Since you like dark crime could you cover the ritual murders of Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln, Simon of Trent, Harold of Gloucester, Robert of Bury, Holy Child of La Guardia, Dominguito del Val and William of Norwich. Thanks. There's lots of revisionists and deniers out there saying it wasn't ritual murder but Professor Ariel Toaff books prove that they were. The Professor received death threats for his books and they were banned because they wanted to cover it up so badly. You seem to like covering the dark crimes of gentiles, why not branch out a bit.
My god man!! Trim that bloody beard you weird time travelling youtube monster. This channel hairy another channel trimmed. I would to the channel that shows how one man can run 8 plus channels and still remain sane
And the award for outstanding newcomer in a Jr school play goes to...... ,................ ................ Miss Sally Ann 21 in My husband.. My king!!! 😜
My favorite teacher in junior high school was Mr. Griffith, my ancient history teacher. He would draw cartoons on the blackboard to explain military tactics and how things were built. I have always been interested in the past ( Pompeii being my greatest “enthusiasm” in 3rd grade) but the history of Babylon told by Mr. Griffith was unforgettable! Thanks for reminding me of that✨
Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote: "When the past speaks it always speaks as an oracle: only if you are an architect of the future and know the present will you understand it"
@@oyoyy7008 Except it does happen. If you see a middle school students reading Nietzsche, Zimmerman, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Voltaire, Thomas Kuhn, Marcus Aurelius, Gabriel García Márquez, Sun Tzu, Thomas Aquinas, Jane Austen, Immanuel Kant, Octavia E. Butler etc; then their teachers are hardcore nerds to the bone.
I saw the Ishtar Gate (rather the reconstruction in Berlin, of course) for the first time when I was 8 years old and was stunned. To me, this definitely is one of the great wonders of the world.
If I had to pick a favorite channel of Simon Whistler‘s, it’s probably this one. Biographics should be broadcast too. It belongs on an actually good History channel, if they ever come up with one.
Hebrew uses active words to describe passive actions. So things like "God sent an evil spirit on Saul" means God didn't intervene when an evil spirit came upon him, he would normally intervene as he anointed Saul, like Judah at this point. God intervenes it says in many other instances. Like how God did with Saul, he let him fall sick and overcome with jealousy, he let and used history's course to exemplify the lessons he was telling them through the prophets.
I was very fortunate to have toured the Babylon in Iraq back in 2003! I saw Alexander the Great room where he died. South of Iraq is where garden of eden once was now a marsh land.
@@MegaMrsuperawesome believe it or not, I have taken picture of it! I was fortunate to have a disposable camera with me and took a picture of what was once a beautiful throne where Alexander took his last breath. I can only describe it to you that it was boxy in shape and raised above the ground by approximately 3-4 feet with its sides of tan colored bricks. The circumference of this boxy throne was around 50x50 ft. Also I use the term “throne” but if you look at it...all you will see is basically dirt and bricks, all in tan color. Despite what was said on the sign, I’m not 100% for sure if it’s an original platform of the original throne because the sand covered-up in layers after more layers through the time measured in thousands of years of its existence. I can only be honest with you and tell you what I was told and saw. I wish I could share the picture that I took with you someday.
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Interesting take on the hanging gardens I heard from an archeologist - there were actually multiple hanging gardens, a kind of ultimate display of wealth in dry middle eastern realms, that definitely inspired the description of the (perhaps fictional, perhaps not) ones in Babylon.
I don't think it sad. It is awesome that everyone remembers him. He goes into history, into legend, along with Ramses, Tutankhamen(mssp), King David, and Solomon the Wise. If he went mad, I doubt the Babylonian histories would have recorded it, especially if his wits returned.
My father is Assyrian. Ashur is a very common name in the Assyrian culture and so is Alexander. Which is what my grandfather was named, and what is what I'm named. The history of the middle east is tremendously deep.
I love that this man in one breath says little is known of this king, then in the next quotes from the Bible, and says "yep but this is likely wrong". He had no proof that it was wrong, but if he acknowledges that the Bible is in fact historically accurate (which to this date archeology has proven that the Bible is far more accurate on ancient times than secular history, in fact cities and people that are only found in the Bible at one time were then found by both secular and Christian archeologists.) There is no reason not to believe the great Nebuchadnezzar went mad, as a matter of fact our guy supported this with the tablet of him proclaiming all his deeds, which when you read the book of Daniel, you see a passage of Nebuchadnezzar deeds, written by him. One of the only times you see something like that, he praised himself, giving none of the glory to God and his punishment was to be made like an animal, eating the grass and go mad for a time. If he acknowledged this, he would then surely have to acknowledge the rest, which the world very much does not want to recognize. Jesus is Lord, in Him will you find rest, peace, contentment. His words are true, He is the Word made flesh after all.
