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  • Ashurbanipal was popular among his people but merciless when dealing with enemies. His obsession with collecting knowledge led him to construct The Royal Library of Ashurbanipal, which has been referred to as "the most precious source of historical material in the world"!
    Ashurbanipal Biography
    685 BC - 631 BC
    The Cruelest Assyrian King
    Ancient Mesopotamia Documentary
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  • @HistoryExplained
    @HistoryExplained  2 роки тому +104

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    • @nathanfleischman9856
      @nathanfleischman9856 2 роки тому +5

      Who's next? Nebuchadnezzar? Cyrus the Great?

    • @elmajraz6019
      @elmajraz6019 2 роки тому +5

      Nebuchadnezzar, Cyrus, Darius, Alexander, Ptolemy, Cleopatra

    • @feereel
      @feereel 2 роки тому

      This is the history of the new world....in the old world ( the Americas ) human homo sapiens we're living in organized societies thousands of years before the Egyptians ...
      Taking nothing away from so called
      ' western' historical narratives but we also have our own historians and narrative of human history that goes back further than any other culture on the planet .
      Humans crossed the Bering Straights from the Americas into Siberia not that other way around...
      Remember that the European Enlightenment occured as a result of knowledge of art science mathematics , human hygiene , medicine , law and government , sculpture , astronomy , agriculture ,biology , ect brought back to Europe to be studied and copied ..thus the term ' enlightenment '....even the US Constitution was copied from the Iroquois Confederacy after being discovered by Ben Franklin...

    • @elmajraz6019
      @elmajraz6019 2 роки тому +2

      @@feereel bruh, bring your proofs to support your claims your shi.
      'Amr bin Shu'aib narrated from his father, from his grandfather, that during a Khutbah, the Prophet (ﷺ) said: *"The proof is due from the claimant,* and the oath is due from the one the claim is made against."
      Jami` at-Tirmidhi 1341

    • @nathanfleischman9856
      @nathanfleischman9856 2 роки тому +2

      @@elmajraz6019 You forgot people from China and India, like Confucius, the Buddha, Ashoka, and Qin Shi Huangdi.

  • @reportedstolen3603
    @reportedstolen3603 2 роки тому +411

    11:27 " I took pleasure in reading stones inscribed before the flood" ...Man, we need those tablets! This proves, the ancients had knowledge of humanity going back further than we thought.

    • @HistoryExplained
      @HistoryExplained  2 роки тому +60

      It’s so fascinating to think about!

    • @carbonturk7200
      @carbonturk7200 2 роки тому +2

      Current Human History is only 3598 years...just short of 3600 yearly Nibiru (Not real) cataclysm on Earth...!
      Current Humans are CARBONS...because...this is the Age of CARBON...All life is Carbon...!
      Previously...it was not the case...!
      Ashurbanipal knew or understood this from the texts he read...
      Giants / Nephilim / Anunnaki were SILICONS...Silicon Man of SILICON AGE...All life was Silicon...!
      There was more...LEADs / FLEROVIUMs / TINs / GERMANIUMs...
      Elemental Parts of All Ancient Scripture is taken out before presenting it to the public (As in this video) therefore; Most of the stuff sounds like a mish mash of who's done what to whom...?

    • @shengsun5916
      @shengsun5916 2 роки тому +33

      Yes, and my research has shown that the 4 ancient civilizations as we were taught are survivors of the flood. And one can see that the Egyptian(Wiped out by Assyrian Babylonians possibly, although teachings survived by the Greeks), Zoroastrian (Persian Babylonian), Hindu and Daoist traditions all kept part of the antedeluvian knowledge in the form of astronomy, metrology, music, medicine and ritual magic. In fact British imperial sysyem is another evidence why I stated in another comment that they and their German ancestors of Assyrian Babylonian origin also kept part of the ancient knowledge.

    • @HoriaNeagu
      @HoriaNeagu 2 роки тому +16

      @@shengsun5916Is mythology your field of research?

    • @shengsun5916
      @shengsun5916 2 роки тому +13

      @@HoriaNeagu Theology and Chinese medicine.

  • @manassurya2019
    @manassurya2019 2 роки тому +312

    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.

    • @HistoryExplained
      @HistoryExplained  2 роки тому +27

      Yea that’s so interesting!

    • @SonofChrist77
      @SonofChrist77 2 роки тому +42

      It’s an endless string of which we know only a shoe string’s length about. The further you go back in history, the more questions arise and the more blurred the picture becomes. But thankfully God gave humans brains so we can figure it out.

    • @griffinbrewster5412
      @griffinbrewster5412 2 роки тому +2

      @@SonofChrist77 God. My foot. Soon He will face a heavy attack.

    • @griffinbrewster5412
      @griffinbrewster5412 2 роки тому +1

      @@quantumtoaster5224 Back to streets please.

    • @CrookedRosePOD
      @CrookedRosePOD 2 роки тому +1

      Yup

  • @spazzypengin
    @spazzypengin Рік тому +153

    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. "He rebelled against me. ME, the guy who did x, y, z, for him! The audacity!"

