Wow. I never imagined Nebopolessar to be a "lowly" pious man, divinely appointed as liberator from Assyrian oppression. It's absolutely fascinating that that's what he thought of himself!
Or at least that's what he wanted people to think of himself as. I give him credit though... many of the other great kings before him were quite pompous in their inscriptions - Naram-Sin, Shulgi, plenty of Assyrian kings, etc. The inscriptions of Nabopolassar on the other hand, at least those that have been discovered, in contrast are quite humble. Anyway, thanks so much for stopping by, really appreciate it. More to come, stay safe!
bingewatching your channel, it was exactly what i was looking for, now i can feed my new obsession for ancient mesopotamia. great work and keep those videos coming
haha I knew you'd like another longer video on ancient Mesopotamia! As always, thanks so much for stopping by, really appreciate it. Any requests with regard to the region, let me know!
Could you do a specific history of the city of Damascus at some point? As one of the oldest cities in the world I'm guessing there'd be a lot of really cool history to it :)
I would love to and you're correct, lots of history there... one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world along with Aleppo. Thanks for stopping by, really appreciate it...stay safe!
@@HistorywithCy Thanks for replying Cy! I love your vids and how you actually quote the ancient texts themselves. I hope you can manage to fit that video in sometime, Aleppo would be pretty cool too lol. Stay safe too!
Thanks so much for stopping by and your feedback, really appreciate it! Yeah I love reading primary sources, they put a whole new dimension to our understanding of events. More to come, stay safe and thanks again!
Babylonian science, namely astronomy and mathematics is rather well known. But you mentioned there was also philosophy... Since in the West philosophy usually starts with the Greeks I wonder if you could make an episode about pre Greek philosophy in other ancient cultures of the area. I (and probably most others) have never heard of any of those before.
For instances, the Vedas and Budism are older and very deep bodies of phylosophy (that much later were adapted as religions). Keep in mind that most greek achievements came from the east (Ionia), which at the time was part of Persia.
@@conejeitor It seems like there’s so much beautiful and deep philosophies that spawned outside of Europe, but they’re just ignored for this Eurocentric origin of philosophythat exists now.
Honestly these are just the best for homeschooling companion content. Absolutely love your work can't say it enough, my daughter loves your narration as well. Couldn't be better stuff, thanks!
New to this channel, and I can just say that I am extremely impressed with the way these videos are executed. It has everything that any history lover of any magnitude would need to be fully informed about any kingdom. Amazing, thank you! For longer videos, may I suggest adding timestamps in your video description to divide the videos into sort of chapters?
Hi, thanks so much for stopping by, really appreciate it and glad you enjoyed the video. That's a great idea, I'll do with this and a few of my other longer ones (similar to what I did in the Concise History of Assyria video). Appreciate the feedback and the advice. More to come, stay tuned and thanks again!
Hey Cy, how are you? Your work is usually great, but this video is too well-made not to be highlighted. The text (or script? Not sure how to say it in english) is smooth, cohesive and so aproachable, that it gives life to a time in history when most of the accounts that we hear are somewhat dull. The images and maps you brought helped a lot to situate us viewers too. The narration was spot-on as well, but I'm curious as why didn't you do your own narration as you usually do (and to a great effect). Anyway, props to you for making such a great video, wish the best to your channel
Hi Pedro, thanks so much for your feedback and kind words, really appreciate them! Yeah I thought I'd change it up a bit with the narration of the quotes. Actually someone offered to volunteer for the quote reading and I thought it worked out well because I think it gives some life to many of these characters that perhaps, with myself already narrating, may get a bit lost (haha I think eventually people will tire of hearing my voice). Anyway, have a lot more in the works so will definitely be doing some of my own narrations as well. Thanks so much for stopping by, really glad that you enjoyed the video as not that many people are into this era of history. More to come and if you have any requests, please don't hesitate to let me know. Thanks again, stay safe!
Thank you for the program. Very interesting and well done! I particularly enjoyed the maps and references to the Babylonian Chronicle. I read Herodotus' account some years ago in my program of ancient Greek (and also long ago looked into the Book of Daniel with its setting in the court of Babylon). It was good to hear it from the other side.
You're welcome, thanks for watching! You might also like the most recent video (it's 3 hours long) and the full history of Babylon, which also includes much of this story as well. Lot's more on the way, stay tuned and thanks for watching!
@@HistorywithCy Thanks. Yes, I would like to watch that, thanks for bringing it to my attention. I'm about to start Frahm's book on Assyria and just finished Marco Liverani's classic history of ancient Israel and how and when the ideological account in the Jewish Bible came into being. I haven't yet found a recent thorough look at Babylonia by a current historian in a single volume. I The new multi- volume Oxford History of the Ancient Middle East looks interesting.
@@HariPrasad-uy9dj Check out A History of Babylon, 2200 BC - AD 75 by Paul-Alain Beaulieu and Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization by Paul Kriwaczek. Both are great, relatively recent and will give you a solid view of not just Babylonia, but the region as a whole. Good luck!
Thumb up and I still am subscribe to you ! Cy, I wish you would include Hezekiah resisting Assyria on his map other youtubers showed Jerusalem was not overtaken by Assyria.
Thanks a lot for this amazing series of videos about Ancient Babylonia. I learnt so much useful and astonishing information, and it was very interesting for me. I suppose it took plenty of time and power to make these videos, thanks for sharing this great work. Going to watch your other videos😊
My pleasure, glad you liked them! Yeah once you get into it, it's hard to stop because there so many interesting aspects to such ancient history. Thanks for stopping by, really appreciate it...more to come, stay safe!
Your channel is amazing!!!!! Ive just found it recently and im reallyyyyyy hooked ive watched all the videos about the Babylonians and there marriages cutlture and everything your the only channel whom ive seen who does so much detailed video on Babylon and Babylonians the civilization whom i have always been curious to know more about word can not explain how i am pleased to have founded your channel thank you so much 😁
Thanks my friend, glad you liked this! It was fun for me to make, combining the history of Mesopotamia with that of Iran. All the best for 2021, stay safe!
Love your work Cy. I really appreciate when you include Biblical references to history as an option along with the secular writing of the time. You missed a great opportunity to quote biblical references on this important time in history. A common saying today is "The writing is on the wall" .... "And this is the writing that was inscribed: MEʹNE, MEʹNE, TEʹKEL, and PARʹSIN.26 “This is the interpretation of the words: MEʹNE, God has numbered the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end.27 “TEʹKEL, you have been weighed in the balances and found lacking.28 “PEʹRES, your kingdom has been divided and given to the Medes and the Persians.” Daniel 5:25-28....and just as you mentioned Babylon came to an end....keep up the good work.
