Ancient Mesopotamia Explained: Sumerians, Assyrians, Persians and Babylonians
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Of all the different “Cradles of Civilization” around the world, perhaps no other is as important and influential to the development of human civilization as Mesopotamia. Literally translated from Sumerian to mean “the land between the rivers,” Mesopotamia refers to the valleys and plains in between and around the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, which are located in modern-day Iraq. Directly surrounding Mesopotamia, stretching as far west as Israel and Egypt and all the way east to modern-day Iran, is the Fertile Crescent, named for the remarkable fertility of the land that made this region an ideal place for human civilization to prosper.
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Correction: The Greeks lost at Thermopylae.
What about the anunnaki,it was them who thought them how to build a civilization
thanos 66 I’d be interested to hear at least what some interpretations are of the old translations that mention them. Interesting stuff
Sure - but if you look at the numbers the Persians suffered extraordinarily heavy losses. It was not really a victory for anyone.
it was a Pyrrhic win for the Persians though
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I see lots of people watching this for online classes. Is there anyone here watching just out of general curiosity for history like me?
Yes, I am, quite informative, enlightening
21:42 yes, I am.
I am
I am I'm surprised I didn't learn any of this history in school tho
I am just doing my bible study.
Mesopotamia are 2 Greek words Meso = middle and potamos = river . The area between two rivers . Tigris= Tiger and Eufratis from the words eu which means good and the verb φραζω which means "i close". On this case these two rivers close this piece of land between them.
This series has some cool tidbits but this is one of a couple of errors I’ve found. In another of the books in this series focused on the ancient near East, the author referred to a Neo-Assyrian ruler named Ashurbanipal II, when it should have been Ashurnasirpal II.
Looks like I found who to ask my questions, lol! My passion is the development of mankind, based on the psychology of mankind. I have beginner books, Huston Smith, World Religions, Almanac of World History by National Geographic, History of the World Map by Map, Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall, and 2 History Books on China; for some reason I am drawn to China.
I haven't read these yet, but am worried they will be too general. Since I am self taught, like to ask others what they have learned and recommend to help me widen my understanding.
Thank-you 🙏.
I Greci ne hanno semplicemente parlato della Mesopotamia non hanno inventato il termine già esisteva
It cant be......how they used the term without speaking the language
How were the Persians from Mesopotamia?
Wow imagine if we made this into a television show ? Dramatized history , based on actual events and people so that we could learn out about ancient cultures while making it interesting ?
Great historical timeline. I knew most of the info, but never had it in my head in the correct order before this video. Thanks.
Yes! This is the most important part of learning history. A proper timeline in proper context.
Great video! Serves as a good starting point to interest people in Mesopotamian history.
I love learning about Mesopotamia and its history. Im an American but I recently started learning to play the Oud in the past year. An instrument I understand to originate from Mesopotamia.
This video is a bit outdated on certain topics if recommended reading about it.
The Oud didn't originate from Mesapotamia.
Congrats on this video. It is really well written and delivered. I am fascinated by the font you used. Is it a custom font? I would love to use it as well.
This is sooo good. Thank you.
One of the BEST explanations of ancient civilization. Something like this needs to be rolled out in schools . . .
The western world doesn’t like to teach people about ancient cultures especially the Persians or Zoroastrianism I wonder why
Yes, it's political. They don't teach generations about different cultures and civilizations.@@dk8198
@@dk8198 not true, ancient civilizations is something taught starting in middle school. 6th grade history textbook was literally called, “Ancient Civilizations.” It’s part of the common core standards
Perfect video. For the visual understanding of continuing process of history. ♥ thanks for this
Love the format and the presentation of these videos, keep em coming!
Glad to hear that, we will!
Good overview. Just what I wanted
The start hits different. It illicits a nostalgic itch toward these civilizations.
Beautifully summarized and simplified.
Beautiful! I love this!
i love thisss! keep making more vids on your channel it will help me aand others a lot!
Correction-- the word 'Mesopotamia' comes from ancient Greek, not Sumerian.
Sono i Greci che discendono dalla Mesopotamia Babilonese dove hanno imparato la scrittura
Thank you for this presentation, it helped me understand more about this region and time period.
This is a fantastic documentary. Great music, great imagery, and great narration. 👍
Great video
Excellent the story. Complete
so fantastic and informative and Impressive thanks a lot ♥️🌷
Thanks🎉
Observing Iraq, it is the country between Mesopotamia, and it is the oldest country in the world, with a age of 7,300
7.300 anni circa potrebbe risalire l'accoppiamento dei giganti con femmine dell uomo sapiens in Mesopotamia
Attualmente in Iraq c'è una mummia gigante dormiente in attesa del ritorno degli Anunnaki
most of the Abrahamic stories in the bible comes from this very location, and some of the kings and empires and states are mentioned in the bible, also Abraham is also from Mesopotamia, why nobody mentions that?