    • @user-cg2tw8pw7j
      @user-cg2tw8pw7j Рік тому

      They look like the Mongols. Thank God, the Babylonians and the Aryans killed them

    • @charlesvanderhoog7056
      @charlesvanderhoog7056 Рік тому

      This is exactly the reaction of Donald Trump today. The point being that Trump never did anything for anyone but himself. It is called narcissism.

    • @lorefox201
      @lorefox201 Рік тому +34

      some people just don't appreciate the grind 😔

    • @anasty_arisaka754
      @anasty_arisaka754 11 місяців тому +12

      There were receipts even BC!

    • @kellikelli4413
      @kellikelli4413 10 місяців тому +1

      NARCESSISM has always been a problem of bloodline royalty - elected officials too.
      They make the worst leaders...

  • @randomobserver8168
    @randomobserver8168 2 роки тому +560

    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.

  • @mariakelly1059
    @mariakelly1059 2 роки тому +506

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

  • @JoeSmith-sl9bq
    @JoeSmith-sl9bq 2 роки тому +463

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

    • @HistoryExplained
      @HistoryExplained  2 роки тому +36

      Yea it’s unreal

    • @shengsun5916
      @shengsun5916 2 роки тому +1

      That's exactly what the descendants of the Assyrians- the sharesholders of the Anglo-Saxon milittary industrial complex, are doing.

    • @leonidjoseph5483
      @leonidjoseph5483 2 роки тому +26

      Nothing compared to WW1 and wars after

    • @wesleyharding7544
      @wesleyharding7544 2 роки тому +38

      To the winners go the spoils and the history.

    • @msg5879
      @msg5879 Рік тому +5

      Soft

  • @hugosenarese9697
    @hugosenarese9697 2 роки тому +25

    Damn, ashurbanipal has no chill

  • @nmbileg
    @nmbileg 2 місяці тому +5

    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..

  • @KenJackson_US
    @KenJackson_US Рік тому +241

    So Ashurbanipal's library lay abandoned and unmolested from 612 BC to 1849 AD, that's 2460 years! We are indeed indebted to him.

    • @HistoryExplained
      @HistoryExplained  Рік тому +31

      We are. Thanks for sharing :)

    • @Scriptorsilentum
      @Scriptorsilentum Рік тому

      if only we still had alexandria and the libraries of india before the moslems...

    • @someguythatlookslikeme8306
      @someguythatlookslikeme8306 Рік тому +22

      36,000 tablets! There must be a lot that hasn't been translated.

    • @stoneworshipper2599
      @stoneworshipper2599 Рік тому +20

      How come Islamists did not destroy the Books and Tablets it has never happened

    • @amit4Bihar
      @amit4Bihar Рік тому +18

      Imagine a great King named James Campbell Smith is found in future and future people deny that he had any connections with England or English culture or Christianity.. That is how Hindus feel today. Ashur bani pal is a clearly Sanskrit name but today's historians Deny it

  • @teeny2024
    @teeny2024 Рік тому +10

    Assyrians were the bravest people that's y such a vast empire. Ashurbanipal was such a foresighted intelligent ruler. Only the learned knew the importance of preserving history for the sake posterity . Lovely documentary.

  • @monadsingleton9324
    @monadsingleton9324 2 роки тому +207

    *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.*

    • @HistoryExplained
      @HistoryExplained  2 роки тому +22

      That sounds so good Monad! I wish I put that in the video 😅

    • @monadsingleton9324
      @monadsingleton9324 2 роки тому +33

      @@HistoryExplained
      Here is an excellent quote:
      "The Assyrians ruled by terror, they created a legacy of hatred, they ravaged the Near East, and they gave nothing in return, not their language nor their culture, not peace, only a kind of terrorized security..."
      This level of sustained imperialism was possible because the Assyrians created the world's first standing national army of professional, career soldiers.

    • @TheObserversTV
      @TheObserversTV 2 роки тому +16

      @علي ياسر Nebuchadnezzar II never made such commands, the Neo Babylonians used Assyrian centers to further their imperial ambitions, they never destroyed the Assyrian people

    • @elsascridon7256
      @elsascridon7256 2 роки тому +1

      Yes,they exaggerated the semitic level of cruelty ,semites being the creators of all evil ancient emipres and civilizations full of cruelty and sadistic behaviour
      But these assyrians were the epithom of semitic and human cruelty.

    • @messianic_scam
      @messianic_scam 2 роки тому +5

      because they were cruel monstrs attacked everybody

  • @sali3492
    @sali3492 2 роки тому +31

    Modern Humans: Isis terrorists are so brutal! So cruel!
    Ashurbanipal: hold my beer

    • @vikctorrkreedd6418
      @vikctorrkreedd6418 2 роки тому +3

      Caligula: Wtf did you say?

    • @laceylewis3197
      @laceylewis3197 Рік тому +1

      @@vikctorrkreedd6418 😂

    • @HistoryExplained
      @HistoryExplained  Рік тому

      Thanks for watching

    • @TPDTND
      @TPDTND 3 місяці тому

      extremity is standard fare for the peoples of the levant.