Thanks so much, I really appreciate the kind words and am really glad that are enjoying these...not too many people into the history of ancient Babylon so I'm glad that you stopped by! More to come, stay safe!
I appreciate being able to view different episodes and see how different kingdoms interacted at different times. For example, the Medes cooperating with the neo-Bablylonians to fight the neo-Assyrians, which I first heard in the episode about the mighty Medes.
Hi, thanks for stopping by and the constructive feedback, I really appreciate it! Yeah, my goal is to give just enough detail so that the viewer can get a good understanding of what was going on without being overburdened. More detailed content can be found in the podcasts. Thanks again and stay safe!
Thanks so much for the kind words and feedback, really appreciate it! More on ancient Mesopotamia and the region to come, stay safe and thanks for stopping by!
Brilliant. Masterpiece. I wish we had more details of the last Assyrian rulers you mention a eunuch ruler. I actually suspect, that the legendary sardanapulos was a son of ashur banipal. He was a governor of babylon and his general was nabopolassar. I say there was a assyrian civil war between ashur etil ilani and his tartar general sin shumu lishir vs sin shariskun himself and his other brother ashur uballit 2 governor of harran. During this civil war...the assyrian factions each hired many mercanaries from distant lands. I think sin shumu lishir may have killed his king and took over as king. Then nabopolassar rebelled from sinsharishkun. Sinsharishkun eventually won the civil war, but nabopollassar and medes beseiged him at niniveh and destroyed nineveh. His ally and brother ashurubalit 2 held out in haran a bit longer, but haran then fell in 609 bc.
Seems to me that the Kings of Judah had an extraordinarily poor sense of politics, their military capability and how to deal with a far superior foreign power!
@@alexislaisney3749listen, the US no longer puts Naval Intelligence Ships in the middle of other folk’s hot wars without letting other folk’s fighting know that U.S. has assets i their battlefield. However, the US Government should not have accepted either the Israeli Reparations for the accident, nor the USNavy’s Investigation and Report, which you obviously haven’t. Must be more fun to get your Jew Hate on spouting BS Conspiracy theories trying to draw a parallel between Iron Age Levantine and Modern Israelis. Get a life.
What a fantastic video! I am disappointed that my microphone and recordings were not up to par. I really enjoyed having a part to play in the video, amazing content as usual. Time I get a better mic I think
Haha thanks, really glad you found this more, obscure topic interesting... always makes me happy when there's interest in such things. Speaking of "Cy," the next video is on Cyrus the Great, hopefully out by the end of this week. Hope all is well on your end and stay safe my friend!
Thanks, I appreciate the kind words and encouragement...they're slowly coming, I'm just thrilled though to be where I'm at right now. Thanks so much for stopping by, really appreciate it! Stay safe!
Oh yeah that's my favorite of all the music I use...it's called "Protector of the Sky" and it can be found on site Epicdemic Sound. Thanks for stopping by, appreciate it!
Excellent video, and it is interesting that this was the most known period of Babylon but the shortest one, Nabonidus is definetely enigmatic charachter like some sort of magi ursuping the throne. As i mentioned in other video i think there is connection of Nabonidus to creation of Islam.
Hi! Yeah, sort of was. Paul Kriwaczek in his book on Babylon explains it really well which I'll try to paraphrase...basically after the Persian conquest, Babylon, which had for millennia been the focal point of civilization and culture in the region had been replaced by foreign rulers who mostly resided elsewhere, and whereas it's culture and civilization had been preserved and spread throughout the region, it was replaced by Hellenism, a Parthian and Sasanian Persian resurgence, and finally Arabization, eventually falling into oblivion. Something like that...he says it much better in his book. As always, thanks so much for stopping by, really appreciate it... stay safe!
Amazing! Great job! Its interesting and an enigma how babylon quickly declined after nebuchadnezzars death. His son amel marduk was murdered by his brother in law, neriglissar, after less than 2 years of ruling. Then this husband of nebuchadnezzars daughter kash shiya.... He was also one of the generals of nebuchadnezzar. .... He only ruled around 4 years before he died of some unknown, (likely unnatural cause). His son who suceeded labashi marduk was killed 9 months later, likely by a conspiracy organized by nabonudus, who was likely an assyrian aristocrat governor of harran whose mother adad guppi was likely also not of the Babylonian royal family. But He likely married queen nitocris daughter of nebuchadnezzar...which made him a part of the royal Babylonian family... Making his son belshazzar a grandson of nebuchadnezzar too. Nabonidus downfall likely was caused by conspiracies against him in his own empire. One conspirator was a famous eunuch who wanted revenge for what was done to him. This guy hated nabonidus who made him into a eunuch...and set his mind to take his dynasty out, by joining cyrus and giving him evey intelligence about babylons weakness's.
Isn’t this crazy how ancient Sumerians had 12 central figures that had direct contact with the deities just like us modern Twelver Shia Iraqis whom have twelve imams that we believe they have direct contact with Allah!
Jews, Christians, and Muslims of all sects share some of these Sumerian concepts. They don't all line up in the same ways, but they are there. It's part of the shared history that they all have.
@@alissa6...you totally missed my point, which is that all of the followers of the God of Abraham have pieces of Sumerian concepts buried inside their respective religions and sects. Just because the particular stated example is distinct to one sect of Islam doesn't mean in the other sects that there isn't some other pieces of Sumerian mythological concepts. To make it simple Abraham is generally accepted by all the faiths to have come from the City of Ur, which during the Bronze Age was a Sumerian city with Sumerian gods which Abraham likely knew about alongside the accompanying myths associated with those gods. It would not be odd to keep certain things the same such as auspicious numbers and dates. How they manifested amongst the descendant faiths is different but still very much present for instance take Christ's disciples 13 in total and one served as a betrayer leaving 12 to cross the world and speak about their direct contact with the divine. Not the same as the aforementioned example but very similar indeed. And not only that we see that Sumerian influence in other faiths of the time as well take Egypt's Ra...he takes twelve steps to cross the day sky in Egyptian myth. Summer had massive influence on the early development of civilization in West Asia and Europe, their writing was adopted and used for literally millennia it wouldn't be shocking if their stories and myths did as well.
