Babylon’s Rulebook 🧱 | Law, Trade, and the Walls That Held an Empire

Babylonian Empire explained: Hammurabi’s law code, Mesopotamian trade networks, and Babylon’s city walls

Ancient Mesopotamia documentary: cuneiform tablets, merchants, temple economies, and imperial administration

How Babylon worked: law → contracts → trade → logistics → walls → power

In this RetroScope documentary, we trace how Babylon became more than a city - 🏛️a system. You’ll see how Hammurabi’s legal logic turned disputes into enforceable contracts, how merchants and temples kept goods moving 💰, and how the famous walls weren’t just defense - 🧱 they were a signal of control. From ration lists and weights to conquest and continuity, Babylon’s strength lived in administration as much as brick.

If you lived behind those walls during a crisis, would you trust the law, or your own network?

📌 Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:16 The Stele Of Law
00:48 Credit Becomes Fuel
01:26 The Road That Feeds The City
02:01 Seals, Doors, And The Paperwork Of Power
02:34 Viewer Question
02:43 The River That Decides
03:15 The Double Wall
03:49 The Gate That Sells The Empire
04:25 The House That Lends
05:04 The Duty You Owe
05:41 The Measure That Makes Money
06:17 Palace And Temple
06:51 Siege Ledger
07:24 Babylon Taken Without Battle
08:00 The Cylinder In The Foundations
08:39 The Empire’s Paper Language
09:15 The Conqueror Who Keeps The City
09:56 Seleucia Pulls The Center Away
10:30 The Great City Becomes A Great Desert
11:03 The Last Scribes
11:41 The City Rebuilt In Boxes
12:22 Bricks Of Power, Scars Of War
13:02 UNESCO Paperwork, Real Mudbrick
13:45 Babylon As A Model
14:25 Outro: The Walls Were A System

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