Babylon: A History of the City
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- We've all heard the name "Babylon," but few of us really know what it means or what it is (perhaps "was" is a better word). This video goes into the history of the ancient city and why even thousands of years later, we still remember and are fascinated with it.
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3:56 The first few thousand years of the history of Mesopotamia just seems to follow this depressing pattern over and over: a bunch of squabbling city-states continually fight, one gets a ruler who is a little more capable than the rest, so he unites a bunch of them by force into an empire, which enjoys some peace, prosperity and stability, but rarely lasts much past his death. And so things fall apart and they get to squabbling amongst themselves again.
The history of Mesopotamia always reminds me (oddly enough) of the Mexico valley in the millenia before the Spanish.
the more things change the more they stay the same
Thats unfortunatly the history of mankind, from those days until now. Humans never change and never learn from history.
@@helenafranzen9828 no need to be so pessimistic. Many western countries enjoy a high degree of freedom, democracy, and stability, which have been enduring for decades. Even people from not so succesfull nations lead more confortable lives than our ancient ancestors.
@@AndreLuis-gw5ox That is very true. A lot of people are in conciderable better conditions today. But still, there are a lot of people even today that lack the necessitys in life despite our efforts. Why is that? Its because some people still think they are better than others. Its just not so visible anymore, just going on under the table.
This is such a great video. Thorough. Well-presented. Sticking to the facts. Informative and entertaining at the same time. With a certain endearing "old-school TH-cam" vibe to it that is frankly quite relaxing and nostalgic.
Thank you for making it. 👍
Thanks, really glad you enjoyed it! More to come soon, stay safe!
@@HistorywithCy
No put on your conspiracy cap
Couldn't agree more!
Great video. Well put together and very informative!
Thank you for this video, it is well explained and instructive.
Thank you,this was very interesting, I subscribed and looking forward to more .
Thank you!
Excellent video covering many interesting aspects of the history of Babylon.
Thank you, I really appreciate it!
Very glad to hear about upcoming topics
I really like this channel very much...thanks for the good work you're putting in!
Thanks so much, glad you're enjoying the content! Lots more on ancient Mesopotamia on the way, stay tuned and safe!
Just got the chance to watch it. Nice work.
Maybe you could do a more detailed presentation of each era/dynasty.
Hopefully... 😊
Great video. Very interesting to know about the mysterious and fascinating city of babylon.
Thank you, I really appreciate the feedback and kind words...more to come soon!
Just discovered this channel, and I'm loving it. Going through and watching them in order
Thanks and welcome. Haha this was one of my first videos and not the best when it comes to audio. There's a more recent, 3 hour vid on Babylon that you might enjoy that will cover more than this one does. Thanks so much for stopping by and please let me know if you have any questions!
Hey there! I just wanted to say thank you so much for this video. It really helped me understand more about Babylons. I have to talk about this next week in my class, and my group mates didn't wanna help me, so i had to research on my own, and this video help me so much. Thank you! ❤
I hope I got a good research and anything you need about my civilization I'm here .💓
This channel is great! I can study well because of this
That's awesome, so glad to hear! Thanks, comments like this make my day!
Who else watching and listening to this wishes they were a time traveler and could go back and see what these ancient cities and people were like? I also wish I could learn languages very quickly so I could pick up all the different languages and speak to the people. Also, I wish i was indestructible. Why indestructible? Cause it was really violent back then. I wouldn’t want to time travel just to be killed before I was born 😋.
I had an opportunity to visit Morocco. The closest I got to the region. It was really a beautiful experience. 🤗
@@benjaminfranzuela5847 morocco ... wow ... that was place of ibnu battutah ... you know who is ibnu batuttah? 😂😂😂
@@robsonhoms2798 no but I’m sure you can tell me about him/it . 😏
@@benjaminfranzuela5847 😂 ... wait ... i will ask ibrahim first, before i told you whos battutah ... i need a good source and real information about this ... 😂😂😂
@@benjaminfranzuela5847 He was a famous Arab traveller like Marco Polo from Venice and Hsuen Sang of China These travellers went back and wrote interesting books on their travels across the world
I absolutely love this channel. Thank you very much for your videos. I read a lot of books on antiquity. I enjoy them however, they can be overwhelming. I rely on this channel to help me get the main points of the books that I read.