    • @Cleeon
      @Cleeon 39 хвилин тому

      To feel it, maybe sometimes you must visit it for at least 3 years, living in Syria and focus to learn their history

  • @animatr0nic
    @animatr0nic Рік тому +202

    The fact that he clearly found a great pleasure in cruelty, makes his scholarly endeavors even more amazing

    • @HistoryExplained
      @HistoryExplained  Рік тому +22

      I totally agree

    • @mirzaghalib8659
      @mirzaghalib8659 Рік тому +13

      I dunno if this is true.... How do they relate to one another?

    • @jamesbowman7963
      @jamesbowman7963 Рік тому +12

      This was true of other despots as well Nero comes to mind...

    • @jade5202
      @jade5202 Рік тому +5

      in the modern day, that makes him a chuuni edgelord that read too much guro

    • @Trismegistus95
      @Trismegistus95 Рік тому +24

      @@mirzaghalib8659 it means he wasn’t single minded to cruelty for cruelties sake, he was rational. Hence, a more complex ruler

  • @gutar5675
    @gutar5675 2 роки тому +14

    That's definitely saying something

  • @SDNate760
    @SDNate760 Рік тому +23

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

  • @ThisIsThePlanet
    @ThisIsThePlanet 2 роки тому +46

    Absolutely great video!
    And I love the map!
    This channel is the definition of
    Quality > Quantity

  • @stevecausey545
    @stevecausey545 2 роки тому +18

    So great to see another video!
    Thank you, excellent as always. And the artwork..
    It's so vivid...

  • @TimRoseOfficial
    @TimRoseOfficial 2 роки тому +22

    Always amazing old friend!!! Thanks for making some of the best vids on UA-cam!! :D

    • @HistoryExplained
      @HistoryExplained  2 роки тому

      Thank you Tim! I’m glad to see that you’re still around!

  • @marlouisplanas5044
    @marlouisplanas5044 2 роки тому +18

    Thank you for this wonderful, fun, and entertaining video!

  • @saul6060
    @saul6060 2 роки тому +12

    Great video👍

  • @KorpsePaintKlown
    @KorpsePaintKlown 2 роки тому +24

    It says something about you if your traitor brother was like, “Should I let my family member capture me and see what happens? Nahh I’ll play it safe and just light myself on fire.”

    • @HistoryExplained
      @HistoryExplained  Рік тому +3

      Haha yea it does

    • @tru2harris998
      @tru2harris998 Місяць тому +1

      NO ONE WOULD VOLUNTARILY SET THEMSELVES ON FIRE, IN FRONT OF THEIR KIDS AND WITH THEIR KIDS. IT WAS MURDER BY FIRE, IF TRUE. BARBARIC AND SADISTIC. AS ALL WAR IS.

  • @temporaryaccount619
    @temporaryaccount619 2 роки тому +61

    As always one the best videos explaining history and also being entertaining. Keep it up!

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    @Littlemsgoth 2 роки тому +14

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    @Pharaonist 2 роки тому +17

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    @Mr_M_History 2 роки тому +17

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  • @andreascovano7742
    @andreascovano7742 2 роки тому +10

    I love how his face seems to be smirking or shows anger at the same time

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    @henrymorel7567 2 роки тому +13

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    @rootbeerfloathaspop3301 2 роки тому +16

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    @dal7007 2 роки тому +13

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  • @kaloarepo288
    @kaloarepo288 2 роки тому +58

    Also known as Sardanapalus -details of his death occur in the works of the Greek historian Diodorus Siculus and as such inspired a poem by Byron.,a cantata by Berlioz and a famous 1827 painting by Delacroix which shows all his concubines being killed so they could accompany him to the after world.

    • @HistoryExplained
      @HistoryExplained  2 роки тому +6

      Thank you for sharing Kalo!

    • @mrlefty1276
      @mrlefty1276 Рік тому +5

      He was NOT "also known as Sardanapalus." That's just what the later Greek historians called him. In fact his real name in ancient Assyrian is pronounced "ASHUR BANU APPAL," which means "ASHUR (the god) has created an heir."

    • @kaloarepo288
      @kaloarepo288 Рік тому +4

      @@mrlefty1276 I'm talking about what later people in the west called him obviously -if you were to quibble at that then most names from ancient history are wrong as they were largely filtered through Greek eyes later -most names of Egyptian identities,gods,pharaohs,place names etc have Greek names as does a lot of middle eastern ancient nomenclature -e.g.Koreish(or something like that)not Cyrus!

