I'm sorry to sound pedantic lol but wouldn't you say this video is Chalcolithic or as some call it, Copper Age? I know it's said that the Mesopotamian Bronze Age began about 3500 BC and even the video description says the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age but when you consider the availability of Tin in that entire region with the nearest source being within the Gutian peoples lands atop the Zagros Mountains, who weren't exactly known for their foreign diplomacy and trading ? I'm not even sure if the Elamites in Susa and Awan had the access to it yet as they did in later years? Oh wait a minute, I should delete this post as I've just thought of something, but I think I'll just add this to it instead....Not unless that is, if someone here is going to correct me and say they able to make the Bronze alloy in Sumer and Akkad using Arsenic and Copper rather than Tin and Copper? I've been a metal finisher for over 30 years since I were 18 but I've never even seen that type of Bronze ever.. I have no idea how its made, the key requirements, nothing..
I love Chris's presentations, they're very down-to-earth and easy on the ear. I'm not a great listener and prefer detail in written or graphical form, but I find his descriptions really easy to visualise. Please pass on my regards!
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I like his PC, especially his episode on the Bronze Age collapse (and this one as a close second). He hasn’t made one in a while though, which is disappointing :/
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You are doing great works. 👍👍👍 Can you make a video about Kurdish people in ancient times. Medes and Parthians, Hitites, Corduenes are thought to be ansestors of Kurds. Are they true?
@@coryfleischfresser1941 It's not all black and white Cory. The Hittites for example. their demise came from multiple invasions originating from the North West so as a consequence the Hittites would have fled South East across Anatolia down the Silver mountains toward modern day Syria. And then in much later years you have all the peoples in the East fleeing West away from the Mongol expansion including even those from Turkmenistan .. The Turks and Kurds might have a lot more in common than they would like to believe or admit. Only DNA samples will have the answers, comparing ancient maps with modern ones won't help. We can do that and say, oh it will be the Mittani and the Urartians and the Mannean like someone who I'm assuming is a Kurd with the surname Kurdi did on that Quora question page. But like I say there is lot more to it than that.
@@coryfleischfresser1941 I've still liked your post because you could be 100 % right, but I just wouldn't rule anyone out, plus I've just found this question on Quora which is worth a read.... Do modern Kurds carry more ancient Anatolian (Hittites) DNA than modern Turkish people who came later?
If you find this subject interesting check out the Sumerian King List on Wikipedia. List of kings and cities going back to the very beginning. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumerian_King_List
I find it interesting that people developed technically advanced civilization in this area, but not in others, like North America. The Native Americans never really progressed beyond the neolithic. The Incas and Aztecs had some development towards a technological civilization, but never made the final leap. Perhaps it is as simple as necessity being the mother of invention. Survival was tougher in Mesopotamia.
Maybe it has somethibg to do with the human migration to the Americas being the last populated zone in prehistoric times. Also being geographically isolated, eurasia and africa are somewhat connected and allow cultural Exchange
@@mariainessotillo6189 Great observation. Also the pressures of being alongside national competitors forces scientific progress in a "survive or be wiped out" world.
It because the knowledge was accumulated over a long stretches of time and then the Younger Dryas & flood sent most peoples back to mesolithic technology. Some people in the mountains retained the knowledge (noah myth). They became rulers over those with only basic survival knowledge . Thier decedents spread through out the world via migration. Agriculture, Animal husbandry and metallurgy was not independently discovery. The Vedas and Scythians spread the knowledge into Asia, it didn't just appear out of no where. The advancements in Inca, Mayan and the mound people of north America civilizations were most likely brought by the Phoenicians as the greeks and Romans started to concur the Phoenician colonies in the mediterranean . The phoenicians sailed into the Atlantic, Up to briton and down the west coast of Africa setting up new farming and mining colonies. The Phoenicians were the descendants of the Sum-arians who were chased out of mesopotamia into the Aegean sea by the Akkads. But no one is supposed to say the truth.
First off define what advanced civilization is because you morons seem to use that term a lot and it’s very subjective cause a lot of civilizations in the past were better than today’s
Rothman, quoted said...''All that was known in Mesopotamia came from Armenia and that Armenia is the absent fragment in the entire mosaic of the ancient world's civilization's construction. according to Anthropologist Mitchell S. Rothman regarding the extent of discoveries and specially on the quality of horse bones proved, According to him, that it was from the Shangavit Armenian 6000 years ago that the culture of that area spread around to the ancient world... Professor Jensen also says. ‘For almost everything that is known in the Hittite language is Old Armenian in form..Historian Sayce 1845-1933) also consider Hittite and Armenian to be one and the same’. what some historians say...H.V. Hilprecht(1859-1925) a Clark research professor of Assyriology and scientific director Babylonian expedition at the University of Penn. argue that the Hittite tongue is Armenian and the Hittites themselves were of Armenian stock...according to Ellis (1861) through language analysis we observe that under the names of Phrygians, Thracians,Pelasgians and Etruscans spread westward from Armenia to Italy and Elis claimed that the closest affinities of the Aryan element are the Armenians ..other historians that agree are..Hellenthal, Busgy, Brand, Wilson, Myers and Falush...let me quote Merrick (2012) All religions are descended from and ancient Vedic cosmology described in the Rib - Veda, originating in Armenia near Mt. Ararat at least 6800 ys ago and the basic concepts of a transcendental mountain extending into space and populated planet Star-gods were developed...he further says...This Astrotheology then migrated with Armenian Aryans to found the Sumerian Ethiopian/Egyptian and Indian civilizations and religions...from Language as a fingerprint Setyan...
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At that area there are many town name that is hungarian words … town of Úr , Uruk means Lord , Its Lord, Kis(h) small, common family name in Hungary. Lake Van means exist . Eridu.. Arad now in Romania before the war in Hungary ( Transylvania Arad)
The ability to count & record quantities in a way that people could understand & manage was a key development. Writing of words is believed to have developed from symbols/drawings of items placed on tags which identified the contents of a container. The evidence coming out of the tablets suggests a greater ability in the development of mathematics than has previously been credited. See Plimpton 322 for the Babylonian method of calculating triangles & areas which predated Pythagoras by 1,000 years.
It makes sense that writing started as depictions of objects, in the Far East many languages are still pictorial, I was learning basic Japanese and it was explained how the symbols derived from depictions of spears, bamboo, paddy fields etc.
I personally truly believe that advanced geometric knowledge must predate those Babylonians too, especially when you consider some of the architectural achievements of the very earliest ancient cultures. Undoubtedly, the Babylonians of Hammurabi's era were playfully investigating the nature of numbers in an academic manner.