Thanks, really appreciate the kind words and support! Glad that these are helpful and much more on the way, stay tuned!
@@HistorywithCy I can't believe you're still coming back here replying to new comments! Very cool
@@jasondaveries9716 Haha I try but often fall behind. Honestly, it's the least that I can do since I'm grateful to every one of you for watching...means a lot to me. Thank you!
Really love the channel thanks for all the hard work
Thank you, I really appreciate the kind words! More to come soon!
Thank You for the video!
My pleasure! Stat safe!
Insightful! Greetings from Philippines.
Thank you and Happy New Year!
Fascinating and informative.i love history, Thank you
Great video, so interesting and informative, thank you
Thank you for your amazing work. It was a pleasure listening to you and learning more about Babylon. I visited Pergamonmuseum for the second time this year since I feel overwhelmed to be in the presence of history. The reconstruction of the Ishtar Gate was a colossal task and seeing it up close is like time traveling.
Very good!...Your statement is valid, accurate,and true. The 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐚𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐮𝐦 in 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐧,Germany is quite notable for its archaeological procurements that they have aquired from the middle east and Iraq. Their most notable procurement is that of the Ishtar Gates of Babylon. Those are the very gates thru which my ancestors passed thru on their way to their captvity and 70 year enslavement in Babylon.The Black Persian soldiers or Praetorian Guards of King Cyrus' tomb can be found in the Louvre museum of France and it is the world's largest art museum and a historic monument in Paris, France....That's all...Shalom
@@LionofJudah777 i agree the captivity and relocation of the Jews was a tragedy but i wouldn't say everyone were slaves.. i do believe nowadys scholars states that there is an evidence to prove otherwise and for this to happen in the span of only 70 years is remarkable not to mention that many Jews simply chose to stay and not leave Babylon given the choice by Cyrus the great. Am sure many of Iraqi Jews would love to go back and live in Iraq again if things settles there.
wow am very pridea all read and leran about first gret civilization in world in my contry ariq
@@user-nc1ns4tm7ni am more proud of our protesters right now in Iraq.. Iraq is a great nation before and now.. i hope the suffering end soon and the glorious days return again.
thnks too you so much
I love this amasing video presentation. Could you please uploud the written version of it. Because my learners are future history teachers in one of the cities of Central Asia and they learn English through history at the English lession. Thank you in advance.
Sure, no problem! I'll actually be doing a newer video on this that will be much better...I can send you that as well, which should be done in the next few months. My email address is in the "About" tab of the channel. Please send me a message there and I'll get the send you whatever you need. Thank you!
Great video! I appreciated the artwork depicting the things you were talking about. Fascinating to see how skilled people were back then in their artwork and construction of buildings and cities.
Can I make two suggestions? For the images of actual artworks, citing the name of the piece and the artist (if possible) would be incredibly helpful for us art history people!
And I know this video is 2 years old at this point, but I would recommend using a pop filter when recording the audio narration. It will block out those bursts of high volume at the start of each word and is especially appreciated for anyone listening through headphones.
Thanks again for the great information! Now I'm off to binge more of your videos! :)
Thank you for the documentary.
Thank you for stopping by, I really appreciate it...stay safe!
I've been there in a dream.
How was it
I've been there . It was a blast 😂
@@j.b.m4640 badum bum
I've been to Chicago in a bus.
No
Sennacherib or Sîn-ahhe-erība is usually pronounced with a fricative, a kind of throaty h. There's no English example I can think of, but it's a common sound in modern Arabic and Hebrew.
@@HistorywithCy Jeez yeah, Hittite names are brutal. Good luck with that, looking forward to that video!
Sinačharib you mean in transliteration.
Us Assyrians pronounce it as SIN-khi-ru
Wonderful information. Beautiful.
This was a great narration. Thumbs up
Thank you, appreciate it!
Thanks, actual facts.
I am so sick of TH-cam recommending all these conspiracy history videos; ancient aliens, hidden history, amazing ancient technology. It's so sad, and the worst part is people believe the stories to be true and the videos have millions of views.
