Ancient Apocalypse: The Akkadian Empire | History Documentary

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  • Опубліковано 6 сер 2023
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    In 2334 BCE the Akkadians conquered and united the Sumerian city state kingdoms to create the world’s first empire. The Akkadian’s ruled over much of Mesopotamia, what is now modern-day Iraq, Syria and Turkey, but after only 140 years the Akkadian Empire fractured. Entire regions of Mesopotamia descended into chaos and the Akkadian Empire’s very existence was lost to history. Now archaeologists scour the Middle East searching for information about how they became so powerful and why they collapsed.
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  • @senecaknowsbest8380
    @senecaknowsbest8380 7 місяців тому +100

    We can only cry when we imagine what was in the library of Alexandria and hold in utter contempt the barbarians who destroyed it.

    • @megahamartolos6638
      @megahamartolos6638 7 місяців тому +10

      That barbarian appears to have been Julius Caesar. The library fell victim to fire secondary to the burying of ships that blocked Roman access to the harbor.

    • @barryallison7583
      @barryallison7583 7 місяців тому

      The Vatican looted The Library of Alexandra then burn it down!! they have milies of hiddend documents and artifacts

    • @christine2ehgtinyhouse893
      @christine2ehgtinyhouse893 7 місяців тому +4

      I have that same thought about what knowledge was lost when that Library burned.

    • @drstrangelove4998
      @drstrangelove4998 7 місяців тому +13

      😅​​⁠@@megahamartolos6638 that is controversial, a small part of the library was damaged and quickly re-built. The war and burnt ships are mentioned but none of the Roman historians mention the library being burnt. Others say Islamists destroyed the books when the conquered Alexandria, in 641 using the books to heat the many bath house furnaces.

    • @NullStaticVoid
      @NullStaticVoid 7 місяців тому +12

      @@drstrangelove4998 Actually we ony have knowledge of the Greek philosophers because the Muslims preserved it. A lot of Muslim scholars in the middle ages were Neo-Platonists. This preserved knowledge was transmitted to Europe because of trade between Europe and the Caliphate and basically sparked the renaissance.

  • @questjoyner5086
    @questjoyner5086 8 місяців тому +69

    Back in those times, they practiced erasing you from history. Erasing any form of history is an injustice to humanity.

    • @mainerockflour3462
      @mainerockflour3462 8 місяців тому +12

      Tell that to the "Holy See" that have history buried in their underground tunnels.

    • @nelsonbrum8496
      @nelsonbrum8496 7 місяців тому

      Erasing history? You mean like removing statues of critical historical figures?

    • @brycefraz
      @brycefraz 6 місяців тому

      Braindead

    • @janicebillington2633
      @janicebillington2633 3 місяці тому +13

      ​@@mainerockflour3462 The Smithsonian is just as guilty.

    • @ukestudio3002
      @ukestudio3002 3 місяці тому

      Removal of confederate statues and street names ? Bringing down sadaam husein’s statue ? Destruction of Nazi statues and propaganda posters?

  • @verlongates2279
    @verlongates2279 6 днів тому +2

    The most fascinating thing is that the ABSOLUTE determination to find an answer leads to the 'deciphering' of the 'undecipherable' language. Imagine spending ten years of your life just to learn how to read an ancient language. We owe so MUCH to this determined, brilliant man. His contribution is as important TO US as the contribution of the Assyrians who compiled the library, and the Akkadians who wrote the tablets. Wonderful information. THANK YOU.

  • @Andy_Babb
    @Andy_Babb 7 місяців тому +85

    I love this series. So glad they did an episode on the Akkadian empire bc there’s so few documentaries on that empire. Thank you for uploading!!!

    • @muffin6369
      @muffin6369 6 місяців тому +2

      Two websites both have done the Akkadian. Also history time, and history with Cy just to name a few excellent history channels just awesome content That would be the great Peter Kelly and Cy. These guys are such professionals. And of course when you can find them In Search of the Trojan War written and presented by the great Michael Wood!!! Anything by Bettany Hughes LOL

    • @BeauchampBrianPj
      @BeauchampBrianPj 4 місяці тому

      😊😊😊 and 😅😮😢😢🎉😊😊​@@muffin6369

    • @oalmikee1234
      @oalmikee1234 3 місяці тому

      Thanks for sharing your time. ​@@muffin6369

    • @yoshimitsu8643
      @yoshimitsu8643 3 місяці тому +1

      Don't let anyone just dump whatever they want into your mental factory
      Stay guard at the door of your mind

    • @Andy_Babb
      @Andy_Babb 3 місяці тому +1

      @@yoshimitsu8643 I mean, I don’t generally believe everything I see. Most people are idiots.

  • @seanmadison6360
    @seanmadison6360 8 місяців тому +20

    It would be nice to see these documentaries without war drums banging randomly in the background.

    • @NONANTI
      @NONANTI 3 місяці тому +1

      That's racist. Some people can only learn when information is set to music.

    • @Rory695
      @Rory695 2 місяці тому

      ​@@NONANTII can only learn with videos of subway surfers gameplay playing below it

    • @geoffreyhdavey
      @geoffreyhdavey Місяць тому +1

      Try fall of civilizations, classier presentation

    • @Mingliki
      @Mingliki 19 днів тому

      I was unaware that auditory learning was a race. ​@@NONANTI

    • @toddaulner5393
      @toddaulner5393 10 днів тому

      I see this alot, people complaining of the background music being loud and distracting. I hardly notice it though. I often wonder of a bunch of people have ear wax balls bumping against their ear drum or something.

