Esarhaddon Rebuilds Babylon
02:33:12 Ashurbanipal and Shamash-shumu-ukin
02:39:40 Nabopolassar and the Fall of Assyria
02:46:54 Nebuchadnezzar II
02:53:10 Nabonidus, the Last Babylonian King
02:56:40 Cyrus the Great and the Persian Conquest of Babylon
03:01:04 End of an Era
03:07:27 Thank You and Patrons
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[Jimmy Scherwitz]

I was fortunate enough to visit the ruins of Babylon. Bar none, the most memorable location I’ve ever been too. It’s remarkable, impressive, important and should be protected. Preserved for the sake of history and humanity.

[TheWhiteJaguar]

The problem is we need to convince the local rebels of that...

[Broreale]

@TheWhiteJaguar ????

[Jim R]

Oh man I'm jealous. I've been to Rome, Pompeii, etc. (Italy in general), but I've longed for my entire life to visit... well everywhere lol...but especially places like Babylon, Persepolis, etc. Places that are less "mainstream" than Italy, Greece, and the like. Although, don't get me wrong, I'd give anything to visit those places too lol. Even Italy again; I'd be happy going anywhere with ancient history.

[Vicki Daniels]

Guessing, going out on a limb...every place has ancient history😂😂😂. Just having fun

[Jimmy Scherwitz]

@Vicki Daniels that’s the earth for ya!

[Viswanath]

A concise, lucid and masterly lesson on the history of southern Mesopotamia. As some one similarly passionate about Mesopotamian history, i can not help noticing a recurrent pattern in it. The forces from the desert, the forces from Elam and forces from northern Iran/ Caucus have interplayed with the native Sumerian culture that shaped its story over millenia. Akkadians, Amorites, Assyrians, Aramaeans were those desert forces ( later Arabs). Elam had love - hate relationship from Sumerian times till Neo- Babylonian times, It should be noted that the Achaemenids came under Elamite tutelage before they conquered Medes and Neo-Babylonians. Then there are these forces, the northern Iran - Indo European ones. Possibly Gutians, but defenitely Hittites, Mittani, Kassites, Medes and Parthians. These three forces interacted with the native Sumerian core, inheriting its wisdom and spreading it to farther parts of the world. That story continued, in Greece and Rome, In Iran and India. Thanks for your brilliant history lessons and you really rekindled my interest in the history of antiquity. A few suggestions. If you can dwelve more upon the bronze age collapse and its consequences in both Mesopotamia and also Egypt, that will be great. Also if you can link the Mesopotamian history with Indus Valley history. Second millenium BC saw the end of that civilization as well and its links with Mesopotamia from Sumerian times is well known. Hoping to see more content from you.

[History with Cy]

Thanks so much for watching and glad you enjoyed this! Actually yes, I will be touching up on links between ancient Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley in a future video on ancient trade routes and commerce hopefully out in the next few months. Stay tuned and thanks for watching!

[Billy Bobs]

Babaloo 🤣

[Marcus Agrippa]

Holy crap! 3 hours of ancient Babylonian stories with Cy? It's a Christmas miracle!

[History with Cy]

Haha thanks and my pleasure...hope you enjoy and learn something from it. Enjoy the rest of the holidays and all the best for 2023!

[p]

amen!

[#Rsync]

That's gossip

[ric flair]

Yes yes yes!

[Julio D]

It is!

[Gary Keenan]

Excellent work all around. Sustaining a narrative this detailed over 3 hours is a challenge on any subject. This is your best work yet that I've seen. Congratulations and happy New Year.

[polar-bear-boyfriend]

I love the animated way you read primary sources, it really makes the history come alive and feel Real and human. Like, I'm not just passively learning about this historical topic, I felt like I was hearing and making a connection to the people living so long ago. You are a brilliant story teller. And it felt like I was there in the palaces and courtyards of Babylon, witnessing a scribe recite the great history of the city to a crowd on the edge of their seats. Many thanks to your channel and your work!

