The Birth of Civilisation - Rise of Uruk (6500 BC to 3200 BC)

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  • @I-am-Hrut
    @I-am-Hrut 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4839

    I hate being a farmer. Hunter-gatherers encircle my field and yell, "go wheat boy, go!"

    • @wfcoaker1398
      @wfcoaker1398 3 ปีที่แล้ว +521

      Gilgamesh loving wheat boy, trying to take away our spears!

    • @PurplePalmTreeParadise
      @PurplePalmTreeParadise 3 ปีที่แล้ว +426

      haha the farmer boy is lacking in dietary diversity

    • @dougthompson5586
      @dougthompson5586 3 ปีที่แล้ว +188

      @@PurplePalmTreeParadise and has bad teeth

    • @davebeecher6579
      @davebeecher6579 3 ปีที่แล้ว +179

      But the wives like the fact he's home more nights 😂

    • @muhamadsayyidabidin3906
      @muhamadsayyidabidin3906 3 ปีที่แล้ว +115

      @@davebeecher6579 I think farmers would exhausted more often, so they would get wasted out pretty quickly at night. Farming without metal is a tough job, you know?

  • @HistoryTime
    @HistoryTime 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3559

    I love that we both don’t upload proper videos in months and months and then randomly upload on the same day. People might start to think we are conspiring. Nice vid! Looking forward to delving into it

    • @LDrosophila
      @LDrosophila 3 ปีที่แล้ว +82

      No way its perfect for binge watching

    • @danfry9812
      @danfry9812 3 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      You both 10's

    • @Amar90
      @Amar90 3 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      You both have the greatest history channels

    • @RBYU001
      @RBYU001 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Love when you two post new videos! Big fan!

    • @bobthetroll
      @bobthetroll 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Both channels are great and your brother's as well! 👍👍

  • @nopeitsnotmewhywouldyouaskthat
    @nopeitsnotmewhywouldyouaskthat 3 ปีที่แล้ว +656

    Told my wife I was watching "The Rise of Uruk". She wants to know when Saruman is going to show up.

  • @shrimpfry880
    @shrimpfry880 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    i was born in 7325 BC, and damn this brings back memories. things were so different back then

  • @MrTaxiRob
    @MrTaxiRob 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1056

    The earliest known writing found on pottery: World's Greatest Dad

    • @tiasara9643
      @tiasara9643 3 ปีที่แล้ว +107

      First scroll finding: “Civilization for Dummies”

    • @funderbee
      @funderbee 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      The first writing came out of Portugal. Writing around 7000 bc, and an alphabetical system, about the same time as this civilization here, started pressing shapes

    • @captain34ca
      @captain34ca 3 ปีที่แล้ว +78

      @@funderbee ??? ummm no.

    • @jordaneggerman4734
      @jordaneggerman4734 3 ปีที่แล้ว +74

      @@funderbee are you really trying to say that the Portuguese made an alphabet, almost _twice_ as far back as cuneiform? No, I'm sorry; that just simply isn't true...

    • @jordaneggerman4734
      @jordaneggerman4734 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Lol I would have said: "Sky's Greatest Dad"...

  • @Amar90
    @Amar90 3 ปีที่แล้ว +952

    Oh man this weekend just got a whole lot better. My grandmother was born in the Mesopotamian marsh’s. Greetings from Mesopotamia Iraq 🇮🇶 to everyone watching ♥️

    • @as-s9078
      @as-s9078 3 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      Greetings from Arkansas. Respect

    • @davidryan0808
      @davidryan0808 3 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      I love utube:) Ireland here ..Repect

    • @theresawilliams4296
      @theresawilliams4296 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      Down Under is in the house. G'day mates, from an couple of Australians.

    • @es8559
      @es8559 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      ✝️🙏🇺🇲

    • @EnmerkarUnugKi
      @EnmerkarUnugKi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      𒁲 𒀕𒅕 - greetings from unug

  • @blackhawk7r221
    @blackhawk7r221 ปีที่แล้ว +132

    About 10 years ago, the ancient gold treasures of Ur went on a museum tour. I caught it in Houston. I’m here to say, those ancient craftsmen did incredibly intricate work 6000 years ago.

    • @americanmitch2658
      @americanmitch2658 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      And here I am having never beat super Mario Brothers.