@@yugitrump435 yeah, the term Lucifer doesn’t show up in translations until as early as the second century CE. Before than the term was mainly thought to refer to Venus when it’s visible in the sky.
Regarding Nebuchanezzar's madness in the book of Daniel, would we really expect the king's official records to include such an episode? Given his ego he would likely have gone on a major campaign to erase the event from all records. As usual, absence of evidence is not necessarily evidence of absence.
Yes, agreed, AND there are big gaps also (as I understand it) in our knowledge of Nebuchadnezzar, with very few contemporary cuneiform records about his reign.
Wasn't there also that change in attitude to respect other gods near the end of his reign? If that isn't evidence of something happening, I'm mot sure what would be.
Or maybe there is no madness? We call Putin crazy but honestly psychologically he's pretty solid. Stalin? Crazy. It's just a story Jewish people told each other to make themselves feel better. People can't eat grass for example. And calling him unkempt (hair like feathers, nails like an eagles) is just to insult him like how Napolean's not really short, but we will always refer to him as such to degrade him.
Scipio Africanus, Scipio Aemilianus, Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus, Marcus Claudius Marcellus, Lucius Licinius Lucullus, all are way better at Warfare!
Nebuchadnezzar II conquests and building projects were influenced by Sargon the Great (Of Akkad) the first emperor. it was something similar to Renaissance European monarchs looking up to the Roman emperors. The Renaissance of Mesopotamian civilization and art started by the Neo-Assyrian Emperors especially Ashurbanipal who uncovered and copied ancient tablets and literature from Sumerian and Akkadian era leading to the creation of Nineveh Library the first of its kind. (He deserves a video too imo).
1:25 - Chapter 1 - The fall of Nineveh 4:45 - Chapter 2 - Clash of titans 7:45 - Chapter 3 - Captivity 11:30 - Mid roll ads 13:20 - Chapter 4 - Building the myth 16:50 - Chapter 5 - In the gardens of babylon 20:20 - Chapter 6 - The madness of the king
A couple things, they weren't really Jews until after the sack in 586 BC, the "wiping the dish". They were Judeans first, as Israel had been captured by Sargon II of Assyria in 722 BC there was no unified Israel anymore. The reason for this is Judeans being local to the temple meant that their faith was region-locked, like many ancient near eastern or semitic religions, you had the Baal of Peor, Baal of Hazor, Baal of many places in the old testament. Judeans able to worship in their own land were just that, Judeans. Being away from the Temple started the idea for the Jews that God was with them wherever they went, the purpose of Ezekiel, the most puzzling book imo. The term Jew started upon their return 70-80 years later, when they rebuilt the wall and foundations for the second temple. There the Romans came in (Herod I's temple is the second temple) where you have events like the Hasmonean revolt, they rebuilt the wall and added expansions after an attack. Many apocryphal (Catholic biblical canon) books were written during this time as well, before the birth of Jesus. Those "better off" Judeans who stayed during the deportations were forced to devour each other and their children during the seige. Those departed could not keep their religion. One example, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego were Babylonian names given to them, they were made to eat foods Judaism tells them is unclean, (this is why Daniel fasted in protest) and were forced to worship his image, all common practices in near eastern conquest. Dissimilar to the Assyrian method, those who invented crucifixion took to spreading the ten northern tribes of Israel around and replacing the Samarian inhabitants with foreigners. This is where you get "Samaritan" or Samarian (Israel) foreigner, and rumors of lost pockets of Jews by blood strewn about the middle east. The Biblical narrative in Daniel isn't Chronological, neither is the whole bible. It's books by genre, but in Daniel it's out of order. You have Cyrus, a persian king, we know this because of persian loanwords in older manuscripts, lions were used for torture as fire was sacred etc. Nebuchadnezzar's son is there, but if you read all of that in order it's a different kind of evil, a manipulation, erasure of culture/history. But most importantly, Hebrew uses active words to describe passive actions, so things like "God sent an evil spirit on Saul" means God didn't intervene when an evil spirit came upon him, he would normally as he anointed Saul, like with his people, but as he let Saul fall sick, he let and used history's course to exemplify his lesson Also Nebuchadnezzar helping to rebuild the temple to Marduk is nothing unlike ancient Egyptians who would choose the house of which God they wanted to serve or best fit their campaign, should they pay tribute to, build more temples for, and conquer nations in the name of said god. That's why there are many temples scattered about the Egyptian landscape. The ancient religious thinking is the same
So Babylon was making strides toward tolerance and relative gender equality for its time, ruled by a king who explicitly allowed the exiled Jews the freedom to worship their God and didn’t even exile _that many of them,_ and thus it was a wicked city of sin and needed to burn?
My guess is they wanted it to burn because the Jews hated to be subservient to "gentiles" (even though they enjoyed excellent living conditions under their rule).