Because they dont believe the Bible, even though the Bible is correct according to archaeology
@@danielmogos8990 The bible is definitely not correct, it's basically saying lord of the rings is correct because it contains elements based on historical events.
@@deathroman13 Dude, are you smoking something?
Because everything in the bible is plagiarized from older cutlures. The bible is not a historical record its a book of faith not fact. According to christianity the earth is 5,000 years old,flat and was populated by incest. Science and archeology debunks all those things. Mesopotamian and Hindu gods and its people long existed before yahweh "created" the world. To use the bible as anything other than a mythical work of fiction will only confuse those looking for truth.
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Who else has to watch this for History Class?
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Thank you so much
This is fantastic. I could watch this for hours. Just got the audio book.
Glad to hear that, hope you'll like the audiobook!
Gli audiolibri fanno più male alla salute di questa musica in sottofondo nei video
Same. Where did you get the audiobook?
Thank you!
Sir this video is really informative and helped me so much in my social thank you
If you want know more buy this book(Soran hamarash)
Assyrians are still here. We will be back were just taking a coffee break!
No y'all will be destroyed
Hard time bring tough men tough men bring easy time easy time brings soft men soft man brings hard times
Brilliant!
6:11 dat skyrim steel sword
Great to have an overview of earliest civilization. Just a few bloopers--
* The Ubaidians occupied that land earlier, and probably generated most of what Sumerians were too hastily credited for--pottery, agriculture, etc.
* The Sumerians invented writing, perhaps, but not language itself, which probably emerged at least 35,000 years earlier.
* The word Mesopotamia is Greek--from "middle" + "river."
* Sumer might have started five millennia ago, but unlikely the fifth millennium BCE.
I Greci discendono dai Babilonesi quindi la parola Mesopotamia è Sumera
awesome for study of ancient civilizations
"And he said, “Brethren and fathers, listen: The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Haran,and said to him, ‘Get out of your country and from your relatives, and come to a land that I will show you.’Then he came out of the land of the Chaldeans and dwelt in Haran. And from there, when his father was dead, He moved him to this land in which you now dwell.And God gave him no inheritance in it, not even enough to set his foot on. But even when Abraham had no child, He promised to give it to him for a possession, and to his descendants after him.But God spoke in this way: that his descendants would dwell in a foreign land, and that they would bring them into bondage and oppress them four hundred years.‘And the nation to whom they will be in bondage I will judge,’ said God, ‘and after that they shall come out and serve Me in this place.’Then He gave him the covenant of circumcision; and so Abraham begot Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day; and Isaac begot Jacob, and Jacob begot the twelve patriarchs." - Acts 7:2-8
Please, make one on Indus Valley Civilization ( Mehrgarh, Lothal).
Ai fedeli imbecilli interessa la valle dell Indo
I have to say the more knowledge you gain the more wealth you will be but I am a history buff I stay up late and I lose sleep watching this stuff but I wish they would show this stuff on the history channel I watch the history channel all the time and they don't show this stuff I bet they used to but I miss it that's when the history channel was really the history channel and I mean really the history channel and I have a wealth of knowledge and this is exactly why too
THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO
You're welcome!
Great video but the Music is too loud
Well, the coming of Persians is seen as the end of the Mesopotamian culture, to be followed by the Greeks and Romans.
The book of daniel talks about it.
hence my comment pre "greek" indo-europeans...non semitic ...hence indo-european
Hard time bring tough men tough men bring easy time easy time brings soft men soft man brings hard times
L'arrivo dei Persiani è stato determinato dagli Arabi Egiziani di etnia opposta a Greci e Romani
@@syrenaxhaferi7278 Conta di più il sangue il territorio è stato colonizzato
At 15:23 someone says something in background. Can’t make it out
Please make more videos like ths
Will do!
@@CaptivatingHistory will be waiting for that
Maps of each change would have made this twice as good. But still superb.
I love these programs, Especially when it's told so accurately. I wonder what people will say 5,000 years from now about us modern humans?. If we are still here?
Thank you for the concise, illustrated (yes I am still like a child) images to better explain
Have you looked into Gobleki Tepe? It pre-dates sumerian society for thousands of years
It's just a temple.
that place probably was a ancient city/settlement of the Hittites.
ancestors of Troy.
Hey I Wana tell a thing over school has your video for the subject understanding
I'm here for an Art 101 class. This is my favorite cradle of civilization
The civilization of my country, Iraq
Agh you don’t know how much I’ve been waiting for this topic, Im gonna have a quiz about this next week
Aye, any of my fellow global studies classmates here?
@Jadon Hoag I am student of international studies
here
Hello
Can you talk about Habsburg? I mean early Habsburg before Charles V.
