For me? It's Samarkand.
For me? It's Samarkand
Jonathan Hughes
Luke Davis
go back
Jordan Robinson
For me its bablyon
Hudson Clark
Babylon was named after the tower but they weren’t the same thing u buffoon
Isaiah Morgan
>ywn visit Babylon
Big fan of Persepolis also
Benjamin Watson
>Babylon was named after the tower
>tf
>tp
Isaac Brown
>Babylon was named after the tower
>mfw American education
Owen Powell
>In the Bible, the name appears as Babel (Hebrew: בָּבֶל Bavel, Tib. בָּבֶל Bāḇel; Classical Syriac: ܒܒܠ Bāwēl, Aramaic: בבל Babel; in Arabic: بَابِل Bābil), interpreted in the Book of Genesis to mean "confusion",[14] from the verb bilbél (בלבל, "to confuse").[15]
Literally the same etymology
James Adams
>Babel—or Babylon—is both a city and a system that the Bible shows endures throughout human experience. It enslaves the bodies and souls of men into a complex mesh of economics, politics and religion. Nimrod chained others to his wicked and greedy ambitions. In him we see the roots of what Babylon becomes. Babylon will rise again in the end time to dominate the world in one final attempt to build a “city” or system that defies the purpose of God.
Cringe
Charles Ward
You said "the city is named after the tower". Babylon predates the Old Testament, so it's the opposite.
That's pretty based though??
Kayden Evans
now THIS is based
Leo Watson
That description is pure cringe
Dylan Sanders
Um no not based.
>the Library of Alexandria burned to the grown
>all that remains of the Pharos is ruins
In what way?
Nathaniel Perez
>burned to the grown
*ground
Landon Nguyen
I only know of Samarkand because it's a city-state in Civ5
I shit you not, my Teutonic friend, learned more about world history from playing Civ 5 and Age of Empires than I ever did in school. Burger history class is nothing but
>white man bad
>Christians bad
>Hitler bad
>America bad
Adrian Howard
>the world in one final attempt to build a “city” or system that defies the purpose of God.
There were many cities Mesopotamia that were ahead of their time, and religion fanatics were screeching all over the place.
Nicholas Watson
I see. I'm not as knowledgeable about Mesopotamian history as I'd like to be, but wasn't Babylon a particularly significant city even among those?
Leo Rodriguez
It was, im talking about the cringy religious opinions on the city
Jace Cruz
Babylon was the name of the city and the empire before the Jews tried heebsplaining the name. It comes from bab illah, meaning God's Gate. Look it up.
John Brown
>>white man bad
>>Christians bad
>>Hitler bad
>>America bad
Literally all true
Adam Garcia
>Hitler bad
I don't know. He's starting to look real good when compared to the Merkel regime.
Luis Bell
yea most modern "babylon" stories are actually jewish propaganda post Neo-babylonian empire after they got their shit kicked in.
tldr babylon was a city established by the akkadians wayy back in 2300BC after the sumer-akkad merge. lasted up till alexader the great's conquest where it turned to a new city called Seleucia (used old bricks from babylon) then to Ctesiphon (Salman Pak) today and finally Baghdad (which itself was actually an akkadian village some 2000 years ago that survived all this while)
Isaiah Morales
>Samarkand