Lol yeah in these videos the Elam token has become the bogeyman of Mesopotamia, just lurking there in the corner, waiting for the right time to strike!
Interesting side note, the bible talks about the destruction of Elam and what do we have there? Irans nuclear stuff…so I would say it’s “when” not “if” and that should make you pick up a bible
I have a massive interest in ancient mesopotamia and you are by far my favorite channel covering the topic. Massive thanks for your hard and brilliant work!
Cy!! Hello! I must say the content of your channel has just become better and better over the years. Really impressive that your documentaries outshines and far out performs anything from multi million dollar netflix for example. Keep up the fantastic work!!
As always, thank YOU for continuing to watching these and supporting the channel all these years. You were there when I released my first video on Sargon and the Akkadian Empire when the channel was in its infancy and still here for the latest one... means the world, thanks for everything!
Outstanding episode. I instantly recognized Irena's voice. I love her channel. When she says "Let's go!" you know you're going to learn something amazing about the ancient world.
These longer videos that you do now are excellent (this one being no different!). You've always been great at summoning up the atmosphere of the past, with your well chosen and presented quotes, but now this is accompanied by the wealth of detail that there just wasn't time for before. This was a real pleasure to watch!
Thanks, so glad you enjoyed this! I will keep trying to do longer videos more because I like being able to tell the whole story in one shot and also it allows me to add more detail and context. Thanks so much for watching, really appreciate it and stay tuned for more!
Thanks, glad you enjoy these longer ones. I also prefer this format because feel that I can give more context and tell the story better, it's just that they take so long to make compared to the shorter ones. I have several longer videos like this one in the works so stay tuned and thanks for watching!
Wow, this was an incredible video. Thank you so much for making it! I'm sure it took a long time. I visited the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (formerly the Oriental Institute) at the University of Chicago in 2022 and I gotta say... it was breathtaking. I was interested in archaeology beforehand, but seeing an Akkadian sphinx in real life was incredible beyond words. I say this because you cited the University of Chicago several times, and it made me think of my visit to the museum. Thanks again for presenting all this information in a succinct, chronological, semi-narrative format like this!!! :D
I just want to say that only today did I notice your quizzes! I did the latest quiz and went all the way back to #14. I don't know if your motivation behind the quizzes is to increase crowd interaction with your channel, a genuine desire to promote education about the subjects you make videos about, or a combination of the two, but I REALLY love it. That said, Id recommend, like, two minor changes to really streamline your process: 1.) Make at least one quiz after each video, 2.) Make multiple questions per quiz. Say, each quiz has ten questions. Those who get them all right get bragging rights, and are ousted as being super nerds. Either way, you're easily my favorite history youtuber, and I think I've probably provided you with maybe 100 or 200 views for your channel (probably 4 or 5 just on this video, I keep forgetting I've already watched it XD). Keep it up! Or don't - I'll probably just keep rewatching all of your old videos if you don't post new stuff, I'm more than happy either way! Alright, enough fan-girling! It's time for me to watch this again!
Hi! First off, thanks so much for your comment...it's feedback like this that not only makes my day but also inspires me to keep putting out more content for you all. Thank YOU! I'm really glad that you're enjoying both the videos and the quizzes. I really like your ideas about the quizzes. Unfortunately for each quiz, TH-cam only allows me to put one question at a time. I'd love to release 20 questions at once, but at the moment this doesn't seem to be possible. The quizzes really started with me just testing the option in the "Community" tab and after seeing that many like you enjoyed doing them, I decided to put out more to give you something to do in between videos since sometimes it takes me a while to put them out (especially the longer ones). Maybe there's an online quiz site that I can adopt but like you said, posting them on TH-cam does increase viewer interaction with the channel which is always a good thing. I'll do my best to put these out more often. Again, thanks so much for watching these videos multiple times, really means a lot! If you have any special requests for topics you'd like to see covered, let me know and I'll see what I can do. Thanks again!!
Always a good listen/watch. I've learned so much about our past as humans. I haven't been here from video 1, but I've been around for a while. You rock.
Thank YOU for all of the support and tuning in to watch these. It's viewers like you who have made this channel what it is, so this is your doing! A million thanks and glad you're enjoying the content!
My concern is how many civilizations were so thoroughly looted, razed, destroyed that there’s no evidence left. Any remnants were swallowed up by the conquerers and time.
Thanks so much, I'm honored. haha I hope this platform doesn't die because I plan to keep making more videos like this for some time. Thanks for watching, really appreciate it!
Thanks so much Cy. Although I love Sargon and his success,I still can't help feel badly for the Sumerians in this truly epic story! Never get tired of hearing of this first civilization and empire. So amazing. Well done Cy,thanks again.
Yeah I am forever fascinated with this part of the world... I've been meaning to get past the Bronze Age on the channel but I keep getting drawn back to this era and have more Sumerian, Babylonian and Assyrian content scheduled for this year. Thanks for watching, really appreciate it!
That seems to be the consensus opinion but still has to be definitely proven. I hope they discover it one day soon... for me it'd be one of the most incredible finds of the century. Thanks again for watching, appreciate it!
God imagine bringing this guy bill and ted style into the future and telling him "yeah this pasty chunky sad man is now more remembered than all the cool shit you did"
Those are called loan words. We have loan words in English from Chinese. Sop Sue (left overs) = Chop Suey. I mention this because Kurdish is an Iranesque language.
@@genericascanbe3728I've actually found a website with the full Akkadian dictionary. Just write Akkadian words dictionary/lexicon and it's a very basic site, but it has thousands of words
😂 that's a good one, but only ancient history nerds like us will get it! Glad you liked the video and thanks so much for watching, really appreciate it!
Lugal zage si was so close to becoming the first emperor in know history, just for Sargon to outdo him immediately and now be remembered as such instead.