Little did Simon whistler know it but his Biographics series would be one of the only historic video reference series which survived to that distant future date, and that his prediction for Nebuchadnezzar would actually be true because of he himself making a video that, by miracle or twist of fate, survived the test of time.
Mesopotamia was an empire before Babylon. Mesopotamia was great when Egypt was also great. They were the two main powers of the ancient world. Babylon was built on the foundation of Mesopotamia, but is not in fact the same empire.
Simon, you HAVE to do Mikhail Kalashnikov - the creator of the AK-47. His story is incredible - dislanded Kulak to greatest weapons designer in history.
Archeology keeps proving the Bible the farther back it goes, yet they will still say, "Okay. So that was correct, BUT this is still not correct." Maybe the Prophets don't lie because, ya know, they are speaking for God.
When I was in Iraq there was a home or large stone building in old west Mosul where the owners had built a hanging garden that I thought would have been a smaller hanging garden of Babylon. I doubt thar building, along with all the history of the Assyrian empire that had survived for almost 3000 years still exists in all but rubble now. The isis zelots destryed anything they could find that wasn't islamic. Especially if it was Christian.
It’s great timing that you came out with a video about Nebuchadnezzar because the Jewish holiday of Purim is around the corner and he plays a role as the grandfather of one of the characters of the story
Nebu, as we his friends called him, was quite the guy. When centuries pass the name Simon Whistler will still be known as his videos are used to educate the masses.
Or a doubleheader with Ferdinand II and Isabella I of Castille. Would also be interested in Charles I otherwise known as Charles V and his sons, Phillip II and his illegitimate one, Don Juan de Austria.
I'd really like for Simon to cover the ritual murders of Simon of Trent, Harold of Gloucester, Robert of Bury, Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln, Holy Child of La Guardia, Dominguito del Val and William of Norwich. There's lots of revisionists and deniers out there saying it wasn't ritual murder but Professor Ariel Toaff books prove that they were. Poor man received death threats for them and his books were banned because they wanted to cover it up so badly.
I would believe this was true and with no record other than the Bible. He regained his sanity and most likely he and his children would have banned any record or destroyed any that were made.
If Nebuchanedzzar actually went insane for 7 years then he would do everything he could to blot that out of history. The man was obsessed with his own legacy.
Doubt it. The ancient Israelites were pretty much the only ones who wrote records that did not reflect well on their nation as a whole. Everybody else would've written glowing reports about their nation. It doesn't surprise me we don't have secular records about Nebuchadnezzar's temporary insanity. That wouldn't reflect well on the image he'd be trying to project onto his subjects.
@@The-Opium-Den tbf tho the hebrews recorded so much of this time period. It's mostly the reason we had any historical records from back then until we managed to relearn hieroglyphics
@@yugitrump435 Yeah, I like that they were very good at recording historical happenings. Otherwise, a lot of information would be lost to the ravages of time. Darn shame that ancient political agendas make studying the real history of long gone civilizations really difficult though.
@@yugitrump435 I know that it's a region I'm from around that area but I've never heard people refer to them selves as Chaldanean but eatch to tgeir own it's not that important to me I was just windering
@@Ammar.D ahh. Well maybe the locals have their own unique name compared to people from outside it? I guess its kinda like how here in America we say we're from either our home state or home region depending on if in our state or out of it, while everyone else calls us all "Americans"
Yeah he got arrogant & God cursed him to have a mental breakdown so severe that he behaved like a bovine until he humbled himself before God & acknowledged God as the King of Kings... I mean God had warned him through a dream & when God sent Pre-Incarnate Jesus to rescue the 3 young Jewish men...
That was excellent! Very engaging handful of information that I found very interesting. If you had only been my history teacher in school I might know a few things. LOL keep it up Simon I really enjoyed listening to you.
Pretty sure Ashur-uballit II only took power after the fall of Nineveh. Ashurbanipal's immediare successors were, in order, the brothers Ashur-etil-ilani and Sinsharishkun and it was under the latter that the Babylonian revolt of Nabopolassar took place.
Idk if you know this but even UK people sound vastly different depending on the region. Good example is Welsh. Welsh was invented to mock English. Ever wonder why welsh looks so complicated? Its intentional lol.
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Since you like dark crime could you cover the ritual murders of Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln, Simon of Trent, Harold of Gloucester, Robert of Bury, Holy Child of La Guardia, Dominguito del Val and William of Norwich.
Thanks.
There's lots of revisionists and deniers out there saying it wasn't ritual murder but Professor Ariel Toaff books prove that they were. The Professor received death threats for his books and they were banned because they wanted to cover it up so badly.
You seem to like covering the dark crimes of gentiles, why not branch out a bit.