  • @magister.mortran
    @magister.mortran 6 місяців тому +20

    This is an anachronistic modern interpretation of the events. The contemporary view can be read in the Sumerian Kings List. The "Akkadian Empire" was not an empire with a beginning and an end, but a single dynasty of a much longer lasting empire (Namlugalu). Sargon of Akkad had succeeded the dynasty of Uruk, and his dynasty was followed by the Gutian dynasty, who were as foreigners not well respected by the Sumerians. Their rule was an economic disaster an they were soon overthrown by a rebellion of the governor Uto-Hengal. After him Ur became the new dynasty of the Empire.
    The fall of the Akkadian dynasty indeed coincided with a drought, but more important was that Emperor Naram-Sin had committed a sacrilege against the temple of Nippur, the spiritual capital of the Empire (similar to Rome in the Middle Ages). The drought was seen as a punishment by the gods, especially Enlil (the Curse of Akkad), which caused religious tensions within the Empire. This made it easy for the Gutians to invade and overthrow the despised Akkadian dynasty. So it was rather a religious than a meteorological crisis. Sargon had mot been the first emperor (lugal), nor was he the last. Just as he had moved the imperial residence from Uruk to the newly founded city Akkad, it was moved back to Uruk by Utu-Hengal and after his rule to Ur. These were imperial residences, not the formal capitals of the Empire, where the high-priest of Enki resided, which was the E-Kur in Nippur.
    This can be compared to the imperial residences of the (Holy) Roman Emperors in the Middle Ages. They moved according to the ruling dynasty, while the formal capital of the Sacrum Romanum Imperium was always Rome, where the Christian high-priest, i.e. pope, resided.
    So no, it was not an "Ancient Apocalypse", just a crisis of the Sumerian Empire and an interregnum between two dynasties.

    • @baardhelmen8408
      @baardhelmen8408 3 місяці тому +2

      Great summary, there was bt problems in the longest farmed fields of Akkad and Sumer, at the end most crops except barley failed to grow due to traces of salt accumulated. Farming started, like, roughly, 7000 years ago.
      By the time of the third Sumerian empire this was an important factor.
      And there was barbarians ie pastoralists everywhere. And they fought with each other between city states like mad.
      Cheers

    • @Pleides1111
      @Pleides1111 2 місяці тому

      Wow thanks 🎉😮

    • @Pleides1111
      @Pleides1111 2 місяці тому +1

      .
      Turkey . 7,000 years before this . The botbelly temple complex . agriculture & wheels . What about those forefathers ? The FLOOD # X.
      😊🎉

    • @Pleides1111
      @Pleides1111 2 місяці тому

      PotBelly .

    • @Pleides1111
      @Pleides1111 2 місяці тому +1

      🐝🫧 Göbekli Tepe potbelly Hill . NeoLithic not

  • @davidbryant3223
    @davidbryant3223 3 місяці тому +4

    amazing thank you for posting this

  • @oshadhakandawela7658
    @oshadhakandawela7658 6 місяців тому +3

    Superb series! I’ve watched sea people one. Now this.. excellent presentation! Thanks keep up ❤️

  • @joanhuffman2166
    @joanhuffman2166 8 місяців тому +57

    Well, if a city was destroyed by a lightning storm, 🌩 I can see why the ancients thought the city was cursed by the gods. 😮

    • @FLPhotoCatcher
      @FLPhotoCatcher 7 місяців тому +2

      And who knows...

    • @JoeBoxerNo1
      @JoeBoxerNo1 7 місяців тому +1

      take a look at THE BURKLE CRATER ... thats your answer.

    • @joanhuffman2166
      @joanhuffman2166 7 місяців тому +1

      @@JoeBoxerNo1 but who saw that or recorded it?

    • @DumaM-ir7rk
      @DumaM-ir7rk 2 місяці тому +1

      @ joanhuffman2166 well did you know the older people in Africa knew how to create lighting. Hence here in South Africa people sometimes threaten each other with lighting. What if another group or civilisation created lighting and fought with this empire that was clueless

    • @joanhuffman2166
      @joanhuffman2166 2 місяці тому

      @DumaM-ir7rk really? Creating lighting or lightning? Really? How? Video or it didn't happen.

  • @df5826
    @df5826 9 місяців тому +36

    You're going to ignore the other OLDER sites that show that civilization started before this video suggests? Remember that part in the video where you talk about historians discovering a civilization that they had no idea existed and they had to adapt. It sure does seem like modern historians CAN'T adapt to new information as well as they did in the past. Too bad really. It's keeping us from really understanding our history but it sure does keep those books selling.

    • @visamedic
      @visamedic 8 місяців тому +9

      Civilization and Empire are two completely different states. You come upon a small inhabited cabin or village in a wilderness, you found civilization. It may be part of an Empire or it may not be. An Empire is made of many civilizations united by a government.

    • @df5826
      @df5826 8 місяців тому +5

      @@visamedic The point I'm making is that there is clear evidence that Humans were more advanced at a far earlier time in history than we are currently teaching. It's not difficult to find the evidence but it seems to take far too long for the timeline to be updated to reflect that maybe when we thought we were cavemen, we weren't and we were actually more advanced already. Science these days seems more rooted in keeping those who are experts, selling books and teaching, rather than trying to learn and update what we know. It's more about the fact that change is hard because those who have been teaching certain things don't want to not be experts anymore because they were wrong.

    • @RobOfTheNorth2001
      @RobOfTheNorth2001 6 місяців тому

      @@df5826what are you talking about? We’ve been revising our understanding of the past at a faster and faster pace because the scientific analytical tools are getting much better. Science doesn’t stand still, but it can still take years to prove new findings.

    • @JNCressey
      @JNCressey 6 місяців тому

      ​@@df5826, They're not even saying that people before the Akkadian empire were less advanced. Ancient Egypt existed before this empire.
      Ultimately, it's just a video that is specifically about the Akkadian empire, and the side note that they're the oldest to fit what we call empire is quite unimportant.

  • @Mechanb
    @Mechanb 4 місяці тому +1

    Wow. excellent work. love the work into really deciphering clue!

  • @AlterBug
    @AlterBug 9 місяців тому +4

    Trace for us, we luv to see more. Thank your for sharing this documentary.

  • @pamlaw5959
    @pamlaw5959 7 місяців тому +4

    This was so very interesting thank you

  • @colemarsh13
    @colemarsh13 9 місяців тому +7

    Excellent content

  • @nethvegz3465
    @nethvegz3465 6 місяців тому +1

    Informative thanks ❤

  • @aaronsanborn4291
    @aaronsanborn4291 7 місяців тому +8

    I served in Mosul in 04-05 the history there was amazing

    • @mandelorean6243
      @mandelorean6243 7 місяців тому +1

      It's a shame how primitive and corruption they've.. stayed? Receded to?

