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
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 ♥️
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.
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.
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 :)
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.
@@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?
Historical TH-cam is typically more accurate than actual documentaries on Netflix and the like because their sources can be checked and the video peer reviewed. Plus our understanding of history is constantly changing and a low cost, low production time TH-cam video is more likely to have up to date information than a documentary which could take years to be produced from start to finish making it inaccurate by the time it’s released.
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.
@@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.😉👍
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!
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
@@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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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).
@@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.
@@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.
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?
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!!
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?
@@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.
Cylinder seals are the earliest form of document copying. An amazing development. Ashubanipal library contained 25000 cylinders. The existance of a library that long ago is mind blowing. Apparently only 4% of discovered cylinders have been translated.
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.
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 !!!
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.
@@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
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
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.
📝 Origin of writing info begins at 56:26 - would be a great seed for a longer and more detailed video on this key topic for amateur anthropology fans like myself 😆 thanks !! 🍻
This is excellent and masterfully researched and presented. One question I have is the map choice used throughout. The chosen map shows the current Persian Gulf shoreline and present river courses. Was that map used instead of one featuring the ancient shoreline(s) and river routes for a specific purpose, i.e. you wished to only convey the locations as archeological sites and not in their historical contexts?
I was born in Iraq in 1961 my dad is Assyrian mom is Chaldean- we moved to the USA in1968 - someday I will visit my native Assyrian village - thank you!
Loving this one thanks for sharing very information blessed love to all knowledge is power hopefully everyone pays attention keep up the good work 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
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.
You are fantastic. Such respect and diligence, luminary voiceover work as well. Just great. I politely request some lessons on the pre columbian Americas! The olmecs, the giant interconnected amazon rainforest civilization, the Mississippians, the Hopewell, the Anasazi, Maya, Inca, Nazca. SOOO MUCH HISTORY
I love these, I'm dying for one about the Indus Valley civ (Mohejo-daro/Harrapa) but I realize that's a tall order. I'm going to try to become a patron so maybe that'll help! I also know some people for original music and animation, nothing fancy but food for thought...
Fascinating exploration of the rise of Uruk! Felt like diving into an ancient history documentary that brought the beginnings of civilization to life. More content like this, please!
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!!!
You cannot understand how much I waited for this episode! It is very sad that the reason excavations are limited is because of the conflict us humans are having in the near middle East! And in the end, is it a spoiler that tells us that the series will continue? 😍
My understanding is the Middle East got mislabeled as such a couple hundred years ago by some Westerner. That means it would be cartographically and geographically correct to refer to it as the Near East and everything in between that and the Far East as the Middle East.
thanks for sharing , “behold, the man has become like us, knowing about good and bad; now he will reach out for the fruit on the tree of life, to live forever....” genesis ch.3
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.
Yeah. This survey over the entire area is great. Most often what I come across is study of an area or city for a length of it's history. I have not seen an all encompassing view of Mesopotamia, Iran, and Anatolia in this period, presented before.
Yeah but problem is, this might well be too much for the average schoolboy to bear with. Nobody expects a 6 year old to write his own thesis explaining the benefits or disadvantages of urbanisation for Copper Age folk.
@@meilinchan7314 just reading it in textbooks 20 some years ago I wasn’t particularly interested. If videos like this were available then I would’ve been more likely to realize how interesting the topic is.
I listened very carefully to all 3 videos and enjoyed them immensely. At one point, you emphasized the question as to why people began to choose a sedentary life when a traveling life seemed easier. I believe you answered your own question,.Previously when you indicated early fermentation had been discovered. People couldn't have beer if they were traveling all the time. I am just a dumb ole' girl from Kentucky, but I believe I have solved that mystery.
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.
I don't think this """urban lifestyle""" will prevail. Same as with the wheel or eating grounded grains. New figgety shortlived fashions that will be forgoten sooner than later!
@Yousif Boti yeah man i researched on the topic actually i was wrong indus valley is not older it is equal both are 6000 years old recent excavation in the sindh and haryana region show that the dna of the older mesopotamian(current iranian) was found in that region though it was very little that means there were migrations, just like nowadays we migrate to other countries in search of better opportunities
I appreciate the inclusion of the nude men in your art work. I’m interested in the history of clothing and I’d like to know if these men are representative of the general citizenry or if they are priests? Have they been depicted in the nude to reflect the imagery on the cylinder or for some other reason? Thanks and great job! (This is the first of your videos that I’ve seen.)
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
No way its perfect for binge watching
You both 10's
You both have the greatest history channels
Love when you two post new videos! Big fan!
