The Assyrians were a brutal but impressive people. With a mighty empire.

How the hell do you not have more subscribers. Nothing else like this exists on KZfaq (that I can find) which is accurate and easy to understand and so in depth. With such constant production as well. You’re insanely good man

I have developed an absolute obsession with Mesopotamian history because of Cy’s videos. This channel makes me so so happy 👏🤗😊

As an Assyrian myself who've watched countless documentaries and programs about the ancient Assyrians this definitely belongs to one of the better I've seen. You sir just earned yourself a new subscriber, great work! :)

- Could you not rebel for 5 minutes? - *Babylon rebels*

This is wonderful. 54 minutes of pure history yet not a lecture. Far superior to almost everything out there. I would say that this is the best video on Assyria I have ever seen. Thankyou, Cy.

LOVE your videos Cy. I am a professional genealogist and historical researcher here in Southern California. You are my favorite “go to” channel because this information is so hard to find. You don’t use big, technical words...thank you. You speak clearly and just present the facts in an engaging manner. Your personality also goes a long way in making these videos fun to watch and listen to. I personally love the maps you use in each episode and I screen shot them to help with other research projects that tie in. I agree with what so many other viewers have said - nobody else is doing exactly what you do and in such a way as to stay engaged and actually learn. Keep up the great work please!!!

Last time I was this early, Ashur was still a shrine town.

A great documentary. You have obviously done your homework and research. As an Assyrian and a cultural history buff, I appreciate such videos highlighting our history. Keep them coming. Assyria will rise again.

One of my favorite parts is the reading of the ancient writings. I absolutely love to hear their syntax, the language is beautiful. Thanks for your documentaries, been really chugging the watch time the last week or so. :+) Hope it's helpful.

You helped me pass my CSET exams specifically CSET Social Science SubSet I out of 3. Appreciate you. I passed all 3 without having to retake them. I am rewatching your videos and getting nostalgia. I decided not to be a social science/history teacher, but I love history and love going back to your videos. While they may not be as illustrative and pretty, as other documentaries like to be, you are informative, direct and provide content that is worth note taking and studying :) Much love and respect to your efforts, content, the time you took to make these and I want to affirm the effort you put into these. It is valued, respected and honored. May you be safe, cotinue to succeed in whatever it is you do and enjoy your journey in life :) my name is Vyacheslav Ponomarev, and I thank you kindly.

It's very convenient for the sculptors they only needed to learn one king portrait, but I really wish we could see what these kings really looked like as individuals.

Wow, great program! The art work of the Assyrians is amazing. Thanks Cy for a comprehensive summary of the history of Assyria!

Great vid, Cy. I was why I woke up a few hours before work, then noticed this had been uploaded and knew I wouldn't be going back to sleep. Always found it a bit difficult to watch all of the other Assyrian vids in a single sitting, so this concise history was a great intro / overview. Keep up the good work.

Honestly, l love your channel. So informative in the archeological and historical standards.

You know what the (not) funny thing is? The later Eastern Roman empire (Byzantines) actually committed the same mistakes that led Assyria to its downfall which is also how Eastern Romans eventually fell. Assyria was the Middle Eastern Rome while Babylon was the Middle Eastern Greece.

I'd love it if you did a video devoted to Ashurbanipal, he seems to have been a proper interesting character and, either quite the intellectual, or a great story teller...... which it is, I have no idea. 🤔

Another awesome video. You never fail to present amazing insights into ancient history. I’m captivated. Thank you.

Have been watching a few of your videos over the last couple of days, they are extremely well made. They are well researched, well narrated, very informative with good visuals, and a joy to watch and learn from..... Thankyou.

I really like the quotes and references you give. It is very helpful in understanding the context.

Thanks a lot for the great video as usual! Very informative and captive!:)

Cy I've been patiently waiting for this episode...iam so looking forward to hearing all the facts I know will be in hear. This will go under my very best category THE VAULT... Thanks about to watch it now..😁

I enjoyed it, start to finish ! Thanks for sharing

Thank you so much for such an informative and fascinating story!

Super interesting. Awesome how you also differentiate between Assyrians and other empires at that time

Thanks for your presentation, it's by far the best

thank you very much, Cy, for a tremendous lesson in history!🙏

I learned and waiting for the next. Thanks a lot. Fascinating.

Great video, entertaining from begging to end as well as informative

Great video! Got a little vague around the siege of Judah. Didn’t mention that the king of Judah submitted to the Assyrian yoke and became a vassal again. Also I’ve heard that Shamush-Ukin, Ashurbanipal’s brother that went native in Babylon, burned himself alive in his palace rather than come out and face defeat to his younger brother.