[Amadeu Macedo]

Fabulous documentary, CY! Thank you so much for providing a (near) complete historical narration for the Babylonian empire. Now, thanks to you, I have access to a (non-academic) list of Babylonian rules along with their concise historical timeline. BRAVO! 👏 💓

[Number1Irishlad]

HOLY HELL man, this must have been a _huge_ undertaking to do sucha well researched 3 hour vid. thank you for amazing content :D I can't remember if I have requested this before, but do you think you would be able to do a video on the city of Rhodes? I'm not sure if that falls outside of your focus as a historian, and if it does I apologize for the non-relevant request

[History with Cy]

My pleasure, thanks for watching! Haha yes I remember you had written a couple of times about doing a vid on Rhodes. It's on my list and would like to get to it in the next year but have so many things in the works that need to get done. But trust me, haven't forgotten about it...thanks for the suggestion!

[Number1Irishlad]

@History with Cy awesome! I totally understand that you have many more other projects to do, and i appreciate you not forgettin about it 😁

[First Consul]

Now that was a journey. It's amazing to me that civilization was so complex in the era where so much rich history is glossed over in favour of Sargon and Hammurabi. It also astounds me that this era, which was as distant to the Late Roman Republic and Early Principate (my favourite period of ancient history) as they are to us, is yet remembered in such detail. So much calamity has occurred over the millennia since these people lived and these men ruled, yet somehow the remnants of their civilization can be recalled by us now.

[Matt’s take on the ancients]

This is awesome. Glad to see your channel growing. It’s stuff like this that sets you apart.

[Sunnyboy4]

Great info. I never heard of the Kassite people before. I'm wondering if they might have been Scythians since they spoke an Indo-European language, were great horsemen and their art centered on depicting horses. Is there any evidence that they came from the Steppes and might have been Scythians? Thank you for this comprehensive video on the Babylonians. Much appreciated.

[Chloe - History, Food & Games]

i’m not cy but i believe they were based on their indo-iranian names

[History with Cy]

Hi, thanks for watching and great question! So I think most scholars would agree that they were not Scythians since that group would come about 7-800 years later and move south from the steppes of Eurasia, With regard to speaking an Indo-European language, that is also debated but some believe this because as you pointed out, they were great horsemen and charioteers,like other Indo-European peoples. The issue with the language though is that our knowledge of it is limited to just some vocabulary - knowledge of Kassite grammar at this time is pretty much non-existent. The only proven speakers of Indo-European languages that we know about that were contemporary to Kassite were Hittite, Luwian and a few others, and to my knowlege, the Kassite words available to us don't seem to be related to them or could have been loan words. Some also compare them to the ruling class of the Mitanni, who have very Indo-European sounding names. As for their homeland, Babylonian and Assyrian texts just mention that they came from the central Zagros mountains. My opinion is that the Kassites very well could have had some link to Indo-European peoples like the kings of the Mitanni, but there is just not enough evidence out there to definitively prove this. Hope this helps. Thanks again for watching and all the best for 2023!

[Donald Crawford III]

Seems like Babylon was involved in continuous fighting for centuries without end! Enjoyed the program! Thankyou for all your effort in making this sir!👍👍👍👍

[A Random Galactic Hitchiker]

i had to break this up over several viewings, but man what a package. i've never been able to get a clear idea of the timelines of the Babylonian kings until now. this must have been a massive undertaking. and even at 3 hours a fascinating presentation. thank you for this. it exceeds my expectations. 😎👍

[James Deen]

WOW, your hard work and commitment to accuracy is very commendable and speaks loudly of your character. Your voice lends itself well to the format and keeps us all interested and entertained. Thank You. Merry Christmas.

[Frank Mortensen]

Well done Cy! this must have taken hours and hours of work! Very well explained and organized. Its clear you are a true lover of that era.

[History with Cy]

My pleasure, glad you found this useful! More on the way, stay tuned and thanks for watching!

[Sara La]

Thank you for such a masterful presentation of primary sources! Not only that, but you tied together the people, places, and events.

