The History of Babylon and its Empire

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  • čas přidán 10. 01. 2019
  • This is the history of Babylon. From its humble beginnings, the reign of Hammurabi, its magnificent city, the Neo Babylonia empire, and the Hanging Gardens, and the collapse of the Babylon.
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Komentáře • 127

  • @YukiteruAmano92
    @YukiteruAmano92 Před 5 lety +60

    10:07 think you mean the Indus, the Ganges is on the other side of India.

  • @vazak11
    @vazak11 Před 4 lety +1

    Thanks for covering this, it was fascinating!

  • @mdstanton1813
    @mdstanton1813 Před 5 lety +2

    Great overview. Keep these vids coming

  • @bradywade7123
    @bradywade7123 Před 5 lety +29

    Thank you for making these educational videos.

  • @stormystars1087
    @stormystars1087 Před 5 lety +2

    I love all the History videos you've done so far. Not judging. Factual. Great. Not too Kong. Not too short. Thank you.

    • @alexae1367
      @alexae1367 Před rokem

      I hate history videos that are too kong myself

  • @potatoman7864
    @potatoman7864 Před 4 lety +1

    Keep up the good work

  • @marthakiriga7232
    @marthakiriga7232 Před 5 lety

    Excellent narration. Thanks

  • @everythingwithpaper2656

    This vid was so helpful thx so much

  • @amarmirza08
    @amarmirza08 Před 5 lety +2

    Sub'd for this one! Nice to see world history not restricted to the confines of Europe (for a change). Could you do one on Achaemenidian egypt? I'm interested in it cause its suppose to be one of the first times an empire took over an older civilization and decided that it's history was something worth protecting for posterity.
    ....also they used cats in battle!

  • @nantzstein3311
    @nantzstein3311 Před 5 lety +9

    I wonder what would Alexander call his empire when it reached it's peek ? Babylon Mania or The Great Alexandria ?

  • @StopFear
    @StopFear Před 5 lety +22

    "You are a good friend and ally. Gilgamesh will remember this."

  • @DakuHonoo
    @DakuHonoo Před 5 lety +23

    This was awesome, just the content I hunger for. Could you perhaps make more videos about the bronze age cultures?

    • @AJMerrick
      @AJMerrick  Před 5 lety +3

      Yep, planning a video on the Indus Valley Civ very soon!

  • @moondancer3157
    @moondancer3157 Před 5 lety +4

    Wow! Good video !

  • @Rostam-vk9hx
    @Rostam-vk9hx Před 5 lety +14

    Does the Persian Empire get its own video next? It often gets overlooked sandwiched between Babylonian & Greek history. & like Babylon it had a 2nd revival under the Sassanian dynasty.

    • @AJMerrick
      @AJMerrick  Před 5 lety +4

      Yes :) It's not next, but it will get its own video in like 4 or 5 episodes. The Sassanian also gets its own episode but that won't be for a while.

    • @Rostam-vk9hx
      @Rostam-vk9hx Před 5 lety

      @@AJMerrick thank you so much! ! زنده باد ایران
      Zendeh baad Iran !

  • @TO-GigaStoria
    @TO-GigaStoria Před 3 měsíci

    Babylon... The name alone sends shivers down my spine.

  • @mrmacguff1n
    @mrmacguff1n Před 5 lety +11

    And then the fire nation attacked

  • @blackorder7561
    @blackorder7561 Před 5 lety +1

    history is the best thing to learn

  • @sheedmm2174
    @sheedmm2174 Před 5 lety +12

    Babylon will rise again 🇮🇶🇮🇶🇮🇶

    • @EsamforMEMES
      @EsamforMEMES Před 4 lety

      @@gaigairka6811 ISIS is defeated

    • @EsamforMEMES
      @EsamforMEMES Před 4 lety

      hopefully brother

    • @DD-fe2xw
      @DD-fe2xw Před 4 lety

      There is rise and fall of every great power or empire . Nothing is infinite . We dont know what is in future .

