13. The Assyrians - Empire of Iron 

I don’t know how they do it. But of all the channels I subscribe to, this one is far and away the one that RU-vid chooses to start for me automatically.

It was for a while, then I just scroll over it. However I woke up this time listening to it. I noticed something that I have already seen it before but didn't recall. So I watched it again to completion.

Me too!

That's a crazy question. I just woke up to this playing.

Facts this just happened

This simply had to be said! Since I play this docs for my son he laughs about "History" Channel and its flying pyramids

Very well researched and produced. It is top-tier. So satisfying to listen to. It tickles the mind.

This is the video version of his podcast. They're all incredible.

This is the third time I've viewed this particular episode, and this is not the only episode that's worth multiple viewings.

It was a podcast. This an adaptation I think. And it's fantastic.

would love too see Iraq someday. Looks amazing

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I am from India, I use Beniwal surname, our elders say that we have come from Persia (Iran), this is a corrupt name of Banipal. We consider Ashhur Banipal as our ancestor. Share would be great.

@@nucks-bi8ph Welcome to the country of the prophets and messengers all the time, and everyone is welcome

@@dalujasnathi Banipal, one of the kings of Mesopotamia in Iraq, currently in the Kingdom of Assyria, with its capital Nineveh, the city of Nimrud

Herodutos wrote of the Assyrians yet Xenophon did not know of the Assyrians. Cuneiform and Akkadian is still in used during the Persian Empire, Xenophon would have encountered people in the Persian Empire who can speak and read the Cuneiform left in the ruins of the Assyrians Cities during the Era of Persian Empire.

@@victorsanchez5336 yeah, tbh I doubt ancient history was part of the curriculum of warriors.

100%

@@M1ggins so what ? you need to be educated to admire coliseum ish ruins that are so old you cangt even comprehend ?

@@Frenchy78ify that's not what I've replied to, it's the fact he didn't know who had built them, where others from his land and time period had written about them.

Thank you my friend, wishing you all the best for the future.

@@FallofCivilizations thanks

This is so unfortunate. I hope you get the opportunity to one day pursue your education.

@@BeckBeckGo Thanks. I appreciate your words

Wow I didn't even realize that nineveh was still the name of the city

YEHOVAH -Sir I. Am Grateful for the Teachers on ANCIENT Greek and Roman Catholic church in this country.

Well said, my friend. Cheers to your teacher fir introducing you to this history. This was an incredible lesson taught so beautifully. Grateful for the creator that made this.

Irate bGodzgass was v

Your master learn history from the zionist - do proper research and dont rely on westerners

crazy to think how many times in our history, religion is the root cause of all our man-made evils. literally documented time and time again in all corners of the earth. we should be exploring space by now. sigh

Glad you enjoy it!

...as if putting a tv channel to shame were difficult.

You could make a religion out of this. Wait, Don't.

@@egay86292 fair point

Does indeed.

Cause TV shows are designed for drama thinking people will want to watch the 13,000th show on some unsolvable mystery rather than just focusing on the history.

Yes its quite amazing

Flashpoint history is another top channel. But this is def the OG of history channels. Next we need some women to join the Frey.

I count HistoryMarche as another excellent and informative historical RU-vid channel.

Couldn’t agree more with this comment!

The Holy Trinity

Congratulations on the place!

Incredibly impressive congratulations man

what did they say about the series?

Bro, congrats

Please check your spelling. You made a typo. new not knew. Anybody can do it. Congrats on getting into Oxford.

Thanks my friend, glad they help!

you dozed off hehe 😉

I use them when I sleep too! I love them awake or asleep.

Hey bro... I do the same thing. Something about his voice that puts me in the mood to sleep. In fact I can't sleep now without listening to him.

I do too!!!

Thanks my friend, yes I try my best

assyrian are hindu

Found Yossarian.

@@ifsowhynot found hoodi

Another war torn region of Islam, run away ran out of food, money, bullets, blame Europe & USA,

Shlamalakh Mia! Assyrian born in Iran!

Works better if ur smoke high 🤣

@@unitedssshtits8386 just blazed and getting ready for bed actually 🤪😎

@@unitedssshtits8386 is a was reutu

@@unitedssshtits8386 wu is a very eye

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Thank you! Yes, a script like this is around 25,000 words, and took 8 weeks to write, and a few weeks to produce. Video can take another 6 weeks.

@@FallofCivilizations absolute dedication to bring an ambitious project each few months. Thanks FoC!

Literally, I watch these videos over TV shows. This is what I do on my nights off. Stay up until 2:30am, watching these. I’ll be so sad to run out. Anyways, thank for making them.

They are documentaries

I agree. It is so much work. But people like me appreciate it more than you could know. I didn't take any coursework on this in college (studied other things) and they certainly didn't teach us much at all about this area in my grade school. I am almost 60 now and love to learn about history on my own--I cannot get enough of ancient history.

