WEBVTT - Into Suburbia 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:03.760 Your holster is way more important than you think it is. 0:00:04.280 --> 0:00:06.640 It's just way more important than you think it is. 0:00:06.720 --> 0:00:09.880 What look, and I get that. The holsters not the 0:00:10.600 --> 0:00:13.560 sexy part of carrying firearms. All right, You want to 0:00:13.560 --> 0:00:15.920 talk about your weapon and your ammunition. You want to 0:00:15.920 --> 0:00:17.919 talk about your safety training. You want to talk about 0:00:18.000 --> 0:00:20.080 how you did at the range. Oh, look at my groups. 0:00:20.120 --> 0:00:21.959 I was doing these failure drills today, and all that 0:00:21.960 --> 0:00:24.120 stuff is really important. I mean, really really important. I'm 0:00:24.160 --> 0:00:27.560 not discounting that, but I've known so many people who 0:00:27.600 --> 0:00:30.000 do all those things. 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I 0:01:32.040 --> 0:01:38.040 think about it because we tell these stories about terrible 0:01:38.160 --> 0:01:43.199 things that happened to people long ago, and we're so 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:49.840 removed from it by time, can't see pictures of it, 0:01:52.200 --> 0:01:55.560 that it almost doesn't seem real. I mean, I sit 0:01:55.640 --> 0:02:00.960 here every single day and I tell you a story 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:04.680 from history, thirty thousand foot views story. Remember, if any 0:02:04.720 --> 0:02:07.920 of this stuff fascinates you, dig I have to I 0:02:07.960 --> 0:02:10.880 have to gloss over so much or the show'd be 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:15.959 ten hours a day. But we tell these stories, and 0:02:18.760 --> 0:02:25.800 sometimes even to me, they just seem like stories something 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:33.799 somebody made up somewhere, especially the ancient, ancient stuff that's 0:02:34.000 --> 0:02:39.080 extra horrific. We talked about Assyrians before, we'll talk about 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:41.079 them a little today. That's not what we're focusing on. 0:02:41.120 --> 0:02:45.280 But the things they used to do to people, playing 0:02:45.400 --> 0:02:50.880 people alive. It doesn't seem real. It's it's it's something, 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:54.560 it's something out of the Game of Thrones. It's not real, 0:02:55.880 --> 0:03:05.120 but it is real. That person may have lived long, 0:03:05.280 --> 0:03:11.280 long ago, but was a very real human being, a 0:03:11.680 --> 0:03:15.160 very real human being that had to go through something 0:03:15.200 --> 0:03:21.920 like that. What goes through your mind. You are sitting 0:03:21.960 --> 0:03:29.160 in a Babylonian court, you're being judged. They have a law, 0:03:29.240 --> 0:03:31.440 they have judges will get to that in a minute. 0:03:33.080 --> 0:03:36.800 And they passed down a sentence that you have to 0:03:36.880 --> 0:03:42.720 have your lips cut off, your eyes gouged out of 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:49.040 your head. What what does that feel like? Because I 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:53.880 say this because I have this fascination with law and 0:03:54.080 --> 0:03:57.920 order and courts and cops and judges and lawyers, and 0:03:57.960 --> 0:04:01.720 really I have this fascination with prisoners. I think about 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:03.920 this all the time when we see a prisoner on 0:04:04.000 --> 0:04:06.800 TV these days, you know, they'll do the in court 0:04:06.960 --> 0:04:14.480 room video or sketch and you're sitting there facing the 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:18.640 death penalty and you don't know what the jury's going 0:04:18.720 --> 0:04:22.760 to say, and you sit there and they stand up 0:04:22.800 --> 0:04:28.440 and say the word guilty. What does that exact moment 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:34.560 feel like? Is it so horrible it doesn't even seem real? 