    • @bigsouth010
      @bigsouth010 Před 3 lety +1

      Iraq should stop with all this infighting kick out the Islamic extremists and change there name to Babylon and prosper as a people. Bring back the might of Babylon with so much religious thinking and teaching. Religion is great but sometimes people can take it to far and destabilize a whole situation. But one major question if anyone knows. Are the people from back then the same people of today. I mean I know the Iranians are the Persians but was these people Arab way back then or more western Eurasian. Like Turkish Armenian causcus region people’s. I know the original Arabs came from the area around yemen

    • @sheedmm2174
      @sheedmm2174 Před 3 lety

      @@bigsouth010 the people in south iraq who live in the marshes today are related to the Sumerians.
      They still have the same customs and traditions
      As for the Babylonians they still exist today in Iraq, they’re called ‘Chaldeans’

  • @robinthomas3231
    @robinthomas3231 Před 4 lety +1

    Thanks for the great video.
    One minor correction Alexander and his armies stopped at river Indus and not Ganges. Indus was where he fought king porous and won a pyrrhic victory and his forces did not move past Indus and they returned to Babylon.

  • @MrDennisLB
    @MrDennisLB Před 5 lety +3

    Marduk, chief deity of the Babylonia empire, was also known as Amun-RA to the people of Kemet (Egypt). He was the first son of EA (Enki) an Anunnaki also known as Elohim. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elohim

    • @cameroncastleman6496
      @cameroncastleman6496 Před 3 lety +2

      Was looking for a "woke" comment in here ;) main reason Im on this video was cause I was curious to why Jamaicans refer to Babylon a lot. I was wondering why the U.S is considered modern Babylon and that it will unfortunately fall

    • @cjclark1208
      @cjclark1208 Před rokem

      @@cameroncastleman6496 it needs to fall, it’s a disgrace.

  • @iraqimapper8625
    @iraqimapper8625 Před 5 lety +10

    These videos are mostly informative but the titles are misleading
    Thanks for the video

    • @AJMerrick
      @AJMerrick  Před 5 lety

      True :p what do you think they should be called. History of Babylon?

    • @iraqimapper8625
      @iraqimapper8625 Před 5 lety +5

      @@AJMerrick maybe "Simple history of Babylon" or"History of Babylon as fast as possible" but these are my opinions you might have a better title.

    • @spacecowboy5645
      @spacecowboy5645 Před 5 lety

      "A look to the Babylonian Empire"

    • @seskal8595
      @seskal8595 Před 5 lety

      @@iraqimapper8625 you only have to look at the length of the video to know it won't be insanely detailed. Not really needed to point it out specifically in the title

  • @EsamforMEMES
    @EsamforMEMES Před 4 lety +2

    Hamourabi please come back to us

  • @grizzlybearzz
    @grizzlybearzz Před 2 lety

    cool

  • @archmeasterjackimer6217
    @archmeasterjackimer6217 Před 5 lety +12

    Ahh Babylon, no other city just screams ancient power and extravagance like it does

  • @cyrusthegreat1893
    @cyrusthegreat1893 Před 5 lety +20

    Thanks for telling the truth about me.

    • @hejhej8091
      @hejhej8091 Před 3 lety

      Cyrus The Great what do you mean he Tilling the truth

    • @cyrusthegreat1893
      @cyrusthegreat1893 Před 3 lety

      Smart Amez What do you think I mean?

  • @SandeepKumar-hw9nh
    @SandeepKumar-hw9nh Před 3 lety +2

    You told about Babylonia but you should also tell about the city of Delhi which was the political center of South Asia centuries and it's still continued Delhi includes the red fort the rents of city indraprasth mentioned in South Asian epic Mahabharata it also includes the mughal tradition it was wan an and it is a commercial center

  • @Betphany
    @Betphany Před 3 lety

    Interesting.

  • @nishithtripathi
    @nishithtripathi Před 5 lety +5

    5:26 (turn on captions) Struggling to keep the Assyrian king...
    *cOoLiNg InErTiA* at bay.