    • @mrlefty1276
      @mrlefty1276 Рік тому

      @@kaloarepo288 lol that only applies with some names. At no point outside of the Greek speaking communities was he ever known as "Sardanapalus". Outside of the Assyrian community he was always known by his abbreviated, Hebraic name- Ashurbanipal. Also, many names of ancient kings, queens and legendary figures of antiquity do not necessarily have hellenized names as you claim. Many have Hebraic forms of their names for example : King Sargon, King Esarhaddon, King Sennacherib, King Ashurbanipal, etc

    • @kaloarepo288
      @kaloarepo288 Рік тому +3

      @@mrlefty1276 The western world has received a lot of the names from the ancient Middle Eastern world via Greek historians and writers.The exceptions are those figures that are mentioned in the bible but even many of them have hellenized names like Cyrus-these could be from the Septuagint Greek translation.Of course more recent discoveries preserve the more authentic names and the names of many have been changed away from Greek style names like pharaohs-Cheops is back to Khufu,Sesostris etc but a lot of Egyptology and Assyriology maintains the hellenized names -e.g."Egypt" the word itself,Nubia and Mesopotamia,Assyria,Babylonia,Phoenicia -these are all hellenized and latinized names like it or not!In western high culture -art,poetry and music "Sardanapalus" has always been used except for more recent writings when his "real"name has been restored

  • @davidcaldecoat7414
    @davidcaldecoat7414 2 роки тому +88

    Wow what a ruthless king he was but also a king of knowledge as well would like to see his library in the British Museum some time

    • @HistoryExplained
      @HistoryExplained  2 роки тому +4

      So would I!

    • @concernedhomosapien9807
      @concernedhomosapien9807 2 роки тому +2

      Shouldn't the people where he once ruled get first dibs on that? Haven't you guys stolen enough from other people/nations? Fuckin parasites

    • @user-ng4cw1bu8k
      @user-ng4cw1bu8k 2 роки тому

      Ashurbanipal does not honor you, but you dream of becoming like him, so you stole his traces, and if he existed, he would have made you slaves in Great Assyria, like the pharaohs and the Jews.

    • @concernedhomosapien9807
      @concernedhomosapien9807 2 роки тому

      I guess u know him personally then? When did you guys meet ? Also if he existed today, he would be dead broke in Syria somewhere scavenging or pumping gas in europe for minimum wage.

    • @user-ng4cw1bu8k
      @user-ng4cw1bu8k 2 роки тому +1

      @@concernedhomosapien9807
      First, he is from Nineveh, and Nineveh is an Iraqi, an Iraqi, not a Syrian. Second, if he was present, he would not have made Islam come a meter close to Iraq to become in this state the third, and how did you know that he wanted to see his effects in Britain, knowing that Britain did not exist at that time, just a land, no civilization, no history, no culture To rule, no laws, his ignorant people chase animals, unlike Iraq during his reign Fourth, he does not honor you, as he remains an Assyrian and remains loyal to Nineveh Fifth: Let us leave this talk a little and tell me why the Great United Kingdom, as you call it, of course, a coward that cannot fulfill its promises, why did it not fulfill its promise with Iraq that they will expel the Ottomans With us and they go out. Why did they betray Ukraine and make it a Russian conservative? You are just cowards. Weapons you had, and now the weapon is in Russia. Ashurbanipal does not have the honor of a cowardly country like Britain.

  • @jessladyscientist
    @jessladyscientist 2 роки тому +8

    I really love this channel. Keep it up! You're doing a great job!

  • @theGlobalSphere
    @theGlobalSphere Рік тому +5

    Here to visit the past and the rich history it conceals. Thanks for unearthing these precious treasures!

    • @HistoryExplained
      @HistoryExplained  Рік тому

      Glad you found it informative. Thank you for watching and commenting Hosea!

  • @robbabcock_
    @robbabcock_ 2 роки тому +6

    Great video!

  • @ALIKN1-1
    @ALIKN1-1 2 роки тому +12

    Elam never deserved its fate 😢🇮🇶🇸🇾 .... glory to Ur-Dak 🇮🇶🇸🇾🇵🇸🇯🇴🇱🇧

  • @peterpuleo2904
    @peterpuleo2904 2 роки тому +50

    Some of his cruelty is not mentioned in this video. He impaled or flayed alive many of his enemies also.

  • @moprea19
    @moprea19 2 роки тому +34

    This channel is real great.
    It has a lot of details information about the characters of the historical figures. I guess the research on it is tremendous, to be able to bring us all these informations. Congratulation, young man!

  • @ImperiumPopulorum
    @ImperiumPopulorum 2 роки тому +76

    I love how these videos are made ❤

    • @HistoryExplained
      @HistoryExplained  2 роки тому +7

      I appreciate that!

    • @ronaldmessina4229
      @ronaldmessina4229 11 місяців тому +1

      I most certainly agree

    • @Ishi79
      @Ishi79 10 місяців тому

      The European people are in Middle East today, continuing with stealing others land.. This time they are using fairytale history and fake archeology to steal others land.

  • @gemfyre3444
    @gemfyre3444 Рік тому +5

    He really put the “pal” in Ashurbanipal

  • @ZubiForce
    @ZubiForce 2 роки тому +6

    Yes!

  • @rogersledz6793
    @rogersledz6793 2 роки тому +4

    Thank you so much for uploading this video. It is helping me get through the pandemic!

  • @adamdaniels605
    @adamdaniels605 2 роки тому +29

    Great Video! Ashurbanipal sounds like a Smart, but Dangerous Man! Anyways, I guess the next video will be for Nebuchadnezzar II?

