The Ancient Middle East: Every Year

The history of the Middle East, every year. This part covers the period 3500 BCE - 513 BCE. Later periods will be covered in subsequent videos.
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Music:
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Notes:
= The Sealand Dynasty never actually controlled the city of Babylon, but by convention it is always considered the Second Dynasty of Babylonia.
** = The Eighth Dynasty of Babylonia is a poorly understood period, and it's likely that multiple dynasties ruled during this time. However, due to lack of information, it is classed as one dynasty.

[@OllieBye]

So this will probably end up being a three-part series, with the other two videos covering later periods in Middle Eastern history. At the moment, I'm expecting them to be: Part 1: 3500 BCE - 513 BCE (Ancient Era) Part 2: 513 BCE - 650 CE (Classical Era) Part 3: 650 CE - 2020 (Medieval/Modern Era)

[@riko_sandokan]

One question, are you making your animations in Paint.net, or in some other program?

[@ThamesMapping]

Good luck!

[@OllieBye]

@@riko_sandokan I do use Paint.net to make small corrections, but the main program I use is Inkscape.

[@riko_sandokan]

@@OllieBye Thanks

[@avantelvsitania3359]

Ollie Bye, do you have any news on the Thirty Years War series?

[@Discitus]

The end really shows the historic importance of the Achaemenid empire. It was unprecedented. For someone living in ancient Mesopotamia, it would seem as if almost the whole world came to be under one king.

[@sonofpersia4780]

Yes , Achaemenid Empire was ruling over 45% of world's population , and after them no Empire could rule on this high percentage of world population again

[@FreePalestine711]

@@sonofpersia4780 how Achaemenid controlled so fast all regions ?

[@FreePalestine711]

@Joey Sims But it's for me impossible to think how this army destroyed complete Nordafrica Anatolia and Middle East in this small period.

[@g-rexsaurus794]

@@sonofpersia4780 No they did not, this 45% figure is untenable, China and India at this time had already a lot of people and most of Europe, South-East Asia and half of the Americas were already agricultural too.

[@shafqatishan437]

@@g-rexsaurus794 not a lot. Persia had the largest population of that time. 45% seems small figure tbh. I think it could've been above 50%

[@alexdelvecchio1879]

I like how these tiny kingdoms spend millennia fighting over bits of land, and then the Achaemenids just swoop in and eat the whole thing for breakfast.

[@justacrow9847]

Well Cyrus the great introduced blitzkrieg to the ancient world, using highly mobile cavalry. His military genius is often over looked. You can't just take all of that if you are not a gifted general.

[@EB-fc2mp]

@@justacrow9847 his generally tolerant and lenient governing style helped a bunch too. There's a reason he's praised very heavily in Jewish texts and the Old Testament of the Bible.

[@jaif7327]

Wat Tyler and then he got fucked by the Scythians Lmfaoooo

[@nashnn7583]

It is because the, Babylonians, Assyrians Egyptians and Israelites were exhausted because of the long intense wars between them.

[@stevenmackintosh8160]

the Assyrians really set the field for them though

[@ThamesMapping]

I've only looked at the thumbnail and I can already see the immense effort and great quality.

[@eru.maewos7673]

The Achaemenid Empire was the first time "the whole" world was united under one crown. People living under it never thought that it could fall, because, how can the unifiers of the world be conquered by something else?

[@funplussmart]

then Alexander came around

[@SxVaNm345]

Cyrus the Great: I am the first King to unite a large part of the world under one unified state, no other state or ruler before me has been able to conquer lands to this extent, my Achaemenid kingdom will last forever. Alexander the Great: _Super Saiyan_

[@eru.maewos7673]

@@SxVaNm345 And then Alexander conquered the world in a decade...

[@TheObserversTV]

The Achaemenid Empire just replaced the Assyrian Empire, and took over what Assyria left behind, a perfected imperial system.

[@User-jm7up]

They knew for sure they were not all the world

[@TaraZaraChara]

"The Ancient Middle East: Every Year" "1 Hour ago" My Brain: "The Ancient Middle East: Every Hour." That'd be a long video.