    • @Jiub_SN
      @Jiub_SN 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Yeah dude, they had a lot of time and were still human after all

  • @officerjenkins
    @officerjenkins ปีที่แล้ว +44

    I’ve watched the series a couple times now and I must say, well done Charles. You’ve done good on us all

  • @antonb8687
    @antonb8687 3 ปีที่แล้ว +557

    I am so incredibly grateful for the content you make. I've had trouble sleeping since forever and one of the few things that help me sleep is listening to podcasts and videos like these. Your videos, especially those in this series, not only help me sleep so much better but are of such high quality and are so interesting to listen to that it takes me several nights to get through them. I start watching the first night, fall asleep, and the next night I go back to the last part that I can remember and continue to watch from there. I can't emphasise enough how positive of an effect discovering your channel has had on my sleep, and I'm so happy that the subject of your videos is history - a subject which I can never get enough of.
    So from someone with lots of love for history, and who's had such difficulty sleeping for so many years, thank you so much. You are the best.

    • @janobara6337
      @janobara6337 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Hit the nail on the head here! Educational videos with good narrators tend to ease my sleeping troubles as well and I am NOT good at sleeping lol
      Glad it's helping other people too :)

    • @ripwig6682
      @ripwig6682 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Same here, have you found

    • @ripwig6682
      @ripwig6682 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Fall of civilizations? It's also amazing.

    • @DarkMoonDroid
      @DarkMoonDroid 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Me toooooooooooo!!

    • @monadyne
      @monadyne 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I'm sorry to hear you have such difficulties with getting to sleep, Anton B. I have a similar problem - -I can't fall asleep until after the sun comes up! Luckily I'm retired, so it's not like I have to get up and go to work, but still, it drives me crazy to miss out on being awake in the daytime. Anyway, I'm glad you've found something that helps you, my friend.

  • @Cogitoergosum10
    @Cogitoergosum10 3 ปีที่แล้ว +675

    Amazing how these cultures lasted for thousands of years. Goes to show how the cultures of today are just a couple more in the history of humanity

    • @Searly255
      @Searly255 3 ปีที่แล้ว +80

      if you think of "modern" society starting in the 1900's that could mean the next stage in civilisation could be the 3900s. The humans of that era will look at us the same way we look at these ancient cultures.

    • @alexlarson6123
      @alexlarson6123 3 ปีที่แล้ว +68

      I think that we will be looked at a little differently because of our nearly globalized society. This is something (to our knowledge) that has never happened before with global trade and communication. Not to mention massive population.

    • @karisalonen12
      @karisalonen12 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Part of it might be the surrounding area wasn't that populated and the tribes nearby were too small and were further back in technological advances, maybe assimilated to these civilizations. Over all stagnation in societal hierarchy combined with those factors would mean that there is little happening. People accepted their roles in society. Which in the end is a bad thing for human progress. Think of it this way, Thousands of years and little to no progress from starting point and compare it to the last 2000 years.

    • @sellerim6847
      @sellerim6847 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@Searly255That's pretty optimistic

    • @Crashed131963
      @Crashed131963 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I find they did not advance much in that area today.

  • @Levi-lr4vi
    @Levi-lr4vi ปีที่แล้ว +13

    A TH-cam channel made this?? Wow, I’m impressed. The quality is more sophisticated than the usual style on this platform

    • @annoyingbstard9407
      @annoyingbstard9407 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It’s been hacked together from other documentaries’ videos but still quite interesting.

  • @KellyBell1
    @KellyBell1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    I just LOVE history! I don’t see how anyone finds it boring?!! Fascinating stuff.

    • @patrickbateman4362
      @patrickbateman4362 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      A lot of school teachers can make it boring, and puts a bad taste in their mouth, I definitely had my share of bad teachers, but I also had a few that actually made me start to enjoy history, and once I started doing my own research I found out how much there is to learn about our history and how fascinating the evolution of different societies and cultures over the millenia is.

    • @mjonhouston
      @mjonhouston ปีที่แล้ว

      @@patrickbateman4362 same here Patrick. a bad teacher can turn a person off to a subject for life.,...I'm just glad I went through my school days prior to the WOKE, pronoun pushing, gender-confused "teachers" who spend more time brainwashing young, pre-pubescent children about perverse sex acts, and their own "here & queer" lifestyles, than the subject they are getting paid, (from our taxes🙄),...to teach.😉👍

    • @patrickbateman4362
      @patrickbateman4362 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@mjonhouston Conservative propaganda go brrrr

    • @JK-ji3kl
      @JK-ji3kl 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Woke take on history is more exciting?

    • @HangrySaturn
      @HangrySaturn 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@JK-ji3kl What "wokeness" do you perceive here?

  • @AtunSheiFilms
    @AtunSheiFilms 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1169

    Some of the best history content on TH-cam. 10/10, loved the whole series.

    • @TheHistocrat
      @TheHistocrat  3 ปีที่แล้ว +69

      Thanks man, appreciate it.