    • @elmajraz6019
      @elmajraz6019 2 роки тому

      Nebuchadnezzar, Cyrus, Darius, Alexander

    • @baidon3613
      @baidon3613 2 роки тому

      Would be great, but I hope he refrains from using religious texts as "resources". in this video he put "judea" in the map. Something that historians and archeologs agree that didn't really exist but in Torah. So I hope he stats neutral and unbiased

    • @HistoryExplained
      @HistoryExplained  2 роки тому +2

      Yes Nebuchadnezzar either next or right after. Thanks for your interest!

    • @yourhighness6457
      @yourhighness6457 2 роки тому

      @@baidon3613 cringe Atheist moment!

    • @elmajraz6019
      @elmajraz6019 2 роки тому

      @@baidon3613 it does, but you're searching it in the wrong time.
      - David Rohl

  • @lonelyshepherd8839
    @lonelyshepherd8839 2 роки тому +12

    his library is the biggest library about 65000 tablets found in Ninawa

  • @RamagsKitchen
    @RamagsKitchen 2 роки тому +5

    An evocative and researched narrative!

  • @isam_ii502
    @isam_ii502 2 роки тому +9

    This is so good, your channel is one of the best when It comes to documenting Kings and other people of note.

  • @hanaashaba1263
    @hanaashaba1263 2 роки тому +2

    Thanks for sharing the video 😘

  • @robertdufour2456
    @robertdufour2456 10 місяців тому +1

    Incredible! Thank you for this excellent presentation!

  • @ianbrewster8934
    @ianbrewster8934 2 роки тому +3

    Love your channel.....such amazing content

  • @glr_creations
    @glr_creations 2 роки тому +4

    New to your channel, I love all of it! Hello from Trinidad!

  • @tatjanakosirjankovic9176
    @tatjanakosirjankovic9176 Рік тому +1

    how come, I only found this channel today? great job!

  • @s.k.paandiyankaliamoorthy7844
    @s.k.paandiyankaliamoorthy7844 2 роки тому +8

    Continue ur Superior service🔥🤗

  • @medalaeeladlani5683
    @medalaeeladlani5683 2 роки тому +5

    Great content 👍. This channel deserves millions of viewers.

  • @jmalko9152
    @jmalko9152 Рік тому +1

    Great documentary, thank you!

  • @scottenosh4548
    @scottenosh4548 Рік тому

    Excellent video. This helped fill in some gaps for me.

  • @anubakarrconteh2463
    @anubakarrconteh2463 2 роки тому +4

    History is life thanks for the video✊✊✊

  • @auadisassyrian3721
    @auadisassyrian3721 2 роки тому +12

    Thank you so much for this great Video. I am assyrian and always glad to see other being interested in our history

    • @HistoryExplained
      @HistoryExplained  2 роки тому +5

      Happy to hear that an Assyrian enjoyed my video :)

    • @pauliewalnuts2007
      @pauliewalnuts2007 2 роки тому

      Khaya Ashour 👍🥇

    • @haldiroflorien6041
      @haldiroflorien6041 2 роки тому +2

      @@HistoryExplained I'm sure there's plenty of us Assyrians who enjoyed this one. Great video man, love the quality!

    • @iNeed2.p
      @iNeed2.p Рік тому

      @@descendedofrigvedicclans2216 small ethnic group of Iran

    • @johnsmith-be4jr
      @johnsmith-be4jr Рік тому

      ​@@iNeed2.p read a book please , I am begging you.

  • @reiseimperadores
    @reiseimperadores Рік тому +1

    Very good, thanks you

  • @jackamt4351
    @jackamt4351 Рік тому +1

    Thank you very much!

  • @naiduvga1612
    @naiduvga1612 2 роки тому +27

    The leader of the Asuras who were considered very vile and ridiculously hostile to all others are still considered demonic in hindu scripts. and so were told that they were annihilated by the gods and their personas.

    • @republicshallriseagain419
      @republicshallriseagain419 2 роки тому

      Hindus were just jealous

    • @HistoryExplained
      @HistoryExplained  Рік тому +4

      Thanks for sharing

    • @mainakdeb8322
      @mainakdeb8322 Рік тому +8

      The resemblance is intriguing... Asuras in India.. Ahuras in Iran.. Assyrians further west

    • @fluffydrunkpanda729
      @fluffydrunkpanda729 Рік тому +4

      lol try again. they were not annihilated at all. assyrians still exist to this day. if you read the old testament, God had many chances to annihilate Assyria, yet instead blessed it as the work of his hands.
      i’m not about to allow a pagan call my people demonic lol. that is rich. don’t hindus worship kali, a violent demon?
      PS there are many hindu assyrians in kerala, and we have several assyrian churches which perform services in ancient aramaic in india

    • @mainakdeb8322
      @mainakdeb8322 Рік тому +8

      @@fluffydrunkpanda729 kali is no violent demon. I have no idea about assyrian in present day si wont comment. Please dont comment on on ideas u hav we not grasped adequat ly.

  • @adaniodebaz7305
    @adaniodebaz7305 2 роки тому +15

    I’m going to name my son Ashur and I’m proud of it ! Great video

    • @HistoryExplained
      @HistoryExplained  Рік тому +1

      Awesome name! There was an Assyrian character named Ashur on the Starz show called Spartacus. I always really liked the name

    • @alberoraha863
      @alberoraha863 Рік тому +3

      Ashour , this is the right way of spelling the name .
      An Assyrian past over 🌹

  • @Soap_bubbles591
    @Soap_bubbles591 Рік тому +1

    Great video as always 👍

  • @chitterlingsrtasty
    @chitterlingsrtasty Рік тому

    Fascinating.

