Vol 2 Ep 4 - First Babylonian Dynasty ( Hammurabi )

History of the World podcast

Chris Hasler

History

4.8 • 971 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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1900 - 1595 BCE - Semitic speakers from the west had established their own kingdoms throughout Mesopotamia. The Babylonians became the most powerful of the first half of the second millennium BCE especially under the lawmaker king, Hammurabi. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/historyoftheworldpodcast/message

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0:27.3	Welcome to the History of the World Podcast.
0:31.0	My name is Chris Hasler.
0:34.0	And you're listening to volume 2,
0:37.0	The Ancient World.
0:39.0	This is episode 4, the first Babylonian dynasty. Oh, So let's have a catch up. The first ancient society of Mesopotamia is the early
1:16.3	dynastic period Sumerians who lived in southern Mesopotamia after the Jemdet Nazar period ended in around 2,900
1:27.6	B.C. E. Sumerian city states developed healthily for over 500 years using trade and production
1:37.0	to enhance the general wealth of the region, even though the capital city would move around according to which ruler was able to gain control of the empire of city states.
1:50.0	Sargon the Great led an Acadian uprising in the north and marched down into Sumer taking the city
1:57.8	states one by one and establishing an Acadian empire from around the year 2334 B.C.
2:08.0	this would last for around 150 years before relatively uncultured and nomadic Gooty people invaded
2:17.8	from the area of the Zagros Mountains in the northeast in around 2,200 B.C.
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