Lol, dude I know, that shit cracked me up. Easily sub that kid's clothes for a pair of Adidas or some shit like that, and that kid is walking around TODAY. Poor guy

Dude that made me lose my mind. Absolute A+ content.

nothing new in this day and age. a kid wanting what his buddies had is timeless. buy me new clothes you mean mom. you don't love me like johnnies mom loves him! bad mommy.

Imagine if after thousands of years your only legacy is as a whiny brat

@@chrischong6613 I mean, extremely few have even that. I'm under no illusions that anything of myself will remain to be looked at or read 3000 years in the future.

Thank you, very kind of you

The rivers are dry now . Because Turkey build dems and stop water flow. People have no water

That's kind of hard to believe, considering all the war footage that's been in the news for the last three decades.

@@nonyadamnbusiness9887 It's not that hard to believe. I can see how they may have seen plenty of images of the rivers but no actual live footage until this point.

It is astounding that with all the technology we have, there is so little in terms of high quality documentaries except from smaller talented outfits like this- most people know nothing of this world except modern war footage. I bet a well crafted decently funded miniseries would do great on network television- I think the public wants more than politics and dysfunctional celebrity trials. They sell the people short. The heritage of the near east is our heritage also. We don’t need Mesopotamia and man made climate change, although climate and Mesopotamia is closely linked for thousands of years. We don’t need racial or religious strife- just exploration of how we became who we are.

@@robertenglehardt9706 Television should have died about 2010.

@The Imperishable Star Someone’s religion does not constitutes their ethnicity.

Weird you say that, Assyrians still call themselves by the same name that is described in the video: “Ashuraye”. Also, if they’re not Assyrian, what are they?

@The Imperishable Star you must be a Kurd or an Arab nAtionalist. Assyrians are the heart of Iraq. They are the natives of Mesopotamia! All the love to my Assyrian brothers ♥️

@The Imperishable Star please read Assyrian identity in ancient times and today by Simo Parpola (PHD in Assyriology University of Helinski) Assyrians are not “Nestorian” this is just a religious term made by the Roman Catholic Church. Assyrians have been for centuries calling themselves Suraye, which is a synonym of Ashuraye. They still live in the villages surrounding Nineveh, their ancient capital and still speak Aramaic which many of the words have Akkadian roots. Do some research before making baseless claims. If Assyrians are simply Nestorian Christian’s then why does Historian John speed’s map (dated 1626) show a group of people living in the Ottoman Empire calling themselves Assyrians?

​@@atb7606doesn't the Assyrian church believe in Nestorianism? Is so they are Nestorians regardless of whether they are simultaneously Assyrians.

Thanks my friend, very kind!

Thanks my friend, very kind

This documentary is a time-machine…

Thank you my friend, very kind of you!

Me and my Mrs agree we listen to these in bed and eagerly await where and when we'll end up next

For future records...... if digital video lasts longer than clay tablets .

Those Hebrew prophets are the greatest content creators of all generations

i don't want to be that guy, but don't you guys think that we should change the name of the a**yrians ? i mean... it's a hate word and it should not be used. we need to modify the name from all history book and ban the word, we should name then some other way. i already sent a letter to the authorities about it.

Our pleasure!

Awesome father

Enjoy!

Me too, I was just thinking about this just two days ago... When will Fall of Civilizations upload again? and now it's here.

@@FallofCivilizations - Thank you for your hard work, I love your videos.

Same here, we were watching episode 1 for the 4th time and I was like “when assyria pls” and then I saw it, shouting like crazy with joy

@Fall of Civilizations you should do an episode on the Anasazi and native Americans from the Southwest .

I’ve watched all of them at least 5x,Collapse is one of the premier providers of history

It has 10 million now 👌

@@robertandrewbaptie3006 12 million, still counting

Fascinating

Wish they hadn't have destroyed the library of Alexandria.

To think Babylon was a long dead ancient civilization by the time of Assyria, which itself had long died out by the time of the Achaemenid Persian Empire. Makes you realize that all civilizations are but sandcastles that will eventually be swept away by the tide.

They say China is the world's oldest continuous civilization. As someone who is Chinese I never considered my people's earliest period (the Xia and Zhou dynasties) to be primitive. They were just less technologically advanced though still just as culturally rich as their successor dynasties.

@@barbiquearea written history was the difference. Cuneiform was not decoded for millennia.

i have watched every episode more than once. Truly...this is brilliant content!

Hope you enjoy it!

My pleasure, Joyce! If you know anyone who would be interested in translating Assyrian subtitles for this episode for a small fee, tell them to get in contact.

Is your spoken Assyrian the same as the written cuneiform? That's amazing.