[History with Cy]

My pleasure, glad you enjoyed this and thanks for watching! Will do more like these in the next few months, stay tuned and all the best for 2023!

[WarbreakerThePeaceful]

I could not ask for a better Christmas gift. Thank you Cy for educating me so much.

[History with Cy]

My pleasure and Merry Christmas and all the best for 2023! Thanks for watching!

[Brenden]

Merry, freaking Christmas to all of us! Your videos are my go to for so many things, and to have your biggest one yet is the best present! Thank you for working so hard to make it this amazing!

[J-I F.W. BR]

A realy excellent video! Even as a person who studied this for a while i could still lern a lot, and the storytelling was great! Also 3 hours is the perfect lenght!

[Pollos]

It’s amazing how much the quality of your videos has improved! I love them all

[Lorraine Drosophila]

3 hours long! My goodness the work you put into this content. thank you

[History with Cy]

My pleasure, thanks for watching and hope you enjoyed it!

[Jiggity Jake]

This was great, comprehensive, and a very generous holiday gift. Thank you!

[History with Cy]

My pleasure, thanks for watching!

[Radvald]

Thanks so much for the extra long video, I love the in-depth mesopotamian history!

[History with Cy]

My pleasure and thanks for watching, all the best for 2023!

[Radvald]

@History with CyBlessings of Enlil upon you. Happy new year.

[lowtek]

Yea, filled with 80,000 commercials... wooo , so great...

[Radvald]

@lowtek Mate he produced 3 hours of content that in my opinion excedes many other sources on mesopotamian history for free for you to watch. Do you know how long it takes to edit videos like this? Advertising is often necessary for video creators to keep doing this. What do you expect?

[Farya Faraji]

I’m so glad this one got as many views as it did, you deserve each and every one for such a megalithic project; can’t wait to get the popcorn and enjoy the epic 3 hour ride!

[History with Cy]

Thanks baradar, hope you enjoy it! I have a similar one on Achaemenid Iran coming out too perhaps in April or May which will definitely come alive with your music! Thanks for watching, really appreciate it!

[757]

Thanks for another great video and all the hard work that goes into making it happen

[History with Cy]

My pleasure, hope you enjoy it and thanks for watching!

[The Zero Line]

I love how back then in Ur, Assyria, etc., gods were like local mascots with each city having one and embodied a physical symbol. They’d steal each other’s gods believing each one gave them more strength.

[Ya'qub e Based]

Dorud, History with Cy! Although I know this channel and your efforts are focused on history, I humbly ask that you show the world a glimpse of the Zoroastrian Parsi community and its intricacies. There's so much the world and Iranians especially don't know about and can't know about these days, and you are one of the most articulate and concise history tubers I've seen. It would be wonderful if you could educate us in your ways and culture!

[Great Expectations]

What is Zoroaustralian?

[Ya'qub e Based]

@Great Expectations lol. But seriously Zoroastrianism is the ethnic religion of the Iranians.

[History with Cy]

Darud baradar! Yes, that's on the agenda! I'll be going to India next month and hope to research and film there just like I did in Iran this past year and start putting together something on the history of Zoroastrianism that features both the Iranian and Parsi communities. It's a long-term project but one that I've been outlining for some time. Stay tuned and thanks for watching!

[Ya'qub e Based]

@History with Cy Can't wait ✌️

[jakobo88]

Yes... please bring more large videos like this, they are the best by far.

[History with Cy]

Will do my best! I have a few planned for 2023 including Elam, another one on Assyria, Achaemenid Persia and Alexander. I'll put out a few shorter ones in between so that y'all don't have to wait so long for content. Thanks for watching and all the best for 2023!

[Dries du Preez]

You have all my appreciation today for this. Man I'd love to see huge Avatar Way of Water or Marvel Avengers level budgets and work go into productions of the ancient world, specifically Mesopotamia.

[History with Cy]

Thanks so much, glad you enjoyed this! I don't know what Hollywood has in store, but there will be definitely be more low budget videos on the ancient world on this channel, you can count on that! Thanks for watching!