  • @SeikhSayedAaman-qm6fx
    @SeikhSayedAaman-qm6fx 9 місяців тому +22

    I really loved this kinds of documentary. Keep its on😊😊!!

  • @chris.asi_romeo
    @chris.asi_romeo 9 місяців тому +10

    Excellent documentary 💯💯👏👏

    • @get.factual
      @get.factual  9 місяців тому +1

      thank you for this comment💘

    • @ayakoendohigh1369
      @ayakoendohigh1369 9 місяців тому

      I have long been interested in this period of history. Never, NEVER have I seen a more infirmative documentary on the subject!

  • @wernerdanler2742
    @wernerdanler2742 7 місяців тому +1

    Excellent analysis. 😊

  • @09bloodthirsty
    @09bloodthirsty 8 місяців тому +15

    When we uncovered city of Agade after the excavations we may learn the truth behind the collapse of Akkadian empire.I hope Agade the capital of first empire will be found in near future

    • @JoeBoxerNo1
      @JoeBoxerNo1 7 місяців тому +2

      that or take all the evidence they told us about in this documentary and add it up to the BURKLE CRATER , and thats the answer

  • @Friedsteel
    @Friedsteel 7 місяців тому +7

    Thoroughly enjoyed this documentary.

    • @Andy_Babb
      @Andy_Babb 7 місяців тому +1

      Right?? I can count on 1 finger the number of Akkadian empire documentaries I’ve seen. This series is great, I really hope they have a second season

  • @chris.asi_romeo
    @chris.asi_romeo 9 місяців тому +31

    Love watching your documentaries.

    • @Andy_Babb
      @Andy_Babb 7 місяців тому +2

      … this channel doesn’t actually _make_ the documentaries. They upload some great content, but they don’t produce them 😂

    • @sturzuus
      @sturzuus 6 місяців тому +1

      @@Andy_Babb Yep they got them from viasat history, at least the this one and the sea people one.

    • @Andy_Babb
      @Andy_Babb 6 місяців тому

      @@sturzuus yeah I don’t usually know where they’re from bc in the US we get crap and have like 2 educational channels with any actual production value lol dokuwiki is really helpful for me with locating topics and documentaries from other countries… that aren’t on UA-cam. I love how the UK has so, so many different channels and a seemingly infinite number of programs dedicated to history. I just get so frustrated bc even though I find the names of some really great looking series there’s no way for me to view them no matter where I search.
      Damn. Sorry that was _long._ lol

  • @wholovesyoujoe
    @wholovesyoujoe 8 місяців тому +10

    I thought their demise was through soil erosion, climate change and pummeling one another. The study of how people did their thing 5000 years ago is fascinating.

    • @aspenrebel
      @aspenrebel 7 місяців тому

      That dang climate change. It was all Donald Trump's fault.

  • @mcs7593
    @mcs7593 3 місяці тому +2

    I loved this video ❤

  • @silvershadchan4085
    @silvershadchan4085 9 місяців тому +18

    @Get.factual could you please upload a video about the Ancient Apocalypse: The Assyrian Empire | History Documentary

    • @user-vf8np5fb3l
      @user-vf8np5fb3l 2 місяці тому

      It’s in the Bible from the beginning of them to the end of them.

  • @harrymason1053
    @harrymason1053 9 місяців тому +5

    Great story.

  • @etiennenobel5028
    @etiennenobel5028 9 місяців тому +2

    Fascinating

  • @RebelGran_01
    @RebelGran_01 4 місяці тому +1

    🙏❤ for this episode

  • @PMabq
    @PMabq 8 місяців тому +29

    Lesson to be learned: drought is the normal condition of the North American continent. The Anasazi empire of the SouthWestern US was abandoned to drought around 1300 AD. This cycle of drought topples civilization, over and over. We need to know more about El Niño and how to counter its effects if we wish to stabilize our societies. When there is drought, there are failed crops, and starving people who rise up against governments, as happened most recently in Syria. in the last 20 years.

    • @bobthebuilder9553
      @bobthebuilder9553 8 місяців тому +2

      Drought and a lightning storm. What do they have in common? We live in an electric universe. drought? Of course, there have been droughts throughout history. Whatever generated the layers of dust and plastic must have come from a powerful source.

    • @JulieBullard-ol8ly
      @JulieBullard-ol8ly 8 місяців тому +3

      Thank you for saying that

    • @bidensdiaper394
      @bidensdiaper394 8 місяців тому +3

      But...but...Muh climate change!!! 😢 lol

    • @KevinSterns
      @KevinSterns 7 місяців тому

      They Syrian people rose up against their government because the CIA paid them to do it.

    • @RobOfTheNorth2001
      @RobOfTheNorth2001 6 місяців тому

      @@bidensdiaper394who said anything about climate change? Droughts are a normal cycle. Climate change will make them appear in places we may not expect.

  • @luisochoa731
    @luisochoa731 4 місяці тому +4

    Sargon of Akkad, the original Mosses story.
    And
    The laws of the city of Akkad became "THE TEN COMMANDMENTS"
    As a side note: If they only had driven electric cars and did not use fossil fuels, they could have avoided climate change.

  • @thevoiceevents
    @thevoiceevents 9 місяців тому +2

    Very amazing...

  • @YogiMcCaw
    @YogiMcCaw 7 місяців тому +26

    I learned a lot from this video! Thank You! One lesson is that following the science to the very end can not only explain many things, but also make you realize you don't know the final answer until you do follow the science until the very end. I was thinking a volcano, or perhaps an above-ground asteroid impact about halfway through the video. But further science revealed the great drought.
    Another thing I learned is that plastic polymers can be formed naturally. I always thought all plastic was manmade, just as Dr Courty thought when she first discovered the plastic in the geologic layer.