You're welcome, and thank you for stopping by, appreciate it!
Good point! I think all of those people would benefit from actually educating themselves on some history of ancient cultures and understanding that people from the past weren't as primitive as believed. The people who spout the *conspiracy theory* that "the Egyptian pyramids must have been built by aliens" with their "reasoning" being that "it would have been impossible for ancient people to build such complex, enormous, perfected structures without modern tools and machinery!" just tells me that they haven't looked into actual human history much, if at all. If they did, they would understand that ancient people were incredibly capable.
I can not believe how great you are.
💎
Thank you!
I enjoyed the video. Nice job!
Thanks, I really appreciate the feedback... stay safe!
Learn more information about Babylon. Thanks for sharing.
My pleasure, thanks for stopping by!
Proposed causes of Alexander's death included alcoholic liver disease, fever, and strychnine poisoning, but little data support those versions. According to the University of Maryland School of Medicine report of 1998, Alexander probably died of typhoid fever (which, along with malaria, was common in ancient Babylon).
Actually, he was shot in the head by a nazi
dude, this is cool
your topic - history earned a sub.
Thank you, appreciate it!
Thank you so much for the factual based structure of your video.
I dream of visiting this magnificent wonder, truly a tragic something so majestic and proud has been war torn and disrespected
Do you have the lämps Bröther -. For what you have stated. Perhaps people worship these makings/statues and such. You are far more a glorious creation, created by a Glorious God- Jehovah God and His Son Jesus.
@James Smith Love that "modern day babylon"....So True
@James Smith they built with clay, not stone. If they built with stone, it would still stand..
Better to visit Jerusalem and learn its historical significance in today's world.
Thanks for this! Listening to it, it seems Babylon's history was one of constant turbulence, but of course these events took place over a very long period of time. There seem to have been years or even centuries of comparative peace. It would be good to see a study of how ordinary people actually lived in the city. What were housing conditions like? Did they go to bars or restaurants? Did they have parties or festivals? How did young people meet? How did people have fun? Is there much evidence about things like this?
Thanks so much for stopping by! Yes, you're correct, there was turbulence but like any other city, there were also periods of calm and normal life. I hope to be doing a video on that soon... stay tuned and thanks again for stopping by!
@@HistorywithCy Thanks! Looking forward to it! Keep up the great work!
Informative
Great summary of Babylon's history!
Thank you! This is old video, you might like the more recent series/playlist on Babylon/Babylonia...it goes into much more detail. Any questions, please don't hesitate to let me know. Thanks and stay safe!
Interesting to note that the Neo Babylonian kings never made mention of 'Chaldeans'. They only gave themselves as the title "Shar Akkad, Shar Babilu" (Akkadian kings, Kings of Babylon city)
The CH in Senacherib and Chaldea should be the same CH sound as in Nebuchadnezzar.
Yes, you're correct...please excuse my terrible pronunciation...it's gotten better over time...thanks!
History with Cy
BTW I remember seeing a documentary claiming that archeologists found more evidence of hanging gardens in Nineveh. Don’t know if anything became of it.
No actually the "ch" used as you say is also incorrect because you are implying the German and french usage of ch which the c letter is dominant sleuth only the Caaa sound no haaa sound.
The 'ch' you mean is the semitic middle east transliteration. Čh
čh is the correct form. It's pronounced "hoocckkaakkkccckaakk" in sound via hocking.
čh aka like čhet and čhat which are the semitic letter in their alphabet.
It's Sinačharib and Nabučhadnatsar.
Lačhayim is the Hebrew word for to life and Ačhmed is the Arabic proper name for a person. You see now.
I am middle eastern and I will teach you the proper procedure to pronounce our dialect.
@@_robustus_ čhaldim and čhasdim you mean
@@_robustus_ It's being investigated atm.
My history loving friend, I noticed a guitar 🎸 in your channel marker. Looks like we think alike!! Thanx for the excellent content 🎸👍😊💯💯
Great job.
I wonder if they walked a mile and served it ancient city style
Battle for their life, Babylon.