    • @Quu911
      @Quu911 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      You got to try fall of civilisation!!!

    • @adriansantiago5045
      @adriansantiago5045 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@TheHistocrat .,

    • @mauigio
      @mauigio 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Agreed i LOVE THESE SERIES

    • @Tayl0r_
      @Tayl0r_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      You got good taste dude! Glad to have been a long time sub of yours :)

  • @nomandad2000
    @nomandad2000 3 ปีที่แล้ว +147

    Nothing like watching these to fill in all the gaps from the mind numbing awful history classes I took in various institutions....

    • @Le_GingerBeardMan
      @Le_GingerBeardMan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      For real.

    • @JustinLee-jm5wn
      @JustinLee-jm5wn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Almost all of them not even bothering small details and focus much on the broader side of history or the mainstream I suppose.

    • @davepowell1661
      @davepowell1661 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Could have paid more good tension, but Cheech &Chong weren't on syllabus in history for me either, my attention is always a pharaoh short of a dynasty.

    • @explicitedd7241
      @explicitedd7241 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Kind of same here.

    • @Jiub_SN
      @Jiub_SN 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Maybe you just have adhd

  • @dotech4128
    @dotech4128 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I can’t begin to tell you how many times I’ve gone to sleep listening to this series. I try to stay awake and listen to it all because it’s so fascinating, but it’s also very soothing.

  • @nikbear
    @nikbear 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Simply stunning, some of the best content on TH-cam, thank you for all your hard work 👍

  • @toddpeterson5904
    @toddpeterson5904 3 ปีที่แล้ว +330

    Not at all what I expected. I thought the Uruks were pure warriors who came mainly from Isengard under the rule of Sauramon the White. I'm very surprised that they had these statues and other artifacts of a real culture. I guess they needed homes and hobbies when not raiding. Thanks for sharing!

    • @yaleyoon6856
      @yaleyoon6856 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Lol!

    • @chamade166
      @chamade166 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      They were black African actually.

    • @rogerwood5228
      @rogerwood5228 2 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      @@chamade166 we wuz Kangz

    • @albataalbata1380
      @albataalbata1380 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Same here

    • @JohnnyJacobGO
      @JohnnyJacobGO 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@chamade166 I bet you think that Indians are African too

  • @pureownageftw
    @pureownageftw 3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    Reasons why I watch:
    80% I Love history
    10%Production qauality
    10% voice is relaxing AF

  • @SolracCAP
    @SolracCAP 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is so amazing. Here I am enjoying learning about people who's efforts made everything around us possible thousands of years later. Thank you

  • @alyssabrianlaube6935
    @alyssabrianlaube6935 3 ปีที่แล้ว +88

    Thank you guys for taking up the mantle of proper history documentaries! Fantastic production value too, good editing, and the narration was at the proper key for this topic. Also thanks for covering this particular time period as proper info is so hard to find on this.

  • @mayoluck
    @mayoluck 3 ปีที่แล้ว +100

    All these towns thousands of years ago and still bigger than the town i grew up in.

    • @KC-fk6oc
      @KC-fk6oc 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      You must live on the outskirts of rapidly-expanding civilization

    • @artistjoh
      @artistjoh 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Some things never change. On the other hand other things have changed radically. I live in a city of 5 million, and regard cities with 1 million to be “small” and cities the size of Uruk as smallish country towns. Back then people would have regarded Uruk as bustling, an ancient rat-race where everything happens. Now we regard cities that size as sleepy places with “nothing much” going on. Back then young people would have flocked to Uruk looking for opportunity. Now young people leave cities that size looking for opportunity in bigger cities.

    • @montagdp
      @montagdp 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Some people still live a hunter-gatherer lifestyle, so...

    • @naughtybear2187
      @naughtybear2187 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@artistjoh all those words and simply saying "damn the world population grew since then" would have sufficed

    • @artistjoh
      @artistjoh 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@naughtybear2187 What you said has very little to do with what I said, so no, it would not have sufficed.

  • @thecaveofthedead
    @thecaveofthedead 2 ปีที่แล้ว +83

    This is amazing work. I'm discovering and appreciating some extraordinary TH-camrs like you who present a fact-based, unsensational but fascinating, in-depth view of poorly understood parts of history. It's an amazing thing to find videos like this that aren't dryly dull and suitable only for specialists but avoid simplifying uncertainties to draw in viewers.

    • @kelvinspringer7855
      @kelvinspringer7855 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      8

    • @princeofcupspoc9073
      @princeofcupspoc9073 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      So you are calling them "lowest common denominator," "dumbed down for the audience." That's quite an insult, actually.