@@yakamen Assyrians today speak Neo-Aramaic dialects, not Akkadian seen in cuneiform tablets, which gradually fell out of use as Aramaic became the lingua franca of the region. However, it is important to note that the Assyrian empire used Aramaic as a secondary language starting in the 8th century B.C., and modern Neo-Aramaic dialects spoken by ethnic Assyrians descend from this form of Aramaic. Aramaic texts from the Assyrian empire were not really preserved however.

​@@yakamen There is significant linguistic change at the distance of 3000 years.

Thank you my friend!

Every single episode is a masterpiece! I couldn’t agree more.

Legendary stuff this Fall of Civilisations, a treasure trove.

The History Channel is to History analogous with what a McFlurry is to nutrition.

Alf wardey....I'm from Hassake,Syria.🖖

What's there to be proud most middle east coming to Christian countries in Europe

In old days that was the begining of our CIvilisation today so poor , huge control by religions especialy Islam as a retarder of our time same s with the Christianity especialy VAtican and Inquisition in the past

@@Sukira69 Syria was a Christian country until the 13th century. Assyrians are known to b the first people to believe in Jesus. I live in Cacanada now and certainly not to proud to say it. My parents brought us here because of a poster they saw in magazines. Million times more proud to be Syrian than Cacanadian and hope to go back as soon as the G7 stop founding all those terrorists.

@@Sukira69 Don’t get touchy, incel. Clearly you immediately took it as a challenge lol. You ever been proud of something your country achieved? Yes. And did you personally have anything to do with that achievement? No. He probably meant proud as in he thinks it is very cool/interesting to have been born in a city that was literally already old 5,000 years before most of Europe’s oldest cities were even born.

Yes, they put me to sleep too. I mean that in the nicest way lol.

I loved it. He really took a dig at her like kids today do having to have the latest fashion sports shoes.

Cant agree more. Excellent illustration of the scale of time and human experience within it.

I have to admit that I have always lumped all tha ancient civilisations together, but this really made me realise the large timescale they cover.

Love you surname...

Thanks for listening my friend

Another you might really like then is History time, amazing channel.

I wish the videos were annotated with the names of the ruins like the one at 14.29.

If this was on the history channel, at least 75% of it would have attributed the events to aliens.

history Channel did use to be like this. I remember ancient history Tuesdays. I used to watch shows in the morning before I went to school about letters that soldiers in world war 1 and 2 wrote to their loved ones from the front lines. then I didnt watch history channel for a couple years when I first moved out from my parents and it completely changed. i dont know what happened, the only explanation that makes sense is... ALIENS

"History Channel" is just a name they named themselves. What's with the constant comparisons in these comments?

Pfft. This is a terrible synopsis of Anabasis. Clearchus did not die in battle at Cunaxa as insinuated here, he broke the enemy on the wing he'd been assigned without losing a single man and then chased them from the field. When they camped that night, it was with the surety Cyrus' army had been victorious. He would only be slain when negotiating safe passage for he and the other Greek mercenaries. Xenophon is not merely one of the greatest writers of antiquity in terms of clarity and quality of prose, but the greatest in all ancient Greece. To summarize Anabasis without having obviously read even its opening pages casts serious doubt on this "thorough research" and "graceful compos(ition)" -whatever that means.

@@Hello.Sailor More of a cultural history than an military account. :)

@@Hello.Sailor I don't feel your criticism is justified as in which format of history has there been an account of everything in that somebody else always knows another account or a little more detail.

@@khiljinagor8976 I disagree, the way Cunaxa is talked about here compresses events in an unsatisfactory manner that could have been eliminated by simply stating "Later, some days after the battle...." The way that it is worded struck me as a pretty bad way of stating it given that this is a 3 hour video and 3 extra seconds which would give a far better idea of that little aspect of the Anabasis and would have made it far better. I understand that the point here was to discuss other aspects of the Anabasis and not the battle, but that bit about Clearchus stuck out at me like a red thumb waving a tie dye flag on top of a car in the middle of a busy intersection. Clearly one part of it, was to use it to show that Xenophon wasn't to the ten thousand what Napoleon was to the invasion of Egypt. Getting a battlefield promotion (or battlefield election as it were) or being an original member of the command staff is a far sight from getting elected to the position in the aftermath of treachery. This gives context to the man who wrote the Anabasis, and what he was doing there (at least during that part of the journey). btw, it is not so much about the inclusion of detail, it is the implication of the wording. As Pierre Abelard said almost a thousand years ago in Sic et Non: Be precise in the use of words and expect precision from others. These are words that have meaning that transcends the time, place and reason they were written.

@@whyjnot420 But this really is about Classical Greek history.

@@yergagiamo Thank you responding. I do not know how to read it though.

I need to watch an episode at least 3x to understand it all, so it's like getting triple the episodes.