    • @billrobbins5874
      @billrobbins5874 5 місяців тому +1

      Appreciate the learning gained from this. 👍

    • @ezzovonachalm9815
      @ezzovonachalm9815 2 місяці тому

      ​​​.​​@@billrobbins5874
      As Marie Agnès Courty CNRS, France was reflecting about how to interpret her plastic macromolecules, different from those of modern fuel- derived industrial plastic, and with the presence of Titanium oxide TiO, found within the ashes from Tell Haman and the 350 km.distant Tell Leilan in Mesopotamia and well
      knowing that plastic can be produced only at high (500 -900 °C) temperatures, she supposed that what was needed to explain the contemporaneous formation of plastic residues in both Tells, was a volcanic explosion! As she was informed that a victim of a fulguration presented something " like plastic" in his wounds, she analysed the burned tissues and found plastic with the same natural composition as her mesopotanian plastic ! This was the proof,that both Tells had been exposed to high volcanic temperatures due to the explosion of a volcano.! This also would explain the persisting darkness, cold temperature, stop in vegetal growing, the ashes mentionned in the narrative, the famine and the fact that the population fled in search of a territory where they could see the sun again ( the see peoples), the grounding of the egyptian civilisation and the Bronze Age Collapse !
      But which volcano would have had such a tremendous effect ? the sudden collapse of the harappan and the akkadian civilisations, with consequences between mesopotamia, Egypt and Greece ?The only fitting candidate could only have been the Thera volcano ,that had registered erruptions : 3 between 100.000 and 10.000 years. 6 between 10.000 and 1000, and 3 between 1000 and present time, among whose the one having for ever cancelled the Minoan thalassocraty ! This Thera erruption wad dated with 14C and dendrochrolologically, establishing the date of 1650 BC ,which could allow to correct the imprecise chronology of events around the supposed year 2000 BC. for the whole apocalypse of our Orient !.

  • @assyriannahrin
    @assyriannahrin 6 місяців тому +3

    Assyrian stopped here, nice documentary 👍🌼🌼🌼

  • @aliciasavage6801
    @aliciasavage6801 9 місяців тому +43

    actually "apocalypse" translate into "lifting of the veil", it doesnt mean the literal ending of the world, just an ending of the illusion.

    • @meilinchan7314
      @meilinchan7314 8 місяців тому +1

      Hmmmmmmmm.

    • @jasonblack6142
      @jasonblack6142 8 місяців тому +1

      Yes ,yes..

    • @annalouux8553
      @annalouux8553 8 місяців тому +3

      Apocalypse is a Greek word it literally means to reveal. Take it from a Greek

    • @scotthcomyns3426
      @scotthcomyns3426 7 місяців тому

      Epoc of the elipse
      You know..celestial progression.

    • @cuebj
      @cuebj 7 місяців тому

      ​@@scotthcomyns3426? Weird nonsense or joke about stupid irrelevant plays across different languages with vaguely similar sounding words?

  • @versutiagaming9401
    @versutiagaming9401 Місяць тому

    The production on this is great. Its like im watching a History Channel show

  • @aspenrebel
    @aspenrebel 7 місяців тому +2

    I love that ..... "What caused the drought in the first place?". Answer: Ummmm .... lack of water!!

  • @massimosquecco8956
    @massimosquecco8956 7 місяців тому +4

    Well The end of The Accadian Empire falls at the same time the Egyptian Old Kingdom collapsed: something big must have been happend in the Middle East in those days...

  • @mdb1239
    @mdb1239 6 місяців тому +6

    Without the Rosette Stone of Darius the Great - the Behistun Inscription - a multilingual Achaemenid royal inscription written in three different cuneiform scripts nothing would have been deciphered.

  • @robertshand1944
    @robertshand1944 3 місяці тому +1

    Wonderful historical records of the intelligent advances these individual cultures manifested in their scripts over all their times.......... Thank you for this information and thanks too the determinations of the archaeologists.....

  • @scotthcomyns3426
    @scotthcomyns3426 8 місяців тому +2

    Awsome doc.

  • @TheTruthIsOutThere33
    @TheTruthIsOutThere33 8 місяців тому +55

    From the Encyclopedia Brittanica:
    Sumer and Akkad from 2350 to 2000 bce
    "There are several reasons for taking the year 2350 as a turning point in the history of Mesopotamia. For the first time, an empire arose on Mesopotamian soil. The driving force of that empire was the Akkadians, so called after the city of Akkad, which Sargon chose for his capital (it has not yet been identified but was presumably located on the Euphrates between Sippar and Kish). The name Akkad became synonymous with a population group that stood side by side with the Sumerians. Southern Mesopotamia became known as the “land of Sumer and Akkad”; "

    • @InvaliDidea123
      @InvaliDidea123 8 місяців тому

      Britannica is corrupted. It's the wikipedia for academics.

    • @themessenger33
      @themessenger33 8 місяців тому +4

      Noah Ark ship length 6 km width 2 km rivet-like nail 15 tons.

    • @jean-rochdion4898
      @jean-rochdion4898 7 місяців тому +3

      ​@@themessenger33you mean.... Ziusudra/Utnapishtim!!!

    • @themessenger33
      @themessenger33 7 місяців тому +1

      @@jean-rochdion4898
      There are photos. but such a structure I have not seen every 20 meters a giant wedge that were stapled, 4 boards stapled with a nail, the board 150 cm.

    • @jean-rochdion4898
      @jean-rochdion4898 7 місяців тому +4

      @@themessenger33 my friend, I was not talking about the boat!!
      it's a Sumerian/Akkadian story.... not Abrahamic psyops story!!
      not Noah but Ziusudra/Utnapishtim, the Abrahamic story It's a copy of copy of copy of the original story.... that was modified....re written to fit the Abrahamic holy psyops.