Not that I'm trying to be rude, but the echo has to go. Just a break than the title. I do appreciate the information. I just started listening. Very helpful in my studies, thank you.
It was really a nice presentation, but when you mentioned Tigris, Euphrates and Nile at 10:37 you didn’t mention Indus River or Indus Valley civilization , I hope you wouldn’t disagree with its existence.
The video is about mesopotamia, ie the land in and around the Tigris and Euphrates, after all. Indus River valley culture may be relevant from an anthropological viewpoint, but it is not the topic of this video.
I wanna chip in and say that norms and rules don’t necessarily have to take the form of laws that are imposed by an authority. Norms can be agreed upon by consensus or by designated representatives who are trusted to make decisions on behalf of a group but don’t hold authority to control them. Basically, i’m talking about horizontal organization.
Baby producers, also bread after grinding the grain, and its byproduct of BEER ... well they are all byproducts of each other! A reward for a guy after a hard day of work ... and is still a practice almost worldwide to this day. :D
The people who settled in Mesopotamia did not invent agriculture and the many other tools needed to build or sustain a civilization. They brought it with them from their place of origin and replaced the old inhabitants. Someone taught these people the ways of civilization. Their ability to farm and the use of other tools did not happen by chance or random invention at random points in time.
Hi. I am a graduate student in assyriology at Leiden University, the Netherlands. We have an entire library with thousands of scientific publications (the NINO). Every fact discussed here in this video can be checked and reviewed here using the real textual evidence. Do you suggest that this is all wrong? I would like to hear your source of information! Cheers.
@@gingilipho3497 It is not all wrong, just incomplete mixed with guessing about it. When I read the word origin of this or origin of that, I expect to hear when, where, how and why. Not possibly this or possibly that. To establish and maintain a civilization is a precise science with no guess work.
why is it that everyone wants to know what the origins of the Sumerians is? Why could not they be an indigenous population, from the area of Samara, north of Baghdad who moved southwards in two waves, one along the Euphrates and the other along the Tigres -which why we find a contention between Eridu-Enki and Nippur-Enlil-, instead people have made them Chinese, Central Asian, Arians, Hungarians, Indians and whoever else wants to take credit for them? And why could not they developed agriculture and pottery and writing and the wheel and and and. The Egyptians did it. Give me one evidence that the Sumerians originated from somewhere else except where we find them.
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Shanadar Cave where Neanderthal era time is North of Ninava (Mosul today) and Arbil cabital of regional Gov. of kurdistan 75000 years ago based on BBC and China I Unversity Archiologist
Sarah Asaad Hawler is the capital of KRG KURDISTAN REGIONAL GOVERNMENT. This is an official and legitimate region. And yup it’s on the map. I’m sorry if that angers you but there’s nothing you can do about it. Maybe practice peace and love and take hate and anger out of your life. You’ll sleep better 👌😉
@Sarah Asaad I still stick to my previous answer. Some few thousands ago Assyrians took over the city yes. Assyria originated from south of iraq. Uruk and ur etc. they migrated up north. You can be as hateful as you are. Your choice. Kurds arnt the only nation that migrated. This is in every human, animal and plants. They migrate. KURDISTAN ahhh that lovely name 😊 avoid Kurdistan as much as you like. You cannot turn back time. Assyria was over thousands of years ago sorry but not sorry. You lot took your sharwals off for the arabs 🤭👏🥴 🤷🏻♂️ you lot got wiped out and arabised. So now even Your name is very confused 😐 it’s arabic. Also one of the most ancient Assyrian language is all broken mixed with Arabic. Go bark at them. Go down to south Iraq, a d deal with the Shia militias. Good luck 😉
The origins of a hierarchical structure does not emerge with farming! It existed millions of years earlier.The great apes have a hierarchical structure!And if you don’t like that then consider the hunter gatherer communities that predate farming.Is anyone stupid enough to suggest that a group of men go hunting a large wild animal without a leader,a plan and a division of labour and responsibilities? Of course not.Hierachical structures are hard wired in humans,it was simply adapted to farming communities.
If interested...Rothman, quoted said...''All that was known in Mesopotamia came from Armenia and that Armenia is the absent fragment in the entire mosaic of the ancient world's civilization's construction. according to Anthropologist Mitchell S. Rothman regarding the extent of discoveries and specially on the quality of horse bones proved, According to him, that it was from the Shangavit Armenian 6000 years ago that the culture of that area spread around to the ancient world... Professor Jensen also says. ‘For almost everything that is known in the Hittite language is Old Armenian in form..Historian Sayce 1845-1933) also consider Hittite and Armenian to be one and the same’. what some historians say...H.V. Hilprecht(1859-1925) a Clark research professor of Assyriology and scientific director Babylonian expedition at the University of Penn. argue that the Hittite tongue is Armenian and the Hittites themselves were of Armenian stock...according to Ellis (1861) through language analysis we observe that under the names of Phrygians, Thracians,Pelasgians and Etruscans spread westward from Armenia to Italy and Elis claimed that the closest affinities of the Aryan element are the Armenians ..other historians that agree are..Hellenthal, Busgy, Brand, Wilson, Myers and Falush...let me quote Merrick (2012) All religions are descended from and ancient Vedic cosmology described in the Rib - Veda, originating in Armenia near Mt. Ararat at least 6800 ys ago and the basic concepts of a transcendental mountain extending into space and populated planet Star-gods were developed...he further says...This Astrotheology then migrated with Armenian Aryans to found the Sumerian Ethiopian/Egyptian and Indian civilizations and religions...from Language as a fingerprint Setyan..
My opinion isn't based on morality and ethics, or influenced by either, or both. ...But I have decided to express to others my thoughts on this forum in a way to persuade myself that I have not been misled
it is not that interesting as you would expect: both eras are northern nomadic tribes invading the Chinese agrarian society and crowning themselves as the rightful rulers.
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And the mystery continues ... I just saw your most recent offerings on that time and place ... We might know the full Sumerian DNA story in TEN years? Makes me realize how I am getting so OLD! Seriously, I hope it's sooner for the sake of peace in the region.
I always thought the time of the tribal judges would come before Kingship was developed. Then a type of priest after that. But I suppose I'm basing that on Canaanite culture around 1400BCE which comes at a much later time than the era you are talking about. Still, my theory seems like a more natural progression of society, but I am certainly no expert.