    • @thecaveofthedead
      @thecaveofthedead 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@princeofcupspoc9073 That's an extraordinary interpretation of what I wrote.

  • @MontsedePaz
    @MontsedePaz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Beautiful! Both the contents, the narrative and the images are fantastic. Great job! Thank you.

  • @priatalat
    @priatalat 3 ปีที่แล้ว +189

    What blows my mind everytime is how long ago this was and how long these periods lasted.

    • @TheManWhoTypes
      @TheManWhoTypes 3 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      Think thats crazy.. think about how much longer dinosaurs existed compared to humans. We've barely existed at all in comparison

    • @sandrapicton8961
      @sandrapicton8961 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Mine too! Today's world is/has been rushing along with inventions and communication at breakneck speed, hard to imagine the slow, slow life in those periods. Which is better, their's or our's?

    • @falalaufou8559
      @falalaufou8559 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Wats yo ig

    • @riteshyeddu9186
      @riteshyeddu9186 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@sandrapicton8961 ours, imo

    • @alissa6
      @alissa6 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@TheManWhoTypes It depends on your beliefs. Atheist say we existed only 120,000 years ago. Some Christian and afrocentric denominations say we only existed 6000 years. Muslim say we existed millions of years and that we were giants that would have made dinosaurs look puny.

  • @artemisarrow179
    @artemisarrow179 3 ปีที่แล้ว +186

    I love learning about the bronze/pre-pottery eras. They are so fascinating

    • @KUR4H
      @KUR4H ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Imagine if human civilization collapsed and humanity was brought to near extinction and thousands of years later humans are in the beginning of an industrial era and they research the ancient ruins of our past. Or maybe all of humanity goes extinct and a new species arises and studies it’s predecessor civilization. Either way both scenarios would be quite interesting.

    • @twistedsteeltv6130
      @twistedsteeltv6130 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      You should check out the game Sapiens if you like Bronze/Pre-Pottery eras. It spurred my interest. Kind of wonderful how it all evolved into the society we have today.

    • @mnomadvfx
      @mnomadvfx ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Bronze and pre pottery are not the same.
      The continuity would be Pre-Pottery Neolithic -> Neolithic -> Bronze Age.
      You can also add in Chalcolithic if you want to be pedantic about tools made from copper and early non tin alloys of copper like arsenical bronze - the latter often being much the same thing as chemical impurities in copper ore often contain arsenic.

  • @kriegh94
    @kriegh94 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    Just finished watching this series. Absolutely amazing, i want to say that this is at the same level as the ancient history lectures i attended at college. Well, not quite, your work is even better because it's up to date! (i attended those lectures between 2012 and 2013).

    • @JaceFincham
      @JaceFincham 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Plus his voice is so perfect for this!

    • @Likexner
      @Likexner ปีที่แล้ว

      Is it? What about Gobekli Tepe?

    • @mnomadvfx
      @mnomadvfx ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Likexner What about Gobekli Tepe?
      This is a video about Uruk, did you even read the video title?
      It's possible that some culutral interaction from the Anatolian/Aegean farmers who built Gobekli Tepe and its sister sites may have influenced the Ubaid culture that later grew into the Sumerians, but it's far from an evidence based hypothesis at this point, let alone a certainty.

  • @Flarezap
    @Flarezap 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wasn't expecting a shot of my home city in this video! Great series, I'm definitely going to subscribe

  • @prehistorysummarised3848
    @prehistorysummarised3848 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Hell yeah, new episode! Looking forward to this one.

  • @bludfyre
    @bludfyre 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I love all of this so far. Great visuals, great narration and very informative. Glad I found this channel!

  • @HAYDS510
    @HAYDS510 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    These videos are polished and presented like something backed by a large media entity. I've been really curious about the gap between early man and ancient civilisation lately and couldn't find anything like this on any streaming services. Awesome work man, I hope they're throwing deals at you.

  • @arwynstar
    @arwynstar 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I need more! D: This is whole serise was amazingly presented. I have a hard time trying to put things into a timeline and you helped immensely.

  • @Szujhinzu
    @Szujhinzu 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    I've just prepared my breakfast and the first thing to watch I see is this video, 52 minutes after uploading. Feels damn good, man

  • @Replicaate
    @Replicaate 3 ปีที่แล้ว +63

    At LAST, part 3 - I am going to make myself another coffee and sit down to watch this documentary with my undivided attention. And yes, I am calling this whole series a documentary now because you've gone far beyond just "history video maker" with the depth and production on your Birth Of Civilization videos.

    • @monkeyman321
      @monkeyman321 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      This is better than everything you can watch on History Channel or any TV channel these days.

