• Babylon: The City at the Center of the World - The Concise History of Babylonia (2000-539 BC)

  • Jan 17 2023
  • Length: 3 hrs and 8 mins
  • Podcast

Babylon: The City at the Center of the World - The Concise History of Babylonia (2000-539 BC)

  • Summary

  • 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.

    Contents:

    00:00 Introduction
    04:00 Before Babylon: The Fall of the Neo-Sumerian Empire
    05:30 Ibbi-Sin and Ishbi-Erra
    09:27 Letter of Puzur-Numushda to Ibbi-Sin
    12:21 Fall of Ur and the Birth of Babylonian Civilization
    15:11 Dynasties of Isin and Larsa (Isin-Larsa Period)
    19:00 The First Dynasty of Babylon
    26:32 Hammurabi of Babylon
    27:48 Zimri-Lim of Mari
    29:48 War with Eshnunna
    30:46 The Sukkalmah of Elam
    33:12 War with Elam
    35:51 Hammurabi and Rim-Sin
    39:41 Hammurabi and Zimri-Lim
    42:24 The Law Code of Hammurabi
    46:07 Rebellions during the Reign of Samsu-iluna
    52:30 The Last Four Kings of the First Dynasty
    55:29 The Hittite Invasion of Babylonia
    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
    03:07:27 Thank You and Patrons

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