[@TahaWasiq]

LOL it happens.

[@MPHJackson7]

@@busimagen So about a day long?

[@antoninuslarpus7107]

Ollie would become a god for doing that

[@geraldchurchill5576]

@@antoninuslarpus7107 The problem is that there isn't enough historical data to fill in great spans of time in this era.

[@antoninuslarpus7107]

@@geraldchurchill5576 sadly

[@interestingtimes3296]

When you're midway through middle eastern history and you're still 1500 years away from the Roman empire

[@septimiusseverus343]

The Romans were children as compared to the Elamites, Akkadians, Egyptians et al. Incredible really.

[@mariabop]

The Romans would consider Egyptians, Akkadians, Babylonians, Assyrians etc. As ancient

[@aureltoniniimperatorecomun4029]

​​@@mariabopthey just knew something about Egypt

[@zee-ws8px]

If anything, it shows how old Iranian civilization is. Preceded the Romans. Rivaled the Romans for its entire existence. Survived an Arab invasion. Still around today.

[@JstZelda]

​@@zee-ws8px that's insane

[@johnwashington5179]

one of the fascinating thing about Achaemenid empire was the fact they were so powerful that they didn't make walls around their capital, because they never thought no one will come this far. of course it was true for centuries.

[@ShahanshahShahin]

*_They built walls around Susa (Their Administrative Winter capital) and Ecbatana (Haŋmatāna) (their Summer capital) and repaired and enlarged the walls of Babylon. The only city which I was not sure of is Persepolis (Parsākhata) and Pasargadae (Pāθra-gadā)._*

[@shia_pan_iranist]

That wasn't their main capital....

[@DZRESPECT]

turks: where are my ancestors? Babylonias: in Mongolia mate.

[@marcustulliuscicero5443]

Eh, technically the ancestors of the Turks are already sitting in Anatolia in this video. By and large they are extremely old (as in "Hittite-old") populations that have just adopted the language of their most recent conquerors.

[@dariushpezhmannia938]

That is true for Egypt too. Egyptians considered themselves as Arabs. Ancients Egyptian no longer exist.

[@hornetguy9063]

Dariush Pezhmannia Coptic Christians will beg to differ. They are in fact genetically distinct from other Arab speaking people across Egypt and other North African nations. So they’re probably fairly close to the pre-Islamic conquest population.

[@mehrdad5767]

@@marcustulliuscicero5443 lol nice joke

[@hakanhuseyinoglu2299]

Ok Arab

[@history.mp4993]

4:57 Bronze Age collapse hits like a truck

[@laMoria]

It goes Kaboul ... hum kaboom

[@Cnut_the_grape]

People: noooo you can't just ruin 2000 years of history in 59 years ahhhh Bronze age collapse: haha death of the richest civilizations goes brrrrrrrr

[@markhenley3097]

@@Cnut_the_grape An era later: Romans: Nooo you can't just ruin a thousand years of Ancient history in fifty years! That's unfair noooo Barbarians: Hhaha Dark Ages go brrrrr

[@laMoria]

@@markhenley3097 An era later : Trump : no you can't ruin 200 years of fossil fuels history in fifty years. Climate change : haha death on the richest civilisation goes brrrrrrr Trump : BUT THEY WANNA STEAL OUR COWS I'm sorry if it's getting political 😆

[@ffarkasm]

damn you, sea people

[@jordanianchristian8387]

Middle Eastern history is so diverse and interesting. From ancient-medieval-modern.

[@afleitan77]

Hello my Ammonite Brother.

[@calm1tbh]

@papa joe stalin of Stalinist stanistan ikr..

[@sepep6288]

@papa joe stalin of Stalinist stanistan hmmm... It wasn't ever stable under the Persians nor after them. Your way of summarizing history is dumb.

[@sepep6288]

@papa joe stalin of Stalinist stanistan okay?

[@Ministevo1]

@papa joe stalin of Stalinist stanistan And what happened after the Ottoman decline

[@daltonmiller5590]

This is honestly incredible. It's detailed, accurate, and beautifully and colorfully depicted on the map. Truly great work!