  • @humungus3
    @humungus3 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very impressive production! Great editing with the pictures maps etc.

  • @GameWatcher545
    @GameWatcher545 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Oh goodness, I have successfully found a new history channel, what an effort. Will start watching now, thanks

  • @michaellewis7959
    @michaellewis7959 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    It's a great thing to see the notification of a new episode!

  • @oskarskalski2982
    @oskarskalski2982 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    Your series on birth of civilisation is outstanding. As someone said, this channel, history time and fall of civilisation are most informative channels on yt, regarding popular history. You can't find as good content on discovery or other channels like this. You should create four curiosity stream.

  • @tonyarellano4194
    @tonyarellano4194 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I can't thank you enough for the narration of this valuable opportunity to inlite myself, so proud of gathering knowledge from this videos from the real historic world and human civilisation survival !!!

  • @LVXMagick
    @LVXMagick 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You are AMAZING brother!!! All your work is just phenomenal! Thank you so much!

  • @kylehedrick9653
    @kylehedrick9653 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Thanks for this. Like the rest of your stuff, it's well done and thoroughly great.

  • @mauigio
    @mauigio 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Absolutely WOWED i WANT to keep learning from this series

  • @vacysmotuzas4267
    @vacysmotuzas4267 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Excellent work . Thanks for making this ...

  • @MediumDSpeaks
    @MediumDSpeaks 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    If you ever find yourself in need of copper in 3000 BC Uruk stay far away from Ea Nasir, his copper is extremely low quality

  • @AlastairSherringham
    @AlastairSherringham 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Charles - these videos are absolutely superb. Well done. Well produced, narrated and illustrated. I'd also like to say that Ettore Mazza's art is excellent and extremely helpful in trying to visualise the place and time.

  • @alpha-0874
    @alpha-0874 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    These are incredibly well-made and well-narrated videos.

  • @dorianphilotheates3769
    @dorianphilotheates3769 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Recently subbed: Cracking episode - thoroughly researched and beautifully presented as always! Greetings from Delphi, Greece.

  • @keithellison716
    @keithellison716 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Anyone else unable to get enough of ancient civilizations and cultures. No matter how much I learn I just wanna learn more. Theyre all unbelievably fascinating to say the very least.

  • @hugodesrosiers-plaisance3156
    @hugodesrosiers-plaisance3156 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I was seriously looking forward to this one!

  • @DarkMoonDroid
    @DarkMoonDroid 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This channel is a phenomenon.
    Thank you for everything.

  • @jkellner3
    @jkellner3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Considering the fact there's little or no financial incentive to create these videos, they are pretty amazing!

  • @nemderogatorius
    @nemderogatorius 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    This video is more informative and has higher production quality than most of the documentaries on TV.

  • @safi.uh_
    @safi.uh_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    omg im so excited ive been waiting for this to come out 🙈

  • @bensantos3882
    @bensantos3882 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Keep up the amazing work and art along with the channel good sir. We love the education and narrators.

  • @kalamay
    @kalamay 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I loved this series. Thank you

  • @jomp6141
    @jomp6141 ปีที่แล้ว

    I can surely say that this Is the best history channel that I've discovered so far

  • @ruththinkingoutside.707
    @ruththinkingoutside.707 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Wooo! I’m going to enjoy this with my coffee 🥰🥰.. like a brain gift for the morning!! Thanks again for all the work you put into these, I watch and rewatch all the time!!