Thank you for your service.

Thank you for these fascinating videos

Very good! The music in the background was a nice touch :D

Amazing summary of Assyrian history!

Cy my friend you did it again. Every time I see your videos I learn new thing about the past.

Hey Cy, another good 1. Thanks.

Thank you for these videos, love history 🙂 God bless.

beautiful, had to pause regularly to study the reliefs in detail

Such great content, fantastic

Great video very informative. I’m a new subscriber!

Hello cy. New sub here. I am a huge history fan. One of the few subjects in school I actually paid attention to. This is def one of the better channels, keep up the great work as I look forward to future vids from u. Have a great day from way up here in maine.

Man I'm so happy I found this channel ever since literally this is all I watch on KZfaq now on my way to work whenever I'm waiting for something and every night to goto sleep and listen and learn lol

Awesome! Assyrian videos keep them coming !!

Watching again 😁 thank you Cy the history guy!

Damn this is an AMAZING doco Thank you :)

Love your background music, Cy, it’s really exciting! Watching this about the Assyrians, I’m intrigued by their style: they have these weird, club-shaped, bottom-heavy hairstyles and chunky, square-cut beards that make them look rather coarse and monolithic. Their limbs are exaggeratedly muscular and their facial expressions look crafty and gloating. The Assyrians come across as the thuggish bullies of the ancient world, an intimidating prospect, unlike the elegant and charming Egyptians.

Finally I am up to here the part of Napupollosar. I skipped this when I first came across your channel. Them Medes are looking great haha

This was interesting good job.

Wow! Really one of the best concise Assyria videos out there. I'm glad you've made this fascinating period more accessible to people than dusty old yellow pages written in boring prose haha. Thanks

Congrats on 100k!

Thank you this was really good

great episode !

The best video about Assyrian Empire.

Really like the doc

Thanks for sharing

Excellent video!

They lived in the fertile crescent, well fed and bored all they had left to do was conquer.

Discovered this channel today and I am impressed with the amount and quality of your research. Just one tiny bit of criticism: the voice-over clips constantly. Maybe it's compressed or limited too harshly in post or maybe you need to lower the recording levels a little. Otherwise: new sub here. :-)

This is a long reply, thank you for taking the tiem to read it :) it is positive lol : Simplicity is what yo ubring to your videos. You do not try to fill it with special effects, videos of people or acting, which can lead to misrepresenting what and how life was back then, since it is a challenge to really know exactly. I dont mind seeing actors and people portraid, but, honestly, its better to see the information you have given, in amazing detail and spectacular simple animations that do no distract but engage the watcher. So many videos, (like coding courses and tutorials suck at really teaching anything, instead its copy and paste) and watching your videos makes me smile to see you really do teach and explain thigns well. The way you go about detailing every little thing is how teaching should be. Because we understand things differently and in different ways you provide detail information that actually helps us watching to conceptualize it for ourselves. The only recommendation I would say, and its not criticism its something I hope helps you in your journey as I continue my own in trying to teach javascript, is conceptualizing history. So, what I mean is, teaching it in such a way that, you create connections, relatable material that could maybe relate to today, or maybe give examples that are synonymous to other things? idk how to explain it. My best explanation is this: when teaching what a variable is in javascript, for example the "const" variable. It is a variable that does not change globally in the code, it stays the same and is not allowed to change. While I can use it elsewhere, anywhere, the contents are the same. To conceptualize this i would say, "well, it is similar to a timecapsule, you place all important and memorable items, you burry it or place it somewhere you will use later but nothing inside changes in the airtight time capsule. You can move it anywhere and use it, but the contents remain the same and unchanged." which is how a "const" variable works in javascript. So this is what I mean. :) i hope that helps, I know in history that dates thousands of years back, conceptualizing can be more difficult but I see it as super important so students and anyone watching can relate, connect and or be represented to see their own ancestors history :)

Excellent. Thank you.

Very nice doku thank you

thanks for the history , really kool stuff

Nice vid. Keep em comin

Thanks so much for making this. I love history and that of the ancient Near East and Mesopotamia, but I can never get my hands on anything to research it. Especially during this lockdown. I really appreciate you making these. Thanks so much keep up the great work!

Gr8 to hear another one about Assyria.. keep it up and stay safe Cy.

Thank you for another fantastic episode! I'm reading the book of Isaiah in the Bible at present, and I noticed last night that I'm nearly to the part about Sennacherib's invasion of Judah. I'm really looking forward to reading it now. God be with you out there everybody. ✝️ :)

Great video

Awesome videos.

