Babylon: The City at the Center of the World - The Concise History of Babylonia (2000-539 BC)
2.8M views · Dec 25, 2022 · Education
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@jartv2390 · 3 years ago
As a Mexican in Wisconsin finding a friend who wants to watch 3 hours of Babylonian history I’m grateful for the internet, really wish I had more real life friends who find this interesting
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@Cool-Name-Here-4tw · 3 years ago
Holy crap!<br>3 hours of ancient Babylonian stories with Cy?<br>It's a Christmas miracle!
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@metaltorso · 2 years ago
Another day, another morning of waking up to something i've never searched for
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@sunglassesrus · 3 years ago
i am 69 years old and have just discovered my love for ancient history. big thumbs up from this kid lol
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@Richardbutticus · 3 years ago
I was fortunate enough to visit the ruins of Babylon. Bar none, the most memorable location I’ve ever been too. It’s remarkable, impressive, important and should be protected. Preserved for the sake of history and humanity.
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@AngryDuck79 · 3 years ago
Cy: <b>uploads 3 hour video</b><br>Also Cy: <b>names it "concise"</b>
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@SeFu2006 · 1 year ago
Wow I can’t believe our ancestors recorded all these events for us
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@ervingentry553 · 1 year ago
I think lots of people find it fascinating, but don't want to be called a geek personally I find it extremely interesting the longer the better .
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@legacyvanish · 2 years ago
It's always a delight when the item I'm interested in comes with a part number, as it implies there's even more included than I initially anticipated.
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@harryedwards4080 · 3 years ago (edited)
Brilliant and I've not even watched it yet. And what is good is because it's from Cy we know it will actually be about the Babylonian Empire and not the earlier Summerian or Akkadian civilisations who some YouTube commentators seem unable to distinguish between, electing to refer to them all as Babylonians. <br>Sometimes even at a time before the City/Town/Village/ A single hut there.... in Babylon existed .
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@firstconsul7286 · 3 years ago
Now that was a journey. It's amazing to me that civilization was so complex in the era where so much rich history is glossed over in favour of Sargon and Hammurabi. It also astounds me that this era, which was as distant to the Late Roman Republic and Early Principate (my favourite period of ancient history) as they are to us, is yet remembered in such detail.<br>So much calamity has occurred over the millennia since these people lived and these men ruled, yet somehow the remnants of their civilization can be recalled by us now.
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@vishkum2ru · 3 years ago (edited)
A concise, lucid and masterly lesson on the history of southern Mesopotamia. As some one similarly passionate about Mesopotamian history, i can not help noticing a recurrent pattern in it. The forces from the desert, the forces from Elam and forces from northern Iran/ Caucus have interplayed with the native Sumerian culture that shaped its story over millenia. Akkadians, Amorites, Assyrians, Aramaeans were those desert forces ( later Arabs). Elam had love - hate relationship from Sumerian times till Neo- Babylonian times, It should be noted that the Achaemenids came under Elamite tutelage before they conquered Medes and Neo-Babylonians. Then there are these forces, the northern Iran - Indo European ones. Possibly Gutians, but defenitely Hittites, Mittani, Kassites, Medes and Parthians. These three forces interacted with the native Sumerian core, inheriting its wisdom and spreading it to farther parts of the world. That story continued, in Greece and Rome, In Iran and India. Thanks for your brilliant history lessons and you really rekindled my interest in the history of antiquity. A few suggestions. If you can dwelve more upon the bronze age collapse and its consequences in both Mesopotamia and also Egypt, that will be great. Also if you can link the Mesopotamian history with Indus Valley history. Second millenium BC saw the end of that civilization as well and its links with Mesopotamia from Sumerian times is well known. Hoping to see more content from you.
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