History of Sumer Mesopotamia ( 3,000 years of Sumerian history )explained in less than 4 minutes
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This is the new thing in KZhead, simplified history via animation! Keep it up
I know you briefly touched on the Akkadian Empire in this video, but I think a video dedicated to them (similar to the videos on the Assyrians, Babylonians, Egyptians, etc.) would be awesome! Imo you produce some of the best historical videos on KZhead! Keep up the amazing work, my dude!
🤺☦🇷🇺They were the same race as Akkadians. Sumerians were the Cushitic family of Nimrod, therefore they were black, and that's why they called themselves that. It's because Nimrod was isolate, and was the only black person who went to the lands of Semites. They are today, the Dravidian race, Melanesians and Oceanic races
2:36 Firstly- Sumerian and Akkadian were a sprachbund at that time- a union of two coexisting languages, so Sumerian was as native as Akkadian in that part of Mesopotamia (although I understand that you mean Sargon's native language was Akkadian). Secondly- Akkadian is not a semitic script- it's a semitic language. Thirdly- the script you are refering to is called cuneiform and was invented by the Sumerians. Sargon used the said script to write Akkadian words.
🤺☦🇷🇺Sumerians were the Cushitic family of Nimrod, therefore they were black, and that's why they called themselves that. It's because Nimrod was isolate, and was the only black person who went to the lands of Semites. They are today, the Dravidian race, Melanesians and Oceanic races
I love your videos so much. I rewatch them all several times. Thanks so much for taking so much time to research and post them. Love your presentation style.
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Very short video, but a great volume of information within it.
I love your videos. Please make many more of these "history of" videos.
Nice video! Short and sweet and most important, right to the point.
Love this. Wish the videos were longer a bit though, it's kinda a tease :) Keep up the great work!
Super interesting! I would like longer videos and a more detailed analysis on significance and impacts of whichever particular period being discussed
Thank you for doing these videos. They’re very enjoyable
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Liked it, wish it was longer.
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Just be careful with history. Don’t be a novice who just believes what they are being told. History is about points of views and perspectives. It’s not in a straight line. It’s not solved. It’s not compete. In this country, the history the masses are taught has a Eurocentric Perspective. But keep in mind that Europeans were not a major player anywhere near when Africa and Arabs were prospering culturally. So Europeans can only assume what certain things mean based off of their own interpretations. Interpretations than can and have been wrong in certain cases. If you want to learn about a peoples history you have to go to those people to find out. A European commenting or creating narratives about African, Aboriginal, Asian, Native American or Arab should be taken with a grain of salt and vice versa. An African should not, and can not be, the authority on European history. Just like a European can not be the authority on African history. It’s too much room for misinterpretation and bias. That reinforces stereotypes and misinformation.
Hi "T.L."; check out my 'Club': "Ancient Readers UnLimited" group on MEETUP.com. We meet on DISCORD.com. Check us out. :~ ) I am a Greater Mesopotamia/Ancient Mesoamerican--Olmec 'nut', ha.
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I just wanna day I love your channel!! Could you do a video on the history of the Maghreb. Not a lot of videos on that.
Really interesting video. I got a lot of information on it. The video, in my opinion, had just the right amount of imformation. It would be really cool if you cited some sources to read up more on the subject on your description though.
thanks i needed info for school
Glad I could help
please do more and longer videos on this time period
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Thanks man! Glad you found it now
@@EpimetheusHistory Hey can you answer a question for me ? Why did Neolithic farmers over populate Europe to the point Western Hunter Gathers could no longer compete with them and mixed or perished ?
Hi! Thank you for this informative video on a subject that is rarely treated. I think you could have insisted a little more on what makes the sumerians so special: they are not Semitic (nor Indo-European) people and we actually cannot link their language to any other in the region. But we still know a hole lot about them because even after the end of their political power Akkadians (and after that Babylonians) had a very positive view of the Sumerian culture. So much that they still used the Sumerian language for religious texts one thousand year after their political demise and they (along with various Iranian, Anatolian and Semitic peoples) still used the cuneiforms until the last centuries BC.
So many videos!
Excellent video. Have you done a video on the Shogun era of Power in Japan ?
great video and great content, congrats! @epimetheus Do you draw your own maps?
Thanks Massimo! Yes I did :) ...I typically draw them while listening to the radio or watching a tv show, it is pretty relaxing
I'm calling it now you're going to be the next big history KZhead channel.