Here, is about all there is to know about Sargon. It is very thorough. It appears that Sargon was the first ruler to develop a continuous standing army. Cuneiform was adopted to be the written form of Akkaidian. Thus it was nearly the same writing for Summarian and Akkaidian : two different languages.
"Enlil gave him no rival" - after 4000 years no student who studied literature came with this kind of saying. the art and literature was sky high during those times!
Thank you for another fantastic long-form video! It's fascinating to hear these old tales of Sargon, his predecessors, and his successors. After all these millenia, human civilization still works in largely the same way, lol. God be with you out there everybody. ✝️ :)
Maybe... I did see a lot of cool stuff in the Louvre from Susa recently that I'd love to put in a video. I'd love to visit the site though before I make a video about it, though I don't know when that would be. As always, thanks for watching!
The artistic quality of these scripts and artpieces are just meserizing! Imagin scholars in the 20-10th ct BC studying ancient texts like these to undertand dynamics of civilizations then to derive learnings for their today. Not so much has changed after all!
Just getting a glass of wine and throwing another log on the fire before settling down to a nice long delve into the Bronze Age BLISS! Thank you Cy :-)
Sargon conquest were so memorable that despite being unknown by Hebrews and Greeks his fame endured.They invented characters like Nimrod (who reigned over Accad) and Ninus of Assyria (who was the first emperor in a time before the founding of Babylon) who shared a lot of Sargon's legendary feats.
@IStevenSeagalin a way you are right. Naram-Sin hubris is a perfect match for the rebelious Nimrod from the hebrew tradition (incuding stories not in the bible). But going by the bible text alone Sargon would be a good guess.He is related to every city mentioned in the text: Uruk (whose walls he destroyed),Akkad (his capital) and Babylon (a city he "made a counterpart in front of Akkad"). The irony is that either Ninus or Nimrod could be his true name.Sargon/Sharrukin is a throne name bot his birth name.
5:30 hey :) so I heard a uni lecture (titled great mythical beasts or something) about Anzu that suggested earlier on when Lagash was more powerful, Anzu was a far more benevolent/neutral figure, as he is depicted in Lugalbanda's story with the nest, whereas later on while Lagash is weak, Anzu is evil. Personally, i think this makes sense, especially when you compare lugalbanda and gilgamesh's stories to one another as father and son, which is a poignant relationship in many myths that comprise the pantheon. Lugalbanda chooses to honor a powerful beast he finds in the woods, whereas Gilgamesh chooses violence when pursued by the Bull of Heaven. The parallel goes much further in the earlier texts, bc both beasts are neutral parties to reflect the hero's character. Lugalbanda myth focuses on worship and character, compared to the far more deity/battle oriented myth from later on. In any case, I believe your mention of Lagash's downfall from Lugalzagesi is perhaps the shift in power that lecture was referring to, which lead to the Anzu bird being a negative figure which steals the Tablet of Destinies and is slain by Ninurta. The battle, which includes a magical talking mace, is one of my favorites from all the myths I've read. Thanks for helping to contextualize it all!!
Most guess it's somewhere near the confluence of the Tigris and Diyala rivers, but no site there so far has been identified as being that of Agade (more on this in the video). Thanks for watching!
@@HistorywithCyits buzzing right now in Iraq with many excavation teams there its only a matter of time hopefully.. try and get a video done in there if you can it would awesome.
Lugalzagesi's inscription sounds like a king who went on raids, and while he could exhibit political control over the nearby Sumerian Cities, he may have just gone on a trip and was "recognized" far away, sort of like want the latter king of Mali did.
It would be wild to travel back and see this in person. To see these ruins full of color and people. It was one of the few bright parts about deploying to Iraq.I got to see the Ziggerat of Ur but missed out on Babylon.
I have a question… Why is it usually touted as the world's first empire for unifying Mesopotamia when we had early dynastic Egypt centralising much of the nile valley from the med sea up to the second cataract after a conflict with Nubian A group and also colonising southern canaan into modern day israel?
It's not the world's first Empire that's why. It just picked up the title as a cliche which draws clicks. Here's a small list of all the Empires prior. Uruk Empire, Cutuceni-Trypllia?, Talianaki, Dimini?, Early Minoans, Kish Empire, Empire of Nekhen, Hong Bang Empire, Thinite Empire, Early Dynastic Egypt, Lagash Empire, Adab Empire, Empire of Umma (Lugalzagesi then moved to Uruk), Caral Supe Civilization c. 3500 BC.
@@thomasmalacky7864 Hi. No, it's not to draw clicks. With all due respect, if we definite empire as "an extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority" then I don't think most would agree that the states/cultures you've listed were empires. Most of these were relatively homogeneous states that at times expanded their territory, but they don't fit the standard definition of empire. For our purposes here, I'll stick to Mesopotamia and Egypt since I'm most familiar with the history of that part of the world. Uruk was more a cultural phenomenon and though it may have had trading posts, settlements and dominated its neighbors from time to time, its leaders didn't possess control over the entire region. There is a theory about a Kish Civilization, but it does not have wide acceptance amongst those in the field and there is no real evidence that its ruler was ever in charge of multiple states or a wide region. Lagash conquered its neighbors at times but never possessed them for long. Never heard of an empire of Adab. Only Umma under Lugalzagesi may have been the center of a short-lived empire, but since Sargon conquered the region during Lugalzagesi's lifetime, and, other than the fragments of a vase there is no other evidence that Lugalzagesi's words are true, Sargon of Akkad is given credit as the world's first empire builder. As for Egypt, I have never read or heard about an empire of Nekhen (Hierakonpolis) or Thinite empire. These were kingdoms - Narmer being from Thinis and conquering Lower Egypt doesn't mean that he ruled over an empire, just that he expanded his kingdom - or unified the lands of Upper and Lower Egypt as the ancient Egyptians would have believed, creating one single kingdom. There was also no empire during the era of Early Dynastic Egypt (Dynasties I and II). Raids into Canaan and Nubia, yes, but not long-term control over these area. On the other hand, Sargon and his descendants ruled over what were once several independent states made up of Akkadians, Sumerians, Elamites, Eblaites, Hurrians and others with their own languages and cultures. As he was the sole ruler over all of them, he is credited with founding the first empire in world history. Hope this helps to clarify things and thanks for watching.