[@DawidMMapper]

I'm now learning to my Ancient Middle East exam for my college, and your video is really helpfull! Memoring this whole Dynasties, and Rulers is an nightmare xD but locating them on a map makes this topic a lot easier. Thanks so much and I really appreciate your work!

[@MarysiaPytlak]

o kolege odnalazlam

[@DawidMMapper]

@@MarysiaPytlak heloł, powodzenia jutro :>

[@mariabop]

How was your exam?

[@DawidMMapper]

@@mariabop unfortunately failed :( because of that I needed to pass the whole Ancient History in one block (Ancient ME + Greece + Rome), I finally passed it, but it wasn't an easy thing 😅

[@Warsawke]

3:13 Sealand strong empire

[@dankeykang868]

Kuwait should give the Sealandians their righteous lands back

[@DeliciousHalwa]

Sealandians were in Ur not Kuwait

[@georgebailey8179]

It amuses me to think of the current Principality of Sealand as being a continuation of this ancient state, even though it clearly isn't.

[@simsim5265]

Sealand stronk

[@abloodorange5233]

I love how you used the native names for them. I have to say, it was really, REALLY detailed. You made sure to show intricate details that I haven’t seen in a map of the ancient Middle East, good job!

[@abloodorange5233]

İnsan yeah for some be used the names

[@jasonmartin4775]

@İnsan what's babylonia's original name?

[@user-gz9tw7ns1l]

@@jasonmartin4775 it's Sumer

[@ainzsama5101]

he mostly didn’t

[@wtz_under]

@@ainzsama5101which ones he didnt?

[@AbacateGeopolitico]

When the video starts, Göbeklitepe - the Lost Civilization, in Urfa, Türkiye 🇹🇷 - had already existed for SEVEN THOUSAND YEARS 🤯

[@RedBloxian]

The thing is, it wasn’t even Turkish 🤯

[@IbnBattuta-tz9tw]

@@RedBloxian Matters not. He obviously just pointed out the location, which is expected for something of this magnitude

[@RedBloxian]

@@IbnBattuta-tz9tw ok it why use the Turkish flag why not some Anatolian tribe

[@ElfingDaddy]

​@@RedBloxian bro where tf are the emojis for ancient unknown tribes on your phone 😂

[@RedBloxian]

@@ElfingDaddy Get it from google or something.

[@sirius_sus]

How much dynasties do you have? Ancient Egypt:yes

[@abdalrhmanaldawlatly]

Ancient Egypt had 30 dynasties, they ended when Egyptians chose Alexander the great to be the Pharoah after his victory against Persian in Egypt.

[@masterspark9880]

@@abdalrhmanaldawlatly But then there’s the Argead and Ptolemaic dynasties. And some historians considered the Romans to be Egypt’s 34th dynasty

[@wildfire9280]

@@masterspark9880 Did anyone claim to be Pharaoh?

[@masterspark9880]

@@wildfire9280 Yeah, they all did until Constantine. But it was really only in name, they didn’t do any of the duties of the pharaoh besides ruling the country and building temples sometimes

[@piccolo917]

it's still insane to me how we know as much as we do about peoples and histories this old and how complex and large scale their socities were. Also, how insanely old and stable ancient Egypt was. I know Cleopatra lived closer to the moon landings than to the construction of the pyramids of Giza, but it's still insane that was that long ago.

[@josemarcosr8746]

Ancient Egypt was a pretty isolated kingdom also, it was in fact unstable at some point, it was divided multiple times, conquered by Hyksos, Assyrians, Persians and Greeks, they have no powerful neighbors as Assyria, Hitites or Akkadians, that contributed to their stability.

[@scarymonster5541]

Ancient egypt weren't isolated they are known for trading with mesopotamia,levant and anatolia But i do think they also trade with the arabs starting like 600s bc

[@josemarcosr8746]

@@scarymonster5541 They were much more isolated than Assyria, Babylonia, Hitites, Akkadians, etc.

[@scarymonster5541]

@@josemarcosr8746 how were they isolated when they made contanct with other middle eastern empires?