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:42.960 And that's for that's for an American prison. I'm not 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:46.160 saying our prisons are great, but that's not a sentence 0:04:46.200 --> 0:04:50.680 to have somebody slice your lips off. What does that 0:04:50.839 --> 0:05:00.600 feel like? It is? It is something how absolutely vicious 0:05:01.240 --> 0:05:07.360 the ancient world was. Maybe we didn't know any better, 0:05:09.040 --> 0:05:11.960 Maybe maybe that was just how it had to be, 0:05:13.440 --> 0:05:18.279 But it is amazing that that is real, that that 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:23.600 stuff really happened. So we're going to do just a 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:32.400 brief overview of a story today Mesopotamia. We're going to 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:38.360 focus on ancient Iraq, Iran, Israel. Obviously none of them 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:40.880 were called that at the time. We're going to focus 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:47.880 on that area and the beginning of it, or the 0:05:47.920 --> 0:05:53.520 beginning of what we know the first real civilization. We know. 0:05:54.960 --> 0:06:00.240 There's probably one you haven't really heard of before, Sumeria. 0:06:00.880 --> 0:06:05.600 Sumeria is the one who really laid down a lot 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:11.760 of the framework. You know, people began to come together. 0:06:12.080 --> 0:06:14.400 They began to come together so they could farm in 0:06:14.600 --> 0:06:18.480 mass They began to come together more and more in 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:25.120 these larger cities for protection, protection against raiding tribes, protection 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:32.960 against violence. And this civilization arose all the Samerians. And 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:36.920 what's shocking is we know a lot about the Samarians, 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:40.760 even that we're talking six thousand years ago. We know 0:06:40.839 --> 0:06:45.719 a lot about the Samarians because they wrote things down 0:06:46.000 --> 0:06:50.240 on clay instead of paper. We lost we've lost so 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:52.560 much of history. We've lost so much history that came 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:55.520 after the Samarians. But a lot of that's because it 0:06:55.600 --> 0:06:58.680 was written on paper. Building burns down. Written on paper, 0:06:58.760 --> 0:07:03.040 history gone. Sumerians are etching their stuff on clay tablets. 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:09.360 We still have them today. And the Sumerians came up 0:07:09.400 --> 0:07:15.000 with writing as far as we know. And do you 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:20.640 know why writing came about? Initially it came about because 0:07:20.760 --> 0:07:25.360 people were gathering in these cities and there was no 0:07:25.600 --> 0:07:29.520 way to keep track of the logistical needs of a 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:34.000 city without writing something down. So they created writing. The 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:39.800 Sumerians created the wheel. They really were the civilization there. Now, 0:07:39.800 --> 0:07:41.040 I'm not going to go into this because I know 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:43.960 somebody's gonna scream at me that, no, you don't understand 0:07:44.000 --> 0:07:47.040 that the Chinese were already doing this. The Chin. I 0:07:47.120 --> 0:07:51.560 know that. I know that because we can only go 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:53.880 off of what we think we know. But there's so 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:56.040 much that didn't get written down. There was probably a 0:07:56.200 --> 0:08:00.520 gigantic civilization out there before the Sumerians that got wiped 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:02.720 off the map and didn't have