  • @zephyrmop
    @zephyrmop Před 5 lety +4

    I love this timeline of history. I always wonder how these nations never progressed into a true powerhouse of technology. They had the ability to create wonderful structures and create amazing weaponry (like using Damascus steel), so if you compare them to an area like Britain at the same time, Babylon would be so much more advanced. Why is it that this region just didn't continue to learn and is now considered 2nd/3rd world compared to many different countries? I'd love to find out why.

    • @zephyrmop
      @zephyrmop Před 5 lety

      @Somali Kid I see what you are saying, but that is a good 1000-2000 years ahead of the period in the video. My question is about those early years where the middle eastern civilizations died down and Europe started to grow.

    • @hassanbassim4007
      @hassanbassim4007 Před 5 lety

      The Persians were the reason , Persians didn’t give a shit about Science and technology like Babylonians , and they separate the wealth of Babylon from the city and divided it to all the Middle East . Also not to mention the situation in England situated in an Island safe from aggressive other European powers made the English people have enough time to improve the technology.

    • @jevandrocelo8769
      @jevandrocelo8769 Před 4 lety

      Persians stopped the advancement of ancient world in middle east but the middle east rose again to its best in middle ages untill the Mangolians\Othmanians stop the advancement of middle east so without the Persians+Mangolians+Othmanians the middle east would be the most advace area in the world

    • @alexreid2393
      @alexreid2393 Před 3 lety

      It was not their time yet.

    • @laurenbrown869
      @laurenbrown869 Před 2 lety

      They did develop more technology. The 13 bloodlines that rule this planet possess all of it. Then they release to us as consumerism that we continually pay for. Even after they tax our labor, we are good little chattel and buy the existing knowledge.

  • @anilsep27
    @anilsep27 Před 5 lety

    You have not mentioned anything about Rim Sin 1. Which clan he actually belonged to? Was he Elamite?

    • @hassanbassim4007
      @hassanbassim4007 Před 5 lety +1

      Anil Kumar no he wasn’t Elamite , He was Sumerian .

    • @anilsep27
      @anilsep27 Před 5 lety +1

      @@hassanbassim4007 Thanks for the information.

  • @supremelordoftheauspicious2928

    The Persian empire did not emerge from the east like you showed. It emerged from the province of Persis(modern day Pars) and defeated the Medians.

  • @AncientAccounts
    @AncientAccounts Před 5 lety +7

    Sargon? *furious typing*

  • @senatorjosephmccarthy2720

    0:58 to 1:35, a type of what's been growing in the United States. Even the year numbers are mirror images. Leviticus 23 applies. "In all your generations, in all your dwelling areas".
    Notice v 3.
    Genesis 2: 2.
    And Especially Deuteronomy 28.

    • @davidpontius7031
      @davidpontius7031 Před 4 lety

      I can't be the only one noticing that the US is headed towards a war.
      In the Revolutionary war, there was increasing dissent between the colonialists and their British rulers for the laws they started to enforce, gradually more violent conflicts, then violence broke out.
      Well, in my lifetime, there has been increasing dissent in the different schools of thought (conservatism vs liberalism), gradually more violent conflicts (Portland protests, mass shootings), so it makes sense for violence to break out.
      With World War II, this trend was followed, with increasing dissent between the German Government and its people over war reparations which caused extremely unpleasant living conditions, gradually more violent conflicts occurred (Red Ruhr Army), which lead to a political leader seizing power and planning for war.
      And the more I think about this, I cannot help but believe that the way these ancient peoples in the land of Sumer have the answer. It's weird.

  • @CrookedRosePOD
    @CrookedRosePOD Před 4 lety

    Do the Assyrians!!

  • @patrickjohnson7592
    @patrickjohnson7592 Před rokem +1

    Shem, and the families, who descended from him, were monotheistic. They spoke Hebrew, and they new the name of the True God, before the Israelites. Paganism, started with Kamaka, and his family.