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Amazing video!!!! However, I think you should have talked about Lugalzaguesi
Very nice! I'm fascinated by this period of time. I'm told that the Akkadian language is the root of Aramaic, Hebrew and Arabic and while the Sumerians were no more, the people of Babylon still used Sumerian as a language of religion and learning, much as Latin was used in the Middle-Ages.
No. Akkadian is an East Semitic languages while those other languages are West Semitic. They all descend from proto-Semitic which most likely was spoken 2 thousand years before Sargon's time, somewhere in the Levant or Arabian peninsula before spreading to Mesopotamia and north Africa, leading to local forms of proto-Semitic, such as Akkadian, Ugaritic, Hebrew, Aramaic and Arabic.
🤺☦🇷🇺Sumerians were the Cushitic family of Nimrod, therefore they were black, and that's why they called themselves that. It's because Nimrod was isolate, and was the only black person who went to the lands of Semites. They are today, the Dravidian race, Melanesians and Oceanic races
@@EasternOrthodox101 The Melanesians/Australian Aboriginals arrived in their area more than 50,000 years ago. Meanwhile ancient Sumer was 5,000 years ago. Get basic history right.
@@JohnDoe10350 wrong - the planet is only about 6000 years. that timing is wrong
@@EasternOrthodox101 According to what? The Bible?
Jah love. Thanks for this short video about the Summerians. I am interested in the people who lived in the Mesopotamian region because some of them apparently migrated to the Western Hemisphere, specifically South America and later they travelled to the Caribbean. The Tayinos of Ayiti are apparently a group whose origins are in that region. Do you know anything about that migration? Thanks in advance for your help. Blessed love.
Ooo Can you do the Sea Peoples and the Philistine Kingdom?
Please do a video on the Median Empire...it is not covered anywhere else!
Cuneiform script is like the Latin alphabet back in the days. Sumerian language used it, but so did Hittite - an Indo-European language, Akkadian - a Semitic language, and even Old Persian once used Cuneiform script to document their history. It's fascinating to see how these different people groups who spoke languages from entirely different language families used the same script back in the days.
Patrick Lee You'd be surprised to know that Cuneiform is likely the direct mother script of the Latin Alphabet itself so it's impressive to see how the script evolved and is now used to write languages all over the world.
RexPETA1789 sure it is the Slavic people (Grrmany) derives from Greek Greeks derive from the Hitties and Humarians who had an ido-Eurasian language those people settled in Northern Sumerian which ancestors were from Mesotopamia that is the Orgin of the white mans language if you will.
Sumer was a language isolate, ot has no relations to any indo-European language, it's much closer to semetic than it's to indo-European.
Patrick Lee Cuneiforms variaty of hyeroglyps like Chinas and Mayas, siplest form of writting .Only Phinikians writting where each letter means tone make modern alphabets in all country in the world.
Patrick Lee In cuniforms an symbol, means Syllable or whole word.Norhing common with etruskians and others alphabets .
I’m very glad that you mentioned it because most people don’t even realize this. For hundreds of thousands of years civilizations never existed because people never settle down. They always were nomads and seeking food trying to figure out what’s on the menu for tomorrow. It wasn’t until farming was discovered, which is about 7000 years BC E, did those nomads finally settle down and remain intact. Because food was no longer scarce, and here is the point of my post, people had extra time to form civilizations and to begin inventing things such as the wheel and writing. Without farming we still would not exist in a civilized way - that is in a city atmosphere. Therefore, in my opinion, this is the greatest discovery of humankind, or at least the first of the greatest discoveries. Too bad farmers are the bottom of the chain nowadays. That’s despite them starting it for all of us for all of us
please give us the sources, like Books. It will be we very beneficial for us to further research on the subject. Anyway. Amazing video quality and Rich Content. Highly appreciated😁😊👍
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Hey Epimetheus Make a Video on Indus Valley And Monenjodaro..
Short but interesting.
Good vid, but short one
Please cite your sources for your videos. I'm sure lots of people, myself included, would appreciate it.
Hey Epimethus, would you be interested in making a video about Christian Nubia? Many people already know Christian Ethiopia, but they don't know that it had a western neighbour that was able to maintain its Christian faith for nearly 1000 years. Afaik, there isn't a YT video on that topic either. I know a lot about its history and culture, so I could help you out, if you want.