writing, and therefore we'll 0:08:02.760 --> 0:08:06.560 never ever know about them, lost to history. But the 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:09.520 Sumerians are here and they begin to settle this area, 0:08:09.600 --> 0:08:14.600 like I said, big cities, farming, and then we get 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:18.960 the Acadians. Now, what the Acadians were to the Sumerians 0:08:19.600 --> 0:08:25.720 were stupid immigrant barbarians. Tell me, if you've heard this 0:08:25.760 --> 0:08:32.200 story before, large powerful empire has some rough and tough 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:38.839 immigrant people it considers to be barbarians, allows them within 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:44.400 its borders, does not properly disperse them in its borders. 0:08:46.559 --> 0:08:51.320 They grow in size and grow in size, until one 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:54.520 day they are more powerful than the country that allowed 0:08:54.559 --> 0:08:57.480 them in and they take it over. No, I'm not 0:08:57.559 --> 0:09:01.240 doing some American immigration compares. And it's just stunning how 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:05.480 often that happens throughout history. We welcomed them then, and 0:09:05.559 --> 0:09:07.600 now there's a lot of them. Wow, now there's a 0:09:07.600 --> 0:09:10.000 lot of them. Oh wow, Now they're running the show. 0:09:11.920 --> 0:09:16.280 And a man rose out of this called Sargon the Great. 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:21.320 What a great ancient name. Sargon the Great, the Acadian king. 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:25.880 And while Sumeria gets a lot of credit for being 0:09:27.400 --> 0:09:30.640 one of the first settled societies, you know, writing the 0:09:30.720 --> 0:09:34.920 wheel things like that, Sargon the Great gets most of 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:41.160 the historical credit for teaching the world what an empire is. 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:45.439 Isn't that odd that nobody knew that? It just wasn't 0:09:45.480 --> 0:09:47.640 something that occurred to people. Wait a minute, hold on, 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:52.240 I can I can take a powerful army and take 0:09:52.280 --> 0:09:57.520 over there, and take over there, and take over there, 0:09:57.559 --> 0:10:02.760 and it'll all be mine. I wonder if, and I 0:10:02.840 --> 0:10:04.960 know this is a stupid thing to wonder. I get that. 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:09.520 I wonder if that happened on purpose or if that 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:12.040 was one of those things that just kind of happened. 0:10:12.440 --> 0:10:14.840 You know, you have your Sargon the Great, you have 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:17.760 this powerful armor. You have your city, the city next 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:20.960 door to you. You guys getting a tussle over something, 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:23.000 and so you just fight him and you beat him, 0:10:23.040 --> 0:10:25.280 and you're looking around and you think, I like it here, 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:28.480 I think I'll stay. And then you get in another 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:30.720 argument with the next city over and the same thing happened. 0:10:30.800 --> 0:10:32.360 You look around, you think I like it here, I 0:10:32.360 --> 0:10:38.600 think I'll stay, and soon you own it all. Either way, 0:10:39.840 --> 0:10:55.680 it didn't end with Sargon. These are uncertain financial times, 0:10:55.720 --> 0:11:00.400 and boy is that putting that mildly we have. I mean, 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:02.600 you heard these numbers. I just talked about it on 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:06.560 the show today. You heard the numbers about small businesses 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:09.520 going out of business, large corporations going out of business, 0:11:09.559 --> 0:11:13.000 fifty million people unemployed. I'm not trying to scare you, 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:16.200 but I am trying to wake you up. Don't look 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:20.600 at that stock market number and convince yourself the economy's fine. 