The ancient Jaoanese texts say mankind was created by Amaterasuhi, then were later dispersed all throughout the world. The continent of Mu was in the Pacific.
@Mike Nunyabizness Hi. Not sure what you mean. I am not referring to anything I have seen on UA-cam. I am referring to research from the ancient texts.
Whose basic education are we referring to? I attended private school in Westchester Co., N.Y and a private girls school later on, as well as college and beyond. What I learned then was that Mesopotamia was the cradle of civilization. It is not. Mankind's beginnings are far older than 5,000 yeats ago. Please respect others in your replies. Otherwise, best to keep one's supercilious attitude to oneself, I think.
Frank Joseph and James Churchward wrote about Lemuria/Mu. You could read these books and learn a great deal. Also, Graham Hancock. The academic world is not always about the truth. Observe how the treat Graham Hancock's work.
@Mike Nunyabizness lol go easy on her mate she is obviously only a child isn't she. Or if she isn't, she's erm..you know ... her mummy's special girl.. either way go easy on her mate.
Ahhhh, a video about history. And if you have some political/social beliefs you’d like to explore, get a side channel going. I’m sure you’ll find a resonant an audience. Thx for the work on bringing the past to life. That’s something we all enjoy.
Yuaval Harari made up analysis of early government ignores two FUNDAMENTALS of human interaction. Kinship and marriage. Large level cooperation probably originates from agreements between elders and their loyal descendants. And probably for DEFENSIVE purposes, as in catal hoyuk.
@@studyofantiquityandthemidd4449 It depends on what you regard to be Mesopotamia, but what is Mesopotamia without Sumer? p.s. I have no problem with your video, it may be a matter of semantic or me being presumptuous
@@enkisonofanu2301 Well agriculture originated more in Northern Mesopotamia while civilization started in Southern Mesopotamia after agriculture spread south, but there is of course a lot of overlap.
@@merrittanimation7721 My post was confused as I presumed the video was about the origin of the Sumerians, but obviously, it's not, it's about Mesopotamia, a term invented by the Greeks. So I am curious where is this place because the video talks about Mesopotamia as if it is a land that stretches from Turkey to the southern borders to Iraq. There is no such place. The northern parts of Iraq, southern Turkey, Syria and the Levant are known as the fertile crescent, below that is was Akkad and further south Summer that is why Sargon of Akkad was the king of Sumer and Akkad, the whole area then was called Babylon until the time it fell to the Persians. I already said that I have to problem with the content of the video and how agriculture spread from north to south, I have a problem with using words that do not convey the correct concept.
@@enkisonofanu2301 We use the term Mesopotamia precisely because there were so many empires and nations in the region over time. Mesopotamia is the land in and around the Tigris and Euphrates. These rivers were central to the people in the region, so it's best just as a generic term covering the people who lived there. It's like using "European history" even though it doesn't always equally apply to all parts of what we call Europe in the discussion (Roman history had little direct influence on the contemporary Scandinavians, yet they're both part of European history). Sure they never called it Mesopotamia, but they didn't have an agreed upon word for it either.
There is a lot of conjecture regarding how someone becomes Lugal. Too much speculation period. Also, the accent is so thick as to be painful, and the echo effects are annoying.
@Chris, Hi there. Just one thing: Hariri is not a historian and well there is two: he is somewhat of an eugenist. Not an interesting source in the literature review.
Yuval Noah Harari is ten times the historian that I am, and his literature is among some of the most fascinating and clear minded that I have ever read.
Bouseux Latache, maybe you should read his "Special Operations in the Age of Chivalry, 1100-1550" . That might feel like something a historian wrote to you. A historian from Oxford.
Good presentation. Thanks for this speculative history lesson. One criticism: the echo and reverb on the chapter headings is cringey and stupid. Don't do it! 😂
Him : many humans were in the lap of the gods Me: (breaks out lighter) Whoa, whoa, la la la, whoa I can see what you want me to be But I'm no fool No beginning, there's no ending There's no meaning in my pretending Believe me, life goes on and on and Forgive me when I ask you where do I belong You say I can't set you free from me But that's not true It's in the lap of the Gods
And that is the meretricious failure of socialism: It works very well when you have a small number of people, a number small enough that there is direct participation in government. Thats why 150 is critical, why English villages grew to about 450 and then split off, same for plains Indians villages, and why Israeli kibitzes dropped the social model at about 1000 individuals. When you need "Representive Government" socialism breaks down and fails. Theres no socialism once you have a leader or boss or someone officially in charge and you start to get that around 400-900 individuals.
Kings and nobles evolved from guards getting payed by farmers and guardiens of water wells. Later wells ,water ,like source of knowledge ,source of life, source of rituals, source for farms, food, bath etc So you get defenders guards of water wells: you build a strong building above it. And guards: the priests, Guardiens that nobody poisons the well Neither changes the oral history. Because guardiens they where training arms all day, like kings always did. Because ennemy can poison your water and steal your women and children. Musisians where important not only to make life more pleasant but only text on music you can maintain. Musicians where mostly ,in the time they did not study and play, also servants of the priests , who where also teachers, and the kings. Oral text gets lost. The people gathering the poo and pee could get rich of the pee, because it is used to bleech wool.
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..... off that loud, burnin' rubber, need to slow it down nothing, nothing to get it poppin .... fall back, it could go all bad whole other level of high frndz of enemiez all mad 'cause the dough don't fold ....
The origins of Mesopotamia.... Cush begot Nimrod. And the beginning of his Kingdom was babel, Erech, Accad and Calneh in the land of Shinar 😁 Nimrod is Asshur who went forth and built Nineveh, Calah and Rehoboth. And Resen the same was Great City! The origins of Mesopotamia is Nubian, so then why for the thumb nail does though show the abominable Gutians(Germanic tribe) who invaded much later 🤔 All the culture and technology came from the Nubians.
