Nomads Invade Ancient Empires | Ancient World Explained

Ajouté : 2026-05-16

[00:00:00]Babylon was sacked, its population massacred.

[00:00:04]Then the Wastelanders poured in.

[00:00:07]The Gates of Heaven had opened.

[00:00:09]Like Hattusa, Babylon, the intellectual center of Mesopotamia, was brutally sacked.

[00:00:15]Its population massacred by the Assyrian king.

[00:00:19]Tribal peoples became mercenaries, guiding caravans or attacking cities for hire.

[00:00:26]By the late 12th century BC, their time had come.

[00:00:30]The age of epic battles between collapsing empires ended.

[00:00:34]Assyrian dominance followed, but the empire was exhausted and devastated.

[00:00:40]Then the floodgates opened and the Wastelanders poured in.

[00:00:44]Chaldeans, Sudians, and Arameans migrated into Mesopotamia in huge numbers.

[00:00:51]The countryside was devastated, but to them it was paradise.