[@josemarcosr8746]

@@scarymonster5541 They more isolated than*, I was pretty clear. They had a religion very different, while in Mesopotamia everyone had similar gods, similar writing, etc.The Mesopotamian Empires lasted less because there was much more competition. Even the lingua francas spread much faster, with all the influence and power that the Egyptians had, how did their language never spread as lingua franca if they were so integrated?

[@mightyelf2660]

Assyria and Babylon one of the longest rivalries.

[@justacrow9847]

Cyrus the great: Those snacks look tasty.

[@arandurion]

@@justacrow9847 Alexander the great: "I'll take your whole stock"

[@justacrow9847]

@@arandurion Parthia: RIP Macedonia.

[@rehanansari009]

@@arandurion Indian king porus with war elephants ... Alexander run way geeks save ur ass back to Babylon 🤭

[@arandurion]

@@rehanansari009 lol no he defeated porus, and you should be happy he did so. This act destabalised the power balance in northern india leading to the rise of the great maurya empire, the largest native Indian empire in history.

[@takshashila2995]

The Levant just triggered my Trypophobia..!

[@nikobellic776]

lol

[@srt4874]

The heart

[@123TeeMee]

At the start, I notice a lot of nations expand a bit but then the guys there before just come back and take the land back shortly after.

[@nevanj.medina358]

That's basically what happens in almost all of these lol

[@personalnormal5935]

It's funny but just like in Texifornia, South Africa, anywhere European invaded is now being taken back.

[@abcdef27669]

6:09 - "Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian..."

[@wirelessbluestone5983]

Honestly amazing how this captures the development of states from cities to empires. Cannot wait for the next part. Also would you ever consider making a video on the Roman-Persian Wars?

[@SuperDaxos]

Amazing! This theater was the birthplace of civilization and where human greatness truly started. From ancient Egypt, to the Sumerians, to the Babylonians and the Judeans, up to the Achaemenid empire and later the conquest of Alexander. There are too many tales to tell about this place and time period. Too bad most of it we will never uncover. Thank you for the video

[@yourmajesty3344]

Behind every large civilisation there is a river. 🏳🏴🏳🏴🏳🏴

[@Sami.Daoud92]

Water is the main source to this life

[@Eagle57-n6e]

Egypt-nile river Pakistan/India- indus river valley Iraq- Euphrates and Tigris river

[@Cnut_the_grape]

Well yeah no shiz

[@JoseManuel-is4yc]

Or two rivers

[@marcustulliuscicero5443]

Unless you are the Mongols.

[@viscondederioclaro]

Supremely fascinating!

[@eyuin5716]

Wow, like i don't even know what to say. I know I sound like a broken record but My God. You keep outdoing yourself in quality, especially this video. I literally got goosebumps watching this. lol

[@oakmapping68]

What are all the dots in modern-day Isreal and Palestine, were all those city states?

[@OllieBye]

Yes, they are Canaanite/Amorite city-states.

[@מקסים-ח4כ]

@@OllieBye hummm. Can we agree do disagree on this one? Looks like you took some hounders of years from that land, the cities of jerecho, zur, megido, ber sheve and more are older. And the Israelis come before that, like 400 years +/-. Any how, impressive ! GG's

[@OllieBye]

@@מקסים-ח4כ Okay, thanks for your thoughts on that.

[@logomnism5378]

Wow that's so interesting. Never heard of Elam, which seems to be in Iran while it lasted such a long time. Almost the whole video.

[@xshandy5812]

Elam=Iran

[@guerreirodaliberdade7800]

Simply wonderful.. the true cradle of Civilization

[@shaolindreams]

Great work, really important to visualize the goings on in history.. Sure it's probably not 100% correct but it certainly gives a good impression of human activities in that region.

[@EnesCagrTonyal]

It was a great video. The best video about the ancient near east and the ancient middle east. congratulations good job. 👍

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

Oooo boi

[@drmustafa3538]

iraq : all our history is war We born in war live in war death in war

[@مُسلم-ن9ك]

Sad😔

[@huh-by2lr]

Good for you tough guy, have fun with that

[@identity2257]

@@huh-by2lr u a bit dumb, he just stating facts.

