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I'm sorry I just can't appreciate your sponsor for this video Simon..... You have how many dozens of channels?? I'd much rather let you do the reading, while I'm busy doing other things. 😝
Please do an episode on Temur, better known as Tamerlane. Last of the great nomadic conquerors, self-styled heir to Genghis Khan, who went from a raider and mercenary to the ruler of an empire that stretched from Constantinople and Cairo to Siberia and India.
1:25 - Chapter 1 - Rise to power 5:15 - Chapter 2 - The ensnaring of egypt 9:30 - Mid roll ads 11:00 - Chapter 3 - The extinction of elam 16:45 - Chapter 4 - The betrayal of Babylon 19:15 - Chapter 5 - The annhiliation of Assyria
great subject for today! Simon, do consider covering Sitting Bull, Tecumseh, Ssiquoya, or many other first Americans who deserve to have their lives remembered
The Old Testament also talks about God telling His people to utterly destroy a couple of cities and all those within and describes the disaster that happened when they disobeyed. It was a pretty common practice to utterly destroy your enemy if he actively apposed you but let him live if he did not. This was so that your enemy could not continue to worship his gods and sometimes simply so he could not grow stronger AND convert you to his gods over yours. Monotheists like Israel and Judea were extremely rare. YHWH was extremely angered by their neighbors for sacrificing their own children among other things.
Monotheism is a natural result of the geopolitical position of the people of Israel. They were truly afraid NOT to worship the gods of their enemies, lest they be angered. So what better solution than to worship a god of gods? Archaelogic evidence proves monotheism really never caught on in the Jewish people up until the exile.
Mesopotamia is the homeland of the Assyrians. The famous royal cities of the Assyrians, Ashur, Nimrud (Kalhu), Arbela, Dur-Sharrukin and Nineveh were built in it. The Assyrians ruled for approximately 1,300 years - from about 2000 B.C. to 612/10 BC - in northern Mesopotamia an ancient landscape between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers. A clear reference to the existence of the Assyrians, on the other hand, can already be found in the Old Testament (1st Book of Moses 2:14). There it says: * “… the name of the third river is the Tigris, which flows east of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates..."
At the end of his life Ashurbanipal was filled with fear, with dread: " Why have sickness and misery befallen me? I cannot do away with strife in my country and in my family. Illness of body and mind bow me down. an
What has fallen upon me I have fallen short of my father's glory. How can i live for what I have done. I left my love as strangers take advantage of her as they take her beauty away. As I left my brother Christ to be feed to the wolves for my sins.
This was VERY interesting! Ashurbanipal was the first "ancient emperor" I ever learned about, and yet I didn't learn quite this sort of thing. That's not terribly surprising, as I was learning about the man as part of the context for the books of the Old Testament... but even with that said, I was fascinated by the stories my professor told us.
Fun fact, Sennacherib organized, as prophesied, a capture on 46 major Judean cities, but failed to take Jerusalem, something that the Babylonians accomplished not much later in 586. You can still go and see parts of Hezekiah's wall (Judean king during) Assyrians, however still won the battle because they invented crucifixion, among many other methods of torture.
Do more videos about -Presocratic philosophers (Thales of Miletus,Empedocles,Parmenides,Heraclitus,Xenophanes,Anaxagoras,Anaximander) -Islamic golden age philosophers (Al Kindi,Al Farabi,Avicena,Averroes,Al Ghazali)
Siiiiiick!!! Loved this video. Well done. Im so fascinated with the ancient Assyrians, Babylonians, Sumerians, and Akkadians and their Anunnaki pantheon.
There are a few historical things Im sad I can't see with my own eyes. One thing i'd like to see is those Mesopotamian beards. They obviously wore their beards in a unique manner.
I love how you put the speckles over the screen while reading the cylinder to give it an air of age, despite the fact that there's thousands of years between the story being read and the existence of old film. 🤣
In late sanskrit his name can be translated into 1. Ashur - prince in proto sanskrit , demon in vedic sanskrit 2. Bani- voice or indestructible 3. Pal- protector. Many Mesopotamian had sanskrit or Proto Sanskrit names. We know that early Persian and vedic people were cousins or the same people. So they had similar names. But the link between Mesopotamian and vedic people yet to be discovered.
I am from India, I use Beniwal surname, our elders say that we have come from Persia (Iran), this is a corrupt name of Banipal. We consider Ashhur Banipal as our ancestor. Share would be great.