At this point I hace bien watching allá the episodes of this playlist just to keep up with the nee vídeos :v thanks for this excelent work. Stay safe

Brother..... You are too good... Love it.......... 👍👍👍

Amazing, keep it up scribe

I love your videos! Thank you for teaching me! Your youtube channel is one of my favorites!!!

That's amazing

keep up the good work. very informative. do yo also have video of ARMENIAN.

thanks... you're realy great

Brilliant...just brilliant!!

Beautiful video as always. I am waiting you tell about Urartu. Take care. Stay home.

Outstanding!

Cy, this was the best hour of my day. Thank you! BTW Cy, I'm still waiting on a video about each ancient city's patron god/goddess and the name of their temple/ziggurat. I can't seem to find them all in my research. One for example... Marduk - Babylon - Esagila or is it Etemenanki. If Im not mistaken, the temple was on top of the ziggurat and they each had a name such as the Marduk example. Etemenanki was the ziggurat, and Esagila was the temple on top. Another would be Ishtar - Uruk - Eanna. Or was she the goddess of Nineveh. All so confusing. If your looking for suggestions, but I know there's more than enough to cover. Love your series. Thanks!

AWSOME! THANKS CY

Thanks for learn about Assyrian Empire

Pretty cool thank you

Used just few houers before "kolokwium" for uni. Much helped.

Great info

You are so under rated

Another great video from you, really enjoyed like i enjoyed the video about Hittites. Definetely Assyrians were great warriors but i have concluded that everyone despised them a lot, maybe for their brutality and their harsh rule i am not sure

Your videos about Assyrian are amazing 👏 you should see what happened to us Assyrian after the Nineveh fell, we lost our land, people and genocides

Yoo what’s the music with the violon? Its so good

Awesome

Where is the music from? Especially the music in the Sennacherib segment.

Thanks for the video love my Assyrian brother

Hey mate! Video was high quality, but I wish at the end you mentioned that although Assyrians almost never saw independence again, they actually remained populous and dominant in Mesopotamia. Under Achaemenid "Athura" or Sassanian "Asoristan", Assyrians actually supplied a large number of soldiers for war and craftsmen/engineers for art/building projects. Ashur city itself was revived, saw an anti-Achaemenid rebellion, evidence of Ashur worship abounds well into the Christian era, and the city itself only truly ended when it was actually sacked by Timurlane in the 14th century AD, when he slaughtered a massive number of Christians. I should also mention that (off the top of my head) Xenophon actually recounted how Assyrians still lived abundantly in and around ruins of ancient cities. It seems the frequent change in ownership between empires didn't stop the rural Assyrians from farming

i like these long summery vids i want to see one about Egypt from the the old kingdom to their subjugation by Assyria

Wow history is amazing and one is the history of the people of Ashur or Assyria today. Peace.

Asurbanipal studied inscriptions on stone that dated before the flood! If only people knew how big that is

Please a series on Ashurbanipal. I hope I spelled correctly. So many names and siege names to absorb. Also there are some carvings I was hoping to find correct info on. The tree with entwined branches and what species is it.what other symbolism did it represent? I'm not sure if only in ancient Sumerian art or also Assyrian do they show bird headed people seem to be pollinating this same tree species and they're carrying small buckets or bags.what are they supposed to represent?Also they are wearing a bracelet with a flower design on it. I was wondering if it's just a seal or if there is other significance. Ok thank you so much for sharing all the ancient histories with us.what a time of opulence and grandeur they created. I often feel so sad for so many of them caught up in the violence during so many power struggles. Seems to be the way of the world for the most part and from the very beginning. Very sad indeed.😢

Could you also do a video on the Mittani? I feel they are not well covered by most

Perfect video for being up at 5:50 AM

This was a great analysis of the history of ancient assyria, yet there are two important assyrian kings that should have been mentioned, in my opinion, Ashur dan I (1179-1134) and ashur bel kala (1073-1056). Edit: Ashur Dan I was important because he fully restored the political stability that had been shattered by the assassination of tukulti ninurta I and laid the foundations for the successful reign of his grandson, tiglath pileser I Also, i don’t think that the middle assyrian empire started to decline with the death of tiglath pileser I. Ashur bel kala managed to keep the empire together and he ruled for almost twenty years (although at the end of his reign, there was a revolt of a pretender king which weaken the empire and allowed tribes to invade)

Man, history with Cy is dope.