[BaseDeltaZero1972]

I never get tired of King Shulgi's odes to himself, he was the OG hype man.😎 This upload must have taken a lot of time and hard work. Fantastic end product though. 👍

[Table of Gods]

This episode over-delivers on its promise. It's supposed to cover the concise history of Babylonia - which it does. But it's filled with so much more, for example, the concise history of neo-Assyria. The battle scenes are awesome!

[Jar Tv]

As a Mexican in Wisconsin finding a friend who wants to watch 3 hours of Babylonian history I’m grateful for the internet, really wish I had more real life friends who find this interesting

[Καλλίνικος Γκρατσό]

History with Cy, the gift that keeps on giving! Side Question, which of the these ancient kingdoms’ name do you like the most?

[ljreddd D]

Akkadian:)

[Master Malrubius]

Uruk.

[hasmatiks]

Borsippa. *sips bor*

[Phillip S97]

Uruk, reminds me of a fantasy name

[History with Cy]

Haha for me its Eshnunna! It's just a lot of fun to say. Thanks for watching and more on the way... maybe even a short video on Eshnunna itself! Enjoy the holidays and all the best for 2023!

[Hussein Rasheed]

As a person who lives in babylon, this is freaking good documentary

[Maykon Junkes]

Isso sim é um presente de natal! Parabéns, Ciro!

[History with Cy]

Valeu meu amigo! Feliz Ano Novo e mutio obrigado!!

[Fiver]

Best ancient history channel!

[Abjectief]

Can't get enough of this, thank you so much, so nice to get the feeling of a connection so many ages past.

[History with Cy]

My pleasure, thanks for watching!

[Damon Wereman]

I am very impressed with your histories. Well Done and Thank You.

[Hugo Desrosiers-Plaisance]

Now THAT is a Christmas gift. Thanks, Cy!¨ Wow, we have NO idea how much genocide has been perpetrated through Human History, let alone Human pre-History. That is a very tough concept to come to terms with. SO much killing. Merry Christmas! 😆

[History with Cy]

Thanks my friend, hope that your Christmas and New Years went well! Thanks so much for watching and hope to put out more like this one in the next year or two. All the best for 2023!

[India Unleashed]

There was no Christmas and your Santa Claus at the time of this period.

[Carrot]

Babylonia is one of my favourite kingdoms in history to explore and hear about

[Clarence Onyekwere]

I was worried you hadn’t uploaded in a long time (compared to what I saw was your schedule of 3 weeks-ish), now I can see why, this is a bigger episode:

[History with Cy]

Yes, this one took much longer than I thought, but in the end it I enjoyed making it. Hope you all enjoy it and as always, thanks for always tuning in, really appreciate it! Hope that your holidays are going well and all the best for 2023!

[holly formolo]

Stoked to find your channel. I'm up here working in Kurdistan, and I'm looking forward to finding time to make it down south to check out Babylon. As well, the Marshes are on my hit list! Thanks Cy. You're amazing, and your voice; it comes off in a pleasant sing-song way that has the feeling of listening to an epic (like Gilgamish)!

[History with Cy]

My pleasure, glad you enjoyed this and thanks for watching! I'm hoping to go there one day, perhaps Nineveh and Ashur first, and then the ancient sites of the south. Hope all is well in Kurdistan and be safe!

[AK 47]

I was looking for exactly this because fallen civilisations hasn’t covered it yet!. Awesome video sir

[History with Cy]

Glad you found this useful! More on the way, stay tuned and thanks for watching!

[Harry Edwards]

Brilliant and I've not even watched it yet. And what is good is because it's from Cy we know it will actually be about the Babylonian Empire and not the earlier Summerian or Akkadian civilisations who some KZbin commentators seem unable to distinguish between, electing to refer to them all as Babylonians. Sometimes even at a time before the City/Town/Village/ A single hut there.... in Babylon existed .

[Jim Hemmer]

I’ve just finished it and honestly words come short of how good this is, Cy this was excellent.

[History with Cy]

My pleasure, glad you enjoyed this and thanks for watching!

