History of the Phoenician City of Sidon from the Bronze Age to the Roman Period
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In this video we take a quick look at the fascinating history of the ancient Canaanite-Phoenician city of Sidon before its annexation into the Roman Empire.
Contents:
00:00 Intro
03:05 Egyptian, Sea Peoples & Late Bronze Age Collapse
06:11 Assyrian and Neo-Assyrian Periods
08:58 Neo-Babylonian Period
09:21 Achaemenid Period
11:37 Hellenistic Period
13:03 Thank You and Patrons
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Phoenicians continue to be one of the civilizations I'm most interested in learning more about. Great job on your content!
Thanks my friend, I need to get back to doing more on this region... forgot how much I love studying it! Thanks for watching, really appreciate it!
One of my favorite civilizations underated too!
any bronze age coverage immediately has my interest, love it
You've come to the right place... Bronze Age history is my favorite and thus far has been the main focus of this channel, though slowly moving to later periods as well. Thanks for watching, really appreciate it and stay tuned for more!
@@HistorywithCy don't be tempted by this "iron" thing my friend, it's a wicked metal, the downfall of many foolish men, stick with the bronze!
A Sidon resident here
I would like to thank you for this great video very well done, and it shows how history repeats itself and old habits don't die, since the days of the Phoenicians this area was always in intra conflict between the different city states despite being the same people with same language and culture and under foreign influence and occupation
I'd like to mention that the word Sidon as well as the current Arabic name Saida derives from the same root word Syd (صيد) which means hunt or fish
My pleasure, glad you enjoyed this! Thanks also for info about the meaning Saida, that makes sense. Next city is Tyre, stay tuned and thanks for watching!
This video popped up in my feed and I thought “damn I’ll never see all of his old videos” and then I realized “oh shit! It’s less than an hour old! There’s more new stuff!”
You do people who love history a real service
It's my pleasure and thank you so much for watching, really am happy that you take interest in this stuff...motivates me to put out more! Now on to the next one...
My Nana was from Baalbek, but she passed when I was a baby, and we aren’t close to that side of the family, so I know very little of our heritage. Learning more about the phoenicians, and the ancient cities of lebanon, means a great deal to me. Thanks Cy!
I'm a Lebanese from Sidon aka Saida, greetings to Baalbek the sun city Heliopolis
I'm learning that The Phonecians were occupied by several foreign empires. They were good sea merchants but apparently not a military power.aside from Carthage.
My hometown ❤️
Nice! Beautiful city for sure! Thanks for watching!
@@HistorywithCy Thank you for the amazing content! Always welcome to visit Sidon, Cy!
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As a lebanese, I really wanted to know some of my history, and didn’t find a video on the Phoenicians, but I finally found yours. I love the Phoenicians and their culture and trade abilities. Thank you for these interesting videos on them and this is video is amazing! Continue like that! ❤️
I know someone who is Druze. There is a rich an varied history in Lebanon.
Always a calming and fun experience, the peace I find filling the gaps in my understanding of history.
Great to hear and glad you're enjoying these! Will put out more on ancient Canaan and the Levant early next year, stay tuned and thanks for watching!
Alive or trees? Last time I checked trees give off oxygen that keep you alive......
@@Amanda-cd6dm inside joke related to multilingual misunderstanding
Beautiful production, thank you Cy. This is around the time that Yah went to war with ba'al who would have been the king of Tyre vs the king of Judea which it basically was the Canaanites of the north vs the Canaanites of the south. Before they were subservient to Egypt they were in a civil war which southern Canaan joined Egypt and northern Canaan was part of the Hittites. Then came the world's first treaty. The civil war continued until Assyria took over and then Babylon, then Persia, Greece, and finally Rome.
I love me some Pheonician history. Nice work, Cy. 👌
New History with Cy? Let's gooooo!
Thanks, enjoy the video!
HEY!!!!! new video yaaaayyy!!!!
Enjoy and thanks for watching!