Excellent series, I would recommend it to friends & family.

@@saul2007t Of course 👍🏼

Excellent history & story telling delivery, with visuals. Great for homeschoolers...etc.

@@saul2007t In der Tat 👍🏼

Hopefully not

@@nikbombo6648 L

there are no more assyrians, babylonians or ancient people nowadays. you live in that area doesnt make you one of them.

@@henrypahulu40 my genetics say otherwise😝😝😝😝😝😝😝

@@aurionlover4128unless you are to be king you will suffer like everyone else Genetics or not I am not sure where you get your thinking from You should work on that

I like these alot too. Very interesting. Your comment is spot on about the past repeating itself.

the time will come sam

Everything crumbles to dust, there is nothing to treasure about vanity

Iraqi Christian or Assyrian?

@@henogee8320 its complicated in my book, I know I was born in Iraq, I know I am a Chaldean Christian. I know I speak Aramaic but I can not prove to anyone that I belong to the ancient Assyrians that ruled that area 2500 years ago.

@@iraq1974 you got point ,but you can say your chaldian .

History channel should step aside and give up it’s shame title.

Lol. The history channel is anything but. Now it’s ancient aliens and conspiracy twaddle. You know, in my country (Ireland) history is now an optional subject for secondary school age students, and I think this a shame and a mistake. The old saying “those who forget history, are doomed to repeat it” means more and more these days.

History Channel should shut down. It's trash. Everybody knows that. It's just a name, that has nothing to do with History.

First five minutes classic trick 🤣...I use it on myself and my maths and physics students :)

@@jonathangeddes9786 😁

5 star documentary.

@@Perseverence no

It's one thing to get hooked into and lose 3 hours watching a series of sorry videos, it's entirely another matter to be hooked into and lose yourself in a single 3 hour video.

Another vote for "verbal cadence" as a great way to describe Paul Cooper's pace. I agree, the cadence allows for absorption, and like you, I have watched a couple of these more than once, and I am starting to learn names and remember details too.

yup feel the same

TV is going the way of the dinosaurs. I rarely watch it.

This is exactly how I watch them! The 3 hours seems daunting but it's all beautifully chopped up into little stories that slowly form into the big picture at the end and can absolutely be watching in small bite sized chunks until you have watched it all, truly some amazing content.

Would have been half the length if he didn't draw his words out so much. Unnecessarily long.

And European scholars have deciphered all the writing systems which describe the history you are so proud of. And Europeans have reconstructed every detail of the civilizations you are so proud of! And Europeans were the first to perform archaeological research in the middle-east. NEVER FORGET THAT!

​@@arthurfleck1554Why did you feel the need to awash us with your bigotry?

@@idiotequedwaal Prove me wrong! Ignoramus.

​@@arthurfleck1554 typical colonial European crying over a civilization that's not his , cry is silence.

Name one arab who has translated an ancient language on his own, or has done any original archeological research?

Many Hours.

Thanks my friend! Yes it took a long time

Especially those depictions of the lion hunts near the end of the empire. So much detail!

@@FallofCivilizations Thanks

@@FallofCivilizations that one voice actor is a bit too enthused, it was hard to focus on the meaning because of the exaggerated prosody.

The videos are so much more thank listening, right?? The footage is great, even the computer generated images. I thought some of it was real, but I had to look hard at it, lol.

Don't feel guilty. Knowledge should be free!

@@FallofCivilizations This ^ Thank you ❤️

@Fall of Civilizations I want to thank you too. These documentaries are so remarkable. The quality is excellent, & I relish each one. I can hardly find anything on TV worth watching. You're my go-to RU-vid and now. :^)

​@@FallofCivilizations what you are doing should not be done for free....... Not for your team... More money = more content

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Re-Ashur-ing. ;)

Thank you! Hope you enjoy this continuation of the story.

Is like listening to Dan carlins Judgement of Nineveh;…. However yours is so entrancing, intoxicating;…. Even magical in story telling ✨ sincerely appreciate all you do

I have listened to it over 2000 times

where is the pre-visual podcast aired/published?

On Spotify

There always is one of you isn’t there, clutching at straws, relating everything to being black and stretching every narrative to somehow fit an Afrocentric narrative. While I suppose one could draw comparisons between Assyrian treatment of the nations they subjugated and the treatments of Africans by Europeans during colonisation, there is little else relating your bizarre assertions to the content of documentary and unlike in this documentary your assertions are not backed by tireless research and volumes of objective evidence to support your claims. Take your propaganda elsewhere, maybe some BLM rally or something. They might actually believe the wildly speculative assertions you make. Next thing you are going try to tell me is that Wakanda is a real place, and the only reason we can’t see it is because of its amazing cloaking technology.🙄

I highly agree with u. All ur response comments have been deleted or hidden. Shame on u utube.