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My god man!! Trim that bloody beard you weird time travelling youtube monster. This channel hairy another channel trimmed. I would to the channel that shows how one man can run 8 plus channels and still remain sane
I've watched Simon's Squarespace read so much I want a Website even though I've got nothing to say or put on it.
Simon, the Nebuchadnezzar of RUclips!
I played his wife in my junior school play. I had one line, 'but I can see three men in the fire'. It was my first speaking role.
Don’t you mean four?
And the award for outstanding newcomer in a Jr school play goes to......
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Miss Sally Ann 21 in My husband.. My king!!! 😜
@@jmunt she had one job
Truly the beginning of a star-studded career!
I’m your biggest fan!
If you put a pizza on top of another pizza, you have two pizzas. If you put a lasagna on top of another lasagna, you have one lasagna.
If you fold 2 pieces of pizza together you have a pizza sandwich
If you put lasagna on top of a pizza, you have constipation.
"If"
A pizza on top of an other pizza is a calzone.
If you stack two salads you have one salad
Sometimes I don’t understand what Simon is talking about but I like listening to him
He helps me sleep with cloak of knowledge and dreams inspired
Radio voice is an understatement.
Lmao people have personally told me that too it’s like there’s certain voices people like to hear but they have no clue what they’re talking about
@@TheBanjoShowOfficial oh cool I just started picking up the banjo
@@TheHornet44 that’s pretty cool, although I don’t play the banjo I just named myself over banjo kazooie from the GameCube game
You know the man has a promising career when his name has Chad in it
Most old mesopotamian kings were chads
It looks like Simon is channeling Nebuchadnezzar with that ever expanding beard.
ya beat me to it.
Challenging...... I would think.
Note the Christian cross on nebuchadnezzar’s ear?
And ever expanding RUclips empahhh!
In 20 yrs he will look like a wizened old man telling stories of history to our kids/grandkids lol.
My favorite teacher in junior high school was Mr. Griffith, my ancient history teacher. He would draw cartoons on the blackboard to explain military tactics and how things were built. I have always been interested in the past ( Pompeii being my greatest “enthusiasm” in 3rd grade) but the history of Babylon told by Mr. Griffith was unforgettable! Thanks for reminding me of that✨
Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote:
"When the past speaks it always speaks as an oracle: only if you are an architect of the future and know the present will you understand it"
A slight exaggeration.
Sounds very coherent to me, but is there a man who knows even the present?
Imagine sending plebs to school and giving them Nietzsche to read
Funny stuff
@@oyoyy7008
Except it does happen. If you see a middle school students reading Nietzsche, Zimmerman, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Voltaire, Thomas Kuhn, Marcus Aurelius, Gabriel García Márquez, Sun Tzu, Thomas Aquinas, Jane Austen, Immanuel Kant, Octavia E. Butler etc; then their teachers are hardcore nerds to the bone.
@@whathell6t I don't even Know 90% of the names you mentioned.
hanging garden is a pretty good wonder. Increasing population in the ancient era is pretty powerful. 10/10 great play-through
I saw the Ishtar Gate (rather the reconstruction in Berlin, of course) for the first time when I was 8 years old and was stunned. To me, this definitely is one of the great wonders of the world.
These you tube channels have much more history than the so called "history" channel....I have learnt more from these channels I love it
If you haven't yet check out the Fall of Civilizations Videos and podcasts, they are some of the best I've ever seen.
The "History" channel is more into conspiracy than history.
If I had to pick a favorite channel of Simon Whistler‘s, it’s probably this one. Biographics should be broadcast too. It belongs on an actually good History channel, if they ever come up with one.
Simon's beard expands faster than the Neo-Babylonian empire.
It's the new beard oil
URASMP
I really love your use of witty humour throughout your truly interesting presentations.
Hebrew uses active words to describe passive actions. So things like "God sent an evil spirit on Saul" means God didn't intervene when an evil spirit came upon him, he would normally intervene as he anointed Saul, like Judah at this point. God intervenes it says in many other instances. Like how God did with Saul, he let him fall sick and overcome with jealousy, he let and used history's course to exemplify the lessons he was telling them through the prophets.
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King Ballsup. And then he kept calling him that. This is how history is made.
🤣🤣🤣
"proto-Zeus"
I will not stand for this Marduk slander.
Zeus is really the proto-Marduk....,
"The greater the beard, the greater the man." - Nebuchadnezzar II
Agreed.
Disagreed
Disagreed
@@AtticusAmericanus agreed
@@optimvsprinceps1845 I fixed your mistakes, O Best First Senator.
I was very fortunate to have toured the Babylon in Iraq back in 2003! I saw Alexander the Great room where he died. South of Iraq is where garden of eden once was now a marsh land.
Wow, that's amazing. I hope places like that didn't get destroyed in the war. 😒
@@KabbalahSherry it wasn’t touched at all!