Please please do his father esarhaddon!! A fascinating and deeply human character, we know more about his personal life than almost any other Assyrian king
While that is true, the majority of people in Elam and in Syria are NOT descendents of Assyrians and Elamites. Arabs have conquered and reconquered the area so many times over the past 2000 years that the people are almost all arabs now
@@MySkybreaker yes, we are well aware of how Aramic became Arabic. Elamites for u are know as Ellavar in South india. Now what u call Arabs are basically of Turkish decendant except for the Buduvians or Bakiries.
@@herbertthepervert9129 Those same Ancient Assyrians switched to Aramaic which is why modern Assyrians speak a dialect of Aramaic that is a continuation.
@@herbertthepervert9129 that’s bad reasoning. Language changes all the time and doesn’t indicate extinction. These Assyrians today speak Arabic, does that make them Arab from the peninsula? Just because a language takeover happened in antiquity, doesn’t mean the people are extinct.
His names rings a bell ....i am from India and his name sounds like one from our region. Asur is literally translates demon. many of these names have been tweaked or are variation that happened with change in time and regions.
I don't know about you, but when I conquer a city I find myself with too many fascinating scrolls to read but too little time during my busy day to read them! That's why I use shortform! 😉🗡
We are still here. Only without empire, for all your sakes. You Simon, you sport an Assyrian beard. You would serve before the throne. We like you. Shlama'd Marya al kulle Ashuraye'd donye
I always hated Babylon for their betrayal, thinking of what Assyria would've become/became! But damn, I can't blame them now .... your average siblings fight I guess..
@@danielklimisch8905 Bro. stop spreading fake things, he ruled fairly across whis citizens and only killed his enemies and traitors, that was normal at the time, you are just jealous that you dont have an interesting history!
Yo Simon! Can you please do a bio on Pol Pott and the Khmer Rouge? That time in history is so horrific and bizarre, there must have been drugs involved, right?
There are several definitions of what a “talent” weighs. The Babylonian talent was one of the lighter measurements at around 30kg/66lbs ish. That’s 75,000kg/165,000lbs of gold/silver alloy. Holy crap.
Hi can you make a video on Desmond T Doss the first conscientious objector to win the medal of honour and on which the movie Hacksaw Ridge by Mel Gibson is based on.
Was casey jones a real person? I know there’s the grateful dead song about a coke fueled train engineer, but i remember a song about him that we used to sing in grade school i think the name of the song was called Low Bridge… all I remember is that we sang his name in it and the last line was “you’ll always know your neighbor, you’ll always know you pal if you’ve ever navigated on the eri canal.
The Vedic age distinguished the inhabitants in majorly two races, viz. Arya and Anarya (means Aryans and non Aryans). The Aryan race got further divided into Shur and Ashur (means Gods and Demons). Aryans staying in Bharat varsh were Shur and the one staying in Persia and Turkey belt identified themselves as Ashurs. The name Ashurbanipal itself identifies him from the Ashur clan. Banipal sounds like a Hindu name similar Hindu names such as Dharampal, Vijaypal, Rajpal and many more.
I am from India, I use Beniwal surname, our elders say that we have come from Persia (Iran), this is a corrupt name of Banipal. We consider Ashhur Banipal as our ancestor. Share would be great.
The ancient capital of the Assyrian Empire, Nineveh was thought to be entirely fictional up until the 1840's as the only recorded evidence it existed was in the Bible. Then archaeologists discovered the ruins and confirmed the accuracy of it's description as recorded in the Hebrew scriptures Edit: 1840's, not 1940's
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I have seen you wear this shirt (or similar ones) on many of your videos and would like to know where you got it from as its rather fetching. Thanks!
honestly man theres like 100 videos already on this topic. get a better topic.
I'm sorry I just can't appreciate your sponsor for this video Simon..... You have how many dozens of channels?? I'd much rather let you do the reading, while I'm busy doing other things. 😝
hey is there change the next video about constantine the great
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His accomplishments are even more incredible considering he was a lion.
👌
It's the whole thumb thing right? He didn't have thumbs, shocking 🤓
This is my favorite comment today.
@@renaissanceredneck3695 They hate it when you mention the thumbs.
@@renaissanceredneck3695 he bit off someone else's thumbs and used them to further his aims
Mesopotamian kings have beards even Simon would envy.
🤣nice one
They definitely were a hirsute bunch!
All those perfect little curls. Do you think they slept with curlers in?
😂😂😂
The epicn beards of the Mesopotamian kings were maintained by Beard Blaze!
Please do an episode on Temur, better known as Tamerlane. Last of the great nomadic conquerors, self-styled heir to Genghis Khan, who went from a raider and mercenary to the ruler of an empire that stretched from Constantinople and Cairo to Siberia and India.
