and then they also lost

Twas a noble last stand

Thanks :D

Indeed, he’s incredibly objective and well sourced. Well synthetic few minutes.

Awesome name LOL

True, please do more on that topic, its so fascinating and there is nit enough content on YT!

@Charles brown R U a crazy person in a nuthouse that they let watch YT? The Assyrians did not have flat noses or big top lips and look at their surviving painting...stop trying to steal middle easterner's history and appreciate the cool things your west African ancestors did :)

Kick the bucket over a bucket

That can't possibly be true, I know Italins aren't the sharpest knifes in the drawer but surely they have more sense than that?

@@darthseti9492 What do you mean? Italians have one of the highest IQ ratings among european nations.

@@darthseti9492 Obviously Italians are not sharp knifes, but they do have very sharp swords and no common sense. That is the moral of the story.

NarwhalsForHire it’s a funny story, but it’s actually just a legend. Modena took the bucket as a trophy AFTER they defeated Bologna, not before. The war of the bucket was still started for a stupid reason, with the two cities fighting over a small fort.

And they were similarly unpopular with their neighbours.

@GravityIsMystery manifest destiny?

GravityIsMystery history always repeats itself so the southwestern United States will suffer from an invasion of migrants from Latin America , thus causing civil unrest and political movements toward succession . I.e. a new New Mexico lol

​@@Blindanddumb The Assyrians' neighbors were thieves and bandits. thieves and Bandits hate people who prevent them from stealing.

@@prussianprince7828 no, but it was fill with gold coins.

@@farhanatashiga3721 it wasnt. the theft of the bucket was only the casus belli, beforehand there were numerous skirmishes between the two city states, the bucket was an insult and the last straw.

also, you can still see the bucket in a museum in the city that stole it

@@farhanatashiga3721 no it wasn't.

@@lts3248 hence the lame excuse

It's even more nuts being than that, because the British traders were actually smugglers who weren't allowed by the British Empire to trade in their territory. So they used places in SE Asia as bases halfway between British India and China, where they would illegally buy the opium and then smuggle it into China. After which point the British Empire gave military protection to the traders they had declared to be criminals, but they weren't operating in the British Empire. Why, they were fair British businessmen abroad under the global watch of the crown!

@@Rynewulf Enjoy Fetanyl in the 21st century i guess

Surprisingly, the Assyrian army marching also works with the Cantina tune.

Haha that is awesome

As an ethnic Assyrian with the beard to show for it, this is hilarious 😂

I mean both the theme and the army would've been very intimidating for the kingdoms they invaded

@@SandlotRider q

huntclan hunt “I’ll find some proof after I beat yo ass.”

what shall we blame on spain? (explosion) let's blame the maine on spain. so they blame the maine on spain. (some yellow journalism and territorial changes later) now we're in business.

Wait wait wait, let me get this right. So the Maine, and Spain, stay mainly in the plain?

In the past USA wanted islands more than oil and Spain had both Cuba and Puerto Rico plus bonus Phillipines :)

@@PMMagro It was like the US hit a mid life crisis in the late 1800s.

Timur= 'Genghis Khan 2.0:Islam reloaded'

That is a very good excuse for Turks. You don't know what an insult means for them.

@@takshashila2995 Timur is Turco-Moğol.

@@unknownmf2599 yes he is

@@unknownmf2599 His horde is composed of turco-mongols but he was a mongol from the barlas tribe

Haha...that is pretty lame

Citation? I want to know the exact phrasing for this tard clause. Also, nice find m8

​@@SaintJames14 Beck, Politics of Power, 41; Buck, Boiotia and the Boiotian League, 112

@@Khanaseur cheers and thanks friend

@@Khanaseur wow, a person on youtube that actually has a source. Respect.

Honestly that's a pretty good reason to go to war

@@hussite7235 yeah because otherwise the taliban and some iraqis from the desert would have swum across the ocean and captured the usa, right?

@@zizouace4890 unfortunately a lot of people seriously think like that lol.

@@zizouace4890 actually I'm going to reverse that situation on you. All I'm going to say is, I'm sure the Taliban and Saddam's Iraq would've preferred a land war in the usa then in Iraq or Afghanistan. I think you misunderstood my comment. All I'm trying to say is, if two great nations are stuck in Thucydides trap, I'd rather wage war in hostile territory than in my own.

@@hussite7235 yeah that's for equal nations even Saddam's Iraq could never land a conventional force on us soil

@Shade Crenshaw Parthia or Sassanid?

@Shade Crenshaw Well, technically, Persia is an ExoNym, meaning a name that is only used by foreigners, there have been multiple pre-Islamic and Islamic states throughout history, that western historians collectively knew them by this name.