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:25.120 Convince yourself that well everything will be fine. There's going 0:11:25.240 --> 0:11:28.480 to be a correction, because you can't rot out the 0:11:28.520 --> 0:11:32.160 pillars that hold an economy up and not have consequences, 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:35.560 and that's what we're doing. It's not a time to panic. 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:38.640 The sky isn't falling, but it is a time to 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:43.679 get yourself a gold ira so you can diversify. Go 0:11:43.840 --> 0:11:48.360 to Gold Alliance dot com slash jesse. That's Gold Alliance 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:51.360 dot com. Slash jesse gets you up to five thousand 0:11:51.360 --> 0:11:58.280 dollars in free gold and silver coins. Jesse. Kelly backs in. 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:23.440 Sargon the Great is great creates for himself an empire, 0:12:23.920 --> 0:12:30.400 but it doesn't last forever, because nothing lasts forever. And remember, 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:34.720 they're all just trying to figure this out at this 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:40.680 point in time. They're all working this out. And to 0:12:40.800 --> 0:12:42.720 hear me talk about it, it's going to make it 0:12:42.800 --> 0:12:45.960 sound like this lasted. You know, it's twenty years and 0:12:46.000 --> 0:12:50.360 they figured things out. We are quite literally talking about 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:55.520 thousands of years. It's just so long, and things take 0:12:55.640 --> 0:13:00.000 so long. In the ancient times, after Sargon the Great, 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:03.520 the Amyrites came. I know you've heard of them. They 0:13:03.559 --> 0:13:07.640 were also considered to be barbarians. Tell me if you've 0:13:07.679 --> 0:13:10.520 heard stop me, if you've heard this before, and then 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:16.680 the Amayrites began to really settle down, create big cities. 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:21.640 In out of big cities they created came what we 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:29.400 know as Babylon. Now, Babylon is an interesting, interesting society. 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:36.560 Babylon's interesting for a couple of different reasons. One, everybody 0:13:36.600 --> 0:13:41.560 who came after them was fascinated by them and admired them. 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:46.040 For the most part. I'm talking about people like the Greeks, 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:49.720 the Assyrians will get to that in a minute. Who 0:13:49.720 --> 0:13:54.680 existed with them, The Romans, They admired Babylon. You've heard 0:13:54.760 --> 0:13:57.760 probably of the hanging gardens of Babylon. You've seen a 0:13:57.800 --> 0:14:02.760 million TV shows in movies named Babylon something. You can 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:07.800 go google it. There's something about this society that fascinates us. 