@@derrickduncan3495 Prophet Ibrahim destroyed mesopotamian idols when he was a boy. The people tried to incinirate him alive. But he didnt bring their religion with him or else it wouldn't make sense for a person to destroy those statues and call them "useless stones". I understand you're trying to explain stuff your limited atheist knowledge doesn't understand while renouncing the Abrahamic faiths as stolen myths. I don't blame you when it comes to Judeo-christianity, as they did make up a lot of blasphemous horrendous stories about the prophets and other myths, that's one of many reasons why Allah is displeased with them. But unless you study Islam you're not eligible to say that about Islam. You jumped to conclusion immidiately when a Shiaa person said something that coalesce with your theory. Well don't be surprised when I tell you Shiaa was created by a Yemeni Jewish. As a matter of a fact Shiaa share a lot with Judaism.
Since Babylon likely wouldn't have destroyed the Assyrians on their own and needed the Medes I don't think we should be surprised that the Neo-Babylonian Empire fell so easily to the Medes and their successor/overlord Persians.
Can I ask a question? What is considered as a survival of legal text in the home of early civilization? Would Neo Babylonia be I just wanted to know thanks I will greatful
Hello I have quastion do u have idea about 3 revolution happened during cyrus when he attack babylon the first resistant the man from Babylon who start resistance against cyrus his name is nenditu the second man who start the resistance against cyrus his name is arakha bin kheldeta or nabukhdneser 4 the therd one who started the resistance against cyrus his name is beel shemani if u have any information about the 3 resistants please let me know am from Iraq thank you.
Lydia is in the western coast of Turkey, there was hundreds of Greek colonies at this time, I say that had a mix of native anatolian and greek styled units maybe not with a hoplon but something similar
the title King of Babylon was used after Babylon's fall. the Persians, Macedonians, Seleucids, and most of the Parthians took the title of being the king of Babylon. this lasted until 224 AD.
Hi. I tried to find the letter Cy mentioned where there was a huge payment involved for the purchase of wood. Anyone remember what im talking about? This wood came from an island i think, and was purchased by a middle eastern king to build a temple? Oh, and the payment was 2 or 3 cities or territories?
That's a good question... you pose an interesting question that may never fully be answered. Given his actions, I used to think that Nabonidus didn't want to be king because he spent so much time away from the throne, but it might have been that as king, he thought that he could elevate the cult of Sin and make it more prominent.
@@HistorywithCy I've watched almost all of your library. Love it, even got my Dad watching your stuff now. My family loves history and you present it well. TY
İ thank you for publishing such high quality and detailed video on us iraqis ancestors the Babylonians we iraqis really teached these Assyrians who is the real owner of the fertile crescent 😁 anyway i thank you again for your hard work
Thanks for the information. I’ve something to ask you, please can you tell me from where I can find online books, articles or just information about Nebuchadnezzar the 2nd’s foreign policy and invasions, but it must be detailed and long. I cannot write my course paper, everything is described too short. If it is possible, can you help me, thanks in advance!
Hi, hope all is well. There is a link in the sources that I used in the video description. I think that you can get all of those books in electronic or Kindle format. I myself have paper copies. Any other questions, please let me know...thanks!
Hey, thanks so much, appreciate it! Actually the main part of the city of Tyre was on an impenetrable island just off the mainland, so he remained there, safe from the armies of Nebuchadnezzar II for what ancient historians say was 13 years! Eventually though the two sides did make an agreement. Any other questions, please don't hesitate to let me know. Thanks again for the support, stay safe!
History with Cy that's fascinating! I wonder what happened to this island and if it disappeared as a result of a change in sea levels and whether archaeological excavations have been done there. Was it natural or artificial like Tenochtitlan? I must investigate further!
Hi, thanks for stopping by, appreciate it! I set up a discord account, don't really use it...haven't really had the time to be honest but I think in the near future I'll make so that we can all discuss topics on it. Thanks again for stopping by, really appreciate it!
Hey brother CY just wondering. Is it possible when ever you have free time, can you make a specific video about the Chaldeans, like from Marduk apla adini II to Belshazzar. I have many people who are asking me to ask you. I’m also post it in my “ The Chaldeans “ Facebook page. Just wondering is this possible.
Hi, thanks so much for the suggestion. I really like the topic but in a sense I've kind of covered Marduk-apla-iddina II to Nabonidus/Belshazzar in various videos spanning on the history of Assyria to the ones on Babylonia. I don't know if at this point I'll be able to do a separate one on just the Chaldean rulers but it's a good idea for sure. Thanks for the idea though...stay safe!
@@HistorywithCy yea I have seen therm bro, accurate and awesome videos, big love from the Australian Chaldean community ♥️.. think about it and if you are interested some time than why not aha :) thanks bro stay safe.. if you want join my group on Facebook “ The Chaldeans “ we post interesting information there. :) have a good day sir.
But the answer is to why some people use the expression BCE, the answer is that the simpler and older BC, with it's more explicit focused on Jesus Christ is considered by some to be potentially offensive to non-christians and or atheists. Speaking as an atheist I don't find it so, and it is after all simply a numbering system as used by the culture of the people that dug all this stuff up, work out how to read it, and work out what had happened in the past. None the less, BCE seems to the standard in academia as it is at least offensive to anyone and all said and done that has to be a good thing for academic processes
Wow 🤩 you’ve been really generous with videos about the ancient cities of central and southern Iraq i wonder what makes you interested in such irrelevant but important subject in ancient history Wonder Where are you from?
Hi, thanks so much for stopping by, really appreciate it! I'm interested in all history but, I guess I got into ancient history because my name is Cyrus, who was an ancient Persian king, and it kind of started when I was young wanting to know the origin of my name and grew from there. I'm American though of Persian-Indian descent. Thanks again for stopping by, really appreciate it... stay safe!
Fan of fantaisy , i can't avoid to ask why at 1:17 it seems that a God cursed this nation that no dynasty would exceed 10 generations of peace.. your 3 periodes are around 300 years each..a pattern ?? a curse ?? a socio-economical determinism ? or just a boring coincidence...