Really enjoy the deeper /more focused looks at City States in areas you previously covered. TBH I enjoy and recommend all your videos but these are nice and there arent many videos on the same subjects. (that arent recorded lectures)
Thanks! Yeah I also like making city videos because some of them just have all this amazing artwork that I want to include and show all of you. In the near future I'll probably do more focused city videos on Tyre, Eshnunna, Uruk, Jericho... maybe even Lagash though I've covered aspects of that city in several other videos so don't want to be too repetitive. Any specific cities you'd like to see covered?
And this is why trade surpasses conquest - with few natural resources, sidon was a power through trade thanks cy, be safe!
That it was! I suppose it's greatest asset was its access to the sea and the other parts of the Mediterranean world. Thanks for watching and more on the Levant/Eastern Mediterranean on its way!
Love your work, Cy! Thank you so much, I can’t properly express how much I appreciate you sharing your knowledge/research! Find your delivery lovely; calming and with just the right touch of humor. Always excited when you upload!
thank you for the awesome and free content
My pleasure, thanks for always tuning in, really appreciate it!
I've been listening to your playlists on the way to and from work. I just finished up the playlist on Canaan earlier today on the way home. I was excited to see this video just now. Thanks!
My pleasure, glad you enjoyed this and the Canaan playlist. I hope create a new video or two on Canaan with more info hopefully in the first half of next year. Stay tuned and thanks so much for watching!
Amazing! Love this video. Sidon rarely gets a special focus, so this was a lot of fun
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it! Will also try to make short vids on its neighbors Tyre and Byblos in the near future. Thanks for watching!
I think ancient Phoenicians is one of the most important Civilizations.
Me too... they helped spread the use of the alphabet! Thanks for watching and more on the way!
@@HistorywithCy
Also, they became the mighty Carthage... 😏
@@SkyFly19853 Yes, for sure, especially the people from Tyre!
@@HistorywithCy
Yes, indeed and thus, the Rise of Rome and the Fall of Carthage...
Really enjoyed the video, great job! Do you plan on covering all of the major Phoenician cities?
Thanks! Byblos for sure, maybe Arvad but have to see how much good information is really available. Byblos has the longest history so that will make for an interesting video, but the cities have less information available because they were smaller and not as influential, the big exceptions being Sidon, Tyre, and maybe Arvad. I want to Acre one day too, but more for it's history during the Middle Ages and the Crusades.
Thanks for sharing history 🙏
Slamming episode my man! Thanks as always for the gift of your videos.
My pleasure man, thank you for watching!
appreciate the deep dives into Ancient Canaanite histories.
Great work as always Cy. Nice to see someone shining a light on the lesser known areas of history.
For The Algorithm!
Thank you, really appreciate it!
Being a fishing village makes sense now (I guess) for the name of the village/city. The modern Arabic name for the city is S'ayda (صيدا) and apparently it comes from the root (S'-Y-D: ص-ي-د) which deals about things related to hunting and catching preys. I guess, as with all Semitic languages in general, that root in Arabic is related to or close to similar roots in ancient Western Semitic languages at that time.
As always, I love the parts with quotes from ancient sources.
Yay 😁 another one from Cy the History guy!!! Thank you ❤🖤 much, much!!
I always love it when a new history with cy video drops.
Thanks, glad you're enjoying these... will drop a couple more this month, stay tuned and thanks for watching!
Fascinating stuff, Cy!
Thanks, glad you're consistently enjoying these... hopefully have a few more this month, stay tuned and thanks for watching!
love your content❣
Great work as always Cy
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it, and thanks also for watching!
Oh yes, this was SO good!
Thanks! I'm also loving the ancient Egyptian content on MagellanTV! Thanks also for your support, really appreciate it!
@@HistorywithCy Thank YOU! We're so grateful for this partnership!
BTW: those Ancients really made Warring a seasonal event, *"Crops in, let's pop over to Macedonia to do some blood-letting, and steal some chicks."* 🥳
They lived fully and full-time, in and through their Ego Mind aka Lower Mind.
Thank you:)
Thank you
African continent has so much history!