@@LionKing-ew9rm Well, is it? Wasnt one of the largest satrapies of Iran called Persia and its people Parsis?

War is part of the DNA of the M.E.

It was the Medians not Persians who took down Assyria.

Woe to the vanquished, as the Gauls first said it.

@@mustafabarzanji9280 The messenger sent to Camilius should have been find out and killed.... History would have been much more interesting.

Thats what imperialist empires do! China, America, Rome, Britain...

A FEW OF THEM

The gauls nearly destroyed rome a few Centuries prior.

Bill wurtz, best history teacher ever

They never got Ethiopia

They never got Thailand

Avery The Cuban-American so you reckon that they refer to the “Assyrian/Babylonian empire” as the “Persian empire” in order to keep the masses confused?

(In john cenas voice:) are you sure about that?

Explosive ReactionsTV pretty badass

Ive read about that, the british may have plundered thr shanti but thwy will never have the stool

hell yeah

Kikuyu Kiiru considering that they got their golden stool, I’d say yeah

Hell yeah, lost the right to self-determination but kept some symbolic artifact. I guess it's the little victories that get us through the day.

I'm hoping for a talented content creator to do a detailed video on Assyria post empire. There's a documentary coming out about it, Assyria A.D.

Thanks Raymond! You're welcome 😎

A lot of people don’t know about our history thanks!

Nietzsche's Ghost pshena khoona

Epic. I have a friend who's (trying to) learn aramaic. I do hope that you guys can achieve at least some sort of autonomy from Iraq. Cheers!

Vacatio Libertas who says they want that...

Myth that the bucket started the war.

In fairness it is the same thing that starts the majority of conflicts. That is our property.

Yea we saw the oversimplified video too

Palmyra wasn’t a temple. It was a city. The current ruins was that of the Roman city. It grew wealthy during the Third Century AD. It’s position was on the crisscross of the trade routes of East and West. As Shapur I invaded the East as Rome was in anarchy, Odenathus a Palmyrene Noble loyal to Rome flight him off and laid the siege to the Persian capital. Then his widow declared the Palymerine Empire with her as regent for her son. Aurelian has none of that and crushed it and by sheer force of will put back Rome together. He then had all trade re-routed away from the city and let his men sack it. That’s why the city became depopulated and eventually became a ruin. It was well preserved thanks to the arid climate of the Middle East. Unfortunately Isis destroyed lots of it.

@Ali Ay lol

Son of Mountain The Assyrians actually built stuff and had an actual civilization. Isis are vermin whose days are numbered. To compare them to the Assyrians is an insult to the Assyrians.

Son of Mountain Honestly that makes it even more unfortunate. Those men fighting for ISIS likely have distant ancestors who helped build that city. And there they are blowing it up because their current religion “justifies” them destroying it.

@@justinpachi3707 , wow , great replies ! although the Assyrians did always seem a lackluster and horrid group !

assyrians did exactly what America is doing today. They brought into their country foreigners and they became enemies and when you bring in enemies into your country, this is what is gonna happen. YOU WILL LOOSE YOUR OWN COUNTRY.

Frankie Fontecchio Agreed, this man's the YT King regarding "Old World" Bronze Age(and arguably Iron Age) history.

He did make a mistake though. It was the nomadic peoples of the Steppe that were the first to use cavalry. They were the first to use chariots too.

Maybe you should be reading. Historians, including video historians like Epimetheus, must interpret the record so disagreement is part of the game.

Thanks Mr Maltasar

I never heard of this one!

blockmasterscott it's quite an interesting story. Here's the link en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_conquest_of_Algeria

:)

Me too

Me too

Beat me to it

That's the first thing I thought of.

@Son of Mountain this dumb bitch comments everywhere and is a extremely racists, zionist dick sucking loser KURD. Traitor Kurds like bow down to the israelis at the cost of their neighbours.

@Son of Mountain Nah that title goes to Syria.

@Son of Mountain and what is Kurdistan? A bunch of gypsy mafia families running a corrupt organisation and selling Iraqi oil to Jews and Turks and killing their fellow Kurds to make other countries happy, while commiting human rights violations against native Assyrians and Yazidis

Honestly that might have been Propaganda made by Augustus.

they had to tell someone they had declared war, wait a few days, and then throw the spear lol. it was their way of bringing law and order to warfare, i think probably getting people used to subjugation

@@austinford1530 if it was just propaganda, it's older than Augustus.

I heard somewhere that later, instead of having a priest go all the way to the region they were declaring war on, they would "give" their enemy a tiny bit of land in Rome and throw the spear into that instead. That's pretty hilarious, if true.