Nubians what are you talking about look at summarian art dumb ass and to translate summarian writing they had to use hunnic alphabet and gutians were ancestors to the Kurds who lives in the area from the beginning.the gutians were mentioned in the earliest records
@@coryfleischfresser1941 clearly you know nothing so to speak in depth on a topic which is above your understanding is pointless, nevertheless understand the Gutian are invaders even they admit to such so for you to argue is also pointless 🤦🏽♂️ clearly you been looking at the later artwork showed to you by mainstream but the nubian art work is easily found. You poor man, yet another white man who can't come to grips with the Greatness of the black race who descend straight from the Gods whom sit atop lofty Olympus. We are creations of Mighyt Jove who holds the Aegis. We are peer to the Gods in Wisdom and Strength before you aliens invaded us. But I tell you in all earnest and take what I say to heart. We shall rule the 7 continents once more and there shall be no place for any of the Evil Gutian or there Germanic,Scythian family who ere time slaughtered every native people they came across. You white people have had your fun kicking the black man while he is down but soon you shall know your place. The first Greeks were nubians as well 😂 all the culture you think is sprouted from some white tribe in all actuality comes from the nubians. You probably won't believe but the truth is TRUTH regardless 😁
@@coryfleischfresser1941 why do no manuscripts back up your claims???🤔🤔🤔 where as I'm pulling the Genealogy straight from the Bible which tells you that area was ruled by the Kush 😂 you've been lied to white folks! Black are not savages whom needed to be civilized by the European powers. The black race is the first to have the esoteric knowledge given to them from the heavens the Pitars whom are the progenitors of man. You've been dead a certain narrative to make it easier for you guys to sit by as we were enslaved and given no rights as a human within your society as it is even now the dark skin population of India,Europe and many other places are known as untouchables because they don't want you to know that you enslaved the very people that civilised YOU and YOUR people. The moors helped the white Europeans find the "New World" and capture it whereas you would have never known those lands existed.Know history before you utter any stupidity good sir and think well in what I've told you for you know nothing but comfortable fables told to keep whites feeling superior when we know how precious melanin is! Look out into space....what do you see....ah yes pure melanin in which you guys lack in great abundance...so how could you have started any kingdom in extremely hot areas such as Mesopotamia 🤦🏽♂️
Hey dick head you don't know my race again if they were black they would have drawing themselves black,now yes black history is left out of alot of books and sub Saharan people built empires just not the ones you mentioned.genetics also says your wrong and there graves also attest to your white hating bias.further more they spoke semetic, and Indo European, explain that
Their are two nations in ancient history called kush one southern Egypt the other is in Pakistan and there is thousands of clay tablets from Iraq Syria and Iran that back me up not the old testament witch was written nearly two thousand years after the fact and Bible only needs to get one letter wrong and you get kish witch was capital of Acadian empire were nimrod was ruling he also made a city in Mesopotamia named after him wake up man.
Poor you, having to tie yourself in word knots to be acceptable to the despicable wokeness of today. "Baby producer" is a horrible way to describe mothers, as if they were some sort of machine. Mothers bear, love and raise children to the best of their ability and order and run the homes in which the children and their father can be nourished. They are valuable simply because they do this which keeps the entire society functioning.
I was in England a few times in the 1970s but could never wrap my head around the many varieties of accents. Growing up far away I had only heard that kind of posh BBC English on the airways. What sort accent does the speaker have?
I believe it to be the, More-run accent. Fairly common throughout England. Many speak in this manner. Car salesmen. Snake-oil salesmen. Circus leaders. Politicians. It varies widely throughout England.
I live in the North West of England, you should hear how many different accents there are just in the small area between Liverpool on the Western coast and Oldham in the East before you reach the Pennines and the county of Yorkshire. There's actually 5 or even 6 completely different accents. You have Scouse in Liverpool, The really posh Altrincham & Wilmslow accent where the poor people around there are the millionaires who play football for a living , The unmistakable Wigan pie eating Rugby league watching accent. The scally 'keep your eye on him he's probably nicking something' Salford and Manchester accent (that I unfortunately have been blessed with lol) And the Bolton/Bury and Rochdale/Oldham accents, I hear two separate ones but people from elsewhere probably hear just the one.
There's never enough Bronze Age History on youtube, this is a welcome addition. Subbed! and looking forward to that next video :)
Awesome, thank you! We do quite a bit on this subject and we intend to beat this genre into the ground, haha.
I'm sorry to sound pedantic lol but wouldn't you say this video is Chalcolithic or as some call it, Copper Age? I know it's said that the Mesopotamian Bronze Age began about 3500 BC and even the video description says the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age but when you consider the availability of Tin in that entire region with the nearest source being within the Gutian peoples lands atop the Zagros Mountains, who weren't exactly known for their foreign diplomacy and trading ? I'm not even sure if the Elamites in Susa and Awan had the access to it yet as they did in later years? Oh wait a minute, I should delete this post as I've just thought of something, but I think I'll just add this to it instead....Not unless that is, if someone here is going to correct me and say they able to make the Bronze alloy in Sumer and Akkad using Arsenic and Copper rather than Tin and Copper? I've been a metal finisher for over 30 years since I were 18 but I've never even seen that type of Bronze ever.. I have no idea how its made, the key requirements, nothing..
same here
Yes, the word “world” is misspelled due to a typo in the intro. Sorry for not catching it!
That is OK you worked hard on everything else.👍
I'm a simple man. When I hear this guy's voice, I open a beer and keep listening.
Drink one for me! Work is crazy today, haha!
Andorian Nationalist not sure what that means. We are talking about beer and I don’t work at Starbucks.
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It's great hearing someone discuss Mesopotamia without the nonsense about aliens.
That's just what the aliens want you to think
It's great that you expressed your opinion.
The contractors never get any credit, just the damn architects. So it was in Mess of potamia, whatever that's supposed to mean.
Absolutely
Which part of it is nonsense?
One of the coolest channels doing a video on one of the coolest civilizations. Ya love to see it!
I love Chris's presentations, they're very down-to-earth and easy on the ear. I'm not a great listener and prefer detail in written or graphical form, but I find his descriptions really easy to visualise. Please pass on my regards!
Thank you so much.
I love watching this channel! It’s all so damn interesting.
I love that you love it! Thank you for your support and time!
Thank you from Mesopotamia Iraq 🇮🇶 there has been a lot more Mesopotamia content lately on UA-cam which is great
This is very interesting I notice a lot of musical instruments are said to originate in Mesopotamia or some stringed instruments.
King Tut invented the banjo from a sketch he received from West Virginia.
Wow! This is the umpteenth straight production by you that blows my mind!
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Huh??
I’ve checked and the word “world” isn’t in the title and I’ve checked how I spelled the podcast name and it says “world?”
Or are you meaning World Civilization other than Mesopotamian Civilization?
I like his PC, especially his episode on the Bronze Age collapse (and this one as a close second). He hasn’t made one in a while though, which is disappointing :/
Are you on spotify or apple? Chris has been releasing quite a bit lately! Check out and subscribe to him on one of your audio streaming services or go to his website! Plenty for you!
You are doing great works. 👍👍👍
Can you make a video about Kurdish people in ancient times. Medes and Parthians, Hitites, Corduenes are thought to be ansestors of Kurds.