@@HistorywithCy So you call these "raids” but akkadian texts claiming territory without supporting archaeological evidence is “long term control” ? By what standards ? "Numerous Protodynastic Egyptian finds in the Early Bronze IB Southern Levant include almost every class of artifact (e.g. Andelkovié 1995, 25-56): architecture (fortifications, embankments and buildings), a tremendous amount of pottery, alabaster vessels, palettes, stone and copper tools and weapons, seals and seal impressions, amulets, jewelry, figurines, Nilotic fauna - large freshwater molluscs (e.g. Nile shells have been found at Petura, ca. 2 km east of Tel 'Erani: see Braun and van den Brink 2008, 655), fish bones of Nile perch (dried specimens transported as provender), Nile catfish spikes (used as small harpoons), etc." -Hegemony for Beginners: Egyptian Activity in the Southern Levant during the Second Half of the Fourth Millennium B.C, Branislav Anÿelkoviü The percentages of Egyptian‐style pottery at these sites varies between roughly 10 and 35% for the enclaves and up to 80-90% for the Egyptian‐dominated settlements, yet even the more modest numbers are significant. Indeed, the Syro‐Palestinian style pottery seen at Tell el‐Dab’a during the Fifteenth Dynasty-when this site served as the capital of the Levantine Hyksos kingdom based in the Eastern Delta of Egypt-only hovered between 30 and 40%!" -Ancient Egyptian imperialism, Ellen Morris
@@HistorywithCyI'll go through each civilization. The Empire of Adab refers to Adab under Lugal Ann Mundu Early Dynastic Period. According to the fragmentary inscription attributed to Lugal-Anne-Mundu, (but known only from two copies dated from the reigns of Abi-Eshuh and Ammi-Saduqa in the 17th century BCE), he subjugated the "Four Quarters of the world" - i.e., the entire Fertile Crescent region, from the Mediterranean to the Zagros Mountains. His empire is said to have included the provinces of Elam, Marhashi, Gutium, Subartu, the "Cedar Mountain land" (Lebanon), Amurru or Martu, "Sutium" (?),[10] and the "Mountain of E-anna" (Uruk with its ziggurat?). According to the inscription, he "made the people of all the lands live in peace as in a meadow".
Hi! I've started posting the audio from the longer episodes (this one and Mycenaean Greece) as podcasts, but I haven't put out a specific podcast episode in a while. I have a few abstract topics that I've scripted (religion, aspects of culture, etc.) that I've been thinking of just releasing as podcasts. Any particular subjects you'd like to see? As always, thanks so much for watching, really appreciate your support of the channel over the past few years!
The title makes me wonder something. Egypt was already a power by then even before the Akkadians. Were they not considered a 'superpower' then? Just curious.
@IStevenSeagalnot true refer to (branislav andelkovic, Hegemony for beginners) and (Ellen morris 2018 page 21) for a massive amount of archeological egyptian finds in canaan from the proto/early dynastic period
@IStevenSeagal they didn't find iraqi artifacts in egypt but motifs similar to those found in sumer on local made artifacts As for what i posted about, Plenty of egyptian settlements and even architecture with egyptian objects representing 90% of the finds in some locations. Percentages that will only be repeated in the new kingdom. You can check out the sources i referred to instead of lazy uninformed replies
@IStevenSeagal here’s a Quote from the book about dealing with the archaeology: “The percentages of Egyptian‐style pottery at these sites varies between roughly 10 and 35% for the enclaves and up to 80-90% for the Egyptian‐dominated settlements, yet even the more modest numbers are significant. Indeed, the Syro‐Palestinian style pottery seen at Tell el‐Dab’a during the Fifteenth Dynasty-when this site served as the capital of the Levantine Hyksos kingdom based in the Eastern Delta of Egypt-only hovered between 30 and 40%!”
@IStevenSeagal “Numerous Protodynastic Egyptian finds in the Early Bronze IB Southern Levant include almost every class of artifact (e.g. Andelkovic 1995, 25-56): architecture (fortifications, embankments and buildings), a tremendous amount of pottery, alabaster vessels, palettes, stone and copper tools and weapons, seals and seal impressions, amulets, jewelry, figurines, Nilotic fauna - large freshwater molluscs (e.g. Nile shells have been found at Petura, ca. 2 km east of Tel 'Erani: see Braun and van den Brink 2008, 655), fish bones of Nile perch (dried specimens transported as provender), Nile catfish spikes (used as small harpoons), etc.”
nope It just baffles me that akkadians are not even proved with archaeology to have had a presence anywhere outside Mesopotamia. just a bunch of texts claiming conquests yet always touted as THE WORLD'S FIRST EMPIRE
Can someone point me in the direction of how familiarize myself with the source of this presentation. First time for me interacting in this manner. Who is Carl, I guess?
I could imagine Sargon leading the last emperor Lugal-Zage-Si by a leather dog collar on a leash to the gate. He was an ambitious king with the first documented large empire, perhaps the first "imperialist" Lugal-Zage-Si united Sumerian cities, but was greedy and wanted more, he waged extremely cruel military tactics against his neighbors, he was a brutal and cruel ruler, his humiliation should give anybody interested in historical Schadenfreude
Ive been also wantimg to say that now i see why the B-52s saw Mesopotamia so important to name an record album after it back in the 1980s.❤❤❤they were quite ahead of their time as well.
Oh interesting, I didn't know they had an album called Mesopotamia... the only one I remember is Cosmic Thing with Roman and Love Shack. Thanks, I'll have to check it out now.