I am from Sidon, this is so amazing to watch
Hello Cy, I am back!
Great video, I really liked it!
I am happy to see your Canaanite series move forward.
I was thinking for a while about showing the city of Sidon alongside other Canaanite city like Moab in my comic book series.
And about that...
Do you think showing the city of Sidon would be historically accurate?
The story is set during the myhological hebrew invasion of Canaan, so probably in the late bronze age.
I kinda suck with dates so...
That is why I'm asking.
😂😅
Good to hear from you buddy, hope all is well! Oh yeah for sure, the kingdom of Moab and Sidon existed at the same time, though they were not super close and separated physically by desert and the Jordan River and Dead Sea. I don't have any proof but I'm sure traders from Moab went to the coast every now and then for commercial reasons. Would love to see comic when you're done! Thanks also for watching and hope to be redoing some of older Canaan videos with more details next year. Let me know if I can help you in any way... good luck!
@@HistorywithCy
Oh well, about that...
I and a co-writer just signed ourselves for a comic book contest for the Lucca comix and games fair, wich is a pretty popular event here.
We decided to show the jury my "Canaan" project and, if we win, an editor will publish it!
Now all I have to wait is to see if they accepted our request and wait for the jury to give us the verdict.
Even if I loose I would be fine with it, cause some editors might see it and find it interesting enough to propose a pubblication aniway.
So let us wait and hope.
Today I finished celebrating Ganesh Chaturti, maybe he will bless me and give me fortune!
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Nice, Tyre and Jerusalem next
I enjoy your stuff
Thank you, glad to hear and thanks so much for watching!
Cy você é maravilhoso!
Valeu meu amigo! Espero que vc esteja muito bem e abs!
Very important
I really like the way you structured this video compared to ones you have done with other cities I
Thanks! There will be more cities on the way, you can count on it! Thanks for watching!
@@HistorywithCy I also want to say that I definitely enjoyed the other ones but I think this one is definitely neat and tidy and enjoyed it
@@johnemery6944 Thanks! I'll plan to for the most part keep this style with city bios... it's concise and to the point, glad you like it!
Was that figurine Bes? Looks very similar
Hi! Which figure?
Awesome! thanks a billion for sharing with us, boss!
My pleasure, thank YOU for watching!
Can you make a video on the history of the kingdom of Eshnunna? I havent seen many deep dives into that area.
Yes, it's on the list... I plan to cover it by the end of this year. Thanks for the suggestion and for watching!
Obrigado pelo idioma português!!!
Sem problema meu amigo...valeu!!!!!
As someone who did a deep dive on the Phoenicians mid 2020, I love these kinds of videos
Thanks, hope you enjoy this one! More on the way, stay tuned and thanks for watching!
@@HistorywithCy I have and you’re welcome
You pick excellent subjects. Phonecians and Lebanon have great interest to me *Anatolia, Armenia, the Caucasus People's, and "the Basque" also Top Shelf.*
...and the *Etruscans,* the original Italians, "pre-Germanics", aka the early Romans. (... and they seem to still rule, particularly the Western World, via their influence on the early English + Empire influence and the Anglo Saxon British having held their model as an ideal model for society.
Not to mention royal and financial bloodlines. (re: Etruscans)
Ok Jonno please remember to add the City State of Carthage in the Western Mediterranean on the north Coast of Africa. The last of the influential Phoenician City States.
The Kings of Sidon was the ruler of Sidon, an ancient Phoenician city in what is now Lebanon.
Persian period:
Baalshillem Dynasty:
c. 450-426 BC Baalshillem I
c. 425-? BC Abdamon
c. ?-401 BC Baana
c. 401-366 BC Baalshillem II (Sakton)
c. 365-352 BC Abdashtart I
c. 351-347 BC Tennes (Tabnit II)
c. 346-343 BC Evagoras II (?)
c. 342-333 BC Abdashtart II
@Cy The expression "Eat like a King" is a common one. I wonder, what did kings eat through the ages?
Haha I would guess being king, whatever they wanted, or at least first choice of whatever was available. Thanks for watching, really appreciate it and more on the way!