Are they true?
Not the Hittites or parthians.but the others are correct plus the gutians, lullabies, possibly subartu
@@coryfleischfresser1941 It's not all black and white Cory. The Hittites for example. their demise came from multiple invasions originating from the North West so as a consequence the Hittites would have fled South East across Anatolia down the Silver mountains toward modern day Syria. And then in much later years you have all the peoples in the East fleeing West away from the Mongol expansion including even those from Turkmenistan .. The Turks and Kurds might have a lot more in common than they would like to believe or admit. Only DNA samples will have the answers, comparing ancient maps with modern ones won't help. We can do that and say, oh it will be the Mittani and the Urartians and the Mannean like someone who I'm assuming is a Kurd with the surname Kurdi did on that Quora question page. But like I say there is lot more to it than that.
@@coryfleischfresser1941 I've still liked your post because you could be 100 % right, but I just wouldn't rule anyone out, plus I've just found this question on Quora which is worth a read.... Do modern Kurds carry more ancient Anatolian (Hittites) DNA than modern Turkish people who came later?
If you find this subject interesting check out the Sumerian King List on Wikipedia. List of kings and cities going back to the very beginning. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumerian_King_List
I find it interesting that people developed technically advanced civilization in this area, but not in others, like North America. The Native Americans never really progressed beyond the neolithic. The Incas and Aztecs had some development towards a technological civilization, but never made the final leap. Perhaps it is as simple as necessity being the mother of invention. Survival was tougher in Mesopotamia.
Maybe it has somethibg to do with the human migration to the Americas being the last populated zone in prehistoric times. Also being geographically isolated, eurasia and africa are somewhat connected and allow cultural Exchange
@@mariainessotillo6189 Great observation. Also the pressures of being alongside national competitors forces scientific progress in a "survive or be wiped out" world.
It because the knowledge was accumulated over a long stretches of time and then the Younger Dryas & flood sent most peoples back to mesolithic technology. Some people in the mountains retained the knowledge (noah myth). They became rulers over those with only basic survival knowledge . Thier decedents spread through out the world via migration. Agriculture, Animal husbandry and metallurgy was not independently discovery. The Vedas and Scythians spread the knowledge into Asia, it didn't just appear out of no where. The advancements in Inca, Mayan and the mound people of north America civilizations were most likely brought by the Phoenicians as the greeks and Romans started to concur the Phoenician colonies in the mediterranean . The phoenicians sailed into the Atlantic, Up to briton and down the west coast of Africa setting up new farming and mining colonies. The Phoenicians were the descendants of the Sum-arians who were chased out of mesopotamia into the Aegean sea by the Akkads. But no one is supposed to say the truth.
First off define what advanced civilization is because you morons seem to use that term a lot and it’s very subjective cause a lot of civilizations in the past were better than today’s
Rothman, quoted said...''All that was known in Mesopotamia came from Armenia and that Armenia is the absent fragment in the entire mosaic of the ancient world's civilization's construction. according to Anthropologist Mitchell S. Rothman regarding the extent of discoveries and specially on the quality of horse bones proved, According to him, that it was from the Shangavit Armenian 6000 years ago that the culture of that area spread around to the ancient world...
Professor Jensen also says. ‘For almost everything that is known in the Hittite language is Old Armenian in form..Historian Sayce 1845-1933) also consider Hittite and Armenian to be one and the same’. what some historians say...H.V. Hilprecht(1859-1925) a Clark research professor of Assyriology and scientific director Babylonian expedition at the University of Penn. argue that the Hittite tongue is Armenian and the Hittites themselves were of Armenian stock...according to Ellis (1861) through language analysis we observe that under the names of Phrygians, Thracians,Pelasgians and Etruscans spread westward from Armenia to Italy and Elis claimed that the closest affinities of the Aryan element are the Armenians ..other historians that agree are..Hellenthal, Busgy, Brand, Wilson, Myers and Falush...let me quote Merrick (2012) All religions are descended from and ancient Vedic cosmology described in the Rib - Veda, originating in Armenia near Mt. Ararat at least 6800 ys ago and the basic concepts of a transcendental mountain extending into space and populated planet Star-gods were developed...he further says...This Astrotheology then migrated with Armenian Aryans to found the Sumerian Ethiopian/Egyptian and Indian civilizations and religions...from Language as a fingerprint Setyan...
Why is Mesopotamia all the rage just right now?? SO much new content about it recently. Very good video!
because recently they discovered 7 million stone tablets and how to read them, perhaps?
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@@ianmajor87577 million stone tablets? How high would that stack up?
love your work, keep it coming
At that area there are many town name that is hungarian words … town of Úr , Uruk means Lord , Its Lord, Kis(h) small, common family name in Hungary. Lake Van means exist . Eridu.. Arad now in Romania before the war in Hungary ( Transylvania Arad)
GLORY2JESUS brother. Well done indeed.
Well, so far according to these comments, we have everything but the Martians.
Very good documentary on Mesopotamia
Iraqi people have amazing history
Yes, and I don't think the world celebrates it enough.
@@wildschwein9066 Sumerians are basically Marsh arabs... You're just looking for another history to usurp
@@NubiansNapatasummarian are not arab geneticlly are not same .
The ability to count & record quantities in a way that people could understand & manage was a key development. Writing of words is believed to have developed from symbols/drawings of items placed on tags which identified the contents of a container. The evidence coming out of the tablets suggests a greater ability in the development of mathematics than has previously been credited. See Plimpton 322 for the Babylonian method of calculating triangles & areas which predated Pythagoras by 1,000 years.
It makes sense that writing started as depictions of objects, in the Far East many languages are still pictorial, I was learning basic Japanese and it was explained how the symbols derived from depictions of spears, bamboo, paddy fields etc.
I personally truly believe that advanced geometric knowledge must predate those Babylonians too, especially when you consider some of the architectural achievements of the very earliest ancient cultures. Undoubtedly, the Babylonians of Hammurabi's era were playfully investigating the nature of numbers in an academic manner.
What a lovely voice Chris has.
Not that I'm trying to be rude, but the echo has to go. Just a break than the title. I do appreciate the information. I just started listening. Very helpful in my studies, thank you.
@@avilacanario Not that I'm trying to be rude, but I'm pretty sure I'm not the person you should be saying this to lol.
@@theonlygoodlookinghabsburg2081 sorry...