It is my belief that you are mistaken in your interpretation of the meaning of the inscription that is shown and narrated at the 4:25 time stamp. In speaking about the King, 'Lugalunda' (sp?) you refer to his "abuses of the people" and then go on to say he "....banned the man in charge of the boatman from seizing the boats. He banned the head of the shepherds from seizing the donkeys and sheep. He banned the man in charge of the fisheries from seizing the fisheries." I think you misunderstand what that inscription is telling us. Those words are not evidence of an oppressive, abusive King. Quite the opposite. The words are telling us of a King who is protecting the shepherds, the boatman, and the fisheries. I read that and see a King who is putting men in charge of overseeing these various areas of the economy but is also wise and fair enough to tell those ones in charge that they may NOT abuse their power and positions of authority. I think the King was laying down edicts to protect the boatmen, shepherds, and the fisheries.
Hi, thanks for your comment, really appreciate it. No, it is not Lugalunda who "...banned the man in charge of the boatman from seizing the boats. He banned the head of the shepherds from seizing the donkeys and sheep...etc", but Urukagina who did these things. Those individuals in question were not protecting the people but exploiting them - Lugalunda is the one who supposedly appointed such people who in turn exploited the common people; Urukagina is the one who did away with them, at least that it how the text is interpreted. Thanks for watching, really appreciate it!
@@HistorywithCy Ahh ok, i see what you're saying. That does make sense. You're welcome for the feedback and thank you for the very interesting and well done video, and also for making a reply to my comment. I appreciate that.
Tells Sargon to deliver a tablet with instructions to kill him, but: "in those days, envelopes certainly did not exist". Pretty funny, bet the chroniclers were laughing while writing that down 18:37
I saw an awesome documentary on imax but they called Akkad Arrakis and Sargon Paul. Shot in front of a live studio audience on location and based on real events.
I love how Cy's videos always have a map with an Elam token lurking off to the side obviously causing trouble.
Lol yeah in these videos the Elam token has become the bogeyman of Mesopotamia, just lurking there in the corner, waiting for the right time to strike!
@@HistorywithCy "and we would have gotten away with it too, if not for those meddlesome Medes!"
@@kevinmilner2072 🤣🤣
Historical description of Elam.
Interesting side note, the bible talks about the destruction of Elam and what do we have there? Irans nuclear stuff…so I would say it’s “when” not “if” and that should make you pick up a bible
I have a massive interest in ancient mesopotamia and you are by far my favorite channel covering the topic. Massive thanks for your hard and brilliant work!
Thanks so much for the kind words, really makes day and glad you're enjoying these! More coming up, stay tuned and thanks for watching!
Cy!! Hello! I must say the content of your channel has just become better and better over the years. Really impressive that your documentaries outshines and far out performs anything from multi million dollar netflix for example. Keep up the fantastic work!!
As always, thank YOU for continuing to watching these and supporting the channel all these years. You were there when I released my first video on Sargon and the Akkadian Empire when the channel was in its infancy and still here for the latest one... means the world, thanks for everything!
Working with you is always a pleasure! Thanks for this! ❤️
Thank YOU for bringing Enheduanna to life and inspiring us all to travel more!
Thank you for your support and for allowing me to once again be a part of your amazing video. It's an honor!
@@HistorywithCy I like your channel. Very informational. 😊.
Outstanding episode. I instantly recognized Irena's voice. I love her channel. When she says "Let's go!" you know you're going to learn something amazing about the ancient world.
Yes, here channel is great, I'm planning my next trip to Egypt from her videos! Thanks for watching, really appreciate it!
Probably the best video on the Akkadians on TH-cam. Great job Cy! ☑️
Fall of civilisations
Thanks bro, appreciate the kind words though I must say your Akkadian videos rocked! Love your maps!
an hour and 20 minutes of Akkadian history is the best gift we could receive for the weekend🙏🏼
Thanks, hope you enjoyed it and stay tuned for more...thanks for watching!
@@HistorywithCy thank you very much for this wealth of information and please consider making on the Helmand Culture of Bronze Age Afghanistan
WHATEVER 😏
Almost an hour and a half of Akkad??? You always do great work Cy! Thank you!
Thank you too for watching!
Thank you too for watching! Interesting, let me know when you're done developing the game... would love to check it out!
These longer videos that you do now are excellent (this one being no different!).
You've always been great at summoning up the atmosphere of the past, with your well chosen and presented quotes, but now this is accompanied by the wealth of detail that there just wasn't time for before.
This was a real pleasure to watch!
Thanks, so glad you enjoyed this! I will keep trying to do longer videos more because I like being able to tell the whole story in one shot and also it allows me to add more detail and context. Thanks so much for watching, really appreciate it and stay tuned for more!
He is really good, only one who is “better” is fall of civilisations
I've waited for a video exactly this size. The tidbits were okay, but I digest at lest hourly themed videos far easier. Keep up the good work Cy!
Thanks, glad you enjoy these longer ones. I also prefer this format because feel that I can give more context and tell the story better, it's just that they take so long to make compared to the shorter ones. I have several longer videos like this one in the works so stay tuned and thanks for watching!
Wow, this was an incredible video. Thank you so much for making it! I'm sure it took a long time. I visited the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (formerly the Oriental Institute) at the University of Chicago in 2022 and I gotta say... it was breathtaking. I was interested in archaeology beforehand, but seeing an Akkadian sphinx in real life was incredible beyond words. I say this because you cited the University of Chicago several times, and it made me think of my visit to the museum. Thanks again for presenting all this information in a succinct, chronological, semi-narrative format like this!!! :D
I just want to say that only today did I notice your quizzes! I did the latest quiz and went all the way back to #14. I don't know if your motivation behind the quizzes is to increase crowd interaction with your channel, a genuine desire to promote education about the subjects you make videos about, or a combination of the two, but I REALLY love it.
That said, Id recommend, like, two minor changes to really streamline your process: 1.) Make at least one quiz after each video, 2.) Make multiple questions per quiz. Say, each quiz has ten questions. Those who get them all right get bragging rights, and are ousted as being super nerds.