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:17.839 Also didn't exactly get the best press in the Bible, understandably, 0:14:17.920 --> 0:14:24.120 so clearly God was not a fan. You can It's 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:27.320 not just not just the old Bible either. We'll get 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:30.480 to we'll get to the stuff with Nebuchadnezzar and the Jews, 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:36.440 but you can find Babylon and revelations. They're talking about 0:14:36.480 --> 0:14:39.400 the horror of Babylon. I'm sorry to put it so bluntly, 0:14:39.440 --> 0:14:45.920 but that's that's right there, So there was there was 0:14:45.920 --> 0:14:50.640 a divide there understandably. So keep in mind as we 0:14:50.720 --> 0:14:54.440 talk about Babylon today and Babylon's advancements and Assyrians and 0:14:54.520 --> 0:14:58.640 things like that, and obviously there are historically some really 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:05.040 cool things. We're also talking about people who practiced child sacrifice, 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:09.720 never a good thing. And let's just dwell on that 0:15:09.800 --> 0:15:12.960 for a moment, because I always find this to be 0:15:14.440 --> 0:15:22.320 sick and still fascinating at the same time. Religions like 0:15:22.440 --> 0:15:24.640 the Babylonians, they're going to come up with a religion, 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:26.920 and they did, and they had gods of barley and 0:15:26.960 --> 0:15:28.960 gods of this, and guards of the gods of that. 0:15:29.120 --> 0:15:34.480 If their main god was Marduk, how do you, in 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:38.280 the process of creating your religion over a long period 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:43.360 of time, how do you look at children and think, 0:15:43.920 --> 0:15:48.840 if we kill that child, that will be helpful. The 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:51.520 thing is with all these ancient societies, in the different 0:15:51.520 --> 0:15:54.840 ways they viewed things, and they create all these gods 0:15:54.840 --> 0:15:57.520 out of thin air and stuff. I get it. I'm 0:15:57.560 --> 0:16:01.160 not encouraging it, but I understand it. The ancient Greeks, 0:16:01.160 --> 0:16:04.120 do you have a god of war, you have a 0:16:04.120 --> 0:16:07.280 god of the ocean? Poseidon a god of the underworld. Heydies, 0:16:07.320 --> 0:16:09.680 you're trying to make sense of the world. Okay, fine, 0:16:09.840 --> 0:16:13.240 I get that. How does one get from that to 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:21.960 let me murder this baby? And I understand we are 0:16:22.000 --> 0:16:24.720 all products of our culture. You've heard me talking about 0:16:24.720 --> 0:16:26.760 it a million times. That's why I try not to 0:16:26.840 --> 0:16:31.200 judge historical people, because they were just they were following 0:16:31.200 --> 0:16:35.560 whatever was acceptable in their culture. But again, it's a child. 0:16:37.080 --> 0:16:42.280 If you're the priest, parent, priestess, whatever it may be, 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:51.000 and you're told to do this, is there nothing inside 0:16:51.040 --> 0:16:56.840 of you that says this isn't right. And we're not 0:16:56.960 --> 0:16:59.960 even just talking about not that this would be any better. 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:04.040 We're not talking about laying the child child down for 0:17:04.200 --> 0:17:10.000 lethal injection here, we're talking throwing your child into the flames. 0:17:11.119 --> 0:17:16.120 How does one get to be that evil? And not 0:17:16.160 --> 0:17:21.600 only that evil, a society that accepts it, not one person, 0:17:21.600 --> 0:17:25.960 there's always one nut out there. A society that accepts that. 0:17:25.960 --> 0:17:33.000 That blows me away. It absolutely blows me away. So 0:17:33.080 --> 0:17:35.120 we'll set that aside for now, but keep in mind 0:17:35.160 --> 0:17:41.119 that's what we're dealing with. But the Babylonians rise, and 0:17:41.320 --> 0:17:47.160 they rise quickly and setting the child sacrifice stuff. They 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:51.600 really lay down the model for the ancient world as 0:17:51.720 --> 0:17:58.640 what a air fingers quote civilized society should be. We're 0:17:58.680 --> 0:18:03.440 talking cities of a hundred thousand people. That is so 0:18:03.640 --> 0:18:08.920 absurdly massive. They didn't have cities of one hundred thousand 0:18:08.960 --> 0:18:14.480 people for centuries after this. That is absurdly massive. The 0:18:14.520 --> 0:18:19.200 Assyrians