Thats gossip
what you on money don't talk, rip that song
Gossip
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Great video but it makes me really sad to hear about ancient cities, cultures and civilisations that were lost in time. There has been so much lost greatness and knowledge in the world...
Not lost, just hidden from view in the sands of time. I have a feeling all will be made clear soon.
When we die we will meet them
Glad that I'm doing some research on Babylon before I watch Babylon 5! Also I have some story ideas on the mythology of Babylon òwó
great video thanks
Glad you enjoyed it, thank you!
In the Akkadian language the name of the city was 'Bab-Ilim', meaning 'Gate of the Gods'
In arabic, باب (baab) means door, and علم (ilm) means knowledge. I guess the original name in arabic means door of knowledge, or gate of those who have knowledge.
@D J ohhh makes sense too. I guess arabic is more similar to aramaic and hebrew is like babylonians.
Bab(door/gate) and Il(Sumerian name for Allah, Alah, Elah, Ilah, El, Al and Ilu). Bab-Il name comes from the Amorites who created the city state.
There's also a city in Palestine that's called Ramallah, that translates to "height of Allah" in Aramaic.
@@freepalestine1673 ye, they all are similiar becasue they all come from the same region and are related to each other, and when also talking about relating is that they all are semitic languages, arabic, hebrew, aramaic and Assyrian.
Wish I knew where I heard it, but the hanging gardens may have been a feature of Nineveh built by Sennacherib.
Yea i also heard it from somewhere. Hanging garden was assyrians, not babylonians.
Fascinating 🖖🏼
Wawwwww!!! How Superb!!!! Thank you for your interesting detailed explanations.💡🙏
Thank you!
I would like to recommend a book for more info on the hanging gardens. The Mystery of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon by Stephanie Dalley. Turns out the hanging gardens existed and were in Nineveh according to Dalley, an Assyriologist.
Awesome, thanks for the recommendation. Yeah, a couple of other viewers also sent me articles about the Hanging Gardens being from Nineveh and I've heard that before. That might be a good topic to cover for a quick episode. I'll look into it. Thanks again and stay safe!
History with Cy Awesome, man! Thanks for the response! A video on the hanging gardens would be awesome! It’s super interesting. The book is fascinating, I think you’ll really like it! It’s on audible as well.
@@ashurbanipal6121 thanks man, I'm definitely going to check it out. By the way, I'm uploading a new video on ancient Assyrian history tonight...should be up in a few hours. It's the longest one I've done so far.
Thanks again for stopping by, I really appreciate it!
History with Cy no problem! I will definitely be checking that out!
The reason for the misunderstanding is that many of the great cities in those days were called Babilim, including Nineveh.
Babylon takes to the world stage with the ad-
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spot on lmao
Great video.
Thank you!
That last picture is awesome
Iraq it's very great country but, our goverment damaged us, pray for Iraq 🇮🇶 ✌️.
@@viennehaake9149 yeah agree with you but Iraq have more than other countries.
@@shen3998 What did the government do?
Occupied Assyria
uhh didn't the USA go in and destabilize iraq
It was destroyed by America. Saddam had great plans to restore Iraq to its former greatness but America and isreal feared this and planned to disrupt any advancement. Iraq had second biggest oil reserves in ME. It should have been amongst richest nation earth.
Great video zagros mountain kurds live there for thousands of years
Thank you!
Wonderful history
It's really a great city. I want to visit this city
Me too!
Sargon was mentioned in the Hebrew Scriptures or Old Testament , no one thought he existed , until an archeologist discovered his , Sargons 200 room palace, now he is the most well known of all those ancient kings
That's Sargon the 2nd of Assyria and he's little to no mention just a short phrase nothing about him like how Nebuchadnezzar is shown off in the Bible.
Interesting :)
Of course Nebudchadnezzar is shown off, the Jews hated him
@@lovingearth9119
They also loved him too. The way isaiah, jeremiah, ezekiel, and daniel present him its both. Bible is almost full on wrapped around nebuchadnezzer. Its telling
William Wallace which comes to prove the Bible is real. 🙏🏽Jesus is coming.