Do you remember where Alexander the great died? Tried googling it could find recent photos. Would be awesome to see
@@MegaMrsuperawesome believe it or not, I have taken picture of it! I was fortunate to have a disposable camera with me and took a picture of what was once a beautiful throne where Alexander took his last breath. I can only describe it to you that it was boxy in shape and raised above the ground by approximately 3-4 feet with its sides of tan colored bricks. The circumference of this boxy throne was around 50x50 ft. Also I use the term “throne” but if you look at it...all you will see is basically dirt and bricks, all in tan color. Despite what was said on the sign, I’m not 100% for sure if it’s an original platform of the original throne because the sand covered-up in layers after more layers through the time measured in thousands of years of its existence. I can only be honest with you and tell you what I was told and saw. I wish I could share the picture that I took with you someday.
@@bruceyung70 Were you in the army or was it tourism?
“We’re fairly certain he was born before 630”... and then I thought Simon was going to say AM, and thought well that is accurate AF!
Biographics is brilliant. I've learned history across the world easily.
Who remembers how over powered this guy was in Civ 5
LMAO +1 Only civ i play!
Neo Babylonian empire was one of the greatest empires in history
I guess I'm not mature yet, cause king "Ballsup" made me smirk every time he was mentioned.
Honore' Balzac. let the smirking commence.
We don't mature. We just get older and learn how to behave in public. In private, we are all just annoying little brats 🤪
Don't forget about his son, Ballsdeep
He said it so much I actually thought that was his name
@@Andrew-zq3ip or his daughter Ballstothewall
I only just finished reading 'The Richest Man in Babylon' by George S Clarson.
A good read but boils down to: save, don't waste money, invest safely and reinvest.
@@shatbad2960 spot on.
Well done! Bit of a dry read that.
Worth the read?
That's cool, George Carlin is hilarious
I want to thank you so much for all the RUclips channels that you have I have learned so much I don't know how you guys do it weekly you guys come up with new things to talk about thank you so much thank you
Interesting take on the hanging gardens I heard from an archeologist - there were actually multiple hanging gardens, a kind of ultimate display of wealth in dry middle eastern realms, that definitely inspired the description of the (perhaps fictional, perhaps not) ones in Babylon.
Well i will forever know his name, thanks to Matrix.
Cool ship Nebbie!
Exactly
Philistine
Mtg here
Lol
I don't think it sad. It is awesome that everyone remembers him. He goes into history, into legend, along with Ramses, Tutankhamen(mssp), King David, and Solomon the Wise.
If he went mad, I doubt the Babylonian histories would have recorded it, especially if his wits returned.
Funny how all of those were kinda evil too. Solomon the wise...right, thanks for the freemasons solomon
@@Owdaks all ancient monarchs were evil if we see them through modern standards
@@Owdaks Solomon wrote Proverbs. His repentance
@@Owdaks You simply focusing on the wrong crap or aspect
My father is Assyrian. Ashur is a very common name in the Assyrian culture and so is Alexander. Which is what my grandfather was named, and what is what I'm named.
The history of the middle east is tremendously deep.
Most of eastern Christian use the name Alexander alot alnog side with Nicholas
"Writers in the grecko-roman world generally had a knowledge of geography on par with your Facebook addicted uncles knowledge on epidemiology."
Plot Twist: his real name was Nebu Nezzar but was greatly remembered for being a Chad.
Nedu🗿nezzar
I love that this man in one breath says little is known of this king, then in the next quotes from the Bible, and says "yep but this is likely wrong". He had no proof that it was wrong, but if he acknowledges that the Bible is in fact historically accurate (which to this date archeology has proven that the Bible is far more accurate on ancient times than secular history, in fact cities and people that are only found in the Bible at one time were then found by both secular and Christian archeologists.) There is no reason not to believe the great Nebuchadnezzar went mad, as a matter of fact our guy supported this with the tablet of him proclaiming all his deeds, which when you read the book of Daniel, you see a passage of Nebuchadnezzar deeds, written by him. One of the only times you see something like that, he praised himself, giving none of the glory to God and his punishment was to be made like an animal, eating the grass and go mad for a time. If he acknowledged this, he would then surely have to acknowledge the rest, which the world very much does not want to recognize. Jesus is Lord, in Him will you find rest, peace, contentment. His words are true, He is the Word made flesh after all.
Amen
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And he said there's no record of him going mad yet there is...in the Bible!
I had requested this video, thank you Biographics :)
You can’t spell Nebuchadnezzar without Chad
Wow, I learned so much. Before this I just thought a Nebuchadnezzar was a huge bottle of wine.
🤦♂️ Champagne...
@@Chris-hx3om I'm not even old enough to drink, soooo SORRY
Fun fact: When the Old Testament mentions "the morning star", later translated to Lucifer in Latin versions, it was just a name for this guy.