1:25 - Chapter 1 - Rise to power
5:15 - Chapter 2 - The ensnaring of egypt
9:30 - Mid roll ads
11:00 - Chapter 3 - The extinction of elam
16:45 - Chapter 4 - The betrayal of Babylon
19:15 - Chapter 5 - The annhiliation of Assyria
great subject for today!
Simon, do consider covering Sitting Bull, Tecumseh, Ssiquoya, or many other first Americans who deserve to have their lives remembered
Got your wish
I third this notion
Thank you so much for showing Assyrians love !
Assyria was so fascinating.
Well, Assyrians still exists today
And it lasted for soooooooo long as a super power.
The Old Testament also talks about God telling His people to utterly destroy a couple of cities and all those within and describes the disaster that happened when they disobeyed. It was a pretty common practice to utterly destroy your enemy if he actively apposed you but let him live if he did not. This was so that your enemy could not continue to worship his gods and sometimes simply so he could not grow stronger AND convert you to his gods over yours. Monotheists like Israel and Judea were extremely rare. YHWH was extremely angered by their neighbors for sacrificing their own children among other things.
Monotheism is a natural result of the geopolitical position of the people of Israel. They were truly afraid NOT to worship the gods of their enemies, lest they be angered. So what better solution than to worship a god of gods? Archaelogic evidence proves monotheism really never caught on in the Jewish people up until the exile.
Mesopotamia is the homeland of the Assyrians. The famous royal cities of the Assyrians, Ashur, Nimrud (Kalhu), Arbela, Dur-Sharrukin and Nineveh were built in it. The Assyrians ruled for approximately 1,300 years - from about 2000 B.C. to 612/10 BC - in northern Mesopotamia an ancient landscape between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers. A clear reference to the existence of the Assyrians, on the other hand, can already be found in the Old Testament (1st Book of Moses 2:14).
There it says:
* “… the name of the third river is the Tigris, which flows east of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates..."
The Wrath of Ashurbanipal....Great movie title.
My guy, you Slauuuughtered these names lmao, I couldn't stop laughing throughout. Thanks for trying though, It was a really great video.
Michael Meyers would feel inadequate in such company.. Fååking brutal.
Please do an episode on Artemisia of Caria!! 🙏🙏
At the end of his life Ashurbanipal was filled with fear, with dread:
" Why have sickness and misery befallen me? I cannot do away with strife in my country and in my family.
Illness of body and mind bow me down. an
What has fallen upon me I have fallen short of my father's glory.
How can i live for what I have done.
I left my love as strangers take advantage of her as they take her beauty away.
As I left my brother Christ to be feed to the wolves for my sins.
Karma is a bitch.
19:25 I had to replay this a couple of times before I understood that "he was a former vassal" and not "he was a form of ..." well, you get the idea.
Tis ok, I first heard Sargonad Empire...
Ashurbanipal has a very long winded way of saying "I took their asses and handed them back on a platter."
“I, Ashurbanipal, came to kick ass and chew bubblegum. Lo, when I arrived, I had run out of bubblegum.”
And I made them low!
"there is never enough time in the day to consume what we think is interesting" well thank goodness Simon's videos aren't an hour long 😂
This was VERY interesting! Ashurbanipal was the first "ancient emperor" I ever learned about, and yet I didn't learn quite this sort of thing. That's not terribly surprising, as I was learning about the man as part of the context for the books of the Old Testament... but even with that said, I was fascinated by the stories my professor told us.
I’d love to see a biographic on Shaka Zulu or Baldwin IV the Leper King
Fun fact, Sennacherib organized, as prophesied, a capture on 46 major Judean cities, but failed to take Jerusalem, something that the Babylonians accomplished not much later in 586. You can still go and see parts of Hezekiah's wall (Judean king during) Assyrians, however still won the battle because they invented crucifixion, among many other methods of torture.
That's "kings and REGENTS", not "kings and regrets". I'm surprised you didn't talk about Israel. That was a very important turning point in history.
I can't believe he did all this and also played in a band. That's crazy!
We're the Mesopotamians! Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal, and Gilgamesh!
@@elisabethwestner3953 YES!
Do more videos about
-Presocratic philosophers
(Thales of Miletus,Empedocles,Parmenides,Heraclitus,Xenophanes,Anaxagoras,Anaximander)
-Islamic golden age philosophers (Al Kindi,Al Farabi,Avicena,Averroes,Al Ghazali)
Indeed I,d love to see that .
"He entered and took residence in Memphis." And he brought with him a strange music which centuries later morphed into country music.
He also started wearing strange hats.