[Darren Miller]

Incredible. My mother was right "The truth is stranger than fiction". Thanks so much!

[History with Cy]

My pleasure, glad you enjoyed this and thanks for watching!

[Joe Shmoe]

Really cool video Cy Guy! Extra thanks for the extended cut, we love it.

[History with Cy]

You're welcome and thanks for watching...all the best for 2023!

[Greg The Raven]

thank you Cy, we always get into this subject with hamorabi without knowing the full history of the city

[Miot Yuori]

Has there been any analysis on possible pigments on the huge blank space like at 47:01? Did they maybe contain the equivalent of illuminated manuscripts?

[Anna Nakki]

Excelant video,you really made the story come alive.

[History with Cy]

Thanks, that's what I had hoped to do! Really glad you enjoyed it and hope to put out similar length videos for you all in 2023. Happy New Year!

[PR Even]

Thank you! Especially I like the slow pace that you are presenting your narration. So many of these videos have somebody just reading rapidly, and it makes it hard to process the information!

[Will Morris]

Yes! I'm so glad you made this episode! Epic!

[History with Cy]

My pleasure, was fun to make. Thanks so much for watching, really appreciate it and more on the way, stay tuned!

[RFmath]

Oh man I was waiting for what you had in store - this is awesome!

[History with Cy]

Thanks, hope you enjoy it...lots more on the way, stay tuned and thanks for watching!

[Ajit Adonis Manilal]

Nabonidus sounds like me, i don't want to be in charge of anything or do anything, i just want to go to the desert, do my own thing and be left alone.

[E]

Thank you. After reading the Kings chapters in the Bible…I can put them together

[p]

i find them , along with Sumer and this whole area to be just as interesting as Egypt they dont seem to be as grand as the Egyptians but their origin story is pretty cool

[Dytzy Days]

Loved every second of this ❤️

[History with Cy]

Thanks, and thanks for watching!

[1911 Earthling]

I am absolutely knocked out by the progress humankind has made in the last 5,000 years. 3.3 million years marking stone tools then we go from magnetism to splitting the atom. Just amazed.

[Leibniz1716]

As grand as the city itself! I will need to take next week off to digest all the material thank you and have a safe holiday season!

[Bugsy TV]

Hey Cy Merry Christmas and have a Happy New Year Thank you for taking your time to make this. just wanted to ask, Why were the Assyrians always involving themselves in Babylonian affairs ? i don’t get the big deal. were the Assyrians afraid of it Babylon and so they kept there foot on its neck ? or ? im confused i don’t know why.

[zee booboo]

The God is Ashur the Land is Ashur the people are Ashur the language is Ashur***Greater

[dog whistle 88]

Thanks again for putting it on Spotify and going to listen for my 3rd time and will do it on Spotify and wait for more of your great work 👍

[History with Cy]

No problem, enjoy!

[Ihab Alwash]

What a great effort !! thank you so much for this wonderful work Cy.

[History with Cy]

My pleasure, thanks for watching!

[Drswag 007]

couldn't have asked for a better Christmas gift from this channel.

[History with Cy]

My pleasure, thanks for watching!

[Drswag 007]

@History with Cy and a late marry Christmas.

[444angelzz]

absolute golden content. all 3 hours of it

[History with Cy]

Thanks, all the best for 2023!

[Syed Wasiuddin Hasan]

After watching several videos on the topic, this turned out to be the best of all. Only history without any assumptions or myths..!

[History with Cy]

Thanks, really glad you enjoyed this and found it useful. Thanks for watching!

[Stephen Craig]

i am 69 years old and have just discovered my love for ancient history. big thumbs up from this kid lol

[Skeptic]

Cool to hear. I'm 18 and have been interested since I was a little kid.

[Bugsy TV]

Nebuchadnezzar is famously known for being specifically Chaldean. if Nebuchadnezzar’s father is Nabupolossar, Nabupolossar is obviously Chaldean, they take the fathers side especially in those days, they don’t bloodline through the morhers.