[@alanjacker1374]

Those are not iraqis, those are people long gone

[@identity2257]

@@alanjacker1374 iraqis genes are related to Sumerians poophead, they only took the arabic language and religion

[@kentjohnofficial2016]

the best mapping video in the mapping history!

[@MT_282]

The crazy thing is. At the start of the video the pyramids were already constructed

[@JoseManuel-is4yc]

Malik Tibourtine no. The piramids were built araund 2500bc, and the video start at 3500bc

[@pinghpin3]

@@JoseManuel-is4ycI think he meant when the every year part starts

[@BusyB07]

thank you much. Notebook full of questions now

[@Sthrall1]

Brilliant and valuable. One minor critique on a great piece of work: picking similar shades of green for Egypt and Assyria leads to confusion after 900 BC when the two empires are in proximity.

[@avantelvsitania3359]

Ah, Ollie Bye uploaded. Today is a good day.

[@Yrkr785]

I love all the rivalries between the states like Assyria and Babylon Assyria and Egypt Assyria and Hittie Empire Assyria and Elam Assyria and Urartu Assyria and Mitanni Assyria and Medes Assyria and Judaea Assyria and you get the picture

[@TRAINAlytics]

Assyria and Assyria civil wars galore lmao

[@googleuser4203]

Man, I love Assyria. Imagine the amount of tv shows you can create from their story!

[@drswag0076]

in the later years we saw Assyria in the territories of modern Iraq.

[@kararkarar6545]

we are persian

[@kararkarar6545]

@Herdan im iraqi Persian origin

[@kararkarar6545]

@Herdan We are called by Philly, we are the descendants of the Elamite community. Iraq has many Arabs, but some of them are Persian, but they have become with the Arabs.

[@sepep6288]

@@kararkarar6545 Philly are Kurds/Lurs not Persians

[@froggyirq7194]

@@kararkarar6545 Iraq has Persian become Arabs ? wtf are u talking about? And fayli are not Persian btw !

[@AmenProletar]

The Achaemenid empire was one of the first historical jumpscares ever.

[@planetofgamespog8242]

Akkads?

[@nab.7250]

Dilmun 💗 🇮🇶 ❤️ 🇸🇦 💕 🇧🇭 ❤️ 🇶🇦

[@nab.7250]

@ليندا زيد قصدي حضارة دلمون

[@4july99]

Amazing video. Can’t imagine how many hours you put into it!

[@tankiwolf]

This is very interesting for me ass a christian coz now i know when and where ur, Babylonia, Assyria and Hettitti were located. Nice job.

[@rampantmutt9119]

Elam was just chilling out in the corner the entire time

[@TrialByDance]

I have never clicked a thumbnail so fast

[@wallrider4194]

2:18 Elam looks like it has hands!

[@kubhlaikhan2015]

I love these history-through-maps videos, but people should appreciate that we are projecting a modern concept of clear hard borders back onto cultures that lacked them. Power and influence often overlapped or consisted in links to distant separated regions or existed only over certain features of daily life and not others. The terminology is also often deceiving: for example, what does the word "semite" even mean? Does living in "Babylonia" mean you are a Babylonian? On the whole, such maps conceal more about the ordinary people than they reveal.

[@gts1300]

0:45 Someone rearranged Shakespeare's name and removed an a.

[@elian985]

Assyria, Babylonia and Akkad. Proud to be an Assyrian.

[@مُسلم-ن9ك]

Hi dude you should say it's Iraq

[@elian985]

buraq aliraqi lmao 😂 what are you talking aboute. Iraq is a country which has nothing to do with this civilizasatins. Educate your self pleas. We Assyrian people (Assyrians,Chaldeans,Arameans) are not Arabs.