were doing it too, and Babylon rises up and 0:18:19.240 --> 0:18:26.119 they become this center of culture of science. They're studying 0:18:26.200 --> 0:18:29.760 the stars. It was really interesting as I was doing 0:18:29.800 --> 0:18:34.400 a bunch of reading on Babylon. They're scientists. They were 0:18:34.560 --> 0:18:38.400 huge on science and studying nature and studying this. Their 0:18:38.520 --> 0:18:44.760 scientists were very much, not necessarily part of their religion, 0:18:45.600 --> 0:18:49.120 but under the umbrella of their religion. And I got 0:18:49.160 --> 0:18:58.560 to thinking, what's changed? So are ours now? If you 0:18:58.600 --> 0:19:03.639 consider our national religion to have shifted from Christianity haha 0:19:03.720 --> 0:19:08.640 up hears Chris, from Christianity to Leftism, and I think, 0:19:08.880 --> 0:19:13.240 I say it has. Obviously I do not view that 0:19:13.280 --> 0:19:18.440 as a progression, but it simply has. Scientists in any 0:19:18.520 --> 0:19:22.920 society serve under the umbrella of that society's religion. They do. 0:19:23.640 --> 0:19:30.159 But anyway, Babylon extremely advanced and a man comes along 0:19:31.480 --> 0:19:37.119 and creates something that's going to sound odd. It's going 0:19:37.160 --> 0:19:40.800 to sound odd, because how could you create something that's 0:19:40.840 --> 0:19:45.560 always existed, Well, it didn't always exist. Hammer Robbie or 0:19:45.600 --> 0:19:48.439 Hammer Robbie, depending on how educated you are, and you 0:19:48.440 --> 0:19:52.679 know how we educated, I'm not. He rises as a 0:19:52.760 --> 0:19:56.399 ruler of Babylon. The man reigned for forty three years, 0:19:56.440 --> 0:19:59.040 which in and of itself is incredible. To live for 0:19:59.040 --> 0:20:01.679 forty three years back in these times, it's amazing. Reigned 0:20:01.680 --> 0:20:08.399 for forty three years, and he came up with written down, 0:20:09.080 --> 0:20:14.639 established law, a rule of law. It's called hammer Abbie's Code. 0:20:16.800 --> 0:20:22.439 Isn't it astounding to think about? That? Not existing at 0:20:22.480 --> 0:20:26.879 all before hammer Abbie? Isn't that amazing to think about? 0:20:27.520 --> 0:20:30.480 It was one of those things where the strong ruled 0:20:30.480 --> 0:20:38.040 the week. Societies were ruled by monarchs. Cases of crimes, 0:20:38.760 --> 0:20:43.359 whatever they may be, are decided by the king, or 0:20:43.400 --> 0:20:46.680 by the king's appointed governors, or by the king's appointed judges. 0:20:47.000 --> 0:20:49.959 Now you asked, Jesse, but what were those crimes? Again, 0:20:50.320 --> 0:20:53.800 totally decided by the king, totally decided by the governor, 0:20:55.040 --> 0:21:00.199 completely up to them. Guess what I just decided? What 0:21:00.280 --> 0:21:04.320 you just did to crime? Okay, well, what does that mean. 0:21:04.480 --> 0:21:06.560 It means we're gonna couch your eyeballs out. 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Yes, 0:23:04.440 --> 0:23:07.200 I see what's going on in Wisconsin, and yes, I'm 0:23:07.200 --> 0:23:09.320 gonna give you my thoughts on it. And just a 0:23:09.359 --> 0:23:11.680 few here, we're just gonna talk a little bit more 0:23:11.720 --> 0:23:17.480 ancient world stuff. It's it's cool. I find this stuff 0:23:17.520 --> 0:23:21.879 to be supremely fascinating. And I'd love to take a 0:23:21.960 --> 0:23:26.320 quick time machine trip back to Babylon and check things out. 0:23:29.320 --> 0:23:32.159 Maybe stop a child sacrifice or two, Chris on the 0:23:32.200 --> 0:23:35.160 way out of town, throw the child in my time 0:23:35.200 --> 0:23:39.560 machine teleport back. That would probably be a bit of 0:23:39.600 --> 0:23:42.200 an adjustment for the little tyke, and depending on how 0:23:42.240 --> 0:23:47.080 old he is. But yeah, no, this is an iPhone. No, 0:23:47.240 --> 0:23:49.520 we don't know. We don't etch things on a tablet. No, 0:23:49.600 --> 0:23:52.440 why are you pooping in the road. I'm kidding. I 0:23:52.560 --> 0:23:59.240 think they had toilets quit. Now, Babylon rises becomes this 0:23:59.359 --> 0:24:04.280 cultural censor. A lot of people get confused about Babylon 0:24:04.560 --> 