Both channels are great and your brother's as well! 👍👍
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 ♥️
Greetings from Arkansas. Respect
I love utube:) Ireland here ..Repect
Down Under is in the house. G'day mates, from an couple of Australians.
✝️🙏🇺🇲
𒁲 𒀕𒅕 - greetings from unug
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.
And here I am having never beat super Mario Brothers.
Yeah dude, they had a lot of time and were still human after all
@@americanmitch2658 under-rated comment
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.
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 :)
Same here, have you found
Fall of civilizations? It's also amazing.
Me toooooooooooo!!
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.
I hate being a farmer. Hunter-gatherers encircle my field and yell, "go wheat boy, go!"
Gilgamesh loving wheat boy, trying to take away our spears!
haha the farmer boy is lacking in dietary diversity
@@PurplePalmTreeParadise and has bad teeth
But the wives like the fact he's home more nights 😂
@@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?
A TH-cam channel made this?? Wow, I’m impressed. The quality is more sophisticated than the usual style on this platform
It’s been hacked together from other documentaries’ videos but still quite interesting.
If you don’t know check Fall of Civilizations that is another very well done channel, cheers!
Historical TH-cam is typically more accurate than actual documentaries on Netflix and the like because their sources can be checked and the video peer reviewed. Plus our understanding of history is constantly changing and a low cost, low production time TH-cam video is more likely to have up to date information than a documentary which could take years to be produced from start to finish making it inaccurate by the time it’s released.
Wow, that's so brazenly platformist
@@DirtyBobBojanglescry
Some of the best history content on TH-cam. 10/10, loved the whole series.
Thanks man, appreciate it.
You got to try fall of civilisation!!!
@@TheHistocrat .,
Agreed i LOVE THESE SERIES
You got good taste dude! Glad to have been a long time sub of yours :)
Told my wife I was watching "The Rise of Uruk". She wants to know when Saruman is going to show up.
Lmao I dont blame her at all😂😂😂
The Uruk-Hai?
Lol hell yeah
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I don't get it I'm dumb.
I just LOVE history! I don’t see how anyone finds it boring?!! Fascinating stuff.
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.
@@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.😉👍
@@mjonhouston Conservative propaganda go brrrr
@@JK-ji3kl What "wokeness" do you perceive here?
its all lies though
Reasons why I watch:
80% I Love history
10%Production qauality
10% voice is relaxing AF
Umm 🤔 ditto same
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!
Lol!
They were black African actually.
@@chamade166 we wuz Kangz
Same here
@@chamade166 I bet you think that Indians are African too
I’ve watched the series a couple times now and I must say, well done Charles. You’ve done good on us all
The earliest known writing found on pottery: World's Greatest Dad
First scroll finding: “Civilization for Dummies”
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
@@funderbee ??? ummm no.
@@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...
Lol I would have said: "Sky's Greatest Dad"...
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
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.
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.
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.
@@Searly255That's pretty optimistic
I find they did not advance much in that area today.
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.
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.
i was born in 7325 BC, and damn this brings back memories. things were so different back then
That sounds so hard 😢. Bet you've seen so much in your time.
And no calluses to prove it. Tsk, tsk.
I highly doubt that, that would make you several millennia old which is impossible
@@mark9294 I found the autist. 🤣
😂@@mark9294
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.
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So you are calling them "lowest common denominator," "dumbed down for the audience." That's quite an insult, actually.
@@princeofcupspoc9073 That's an extraordinary interpretation of what I wrote.
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.
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
Says you...
Customer service sucks too. My plow goes dull quicker than it should and no one is responding to my emails.
Thank you for the tip. I'm sure it'll come in handy
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.
This is better than everything you can watch on History Channel or any TV channel these days.
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
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.
All these towns thousands of years ago and still bigger than the town i grew up in.
You must live on the outskirts of rapidly-expanding civilization
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.
Some people still live a hunter-gatherer lifestyle, so...
@@artistjoh all those words and simply saying "damn the world population grew since then" would have sufficed
@@naughtybear2187 What you said has very little to do with what I said, so no, it would not have sufficed.
I love learning about the bronze/pre-pottery eras. They are so fascinating
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.
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.
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.
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
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
Nothing like watching these to fill in all the gaps from the mind numbing awful history classes I took in various institutions....
For real.
Almost all of them not even bothering small details and focus much on the broader side of history or the mainstream I suppose.
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.
Kind of same here.
Maybe you just have adhd
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).
Plus his voice is so perfect for this!
Is it? What about Gobekli Tepe?
@@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.
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
Considering the fact there's little or no financial incentive to create these videos, they are pretty amazing!
2.2 million views is a chunk of change
:D May I recommend a visit to the doc?
Real, sourced history, more scholarly than popular (this is a compliment). Absolutely splendid. Subbed, obviously.