[History with Cy]

Hi, thanks for your comment, really appreciate it. That is the assumption yes, but as of now there has not been any actual text or document uncovered stating that he or Nabopolassar were indeed Chaldean. The texts regarding Nabopolassar's ancestry (Babylonian and Assyrian documents) merely state that he came from the "south near the sea" or something of that sort but whether he was Chaldean or Akkadian is not explicitly stated. While it may be tradition and indeed correct, because it hasn't been conclusively proven by any archaeological text is why I stop short of saying that he was definitely Chaldean. This is not my opinion but that of the consensus of scholars in general. Hope this helps and thanks for watching!

[Bugsy TV]

@History with Cy hey man thanks for the response. i know the biblical text calls him Chaldean and King of the Chaldeans, but not sure about archeological documents, hopefully they uncover something.

[جبال التاي]

و حتى اليوم ، نحن ننتسب لأبائنا و ليس لأمهاتنا ..

[Able Donald]

great work! ..... surprised you haven't done something on the Maya civilisation yet?

[History with Cy]

In 2024 perhaps, still have a few other projects to finish beforehand. It's definitely on the list for long term projects but I have to study the subject more. Thanks for watching, really appreciate it!

[Jersey Stotler]

Thank you for a valuable teaching and learning video!

[History with Cy]

My pleasure, thanks for watching!

[Margaret Abendroth]

AMAZING. I LOVE THIS. THANK YOU FOR YOUR HARD WORK.

[History with Cy]

Glad you found this useful! More on the way, stay tuned and thanks for watching!

[Ana Sevi]

absolute legend level.

[History with Cy]

Thanks! Hope you enjoy it and thanks for always tuning in to these!

[PENGAmurungu]

LOVE ancient mesopotamia. thank you for this christmas gift

[History with Cy]

My pleasure, Merry Christmas and all the best for 2023!

[Paulie Dibbs]

Impeccable timing, Cy ... 😎 Thank you for the wonderful gift and may you have an awesome Christmas!!! 🙏

[Vic Hoffmeister]

Thanks for this excellent and informative video. I enjoyed it very much.

[History with Cy]

My pleasure, thanks for watching!

[AngryDuck!]

Cy: *uploads 3 hour video* Also Cy: *names it "concise"*

[History with Cy]

Haha well it's about 1500 years of history in 3 hours so I suppose that's pretty concise. Thanks so much for watching and all the best for 2023!

[Micheal Burnett]

That could have been much longer, so I thank you for your video. Splendid 🇮🇪😜

[History with Cy]

Haha thanks for watching, really appreciate it and more to come, stay tuned!

[Kaarli Makela]

Just noticed the revolving little icons around Babylon at the very end. ❤️

[History with Cy]

Haha thanks for watching until then...most probably log off halfway through but thrilled you enjoyed to the short cast of characters at the end!

[Kaarli Makela]

@History with Cy you do a great job!

[History with Cy]

@Kaarli Makela thanks!

[Jeremy Glauert]

I love Sumerian and Babylonian history and I don't think it's a coincidence that in Australia so far from there I happen to live on Eridu lane and are madly in love with a Persian Elamite haha. I don't think anything is as beautiful as a Persian woman

[Love Boxing]

Time for a second listen. Truly the good stuff.

[History with Cy]

My pleasure, glad you enjoyed this enough to watch it again! More on the way, thanks for stopping by!

[Happy Bergner]

THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO!!🥰

[History with Cy]

My pleasure, thanks for watching!

[martin mcintyre]

Brilliant thanks for the 3hrs of historical entertainment.

[Valencia Walker]

Thank you 🙏🏽 a great presentation.

[History with Cy]

My pleasure, thanks for watching!

[Metonicus]

This was surprisingly interesting.