0:24:09.480 and Assyria because it's really easy to get confused who 0:24:09.560 --> 0:24:15.200 came first, what they kind of came up together. Babylon 0:24:15.440 --> 0:24:21.160 rose in the south, Assyria rose in the north. Babylon, 0:24:21.560 --> 0:24:26.159 by all accounts, was the more powerful one early, and 0:24:26.240 --> 0:24:31.159 then the Assyrians rose, and well, like we talked about 0:24:31.240 --> 0:24:38.639 on that show, the Assyrians were militarily absurdly good and 0:24:40.240 --> 0:24:46.320 their culture was absurdly brutal. And the Assyrians rose and 0:24:46.560 --> 0:24:52.600 dominated everybody around them, and eventually they took over Babylon. 0:24:53.880 --> 0:24:56.320 But Babylon is one of those places. If it sounds 0:24:56.359 --> 0:24:59.080 like I kind of admire them child sacrifice or not, 0:24:59.160 --> 0:25:02.800 it's because I do. And this is the reason why. Well, 0:25:02.800 --> 0:25:06.320 it's not all the science stuff and all that Babylon 0:25:07.600 --> 0:25:12.560 Everybody eventually found out it's just virtually impossible to have 0:25:12.680 --> 0:25:17.160 Babylon as part of your empire because they will always rebel. 0:25:17.560 --> 0:25:20.680 They don't think they're supposed to be part of your empire. 0:25:21.119 --> 0:25:26.480 They're just always going to give you problems no matter what. Eventually, 0:25:26.480 --> 0:25:34.440 the Assyrians they get a king named Sonacarebe. Sonacareb as 0:25:34.600 --> 0:25:38.520 always has all kinds of problems with Babylon. Now I 0:25:38.600 --> 0:25:41.920 should lay out for you. While the Assyrians were brutal 0:25:42.040 --> 0:25:45.119 and tearing people's skin off and doing all the terrible 0:25:45.160 --> 0:25:49.359 things Assyria is known for doing. And they did take 0:25:49.400 --> 0:25:56.080 over Babylon. They still had a humongous admiration for Babylon. 0:25:57.119 --> 0:25:59.840 They when they took it over, they essentially decided that's 0:26:00.040 --> 0:26:07.199 out of our cultural center too. Again, everybody admired Babylon. Sanakareb, however, 0:26:07.359 --> 0:26:12.280 can't seem to get Babylon under control. It's driving him insane. 0:26:13.040 --> 0:26:18.119 He eventually sends his son down there to rule Babylon. 0:26:18.160 --> 0:26:20.720 All right, I'm sending my boy down to get you 0:26:20.840 --> 0:26:26.879 people in line. Well, Sanakareb's son takes a bunch of 0:26:26.880 --> 0:26:30.000 the Babylonians and fights a little battle with someone else. 0:26:30.040 --> 0:26:31.800 I'm not going to go into it. It doesn't matter. 0:26:32.320 --> 0:26:36.359 Sonacareb's son dies in this battle. Again, this is the 0:26:36.440 --> 0:26:40.320 era where kings we're supposed to be with the army, 0:26:40.600 --> 0:26:43.680 oftentimes in the front of the army. In my opinion, 0:26:43.720 --> 0:26:45.720 those are better days. You see, you are a lot 0:26:45.800 --> 0:26:49.080 less willing to start a war when you're the one 0:26:49.160 --> 0:26:55.119 catching an arrow in the face. Sanakareb, however, did not 0:26:55.480 --> 0:27:00.320 appreciate the Babylonian efforts to protect his boy. When I 0:27:00.320 --> 0:27:03.520 say did not appreciate. I mean, he gathered up in 0:27:03.560 --> 0:27:08.600 Assyrian army, marched down on a city he already controlled, 0:27:09.040 --> 0:27:12.800 surrounded it, killed every man, woman and child inside, and 0:27:12.960 --> 0:27:20.000 raised the city to the ground. He actually has we 0:27:20.040 --> 0:27:24.639 have direct quotes from Snakareeb talking about how he tore 0:27:24.720 --> 0:27:28.080 down every stone and flooded the place on purpose. He 0:27:28.200 --> 0:27:31.480 screwed up their irrigation, like I want it gone forever. 0:27:34.280 --> 0:27:40.680 But again, those resilient Babylonians, it's tough to keep him down. 0:27:42.280 --> 0:27:45.119 You killed everybody, you raised the city to the ground. 