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By around 600 BCE, Lydians, Babylonians, and Medians check each other before the Persians emerge under Cyrus.
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Babylonians
A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: Dante's Heaven is not the end of questioning but the place where imagination, love, and freedom turn against dead authority, dead fear, and finally Virgil himself.
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"...Lydians. Over here in Mesopotamia are what people will call the Babylonians. And over here, okay, are the Medians. And these are three superpowers..."
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"They're powerful, but they're not powerful enough to destroy each other. Okay? Around this time will emerge a new power center called the Persians...."
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"...of Buzi, by the Kibar River in the land of the Babylonians. There the hand of the Lord was on him. I looked and..."
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"...they were loyal to your empire. OK, this is why the Babylonians. Exactly. They exiled the Jews. Right. So the Babylonians had a huge..."
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"...Israel into different territories. You had the Assyrians. You had the Babylonians."
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"...killed millions of Jews, that was a Holocaust. You have the Babylonians, so you have these different empires that tried to destroy the Jews...."
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"...they tried many different techniques on how to control Jerusalem. The Babylonians tried to take captives, hostages, and that didn't really work as well...."
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"...Bible, where the Jews were kicked out of Jerusalem by the Babylonians, and the Temple was burned down. And so what the Jews believe..."
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"...Persians who allowed the, uh, Jews to return from the Babylon, Babylonian activity to rebuild their second temple. So, uh, historically the Jews and..."
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"...another region, okay? So now what will happen is that the Babylonians will come. The Assyrians will come. Eventually, from the Zagos Mountains, a..."
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"...these empires change all the time. Okay? So this is the Babylonian Empire. This gives us Hammurabi. Okay? Then you have the Assyrian Empire...."
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"...So this is the Assyrian Empire. And this is the Neo -Babylonian Empire. Okay? So you have these empires that constantly change over time...."
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