If that's actually true then that explains the whole "Lucifer Morningstar" in DC comics and shows.
@@yugitrump435 yeah, the term Lucifer doesn’t show up in translations until as early as the second century CE. Before than the term was mainly thought to refer to Venus when it’s visible in the sky.
What's your source for that claim?
@@pureblack3363 are you too lazy to google? Or you just gonna do the religious thing and wait for someone to tell you what to believe?
@@JohnThomas-no9hs I'm asking for a source that's all if you can't provide that then STFU
Regarding Nebuchanezzar's madness in the book of Daniel, would we really expect the king's official records to include such an episode? Given his ego he would likely have gone on a major campaign to erase the event from all records. As usual, absence of evidence is not necessarily evidence of absence.
Yes, agreed, AND there are big gaps also (as I understand it) in our knowledge of Nebuchadnezzar, with very few contemporary cuneiform records about his reign.
Wasn't there also that change in attitude to respect other gods near the end of his reign? If that isn't evidence of something happening, I'm mot sure what would be.
Or maybe there is no madness? We call Putin crazy but honestly psychologically he's pretty solid. Stalin? Crazy. It's just a story Jewish people told each other to make themselves feel better. People can't eat grass for example. And calling him unkempt (hair like feathers, nails like an eagles) is just to insult him like how Napolean's not really short, but we will always refer to him as such to degrade him.
People can't live off grass so that debunks it.
@@dandylionsloth446 Probably not that literal.
"He got warfare". Boy, what an accurate description for Caesar and Hannibal.
Scipio Africanus, Scipio Aemilianus, Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus, Marcus Claudius Marcellus, Lucius Licinius Lucullus, all are way better at Warfare!
Nebuchadnezzar II conquests and building projects were influenced by Sargon the Great (Of Akkad) the first emperor. it was something similar to Renaissance European monarchs looking up to the Roman emperors.
The Renaissance of Mesopotamian civilization and art started by the Neo-Assyrian Emperors especially Ashurbanipal who uncovered and copied ancient tablets and literature from Sumerian and Akkadian era leading to the creation of Nineveh Library the first of its kind. (He deserves a video too imo).
I would love to hear about Ashurbanipal's library in Ninive, in Megaprojects.
A quick shoutout to the Assyrians out there! I grew up in Turlock and am currently outside Chicago, so yeah, much love! ✌
Simon: mentions chaldea
me: FGO?!?!?!
According to the discovery channel they did find evidence of the hanging gardens. They even made a small replica.
1:25 - Chapter 1 - The fall of Nineveh
4:45 - Chapter 2 - Clash of titans
7:45 - Chapter 3 - Captivity
11:30 - Mid roll ads
13:20 - Chapter 4 - Building the myth
16:50 - Chapter 5 - In the gardens of babylon
20:20 - Chapter 6 - The madness of the king
A couple things, they weren't really Jews until after the sack in 586 BC, the "wiping the dish". They were Judeans first, as Israel had been captured by Sargon II of Assyria in 722 BC there was no unified Israel anymore. The reason for this is Judeans being local to the temple meant that their faith was region-locked, like many ancient near eastern or semitic religions, you had the Baal of Peor, Baal of Hazor, Baal of many places in the old testament. Judeans able to worship in their own land were just that, Judeans. Being away from the Temple started the idea for the Jews that God was with them wherever they went, the purpose of Ezekiel, the most puzzling book imo. The term Jew started upon their return 70-80 years later, when they rebuilt the wall and foundations for the second temple. There the Romans came in (Herod I's temple is the second temple) where you have events like the Hasmonean revolt, they rebuilt the wall and added expansions after an attack. Many apocryphal (Catholic biblical canon) books were written during this time as well, before the birth of Jesus.
Those "better off" Judeans who stayed during the deportations were forced to devour each other and their children during the seige. Those departed could not keep their religion. One example, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego were Babylonian names given to them, they were made to eat foods Judaism tells them is unclean, (this is why Daniel fasted in protest) and were forced to worship his image, all common practices in near eastern conquest. Dissimilar to the Assyrian method, those who invented crucifixion took to spreading the ten northern tribes of Israel around and replacing the Samarian inhabitants with foreigners. This is where you get "Samaritan" or Samarian (Israel) foreigner, and rumors of lost pockets of Jews by blood strewn about the middle east.