[@مُسلم-ن9ك]

@@elian985 Dude I agree with you we shuld educate But assyrians should educate too There is no different between you and us❤💗

[@elian985]

buraq aliraqi yes it is. You are an arab look at you flag you wearing and i am an Assyrian. Iraq and Kurdistan they are all fake its just Assyria. Long live the great Mesopotamia✊✊

[@مُسلم-ن9ك]

@@elian985 Dude Mesopotamia It's same Iraq Mesopotamia not only Assyrian Mesopotamia is : Akkad, summer, Babylon,Ur and Assyrian

[@avrazzuber7829]

The background music took me to these ancient history

[@youshouldknow5481]

I really like how you were very specific on the borders, most maps just show the desert areas as automatically owned by a nation, though I understand it is usually done for simplicity or aesthetic reasons.

[@anon-rf5sx]

It's very impressive when you think, first how all this knowledge, the historical sources survived to this day, and second the study, research, efforts made in order to discover and understand this knowledge.

[@augustocesar5191]

Indo-Europeans where the Mongolians of the ancient era

[@poopman7372]

Wdym?

[@sepep6288]

I think he means Indo-European nations such as Gutians, Kassites, Medians and Iranians that invaded the ancient oriental civilizations such as Akkad-Sumer, Assyria, Elam, Babylon,...etc

[@augustocesar5191]

@@sepep6288 exactly

[@arandurion]

@@sepep6288 medes are Iranian and kassites aren't indo European I dont think.

[@sepep6288]

@@arandurion the Kassites had Indo-European names, but whether these names were original Kassite names or were borrowed from neighboring Indo-European languages is still debatable. When they later invaded Babylon they were assimilated by the the Mesopotamian culture and used Akkadian names. The Medes are Indo-Europeans but they didn't arrive in middle east in the same Indo-European migration wave of the ancestors of Persians, Afghans and Tajiks. They arrived erlier by earlier waves like the Hittites, Hurians, Armenians, Gutians, ...etc

[@cynwulf2898]

So many people would have made only one of these videos, but you go beyond. Thank you for continuing to improve and to provide us all with this content which is so rarely found elsewhere in such a clean and digestible way.

[@maciejkamil]

It's amazing that so much information about so ancient time survived to this day.

[@limeliciousmapping4652]

At 6:49 Assurbanipal completely destroyed Babylon, he even took þe ground until þe dephð of 1 meter and ðrew it into þe euphrat. A few years later it was just rebuilt by his ðird son

[@RdCA-Channel-II]

High quality, great effort and excellent video again. Congratulations 👏🏻

[@PLUTONIUM1228]

wow you illustrated landscape change !!! amazing i see it now

[@TahaWasiq]

1:23 Pepi II What a long rule. Longest in history I think.

[@retf8977]

Yep.

[@TahaWasiq]

@@ProfessorPotatoPhD in that time especially, Egyptians would have firmly believed that he was a god. I wonder their reaction upon his death.

[@TahaWasiq]

@@ProfessorPotatoPhD Agreed

[@mahdi-oe6mk]

The only Chanel on youtube with accurate data

[@jsd795]

Thank you, I am absolutely fascinated with ancient Mesopotamia, but it is hard keep it all straight and maps with corresponding timelines are a huge help. Thanks again

[@sriramp5934]

This is video is better than previous ones.

[@chainmbl4257]

Even back then the Middle East is complicated

[@dou-lheumanacara4310]

Ollie Bye, it´s notorious that your videos are full of studies and hard work. Congratularions and thanks for this huge knowlgdement.

[@jangelbrich7056]

I wondered how You would map the Bronze Age collapse or the Sea People ... I see the Hittites vanishing.

[@miliba]

Very satisfying to see the whole map under 1 single entity at the end, after millennia of many lesser states

[@ArmanMartirosyan23]

Great video, but the Armenian tribes of Arartta (28th-27th c. BC) and Nairi (13th-10th c. BC) were unfortunately not included 🇦🇲 FYI: the other two tribes/kingdoms that appear in this video that were Armenian are: -Hayasa-Azzi -Kingdom of Urartu (or Van; or Ararat) The Hurrians are also believed to have been the ancestors of Urartians, who are Proto-Armenians! Hello to all my ancient civilizations of the Middle East from Armenia 🇦🇲❤️

[@ArmanMartirosyan23]

Aziz Yigido How delusional can you be? All ancient Assyrian and Babylonian (and more) sources point out that Urartu was the first *established* Armenian kingdom... no mention of Chechens anywhere lol