  • @sali3492
    @sali3492 2 роки тому +14

    Ashurbanipal the headcutter😂
    I would run away if i met him

    • @user-to8ki3dv6x
      @user-to8ki3dv6x Рік тому +2

      I can think of another much more prominent head cutter who also started a religon, and is adored by hundreds of millions of people today.

    • @sali3492
      @sali3492 Рік тому

      @@user-to8ki3dv6x they lost their heads after breaking the Medinah Covenant. A treason that was punishable by death

    • @HistoryExplained
      @HistoryExplained  Рік тому +2

      Thanks for sharing

    • @mohammedarafatlone
      @mohammedarafatlone 10 місяців тому

      @@user-to8ki3dv6x 🤡

  • @blackbette07
    @blackbette07 Рік тому +2

    Just subscribed. You are good at telling history.

  • @hirannes2217
    @hirannes2217 9 місяців тому +2

    Very interesting. Thanks.

  • @melvinjones3895
    @melvinjones3895 2 роки тому +1

    Very good thanks

  • @michaelj2536
    @michaelj2536 2 роки тому +11

    Wonderfully explained. Thank you for the history lesson that enriches all of us

    • @infinity8288
      @infinity8288 2 роки тому

      His name in sanskrit literally means Bani Pal of the demon clan

    • @HistoryExplained
      @HistoryExplained  2 роки тому

      Thank you Michael!

  • @orejotus
    @orejotus 2 роки тому +3

    great story learn a lot today

  • @AdamAdam-fh7ln
    @AdamAdam-fh7ln Рік тому +1

    Thank you, professionally done and detail. Will you make a video about the great Assyrian king Tiglath-Pileser I?

  • @christianchatel8387
    @christianchatel8387 11 місяців тому +2

    Wow. Well done. I didn't know anything about this part of history. Thanks.

  • @Amadeu.Macedo
    @Amadeu.Macedo 2 роки тому +62

    Thank you so much for assembling this precious summary about my favorite king - of my preferred empire - of antiquity: Aššurbanipal (Ashurbanipal), the ruler of the most powerful, cruel, and (yet) cultivated realm on Earth during the Eighth Century BCE!
    The Assyrians represent, for me, an intellectual dilemma, for despite their unrelenting, abominable deeds, I am unable to follow suit with some other cultivated individuals, who share my enormous admiration for Ancient Mesopotamian history and its magnificent cultures, but nonetheless display unrestrained, antagonistic sentiments towards Assyria.
    Those who condemn the brutal historical legacy of the Neo-Assyrian empire (911-612/09 BCE) should be reminded of the fundamental necessity of appraising the acts of our archaic ancestors within the context of the bloodthirsty environment where they existed.
    A quick glance at our equally heinous Contemporary History (from 1945 to the present) suffices to demonstrate that Putin, Stalin, Mao Zedong, and particularly the monstrous Cambodian Pol Pot (ruled 1975 - 1979), were equally (or even more) ruthless than Ashurbanipal or any other members of the Sargonic Dynasty. Quite frankly, the main distinction between these historical groups lies in the modern despots' avoidance of "bragging" about their cruel behavior; actually, instead of gloating, our contemporary dictators re-write historical events to fit their underlying ideological and/or geopolitical aspirations...
    Just watch CNN, BBC, or Deutsche Welle this week, for their broadcasts are filled with incredible Russian fabrications!

    • @messianic_scam
      @messianic_scam 2 роки тому +7

      no ,there was no excuse for crimes against humanity they crushed the bones of their enemies's babies they did it with the hebrews the fresco of hebrew man the sword over his head forcing him to crush the bone of his own baby or they will do it to his other kids it's written in the fresco they were monsters and god punished them

    • @TheObserversTV
      @TheObserversTV 2 роки тому +5

      @علي ياسر Evidence of economic and security stability was established across the middle east because of the Assyrian empire, the Assyrian provinces turned against the Assyrian rule because of tax exemptions and internal strife, not because of "brutality", which the Assyrians did not commit against its provinces.

    • @TheObserversTV
      @TheObserversTV 2 роки тому +5

      @علي ياسر The Assyrians only tortured nobles and rebellious leaders, not regular civilizans, torture methods was rare in Assyria

    • @carbonturk7200
      @carbonturk7200 2 роки тому

      @@messianic_scam
      Crushing Human bones...?
      Well...For the ordinary John Doe of Silicon Age, being crushed to make Cement or Geo Polymer was the FATE...!
      When Silicons die, they Petrify, turn to stone...!
      Only the Elites were saved to be adored in museums as masterful pieces of Sculpture or Art in another Age such as ours the CARBON AGE...!
      Current Human History is only 3598 years...just short of 3600 yearly Nibiru (Not real) cataclysm on Earth...!
      Current Humans are CARBONS...because...this is the Age of CARBON...All life is Carbon...!
      Previously...it was not the case...!
      Ashurbanipal knew or understood this from the texts he read...
      Giants / Nephilim / Anunnaki were SILICONS...Silicon Man of SILICON AGE...All life was Silicon...!
      There was more...LEADs / FLEROVIUMs / TINs / GERMANIUMs...
      Human Life did not matter for Ashurbanipal, HE KNEW...the Elemental DIFFERENCE...!
      Elemental Parts of All Ancient Scripture is taken out before presenting it to the public (As in this video) therefore; Most of the stuff sounds like a mish mash of who's done what, where, when to whom...?