OK, I just got to the part where you said, "In the old testament" I guess that answers my question, LOL
He's going by the Most prominent sources.
@Dan no it's not Bible is very unimportant especially now that we've gottan far beyond way Far and Above it way above it.
Bible is anti-truth when it comes to Babylon aka real Good Babylon that preexists it's "babylon aka babel" and the Bible itself and it's god and people who stole alot from Babylon good real one.
Bible if you have nothing else like in the 1600 to 1800s when religious idiocy and Lies were rampant Thanks to the Unholy bible. But after since the age Real Reason and Piety we used Mesopotamian sources like cuneiform and Greek Writings that are unbiased do we now use that's how we know about Babylon and the Babylonians which helped birth the jews/hebrews who birthed the Bible.
Absolutely! Im a bible believer anyway, so it works out well.
@@mikztif2663 Frayed Knot it works out terribly it doesn't do anything well it's very terribly wrong when it when you use it really thinking to have his little pieces of information that it tells him that tells and it would gives with its own viewpoints in its own imagination and its own worldview with what the Jews thought that's the only thing you can get out of the Bible when it comes to Mesopotamia or Babylon nothing a fax history or reality it doesn't fit anything as well you being a believer in it only just shows that you're ignorant of Mesopotamia anything outside of the Middle East Jews and their agenda PS Bibles not the only so-called holy book there are other books that are claimed to be holy to and others that are holy that our God breathed Bibles not alone in it and it's unoriginal very unoriginal. And very very invalid when it comes to things like this. Sorry to say well not really.
@@yaruqadishi8326 where is your evidence??
Excellent video do you have a video from the palace rebuild for alejandro magno in iraq???
Hey Cy thank you! :-)
thank YOU for stopping by, appreciate it!
Whose here after reading 'The richest man in Babylon'?
One correction. The first written law code was by Ur-Nammu, the Sumerian King of Ur, about 300 years before Hammurabi.
Hi, thanks for stopping by! Yes, actually I state that in other videos... check out the one on Ur-Nammu from a couple of months ago.. This was a very old video... don't know why I still have it up. You are correct, Ur-Nammu, Lipit-Ishtar have earlier codes. Hammurabi's is just the more famous one. Thanks!
This is very informative and relatable to my current studies on the book of Daniel. Thank you.
Really good video bro👏🏾
[Thank you, I appreciate it!
@@HistorywithCy you're welcome!
wow am very pridea all read and leran about first gret civilization in world in my contry ariq
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thanks to you so much
This is very good. I hope that people understand the gulf of Iraq. Many have a bad idea about Iraq. However, we will not be to good people. We have taught us so much. Thank you very much to the publisher.👁️💌
Thank you for stopping by, I really appreciate it! You might be interested in checking out the latest videos on ancient Babylonia that I put out in the last 2 months. They're much better than this one and will hopefully give you a better sense of the history of ancient Mesopotamia.
Thanks again for stopping by and please let me know if you have any questions...take care!
دكولي يابابلي منين الله جابك 😂😂😂
Knowledge is power.. facts and Truth
Great!
I am proud to be an Iraqi we invent many things back that time and it still using till now
Yes, that is so true! Thanks for stopping by!
Modern Iraq is Arab. Babylon wasn't an Arab city and Mesopotamia wasn't Arab either. The region became Arab after the rise of Islam and the Arab conquests and occupations across the MENA.
@@noamrotstain3182
you are so wrong ancient Arab did exist in Mesopotamia even before Islam
and Arab and Babylon are both semitic
Arab kicked out the persians from Mesopotamia
Noam Rotstain Wrong they were Arabs. Arabs are pretty ancient. In fact they are the only ancient civilisations currently alive along with the Chinese. Everyone else is way too mixed I.e Europeans, other Asians etc.
@@c.i.a8359 chaldian and Assyrian and Kurds are ancient people of Iraq
Arabs are guests
Do one on Uruk, Please.
I think I might do a quick on that city, yes!
I live 10 km away from Uruk ruins. It's a shame the government is neglecting it. Some 80% of the ruins are still under the sand which I'm glad they are. Better buried then destroyed because of this shit corrupt government
Ah cool Gilgamesh's city and home.