The Biblical narrative in Daniel isn't Chronological, neither is the whole bible. It's books by genre, but in Daniel it's out of order. You have Cyrus, a persian king, we know this because of persian loanwords in older manuscripts, lions were used for torture as fire was sacred etc. Nebuchadnezzar's son is there, but if you read all of that in order it's a different kind of evil, a manipulation, erasure of culture/history. But most importantly, Hebrew uses active words to describe passive actions, so things like "God sent an evil spirit on Saul" means God didn't intervene when an evil spirit came upon him, he would normally as he anointed Saul, like with his people, but as he let Saul fall sick, he let and used history's course to exemplify his lesson
Also Nebuchadnezzar helping to rebuild the temple to Marduk is nothing unlike ancient Egyptians who would choose the house of which God they wanted to serve or best fit their campaign, should they pay tribute to, build more temples for, and conquer nations in the name of said god. That's why there are many temples scattered about the Egyptian landscape. The ancient religious thinking is the same
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So Babylon was making strides toward tolerance and relative gender equality for its time, ruled by a king who explicitly allowed the exiled Jews the freedom to worship their God and didn’t even exile _that many of them,_ and thus it was a wicked city of sin and needed to burn?
My guess is they wanted it to burn because the Jews hated to be subservient to "gentiles" (even though they enjoyed excellent living conditions under their rule).
Ha,ha. I loved it when you said " he kicked the bucket ". You are so funny
I snorted at the "Facebook uncle = epidemiologist" joke. Well done, Morris!
Hearing about Nebuchadnezzar always makes me think of Psalm 137, 'By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.'
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Little did Simon whistler know it but his Biographics series would be one of the only historic video reference series which survived to that distant future date, and that his prediction for Nebuchadnezzar would actually be true because of he himself making a video that, by miracle or twist of fate, survived the test of time.
"We're the Mesopotamians! Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal, and Gilgamesh!" Huh, no shout-out to Nebuchadnezzar in that song. What a shame.
Mesopotamia was an empire before Babylon. Mesopotamia was great when Egypt was also great. They were the two main powers of the ancient world. Babylon was built on the foundation of Mesopotamia, but is not in fact the same empire.
@@onlytwogenders420 was mesopotamia ever a Empire itself i always thought of mesopotamia as Home to many Empire and not a Empire in itself
Simon, you HAVE to do Mikhail Kalashnikov - the creator of the AK-47. His story is incredible - dislanded Kulak to greatest weapons designer in history.
can we get a video about Theodosius I, he was the last person to rule both halves of the Roman Empire before it was divided
I'd love to see vids on some great asian monarchs such as emperor wu of han, taizong of tang, ashoka the great, akbar the great
Not Akbar the great, that would be a trap!
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Alderman was a hoax.
I'm a big fan of The Wu Tang Clan.
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The Architect of the Babylonian Empire
It is rumored that scribes wrote his name as 'NebuCHADnezzar'
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Archeology keeps proving the Bible the farther back it goes, yet they will still say, "Okay. So that was correct, BUT this is still not correct." Maybe the Prophets don't lie because, ya know, they are speaking for God.
When i used to smoke weed, one of my bubblers were named Nebuchadnezzar.
Thank you so much for this most interesting and educational video! I love your wittiness, Simon!
When I was in Iraq there was a home or large stone building in old west Mosul where the owners had built a hanging garden that I thought would have been a smaller hanging garden of Babylon.
I doubt thar building, along with all the history of the Assyrian empire that had survived for almost 3000 years still exists in all but rubble now. The isis zelots destryed anything they could find that wasn't islamic. Especially if it was Christian.
thar, zelots, destryed..... Yeah... nuff said.
That must have been amazing to see. And you, Simon, are an excellent teacher!
Any leaders who capture the long nose tribemen is good in my book.
Simon and the Macho King: The tag team I didn't know I needed.
I wrote a paper on Nebuchadnezzer. In my religious studies major I studied Isaiah in college.
Neat
Wish I knew how to study scripture academically
It’s great timing that you came out with a video about Nebuchadnezzar because the Jewish holiday of Purim is around the corner and he plays a role as the grandfather of one of the characters of the story
who are you talking about?
Nice video, love from Iraq
That Square Space jingle slaps. It has for all the dozens of videos I have heard it in.
Plz make something on ancient indian historical figures. There's sooo much there. Unexplored.
Nebu, as we his friends called him, was quite the guy. When centuries pass the name Simon Whistler will still be known as his videos are used to educate the masses.
Man literally had Chad in his name....
The ultimate Chad 😂
Well Babylon was relatively progressive for its time so yeah, 😂
CHAD
I'd be really interested in seeing you do a bio of Paracelsus. The man was kind of incredible, managing to cure diseases that had no cure.
Bio, consider doing one on Spanish Conquistador Hernan Cortes. Lots of drama and dark stuff with that guy!
he is featured in the Montezuma vid from last year
Or a doubleheader with Ferdinand II and Isabella I of Castille. Would also be interested in Charles I otherwise known as Charles V and his sons, Phillip II and his illegitimate one, Don Juan de Austria.