It was really a nice presentation, but when you mentioned Tigris, Euphrates and Nile at 10:37 you didn’t mention Indus River or Indus Valley civilization , I hope you wouldn’t disagree with its existence.
South Asian spotted.
Certainly not. The Indus Valley Civilisation and the archaeological discussion about Mohenjo-Daro is such a wonderful topic.
@@thehalalreviewer Proud to be a South Asian, proud to be a part of the proud human history
There is a lot left out.
The video is about mesopotamia, ie the land in and around the Tigris and Euphrates, after all. Indus River valley culture may be relevant from an anthropological viewpoint, but it is not the topic of this video.
Excellent! Thanks.
I wanna chip in and say that norms and rules don’t necessarily have to take the form of laws that are imposed by an authority. Norms can be agreed upon by consensus or by designated representatives who are trusted to make decisions on behalf of a group but don’t hold authority to control them. Basically, i’m talking about horizontal organization.
Love the channel. Great podcasts.
Who is this Chris.....?
Baby producers, also bread after grinding the grain, and its byproduct of BEER ... well they are all byproducts of each other! A reward for a guy after a hard day of work ... and is still a practice almost worldwide to this day. :D
The people who settled in Mesopotamia did not invent agriculture and the many other tools needed to build or sustain a civilization.
They brought it with them from their place of origin and replaced the old inhabitants.
Someone taught these people the ways of civilization. Their ability to farm and the use of other tools did not happen by chance or random invention at random points in time.
Hi. I am a graduate student in assyriology at Leiden University, the Netherlands. We have an entire library with thousands of scientific publications (the NINO). Every fact discussed here in this video can be checked and reviewed here using the real textual evidence.
Do you suggest that this is all wrong? I would like to hear your source of information! Cheers.
Gingilipho aNtEdIlUvIaN CiViLiZaTi0n!!!!
@@gingilipho3497 It is not all wrong, just incomplete mixed with guessing about it.
When I read the word origin of this or origin of that, I expect to hear when, where, how and why. Not possibly this or possibly that.
To establish and maintain a civilization is a precise science with no guess work.
why is it that everyone wants to know what the origins of the Sumerians is? Why could not they be an indigenous population, from the area of Samara, north of Baghdad who moved southwards in two waves, one along the Euphrates and the other along the Tigres -which why we find a contention between Eridu-Enki and Nippur-Enlil-, instead people have made them Chinese, Central Asian, Arians, Hungarians, Indians and whoever else wants to take credit for them? And why could not they developed agriculture and pottery and writing and the wheel and and and. The Egyptians did it. Give me one evidence that the Sumerians originated from somewhere else except where we find them.
Enki Son Of Anu Maybe because it’s interesting to learn more about the past?
Rather, someone whose judgment was trusted as a Judge, rather than a King, which was a later development.
There are three types of people in this world:
1. Those who make things happen
2. Those who watch things happen
3. Those who wonder what happened
Who are you!!!
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How do we know what we know about these ancient communities? Chris, aren't just making up some of it? Where did you get it from?
Shanadar Cave where Neanderthal era time is North of Ninava (Mosul today) and Arbil cabital of regional Gov. of kurdistan 75000 years ago based on BBC and China I Unversity Archiologist
Sarah Asaad Hawler is the capital of KRG KURDISTAN REGIONAL GOVERNMENT. This is an official and legitimate region. And yup it’s on the map. I’m sorry if that angers you but there’s nothing you can do about it. Maybe practice peace and love and take hate and anger out of your life. You’ll sleep better 👌😉
@Sarah Asaad I still stick to my previous answer. Some few thousands ago Assyrians took over the city yes. Assyria originated from south of iraq. Uruk and ur etc. they migrated up north. You can be as hateful as you are. Your choice. Kurds arnt the only nation that migrated. This is in every human, animal and plants. They migrate. KURDISTAN ahhh that lovely name 😊 avoid Kurdistan as much as you like. You cannot turn back time. Assyria was over thousands of years ago sorry but not sorry. You lot took your sharwals off for the arabs 🤭👏🥴 🤷🏻♂️ you lot got wiped out and arabised. So now even Your name is very confused 😐 it’s arabic. Also one of the most ancient Assyrian language is all broken mixed with Arabic. Go bark at them. Go down to south Iraq, a d deal with the Shia militias. Good luck 😉
The origins of a hierarchical structure does not emerge with farming! It existed millions of years earlier.The great apes have a hierarchical structure!And if you don’t like that then consider the hunter gatherer communities that predate farming.Is anyone stupid enough to suggest that a group of men go hunting a large wild animal without a leader,a plan and a division of labour and responsibilities? Of course not.Hierachical structures are hard wired in humans,it was simply adapted to farming communities.
If interested...Rothman, quoted said...''All that was known in Mesopotamia came from Armenia and that Armenia is the absent fragment in the entire mosaic of the ancient world's civilization's construction. according to Anthropologist Mitchell S. Rothman regarding the extent of discoveries and specially on the quality of horse bones proved, According to him, that it was from the Shangavit Armenian 6000 years ago that the culture of that area spread around to the ancient world...
Professor Jensen also says. ‘For almost everything that is known in the Hittite language is Old Armenian in form..Historian Sayce 1845-1933) also consider Hittite and Armenian to be one and the same’. what some historians say...H.V. Hilprecht(1859-1925) a Clark research professor of Assyriology and scientific director Babylonian expedition at the University of Penn. argue that the Hittite tongue is Armenian and the Hittites themselves were of Armenian stock...according to Ellis (1861) through language analysis we observe that under the names of Phrygians, Thracians,Pelasgians and Etruscans spread westward from Armenia to Italy and Elis claimed that the closest affinities of the Aryan element are the Armenians ..other historians that agree are..Hellenthal, Busgy, Brand, Wilson, Myers and Falush...let me quote Merrick (2012) All religions are descended from and ancient Vedic cosmology described in the Rib - Veda, originating in Armenia near Mt. Ararat at least 6800 ys ago and the basic concepts of a transcendental mountain extending into space and populated planet Star-gods were developed...he further says...This Astrotheology then migrated with Armenian Aryans to found the Sumerian Ethiopian/Egyptian and Indian civilizations and religions...from Language as a fingerprint Setyan..
My opinion isn't based on morality and ethics, or influenced by either, or both. ...But I have decided to express to others my thoughts on this forum in a way to persuade myself that I have not been misled
I can see a video with Mesopotamia in the title attracts all sorts of deranged people.