    • @messianic_scam
      @messianic_scam 2 роки тому +1

      @@elsascridon7256
      how do you even compare hebrews who were persecuted minorty among other nations to monsters assyrians or romans... ?! bni israel never killed kids and civilians even if they attacked others, every nation in some point in history attacked other nation but cause of their abrahamic laws they had boundarie kids families civilians were excluded they were first humans who gave animals rights when people used to eat them alive and make the poor animal suffers for days they made laws concern animals right ; don't kill the animal before his mother , don't let it suffers sharp your knife if it suffers it's forbidden to be eaten as punishment for not having mercy on the animal, don't cover its mouth while use it for plowing so it can eat from earth ,don't cook the meat in its mother's milk this is where the Jews came up with not mixing milk with meat hundreds of merciful laws the jews still apply to it they even give prayer to the animal before killing it nobody at that time thought about giving animals rights as hebrews did, they loved animals they where soft hearts what are you talking about

  • @1911Earthling
    @1911Earthling Рік тому +4

    Excellent work. The churning empires of the Iron Age .

  • @isartoraplatz
    @isartoraplatz 2 місяці тому

    😮Cities Fields Plantations
    Wow great information ℹ️

  • @Khistoryczny
    @Khistoryczny 9 місяців тому

    ur doing fantastic job bro, keep up the good work!

  • @edwardlevin6915
    @edwardlevin6915 Рік тому +7

    I am profoundly sad that my brother the assyriologist died over 30 years ago to discuss this video with him.

  • @JXiong-zo8ig
    @JXiong-zo8ig 2 роки тому +3

    PLEASE DO MORE VIDEOS!!!

  • @missrehana3833
    @missrehana3833 Рік тому +1

    Thank you💐

  • @andrewmacdonald8076
    @andrewmacdonald8076 Рік тому +1

    Fascinating, thanks🥝🇳🇿😎

  • @rigulur
    @rigulur 2 роки тому +4

    >cruelest assyrian king
    "do you have any idea how little that narrows it down!?!"

  • @Boooooooooo541
    @Boooooooooo541 Рік тому +8

    Look at 11:35 where he says "I Took My Pleasure in reading stones inscribed before the flood" which is another example of many civilizations describing an ancient apocalypse of devastating floods. Civilization is waay older than people think.

  • @gruntsffs1
    @gruntsffs1 2 роки тому +2

    Excellent!!! New subscriber 👍🏻

  • @gautamchatterji7557
    @gautamchatterji7557 2 роки тому +1

    Enthralled.Subscribed.

  • @darrylerren8185
    @darrylerren8185 2 роки тому +10

    Getting closer to the modern day i see

    • @HistoryExplained
      @HistoryExplained  2 роки тому +1

      I’ll be in the 21st century before you know it 😅

    • @shengsun5916
      @shengsun5916 2 роки тому +1

      The Assyrian Germans killed their semitic jewish brother and pretended to be them by the group known as ashkenazi, otherwise known as the zionists who are rebuilding their once befallen Babylon. Remember the song, by the rivers of babylon? How they wept? when they remembered Zion.

    • @shengsun5916
      @shengsun5916 2 роки тому

      @@darrylerren8185 Look, to deal with problem is to find out the cause and eradicate it step by step; thus, it is an important step to understand that the Germans are the descendants of Assyrians, to verify such statement, find and read John Michell's work - eccentric lives and peculiar notions. By carrying on the worship of Chaos, the Germans continued their war-like Assyrian ancestors wrecked havoc with their Bavarian illuminati agenda under the stolen identity of Judaism otherwise known as Zionism.

    • @darrylerren8185
      @darrylerren8185 Рік тому

      @@HistoryExplained Hey i think you should rename this video to 'The last great king of assyria.'

  • @michaelvickery5547
    @michaelvickery5547 Рік тому +3

    I love the narrator, energetic and easy to understand.

  • @chessman483
    @chessman483 Рік тому +1

    Love it.👌

  • @chris.asi_romeo
    @chris.asi_romeo Рік тому +2

    Excellent presentation 👏👏👏

  • @micahistory
    @micahistory 2 роки тому +70

    Wow I had already heard of the Assyrians' brutality but this guy took it to a whole other level. Thank god it didn't last for long

    • @vagabondo879
      @vagabondo879 2 роки тому +12

      @علي ياسر Assyrians are not annihilated

    • @HistoryExplained
      @HistoryExplained  2 роки тому +2

      He really did! Thanks so much watching Mica!