Cy ism about to watch your latest great video, and I know it's going to be great.how I know is what you talk about similar exact subjects are done by viper tv or the oldest stories or history of antiquity or invicta or kings and generals channels talk about the same subject after you ofcourse.you are always a couple steps ahead of them and by as many as 3 months ahead. So I consider you the leading authority in history
Your empire was amazing. I have studied a small fraction of your history. Your current politics is extremely complicated, and I certainly will not add my view. To be honest, I am simply not knowledgeable on the subject. Although, I will make a passing comment on Saddam Hussein, based upon your politics since his death. I watched the video of his hanging, and I admit, I'm divided on my perspective of him. One of the executioners asked him, "are you afraid to die"? He replied, I have been fighting against Jihadists my entire career...He said, no, I'm not afraid to die. Previously, I determined that if a strong man didn't run his own country, then it would fall to militias and Jihadists. It appears to be the case. I believe, you are right that Saddam most definitely needed to instill fear, as a means to sustain law and order. However, it is very possible he went mad, in the same manner as Nebuchadnezzar II. And destined his own destruction. As you know, Nebuchadnezzar was the most powerful king in the world. He had a dream that was interpreted by Daniel (who was in prison at the time), a Hebrew exiled to Babylon when Nebuchadnezzar sacked Jerusalem and the Temple of God. After hearing of his dream, the king eventually built a 90 cubic statue of himself, and demanded that the people bend down to worship it, upon the sound of certain musical instruments. It was his downfall. It's in the Bible. Please regard it as a book of history, because it is. God will not allow man to assume HIS place. This happened to the last native Egyptian Pharaoh also, who claimed he made the Nile and was all powerful. You are from an ancient people of the strongest empire on earth. I can't say if your country could ever be a Republic, such as my country, USA. It would be wonderful if it was, but I doubt it would ever happen. Your government is too reliant on its oil. They don't seem to see past it. Also, I heard that different sects of the Iraqi people do not accept history prior to Islam. I am assuming this point of view is from Jihadists. I can't wrap my head around it. The history of your country is like no other. You invented writing, mathematics, geometry, etc., and yet, the Iraqi people are denying their ancient history and achievements which began the entire civilization movement in the world! I am a Christian. Can you even imagine how many of us would love the opportunity to see ancient Assyria, Akkadia and Babylon for ourselves? Egypt claims to be the Cradle of Civilization, it is not true! Your country is and will always be. It is my hope that Iraq finally receives a strong ruler, who will eliminate the militias and Jihadists once and for all. NEOM in Saudi Arabia is aiming to be the next hub of the region (Dubai is done). You have so must more to offer than Saudi Arabia. You might want to google how many Christians there are in the world, then multiple that in dollars, euros, yen, etc., they would spend in your country to see all the places, events and things mentioned in the bible. Not to mention, all the jobs that tourism would bring to the Iraqi people. Just saying....
Wow. I never imagined Nebopolessar to be a "lowly" pious man, divinely appointed as liberator from Assyrian oppression. It's absolutely fascinating that that's what he thought of himself!
Or at least that's what he wanted people to think of himself as. I give him credit though... many of the other great kings before him were quite pompous in their inscriptions - Naram-Sin, Shulgi, plenty of Assyrian kings, etc. The inscriptions of Nabopolassar on the other hand, at least those that have been discovered, in contrast are quite humble. Anyway, thanks so much for stopping by, really appreciate it. More to come, stay safe!
@@HistorywithCy nebuchadnezzar
Indeed
@@HistorywithCy he kind of repeated what Horemheb did millennia earlier in Egypt with his divine nudge to get him to power.
I'm highly impressed by the quality of your work.
Thanks, I really appreciate the feedback! More to come soon, stay tuned!
Except for: Cy, I wish you would include Hezekiah resisting Assyria on his map other youtubers showed Jerusalem was not overtaken by Assyria.
bingewatching your channel, it was exactly what i was looking for, now i can feed my new obsession for ancient mesopotamia. great work and keep those videos coming
That's great to hear, motivates me to put out more of these...thanks so much for stopping by, really appreciate it. Stay safe!
Love these longer vids!! Just in time to relax!
haha I knew you'd like another longer video on ancient Mesopotamia! As always, thanks so much for stopping by, really appreciate it. Any requests with regard to the region, let me know!
@čp Thank you, appreciate it!
Yeaaaaaa I've been waiting for this one
Hope it was worth the wait...thanks for stopping by, really appreciate it!
Thanks for this beautiful clip, I am from Iraq (Babel)🇮🇶🌹🌹
Thank you for stopping by, really appreciate it and glad you liked the video. Stay safe!
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Could you do a specific history of the city of Damascus at some point? As one of the oldest cities in the world I'm guessing there'd be a lot of really cool history to it :)
I would love to and you're correct, lots of history there... one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world along with Aleppo. Thanks for stopping by, really appreciate it...stay safe!
@@HistorywithCy Thanks for replying Cy! I love your vids and how you actually quote the ancient texts themselves. I hope you can manage to fit that video in sometime, Aleppo would be pretty cool too lol. Stay safe too!
Many thanks.. One of all times best ever channels at RUclips and certainly the best in history recently
A delightful consultation of the original sources, sir! Thank you!
Thanks so much for stopping by and your feedback, really appreciate it! Yeah I love reading primary sources, they put a whole new dimension to our understanding of events. More to come, stay safe and thanks again!
Babylonian science, namely astronomy and mathematics is rather well known.
But you mentioned there was also philosophy... Since in the West philosophy usually starts with the Greeks I wonder if you could make an episode about pre Greek philosophy in other ancient cultures of the area.
I (and probably most others) have never heard of any of those before.
For instances, the Vedas and Budism are older and very deep bodies of phylosophy (that much later were adapted as religions). Keep in mind that most greek achievements came from the east (Ionia), which at the time was part of Persia.
@@conejeitor It seems like there’s so much beautiful and deep philosophies that spawned outside of Europe, but they’re just ignored for this Eurocentric origin of philosophythat exists now.
Amazing episode! My mind traveled in time to 25 hundred years. Thankful to Danny too - king N.
Thanks, glad you enjoyed this! More on Babylon and Babylonia on the way, stay tuned and safe!
I could not find one about Sennacherib
Honestly these are just the best for homeschooling companion content. Absolutely love your work can't say it enough, my daughter loves your narration as well. Couldn't be better stuff, thanks!
I just wish we could stick to teaching ancient history forever! So engaging.
New to this channel, and I can just say that I am extremely impressed with the way these videos are executed. It has everything that any history lover of any magnitude would need to be fully informed about any kingdom. Amazing, thank you! For longer videos, may I suggest adding timestamps in your video description to divide the videos into sort of chapters?
Hi, thanks so much for stopping by, really appreciate it and glad you enjoyed the video. That's a great idea, I'll do with this and a few of my other longer ones (similar to what I did in the Concise History of Assyria video). Appreciate the feedback and the advice. More to come, stay tuned and thanks again!
@@HistorywithCy No problem, keep it up!
it was good to see all the videos in order. thanks
Thanks my friend, glad that you liked the series... more to come, stay safe!