We want to need ancient Chinese Tung & sung era details special e imphasized administration , Culture & sthapotya ..
it is not that interesting as you would expect: both eras are northern nomadic tribes invading the Chinese agrarian society and crowning themselves as the rightful rulers.
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And the mystery continues ...
I just saw your most recent offerings on that time and place ... We might know the full Sumerian DNA story in TEN years?
Makes me realize how I am getting so OLD!
Seriously, I hope it's sooner for the sake of peace in the region.
Kingdom of Sumeria is older than Akkadian Empire but Kingdom of Adnaniyyah is the oldest!!!
I always thought the time of the tribal judges would come before Kingship was developed. Then a type of priest after that. But I suppose I'm basing that on Canaanite culture around 1400BCE which comes at a much later time than the era you are talking about. Still, my theory seems like a more natural progression of society, but I am certainly no expert.
World is misspelled on your title screen.
there can not be an oxen. for there to be oxen you need to have more than one ox
Mesopotamia is the oldest cradle of civilisation!
The ancient Jaoanese texts say mankind was created by Amaterasuhi, then were later dispersed all throughout the world. The continent of Mu was in the Pacific.
@Mike Nunyabizness Hi. Not sure what you mean. I am not referring to anything I have seen on UA-cam. I am referring to research from the ancient texts.
Whose basic education are we referring to? I attended private school in Westchester Co., N.Y and a private girls school later on, as well as college and beyond. What I learned then was that Mesopotamia was the cradle of civilization. It is not. Mankind's beginnings are far older than 5,000 yeats ago. Please respect others in your replies. Otherwise, best to keep one's supercilious attitude to oneself, I think.
Frank Joseph and James Churchward wrote about Lemuria/Mu. You could read these books and learn a great deal. Also, Graham Hancock. The academic world is not always about the truth. Observe how the treat Graham Hancock's work.
@Mike Nunyabizness lol go easy on her mate she is obviously only a child isn't she. Or if she isn't, she's erm..you know ... her mummy's special girl.. either way go easy on her mate.
The singular of oxen is ox.
@Jeremy Kirkpatrick 🤦♂️
Ahhhh, a video about history. And if you have some political/social beliefs you’d like to explore, get a side channel going. I’m sure you’ll find a resonant an audience. Thx for the work on bringing the past to life. That’s something we all enjoy.
Yuaval Harari made up analysis of early government ignores two FUNDAMENTALS of human interaction. Kinship and marriage. Large level cooperation probably originates from agreements between elders and their loyal descendants. And probably for DEFENSIVE purposes, as in catal hoyuk.
Searching and the cartel of civilization started in Babil.Human being started to achieve.
Akkadian Empire!!! Real name!!!
Guessing that this was prepared before the discovery of Gobekli Teppi 🤔
If they would of tough it like this in schools might have understood it better.
what you have explained is the development of civilisation, instead of the origins of Sumerians, i.e. where did they come from.
This isn't titled the origins of the Sumerians but the Origin of Mesopotamian Civilization.
@@studyofantiquityandthemidd4449 It depends on what you regard to be Mesopotamia, but what is Mesopotamia without Sumer?
p.s. I have no problem with your video, it may be a matter of semantic or me being presumptuous
@@enkisonofanu2301 Well agriculture originated more in Northern Mesopotamia while civilization started in Southern Mesopotamia after agriculture spread south, but there is of course a lot of overlap.
@@merrittanimation7721 My post was confused as I presumed the video was about the origin of the Sumerians, but obviously, it's not, it's about Mesopotamia, a term invented by the Greeks. So I am curious where is this place because the video talks about Mesopotamia as if it is a land that stretches from Turkey to the southern borders to Iraq. There is no such place. The northern parts of Iraq, southern Turkey, Syria and the Levant are known as the fertile crescent, below that is was Akkad and further south Summer that is why Sargon of Akkad was the king of Sumer and Akkad, the whole area then was called Babylon until the time it fell to the Persians. I already said that I have to problem with the content of the video and how agriculture spread from north to south, I have a problem with using words that do not convey the correct concept.
@@enkisonofanu2301 We use the term Mesopotamia precisely because there were so many empires and nations in the region over time. Mesopotamia is the land in and around the Tigris and Euphrates. These rivers were central to the people in the region, so it's best just as a generic term covering the people who lived there. It's like using "European history" even though it doesn't always equally apply to all parts of what we call Europe in the discussion (Roman history had little direct influence on the contemporary Scandinavians, yet they're both part of European history). Sure they never called it Mesopotamia, but they didn't have an agreed upon word for it either.
There is a lot of conjecture regarding how someone becomes Lugal. Too much speculation period. Also, the accent is so thick as to be painful, and the echo effects are annoying.
I think world is spelled differently.
How did this become the Middle Ages?
Informative. But the singular of "oxen" is ox.
As a Brit, the accent is nothing special.
Good content though, easy listening
No, the accent is wonderful. You're totally mistaken, but I forgive your incorrectness so don't worry.
Cooperation? Have you heard of slavery?
@Chris, Hi there. Just one thing: Hariri is not a historian and well there is two: he is somewhat of an eugenist. Not an interesting source in the literature review.
Well said.
PhD in history from Oxford.
Yuval Noah Harari is ten times the historian that I am, and his literature is among some of the most fascinating and clear minded that I have ever read.
Bouseux Latache, maybe you should read his "Special Operations in the Age of Chivalry, 1100-1550" . That might feel like something a historian wrote to you. A historian from Oxford.
@@historyoftheworldpodcast5234 Yuval is great but don't sell yourself short. ;-)
Good presentation. Thanks for this speculative history lesson. One criticism: the echo and reverb on the chapter headings is cringey and stupid. Don't do it! 😂
I like it. Great information, and the guy doesn't take himself too seriously, which is always refreshing.
Him : many humans were in the lap of the gods
Me: (breaks out lighter) Whoa, whoa, la la la, whoa
I can see what you want me to be
But I'm no fool
No beginning, there's no ending
There's no meaning in my pretending
Believe me, life goes on and on and
Forgive me when I ask you where do I belong
You say I can't set you free from me
But that's not true
It's in the lap of the Gods
8:25,
And that is the meretricious failure of socialism: It works very well when you have a small number of people, a number small enough that there is direct participation in government. Thats why 150 is critical, why English villages grew to about 450 and then split off, same for plains Indians villages, and why Israeli kibitzes dropped the social model at about 1000 individuals. When you need "Representive Government" socialism breaks down and fails. Theres no socialism once you have a leader or boss or someone officially in charge and you start to get that around 400-900 individuals.