Interesting
Are the books available in pakistan? Please reply...
Woo!
For the critics … good for you to question this programming an establishment version of his-story! Buy some books so they can mislead you more!
For the complimentary … just don’t let this version be the end all! Keep looking deeper than this! Glad it has you interested! Know who you are!
Lastly, the pics used bothered me and so does some of the sequence! Beware of the colonization of information! Why is it pushed so ? To feed the ego… We are all one!
I like what you have done here but I am disappointed when I see things like the guillotine pop up at time 9:48. I get your point but that is not part of this time period or culture so maybe choose a more appropriate graphic representation.
Way too few maps. You use the visuals for doubling the text of the narration, rather that showing useful maps?
Mesopotamia is not a word of Sumerian origin. Its a word of Greek origin which directly translates to ' land between rivers '. Previous names included Naharaim, derived from Hebrew
Probabilmente quando sono insorti i Sumeri si chiamava già Mesopotamia che potrebbe significare terra tra due fiumi
music nearly overwhelms narrative. this seems to be a common occurrence with all sumerian documentaries. documentaries like this one are fascinating and very informative of our past as a race on earth, therefore, i view it as a pity that in most the narrative is interrupted, either deliberately, or accidentally by the 'ambient' music at key points in narrative.
Tutto ciò è correlato con il vostro anonimato
Great presentation proud Assyrian
Maybe make the music a little louder and he could talk faster.
nope
Assyrians did not have a 1000 year hegemony starting in the middle of the Bronze age. Were an emerging power before the "bronze age collapse" but not a 500 year hegemony right? Then had maybe a 250-300 year run as the big bad Assyrians in the Iron age.
Ancient Mesopotamia(Iraq)❤❤❤
This video is a masterpiece ❤ I learned so much. I always thought the Sumerians were Semitic, so if not, then what are they exactly? Are they at least Afro-Asiatic? Do any living groups today descend from them?
Marsh arabs are descendants of the Sumerians
Hamites
@@sunnya2134 no they are Arabs descendants of ma'd ben adnan, original arabs, adnani arabs(about marsh arabs)
We are still unsure of the exact origins of The Sumerian people and the issue is still highly debated. They spoke a language isolate that as far as we can tell is not related to any existing languages today. It is possible that the Sumerians are an indigenous people that developed out of the prehistoric Ubaid culture native to the region. It is also possible they migrated to the region from an unknown region.
It depends on what they are using as definition of semite which is dark-skinned, aramaic speaking (not white jewish). Whenever historian refers to Palestine as israel, i know whose perspective its being told from.
Wouldn't Assyria's overwhelming military power have earned them the dubuous badge of priveledge?
Or does that apply only to a certain race in the 21st century AD that has no army?
I believe Mesopotamia is a war bound nation. Father Abraham from the Bible came from UR of the Chaldeans(Aramaic) . God the Father told him to leave his land, culture, and people. Abraham is the Father of Faith. He is the founder of the Hebrews people.
i undustood more than i did in class.
I am a Haplo J2a as DNA examen is aproved , my ancesters come from this region .
J2A is Persian
What about Ezidis?
I live in Denmark and my father was Assyrian
Sei biondo come gli Assiri o bruno Persiano
@@rosolinolosciuto3644Asyrian were mostly dark haired not blond lol
@@rosolinolosciuto3644*Sei biondo come i persiani o bruno Assiro.
The graphics are slick, the info is educational, but that voice makes this sound like the infomercial that it is.
Abraham belonged to Mesopotamia, the oldest civilization in existence, as a Christian I'm so proud of how far our religious roots go
ok?
but what was he exactly?
a Sumerian? Babylonian? Assyrian?
I don't think he was a Jew because Jews didn't exist before or during his time. and we don't even know if this Abraham was a real person.
religions are full of myths that should never be taken seriously.
@@LevisH21 Abraham was a Babylonian, and yeah Jews didn't exist at that time, he was originally a pagan, but became a believer in Yahweh, after God called him, this is our faith, you don't have to believe in what we're saying, nobody put a gun on your head and forced you to accept what we believe or take it seriously, and what about the Characters of other religions like Krishna, Vishnu, Shiva in Hinduism ,where is proof of thier existence? why you people never seem to criticze those religions you hypocrite
@@kingofthemultiverse4148
1. Hinduism doesn't play a role in Western society.
2. who says I don't criticize other religions? all religions are myths and not real. there are indeed some interesting stories but so is Lord Of The Rings.
fantasy.
3. I'm not an atheist.
I would call myself a Deist because I believe in a creator of the universe. I just don't buy into supernatural from organized religions or rituals, pray, magic, ghosts, etc.
