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The Concise History of Babylonia (2000 BC - 539 BC)

This program explores the history of the ancient city of Babylon and the land once known as Babylonia.

We'll uncover the story of this great city over the course of fifteen centuries and learn about its impact and why it was so beloved as well as hated by so many in the ancient world.


We'll also meet an interesting and rather eclectic cast of kings including Hammurabi, Zimri-Lim, Rim-Sin, Samsu-iluna, Marduk-apla-iddina II, Sargon II, Sennacherib, Ashurbanipal, Nabopolassar, Nebuchadnezzar I & II, Nabonidus, Cyrus the Great and many more.


We'll uncover the story of this great city over the course of fifteen centuries and learn about its impact and why it was so beloved as well as hated by so many in the ancient world.


We'll also meet an interesting and rather eclectic cast of kings including Hammurabi, Zimri-Lim, Rim-Sin, Samsu-iluna, Marduk-apla-iddina II, Sargon II, Sennacherib, Ashurbanipal, Nabopolassar, Nebuchadnezzar I & II, Nabonidus, Cyrus the Great and many more. 


00:00:00 Introduction

00:04:00 Before Babylon: The Fall of the Neo-Sumerian Empire

00:05:30 Ibbi-Sin and Ishbi-Erra

00:09:27 Letter of Puzur-Numushda to Ibbi-Sin

00:12:21 Fall of Ur and the Birth of Babylonian Civilization

00:15:11 Dynasties of Isin and Larsa (Isin-Larsa Period)

00:19:00 The First Dynasty of Babylon

00:26:32 Hammurabi of Babylon

00:27:48 Zimri-Lim of Mari

00:29:48 War with Eshnunna

00:30:46 The Sukkalmah of Elam

00:33:12 War with Elam

00:35:51 Hammurabi and Rim-Sin

00:39:41 Hammurabi and Zimri-Lim

00:42:24 The Law Code of Hammurabi

00:46:07 Rebellions during the Reign of Samsu-iluna

00:52:30 The Last Four Kings of the First Dynasty

00:55:29 The Hittite Invasion of Babylonia

00:58:03 The Kassites take Control

01:03:45 The Kassites Reunite

Babylonia

01:06:30 Rivalry with Assyria

01:09:05 Assyria show Babylon who’s Boss

01:11:40 Tukulti-Ninurta’s Conflict with the Kassites

01:14:35 The Second Sack of Babylon

01:18:37 Elamite Incursions

01:20:10 Babylon Bounces Back

01:22:36 The End of the Kassite Era

01:25:55 The Second Dynasty of Isin

01:27:23 Nebuchadnezzar I Avenges

Babylon

01:33:50 Life under the Second Dynasty of Isin

01:34:56 Literary Works: Enuma Elish and Sakkiku

01:37:24 More Assyrian Meddling

01:43:43 Dark Age and Mysterious Dynasties of Babylon

01:44:40 Second Dynasty of the Sealand

01:47:43 The Bazi Dynasty

01:48:11 The Elamite Dynasty

01:49:10 Dynasty E

01:53:52 Tiglath-pileser III and the Neo-Assyrian Era of Babylon

02:01:48 Marduk-apla-iddina II of Babylon and Sargon the II of Assyria

02:11:19 Sennacherib

01:24:50 The Destruction of Babylon

02:27:50 Esarhaddon Rebuilds Babylon

02:33:12 Ashurbanipal and Shamash-shumu-ukin

02:39:40 Nabopolassar and the Fall of Assyria

02:46:54 Nebuchadnezzar II

02:53:10 Nabonidus, the Last Babylonian King

02:56:40 Cyrus the Great and the Persian Conquest of Babylon

03:01:04 End of an Era


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