@@Fifi-ql3zc yes, a lot of characters cross over, which is great. I still think Cortes deserves his own video.
Some of us will be preserved on the internet forever!
The dude you REALLY want to party with is "Zoroaster".....look him up.
Really beautiful telling for a glorious historical story i didn't skip a single second
Not the first time I'm hearing this guy's name. Only part I remember is he was eating grass for seven years 😂😂
I'd really like for Simon to cover the ritual murders of Simon of Trent, Harold of Gloucester, Robert of Bury, Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln, Holy Child of La Guardia, Dominguito del Val and William of Norwich.
There's lots of revisionists and deniers out there saying it wasn't ritual murder but Professor Ariel Toaff books prove that they were. Poor man received death threats for them and his books were banned because they wanted to cover it up so badly.
@Abdul Jalloh just google them and find out how they died
I would believe this was true and with no record other than the Bible. He regained his sanity and most likely he and his children would have banned any record or destroyed any that were made.
@@bret9741 Yh 😂😂
@@bret9741 I think Nebuchadnezzar was duly chastened by his experience and actually proclaimed God to be supreme.
Isn't Nebuchadnezzar a talking pickle, in "Vegetales"?
He's a zucchini
@@heathergarnham9555 isn't that the same thing?
Just as a matter of interest, he never destroyed the city of Tyre. They made a treaty with him.
If Nebuchanedzzar actually went insane for 7 years then he would do everything he could to blot that out of history. The man was obsessed with his own legacy.
Talos ,if he had went insane he would have been deposed
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One of your best yet Simon and co.!
Would a man like Nebuchadnezzar allow a record to be left about his temporary insanity?
He had no control over who wrote it...he died
Doubt it. The ancient Israelites were pretty much the only ones who wrote records that did not reflect well on their nation as a whole. Everybody else would've written glowing reports about their nation. It doesn't surprise me we don't have secular records about Nebuchadnezzar's temporary insanity. That wouldn't reflect well on the image he'd be trying to project onto his subjects.
@@The-Opium-Den tbf tho the hebrews recorded so much of this time period. It's mostly the reason we had any historical records from back then until we managed to relearn hieroglyphics
@@yugitrump435 Yeah, I like that they were very good at recording historical happenings. Otherwise, a lot of information would be lost to the ravages of time. Darn shame that ancient political agendas make studying the real history of long gone civilizations really difficult though.
@@The-Opium-Den *heavy eyes on Egypt*
Known simply as chad
The h in Chaldean is silent according to my friends Chaldean wife
aspirated
There are Caldeans today? Hmmmm interesting
@@Ammar.D it's a region and the people from there are called Chaldeans
@@yugitrump435 I know that it's a region I'm from around that area but I've never heard people refer to them selves as Chaldanean but eatch to tgeir own it's not that important to me I was just windering
@@Ammar.D ahh. Well maybe the locals have their own unique name compared to people from outside it? I guess its kinda like how here in America we say we're from either our home state or home region depending on if in our state or out of it, while everyone else calls us all "Americans"
You should do a video about prions- Prion diseases
Who would have thought The Matrix would be educational? I only learned the name because of that movie.
Lmao. Same!
Me, but the band Sleep
Taught me how to dodge bullets by doing the limbo
I love the ancient bios you guys do, thank you so much ☺️
Nebuchadnezzar? More like NebuCHADnezzar.
I hate you.
For saying it before me.
Interesting fact: he is the most talked about Gentile in the Bible.
I read up on both the old and new testaments. I learned a bit about Nebucanezzar (totally spelled wrong). Pretty cool dude!
Yeah he got arrogant & God cursed him to have a mental breakdown so severe that he behaved like a bovine until he humbled himself before God & acknowledged God as the King of Kings... I mean God had warned him through a dream & when God sent Pre-Incarnate Jesus to rescue the 3 young Jewish men...
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That was excellent! Very engaging handful of information that I found very interesting. If you had only been my history teacher in school I might know a few things. LOL keep it up Simon I really enjoyed listening to you.
Pretty sure Ashur-uballit II only took power after the fall of Nineveh. Ashurbanipal's immediare successors were, in order, the brothers Ashur-etil-ilani and Sinsharishkun and it was under the latter that the Babylonian revolt of Nabopolassar took place.
Great commentary Simon. Thanks for sharing
This guy’s accent makes other British accents sound American.
Idk if you know this but even UK people sound vastly different depending on the region. Good example is Welsh. Welsh was invented to mock English. Ever wonder why welsh looks so complicated? Its intentional lol.
Thank you. I'm seeing this from kerala
I love Nebuchadnezzar our ancestors 🥺🇮🇶🇮🇶🇮🇶
You are related to poor farmers not him
@@applejuice9468 your ancestors should lived under the cave
We call 586 "wiping the dish" as Jeremiah puts it.