    • @micahistory
      @micahistory 2 роки тому +1

      @@HistoryExplained you're welcome

    • @MNN1991
      @MNN1991 2 роки тому +13

      @علي ياسر you clearly don’t know your history because:
      1. It was nabopollassar that beat the Assyrians not Nebuchadnezzar.
      2. Nestorian isn’t an ethnicity it’s what people in Europe called the church of the east and some other churches in the area who didn’t follow Greek and Roman Christianity. It’s a religious sect just like Catholicism or orthodoxy. Saying someone is ethnically Nestorian is like saying someone is ethnically Catholic.
      3. The Assyrians were not all wiped out. Many survived under various empires and had autonomy in some provinces and some times even independent kingdoms who were vassals. Examples are the province of Athura of the Achaemenid empire , Greek province of Syria ( which is a corruption of Assyria), kingdoms like Adiabene under Parthian rule, Roman province of assyria and Asoristan under the sasanians. Some cities like Assur and arbela were even fully rebuilt during the Achaemenid era and flourished under the Parthian era. People there also kept worshiping ancient Assyrian gods even centuries after Christianity was born. It was only around the 1300 ad that Assur was fully destroyed and never inhabited again. The people fled further north to ten mountains to avoid being massacred by the timurids.
      4. The Brits and the west had nothing to do with the name of modern Assyrians if anything they divided them further by calling catholic Assyrians Chaldeans when they split from the church of the east centuries ago. That just shows how they really didn’t know much of anything about the modern Assyrians.

    • @annemurphy9339
      @annemurphy9339 2 роки тому +1

      @@MNN1991 That was a very interesting & informative read. Thank you for posting.

  • @alancient8463
    @alancient8463 2 роки тому +9

    I love Iraqi history

  • @pwcrabb5766
    @pwcrabb5766 Рік тому +1

    Such an excellent presentation

  • @I_am-satisfied.
    @I_am-satisfied. Рік тому

    Very interesting indeed.

  • @oneelvictor2968
    @oneelvictor2968 Рік тому +3

    THIS is why I'm ASSYRIAN and proud !

  • @hoskinmage
    @hoskinmage 2 роки тому +31

    Thank you so much I enjoy ancient history and I'm almost ancient history myself,58, keep up your videos there are people that has tryed to change the past but we're better off learning from it instead of destroying it. I hope you do some on sumerian history it's good reading.

    • @HistoryExplained
      @HistoryExplained  2 роки тому +2

      I appreciate that and thank you for the suggestion :)

    • @linda.m.s72
      @linda.m.s72 Рік тому +1

      Ancient you are not. Your mind is vibrant and still thirsting to know. I’ll bet you are a wise person. Knowing history helps us understand the present, anticipate the future. Hearing people bang on about now, without knowing what came before is tiresome and sometimes scary. Cheers (51, call myself a crazy old witch but young at heart. A lot of questions I have about today have been answered by learning about before) best wishes to you x♥️

    • @hoskinmage
      @hoskinmage Рік тому +1

      @Linda Saunders , thank you so much for uplifting I really needed it today. I wish I was smart like you said but in truth my mind is going I keep forgetting things the doctor a aid I had scardious stage 4 and my home palitive care nurse said I haven to long left she says 6mo.to a year I hope she is wrong so we will see and thank you once again for lifting an old man's memories. Thank you so much

    • @linda.m.s72
      @linda.m.s72 Рік тому

      @hoskinmage i hope you have good care and good people around you. I am thinking of you. Your reply was a sad one but your replying at all was lovely and I will remember it and keep it close. It has made quite an impact on me and the way I think. Your earnestness is a sign of a beautiful soul. Love to you always xx♥️

  • @Nwihsphysio
    @Nwihsphysio Рік тому +2

    This video is full of knowledge Thankyou Sir

  • @28pbtkh23
    @28pbtkh23 11 місяців тому

    Very entertaining video; also informative and educational. Must watch the others in the series.

  • @robertschlesinger1342
    @robertschlesinger1342 2 роки тому +12

    Excellent video. Very interesting, informative and worthwhile video. Ashurbanipal also built the first zoo on his palace grounds. The zoo had stone inscriptions carved in Assyrian and fragments survive in museums.

    • @HistoryExplained
      @HistoryExplained  2 роки тому +3

      I wish I mentioned this. Thank you for sharing!

    • @robertschlesinger1342
      @robertschlesinger1342 2 роки тому +2

      @@HistoryExplained Thank you for your comment.

    • @coreylouviere4466
      @coreylouviere4466 Рік тому

      Actually your thinking of Ashur-bel-kala, whos reign was 1074-1056 BCE, which was during the bronze age collapse 400 years prior, so while his people suffered through armenian and other nomad raids, drought, and famine, Ashur-bel-kala decides to make a zoo.

    • @coreylouviere4466
      @coreylouviere4466 Рік тому

      You're

  • @NordeGrasen34
    @NordeGrasen34 2 роки тому +5

    Heard the name Ashurbanipal. Liked and subbed immediately.

  • @christopherthrawn1333
    @christopherthrawn1333 2 роки тому +2

    Awesome work here

  • @ryanjohnson8659
    @ryanjohnson8659 Рік тому +1

    Well done.