Hey Cy, how are you? Your work is usually great, but this video is too well-made not to be highlighted. The text (or script? Not sure how to say it in english) is smooth, cohesive and so aproachable, that it gives life to a time in history when most of the accounts that we hear are somewhat dull. The images and maps you brought helped a lot to situate us viewers too. The narration was spot-on as well, but I'm curious as why didn't you do your own narration as you usually do (and to a great effect). Anyway, props to you for making such a great video, wish the best to your channel
Hi Pedro, thanks so much for your feedback and kind words, really appreciate them! Yeah I thought I'd change it up a bit with the narration of the quotes. Actually someone offered to volunteer for the quote reading and I thought it worked out well because I think it gives some life to many of these characters that perhaps, with myself already narrating, may get a bit lost (haha I think eventually people will tire of hearing my voice). Anyway, have a lot more in the works so will definitely be doing some of my own narrations as well.
Thanks so much for stopping by, really glad that you enjoyed the video as not that many people are into this era of history. More to come and if you have any requests, please don't hesitate to let me know. Thanks again, stay safe!
@@HistorywithCy Cy, I wish you would include Hezekiah resisting Assyria on his map other youtubers showed Jerusalem was not overtaken by Assyria.
Brilliant video Cy
Thanks, appreciate it! More to come, stay safe!
Once more a splendid work.Congrats
Thanks my friend, really appreciate the kind words...more
to come, stay safe!
❤❤❤ Always love your videos. Awesome to watch while drinking my coffee, this morning. Thank you!
Awesome, thanks! More mornings with videos coming your way, stay tuned!
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Fantastic work - found you through History Time via Historia Civilis.
Thanks and welcome... I love both of those channel!
Thank you for the program. Very interesting and well done! I particularly enjoyed the maps and references to the Babylonian Chronicle. I read Herodotus' account some years ago in my program of ancient Greek (and also long ago looked into the Book of Daniel with its setting in the court of Babylon). It was good to hear it from the other side.
You're welcome, thanks for watching! You might also like the most recent video (it's 3 hours long) and the full history of Babylon, which also includes much of this story as well. Lot's more on the way, stay tuned and thanks for watching!
@@HistorywithCy Thanks.
Yes, I would like to watch that, thanks for bringing it to my attention. I'm about to start Frahm's book on Assyria and just finished Marco Liverani's classic history of ancient Israel and how and when the ideological account in the Jewish Bible came into being. I haven't yet found a recent thorough look at Babylonia by a current historian in a single volume. I The new multi- volume Oxford History of the Ancient Middle East looks interesting.
@@HistorywithCy It's Mario, not Marco, Liverani. Sorry.
@@HariPrasad-uy9dj Check out A History of Babylon, 2200 BC - AD 75 by Paul-Alain Beaulieu and Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization by Paul Kriwaczek. Both are great, relatively recent and will give you a solid view of not just Babylonia, but the region as a whole. Good luck!
Thumb up and I still am subscribe to you ! Cy, I wish you would include Hezekiah resisting Assyria on his map other youtubers showed Jerusalem was not overtaken by Assyria.
Thanks a lot for this amazing series of videos about Ancient Babylonia. I learnt so much useful and astonishing information, and it was very interesting for me. I suppose it took plenty of time and power to make these videos, thanks for sharing this great work.
Going to watch your other videos😊
My pleasure, glad you liked them! Yeah once you get into it, it's hard to stop because there so many interesting aspects to such ancient history. Thanks for stopping by, really appreciate it...more to come, stay safe!
amazing video, thank you so much!
Thank you for stopping by, really appreciate it!
Your channel is amazing!!!!! Ive just found it recently and im reallyyyyyy hooked ive watched all the videos about the Babylonians and there marriages cutlture and everything your the only channel whom ive seen who does so much detailed video on Babylon and Babylonians the civilization whom i have always been curious to know more about word can not explain how i am pleased to have founded your channel thank you so much 😁
Excellent video. Really enjoyed it
Thanks my friend, glad you liked this! It was fun for me to make, combining the history of Mesopotamia with that of Iran. All the best for 2021, stay safe!
Love your work Cy. I really appreciate when you include Biblical references to history as an option along with the secular writing of the time. You missed a great opportunity to quote biblical references on this important time in history. A common saying today is "The writing is on the wall" .... "And this is the writing that was inscribed: MEʹNE, MEʹNE, TEʹKEL, and PARʹSIN.26 “This is the interpretation of the words: MEʹNE, God has numbered the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end.27 “TEʹKEL, you have been weighed in the balances and found lacking.28 “PEʹRES, your kingdom has been divided and given to the Medes and the Persians.” Daniel 5:25-28....and just as you mentioned Babylon came to an end....keep up the good work.
Cy, I wish you would include Hezekiah resisting Assyria on his map other youtubers showed Jerusalem was not overtaken by Assyria.
These are amazing! Thank you so much!
Thank you, so glad you stopped by!
Interesting intro to King Cyrus. Looking forward to the next videos.
Thanks, looking forward to putting them out! Stay safe!
my favorite yt history channel. i love ancient antiquity!
Thanks so much, I really appreciate the kind words and am really glad that are enjoying these...not too many people into the history of ancient Babylon so I'm glad that you stopped by! More to come, stay safe!
I appreciate being able to view different episodes and see how different kingdoms interacted at different times. For example, the Medes cooperating with the neo-Bablylonians to fight the neo-Assyrians, which I first heard in the episode about the mighty Medes.
I really enjoy your documentaries. Thank you!
Thank YOU my friend, glad you're into this stuff...motivates me to put out more of it for y'all! Stay safe!
A very nice video. Some people don't get to the point, that's all you get to and I love it
Hi, thanks for stopping by and the constructive feedback, I really appreciate it! Yeah, my goal is to give just enough detail so that the viewer can get a good understanding of what was going on without being overburdened. More detailed content can be found in the podcasts. Thanks again and stay safe!
I guess praying to Marduk doesn't really work after all.
As usual, I enjoyed this post. I always learn something I did not know.
Thanks so much for the kind words and feedback, really appreciate it! More on ancient Mesopotamia and the region to come, stay safe and thanks for stopping by!
@@HistorywithCy I have always been fascinated with Ancient Mesopotamia, the cradle of civilization. You stay safe too!
Fantastic video
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it! More on ancient Babylonia on the way, stay tuned and safe!
Brilliant. Masterpiece.
I wish we had more details of the last Assyrian rulers you mention a eunuch ruler. I actually suspect, that the legendary sardanapulos was a son of ashur banipal. He was a governor of babylon and his general was nabopolassar. I say there was a assyrian civil war between ashur etil ilani and his tartar general sin shumu lishir vs sin shariskun himself and his other brother ashur uballit 2 governor of harran. During this civil war...the assyrian factions each hired many mercanaries from distant lands. I think sin shumu lishir may have killed his king and took over as king. Then nabopolassar rebelled from sinsharishkun. Sinsharishkun eventually won the civil war, but nabopollassar and medes beseiged him at niniveh and destroyed nineveh. His ally and brother ashurubalit 2 held out in haran a bit longer, but haran then fell in 609 bc.
