Ashurbanipal: The Mighty Lion of Assyria

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His accomplishments are even more incredible considering he was a lion.

Mesopotamian kings have beards even Simon would envy.

1:25 - Chapter 1 - Rise to power 5:15 - Chapter 2 - The ensnaring of egypt 9:30 - Mid roll ads 11:00 - Chapter 3 - The extinction of elam 16:45 - Chapter 4 - The betrayal of Babylon 19:15 - Chapter 5 - The annhiliation of Assyria

Please do an episode on Temur, better known as Tamerlane. Last of the great nomadic conquerors, self-styled heir to Genghis Khan, who went from a raider and mercenary to the ruler of an empire that stretched from Constantinople and Cairo to Siberia and India.

great subject for today! Simon, do consider covering Sitting Bull, Tecumseh, Ssiquoya, or many other first Americans who deserve to have their lives remembered

The Wrath of Ashurbanipal....Great movie title.

Thank you so much for showing Assyrians love !

The Old Testament also talks about God telling His people to utterly destroy a couple of cities and all those within and describes the disaster that happened when they disobeyed. It was a pretty common practice to utterly destroy your enemy if he actively apposed you but let him live if he did not. This was so that your enemy could not continue to worship his gods and sometimes simply so he could not grow stronger AND convert you to his gods over yours. Monotheists like Israel and Judea were extremely rare. YHWH was extremely angered by their neighbors for sacrificing their own children among other things.

Please do an episode on Artemisia of Caria!! 🙏🙏

At the end of his life Ashurbanipal was filled with fear, with dread: " Why have sickness and misery befallen me? I cannot do away with strife in my country and in my family. Illness of body and mind bow me down. an

Assyria was so fascinating.

Fun fact, Sennacherib organized, as prophesied, a capture on 46 major Judean cities, but failed to take Jerusalem, something that the Babylonians accomplished not much later in 586. You can still go and see parts of Hezekiah's wall (Judean king during) Assyrians, however still won the battle because they invented crucifixion, among many other methods of torture.

19:25 I had to replay this a couple of times before I understood that "he was a former vassal" and not "he was a form of ..." well, you get the idea.

Siiiiiick!!! Loved this video. Well done. Im so fascinated with the ancient Assyrians, Babylonians, Sumerians, and Akkadians and their Anunnaki pantheon.

"there is never enough time in the day to consume what we think is interesting" well thank goodness Simon's videos aren't an hour long 😂

I discovered this channel 2 days ago and I'm in love. So many interesting vids!

ELLAM is still around. Asuriyans are know as Asurar in our culture. The Devar Asurar wars are our puranams.

Ashurbanipal has a very long winded way of saying "I took their asses and handed them back on a platter."

I'm sure you get this one alot but I'd love to see Alfred the Great on here