@jmanjman2685
The assyrians were probably the most brutal society to ever exist.
@levongevorgyan6789
We Armenians do have stories fighting the Assyrians, namely Ara the Beautiful who fought the Assyrian Queen Semiramis. But the thing is, this was Urartu, a Kingdom ruled by a Hurrian speaking dynasty, and wasn’t wholly Armenian. So there is a bit of a disconnect there.
@jasonpalacios1363
These Ancient Civilizations are the reasons why we exist today and yet many people today don't realize it.
@stephenconroy5908
I remember stumbling into the middle of a guided tour of the Assyrian section of The British Museum, where the older lady giving the talk summed up the stone carvings as such: "The Assyrians were very good at brutally slaughtering entire populations and then making fantastic works of art like this to congratulate themselves". Delivered with the calm, dry wit of a kindly old lady. Stuck with her tour for the rest of the afternoon, she told it how it really was!
@BillySoundFarm
Christ did not say, "an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth make the world blind". But it is a cute aphorism.
@skivvy3565
Rudyard, I WANT YOU TO KNOW IF YOU DO A HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION I WILL ABSOLUTELY BUY IT It’d be nice to have a more modern and updated version of like Will Durant but with your view on politics and society that’s like a breath of fresh air and unique in modern academia
@tylerlachney1616
Your comment about how a society conducts warfare determines its politics. Our society is no longer about mustering men with guns it’s about giant weapons manufacturers selling the best equipment to the government. I think that speaks to how our society is controlled by those same corporations.
@cameronwright9398
Why is that other guy even on this video???
@ek5273
There should be an episode or Persian civilization given how distinct it is from the Arabs and Turks
@josephstalin839
The opening music fits with the Mesopotamia video.
@JojoBojob
bro you're mixing so many things up. 1. Jesus never said: "an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind", you're thinking about Gandhi. 2. Necho was not a babylonian leader. he was an Egyptian leaders. You're thinking about King Nabopolassar. He was the founder of the Neo-Babylonian Empire and reigned from 626 BCE to 605 . Not only did you get the name wrong, you also got the civilisation wrong, and the time/era wrong. Necho I was a pharaoh of Egypt who ruled during the Late Period, specifically in the 26th Dynasty (also known as the Saite Dynasty). His reign lasted from 672 BCE to 664 BCE. 2. You also mixed up Necho with another historical leader. The "babylonian king Necho who loved to dig up archeological sites" that you're thinking about was the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal who made The Royal Library of Ashurbanipal. Pharaoh Necho II, who ruled Egypt from 610 to 595 BCE, is not typically associated with a love for archaeology as we understand it today. However, he is known for significant contributions to ancient Egyptian engineering and exploration. One of Necho II's notable achievements was his ambitious project to dig a canal connecting the Nile River to the Red Sea. This canal was intended to facilitate trade and military movement. Although the project was not completed during his reign, it demonstrated his interest in large-scale infrastructure and exploration. 3. Urartians are not Armenians. That's like saying you are your grandfather. The Urartian where a people group who spoke a language belonging to the Hurro-Urartian language family, whereas Armenians speak a Indo-european language. It is true that Urartians laid the civilizational foundation for the Armenians, and the two places roughly overlap. The first historical mention of Armenia is often associated with the Behistun Inscription, created by the Achaemenid king Darius I around 522-486 BCE. This is long after the fall of Urartu. 4. The Assyrian Empire's military campaigns against Elam in the late 7th century BCE were devastating and marked the near-total destruction of the Elamite state, but Elam did not entirely cease to exist afterward. We do know that Assyrians did commit horrible atrocities and did genocide the Elamite people, but the Elamite did survive and existed also afterwards. Despite this devastation, Elam was not entirely wiped out as a cultural and ethnic entity. The region of Elam continued to exist, though much weakened and fragmented. The Elamites themselves continued to live in the region, albeit under the shadow of foreign powers, including the Medes and later the Achaemenid Persians. 5. The word "Cimmerians" is commonly pronounced as sih-MEER-ee-ənz or kih-MEER-ee-ənz. These are not the same people as the SUMERIANs. 6. The Medes did not live in/around azerbaijan. They lived centered around Ecbatana, which is modern day Hamedan, and their rough geographical homeland overlaps with todays Kurdistan, Iranian Northwest (which is called Iranian Azerbaijan - which is located SOUTH of modern day Azerbaijan), and close to the southern parts of the caspian sea. There are multiple ruins and graves belonging to Median kings in modern day Iraqi/South Kurdistan - the most famous one being the Tomb of Huvashtra/Cyaxeres, which is located in/close to the Kurdish city of Sulaymaniyah. Huvashtra/Cyaxeres was the Median king who along with the Babylonian King Nabopolassar defeated the Neo-Assyrian Empire.
@daerudito
Scythians are the folk who invented horse archer warfare.
@vithehoneybadger2641
abriham was from Ur not Uruk. love these vids btw
@HenryThree
"... in prehistory, every 15 years the narrative completely changes" That's what makes it so intriguing and exciting! You never know what wild and unexpected discovery is going to come next and totally reframe our understanding of our earliest years!
@terraflow__bryanburdo4547
Note that the tribe allying with Medes against Assyria were CIMMERIANS (originally from Crimea) not Sumerians.
@jonathanh5405
Fun fact - Ur, one of the first cities, it is the origin for the word for "city" in Hebrew (pronounced Ir)
@geesixnine
The most ancient of battlefields.
@fightforaglobalfirstamendm5617
Jueda* not Palestine, it was not named that until long after this time period.
@leonardovasquez7232
Now one about the Netherlands :)
@DarthHoosier3038