  • @douglasthompson8927
    @douglasthompson8927 8 місяців тому +7

    " As the empire grew larger there were more mouths to feed " interesting concept

    • @Dan-qt7kq
      @Dan-qt7kq 7 місяців тому

      Maybe trumps relative lived there. He’s ruining one country, why not in the past too

  • @merlin8514
    @merlin8514 2 місяці тому +1

    Outstanding 👌

  • @lowekal
    @lowekal 5 місяців тому +1

    Awesome documentary! Its crazy how science too like anceint accounts backup seemingly biblical catastrophes being responsible for the end

  • @aaronsterlind6334
    @aaronsterlind6334 6 місяців тому +4

    By the way, there's no mention of shattered bodies or bones from the "lightning" event that produced a shock wave big enough to blow over stone buildings so I have to assume that during the event the people had already fled the area. Not to mention the flash over thermal event that burned everything in the absence of oxygen, a plasma event or thermal event of such magnitude followed by massive shock waves would have most likely killed every single human being in the area and there would have to be some evidence of human remains in such a large human death scenario. Especially since everything was rapidly covered in a layer of dust or basically buried.

    • @dessiewatkins1006
      @dessiewatkins1006 5 місяців тому +1

      We shouldn't forget that tectonic plate movements can trigger both volcanoes and earthquakes. And also tectonic shifts can cause drastic drops in aquifer levels contributing to drought conditions.

  • @tiredoldmechanic1791
    @tiredoldmechanic1791 8 місяців тому +6

    Lightning in volcanic dust clouds is mostly high in the air and not many cloud to ground strikes. I haven't found any reports of the kind of damage reported in this video.

  • @oalmikee1234
    @oalmikee1234 3 місяці тому +2

    Great stories, tables are the most important thing that you can learn about the world.

  • @erict1917
    @erict1917 8 місяців тому +2

    Love it.

  • @tanler7953
    @tanler7953 4 місяці тому +4

    We have the Assyrians to thank for the 30,000 clay tablets found in the library at Ninevah. The Assyrians were intolerant and cruel and made many ennemies. When Ninevah fell the entire city was burnt to the ground. But the fires hardened the clay so that the tablets survived intact.

  • @Edgar-kl6us
    @Edgar-kl6us 4 місяці тому +3

    So, now I wonder if the Akkadian King was actually a nephilim, a giant of mankind, … because that might explain why depictions of him show him being twice the size of his soldiers, … which could date the Akkadian empire, … sounds like perhaps the governing forces moved towards removing those in power, every so often, and electing new ones in their place, …

  • @mjsphonefreefriday3994
    @mjsphonefreefriday3994 18 днів тому

    Awesome content! Holy cow 🐮 The kings List blew my mind!🐰🕳️
    Someone needs to invent a time machine.

  • @kevinappel1847
    @kevinappel1847 4 місяці тому +2

    Can you imagine if the tablets had read "DRINK MORE OVALTINE"

  • @mojoman9847
    @mojoman9847 7 місяців тому +3

    They got teached by a advanced civilization. Like smelting for instance, who would had dared to stay this long in a forge to see a result after smashing a hot piece of metal??

  • @matthewmckever2312
    @matthewmckever2312 7 місяців тому +3

    Also plastic?
    From dust storms.
    Didnt know that, that leads to 100 more questions.

  • @vincetpainter07
    @vincetpainter07 23 дні тому

    Love history. Thanks

  • @Stargateluminary
    @Stargateluminary 2 місяці тому +2

    Also… I believe that the weapons known as Teraphim were (sometimes) the reason for the major dust/sand storms and “disappearing” kingdoms.

  • @SAnn-rf3oz
    @SAnn-rf3oz 6 місяців тому +5

    Giants in the world in those days, and after.

  • @Charlie-ii5rr
    @Charlie-ii5rr 9 місяців тому +13

    Wow this is heavy stuff. I never heard of a Mach 10 dust bomb before.

    • @EuroWarsOrg
      @EuroWarsOrg 8 місяців тому

      look to the sun...

    • @kukuri007
      @kukuri007 8 місяців тому

      The only dust bomb I imagine ever existed is the one between her legs.

    • @DumaM-ir7rk
      @DumaM-ir7rk 2 місяці тому

      @ Charlie-ii5rr did you know humans could create lightning? Well here in South Africa you will come across people who threaten with lightning and few days you will hear that the person just died from lightning

  • @aaronsterlind6334
    @aaronsterlind6334 6 місяців тому +29

    One more thing, the climate had already been shifting for quite some time in that region as both Uruk and Ur where both, at one time, on the coast of the Persian Gulf. The retreat of the water from the Persian Gulf had a great negative impact on the Sumerians, their city states and their Kings. By the time of the Akkadians the gulf had already retreated far to the south when once even Legash was on the coast.

  • @tomasbladinieres57
    @tomasbladinieres57 Місяць тому +1

    Excelent!

  • @adec1044
    @adec1044 9 місяців тому +400

    Surely you should be saying as far as we know this was the first empire.

    • @alanedwardjustin
      @alanedwardjustin 9 місяців тому +33

      Maybe he knows something you don't.

    • @Andy_Babb
      @Andy_Babb 9 місяців тому +58

      Exactly. The oldest known empire, until we find an older one!

    • @alanedwardjustin
      @alanedwardjustin 9 місяців тому +24

      That is a generic interpretation. You can apply that crazy logic to anything.

    • @colinchampollion4420
      @colinchampollion4420 9 місяців тому +3

      ​@@alanedwardjustin😊😊

    • @1v1thousand
      @1v1thousand 9 місяців тому +16

      I think it's pretty certain. If there is another empire somewhere sometime that didn't leave evidence then it wouldn't be much of an empire.

  • @scotthcomyns3426
    @scotthcomyns3426 8 місяців тому +4

    Big copper statue's on top of those zigaurat's. No wonder they were zapped by lightning.

  • @treadinglightly-gg9cc
    @treadinglightly-gg9cc 3 місяці тому +1

    Is this by the same crew that did the Sea People doc? Never even heard of them, great doc! Defo watching this one now and thanks for the great content!

  • @veronicalogotheti1162
    @veronicalogotheti1162 8 місяців тому +1

    Thank you

  • @TEverettReynolds
    @TEverettReynolds 7 місяців тому +4

    @39:43 "A 300-year drought". Didn't a 300-year drought also contribute to the collapse of the Bronze Age also around 1170 B.C.? Tree ring data seems to show strong evidence. (Maybe if they all just stopped burning their fossil fuels these droughts wouldn't have happened... Am I right or am I right? )

  • @claudelebel49
    @claudelebel49 9 місяців тому +6

    Someday even the mighty Mount Everest will be forgotten. Everything has a beginning a middle and an end. Mere appearances in The NeverEnding play of Existence. Life and existence are Real and all forms impermanent, their seeming stability an illusion.

