Babylon: the Jewel of the Semites
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Babylon [from the Akkadian bāb-ilû, meaning "Gateway of God"] was a city of ancient Mesopotamia, the ruins of which can be found in present-day Al Hillah, Babil Province, Iraq, about 85 kilometers (55 mi) south of Baghdad, in the fertile Mesopotamian plain between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
The earliest source to mention Babylon may be a dated tablet of the reign of Sargon of Akkad (ca. 24th century BC short chronology). The so-called "Weidner Chronicle" states that it was Sargon himself who built Babylon "in front of Akkad" (ABC 19:51).
The Eastern Canaan Amorites conquered and settled in Babylon, making it their capital in 1959 BC. From there, the old Babylonian Kingdom was born. The Kingdom then expanded into a mighty Mesopotamian Empire under the rule of its famous king: Hammurabi, sometime in the 18th century BC.
At that time, Babylon flourished and became the cultural and economical capital of the entire Fertile Crescent. It also became the seat of the renown Code of Hammurabi, the first code of law in Human History.
It was the "holy city" of Babylonia approximately 2300 BC, and the seat of the Neo-Babylonian Empire from 612 BC. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
It has been estimated that Babylon was the largest city in the world from ca. 1770 to 1670 BC, and again between ca. 612 and 320 BC. It was perhaps the first city to reach a population above 200,000.
It is recorded that Babylon's legal system developed a form of negligence law, and Babylon was probably the first culture to develop negligence law. In the common law world, the law of negligence was not fully rediscovered until the 20th century.
The video is a slideshow of pictures, mostly paintings, depicting the city of Babylon.
Some even show an exaggeratingly tall Tower of Babel.
While the Tower of Babel is considered fictional by some, many notable scholars say that it has been influenced by an actual ziggurat: the Etemenanki, built by the 6th century BC Neo-Babylonian dynasty rulers Nabopolassar and Nebuchadnezzar II.
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I do not believe in the city. I believe that something beautiful degenerated into something terrible. As such, God chose to destroy it.
I do realise that yes. Not praticularly proud.
I would have been proud when I published this video. But times have changed. Let's just say I now understand why Babylon had to be destroyed.
that is right :)
Iraq will shine once more in God's willing.
The gutians came from the Zagros mountains, that is correct. But I think the Medes are more relatable to the kurds.
Not all Semites are Jews. Far from it.
like assyrians and cheldean hate arabs because they are muslims .
im semitic arab by the way
Kra7as, remember in the 70s-90, when Iraq was a miniature of China, very quickly developing, though the Iraqi people had a better standard of living than Chinese at least, imagine how it would have been now if not for the demonic Americans and their Zionist overlords (among others). It would easily be the best country in the Mideast!!
As long as Iraq will be safe in the future, and fanatics do not take over the govt., Iraq has a bright future.
LOL what? I am Athoori/Kooldani and I don't give a damn if other Arabs are another religion. I usually say I am Arab, anyways. Assyrians in Baghdad, Mosul, and other large cities live very well with other Arabs, and even with Kurds. Lots of the Assyrians in Iraq live in the north. Same goes for Assyrians in Syria and Jordan. I think Iraqis in general though, hate Bahrainis, who bend over and take it from the Americans, who base a whole fleet on your island. Away with the damn Americans.
Assyrian and Chaldean hate Arabs because they are Muslims.
That is not correct my dear, what you see on you tube are a bunch of kids, they attack every one thinking that they are playing computer game and that they are the good guys while all the others are bad ones, they are born outside of the Mideast and have no contact whatsoever with Arabs. All the ones that lived in M/E respect the Arabs and consider themselves as part of the culture.
Salam
The music is a remix of Jerusalem theme from Asassin's Creed.