What sources?
@@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.
Simply stunning, some of the best content on TH-cam, thank you for all your hard work 👍
Whoo hoo! Just as I’m cycling back through my Bronze Age (and Neolithic) podcasts, new Bronze Age content!
Literally my favorite way to spend an hour
It's amazing just how far back human civilization really stretches.
Not a touch on the First Nations people of Australia
@@oscarblack7624 they didn’t even have a permanent standing stature when the British came. That’s not impressive
@@Tyler_Owen23 you speak from a position of ignorance.
You’d be surprised at some of the skill involved with Gobekli Tepe!
Thanks for this. Like the rest of your stuff, it's well done and thoroughly great.
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.
It is 2 hr now, did you start the work :)
I love doing housework to stuff like this.
Beautiful! Both the contents, the narrative and the images are fantastic. Great job! Thank you.
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?
I'm so interested in the Indus Valley Civilisation and Egypt as well!
I'd love to know more about the Indus Valley Civilization and what happened to them as well
These are incredibly well-made and well-narrated videos.
Absolutely WOWED i WANT to keep learning from this series
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!!
Wasn't expecting a shot of my home city in this video! Great series, I'm definitely going to subscribe
What blows my mind everytime is how long ago this was and how long these periods lasted.
Think thats crazy.. think about how much longer dinosaurs existed compared to humans. We've barely existed at all in comparison
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?
Wats yo ig
@@sandrapicton8961 ours, imo
@@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.
I love all of this so far. Great visuals, great narration and very informative. Glad I found this channel!
Cylinder seals are the earliest form of document copying. An amazing development. Ashubanipal library contained 25000 cylinders. The existance of a library that long ago is mind blowing. Apparently only 4% of discovered cylinders have been translated.
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.
Hell yeah, new episode! Looking forward to this one.
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 !!!
Engagement for based algorithm; But Im going to save the actual listen for when Im at work monday. Been waiting on this one~
buahahahaha save the long documentaries for company time
Remind me never to buy objects manufactured on a Monday.
It's a great thing to see the notification of a new episode!
4 or 5 thousand years BC, the Mesopotamian region was NOT arid... it was a huge NATURAL fertile garden.
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.
Which series? Fallen civilizations?
Alien? How is the middle east "alien?" I think you need to get out of your basement more.
@@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
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Chief I don’t think that ancient Mesopotamian structures are outside of his house
@@princeofcupspoc9073 Next you’ll say he’s racist, right?
This channel is a phenomenon.
Thank you for everything.
Thank you for not having loud distracting music
Keep up the amazing work and art along with the channel good sir. We love the education and narrators.
Love these videos, the research and objectivity in them is refreshing in a world full of biases and sensationalism.
Oh goodness, I have successfully found a new history channel, what an effort. Will start watching now, thanks
I learned a lot. Early human history is fascinating.
Said like a true extra-terrestial!
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
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.
This was an awesome series! Please make a detailed video on the Indus Valley civilisation too, if possible
breakfast, coffe and some history. this sunday is starting strong
This video is more informative and has higher production quality than most of the documentaries on TV.
📝 Origin of writing info begins at 56:26 - would be a great seed for a longer and more detailed video on this key topic for amateur anthropology fans like myself 😆 thanks !! 🍻
This is excellent and masterfully researched and presented. One question I have is the map choice used throughout. The chosen map shows the current Persian Gulf shoreline and present river courses. Was that map used instead of one featuring the ancient shoreline(s) and river routes for a specific purpose, i.e. you wished to only convey the locations as archeological sites and not in their historical contexts?
I was born in Iraq in 1961 my dad is Assyrian mom is Chaldean-
we moved to the USA in1968 -
someday I will visit my native Assyrian village -
thank you!
For your views of a modern city, you showed Melbourne, Australia.
They included Princes Bridge, Federation Square and The Bourke Street Mall.
Nice.
Loving this one thanks for sharing very information blessed love to all knowledge is power hopefully everyone pays attention keep up the good work 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
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.
You are fantastic. Such respect and diligence, luminary voiceover work as well. Just great. I politely request some lessons on the pre columbian Americas! The olmecs, the giant interconnected amazon rainforest civilization, the Mississippians, the Hopewell, the Anasazi, Maya, Inca, Nazca. SOOO MUCH HISTORY
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I love these, I'm dying for one about the Indus Valley civ (Mohejo-daro/Harrapa) but I realize that's a tall order. I'm going to try to become a patron so maybe that'll help!
I also know some people for original music and animation, nothing fancy but food for thought...