  • @timmer2007A1
    @timmer2007A1 7 місяців тому +3

    Very interesting. That is about the time the tower of Babel was supposedly built and destroyed. Here we have scientific evidence of lightning strikes. I also thought it interesting that nature makes plastics. Hmmmm.

  • @user-hn2bo2pn7t
    @user-hn2bo2pn7t 9 місяців тому +19

    Sumer predates the akkadian empire . Sumer had written laws on clay tablets the same as the akkadians.

    • @Geeserunner
      @Geeserunner 9 місяців тому +8

      Thank you!!! The fact this isn't being acknowledged is really frustrating. And they say the Akkadian empire came from seemingly nowhere..?!? This "documentary" is a joke.

    • @Geeserunner
      @Geeserunner 9 місяців тому +6

      And that they say the assyrians are different from the Akkadians... That's Ike saying New Yorkers are their own civilization within the United States. The Akkadians came from..... Akkad! This i couldn't even get through twenty this video. If anyone wants to know about the real rise and fall of the Assyrian empire check out the fall of civilizations by Paul M M Cooper 😊

    • @CatMowpurr
      @CatMowpurr 9 місяців тому +4

      Sumer wasn’t an empire. It was a civilisation of city states, which was clearly mentioned by them multiple times in the video. Sargon unified them into an empire when he conquered them.
      After the Akkadian empire fell, the Sumerians did build the Neo-Sumerian empire though.

    • @CatMowpurr
      @CatMowpurr 9 місяців тому +4

      @@GeeserunnerThe Assyrians in the Assyrian Empires starting from the Old Assyrian Empire to the Neo-Assyrians mentioned in this video may have been partially descended from Akkadians, but it is a different empire, with a different dialect of Akkadian. And with the history of the Assyrians, you can’t say it’s just a continuation of the Akkadians, so it’s important to maintain a distinction.
      You wouldn’t call Americans British even though America was founded from a British colony. People change the makeup of the empire after 300 years, let alone the more than 1500 years of the Assyrian empire. The Assyrian empire and Akkadian empire were not contemporaneous unlike New York and the US lol

    • @Geeserunner
      @Geeserunner 9 місяців тому

      @@CatMowpurr Akkad was a city lol

  • @iamme6773
    @iamme6773 8 місяців тому +52

    Drought, and dust storms could've ended the empire. Makes sense. But, I'm having a real hard time wrapping my head around a single dust storm causing mega-lightning that wipes out, not one, but several cities that are quite a distance from each other. Are they sure that there's nothing else that could've caused the burning and plastic?

    • @SamC77
      @SamC77 8 місяців тому +9

      space rocks landing are also known to release huge amounts of energy. if the impact is not on land, but in water, it would not leave a crater for us to find, but it would blast a huge amount of water vapor into the atmosphere a bit like a greenhouse. that also can rapidly heat up the climate by a noticeable amount. usually you just need several of these disaster events to make a combo that destroys nations and empires by a series of chain reactions. something screwing with the climate as well as a well timed volcano eruptions would easily do it.

    • @LyubomirIko
      @LyubomirIko 8 місяців тому +11

      El Nino have been recently linked 1:1 to the Sun activity. Weird plasma events and droughts? You guys knows the Sun can produce those, right?

    • @maxscholle8932
      @maxscholle8932 7 місяців тому +3

      Funny how they got the date based on the weather pattern. Yet they missed older major weather patterns.

    • @MrJonsonville5
      @MrJonsonville5 7 місяців тому +6

      We know what fractured the empire, and the descendants of the survivors brought the Akkadian empire back. The fires of the wars destroyed the libraries and baked the tablets and made them so strong that they survive to this day. And we can read them, and they tell the stories about what happened. Multiple rivalries and wars. No apocalypse.

    • @greggkroodsma8197
      @greggkroodsma8197 7 місяців тому +2

      The sun could've caused that like what happened in Maui.

  • @sharktomesmiles
    @sharktomesmiles 9 місяців тому +7

    Im glad I love science and history. But pastic made from nature. I am going to have to sit down for that one. Holy kittens. My only question how many volcanos did go off and how close to this kingdom are they??? I love this, ( I now how to learn how this process fully works. Mind blown away and have tons of questions. Starting with man How mind blowing big was this storm to cover the whole kingdom???

  • @roberta3530
    @roberta3530 8 місяців тому +4

    Really well done and so Interesting documentary about ancient world... Aside from this, believers in global warming caused by us really have to watch it... Lol

  • @mainerockflour3462
    @mainerockflour3462 8 місяців тому +9

    What if their demise was brought about by nuclear weapons? There is a site in India? where the bodies were found to have been flattened by a shockwave, the ground slightly vitrified and radioactive. Ancient Vedic texts talk about those times.

    • @pgbokhari
      @pgbokhari 7 місяців тому

      Please elaborate

    • @mainerockflour3462
      @mainerockflour3462 7 місяців тому

      @@pgbokhari These are simple posts. They are not collegiate dissertations. I gave you the information, now do your own research.😁

    • @obstreperous1113
      @obstreperous1113 6 місяців тому

      @@pgbokhari Mohenjo-daro

    • @Hambone3773
      @Hambone3773 5 місяців тому

      Meteorite airbursts are common in earth history. Compare the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah or that airburst in Russia in 2013 or the one that hit Russia in 1908. They can act like WMDs.

  • @growthisfreedomunitedearth7584
    @growthisfreedomunitedearth7584 8 місяців тому +4

    the inhabitants were "forced to flea"
    so they jumped onto the back of a dog and rode out?
    closed captioning can be hilarious.