Either way, you're easily my favorite history youtuber, and I think I've probably provided you with maybe 100 or 200 views for your channel (probably 4 or 5 just on this video, I keep forgetting I've already watched it XD). Keep it up! Or don't - I'll probably just keep rewatching all of your old videos if you don't post new stuff, I'm more than happy either way!
Alright, enough fan-girling! It's time for me to watch this again!
Hi! First off, thanks so much for your comment...it's feedback like this that not only makes my day but also inspires me to keep putting out more content for you all. Thank YOU! I'm really glad that you're enjoying both the videos and the quizzes. I really like your ideas about the quizzes. Unfortunately for each quiz, TH-cam only allows me to put one question at a time. I'd love to release 20 questions at once, but at the moment this doesn't seem to be possible. The quizzes really started with me just testing the option in the "Community" tab and after seeing that many like you enjoyed doing them, I decided to put out more to give you something to do in between videos since sometimes it takes me a while to put them out (especially the longer ones). Maybe there's an online quiz site that I can adopt but like you said, posting them on TH-cam does increase viewer interaction with the channel which is always a good thing. I'll do my best to put these out more often.
Again, thanks so much for watching these videos multiple times, really means a lot! If you have any special requests for topics you'd like to see covered, let me know and I'll see what I can do.
Thanks again!!
Always a good listen/watch. I've learned so much about our past as humans. I haven't been here from video 1, but I've been around for a while. You rock.
Thanks, glad you've been enjoying these! Appreciate the support and stay tuned for more...thanks for watching!
Probably the greatest YT channel to cover the history of Ancient Mesopotomia and Egypt.
Cy comes through with high quality content once again! Thank you Cy!
My pleasure, thanks for watching!
Watching this channel grow has been awesome, I lost my original account when cy was at 60,000 to now makes me happy.
Thank YOU for all of the support and tuning in to watch these. It's viewers like you who have made this channel what it is, so this is your doing! A million thanks and glad you're enjoying the content!
I was hoping for this. Excellent.
And many thanks!
My pleasure, thanks for watching!
I hope Agade is found. What a wealth of info that would provide. Excellent video Cy! Thanks
You and me both! Thanks for watching!
My concern is how many civilizations were so thoroughly looted, razed, destroyed that there’s no evidence left. Any remnants were swallowed up by the conquerers and time.
The fact that all of this stuff happened nearly four and a half millennia ago never fails to blow my mind
You have easily one of the best history channels on this dying media platform
Thanks so much, I'm honored. haha I hope this platform doesn't die because I plan to keep making more videos like this for some time. Thanks for watching, really appreciate it!
Just came across Akkads, and going down a rabbit hole of them. I love learning about History, thanks for a hour and also a half about them
Thanks, hope you enjoy this and thanks for watching!
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Thank you, appreciate it!
Thanks!
Thank you, appreciate the support!
Outstanding, Cy, BRAVO!
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it! More on the way and thanks for watching!
Thanks so much Cy. Although I love Sargon and his success,I still can't help feel badly for the Sumerians in this truly epic story! Never get tired of hearing of this first civilization and empire. So amazing. Well done Cy,thanks again.
Yeah I am forever fascinated with this part of the world... I've been meaning to get past the Bronze Age on the channel but I keep getting drawn back to this era and have more Sumerian, Babylonian and Assyrian content scheduled for this year. Thanks for watching, really appreciate it!
Thank you so much for telling me a little about Urukagina, the little I have heard before has fascinated me with him.
17:04 "...he was disturbed like a fish living in brackish water" is so funny to me. Kinda goes hard idk
Suggesting Agade was located roundabout Bagdad was a new exciting idea in my ignorant bubble! Thanks, Cy!
That seems to be the consensus opinion but still has to be definitely proven. I hope they discover it one day soon... for me it'd be one of the most incredible finds of the century. Thanks again for watching, appreciate it!
I think he goes by Carl these days.
The thumbnail gave me a flood of 2016-2018 memories
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God imagine bringing this guy bill and ted style into the future and telling him "yeah this pasty chunky sad man is now more remembered than all the cool shit you did"
He's always mentioned in any video I've done featuring Sargon... never heard his stuff though. Thanks for watching!
I spent like five minutes laughing about that, god where has the time gone?
A new Cy upload for the good weekend. Thanks!
Thank you, hope you enjoyed it and thanks for watching!
Thank you for uploading this valuable knowledge🙏✨️
My pleasure, thanks for watching and glad that this was useful!
Awesome 👌 video ❤ please make a video on the Sao Culture and Helmand Culture of Bronze Age Afghanistan
Back when Afghanistan still had culture
Ancient afghanistan are not indo-european make sense why
We still have Akkadian word in our Kurdish language.
Thats cool, what are a few?
Those are called loan words. We have loan words in English from Chinese. Sop Sue (left overs) = Chop Suey. I mention this because Kurdish is an Iranesque language.
Most Hebrew words still have a solid Akkadian origin, and many Arabic words also
@@genericascanbe3728I've actually found a website with the full Akkadian dictionary.
Just write Akkadian words dictionary/lexicon and it's a very basic site, but it has thousands of words
A traveler: What is the name of this city?
A local: "Der!" Don't you know.
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A visually interesting, informative and entertaining video.
😂 that's a good one, but only ancient history nerds like us will get it! Glad you liked the video and thanks so much for watching, really appreciate it!
real nice !
thank you so much for this video since it helps with my Civ like video game I am developing.
Lugal zage si was so close to becoming the first emperor in know history, just for Sargon to outdo him immediately and now be remembered as such instead.
Love your videos ❤keep it up please
Totally subscribed! You are awesome!!!
Here, is about all there is to know about Sargon. It is very thorough. It appears that Sargon was the first ruler to develop a continuous standing army. Cuneiform was adopted to be the written form of Akkaidian. Thus it was nearly the same writing for Summarian and Akkaidian : two different languages.