@Fog Shadow best comment, love your thought process
@@fogshadow9112 What is it like there?
Right video
Thank you!
From here, the world appeared and its effects spread in the East and West and the crossroads of civilizations
This was pretty good. But Chaldean is pronounced ‘Kaldean’. I know because I am Chaldean.
Hi, thanks for stopping by. Yes, you're correct... Sennacherib is also incorrect for the same reason. This was one of my first videos where I had just started to learn the proper pronunciation of many of these words, and I totally apologize for that. In a few weeks a newer, more in-depth version of this video will be out, so it will be corrected in there.
Thanks again for the feedback, I really appreciate it!
I can’t believe people actually think they are descended from the chaldeans- please show me how your related to the ancient chaldeans......
Sargon Daniel you seem to know all too well. What am I?
@@sargondaniel1221 you are wrong there are still around 616.6 thousand still living
But I was also shocked that they still exist
@@jefferygoldmann2643 my house is near the chaldean church in south baghdad, when i was a kid i thought it's just another word for akkadians before i knew both of them are two different things
Lions in middle East and Europe went extinct because of mass hunting by the people.
Correct
I thought it was a separate species from the African lions, and that they went extinct due to climate change in the near dryas
@James Smith
Maybe southern like Florida and southern Texas but nowhere else it s toooo far north and cold for them.
Yeah look at the Assyrian wall.
The fun fact is thay they were around until like early 20th century!
Can you please bring about the great axumite Kingdom of abyssinya?
Yes, coming soon, stay tuned!
Hi admin. Make a video on hanging gardens.
Bab-el, Micha-el, Gebra-el, Samu-el, Isra-el=Yeshra-el...etc. The suffix el means God (Aramaic+ Chaldean + Assyrian). Bab= Gate of (God), Micha=Guard of (God), Isra=Yeshra=Strive for (God), Shamu= The Name of (God), Gebra= The man of (God)...etc
In Hebrew Babel is spelled Bet Bet Lamed BBL, and God (El) is spelled alef lamed. Babel does not have El in it
@@j.e.6901 hebrew came WAAAY after the summerian language , is something the Bible or jewish books don't tell
@@Dan_Kanerva what does that have to do with anything? I’m commenting on the Hebrew name of Babel, Bavel, and how it has no connection with El, God.
Would also like to say Bab doesn’t mean gate lol
@@j.e.6901 outside hebraic evil babylob false lies and stuff
The Iraqis have such a rich history. I would love to go there someday as a tourist.
I Love History.
TOSMAN RANA read the Bible for real history. 🙏🏽
Cool stuff bro!!
Thankk you!
Would you be able to put a video on history of India?. I see some reference to Bogazkoi inscriptions but other than that there is a dark or blank on Indian history from 1500 BC to 500 BC
I sometimes read india in the bible. Not sure about the timeline though.
THAT'S GOSSIP!
Are there any maps that resume all of this in an easy way? Would be nice to have it „all“ graphically
3:45 THE CODEX HAMMURABI actual today as it was back then. Just think about the passus that Nureses were not aloud to drink while at work. Just recently there was a big scandal in Germany about drunken nurses in an senior citizen facility. ::)
That was a very recommandable clip about the history of Babylon with lots of facts.
@1:12 I see that the eyes of the Sargon statue look like they have been defaced.
I have noticed that this is a common theme with relics from that part of the world.
Do you think (like I do) that this was done to hide the true eye color of Sargon, as has been done with other relics from Egypt to central Asia?
Uh.... I think it's way more likely the the successors didn't like him, and took his eyes out, so that he wouldn't be creepily staring at the guys who stole his empire from him.
@@zhouwu So you think that the, it's creeping me out scenario is more likely than the racial bias scenario?
From a 21st century American point of view, that's pretty believable, but from the view point of ancient man... I would find that highly unlikely.
@@Severe_CDO_Sufferer Well.... Ok, put it to you this way:
You're an Invader.
You took over the Kingdom.
You want the Kingdom.
You want the people.
You want the Kingdom and the people and the money and the resources to be yours.
But you want to maintain your reputation and legitimacy.