  • @cmassarini3308
    @cmassarini3308 Před 3 lety +1

    Isn’t it

  • @frombabyloniraq1450
    @frombabyloniraq1450 Před 4 lety

    I just watch👹

  • @traders5201
    @traders5201 Před 4 lety

    The Tigris and eprahtes was the river from the garden

  • @patrickjohnson7592
    @patrickjohnson7592 Před rokem

    The Egyptians, were originally, Nubians. They shared the same religion, with the Nubians. The Shemites were blessed, because they continued in the worship of one True God.Yhe Angels , were with them, and they were gifted with Holy Spirit.This was why Joseph, could inter pret the dream of the Egyptian king. Abraham, could experience visions, dreams, and trans_migration.

  • @trytojustify
    @trytojustify Před 5 lety +1

    3:42 ;^)

  • @inregionecaecorum
    @inregionecaecorum Před 5 lety

    They still rule, you can't get rid of them.

  • @patrickjohnson7592
    @patrickjohnson7592 Před rokem

    SOME OF THE Egyptian, Royal Family , married to people, from the city ofzidon. SOME of the members of the royal family, had brown skin.

  • @humanehumanity
    @humanehumanity Před 11 měsíci

    Correction Alexander only got 2of the five rivers of Punjab where thee heck did you get ganges from. Lolz exaggeration eugenics driven I see

  • @TallBirdAcresHomestead

    This came up on a search for kids. It was good except the commercials were completely inappropriate. So… not for kids.

    • @micha2909
      @micha2909 Před 3 měsíci

      The ads are included by the youtube algorithm, the video authors have no say in that and can't influence it :(

  • @alexreid2393
    @alexreid2393 Před 3 lety

    Just as prophesied. And next, in the order of events yet to come: the kingdom of God spreading from Jerusalem, to the rest of the world.

  • @qinshihuang7576
    @qinshihuang7576 Před 3 lety

    Alexander never reached Ganges river he only crossed Indus. Only to find a new world

  • @patrickjohnson7592
    @patrickjohnson7592 Před rokem

    SOME of the Israelites, disobeyed God, and married to the people of Zidon.Some of the Levite priest, disobeyed God, and married women from other Pagan tribes.ThevElders of the Jews, dismissed them from the Priesthood, as polluted.

  • @cmassarini3308
    @cmassarini3308 Před 3 lety +2

    This is the bible

  • @mohammedalssamraey9581
    @mohammedalssamraey9581 Před 5 lety +4

    Babylon will return and reincarnate to become a great regional power again. Iraq 🇮🇶 will flourish 🌸

    • @mohammedalssamraey9581
      @mohammedalssamraey9581 Před 5 lety +1

      Johny Karojakos oh but Babylon is older than Islam and even Christianity, even most of Iraq's arabs are descendants of Babylon legacy, a lot of Arabians though

    • @mohammedalssamraey9581
      @mohammedalssamraey9581 Před 5 lety

      Johny Karojakos no that's where you're wrong, Arabians have two big groups 1-real arabs (Yemenis) 2- Arabized arabs (from Mesopotamia and the descendants of Ishmael اسماعيل including the prophet Muhammad's PBUH❤️) but we speak the same language of course

    • @DD-fe2xw
      @DD-fe2xw Před 4 lety

      @Johny Karojakos no need to be islamophobic racist ... Iraqi people are of different faiths, majority are muslims and are still descendants of this region.