0:27:45.160 --> 0:27:47.159 Not everybody, but most of the people. You raised the 0:27:47.200 --> 0:27:52.480 city to the ground. And yet Babylon starts to make 0:27:52.520 --> 0:27:57.840 a comeback and starts to make a comeback, and Senakareeb 0:27:57.960 --> 0:28:01.399 eventually went away. And it should be no even the 0:28:01.480 --> 0:28:05.320 Assyrians were horrified by what Snakreb did to Babylon because 0:28:05.320 --> 0:28:10.480 they loved Babylon. And the Assyrians did not stay in 0:28:10.560 --> 0:28:13.800 power forever. It's very difficult to stay in power forever 0:28:14.600 --> 0:28:18.600 when you're so brutal to everybody, because do you make 0:28:18.640 --> 0:28:21.200 a lot of enemies? How many times if we had 0:28:21.240 --> 0:28:29.439 this conversation about our own daily lives, yours mine, you 0:28:29.560 --> 0:28:35.000 don't have to pile up enemies. I see people do 0:28:35.080 --> 0:28:37.359 this so often now, I see people do it on 0:28:38.000 --> 0:28:41.640 social media all the time, because it's not personal to you. 0:28:43.200 --> 0:28:48.080 Stop piling up enemies. It's fine to have enemies. Lord knows, 0:28:48.120 --> 0:28:50.080 I have plenty of them. They've been calling trying to 0:28:50.120 --> 0:28:55.040 get me kicked off the air for a week. Yeah, 0:28:55.080 --> 0:28:56.680 a lot longer than a week, that's right, Chris. But 0:28:56.760 --> 0:29:02.080 still it's fine to pile them up if it's not intentional. 0:29:04.120 --> 0:29:06.760 Don't pile them up on purpose, at least not in 0:29:06.800 --> 0:29:10.120 your own industry. Anyway. The Assyrian Empire begins to break 0:29:10.200 --> 0:29:13.960 up and fall. They're splitting up in the Babylonians rise again, 0:29:13.960 --> 0:29:16.320 and now we enter into a period of time that's 0:29:16.360 --> 0:29:21.240 also gonna sound familiar to you, the neo Babylonian Empire, 0:29:21.480 --> 0:29:27.320 and a man named Nebuchannezzer the Second rises. Yes, Chris, 0:29:27.600 --> 0:29:31.480 that Nebuchadnezzer from the Old Testament. You've probably heard of 0:29:31.560 --> 0:29:36.959 him before, hanging gardens of Babylon, one of the seven 0:29:37.040 --> 0:29:39.520 Wonders of the world. Do you know that? How that 0:29:39.680 --> 0:29:43.480 came about? Well, remember they're always forging alliances in the 0:29:43.560 --> 0:29:47.600 old days, always, and how our alliance is forged in 0:29:47.640 --> 0:29:52.360 the old days. You know, we've talked about it before marriages. 0:29:54.480 --> 0:29:57.280 I've got a son, he's gonna be my heir. Can 0:29:57.280 --> 0:30:01.120 he have your hot daughter? I have a daughter. Would 0:30:01.200 --> 0:30:05.080 you like how she looks? King, You're welcome to have her. 0:30:05.240 --> 0:30:09.800 Then we're friends. And Persia was on the rise now, 0:30:09.840 --> 0:30:13.960 and the Babylonians wanted to get to know the Persians well, 0:30:14.000 --> 0:30:18.320 wanted to be buddies with the Persians. Nebukennezzer marries a 0:30:18.360 --> 0:30:25.720 Persian wife. She gets down to Babylon and missus Persia Persia. 0:30:25.800 --> 0:30:30.840 Most of Persia was very green and lush. I've been 0:30:32.360 --> 0:30:37.280 where Babylon is like physically, I've been there. It's in 0:30:37.280 --> 0:30:41.680 iraq Ah. Not green and lush. To put it mildly, 0:30:42.880 --> 0:30:47.800 it's very brown. It's very brown, very rocky, very sandy. 0:30:48.640 --> 0:30:51.280 Not what I would consider lush territory. Write any stretch 0:30:51.360 --> 0:30:57.920 of the imagination. Apparently, Nevikennezzer's bride shows up and says, gosh, 0:30:58.040 --> 0:31:01.840 it is dusty around here. I would love something green. 0:31:02.560 --> 0:31:06.240 And so he created some gigantic temple that they had. 0:31:06.240 --> 0:31:09.440 Obviously they had to irrigate to it, and created all 0:31:09.480 --> 0:31:12.680 this grass and not grass, but all these all this 0:31:12.840 --> 0:31:15.760 plant life. Look, I don't know. I'm not a plant person, Chris. 0:31:16.280 --> 0:31:18.640 Some people are you a plant person? Chris, I'm not 0:31:18.680 --> 0:31:22.160 a plant person. But Nebucha Nazer creates the hanging gardens 0:31:22.160 --> 0:31:27.320 of Babylon for his Persian wife. And we're getting to 0:31:27.360 --> 0:31:31.840 the point in time now where they bring in some Jews, 0:31:33.640 --> 0:31:39.520 not willingly, Babe, you've read that before. The Jewish exile 0:31:39.640 --> 0:31:43.240 to Babylon is obviously a huge part of the Bible, 0:31:44.200 --> 0:31:49.240