The Cruelest King of Assyria - Ashurbanipal - Ancient Mesopotamia

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  @HistoryExplained · 4 years ago (edited) · pinned

  History Explained Videos <br>(Chronological Order) <br> <br>Narmer | The First Pharaoh <br>Ancient Egypt | 3100 BC <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_ByLv949-8">youtu.be/e_ByLv949-8 </a><br> <br>Imhotep | The First Pyramid Builder <br>Ancient Egypt | 2650 BC <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpL5TgIRukQ">youtu.be/gpL5TgIRukQ </a><br> <br>Sargon | The Greatest King of Akkad <br>Ancient Mesopotamia | 2300 BC <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkSwK59CwF8">youtu.be/kkSwK59CwF8 </a><br> <br>Sobekneferu | The First Female Pharaoh <br>Ancient Egypt | 1800 BC <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaI3MawgKNE">youtu.be/TaI3MawgKNE </a><br> <br>Hammurabi | The First Emperor of Babylon <br>Ancient Mesopotamia | 1750 BC <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPn-Lxuilw4">youtu.be/jPn-Lxuilw4 </a><br> <br>Hatshepsut | The Greatest Female Pharaoh <br>Ancient Egypt | 1470 BC <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_A8B_MdAdY">youtu.be/L_A8B_MdAdY </a><br> <br>Thutmose III | The Deadliest Pharaoh <br>Ancient Egypt | 1450 BC <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2XS3vmVGjU">youtu.be/-2XS3vmVGjU </a><br> <br>Amenhotep III | The Wealthiest Pharaoh <br>Ancient Egypt | 1370 BC <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5Oua9WNo8c">youtu.be/j5Oua9WNo8c </a><br> <br>Akhenaten | The Most Hated Pharaoh <br>Ancient Egypt | 1350 BC <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gdcu2g5uM7o">youtu.be/Gdcu2g5uM7o </a><br> <br>Nefertiti | The Most Hated Female Pharaoh <br>Ancient Egypt | 1340 BC <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLWD3bVhSbM">youtu.be/bLWD3bVhSbM </a><br> <br>Tutankhamun | The Most Inbred Pharaoh <br>Ancient Egypt | 1330 BC <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx1dUne87JE">https://youtu.be/Bx1dUne87JE </a><br> <br>Ramses the Great | The Greatest Pharaoh <br>Ancient Egypt | 1250 BC <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeESSvut5xA">youtu.be/TeESSvut5xA </a><br> <br>Lycurgus | The Lawgiver of Sparta <br>Ancient Greece | 750 BC <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfC1ZnTKOJU">youtu.be/zfC1ZnTKOJU </a><br> <br>Ashurbanipal | The Cruelest King of Assyria <br>Ancient Mesopotamia | 650 BC <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOCm2G0R4PY">youtu.be/LOCm2G0R4PY </a><br> <br>Nebuchadnezzar | The Greatest King of Babylon <br>Ancient Mesopotamia | 600 BC <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX4sTXOKRcY">youtu.be/WX4sTXOKRcY </a><br> <br>Draco | The Lawgiver of Athens <br>Ancient Greece | 600 BC <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqOxqv_yIzE">https://youtu.be/sqOxqv_yIzE </a><br> <br>Cyrus the Great | The Greatest King of Persia <br>Achaemenid Empire | 550 BC <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMc1rF8u4ro">youtu.be/CMc1rF8u4ro </a><br> <br>Cambyses II | The First Persian Pharaoh <br>Achaemenid Empire | 530 BC <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXOjOcTqU5w">youtu.be/pXOjOcTqU5w</a>

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  @nmbileg · 2 years ago

  man, this really demonstrates how fatal a civil war can be to any ruling nations. imagine losing it all simply due to fighting of 2 siblings..

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  @mariakelly1059 · 4 years ago

  It&apos;s all fun and games until your brother starts sending secret aid to the kingdom of elam.

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  @manassurya2019 · 4 years ago

  Wow. To think that the Assyrians looked to civilizations more ancient than them (before the flood), the way we look at Assyrians and ancient Egyptians.

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  @spazzypengin · 3 years ago

  I love how so many writings from that region back then included all the things that the king had done for the person who was rebelling/conspiring/etc. &quot;He rebelled against me. ME, the guy who did x, y, z, for him! The audacity!&quot;

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  @gemfyre3444 · 3 years ago

  He really put the “pal” in Ashurbanipal

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  @JoeSmith-sl9bq · 4 years ago

  Imagine filling rivers with dead bodies and wiping cities off the map and accusing other people of plotting evil

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  @hugosenarese9697 · 4 years ago

  Damn, ashurbanipal has no chill

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  @reported_stolen · 4 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOCm2G0R4PY&amp;t=687">11:27</a> &quot; I took pleasure in reading stones inscribed before the flood&quot; ...Man, we need &nbsp;those tablets! This proves, the ancients had knowledge of &nbsp;humanity going back further than we thought.

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  @randomobserver8168 · 4 years ago

  He crushed his enemies, saw them driven before him, heard the lamentations of their women, and recorded it all in stone with pride as a memorial to the eons. His empire lives on in the nightmares of an entire region, and wins the admiration of countless imitators. AND he was a man of art and literature.

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  @monadsingleton9324 · 4 years ago (edited)

  <b>The Assyrians were so hated by their vassals and neighbors that they united the entire Middle East against them in the first Grand Coalition in human history.</b>

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  @SDNate760 · 3 years ago

  “Everyone who hears the news about you claps his hands at your fall. For who has not felt your endless cruelty?”

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