[Haider Mesopotamian(Iraqi)]

(history of Iraq) Babylon, Sumer, Akkad, Assyria, and Mesopotamia❤️

[Rabkit]

Go back there

[The Stranger]

Now boom boom boom boom

[Collin Alexander]

Diligently made. Very well done

[Helder Almeida]

Imaging 3000 years in our future there will be people looking at our history like we are looking in our past

[My Two Cents]

They absolutely will. And 3000 years after that, people will be looking back at our society similarly to how we see the latter part of the Neolithic. What REALLY fascinates me is to imagine how the past will be viewed in the far future, more than 10,000 years from now. We only have a very small frame of reference for that far in the past. 10,000 years ago we'd barely figured out agriculture. Who knows how the future will look at the past

[Timothytrespas]

Great video work! Fantastic! Thank you!

[The Zero Line]

Using my Time machine, I often vacation in Kish. Very underrated city.

[Dax Marshall]

3 HOURS??? We've been blessed!

[History with Cy]

Enjoy my friend and thanks for watching!

[Stane Borisovski]

W..why?😳 I don't understand

[He Laughs]

It's only 3 hours cause he talks so slow at x2 he's still at a normal talking speed 😂😂

[History with Cy]

@He Laughs Yeah trying to find a good speed. In the past many said I spoke too fast, now you say too slow...I guess I just can't win on this issue.🤣

[Billy Bobs]

Antarctica 🙌 centre of the world

[Dee Westhill]

All those uprisings in that region must have made it a highly unpleasant place to live for the vast majority of people. They must have constantly wanted to escape.

[IrreverantRex]

One of my main takeaways is that the name marduk was as popular as the name Steve or John and that's kinda funny to me.

[Barbara King]

You did this beautiful all the way through. Thank you

[Ambassador carlous Dewayne EL]

Yahweh be the glory the praise and all I will prayers gratitude shalom peace and blessings thanks for the great lesson keep up the good work ACH K a n

[Gold Pill Will]

Listened to this while packing down the Xmas gear..Perfect. Very interesting indeed, thank you and happy New Year!

[d w]

Nothing like history to educate and entertain at the same time

[History with Cy]

Haha wholeheartedly agree! Thanks for watching!

[John Bruce]

Retired Assyriologist says... Babylon means in Akkadian; Bab + ili = Gate + of the Gods = Gate of the Gods. As Erbil = Arba + ili = Four Gods. Aššur (Assyria) = The god Aššur. Language is the best place to start understanding Babylon and its contribution to the history of humanity.

[History with Cy]

Thanks for the info! Hope you enjoyed this and all the best for 2023!

[Slimane Ismailli]

Babylon may be able to tell the color door.The city gate had colors Bab il'lon : Door of colors.

[Johnny Small]

OMG this is just what I wanted for Christmas

[History with Cy]

Sweet, hope you enjoy it and thanks for watching! Merry Christmas!

[Guided Meditation]

A small circle of enlightened people can "move mountains" and create grand civilizations but when they are gone so is the magic that made them great. Much like when a son takes over a father's business empire and it flounders and fails.

[jeff grove]

This best thing I’ve seen of your tremendous work. Cy u rock!

[History with Cy]

Thank you, really appreciate the kind words and hope to put out longer ones like this in the near future, stay tuned and thanks for watching!

[husam botros]

Merry Christmas Cy great job my friend hope you have a wonderful and joyful Christmas and a happy New Year .. your dedication is much appreciated.

[History with Cy]

Thanks my friend, hope that you had a great Christmas and New Year as well! Will do one like this on ancient Assyria later on in the year. All the best for 2023!

[Harry Edwards]

Cy you say in that video That Shamshi-Adad and the Eshnunna kings hated each other that much that there is no way they would join forces to attack Sin-Muballit but I've just been reading about the Stele of Dadusha which commemorates the joint forces of Shamshi-Adad and Dadusha The King of Eshnunna (son of Ipiq-Adad II and father of Ibal-pi-el II) victory over the King of Qabara, Banu-Ishtar.. It does seem odd though why Shamshi-Adad would join forces with Dadusha considering what his father Ipiq-Adad II had done to him in the past taking his city and sending him into exile. And then unbeknownst to him at the time, both Dadusha and later his son Ibal-pi-el II also become his son's (Ishme-Dagan I) main enemies in the future.