Kings and nobles evolved from guards getting payed by farmers and guardiens of water wells.
Later wells ,water ,like source of knowledge ,source of life, source of rituals, source for farms, food, bath etc
So you get defenders guards of water wells: you build a strong building above it.
And guards: the priests,
Guardiens that nobody poisons the well
Neither changes the oral history.
Because guardiens they where training arms all day, like kings always did.
Because ennemy can poison your water and steal your women and children.
Musisians where important not only to make life more pleasant but only text on music you can maintain. Musicians where mostly ,in the time they did not study and play, also servants of the priests , who where also teachers, and the kings.
Oral text gets lost.
The people gathering the poo and pee could get rich of the pee, because it is used to bleech wool.
😆 dude! Duh! Thats all I can say! 😆
Ya think!! 😆
Nope ... more people, I suppose that means more work more product..
Ya think!! lol .
Sorry but a morion would know THAT!
I lasted 1:44 ......
If that's how it starts!! Lol I cant go on...
398th view!!!!!
As always it is a pleasure to see you here!
The Study of Antiquity and the Middle Ages Likewise 😂
..... off that loud, burnin' rubber, need to slow it down nothing, nothing to get it poppin .... fall back, it could go all bad whole other level of high frndz of enemiez all mad 'cause the dough don't fold ....
"History of the Wolrd Podcast" - Thanks so much for letting me know you put out poor work so early. Wink, nod?
Cities are now breaking down under our Senile King...we need Trump back......
The origins of Mesopotamia.... Cush begot Nimrod. And the beginning of his Kingdom was babel, Erech, Accad and Calneh in the land of Shinar 😁 Nimrod is Asshur who went forth and built Nineveh, Calah and Rehoboth. And Resen the same was Great City! The origins of Mesopotamia is Nubian, so then why for the thumb nail does though show the abominable Gutians(Germanic tribe) who invaded much later 🤔 All the culture and technology came from the Nubians.
Nubians what are you talking about look at summarian art dumb ass and to translate summarian writing they had to use hunnic alphabet and gutians were ancestors to the Kurds who lives in the area from the beginning.the gutians were mentioned in the earliest records
@@coryfleischfresser1941 clearly you know nothing so to speak in depth on a topic which is above your understanding is pointless, nevertheless understand the Gutian are invaders even they admit to such so for you to argue is also pointless 🤦🏽♂️ clearly you been looking at the later artwork showed to you by mainstream but the nubian art work is easily found. You poor man, yet another white man who can't come to grips with the Greatness of the black race who descend straight from the Gods whom sit atop lofty Olympus. We are creations of Mighyt Jove who holds the Aegis. We are peer to the Gods in Wisdom and Strength before you aliens invaded us. But I tell you in all earnest and take what I say to heart. We shall rule the 7 continents once more and there shall be no place for any of the Evil Gutian or there Germanic,Scythian family who ere time slaughtered every native people they came across. You white people have had your fun kicking the black man while he is down but soon you shall know your place. The first Greeks were nubians as well 😂 all the culture you think is sprouted from some white tribe in all actuality comes from the nubians. You probably won't believe but the truth is TRUTH regardless 😁
@@coryfleischfresser1941 why do no manuscripts back up your claims???🤔🤔🤔 where as I'm pulling the Genealogy straight from the Bible which tells you that area was ruled by the Kush 😂 you've been lied to white folks! Black are not savages whom needed to be civilized by the European powers. The black race is the first to have the esoteric knowledge given to them from the heavens the Pitars whom are the progenitors of man. You've been dead a certain narrative to make it easier for you guys to sit by as we were enslaved and given no rights as a human within your society as it is even now the dark skin population of India,Europe and many other places are known as untouchables because they don't want you to know that you enslaved the very people that civilised YOU and YOUR people. The moors helped the white Europeans find the "New World" and capture it whereas you would have never known those lands existed.Know history before you utter any stupidity good sir and think well in what I've told you for you know nothing but comfortable fables told to keep whites feeling superior when we know how precious melanin is! Look out into space....what do you see....ah yes pure melanin in which you guys lack in great abundance...so how could you have started any kingdom in extremely hot areas such as Mesopotamia 🤦🏽♂️
Hey dick head you don't know my race again if they were black they would have drawing themselves black,now yes black history is left out of alot of books and sub Saharan people built empires just not the ones you mentioned.genetics also says your wrong and there graves also attest to your white hating bias.further more they spoke semetic, and Indo European, explain that
Their are two nations in ancient history called kush one southern Egypt the other is in Pakistan and there is thousands of clay tablets from Iraq Syria and Iran that back me up not the old testament witch was written nearly two thousand years after the fact and Bible only needs to get one letter wrong and you get kish witch was capital of Acadian empire were nimrod was ruling he also made a city in Mesopotamia named after him wake up man.
Mégalithes black culture.
not true
Poor you, having to tie yourself in word knots to be acceptable to the despicable wokeness of today. "Baby producer" is a horrible way to describe mothers, as if they were some sort of machine. Mothers bear, love and raise children to the best of their ability and order and run the homes in which the children and their father can be nourished. They are valuable simply because they do this which keeps the entire society functioning.
Cannot listen to this commentary awful.
Bullshit, India and China are far older, in fact Urdhu shows Indian influence.
Mésopotamia black nations.
I was in England a few times in the 1970s but could never wrap my head around the many varieties of accents. Growing up far away I had only heard that kind of posh BBC English on the airways. What sort accent does the speaker have?
I believe it to be the, More-run accent. Fairly common throughout England. Many speak in this manner. Car salesmen. Snake-oil salesmen. Circus leaders. Politicians. It varies widely throughout England.
I'd call it Estuary English, close to London. Marked with such as "pee-pew"/"people" and "rivah/river".
You stole my question. ;)
@@marrrtin I rarely speak this kind of Estuary English in common speech. Only when I'm broadcasting to give the listener a chance of understanding me.
I live in the North West of England, you should hear how many different accents there are just in the small area between Liverpool on the Western coast and Oldham in the East before you reach the Pennines and the county of Yorkshire. There's actually 5 or even 6 completely different accents. You have Scouse in Liverpool, The really posh Altrincham & Wilmslow accent where the poor people around there are the millionaires who play football for a living , The unmistakable Wigan pie eating Rugby league watching accent. The scally 'keep your eye on him he's probably nicking something' Salford and Manchester accent (that I unfortunately have been blessed with lol) And the Bolton/Bury and Rochdale/Oldham accents, I hear two separate ones but people from elsewhere probably hear just the one.