  • @RS-bn9rx
    @RS-bn9rx 7 місяців тому +2

    Superb

    • @RS-bn9rx
      @RS-bn9rx 7 місяців тому

      Superb story telling.. translating scientific discovery to everyday language and historic progression

  • @voltsbo6156
    @voltsbo6156 9 місяців тому +57

    Quite surprised why it wasnt mentioned in this documsntary that the sumerian kings' list actually mentioned kings who have ruled for hundreds of thousands of years?

    • @iBelieveEverythingiSeeOnYoutub
      @iBelieveEverythingiSeeOnYoutub 9 місяців тому +12

      Doesn't gel with established history

    • @voltsbo6156
      @voltsbo6156 9 місяців тому +8

      @@iBelieveEverythingiSeeOnYoutub oh yeah like what do we expect from mainstream historians/scholars..

    • @Harbinger71-wi2pw
      @Harbinger71-wi2pw 9 місяців тому

      @@voltsbo6156 Can I quote your response to @iBelieveEverythingiSeeOnYoutub here on another site? This might be the funniest thing I have read in a long time. "@iBelieveEverythingiSeeOnYoutub oh yeah like what do we expect from mainstream historians/scholars.."

    • @captainsensiblejr.
      @captainsensiblejr. 9 місяців тому +5

      Because that is wrong

    • @captainsensiblejr.
      @captainsensiblejr. 9 місяців тому

      ​@@iBelieveEverythingiSeeOnYoutub
      Archaeology is not a static monolith it changes as new evidence is, literally, uncovered in excavations

  • @lyndaniel3369
    @lyndaniel3369 7 місяців тому +5

    I have always loved reading about archaeology and ancient civilizations, but I never understood why it had to be accompanied by a bouncy tune suitable for dancing! I would---just once---like to watch a video that didn't feel compelled to attach musical notes to the narrator and video. Years ago, such music would be "background" music; it was muted, it was demure, and it did not call attention to itself away from the message delivered by the narrator. So, WHY is it ubiquitous now? Thank you for the research and effort it took to present the INFORMATION in a coherent form. Perhaps the music could be released as a single for purchase?

    • @mandelorean6243
      @mandelorean6243 7 місяців тому

      It doesn't need supernatural apocalyptic intro either..
      I thought this was something like ancient aliens, almost clicked off it

    • @mandelorean6243
      @mandelorean6243 7 місяців тому

      Pretty sure it's an attempt of ratings.. too many would find this "BORRRINNG!"

    • @toddaulner5393
      @toddaulner5393 10 днів тому

      I hardly notice it. Maybe you got wax in your ears hitting your eardrum.

  • @bonniechase5599
    @bonniechase5599 8 місяців тому +20

    So, there was a 500 year long El Nino? This needs more study. What could make this happen? Was it just a fluke? Could it happen again at any time? Interesting video, and well presented, thank you.

    • @grinningtiki220
      @grinningtiki220 8 місяців тому +2

      They didn't even have SUV's then!

    • @bidensdiaper394
      @bidensdiaper394 8 місяців тому +3

      Greta wud not approve 😂

    • @JoeBoxerNo1
      @JoeBoxerNo1 7 місяців тому +3

      all their evidence points to one major event .... THE BURKLE CRATER ... thats the answer to akkadian empires demise.

    • @TEverettReynolds
      @TEverettReynolds 7 місяців тому +1

      "A 300-year drought". Didn't a 300-year drought also contribute to the collapse of the Bronze Age around 1170 B.C.? Tree ring data seems to show strong evidence.

    • @TEverettReynolds
      @TEverettReynolds 7 місяців тому +1

      @@grinningtiki220 Maybe if they all just stopped burning their fossil fuels these droughts wouldn't have happened... Am I right or am I right?

  • @carenkurdjinian5413
    @carenkurdjinian5413 Місяць тому +1

    Interesting…….🌞

  • @duncanidaho2097
    @duncanidaho2097 7 місяців тому +2

    I think that researchers will tell us that what is now desert, was once much different and was more plains and some forrest. Kings and Pharaohs hunted wild game and lions. Vast areas became verdant fields of grain.
    The earth’s climate is always changing, and, as far as we know, the Akkadians never drove SUVs.

  • @daledurham4308
    @daledurham4308 4 місяці тому +7

    Recent discoveries show there was at least one significant civilization in the area far older than the Akkadian Empire, where only a fraction of the huge site has been uncovered and thoroughly analyzed by historians. Gobeki Tepe may date from 10,000 BC.

    • @alirahim4674
      @alirahim4674 4 місяці тому +1

      where this new civilazation

    • @jetsett1986
      @jetsett1986 4 місяці тому

      @@alirahim4674 search for Gobekli Tepe in Turkey

    • @cristianroth8524
      @cristianroth8524 3 місяці тому +1

      Rather than a civilization per se, it was a common ritual ground for a vast area occupied by some of the first permanent settlements. These have started emerging in the Levant with the Natufians, some four millennia before Gobekli Tepe, then took a hiatus during the Younger Dryas, as their proto-agriculture only meant systematically collect wild grasses and couldn't sustain them in the drier climate of the Y.D. Gobekli Tepe's enclosures capture the transition from hunter-gatherers to agricultural societies, as the depictions of wild animals gradually disappear in the "temple's" later stages, but neither it nor Catalhoyuk are proof of a civilization in the full meaning of the term.

  • @billyclyde5129
    @billyclyde5129 7 місяців тому +7

    This was interesting and well done however it needs a few citations. For instance for the curse of Akkad at 14:53. I would like to read it in the electronic text corpus of Sumerian literature. How about a citation for that one?

    • @waynearnold3128
      @waynearnold3128 7 місяців тому

      etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section2/tr215.htm

  • @SacredDreamer
    @SacredDreamer 8 місяців тому

    ✅ Thank You !

  • @ricardoaquinocarrasco1534
    @ricardoaquinocarrasco1534 7 місяців тому +2

    Empires come and go but God’s Kingdom will stay forever

  • @joejankoski8471
    @joejankoski8471 9 місяців тому +21

    First. According to Akkadian myth - Sargon's mother couldn't raise him, so she put him in a basket and floated him down the river, where he was picked up by a member of the royal household who then usurped the throne. Interesting in comparison the origin myth of Moses as the ancient Hebrews were surely in contact with the Akkadians.
    Second. I am thankful early Christians never found the tablets referenced in this video, as they surely would have destroyed anything that conflicted with their founding mythology. Like they did with the library at Alexandria.