Seems to me that the Kings of Judah had an extraordinarily poor sense of politics, their military capability and how to deal with a far superior foreign power!
I agree! They had a few smart kings who paid their tribute to Assyria, but a lot of dumb kings who picked fights when they really shouldn't have!
@@Confucius_76 U.S.S. LIBERTY
Rameses II left them hanging, go read Ages in Chaos
@@alexislaisney3749listen, the US no longer puts Naval Intelligence Ships in the middle of other folk’s hot wars without letting other folk’s fighting know that U.S. has assets i their battlefield. However, the US Government should not have accepted either the Israeli Reparations for the accident, nor the USNavy’s Investigation and Report, which you obviously haven’t. Must be more fun to get your Jew Hate on spouting BS Conspiracy theories trying to draw a parallel between Iron Age Levantine and Modern Israelis. Get a life.
@@LegendaryJew 1 king left many generational kings hanging ?
What a fantastic video! I am disappointed that my microphone and recordings were not up to par. I really enjoyed having a part to play in the video, amazing content as usual. Time I get a better mic I think
Thank you for reading!
It was really good,you made the text very much alive!
No way man, your voice was awesome and really brought this video to life...THANK YOU for doing, really appreciate it!
Finally finished this 24 videos program, and now I understand why your name is Cy! :) Good job buddy
Haha thanks, really glad you found this more, obscure topic interesting... always makes me happy when there's interest in such things. Speaking of "Cy," the next video is on Cyrus the Great, hopefully out by the end of this week. Hope all is well on your end and stay safe my friend!
I heard once a theory that stated that Nabonidus' father descended from the sargonid assyrian kings
I appreciate your work, but can you do a video about internal management of ancient states and their economies ?
you deserve more subs! tremendous work.
Thanks, I appreciate the kind words and encouragement...they're slowly coming, I'm just thrilled though to be where I'm at right now. Thanks so much for stopping by, really appreciate it! Stay safe!
Excellent work Cyrus..
Haha I knew you'd be interested in this one. Thanks Husam, appreciate it! Hope all is well with you!
@@HistorywithCy shared it on our group already LOL
Great vid, please mention the music soundtrack title in 13:00 min, I will be grateful
Oh yeah that's my favorite of all the music I use...it's called "Protector of the Sky" and it can be found on site Epicdemic Sound. Thanks for stopping by, appreciate it!
@@HistorywithCy 👍👌
Excellent episode.
Thank you, appreciate it!
Excellent video, and it is interesting that this was the most known period of Babylon but the shortest one, Nabonidus is definetely enigmatic charachter like some sort of magi ursuping the throne. As i mentioned in other video i think there is connection of Nabonidus to creation of Islam.
I feel like it’s the end of an era
Hi! Yeah, sort of was. Paul Kriwaczek in his book on Babylon explains it really well which I'll try to paraphrase...basically after the Persian conquest, Babylon, which had for millennia been the focal point of civilization and culture in the region had been replaced by foreign rulers who mostly resided elsewhere, and whereas it's culture and civilization had been preserved and spread throughout the region, it was replaced by Hellenism, a Parthian and Sasanian Persian resurgence, and finally Arabization, eventually falling into oblivion. Something like that...he says it much better in his book.
As always, thanks so much for stopping by, really appreciate it... stay safe!
Amazing! Great job!
Its interesting and an enigma how babylon quickly declined after nebuchadnezzars death. His son amel marduk was murdered by his brother in law, neriglissar, after less than 2 years of ruling. Then this husband of nebuchadnezzars daughter kash shiya.... He was also one of the generals of nebuchadnezzar. .... He only ruled around 4 years before he died of some unknown, (likely unnatural cause). His son who suceeded labashi marduk was killed 9 months later, likely by a conspiracy organized by nabonudus, who was likely an assyrian aristocrat governor of harran whose mother adad guppi was likely also not of the Babylonian royal family. But He likely married queen nitocris daughter of nebuchadnezzar...which made him a part of the royal Babylonian family...
Making his son belshazzar a grandson of nebuchadnezzar too. Nabonidus downfall likely was caused by conspiracies against him in his own empire. One conspirator was a famous eunuch who wanted revenge for what was done to him. This guy hated nabonidus who made him into a eunuch...and set his mind to take his dynasty out, by joining cyrus and giving him evey intelligence about babylons weakness's.
Yeah, I've read something like that too... thanks for stopping by, appreciate it! More to come, stay safe!
@@HistorywithCy I wish you would include Hezekiah resisting Assyria on his map other youtubers showed Jerusalem was not overtaken by Assyria.
Isn’t this crazy how ancient Sumerians had 12 central figures that had direct contact with the deities just like us modern Twelver Shia Iraqis whom have twelve imams that we believe they have direct contact with Allah!
ain't nothing new under the sun
Jews, Christians, and Muslims of all sects share some of these Sumerian concepts. They don't all line up in the same ways, but they are there. It's part of the shared history that they all have.
@@derrickduncan3495 That's only a Shiaa thing buddy.
@@alissa6...you totally missed my point, which is that all of the followers of the God of Abraham have pieces of Sumerian concepts buried inside their respective religions and sects. Just because the particular stated example is distinct to one sect of Islam doesn't mean in the other sects that there isn't some other pieces of Sumerian mythological concepts. To make it simple Abraham is generally accepted by all the faiths to have come from the City of Ur, which during the Bronze Age was a Sumerian city with Sumerian gods which Abraham likely knew about alongside the accompanying myths associated with those gods. It would not be odd to keep certain things the same such as auspicious numbers and dates. How they manifested amongst the descendant faiths is different but still very much present for instance take Christ's disciples 13 in total and one served as a betrayer leaving 12 to cross the world and speak about their direct contact with the divine. Not the same as the aforementioned example but very similar indeed. And not only that we see that Sumerian influence in other faiths of the time as well take Egypt's Ra...he takes twelve steps to cross the day sky in Egyptian myth. Summer had massive influence on the early development of civilization in West Asia and Europe, their writing was adopted and used for literally millennia it wouldn't be shocking if their stories and myths did as well.