"Enlil gave him no rival" - after 4000 years no student who studied literature came with this kind of saying. the art and literature was sky high during those times!
Thank you for another fantastic long-form video! It's fascinating to hear these old tales of Sargon, his predecessors, and his successors. After all these millenia, human civilization still works in largely the same way, lol.
God be with you out there everybody. ✝️ :)
Nice one as usual.
Another favor to ask.
Can you do an episode on susa.
Thanks in advance
Maybe... I did see a lot of cool stuff in the Louvre from Susa recently that I'd love to put in a video. I'd love to visit the site though before I make a video about it, though I don't know when that would be. As always, thanks for watching!
There is something truly epic about the first true emperor in history having his origins as a humble gardener.
The artistic quality of these scripts and artpieces are just meserizing! Imagin scholars in the 20-10th ct BC studying ancient texts like these to undertand dynamics of civilizations then to derive learnings for their today. Not so much has changed after all!
Lugalzagesi is such a badass name
He was the true first
His name was just Zagezi. Lugal is a Sumerian word means king, from Lu and Gal, literally, big man = king. King Zagezi
Excellent once again
Thanks, glad you liked it and thanks for watching!
There won't be a Cy video without mentioning Inshushinak ✌🏽😎
Just getting a glass of wine and throwing another log on the fire before settling down to a nice long delve into the Bronze Age BLISS! Thank you Cy :-)
Thanks for watching and hope you enjoyed it!
You do great work, sir! Thank you!
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it and thanks for watching!
Perfect timing, mon frére.
Hope you enjoyed it and thanks for watching!
I thought I was going to be bored, but ended up loving it. You did a great job!
Man, that one guy before Sargon was really mean. Geez.
Haha thanks, glad it kept your interest! Yeah Lugalzagesi was pretty brutal to Lagash... I guess karma's a biatch. Thanks for watching!
👍👍👍Perfect timing, just about to have diner!!
Haha hope you have few course meal lined up as it's a longer one! Thanks for watching!
Sargon conquest were so memorable that despite being unknown by Hebrews and Greeks his fame endured.They invented characters like Nimrod (who reigned over Accad) and Ninus of Assyria (who was the first emperor in a time before the founding of Babylon) who shared a lot of Sargon's legendary feats.
@IStevenSeagalin a way you are right. Naram-Sin hubris is a perfect match for the rebelious Nimrod from the hebrew tradition (incuding stories not in the bible).
But going by the bible text alone Sargon would be a good guess.He is related to every city mentioned in the text: Uruk (whose walls he destroyed),Akkad (his capital) and Babylon (a city he "made a counterpart in front of Akkad").
The irony is that either Ninus or Nimrod could be his true name.Sargon/Sharrukin is a throne name bot his birth name.
@IStevenSeagal In my language, Naram sinn means lion with human body
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Many people don’t realise that “history” with cy actually is an acronym for “He is story telling of relevant yesteryears”. But his name is Cy.
Truly, another gift from Cy.
Glad you enjoyed it... as always, thanks for watching!
5:30 hey :) so I heard a uni lecture (titled great mythical beasts or something) about Anzu that suggested earlier on when Lagash was more powerful, Anzu was a far more benevolent/neutral figure, as he is depicted in Lugalbanda's story with the nest, whereas later on while Lagash is weak, Anzu is evil. Personally, i think this makes sense, especially when you compare lugalbanda and gilgamesh's stories to one another as father and son, which is a poignant relationship in many myths that comprise the pantheon. Lugalbanda chooses to honor a powerful beast he finds in the woods, whereas Gilgamesh chooses violence when pursued by the Bull of Heaven. The parallel goes much further in the earlier texts, bc both beasts are neutral parties to reflect the hero's character. Lugalbanda myth focuses on worship and character, compared to the far more deity/battle oriented myth from later on. In any case, I believe your mention of Lagash's downfall from Lugalzagesi is perhaps the shift in power that lecture was referring to, which lead to the Anzu bird being a negative figure which steals the Tablet of Destinies and is slain by Ninurta. The battle, which includes a magical talking mace, is one of my favorites from all the myths I've read. Thanks for helping to contextualize it all!!
Any idea where Agade is by any chance? Thanks for the video cy.
alot of people would like to know that lol
Most guess it's somewhere near the confluence of the Tigris and Diyala rivers, but no site there so far has been identified as being that of Agade (more on this in the video). Thanks for watching!
@@HistorywithCyits buzzing right now in Iraq with many excavation teams there its only a matter of time hopefully.. try and get a video done in there if you can it would awesome.
Nice historical coverage video about the Akkadian empire expanded in Mesopotamia .. video showed glory times of ancient Mesopotamia .
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it... more on Mesopotamia on the way, stay tuned and thanks for watching!
'There was infighting among the political class..' Such a surprise...🤩...This will never change.
Lugalzagesi's inscription sounds like a king who went on raids, and while he could exhibit political control over the nearby Sumerian
Cities, he may have just gone on a trip and was "recognized" far away, sort of like want the latter king of Mali did.
It would be wild to travel back and see this in person. To see these ruins full of color and people.
It was one of the few bright parts about deploying to Iraq.I got to see the Ziggerat of Ur but missed out on Babylon.
I wanted to make a pun but all the good ones Sargon.
😂 Love it! I'm going to have to use that sometime...thanks so much for watching, really appreciate it!
😂😂😂
I love a good pun, in fact, if you were here, I'd give you a big Kish.
another excellent video!
Thank you, and thanks for watching!
I have a question…
Why is it usually touted as the world's first empire for unifying Mesopotamia when we had early dynastic Egypt centralising much of the nile valley from the med sea up to the second cataract after a conflict with Nubian A group and also colonising southern canaan into modern day israel?