  • @TheHistocrat
    @TheHistocrat  3 ปีที่แล้ว +481

    Sources for this video if you want to do some further reading!
    General Resources:
    Chris Scarre (2018) The Human Past. Fourth Edition.
    Marc Van De Mieroop (2016) A History of the Ancient Near East. Third Edition.
    Amanda H. Podany (2014) The Ancient Near East: A Very Short Introduction.
    Fuad Safar, Mohammad Ali Mustafa and Seton Lloyd (1981) Eridu.
    Harriet Crawford (2004) Sumer and the Sumerians. 2nd Edition.
    Guillermo Algaze (2008) Ancient Mesopotamia at the Dawn of Civilisation: The Evolution of an Urban Landscape.
    Robert Adams (1981) Heartland of Cities. The University of Chicago Press.
    Nicola Crusemann, Margarete Van Ess, Markus Hilgert, Beate Salje and Timothy Potts (2019) Uruk: The Worlds First City. English edition.
    References:
    Rollefson (2011) The Greening of the Badlands: Pastoral Nomads and the “Conclusion” of Neolithization in the Southern Levant. Paleorient, 37(1): 101-109.
    Akkermans and Duistermaat (1997) Of Storage and Nomads: the clay sealings from late Neolithic Tell Sabi Abyad, Syrua. Paleorient, 22(2): 17-44.
    Akkermans (2000) Old and New prespectives on the Origins of the Halaf Culture.
    Spataro and Fletcher (2010) Centralisation or Regional Identity in the Halaf Period? Examining interactions with Fine painted ware production. Paleorient, 36(2): 96-116.
    Healey and Campbell (2014) Producing adornment: Evidence of different levels of expertise in the production of obsidian items of adornment at two late Neolithic communities in northern Mesopotamia. Journal of Lithic Studies, 1 (2).
    Pournelle (2003) Marshland of Cities: Deltaic landscapes and the evolution of early Mesopotamian Civilization. PhD Thesis, University of California, San Diego.
    Kennedy (2012) Commensality and Labour in Terminal Ubaid Northern Mesopotamia. Journal for Ancient Studies, 2: 125-156.
    Van Buren (1949) Discoveries at Eridu. Orientalia, 18(1): 123-124.
    Emberling (2016) Structures of Authority: Feasting and Political Practise in the Earliest Mesopotamian States. In “Social Theory in Archaeology and Ancient History”, edited by Geoff Emberling.
    McMahon (2019) Early Urbanisation in Northern Mesopotamia. Journal of Archaeological Research, 28: 289-337.
    Oates et al. (2007) Early Mesopotamian urbanism: a new view from the north. Antiquity, 81: 585-600.
    McMahon et al. (2011) Late Chalcolithic mass graves at Tell Brak, Syria, and violent conflict during the growth of early city-states. Journal of Field Archaeology, 36(3): 201-2020.
    Lawler (2006) North Versus South, Mesopotamian Style. Science, 312: 1458-1463.
    Nissen et al. (2003) Archaic Bookkeeping: Early Writing and Techniques of Economic Administration in the Ancient Near East. pg. 28-29.
    Englund (2004) Proto-Cuneiform Account-Books and Journals. In “Creating Economic Order: Record-keeping, Standardization and the Development of Accounting in the Ancient Near East”, pg. 32-33.
    Woods (2010) The Earliest Mesopotamian Writing. In “Visible Language: Inventions of Writing in the Ancient Middle East and Beyond”, edited by Christopher Woods, Emily Teeter and Geoff Emberling.
    Stauder (2010) The Earliest Egyptian Writing. In “Visible Language: Inventions of Writing in the Ancient Middle East and Beyond”, edited by Christopher Woods, Emily Teeter and Geoff Emberling.

    • @prospectorpete3738
      @prospectorpete3738 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Fake news none of those authors were even alive then to witness Jesus riding raptors!

    • @truecrimeboozer
      @truecrimeboozer 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      TH-cam videos with solid academic research and proper citations almost make me hope for the *future* of civilisation. Thanks for another excellent video!

    • @covenawhite4855
      @covenawhite4855 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Thanks for doing so much research

    • @benh6455
      @benh6455 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Loved this video. What would you recommend for a readable overview of this subject ?

    • @saladinbob
      @saladinbob 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      You might want to stickey this comment. Thanks for the video though, this is a time period I've always held a great interest in.

  • @jimgaterj529
    @jimgaterj529 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Calm speech and rich histroy content, THANK YOU for your great work!

  • @felixyongco7964
    @felixyongco7964 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you Free Documentary in sharing your video. A lot I learned added since I did my high school studies in 1965-67
    WORLD HISTORY.
    I JUST LIKE IT. THANK YOU.

  • @janobara6337
    @janobara6337 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    Been waiting for this! Love listening about these alien long-gone cultures when falling asleep or on walks. This whole series is very neatly written and well-researched.

    • @2LMproductions
      @2LMproductions 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Which series? Fallen civilizations?

    • @princeofcupspoc9073
      @princeofcupspoc9073 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Alien? How is the middle east "alien?" I think you need to get out of your basement more.

    • @janobara6337
      @janobara6337 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@princeofcupspoc9073 Eight thousand years ago and over a thousand kilometres away seems pretty alien to me, I'm sure I wouldn't find myself in ancient Uruk if I stepped foot out of the basement.
      Even so, modern day Mesopotamia is still pretty alien to a European, if not for the internet, some of us wouldn't even know it exists. I think you need to work on your condescending attitude, my dear anime profile pic lad

    • @highadmiraljt5853
      @highadmiraljt5853 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@princeofcupspoc9073
      Chief I don’t think that ancient Mesopotamian structures are outside of his house

    • @ineedtostopwatchingyoutube5211
      @ineedtostopwatchingyoutube5211 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@princeofcupspoc9073 Next you’ll say he’s racist, right?