@@HistorywithCy I have watched your content for years. But to continue with the topic at hand, I have often read of ancient common people eating things like rye bread, onions, and beer. Ofc that was in dynastic Egypt, so thousands of years later than this, but finds like the ones you read from and research only demonstrate a small segment of life that was “important “ enough to write down. Your content makes me wish I had a time machine. And always I’m left wondering about more.
Historically, lots of meat and fish…
So Phoenician cities are not destroyed by the sea peoples, and there's a plaque found in Alvão Portugal with proto-Phoenician writing, so No doubt in my mind, that Phoenicians were west European colonists and the sea peoples a confederation of sorts, quite possibly even culturally responsible for bringing the Norse pantheon of gods to Scandinavia as these were the sailors of the day, the ones with the most cuting-edge shipbuilding technology. So these people had Iron when the Egyptians had bronze, they were depicted in longships that they used in amphibious assaults, and some of their helms had horns. To my knowledge only European cultures sported Antlers and Horns in their helmets, Not couting China and Japan for obvious reasons of logistic. So the sea peoples were maybe not homogenous but were probably culturally related, as for why Egypt and some other Eastern cities were attacked, it's not very hard to imagine. Egypt wealth did not exist in a vacuum, they needed lands to exploit, people to enslave, These people confederated, and Egypt lost its status in the ancient world, whereas the phoenician would go on to become a Mediterranean super power.
Carthage was not them expanding west, rather returning west. You just connected the dots for me, thanks!
The dye you mentioned around the 4 minute mark is made from sea snails and was actually known as Tyrian purple or Phoenician red.
Bro I'm from Byblos (we call it Jbeil) uou should definitely cover it next
It's on the list for sure! Hopefully in 2023! Thanks for watching, really appreciate it!
Thanks for portuguese audio
Cy, you're really damaging my (imaginary) travel budget with all these great videos. Well , another city to add to my bucket list.
They were a great people, the Sidonians...they built the oldest city in Europe, Cadiz ( Gades ) and a lot more, like; Medina- Sidonia ( city of the Sidonians ) , in South Spain...
Why the video is in Portuguese?
Yeah that's a new feature that CZcams is testing. You can switch the language in the "settings"... it seems like if you're in Brazil or Portugal, it automatically defaults to that. Let me know if that works...thanks for watching!
@@HistorywithCy Are you team making the others audios?
@@ismaelkidhohn no, I just record in English but my understanding is that CZcams is testing out this new program and my guess if it is successful, will make it available for as many videos as possible.
As we can hear from the video, the original inhabitants of Sidon were e Ike’s a couple of times to the east. The population became mixed so the modern inhabitants of Lebanon/Sidon are a mix and not the original, ancient ones.
If you're an ancient Levantine and a war starts up, you might just wonder what side Sidon's on.
🤣🤣🤣 I love it! Thanks for watching, appreciate it!
Great video, Cy! Do you happen to know what the name Ethba'al means? I'm familiar with the name Ishba'al from southern Canaan, but I'd love to know how Ethba'al translates into English. Thanks again for the video.
Hi! I believe it means something like "with Ba'al". Thanks for watching!
@@HistorywithCy cool!.. same as Hebrew.
@@HistorywithCy Thanks for getting back to me, Cy!
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I rate this episode 10/10
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it! More on the way, stay tuned and thanks for watching!
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Sidon in Lebanon
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Punic history! First Oversimplified Does the Punic Wars and you follow up with Sidon. I hope more Punic History videos are coming.
Yup, next one is actually on Tyre... stay tuned and thanks for watching!
@@HistorywithCy yes!!!!
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Thanks man!
ya esta en español?
Do Israel next you could go more in depth
One day will do for sure!
Sidonians are Canaan folks. From the CANAAN (Anunnaki) invasions of SEMITE lands 3400-500bc.
It's wonderful witnessing the bible prophecies unfolded and still continue to unfold...