But you want to knock out the former claimants.
So what do you do?
You send a message: iconoclasm.
Who's in control now? Us. Why? We can take out the eyes of the statue of the ruler before us. But are we monsters? No. We kept the rest of the statue there. You can keep your culture, but you look with our vision now. The body tendons m remains outwardly the same (same Kingdom, name, culture, brand, custom, atmosphere, style, worksite workstyle) but you're under new management.
Message received, loud and clear:
Life to go on as normal, but the taxes go to a new group at the top.
Keep calm and pay your taxes.
End of message.
@@zhouwu I understand where you are coming from, but I still respectfully disagree.
My justification is Occam's Razor
Why would one choose to give credit to a well thought out and more complex scheme, when it can be attributed to something more primitive, and far less complex.
I think most of the people in that part of the world are quite resentful of their blue eyed predecessors, and I think that alone, sufficiently explains what we observe.
@@Severe_CDO_Sufferer Really?
Well, that's the first time I've heard of that phenomenon.
It sounds... I don't know. I don't want to say it.
Let me just put it this way. It's the kind of theory that a Nazi ideologue would push, and the fact that, based on no other evidence, you consider it the most likely reason, it worries me a little.
Not excessively. But just a little.
I mean, the Nazi ideologues were into all sorts of theories, like perhaps the Tibetan big foot are members of the Arian master race, and they sent a scouting group there to try to establish contact and form an alliance.
Anyway, that's kinda why your interpretation makes me feel a bit queisy. It would play into the hands of the NeoNazis. And that's not ideal.
The gate is the real thing in the museum not a replica . I was reading the other day about it. Being taken to Germany
3rd ad break within the first 7 minutes => abandoned watching rest of video.
Makes me upset.
Sorry, I understand your frustration. Google has been putting more ads in the video from what I've heard. Maybe it's there way of making up for lost revenue during the pandemic when they probably have fewer advertisers. I just turn the monetization on but TH-cam does the rest. Sorry about this, I appreciate though you letting me know. Thanks and stay safe!
I wager he was staying part of the year for at least the New Years Rituals ( Akitu or Akitum) where he would have to present himself to the statue of Marduk (𒀭𒀫𒌓) and allow himself to get basically beat up by the high priest and then swear to 𒀭𒀫𒌓 that they had not done evil to 𒆍𒀭𒊏𒆠 (Bābili) etc etc it was a whole thing but basically you had to do the Akitu to be a true Lugal ( 𒈗)
العراق العظيم نحن من علم العالم القراءة والكتابة
I'm live in this city ♡
The hanging gardens were not built by Nebuchadnezzar, they were built by Sennacherib ... in Nineveh.
cool facts
Thank you!
The pops on your microphone are literally so loud they are closing out my car speakers and I’m playing this on medium-low volume
Yeah sorry about that... this was one of my first videos where I was just learning how to record. Sorry about that, the more recent one's don't have this problem. Thanks for stopping by, really appreciate it...stay safe!
Same!!
The city name in Arabic is Babil.
@EtroNa Eritrea yes it did ancient arabic and it's script sure did in Saudi and Yemen you're wrong very much so.
@EtroNa Eritrea no you are wrong as you say in full it's origins are Not Genesis 11 or any genesis but all outside and more and Long Long Long before it. Babel story is post antiquity mythos fiction to explain langauges or really different tongues which were close to the Middle East are which is not impressive and very undermining to the story itself.
Arabic preexists Adam and Yahweh that's certain. Even Muslim in the same fantasy delusion you're in right would contradict you and correct you against you and their own position.
@EtroNa Eritrea Genesis is post Babylon in Truth all full on.
@@yaruqadishi8326 i think he meant to say Islam did not exist back then
@@trevorMT he better have
He probably lived there for part of the year *because he was restoring the city, and wanted to oversee that restoration..*
Remember, there wasn’t really convenient travel back then, and people had to hold out in cities between trips while preparing the voyage, often In cities that work needed to be done so leaders could do so and not waste off time.
The original Ishtar Gate is actually the one in Berlin. It was moved there before WWI. The one in Iraq is a recreation using original materials.