  • @sagittarius_a_starr
    @sagittarius_a_starr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Whoo hoo! Just as I’m cycling back through my Bronze Age (and Neolithic) podcasts, new Bronze Age content!

  • @jonjeremy4778
    @jonjeremy4778 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    It's amazing just how far back human civilization really stretches.

    • @oscarblack7624
      @oscarblack7624 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Not a touch on the First Nations people of Australia

    • @Tyler_Owen23
      @Tyler_Owen23 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@oscarblack7624 they didn’t even have a permanent standing stature when the British came. That’s not impressive

    • @oscarblack7624
      @oscarblack7624 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Tyler_Owen23 you speak from a position of ignorance.

  • @aceofhearts573
    @aceofhearts573 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you so much for this. Loved the video

  • @rahveel
    @rahveel 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I've loved this series, really cleared up some misconceptions I had, and strung together a lot of what I knew with a lot if what I didn't in a cohesive way. Your Cult of the Skull video especially filled in a lot of gaps, and really left one with an idea of just how 'human' we still behave, despite massive changes in how we live our lives.
    Any inspiration on your next project

  • @riteshyeddu9186
    @riteshyeddu9186 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    This was an awesome series! Please make a detailed video on the Indus Valley civilisation too, if possible

  • @DeanBrah
    @DeanBrah 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    -gentle bongo drumming begins-
    every tap on the drum symbolizes each of the succinct facts and crystallized analyses
    thanks

  • @classiclife7204
    @classiclife7204 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Real, sourced history, more scholarly than popular (this is a compliment). Absolutely splendid. Subbed, obviously.

    • @antpat
      @antpat ปีที่แล้ว

      What sources?

    • @classiclife7204
      @classiclife7204 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@antpat I'm pretty sure they used to be here, at least a year ago when I commented. I see sources on other Histocrat videos. TH-cam is sucky now; he probably can't fit his sources into the description sometimes.

  • @kingcowgirl
    @kingcowgirl 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Literally my favorite way to spend an hour

  • @JoaoGabriel-hk8ub
    @JoaoGabriel-hk8ub 3 ปีที่แล้ว +99

    This is one of the best series I've ever seen! Do you plan on doing something similar with other early civilizations, like Egypt, Indus Valley Civilization, China or Norte Chico?

    • @stars-and-clouds
      @stars-and-clouds 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      I'm so interested in the Indus Valley Civilisation and Egypt as well!

    • @davidcwitkin6729
      @davidcwitkin6729 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I'd love to know more about the Indus Valley Civilization and what happened to them as well

  • @cinemaipswich4636
    @cinemaipswich4636 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I think being near the sea or ocean gave Ur and Uruk a viable source of protein to add to their agricultural efforts. Boats and fishing don't seem to feature much in archeology, but it is a year-round resource.

  • @janedoe8983
    @janedoe8983 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Thank you for not having loud distracting music

  • @imperatoraurelian8015
    @imperatoraurelian8015 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Love these videos, the research and objectivity in them is refreshing in a world full of biases and sensationalism.

  • @coreywilliams4678
    @coreywilliams4678 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Great video! This period of history is so interesting

  • @IanM-rl1pu
    @IanM-rl1pu 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I never get to watch your videos but they are a fantastic listen. Thanks for all the work

  • @MultiOranuch
    @MultiOranuch 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    The civilization around Mediterenian Sea are always interesting. I have been in Knossos of Crete and was so impressed about Art, culture and so on of that time more than 2000 years old civilization.
    Best wishes from Stockholm - Sweden

    • @desihistory6252
      @desihistory6252 ปีที่แล้ว

      The sumerians and all great civilization are not Mediterranean nor related to middleeast people of the last 3500 years. eras. Semites killed destroyed 😢 sumerians and stolen Iraq Mesopotamia

  • @philliplyn2692
    @philliplyn2692 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Loving this one thanks for sharing very information blessed love to all knowledge is power hopefully everyone pays attention keep up the good work 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲

  • @ianlang9925
    @ianlang9925 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I'm going to do some work around the house.
    'The Histocrat has uploaded a new video.'
    I guess the work can be done 1:16:46 from now.

    • @readmycomment4696
      @readmycomment4696 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It is 2 hr now, did you start the work :)

    • @DarkMoonDroid
      @DarkMoonDroid 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I love doing housework to stuff like this.

  • @nichegames9590
    @nichegames9590 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wow, that was really well done.

  • @GrndAdmiralThrawn
    @GrndAdmiralThrawn 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    15:13 The earliest known instance of “Put your name on your food so your coworkers don’t eat it.”