Siiiiiick!!! Loved this video. Well done. Im so fascinated with the ancient Assyrians, Babylonians, Sumerians, and Akkadians and their Anunnaki pantheon.
There are a few historical things Im sad I can't see with my own eyes. One thing i'd like to see is those Mesopotamian beards. They obviously wore their beards in a unique manner.
honestly it looks really nice
What if it turns out these beards were a kind of accessory made of fabric like a mask that’s layered? How horrifyingly disappointing would that be 😂
@@aperson8916 *incredibly* dissapointing
I'm sure you get this one alot but I'd love to see Alfred the Great on here
I love how you put the speckles over the screen while reading the cylinder to give it an air of age, despite the fact that there's thousands of years between the story being read and the existence of old film. 🤣
King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem
Next pls.
Now that is a great suggestion.
You should do António de Oliveira Salazar the longest European "dictator" its a interesting story
I like how the Pharaoh rebelled against Ashurbanipal's Regrets. Meantime his Regents were mightily miffed.
In late sanskrit his name can be translated into
1. Ashur - prince in proto sanskrit , demon in vedic sanskrit
2. Bani- voice or indestructible
3. Pal- protector.
Many Mesopotamian had sanskrit or Proto Sanskrit names. We know that early Persian and vedic people were cousins or the same people. So they had similar names. But the link between Mesopotamian and vedic people yet to be discovered.
I am from India, I use Beniwal surname, our elders say that we have come from Persia (Iran), this is a corrupt name of Banipal. We consider Ashhur Banipal as our ancestor. Share would be great.
Please please do his father esarhaddon!! A fascinating and deeply human character, we know more about his personal life than almost any other Assyrian king
He accomplished quite a bit but he never really got to rule in peace.
ELLAM is still around. Asuriyans are know as Asurar in our culture. The Devar Asurar wars are our puranams.
While that is true, the majority of people in Elam and in Syria are NOT descendents of Assyrians and Elamites. Arabs have conquered and reconquered the area so many times over the past 2000 years that the people are almost all arabs now
@@MySkybreaker yes, we are well aware of how Aramic became Arabic. Elamites for u are know as Ellavar in South india. Now what u call Arabs are basically of Turkish decendant except for the Buduvians or Bakiries.
Simon, please do an episode on the Portuguese Dictator António de Oliveira Salazar 💪🏻
It's so fascinating that Ashurbanipal's ethnicity still exists today
Akkadians are extinct, syrians are Aramaic.
@s The ancient Assyrians were Akkadian speaking people not Syriac (Aramaic dialect) speaking people.
@@herbertthepervert9129 Those same Ancient Assyrians switched to Aramaic which is why modern Assyrians speak a dialect of Aramaic that is a continuation.
@@herbertthepervert9129 that’s bad reasoning. Language changes all the time and doesn’t indicate extinction. These Assyrians today speak Arabic, does that make them Arab from the peninsula? Just because a language takeover happened in antiquity, doesn’t mean the people are extinct.
14:33 is sargon the first of Akkad not the second they lived about 1600 years apart
Please do one about William of Orange
It is amazing that empires rise and fall so often. One would think that lessons would be learned, but it seems not.
His names rings a bell ....i am from India and his name sounds like one from our region. Asur is literally translates demon. many of these names have been tweaked or are variation that happened with change in time and regions.
Very enjoyable thank you
I don't know about you, but when I conquer a city I find myself with too many fascinating scrolls to read but too little time during my busy day to read them! That's why I use shortform! 😉🗡
Please do an episode on the life and death of the man in black, Johnny Cash.
In my vocabulary "traditional books" are the "real books."
We are still here. Only without empire, for all your sakes.
You Simon, you sport an Assyrian beard. You would serve before the throne. We like you.
Shlama'd Marya al kulle Ashuraye'd donye
Tadeusz Kosciuszko was a pretty swell fellow
I always hated Babylon for their betrayal, thinking of what Assyria would've become/became! But damn, I can't blame them now .... your average siblings fight I guess..
Both were barbaric bloody nomadic uncivilised Amorites.
Thanks. I love mesopotamian history. (it's sad that Nebuchadnezzar II video doesn't exist anymore)
why is it gone?
What happened to it? I never got to see it
Whaaat? Did it get taken down? If so, how come? weird..
Was it removed because he has enslaved nomadic Hebrews ?
I’m a modern day Assyrian. Very proud of my scholar/King/Lion hunter ancestor :)
why proud? he killed thousands of women + children
@@danielklimisch8905 Bro. stop spreading fake things, he ruled fairly across whis citizens and only killed his enemies and traitors, that was normal at the time, you are just jealous that you dont have an interesting history!