[@orodsozenchi4051]

@Aziz Yigido Turgay is 💩

[@mehrdad5767]

@Aziz Yigido lol momgoli

[@orodsozenchi4051]

@Aziz Yigido No I'm not a turd from turdistan mongolabat

[@selahattinkaskc8668]

@@ArmanMartirosyan23 lmao armenia weren't a thing in 28 bc urartu wasnt armenian, delusional armenian

[@WilliamSelassie]

The conventional date you use for the end of the Old Kingdom c. 2100 BC is all based entirely on some artifacts that were found in an ancient museum in Byblos and is totally wrong. My detailed studies convinced me that the Old Kingdom and the 8th dynasty ended in 2755 BC, there was no dynasty until the 9th started about 2415 BC.

[@samtitiheruw]

Very detailed and informative! Great job Ollie 👍

[@Frimpa-MJEB]

1:41 Number VII : bye guys I don't exist

[@adarshmohapatra5058]

The Babylonians become independent again after every time they get captured. Gotta appreciate them striving for independence again and again. I can also see why they're often compared to Egypt. Both are along river deltas with rich soil suitable for agriculture and civilization.

[@مُسلم-ن9ك]

Do you know where is Babylon

[@adarshmohapatra5058]

@@مُسلم-ن9ك Yeah it's in mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq right?

[@مُسلم-ن9ك]

@@adarshmohapatra5058 Yeah Most of people don't know that Summer ,Akkad ,Babylon ,Ur ,Assyrians All this civilisation are in Iraq ❤❤❤

[@adarshmohapatra5058]

@@مُسلم-ن9ك Yes, love and respect to Iraq for it's ancient civilisations! - from another ancient civilisation India

[@adarshmohapatra5058]

@@مُسلم-ن9ك We learn about these ancient civilisations that were there in Mesopotamia ( Iraq ) in grade 6. Most people forget this but there are still many of us who take interest in history and cultures of other civilisations. If only more people knew about the rich history and culture of Iraq, they would appreciate it more :)

[@eyeofthepyramid2596]

Things where pretty stable when Egypt was one of the dominant player.

[@ferozf9959]

لا اله الا الله محمد رسول الله From Afghanistan

[@mehrdad5767]

💩💩

[@RainbowRangersFan2019]

Assyria just keeps respawning.

[@1990Cid]

The video is really well set up, my most sincere congratulations. Just a thing: I miss Phoenicians.

[@murtadhaalkenani3876]

4K ? That's some high quality Mapping

[@ninveh1]

In 1200 bc Assyria expands to farest Anatolia, Caspian Sea, Black Sea, Golf Sea and Levante. Tukulti Ninurta. Assyrian King.

[@عليياسر-ذ5ب]

Babylonians: Stop, Satan, you killer of humans

[@ninveh1]

@@عليياسر-ذ5ب Assyria is made by Gods Hands. (Isaiah 19:25)

[@omaralfar1666]

6:42 Actually, the Qedarites appear for the first time during the 9th Century BCE. This was just their greatest extant, during the 5th Century BCE.

[@stevenhart6788]

This is a great visual accompaniment to Will Durant's volume "The Story of Civilization: Our Oriental Heritage"

[@Saxshoe]

Cyrus said "everyone ok if I just take all of this? I'm sorry I can't hear anything over your screams of agony. I'll take your lack of response as approval."

[@tubi333]

There was a kingdom of Israel before the partition in 926 BC, when the southern part called itself judea and the northern part still Israel. You labeled it here Samaria which was not the name of the country but only of its capital. In the older version you had it right.

[@عليياسر-ذ5ب]

Pharaohs I love this land Solomon the Prophet died

[@uspeschnyichelovek4809]

Great Video. Also this is theme what I have interested last time.

[@ramirosotto]

Such a great improvement from your old video with the same title, so much work. Maybe you can add "[old]" before the title to that video in order to distinguish the two and to promote this one. Also I wonder, why did you show Israel as a unified kingdom in the right-side table but not in the map?