@@derrickduncan3495 Prophet Ibrahim destroyed mesopotamian idols when he was a boy. The people tried to incinirate him alive. But he didnt bring their religion with him or else it wouldn't make sense for a person to destroy those statues and call them "useless stones". I understand you're trying to explain stuff your limited atheist knowledge doesn't understand while renouncing the Abrahamic faiths as stolen myths. I don't blame you when it comes to Judeo-christianity, as they did make up a lot of blasphemous horrendous stories about the prophets and other myths, that's one of many reasons why Allah is displeased with them. But unless you study Islam you're not eligible to say that about Islam. You jumped to conclusion immidiately when a Shiaa person said something that coalesce with your theory. Well don't be surprised when I tell you Shiaa was created by a Yemeni Jewish. As a matter of a fact Shiaa share a lot with Judaism.
Great stuff.
Very interesting. Your maps were very helpful
Cy, I wish you would include Hezekiah resisting Assyria on his map other youtubers showed Jerusalem was not overtaken by Assyria.
Excellent presentation
Glad you liked it, thanks!
@@HistorywithCy 👍⭐🎆🎇
Since Babylon likely wouldn't have destroyed the Assyrians on their own and needed the Medes I don't think we should be surprised that the Neo-Babylonian Empire fell so easily to the Medes and their successor/overlord Persians.
Good vid man 👌
Thanks, appreciate it! Stay safe!
6:15 - Were not the Babylonians and Medes joined by the Scythians at the siege and subsequent fall of Nineveh?
Very helpful. Thank you
My pleasure, thanks for watching!
Can I ask a question? What is considered as a survival of legal text in the home of early civilization?
Would Neo Babylonia be I just wanted to know thanks I will greatful
You forgot the spark traps, olmites, elevators and madam tusks palace :/
And don't forget laser traps and idols
Would you tell me where Can i buy this book with the chronicles of Babylon and what is the name of the author which wrote it please
Hello I have quastion do u have idea about 3 revolution happened during cyrus when he attack babylon the first resistant the man from Babylon who start resistance against cyrus his name is nenditu the second man who start the resistance against cyrus his name is arakha bin kheldeta or nabukhdneser 4 the therd one who started the resistance against cyrus his name is beel shemani if u have any information about the 3 resistants please let me know am from Iraq thank you.
The new speaker gives your vids a great new flare
Agreed...he did an awesome job! Thanks so much for stopping by, appreciate it. More to come, stay safe!
What was the army of the kingdom of Lydia like greek like?
Not sure of the specifics but I know that they were famous for their cavalry.
I'd say they probably didn't have hoplites, as that was a specifically Greek thing
Lydia is in the western coast of Turkey, there was hundreds of Greek colonies at this time, I say that had a mix of native anatolian and greek styled units maybe not with a hoplon but something similar
@@Confucius_76 They definitely had hoplites, some native perhaps but at least access to those of many Greek cities.
Thank you for all the great videos on Mesopotamia. I need them. They are what I have been missing.
My pleasure, happy to oblige! More on the region coming soon, thanks for stopping by and stay safe!
Nice Piece
Thank you!
@@HistorywithCy I've added a couple of your videos to my channel playlist.
the title King of Babylon was used after Babylon's fall. the Persians, Macedonians, Seleucids, and most of the Parthians took the title of being the king of Babylon. this lasted until 224 AD.
Hi. I tried to find the letter Cy mentioned where there was a huge payment involved for the purchase of wood.
Anyone remember what im talking about?
This wood came from an island i think, and was purchased by a middle eastern king to build a temple?
Oh, and the payment was 2 or 3 cities or territories?
Hiram King of Tyre who provided skilled stone masons and cedars of Lebanon to Solomon King of Israel so as to complete the construction of the Temple.
watched almost every video (messopotamia and canaan) i liked your aggressive reading more.
Thanks so much for stopping by and glad that you liked the videos... more to come soon!
What's the first music?
Hi, it's called "Divine Serpent" and can be found on Epidemic sound. Any other questions, let me know...thanks!
@@HistorywithCy Danke.
Superb! Question for you cid: why do you think nabonidus got so focused on religious issues excessively all of a sudden?
That's a good question... you pose an interesting question that may never fully be answered.
Given his actions, I used to think that Nabonidus didn't want to be king because he spent so much time away from the throne, but it might have been that as king, he thought that he could elevate the cult of Sin and make it more prominent.
I’m Persian, I like the Achaemenid era too but I love the neo-Assyrian/neo-Babylonian era.
Achaemenid area coming up, stay tuned and thanks for stopping by!
The music at the beginning, bing bong, bing bongo bib gongo deeeldeeee bidleey bing bong
liked your script / collaboration with History Time.
Thanks, was fun to do...Pete is so good at what he does that it was an honor to work with him. Thanks for stopping by, stay safe!
@@HistorywithCy I've watched almost all of your library. Love it, even got my Dad watching your stuff now. My family loves history and you present it well. TY
İ thank you for publishing such high quality and detailed video on us iraqis ancestors the Babylonians we iraqis really teached these Assyrians who is the real owner of the fertile crescent 😁 anyway i thank you again for your hard work
Thanks for the information. I’ve something to ask you, please can you tell me from where I can find online books, articles or just information about Nebuchadnezzar the 2nd’s foreign policy and invasions, but it must be detailed and long. I cannot write my course paper, everything is described too short. If it is possible, can you help me, thanks in advance!
Hi, hope all is well. There is a link in the sources that I used in the video description. I think that you can get all of those books in electronic or Kindle format. I myself have paper copies. Any other questions, please let me know...thanks!
History with Cy
I had forgotten to check the description field, thank You so much for answering, kind Person😊🙏🏻
@@eeternite No worries, good luck with your research!
Great presentation as always! Which island was it that the king of Tyre fled to? Cyprus?
Hey, thanks so much, appreciate it! Actually the main part of the city of Tyre was on an impenetrable island just off the mainland, so he remained there, safe from the armies of Nebuchadnezzar II for what ancient historians say was 13 years! Eventually though the two sides did make an agreement. Any other questions, please don't hesitate to let me know. Thanks again for the support, stay safe!
History with Cy that's fascinating! I wonder what happened to this island and if it disappeared as a result of a change in sea levels and whether archaeological excavations have been done there. Was it natural or artificial like Tenochtitlan? I must investigate further!
What happened to Balshazzar?
Need a few more ad breaks in quick succession.
Do you have a discord? This is a great channel btw
Hi, thanks for stopping by, appreciate it! I set up a discord account, don't really use it...haven't really had the time to be honest but I think in the near future I'll make so that we can all discuss topics on it. Thanks again for stopping by, really appreciate it!
Hey brother CY just wondering. Is it possible when ever you have free time, can you make a specific video about the Chaldeans, like from Marduk apla adini II to Belshazzar. I have many people who are asking me to ask you. I’m also post it in my “ The Chaldeans “ Facebook page. Just wondering is this possible.