  • @korkad_
    @korkad_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    breakfast, coffe and some history. this sunday is starting strong

  • @stanleystudios5186
    @stanleystudios5186 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Can't wait to see this!

  • @adarsh915
    @adarsh915 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Really History has so many interpretations,
    I read in my book that writing had begun to keep a record of various activities happening in Urban cities like in Uruk (southern Mesopotamia), from where 5000 lists( clay tablets) have been found that contained info. about stuffs imported, distributed, orders, etc

  • @felixyongco7964
    @felixyongco7964 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    More than I say , thank you in sharing your. history review .. Details during past seven millenium .. and more.. so. exciting and educational.
    So good to me. I. keep. myself dedicated to learning civilizations before our current era.

  • @sanderborsje4942
    @sanderborsje4942 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Currently I'm reading "Work" by James Suzman, and looking up some more information on the earliest city culture got me into binge whatching this triple piece. It is my first experience whith your channel. Thanks a lot, this helps me well through my COVID related self isolation.

  • @altansirin5830
    @altansirin5830 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    A new power is rising in Mesopotamia. It's victory is at hand. - King of Uruks probably

    • @mike7652
      @mike7652 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Verified.

    • @JIMvc2
      @JIMvc2 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Heck yea! 😂😂😂

  • @michaelbryan6552
    @michaelbryan6552 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very informative with a lot to consider with early civilizations.

  • @yar3333
    @yar3333 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Many thanks for the series! I absolutely love that. It would be great if there was a written summary of its key elements with dates.
    However, I understand that a whole book (to which you link) might be better.

  • @easttowest7839
    @easttowest7839 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I love your work. Can't wait for the episode on Irish druids, as was promised at the end of your Druids video a while ago!

  • @erichtomanek4739
    @erichtomanek4739 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    For your views of a modern city, you showed Melbourne, Australia.
    They included Princes Bridge, Federation Square and The Bourke Street Mall.
    Nice.

  • @TRUTHRULES777
    @TRUTHRULES777 ปีที่แล้ว

    My Haplo comes from these places from Moms side. When I was a little girl in first or second grade when they talked about Cuneiform writing it was like a lightning bolt went through my head. And I’ve always loved many of these cultures since then.

  • @chrisdooley6468
    @chrisdooley6468 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Idk, I feel so much better when my ancient history is narrated by a Brit lol. It lends it an aire of legitimacy and historical conciseness that engrosses me in the material. It might also be that the British Museum is hands down the most impressive and amazing ancient history collection I’ve ever seen, with my local University of Pennsylvania museum and collection being second. Awesome doc. This was the time period I’d like to visit via time machine lol.

  • @imnotcreativeenoughh
    @imnotcreativeenoughh ปีที่แล้ว +4

    So sad that Saruman distorted and destroyed these people to create his Uruk-hai

    • @SpiritEagleTx
      @SpiritEagleTx ปีที่แล้ว +1

      What's even more sad that we keep trying to repeat their ideas of civilization after fail after fail .

    • @imnotcreativeenoughh
      @imnotcreativeenoughh ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@SpiritEagleTx lol I think you maybe didn't get the joke I made.

    • @waspsandwich6548
      @waspsandwich6548 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@imnotcreativeenoughh I'll tell you that I got the lotr joke so you realize that it isn't yoy

  • @YouTubdotCub
    @YouTubdotCub 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Phenomenal ending to an absolutely phenomenal series, truly incredible work. You really oughta be proud of yourself for this series as it is quite an achievement. Hope you do a series on Mesopotamia entering the Bronze Age, especially with all the new genetic research on Sumerian skeletons suggesting a South Asian origin for the Sumerians (just one more theory for the pile of "where did they come from?" but one that is hot and fresh and I don't see many people talking about yet). Anyway, cheers! Great job!

  • @markspangler8573
    @markspangler8573 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you. Excellent on all levels.

  • @aaroniwanowski9780
    @aaroniwanowski9780 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I really enjoyed this video. Super interesting and informative 😁

  • @Spartan265
    @Spartan265 3 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    I learned a lot. Early human history is fascinating.

    • @abotaweela1
      @abotaweela1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Said like a true extra-terrestial!

  • @davidwilson9928
    @davidwilson9928 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Extremely relevant to present day context. Many tend to underrate the importance of History (and especially Ancient History) to the understanding of present day politics and happenings. Thanks a lot!!!

  • @annikafrolander7903
    @annikafrolander7903 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you! Really good written manuscript. Engaging and informative.👍🙏🏼

  • @johnheigis83
    @johnheigis83 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Outstanding!
    Thank you.

  • @guymanuel4260
    @guymanuel4260 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Nice, I know what I'll be falling asleep to tonight.