That must have been terribly confusing for the Spanish villagers watching that. "Oh sh## is that guy armed!? Wait why is he speaking to the air in that wacky language? Why did he throw the spear? What's going on here!? And now he just walks away... The f### did I miss!?

Don't you dare drop that muthaf-ckin cake!

Weren't the British tribes *allegedly* supplying rebels in Gaul? I'm sure that was the excuse given

@@Confucius_76 allegedly, they might just been trading normally as they always did

Lol. "We have vaged war so long that we no longer have to come up with a reason"

@@ReasonAboveEverything Seems legit

The Romans had a lot of use for British tin, and Britain made a convenient location for military campaigns with a high chance of success for emperors in a precarious, shaky political position and who had to prove themselves.

HUrah! Good job!

Hellen was, of course, a myth. The wars (there were many) were over power, tribute, and booty.

@@DavidFMayerPhD and Helen had one fine booty 😂😂

@Hoàng Nguyên youtube is censoring real niggas again, so let me rephrase my criticism of thou. Mind your tongue whence thoust speakest of ye Greeks, knave. Lest ye divine hand of ye White Aryan Male be inspired to striketh thee slant eyed race in thy name of Justice and Virtue, my nigga. Get fukt

you had to be there :/

Storm troy they can't stop all of us clap Helen's cheeks. Sounds good to me

Poor?

@@BritishRepublicsn yes poor meaning a bad excuse

@@thebactrian7 it wasn't a bad excuse

@@BritishRepublicsn it was clever but in and out of the matter it wasn’t a good excuse because after evaluation by the senate years later they saw that he was acting in his own interests.

Super duper epic!

they still fight to this day

We epic in being terrorists, which led to their downfall.

@@danirafi6430 they went extinct almost 2000 years ago

@@Coldbrew365 so i dont exist ?

Assyrians were the OG badasses

Thank you Dan, I am glad you liked it!

You're just not paying attention.

@Son of Mountain masod tarazani ?😂😂😂😂😂 La quni tarazani o laquni Kurd ay hushtr

@Son of Mountain rezi kas nakrm tarazni chiya kawada o sak Baba wachi tu d wara aw Kar darbina 😂😂😂 hnd Kari Kura sak Baba anku Kurd tarixtan nitan chark Kurd turk kurdi Irani kurdi suryai zmant wachi farsiya wachi Urdu pakstana damo chawt wachi pakstana hai chiri Saddam la quni tarazani be dbro day tarix bxina tarix hay mlt bshche son of my dick na mountain kafr meshkt wachi mahamada chiri Shia la quni kurd be chiri hamo alame la Quni dayktan be 🖕🏻 ;)

@@abgartheblack8832 khuni la mchobtle awa qurda Ku kol vidyoye at ashuraye bakhztle hadia sqli o slile biyeh qam sarnle bt kurdi

@Son of Mountain o ehi ba badini qsa akaye hahaha dbro Kaka koo bxo

@Son of Mountain bro lo xot tarixi bxina anko xalche dhuoke msaqafn wachi xalche soran nina nawtan la tarixi hich niya asltan farsiya iraniya zmantan wachi Farsi o urdoya ha farsish te'akam koo labar kurdi azanm arbish aznm Farsi wachi kurdiya. Iraq lo Kurd maka Iraq arbish niya esta amrikay e chiya? White people Yan native Americans? Native Americans iraqish awhaya ashurya Kurd arbish niya te'akay la mabastm ziyayr law hnda qsa nakm har ba xot azni Kurd tarixi niya Kurd qawm niya labar tarixi nitan te'akay خداحافظ da yala day

Check out Fall of civilizations podcast the Assyrians-Empire of Iron from Paul Cooper. It's epic and starts with the 10,000 finding the ruins of Assyria. Its absolutely fantastic

Thank You! Fixed it. I don't know why I can't spell yet...I'll give it a couple more years I think I'll get it eventually.

@@EpimetheusHistory you're only human, I wouldn't worry. Absolutely excellent videos every time, thank you!

:)

The king of judah made a bad mistake. He lost more than he gained by allying himself with Tiglath Pileser 3

@@philregaz599 indeed, against his own people.

Agreed

Nineveh

So did bush

@@franciscomm7675 but bush actualy HAD WMD's...

They did, given to them by the US

Too funny,

@Argyrus 47 I think it is because they had a few centuries of having a cavalry advantage (Arabs only had camels at that point) that later empires did not enjoy...later Arabs used camels and horses.

@@EpimetheusHistory Thanks a really good answer!

No one cared to fight for the sand.