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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Sources and Suggested Reading:

A History of Babylon, 2200 BC - AD 75 - Paul-Alain Beaulieu

A History of the Ancient Near East: ca. 3000-323 BC, Third Edition - Marc Van De Mieroop

Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization - Paul Kriwaczek

The Ancient Near East: Historical Sources in Translation - Mark W. Chavalas

The Ancient Near East: History, Society and Economy - Mario Liverani

Ancient Iraq - Georges Roux

Babylonia under the Sealand and Kassite Dynasties - Edited by Gonzalo Rubio

Hammurabi of Babylon - Dominque Charpin

King Hammurabi of Babylon - Marc Van De Mieroop

Much Ado about Marduk - Jennifer Finn

The Babylonian World - Edited by Gwendolyn Leick

Early Antiquity - I. M. Diakonoff

The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East: Volume I - Edited by Karen Radner, Nadine Moeller and D. T. Potts

The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East: Volume II - Edited by Karen Radner, Nadine Moeller and D. T. Potts

Before the Muses: An Anthology of Akkadian Literature - Benjamin R. Foster

Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East - Amanda H. Podany

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