6:51 Ahh yes , Kings and "Regrets" truly fascinating use of vocabulary
I discovered this channel 2 days ago and I'm in love. So many interesting vids!
Please do John J Pershing next
12:41 this was glorious and fascinating
Yo Simon! Can you please do a bio on Pol Pott and the Khmer Rouge? That time in history is so horrific and bizarre, there must have been drugs involved, right?
He has one on pol pot..
20:11 he had weared a watch⌚.
I love it when you do bios on ancient people
Ethnic Assyrian here ! Great talking about my history ! Research my people nowadays !
hey is there change the next video about constantine the great
Dag Hammarskjöld is a must!
But did he visit Elvis when he was in Graceland in Memphis?
This explains why he was always an asshole in civilization 5. Would expand and conquer almost instantly
Can we have a video on William Of Orange ,please
Good video 👍
Love it, more bronze age stuff please
I would like to see a video about The Phantom Killer of Texarkana.
Make a video about micheal de Ruiter one of the most powerful Dutch sea generals
There are several definitions of what a “talent” weighs. The Babylonian talent was one of the lighter measurements at around 30kg/66lbs ish. That’s 75,000kg/165,000lbs of gold/silver alloy. Holy crap.
Turns out building library is a better idea than building palaces if you want to be remembered in history.
Watched all of it twice because I was multitasking 21:43
I have items from his library
Hi can you make a video on Desmond T Doss the first conscientious objector to win the medal of honour and on which the movie Hacksaw Ridge by Mel Gibson is based on.
That bronze head at 14:32 is representing Sargon of Akkad or his grandson, not Sargon II
I love your videos ,would you consider doing some more prominent women from history. Really love your videos!!
You got to suggest some women, so we can up vote them.
Would you please make a Bio of livia drusilla.
Thanks
Looking at Ashurbanipal's name just reminds me of the Mesopotamians by They Might Be Giants
He has a video on Sargon too
Was casey jones a real person? I know there’s the grateful dead song about a coke fueled train engineer, but i remember a song about him that we used to sing in grade school i think the name of the song was called Low Bridge… all I remember is that we sang his name in it and the last line was “you’ll always know your neighbor, you’ll always know you pal if you’ve ever navigated on the eri canal.
Yes Casey Jones was a real person
Hello Simon can you please make a video about STEVE BIKO
Whoa what is that awesome music at 19:12 it sounds so epic.
I love that short form sponsored you for the guy who sort of helped create books
Hello Ellie
How are you doing today
underrated channel
Pious fellow, wasn’t he?
Please do a video on Richard Feynman
Can you do a video on Haile Selassie I?
I NEED MORE VIDEOS SIMON!
Isn't 11 channels enough? 😆
Which Assyrian son killed his father schenerad? To get the throne early and his brother??
I though this was about to be a biographics on a tribal chieftain of morrowind. I need to get out more.
the text cant decide what Ashurbanipals name is.
Banipal i heard this name a lot in my village UP. Why Assyrian had Indian name?
Ha na gilgamesh ramesh suresh sab hai aapne pas 😆 our culture is the oldest maybe transfer of dialect is the reason
Very interesting video!
The Vedic age distinguished the inhabitants in majorly two races, viz. Arya and Anarya (means Aryans and non Aryans).
The Aryan race got further divided into Shur and Ashur (means Gods and Demons).
Aryans staying in Bharat varsh were Shur and the one staying in Persia and Turkey belt identified themselves as Ashurs.
The name Ashurbanipal itself identifies him from the Ashur clan.
Banipal sounds like a Hindu name similar Hindu names such as Dharampal, Vijaypal, Rajpal and many more.
बिना तर्क की बाते
I am from India, I use Beniwal surname, our elders say that we have come from Persia (Iran), this is a corrupt name of Banipal. We consider Ashhur Banipal as our ancestor. Share would be great.
Topic idea. Grant Imahara
all i know about this cat i learned from funki porcini
excellent video
You had me at Ashubanipal. Watched this, then listened to the They Might Be Giants song.
Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal, and GILGAMESH!!!
The ancient capital of the Assyrian Empire, Nineveh was thought to be entirely fictional up until the 1840's as the only recorded evidence it existed was in the Bible.
Then archaeologists discovered the ruins and confirmed the accuracy of it's description as recorded in the Hebrew scriptures
Edit: 1840's, not 1940's
Simon looking like ashurbanubald. All love
They were so fundamentally influential to western society yet so distant to seem almost mythical.....
Excellent