It's not the world's first Empire that's why. It just picked up the title as a cliche which draws clicks. Here's a small list of all the Empires prior. Uruk Empire, Cutuceni-Trypllia?, Talianaki, Dimini?, Early Minoans, Kish Empire, Empire of Nekhen, Hong Bang Empire, Thinite Empire, Early Dynastic Egypt, Lagash Empire, Adab Empire, Empire of Umma (Lugalzagesi then moved to Uruk), Caral Supe Civilization c. 3500 BC.
@@thomasmalacky7864 Hi. No, it's not to draw clicks. With all due respect, if we definite empire as "an extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority" then I don't think most would agree that the states/cultures you've listed were empires. Most of these were relatively homogeneous states that at times expanded their territory, but they don't fit the standard definition of empire. For our purposes here, I'll stick to Mesopotamia and Egypt since I'm most familiar with the history of that part of the world. Uruk was more a cultural phenomenon and though it may have had trading posts, settlements and dominated its neighbors from time to time, its leaders didn't possess control over the entire region. There is a theory about a Kish Civilization, but it does not have wide acceptance amongst those in the field and there is no real evidence that its ruler was ever in charge of multiple states or a wide region. Lagash conquered its neighbors at times but never possessed them for long. Never heard of an empire of Adab. Only Umma under Lugalzagesi may have been the center of a short-lived empire, but since Sargon conquered the region during Lugalzagesi's lifetime, and, other than the fragments of a vase there is no other evidence that Lugalzagesi's words are true, Sargon of Akkad is given credit as the world's first empire builder. As for Egypt, I have never read or heard about an empire of Nekhen (Hierakonpolis) or Thinite empire. These were kingdoms - Narmer being from Thinis and conquering Lower Egypt doesn't mean that he ruled over an empire, just that he expanded his kingdom - or unified the lands of Upper and Lower Egypt as the ancient Egyptians would have believed, creating one single kingdom. There was also no empire during the era of Early Dynastic Egypt (Dynasties I and II). Raids into Canaan and Nubia, yes, but not long-term control over these area. On the other hand, Sargon and his descendants ruled over what were once several independent states made up of Akkadians, Sumerians, Elamites, Eblaites, Hurrians and others with their own languages and cultures. As he was the sole ruler over all of them, he is credited with founding the first empire in world history. Hope this helps to clarify things and thanks for watching.
Hi @ahab3620. Great question. See my response to the other commenter. Any questions, please let me know...thanks for watching!
@@HistorywithCy
So you call these "raids” but akkadian texts claiming territory without supporting archaeological evidence is “long term control” ? By what standards ?
"Numerous Protodynastic Egyptian finds in the Early Bronze IB Southern Levant include almost every class of artifact (e.g. Andelkovié 1995, 25-56): architecture (fortifications, embankments and buildings), a tremendous amount of pottery, alabaster vessels, palettes, stone and copper tools and weapons, seals and seal impressions, amulets, jewelry, figurines, Nilotic fauna
- large freshwater molluscs (e.g. Nile shells have been found at Petura, ca. 2 km east of Tel 'Erani: see Braun and van den Brink 2008, 655), fish bones of Nile perch (dried specimens transported as provender), Nile catfish spikes (used as small harpoons), etc."
-Hegemony for Beginners: Egyptian Activity in the Southern Levant during the Second Half of the Fourth Millennium B.C, Branislav Anÿelkoviü
The percentages of Egyptian‐style pottery at these sites varies between roughly 10 and 35% for the enclaves and up to 80-90% for the Egyptian‐dominated settlements, yet even the more modest numbers are significant. Indeed, the Syro‐Palestinian style pottery seen at Tell el‐Dab’a during the Fifteenth Dynasty-when this site served as the capital of the Levantine Hyksos kingdom based in the Eastern Delta of Egypt-only hovered between 30 and 40%!"
-Ancient Egyptian imperialism, Ellen Morris
@@HistorywithCyI'll go through each civilization. The Empire of Adab refers to Adab under Lugal Ann Mundu Early Dynastic Period. According to the fragmentary inscription attributed to Lugal-Anne-Mundu, (but known only from two copies dated from the reigns of Abi-Eshuh and Ammi-Saduqa in the 17th century BCE), he subjugated the "Four Quarters of the world" - i.e., the entire Fertile Crescent region, from the Mediterranean to the Zagros Mountains. His empire is said to have included the provinces of Elam, Marhashi, Gutium, Subartu, the "Cedar Mountain land" (Lebanon), Amurru or Martu, "Sutium" (?),[10] and the "Mountain of E-anna" (Uruk with its ziggurat?). According to the inscription, he "made the people of all the lands live in peace as in a meadow".
Can’t wait to listen!!
Thanks, enjoy!
I love the bronze age, easily my favorite period in time thx mate
Sorry but I can't take king Dudu seriously
Pretty racist bro.
ngl i laughed when i first heard it
How dare you smear dudu!
I have a question please who were the people of the kingdoms of ebla,nagar and mari
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Love the enthusiasm and hope you enjoy it...thanks for watching!
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ANOTHER HISTORY W CY VIDEO.
Love the enthusiasm, hope you enjoyed the video and thanks for watching!
hallelujah cy is back
What is the name of the Enlil's temple in Nippur? There are no subtitles and English spelling is very irregular.
The Ekur. Thanks for watching!
Holy shirt balls, i hope you get good ad revenue for all the ads i had to sit through every 3 minutes
Is the podcast back?
Hi! I've started posting the audio from the longer episodes (this one and Mycenaean Greece) as podcasts, but I haven't put out a specific podcast episode in a while. I have a few abstract topics that I've scripted (religion, aspects of culture, etc.) that I've been thinking of just releasing as podcasts. Any particular subjects you'd like to see? As always, thanks so much for watching, really appreciate your support of the channel over the past few years!
Your videos are great, but there's about a hundred ads. I gave up at 55 minutes for my own mental health
Thank you for this!!
You're welcome, thanks for watching!