I believe in a God of nature that doesn't have to be involved in humanity with "divine" intervention.
the divine is already here. God made us through evolution and there are definitely other creatures out there that we might call aliens because the universe is vast and full with billions of galaxies and other solar systems.
it is impossible to not believe in life on other planets.
@@LevisH21 Blah blah blah you can speak a million words for all i care, i don't believe in your religion and neither do you believe in mine, I'm pretty happy and peaceful believing in my myths and fantasies and over 2.6 billion others in the world also do, and also many of the greatest scientists and Inventors like Robert Boyle, James Maxwell clerk, Georges lemaitre, Charles townes, Astrophysicist Dr. Hugh Ross, director of the National Institutes of Health, which had a budget of over $40 billion, and the one who oversaw the Human Genome Project, one of history’s biggest research projects Francis Collins, Mathematician from Oxford University John Lennox, The Godfather of NASA Wernher Von Braun, Nobel Prize winner in Physics Ernest Walton, the one who discovered the electron; invented one of the most powerful tools in analytical chemistry JJ Thompson, the one who devised Pascal’s triangle for the binomial coefficients and co-founded probability theory. Invented the hydraulic press and the mechanical calculator Blaise Pascal, and the greatest Astrophysicist and Mathematician of all time Sir Isaac Newton, all of us devoted religious Christians were and are really happy believing our myths and fantasies, ok, so you are entitled to your subjective opinions and beliefs.
sumaria wow 👌 👏
my lord
Heil mammon
This video failed to mention the Byzantine Empire which had the Justinian Code, and who came before the Muslims.
it was actually not bad
The role of the Romans who conquered the Greeks before the Arabs came along was not given emphasis here.
in movie 300, the Persian king Xerxes the first depict as bald men, but actually its not much more hairy.. XD
Why this annoying background noise you might be calling music.
Hard time bring tough men tough men bring easy time easy time brings soft men soft man brings hard times
How come Sumerian is a language isolate while Akkadian to its northeast and ancient Egyptian to its southwest spoke related languages?
Perché l'AQUILA e il SERPENTE sono simboleggiate nel Caduceo governano insieme la civiltà sequestrata
No word about Aratta, Urartu and Armenia(different names of Armenia), although the oldest map of the world has Armenia in the center of the map.
I didn't know.
Got more clarity and information than I expected. Thank you for that. One question. At 0:56 why did you mention modern day Iran? Shouldn't that be Iraq?
because modern day iraq was called Mesopotamia ages ago, Right now its called iraq he mentioned that so people wont get confused abt which country is rlly called Mesopotamia
Iraq didn’t exist, Iraq and Syrian and Turks all that was Persia under Iranian rule ! Iraq was Iran for thousands of years
@@Lara-qw4zsThat doesn't answer the commentor's question though, modern Iraq (which isn't the same as Mesapotamia), have nothing to do with the civilization of Iran/Persia besides being conquered by and made into a vessel state by the Persians.
Any Spanish version? GBY
music is too loud.
Where my online bois, and girls at!!!!!!!!?!?!
We owe everything to Sumer
You mean the so called black people!!!
Regardless which people believe, whether people go by the Bible or Scientific research, life for the average person was really REALLY difficult. If your military decides to go to war, whether it was what you wanted or not, if you lost, the entire population suffered greatly from there "New Masters". Warfare, disease, famine, were all a constant realization. You were made to accept and worship there gods. Here we are in the 21 Century and nothing has really changed. The only difference is the weapons are better and kill far more than the past wars. In the Abrahamic Faiths, you either accept and worship according to there opinions of God or face harsh penalties. If God created everything long before humans ever existed then when does God need humanity to do anything in his name?
I like your comment, except that nobody goes to the Bible for scientific research, certainly not the scientists. Yes I agree on the god problem, but don’t forget god is purely a human invention , not to mention that everything came from sumeria, gods government systems , trade etc,etc. so forget the Bible is nothing but miths of prior civilizations .
Welcome back to online classes 😅all the malaysian student
Not only Malaysian Nepalese students too😅
Anyone else watching this for geography??
Geography !?!? I'm watching this for history
History
What’s happening in Africa while this is going on, or north and South America, what about the rest of Asia like china or India this is missing so much info it hurts my head
Quando gli (angeli caduti) si sono accoppiati con le figlie degli uomini ha inizio l'ibridazione dell uomo sapiens
Nabopolasser father of Nebuchadnezzar II in the bible
اليوتيوب ميترجم ليش؟
@@juggernautdave5912 شنو
🤔the music around is very annoying.
Mesopotamia = Sumerians + Assyrians + Akkadians + Babylonians only The Persians are not from Mesopotamia
Neither Persia nor the Greeks (By Greeks I mean Spartans and Athenians) won the Greco-Persian wars. It was won by Macedon (Again the Greek state not the modern Bulgarian one)
Sono guerre vinte dalla Massoneria