    • @AshTheMohican
      @AshTheMohican 9 місяців тому

      The library of Alexandria was burned several times by the Romans, most likely not deliberately but in sieges city districts were sometimes set on fire which caused the library to catch fire. And it was ultimately destroyed during the siege of Alexandria in the 3rd century. Why you would blame Christians for that I don't know but it's not true.

    • @fryertuck6496
      @fryertuck6496 9 місяців тому

      1/. I think you'll find that the Romans who destroyed Carthage were not at all Christian.
      2/. The library at Alexandra was not unique but merely one of a number of libraries that shared or had similar information.
      It wasn't even the biggest library of the time.
      3/. You're a bit stupid.

    • @ronb7189
      @ronb7189 9 місяців тому +6

      @@KassandraSparta Not really sure what his going on about, Julius Ceasar certainly was not a part of the Christendom faith and his siege of Alexandria reportedly burned down part of the library. Aurelian another pagan Emperor, likely destroyed yet again parts of the library when his forces took Egypt over the usurper Queen Zenobia but by then it was already a shadow of it former self as the library lost its prestige and thereby its funding under Pagan Roman rule.

    • @ronb7189
      @ronb7189 9 місяців тому +3

      @@KassandraSparta Whats more after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, literacy in that part of the Empire plummeted as the society went from a mixed of Urban and rural society to just mostly rural, during this times it was these monks who made up a large part of the literate part of western society who actually tried to preserve old classical knowledge. So the misguided notion that early monks were intolerant and even destructive when it comes to ancient knowledge is definitely false, in fact it was the opposite.

    • @mwillblade
      @mwillblade 8 місяців тому +5

      @@KassandraSparta This ding dong think Christians burnt it down.

  • @starshyne25678
    @starshyne25678 8 місяців тому

    Dramatic intro 👌

  • @richardthetroll6758
    @richardthetroll6758 5 місяців тому +1

    Love history

  • @markdavis4234
    @markdavis4234 9 місяців тому +5

    I cannot watch documentaries that do not contain dates throughout the narrative especially when ranting on and on about the first this and the first that. It's antithetical to the claims.

  • @2coryman
    @2coryman 7 місяців тому +6

    I think Egypt was already unified south and north into an empire by then, areas of India as well, and also China and maybe the western cost of South America as well

  • @cannagrama
    @cannagrama 9 місяців тому

    Fire

  • @planetlondon6145
    @planetlondon6145 6 місяців тому

    Excellent educational documentary. Plastic remains from Akkadian empire ! Unbelievable !

  • @jackkessler9876
    @jackkessler9876 9 місяців тому +3

    One wonders if there could have been a connection between these events and the patriarch Abraham leaving his home in Ur to migrate west into Haran, now Syria?

    • @CjbrkBrooks
      @CjbrkBrooks 8 місяців тому

      You know they would never admit it.. these droughts are similar to the droughts mentioned in the Bible. Even Egypt suffered. And what about the possibility of a comet or huge asteroid having caused such a blast?

    • @jackkessler9876
      @jackkessler9876 8 місяців тому

      @@CjbrkBrooks Who is "they" who won't admit something?

    • @jackkessler9876
      @jackkessler9876 8 місяців тому

      @@CjbrkBrooks Who would never admit it?

    • @AvatarKnownAsNathanielPeters
      @AvatarKnownAsNathanielPeters 7 місяців тому

      Abraham is Brahma. Same story ripped off by the Jews.

  • @strawbrryfld1
    @strawbrryfld1 8 місяців тому +4

    Any chance a volcano erupted during that time period ? In the most violent eruptions you do see lightning.

    • @FLPhotoCatcher
      @FLPhotoCatcher 7 місяців тому +2

      An asteroid skimming above the ground east-west could have vaporized carbon-based objects, raised huge amounts of dust and small gravel, produced almost constant lightning, and collapsed buildings.

  • @taisonzaya3653
    @taisonzaya3653 8 місяців тому +1

    Sumer and Akkadian split into 2 people separated into Assyrians and Babylon.
    Long live ASSYRIANS!!! 🇮🇶

  • @williamliamsmith4923
    @williamliamsmith4923 6 місяців тому +2

    They should’ve looked up 4.2k event. A more likely reason for prolonged drought. El Niño does not last more than one or two years and is followed by wet periods. One dust storm wouldn’t create 300 year drought. The whether pattern changed and did Akkad, Indus Valley, and other civilizations in.

  • @louisesumrell6331
    @louisesumrell6331 9 місяців тому +8

    They always leave the last part of the statement unsaid; "The first *that we are aware of *".

  • @user-mb1rv7xm8j
    @user-mb1rv7xm8j 8 місяців тому +5

    please provide list of sources to authenticate your documentaries.

  • @Salamander1269
    @Salamander1269 7 місяців тому +1

    Wonderful documentary, thank you. Was this the same drought that brought about the end of the bronze age and the attacks of the sea people?

  • @recnepsgnitnarb6530
    @recnepsgnitnarb6530 3 місяці тому

    Interesting documentary. The one thing I didn't catch was the explanation as to why plastics were being found at multiple sites aside from just lightning strikes.

  • @JohnGaltGurgi
    @JohnGaltGurgi 7 місяців тому +4

    I know I should talk about the amazing story uncovered but I sadly fell in love with Rebecca Bradshaw when she came on the screen and forgot most everything else.

    • @jackjones9460
      @jackjones9460 7 місяців тому

      If Rebecca Bradshaw also fell in love with you, forgetting all else is certainly forgivable. If not, we’ll be expecting your update this coming Monday. Got it?

  • @patriciaeddy7629
    @patriciaeddy7629 9 місяців тому +3

    Obsessive wealth in the hands of the few and abuses of land and wildlife always bring on chaos and calamity of civilizations