[@smi758sthxd81]

Where are Madian, Qedar and Sheba nabate? Civilizations did not appear in Arabia?There are cities in Arabia that were capitals such as Tayma, Dumat Al-Jandal and others?

[@freezeyou-Always-Frozen]

Long live guti and mittan and media (madai) ✌️✌️☀️ great quality of the mapping

[@mehrdad5767]

Lol

[@aradsstates9584]

Freeze You I don't understand as kurd why some Kurds distinguished themselves to be Iranian (one of the Aryan ethnic which is Madai).even I learned that there is no difference between Madai and Parthava in relativity with Kurds because Parthian is middle Median language and both Parthian and Median were north western Iranic languages as Kurdish with the lure, Laki, Baloch, Mazandarani, and Gilaki are nowadays north western Iranic languages with Parthian(Pahlavi ashkani or Pahlawanic) roots.

[@mirenciyano4764]

@@aradsstates9584 dude s**t up We are just kurds Only one thing we have in common that we are aryan Our language is different our history is different Our culture is different We used to fight each other U steal our lands u killed Kurdish people in iran u banned their language all we wanted our rights And still u want us to say we are Persians We are kurds iranic aryan now s**t the f**k up dude

[@mahdi-oe6mk]

​@@mirenciyano4764 i'm kurd and that dude was right, you should track your origin

[@mirenciyano4764]

@@mahdi-oe6mk we're iranic so what's ur point?

[@federicovercellin2115]

This video Is epic. Very good job👍👍👍

[@historyoftheworldpodcast5234]

A terrific upgrade in quality and such a valuable resource. Thank you so much Ollie.

[@itstriplem2069]

HE BACK BOIS WITH ANOTHER GREAT VIDEO

[@artofthepossible7329]

An extract from Our Oriental Heritage: "A new perspective of time comes to us; two millenniums seem to fall out of the picture, and Caesar, Herodotus and ourselves appear for a moment contemporary and modern."

[@wallrider4194]

3:06 biggest extent of Elam.

[@ideasperson8899]

An astounding amount of work has been put into this. Round of applause for Ollie Bye!

[@antoniopenalafuente83]

Great, great job here, and in the previous one.

[@Warsawke]

Great Video as usual !

[@ASMapping]

This was needed, Nice job. Why didn't you make it all into one big video?

[@OllieBye]

It just would've taken too long to make. This part alone took around a month.

[@AvoniasStratigis]

I like the fact that the Tigris and the Euphrates follow different courses to the Persian gulf unlike in modern times.

[@patriotofpersia2238]

Great job

[@mirenciyano4764]

Guti , mittani , median , ayubid dynasty , kardox , ardalan , All of them were Kurdish And the one who found the sasanid empire was Kurdish Proud to be Kurdish ❤☀️💚

[@il967]

None of them are Kurdish. Although, all are related to Kurdish except Guti.

[@mirenciyano4764]

@@il967 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Read the history buddy

[@il967]

@@mirenciyano4764 I do read history. You think that's a counterargument?

[@mirenciyano4764]

@@il967 say none of them are Kurdish And the ayubid dynasty founded by Salah aldin alayouby He even made the Kurdish language is legal in ayubid dynasty 😂 . Mittani There was a queen called nafar titi And she was queen of Egypt Even the Egyptian say she was Kurdish from mittani empire 😂😂 . Kardox The Romans and kardox fought each other We fought so hard that's why the romans called us kardox something like rock we all know it was Kurdish The romans say they were Kurdish . Ardalan We all know it's Kurdish don't have to expalin . Median empire It was Kurdish empire When the assyrian defeated the mittani empire The median empire came And we defeated the assyrian empire With help by the chaldeans empire And Egypt The assyrian the chaldeans the Egyptian All of them accept that it was Kurdish empire And that's why the Persians turned on the median empire and created the achaemenid empire

[@il967]

@@mirenciyano4764 Again, I said all of them are related to kurdish, but aren't kurdish. The only exception is Guti, which is unknown. It's like saying Arabs are Jews because they are related. That's false.

[@markhenley3097]

Bronze Age Collapse goes brrrr

[@mahendradurga3689]

Persian Empire 😊