Hi, thanks so much for the suggestion. I really like the topic but in a sense I've kind of covered Marduk-apla-iddina II to Nabonidus/Belshazzar in various videos spanning on the history of Assyria to the ones on Babylonia. I don't know if at this point I'll be able to do a separate one on just the Chaldean rulers but it's a good idea for sure. Thanks for the idea though...stay safe!
@@HistorywithCy yea I have seen therm bro, accurate and awesome videos, big love from the Australian Chaldean community ♥️.. think about it and if you are interested some time than why not aha :) thanks bro stay safe.. if you want join my group on Facebook “ The Chaldeans “ we post interesting information there. :) have a good day sir.
@@bugsytv6852 will do!
Time for comfy
Haha thanks...hope you enjoy it!
Dumb question... how big/small was a Babylonian "pint"?
Short note:
You are using modern map with coastline totally different than the ancient one. Back then coastline was much closer to Ur and Susa.
A new Babylonian Empire? I only thought there was the old one. Cy does it again.
Why do you use BCE?
I used to use it but not any more. All of the more recent videos from the past year or two use BC/AD.
But the answer is to why some people use the expression BCE, the answer is that the simpler and older BC, with it's more explicit focused on Jesus Christ is considered by some to be potentially offensive to non-christians and or atheists.
Speaking as an atheist I don't find it so, and it is after all simply a numbering system as used by the culture of the people that dug all this stuff up, work out how to read it, and work out what had happened in the past. None the less, BCE seems to the standard in academia as it is at least offensive to anyone and all said and done that has to be a good thing for academic processes
Wow 🤩 you’ve been really generous with videos about the ancient cities of central and southern Iraq i wonder what makes you interested in such irrelevant but important subject in ancient history
Wonder Where are you from?
Hi, thanks so much for stopping by, really appreciate it! I'm interested in all history but, I guess I got into ancient history because my name is Cyrus, who was an ancient Persian king, and it kind of started when I was young wanting to know the origin of my name and grew from there. I'm American though of Persian-Indian descent. Thanks again for stopping by, really appreciate it... stay safe!
@@HistorywithCy - I guess you know God chose Cyrus before he was born to free the Jews from captivity (Isaiah). Fascinating, isn't it?!
@@joehart6030 yes, totally!
Marduk always gets the last word, until the time came when he didn't.
Coward chaldees and Medes,they needed 3_5 allies to destroy Assyria,then the chaldees did NOT even lasted for more than 50 years
But both Babylonians and Assyrians are (almost) the same people.
Perfectly said my dear Assyrian friend .
@@Linduine
Yes Babylonian and Assyrian same people not the Chaldees, they were never inhabitants of Babylon
Nebuchadnezzar was trying to recapture the glory of Nineveh, when he rebuilt Babylon :P
nice
Thanks!
@@HistorywithCy you're welcome
Fan of fantaisy , i can't avoid to ask why at 1:17 it seems that a God cursed this nation that no dynasty would exceed 10 generations of peace..
your 3 periodes are around 300 years each..a pattern ?? a curse ?? a socio-economical determinism ? or just a boring coincidence...
For some reason I feel sad for fall of Neo Babylonian Empire.
the assyrian kings have the coolest names
Cy ism about to watch your latest great video, and I know it's going to be great.how I know is what you talk about similar exact subjects are done by viper tv or the oldest stories or history of antiquity or invicta or kings and generals channels talk about the same subject after you ofcourse.you are always a couple steps ahead of them and by as many as 3 months ahead. So I consider you the leading authority in history
I wouldn't call devotion to one of the gods of a region a religion
Those were cults within the same religion
Consider the NEBUCHADNEZZAR TABLETS.
Your empire was amazing. I have studied a small fraction of your history.
Your current politics is extremely complicated, and I certainly will not add my view. To be honest, I am simply not knowledgeable on the subject.
Although, I will make a passing comment on Saddam Hussein, based upon your politics since his death. I watched the video of his hanging, and I admit, I'm divided on my perspective of him.
One of the executioners asked him, "are you afraid to die"? He replied, I have been fighting against Jihadists my entire career...He said, no, I'm not afraid to die.
Previously, I determined that if a strong man didn't run his own country, then it would fall to militias and Jihadists. It appears to be the case.
I believe, you are right that Saddam most definitely needed to instill fear, as a means to sustain law and order.
However, it is very possible he went mad, in the same manner as Nebuchadnezzar II. And destined his own destruction.
As you know, Nebuchadnezzar was the most powerful king in the world. He had a dream that was interpreted by Daniel (who was in prison at the time), a Hebrew exiled to Babylon when Nebuchadnezzar sacked Jerusalem and the Temple of God.
After hearing of his dream, the king eventually built a 90 cubic statue of himself, and demanded that the people bend down to worship it, upon the sound of certain musical instruments. It was his downfall. It's in the Bible. Please regard it as a book of history, because it is.
God will not allow man to assume HIS place. This happened to the last native Egyptian Pharaoh also, who claimed he made the Nile and was all powerful.
You are from an ancient people of the strongest empire on earth. I can't say if your country could ever be a Republic, such as my country, USA. It would be wonderful if it was, but I doubt it would ever happen.
Your government is too reliant on its oil. They don't seem to see past it. Also, I heard that different sects of the Iraqi people do not accept history prior to Islam. I am assuming this point of view is from Jihadists.
I can't wrap my head around it. The history of your country is like no other. You invented writing, mathematics, geometry, etc., and yet, the Iraqi people are denying their ancient history and achievements which began the entire civilization movement in the world!
I am a Christian. Can you even imagine how many of us would love the opportunity to see ancient Assyria, Akkadia and Babylon for ourselves?
Egypt claims to be the Cradle of Civilization, it is not true! Your country is and will always be.
It is my hope that Iraq finally receives a strong ruler, who will eliminate the militias and Jihadists once and for all. NEOM in Saudi Arabia is aiming to be the next hub of the region (Dubai is done). You have so must more to offer than Saudi Arabia.
You might want to google how many Christians there are in the world, then multiple that in dollars, euros, yen, etc., they would spend in your country to see all the places, events and things mentioned in the bible.
Not to mention, all the jobs that tourism would bring to the Iraqi people.
Just saying....
Babylon, Babylon, Babylon...
muito bom.
Muito obrigado... valeu amigo!
consider THE NEBUCHADNEZZAR II TABLETS.
Thank you Cy, Jesus bless you➡🦁🕇!
Thank you, appreciate you stopping by! More to come, stay safe!