    • @user-rawi
      @user-rawi Před 4 lety

      @Johny Karojakos he wasn't a pedo

    • @erikmendez8798
      @erikmendez8798 Před 4 lety

      Babylon is still alive, but the bible says it will fall in one hour

  • @alihani1830
    @alihani1830 Před 5 lety

    Medes r my ancestors
    Ancestors of Kurds

  • @onetwo809
    @onetwo809 Před 5 lety

    No unlike xDf

  • @danilogaliza1244
    @danilogaliza1244 Před 4 lety

    YASSSS GAGA

  • @frombabyloniraq1450
    @frombabyloniraq1450 Před 4 lety

    There are many effects in Iraq, but no one pays any attention to them, even the Iraqi government considers them a pervading civilization and ongoing conflicts

  • @montatheraati4583
    @montatheraati4583 Před 4 lety

    I am a babylonian ✌🙄

  • @yourmajesty1361
    @yourmajesty1361 Před 5 lety +4

    I'm pretty sure the Macedonians lootet and burned Babylon to the ground just as they did with Persepolis. The city didn't simply 'gradually deplete' - it was destroyed by Alexander's soldiers.

    • @yourmajesty1361
      @yourmajesty1361 Před 5 lety

      @Rain "some time after conquest" it eventually faided away BECAUSE of the conquest and it's sacking + looting. Persepolis also still existed for 'some time after conquest' before eventually being abondend.

    • @jeffjacob5479
      @jeffjacob5479 Před 5 lety +6

      Alexander made Babylon his capital while on campaign. Kind of hard to do that if you burn & pillage it to the ground. You're clearly biased because you're Persian.

  • @eliyahufogel
    @eliyahufogel Před 5 lety

    It's pronounced Ei-lam

  • @mrappleseed2396
    @mrappleseed2396 Před 5 lety

    The temples Nebakanezer made were fur idol worship and sacrificing children to idols was common

  • @YeahThrashMaster
    @YeahThrashMaster Před 5 lety +5

    Babylonians > Hebrews

    • @YeahThrashMaster
      @YeahThrashMaster Před 5 lety

      @@user-qt9vx5qs8h Wrong. I found this out after I did my research on the topic.

    • @jimmyminor2072
      @jimmyminor2072 Před 5 lety

      Tupac > Biggie

    • @DD-fe2xw
      @DD-fe2xw Před 4 lety

      Hebrew and arabs where cousins and lived side to side. Both are semites.

    • @theblackbaron4119
      @theblackbaron4119 Před 4 lety +1

      @@jimmyminor2072 This is factually wrong. Are you seriously stating that Tupac was bigger than Biggie. Biggie had a lot more mass.

    • @micha2909
      @micha2909 Před 3 měsíci

      Jupiter > Saturn

  • @gutar5675
    @gutar5675 Před 3 lety

    Fun fact, Hammurabi's code of laws was something like 300 years before Moses' ten commandments

    • @alexreid2393
      @alexreid2393 Před 3 lety

      What’s that have to do with anything?

    • @gutar5675
      @gutar5675 Před 3 lety

      @@alexreid2393 What do you mean? This is a video about Hammurabi. I don't understand what you don't get about that. The code of Hammurabi was discovered in the early 20th century and has many things that are similar to the ten commandments. This points to the likely possibility that the ten commandments were a plagiarism of Hammurabi's code.

    • @gutar5675
      @gutar5675 Před 3 lety +1

      ​@@alexreid2393 But all I said was that it was written before the ten commandments in my original comment... It's literally the only thing I said was fact. If you have some kind of issue, why don't you say it? You just come off as angry for the sake of being angry.

    • @alexreid2393
      @alexreid2393 Před 3 lety

      @@gutar5675 All I asked was what’s that have to do with anything.

  • @senatorjosephmccarthy2720

    Your music while you're attempting to teach is error and irritating. Another valuable work spoiled by cratering to the modern-day vice addictions.

  • @patrickjohnson7592
    @patrickjohnson7592 Před rokem +1

    The Remnant Jews, of this time_period, are waking up, to their true heritage, and history. It is happening in Africa.The Israelis, are not Jews.They cannot speak the language of the Real, authentic Jews, some of whom, are in Heaven Today. They cannot give us the original pronunciation, for the names of the prophets of the Bible. The God Of Israel, will give back the language, to His people, who are left back on Earth , at the appointed time.The fact that the Israelis, cannot speak the Real Hebrew Language, is proof that they are not the authentic Jews.