The title makes me wonder something. Egypt was already a power by then even before the Akkadians. Were they not considered a 'superpower' then? Just curious.
@IStevenSeagalnot true
refer to (branislav andelkovic, Hegemony for beginners) and (Ellen morris 2018 page 21) for a massive amount of archeological egyptian finds in canaan from the proto/early dynastic period
@IStevenSeagal they didn't find iraqi artifacts in egypt but motifs similar to those found in sumer on local made artifacts
As for what i posted about, Plenty of egyptian settlements and even architecture with egyptian objects representing 90% of the finds in some locations. Percentages that will only be repeated in the new kingdom.
You can check out the sources i referred to instead of lazy uninformed replies
@IStevenSeagal here’s a Quote from the book about dealing with the archaeology:
“The percentages of Egyptian‐style pottery at these sites varies between roughly 10 and 35% for the enclaves and up to 80-90% for the Egyptian‐dominated settlements, yet even the more modest numbers are significant. Indeed, the Syro‐Palestinian style pottery seen at Tell el‐Dab’a during the Fifteenth Dynasty-when this site served as the capital of the Levantine Hyksos kingdom based in the Eastern Delta of Egypt-only hovered between 30 and 40%!”
@IStevenSeagal
“Numerous Protodynastic Egyptian finds in the Early Bronze IB Southern Levant include almost every class of artifact (e.g. Andelkovic 1995, 25-56): architecture (fortifications, embankments and buildings), a tremendous amount of pottery, alabaster vessels, palettes, stone and copper tools and weapons, seals and seal impressions, amulets, jewelry, figurines, Nilotic fauna
- large freshwater molluscs (e.g. Nile shells have been found at Petura, ca. 2 km east of Tel 'Erani: see Braun and van den Brink 2008, 655), fish bones of Nile perch (dried specimens transported as provender), Nile catfish spikes (used as small harpoons), etc.”
nope
It just baffles me that akkadians are not even proved with archaeology to have had a presence anywhere outside Mesopotamia. just a bunch of texts claiming conquests yet always touted as THE WORLD'S FIRST EMPIRE
Greetings to all from a citizen of Ur :)
Can someone point me in the direction of how familiarize myself with the source of this presentation. First time for me interacting in this manner. Who is Carl, I guess?
Good job brother. Very well done
I could imagine Sargon leading the last emperor Lugal-Zage-Si by a leather dog collar on a leash to the gate. He was an ambitious king with the first documented large empire, perhaps the first "imperialist" Lugal-Zage-Si united Sumerian cities, but was greedy and wanted more, he waged extremely cruel military tactics against his neighbors, he was a brutal and cruel ruler, his humiliation should give anybody interested in historical Schadenfreude
They kept the spice flowing… and we all know fear is the mind killer.
Good intro music
Ive been also wantimg to say that now i see why the B-52s saw Mesopotamia so important to name an record album after it back in the 1980s.❤❤❤they were quite ahead of their time as well.
Oh interesting, I didn't know they had an album called Mesopotamia... the only one I remember is Cosmic Thing with Roman and Love Shack. Thanks, I'll have to check it out now.
It is my belief that you are mistaken in your interpretation of the meaning of the inscription that is shown and narrated at the 4:25 time stamp. In speaking about the King, 'Lugalunda' (sp?) you refer to his "abuses of the people" and then go on to say he "....banned the man in charge of the boatman from seizing the boats. He banned the head of the shepherds from seizing the donkeys and sheep. He banned the man in charge of the fisheries from seizing the fisheries."
I think you misunderstand what that inscription is telling us. Those words are not evidence of an oppressive, abusive King. Quite the opposite. The words are telling us of a King who is protecting the shepherds, the boatman, and the fisheries. I read that and see a King who is putting men in charge of overseeing these various areas of the economy but is also wise and fair enough to tell those ones in charge that they may NOT abuse their power and positions of authority. I think the King was laying down edicts to protect the boatmen, shepherds, and the fisheries.
Hi, thanks for your comment, really appreciate it. No, it is not Lugalunda who "...banned the man in charge of the boatman from seizing the boats. He banned the head of the shepherds from seizing the donkeys and sheep...etc", but Urukagina who did these things. Those individuals in question were not protecting the people but exploiting them - Lugalunda is the one who supposedly appointed such people who in turn exploited the common people; Urukagina is the one who did away with them, at least that it how the text is interpreted. Thanks for watching, really appreciate it!
@@HistorywithCy Ahh ok, i see what you're saying. That does make sense. You're welcome for the feedback and thank you for the very interesting and well done video, and also for making a reply to my comment. I appreciate that.
What about the civilizations that were antediluvian?
any episode coming about prehistoric mesopotamia or an episode about Nabatia?
Great suggestions. Prehistoric Mesopotamia sometime this year, Nabatia no idea.
Lacking humbleness.
Egypt videos please???
On the way!
Who is Carl or Cy! 1st time on here. What's his bona fides if I may ask?
I am simple folk I see Cy upload about Akkad I click
Thank you, hope you enjoy it!
Tells Sargon to deliver a tablet with instructions to kill him, but: "in those days, envelopes certainly did not exist". Pretty funny, bet the chroniclers were laughing while writing that down 18:37
59:52 the origins of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend"
I saw an awesome documentary on imax but they called Akkad Arrakis and Sargon Paul. Shot in front of a live studio audience on location and based on real events.
Is anyone else getting an ad every 2-3 mins? Love the content but the ads are too much
.. I know what I'm doing for the next hr & 20 mins... 📜🙌🏼🐻
Thanks, hope you enjoyed it!
@@HistorywithCy as always
I just love this stuff.
Me too! Lots more on the way, stay tuned!
I love religion
Please do the one with the three pigs and the wolf
Yes!!!!! Finally!!
Haha I think you have been watching the channel since my first Akkadian video... thanks so much for the support!
If I ever get abducted by aliens and they ask me "Who is the wisest of your kind?" I'm gonna say: Cy. Easy.