I am a little surprised that the biblical references to Sidon (pronounced Tsee-DOAN in Hebrew) were not mentioned. King Solomon had interactions with traders in Sidon (see I Kings).
Ah the bible. Worth mentioning for its influence on history, sure, but not a historically reliable source. Great material to discuss in the comment section though.
@@ardd.c.8113 Although he did mention how Homer mentioned in the Iliad How prince Paris brought robes from Sidon... Which is a legend. So I believe there was a place to bring up Biblical sources mentioning the city. The Hebrew bible might not be entirely reliable as a history book.. but it does contain history within it, with a religious interpretation.. at least more history than Greek legends.
You are most definitely on the wrong history channel if its biblical references you are looking for . In all of Cy's videos I think I have only heard the OT bible mentioned once and that was just a cross reference concerning an Assyrian siege on a Hebrew stronghold .
@@Abilliph But we do know the Mycenaeans had connections to this region. The purple dyed garments that they were famous for producing and exporting, they had first learned how to extract the dye from sea snails from the Phoenicians, the colour was even known as Tyrian purple or Phoenician red.
@@harryedwards4080 yes.. I agree. I was saying that the Greek myth about Paris.. is even less reliable than the biblical references to Sidon. They were much closer geographically and almost spoke the same language. And the bible in general is not about mythology... It's more like historical events with a religious twist.
I don't think the Greeks were famous for purple dye. That's one of the reasons they traded with Phoenicians (whose actual name in Greek means purple).. because they didn't have it.
what degree you have?
likingandcommenting to propitiate the algo-deities of the tube of you...
I am of the opinion that city-states are a more natural polity for humanity
than the grander less responsive nation-states, or empires.
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Thanks!
Why doesn't Magellan TV cover science and industry?
These Phoenician guys didn't want any problems. But almost every empire invaded them. That's very unfair. Only Hannibal retaliated.
Why aren't those tablets not written in the Phoenician alphabet?
more phoenician stuff. throw some maronite stuff in too
Purple dye
Another famous person from Sidon was Jezebel, who married King Ahab of Israel, said to be the daughter of a King Ethbaal. What their Sidonian names are, I don't know. You'll find the beginning of her story in 2 Kings 16:29 and boy is she a piece of work. I like to think that her people said good riddence when she left and became Ahab's problem.
Sometimes, I wish you would be a great deal more critical with your material and not just report stale facts but give life to your protagonists
History Channels doubting Army numbers is getting tiresome , allow me to doubt that civilized societies were not able to count .
Hi! I assume you're referring to the number 300,000 that Diodorus Siculus states was the number of men Artaxerxes III sent to subdue the rebellious cities of the Levant. That's not my opinion, but the one of most scholars today. Diodorus' number can't be confirmed by any other source, and he wrote an account of the conflict 300 years after the fact, so it's likely that whatever source(s) was exaggerating the numbers. Thanks for watching!
@@HistorywithCy I have no idea how many of those scholars came to that conclusion by using war logic but judging by today's doctrines an attacker needs at least a 3 to 1 advantage in case of a siege , so if there is a possibility to go to war against Sidon , Tyre and other neighboring cities plus maybe even Egypt you can't afford to not show a display of full force especially since we are talking about a region known for being advanced and powerful
OMG, WHY IS THIS DUBBED BY THAT GOOGLE VOICE? How do I turn it off???? Brazilians hate dubbed stuff... subtitles are more than enough, and sometimes not even necessary!
Got it, there is an audio language option, thank God!
Yeah that's a new program CZcams is trying out... I think it defaults to Portuguese if you're in Brazil or Portugal, but you can switch it in the settings. Vc mora no Brasil? Valeu!!!!!
Maybe they were the sea people
Life started in Mexico.
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Adam and Eve are from Mexico
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Jesus Christ is Mexican
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Is it Israel, Palestine, Babylon, Egypt, what is the name of it?
Maybe it’s better if they give it back to the Lebanese museum where it belongs.
I’m trying very hard not to make a Zelda joke.
Don't let the moment go by.
Good thing it’s not part of Modern Israel