The plumbing in Mohenjo Daro is fascinating. Awesome stuff
Just finished the Epic of Gilgamesh. This is a perfect recommendation for me! Thanks for saying on me without my permission google?
I love historical artwork that depicts daily life in ancient cultures like from 16:28. Is there a name (genre?) for this?
I enjoy learning about very early civilizations.
Fascinating exploration of the rise of Uruk! Felt like diving into an ancient history documentary that brought the beginnings of civilization to life. More content like this, please!
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!!!
I was seriously looking forward to this one!
Recently subbed: Cracking episode - thoroughly researched and beautifully presented as always! Greetings from Delphi, Greece.
To think many of us may have come from those exact people building settlements around that area. That shit's just crazy.
You cannot understand how much I waited for this episode! It is very sad that the reason excavations are limited is because of the conflict us humans are having in the near middle East! And in the end, is it a spoiler that tells us that the series will continue? 😍
My understanding is the Middle East got mislabeled as such a couple hundred years ago by some Westerner. That means it would be cartographically and geographically correct to refer to it as the Near East and everything in between that and the Far East as the Middle East.
I can surely say that this Is the best history channel that I've discovered so far
omg im so excited ive been waiting for this to come out 🙈
thanks for sharing , “behold, the man has become like us, knowing about good and bad; now he will reach out for the fruit on the tree of life, to live forever....” genesis ch.3
You are AMAZING brother!!! All your work is just phenomenal! Thank you so much!
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.
I love the fact this civilisation existed before the Bronze age!
This was known as the mud age
Very impressive production! Great editing with the pictures maps etc.
Great episode! would love it if you did more on other Cradles of Civilization too
Agreed. The Norte Chico civilization in the americas is fascinating. It is basically the Sumer of the Americas, predating even the Olmecs.
Mohenjo-Daro is fascinating, too. Their plumbing was ahead of it's time
i like your explanation of how regular people survived in Uruk. Things dont seem so much different now huh?
Absolutely tonnes of this type of content in TH-cam. Only a small percentage of it is worth watching. This is that.
Read about this in school, would've been easier if this existed before.
Yeah. This survey over the entire area is great. Most often what I come across is study of an area or city for a length of it's history. I have not seen an all encompassing view of Mesopotamia, Iran, and Anatolia in this period, presented before.
Yeah but problem is, this might well be too much for the average schoolboy to bear with. Nobody expects a 6 year old to write his own thesis explaining the benefits or disadvantages of urbanisation for Copper Age folk.
@@meilinchan7314 Well, it was pretty detailed in my highschool. Had more to learn.
@@meilinchan7314 just reading it in textbooks 20 some years ago I wasn’t particularly interested. If videos like this were available then I would’ve been more likely to realize how interesting the topic is.
Cracked open a beer and spotted this. Happy days.
cracked open a dozen and four boxes of methadone, even happier...
I listened very carefully to all 3 videos and enjoyed them immensely. At one point, you emphasized the question as to why people began to choose a sedentary life when a traveling life seemed easier. I believe you answered your own question,.Previously when you indicated early fermentation had been discovered. People couldn't have beer if they were traveling all the time. I am just a dumb ole' girl from Kentucky, but I believe I have solved that mystery.
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.
A new power is rising in Mesopotamia. It's victory is at hand. - King of Uruks probably
Verified.
Heck yea! 😂😂😂
I really like these videos. No pressure but I am excited for the possibility of a follow up.
I don't think this """urban lifestyle""" will prevail. Same as with the wheel or eating grounded grains. New figgety shortlived fashions that will be forgoten sooner than later!
cant agree more
they need to be
the amount of waste fashion creates
thats a lotttt
and wasnt the indus valley civilizaation older than mesopotamian?
correct me if i am wrong
thanks!!!
@Yousif Boti yeah man i researched on the topic
actually i was wrong
indus valley is not older
it is equal
both are 6000 years old
recent excavation in the sindh and haryana region show that the dna of the older mesopotamian(current iranian) was found in that region
though it was very little
that means there were migrations, just like nowadays we migrate to other countries in search of better opportunities
I appreciate the inclusion of the nude men in your art work. I’m interested in the history of clothing and I’d like to know if these men are representative of the general citizenry or if they are priests? Have they been depicted in the nude to reflect the imagery on the cylinder or for some other reason? Thanks and great job! (This is the first of your videos that I’ve seen.)
Yes, and the older videos people were wearing Lots of clothes. What happened?
@@GrandmaCathy they got hot
Ideas of modesty/shame are always changing even today, these ideas were probably very different in ancient times
Rome quite a few people walked around nude. Women tended to wear clothes, donated by temples.
@@cheryldeboissiere1851 Damn, that's a shame.
Excellent work . Thanks for making this ...