Thank you for the video. I was always wondering what kind of civilization before Sumer in Mesopotamia (Iraq). If I am not mistaken, there are many finding which support the theory that on this land were other people before Sumer, who called the Sumer people Sumerian
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Hello Epimetheus, just a guy trying to learn more about Sumerian culture here! Why is it that you first mentioned Enshakushanna, who ruled during the second dynasty of Uruk according to the Sumerian King List, and not Enmebaragesi, the first archaeologically verified king? Thank you!
Your placing of babylon is too fat south. Babylon/Babili is way further north north of sippar and kish right next to Akkad. Thats minor error i know but it needs correction in order to eliminate confusion.
Can you provide me a very brief summary of how you attain your information, do you read books, attend history lectures use Internet sources all all of the above, your work on these videos are great
It varries a lot from video to video but this video for example I used the books Cradle of civilization, great ages of man, peoples of the stone age vol 2, Empires of the Ancient Near East and ancient.eu as my main sources for this one. I have a lot of books on middle east and a tonne of the Ofsprey military history books. On subjects I don't have books on I use the internet more. Ancient.eu is a good site much better than wikipedia :)
Ill check it out, isn't it amazing we can look so far back and have a general idea of how the earliest civilizations came to be and how much our species has evolved and advanced
Oh yeah...back at university I took wayyy to many history courses too, took a really good one on ancient Assyria (my major was finance) But I have been reading history books since I was a kid
For me im just a tradesman, but my love of history began with military history mainly ww2, its my day off today in my room here i have a collection of ww2 and ww1 memorabilia worth over 20k from all combatant nations (mainly the agressors germany, Italy and Japan) but its branched out to all periods and times, so im looking forward to seeing ur future videos which has a military history theme
Wait you have some allready ill watch em all 2day, checked out your whole list
Punt (Somalia) next?
Great history lesson I'm from Ireland can go back 2000 years with my fathers and mothers families names in north- west Europe. I done a DNA test and found that parts of its from Mesopotamia, Persia, Lebanon and Arabia. I have learnt something I never knew before and have been educated by you THANK YOU.
Pareidolia Face they are descendents of Greek who are descendents of Hitties & Hummarians North Mesotopamia and indo-Eurasia people
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Every living human in the west has DNA from Mesopotamia and most likely all those other places too.
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Can you do a video on the sumerian kings list?
I like that you cover lesser known history in concise manner. This shit gets me HARD
How do you spell Enshakuskushana in Cuneiform?
Short but better than nothing. I know many of names of regions there but I could not conclude in chronological time line.
Please make a video on gilgamesh
Assyria's next? 👀
Ahem the Amorite empire, Hammurabi, perhaps the Hyksos, perhaps the Minoens...
The Kingdom of Israel
Can you do Ancient Armenia?
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Nice video , was not Nimrod ( Bellus) the first king of Babylon ? His daddy was name Cush of the Indus valley , huh ?
Make a video about the tocharians!!!
Is there this level of detailed history for other parts of the world ? For example, Europe, India/China, North/South Americas. Would be interesting....
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Reading about Sargon, and the Bible, just realized that Nimrod and Sargon can be the same person, as described as the first to make an Empire, ruler of ur, uruk ,akkad, etc. Born 200+ years before Abraham (2000bC)
David but Nimrod was no cupbearer , he was a mighty hunter
Dr. Douglas Petrovich makes a great case for Nimrod being Sargon of Akkad. KZhead his name and Nimrod. I believe he is in the midst of writing a book about this. Notice in Genesis 10:7 Cush's sons are named, then in 10:8 it mentions that he fathered (yalad) Nimrod. So, Nimrod wasn't a son of Cush in the same sense as Raamah, Sheba and Dedan were. Moses likely threw Nimrod's name in there because Nimrod would be a well known name of history, and many might like to know his derivation, but either Moses didn't know the particular genealogical connections or didn't wish to digress further. But Nimrod was definitely a few generations removed from Cush.
wow nice
Nice
The new thing for me was the Amorites coming this far east. I thought they were a nation of the Mediterranean coast. Well, they came from 'south', whatever that was originally: Arabia, Kuwait, or Levanti by the Mediterranean.
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I don't know how to count backwards so I made notes. 0:11 0 and 2000-4000 HE 0:48 4100-5700 HE (1,600 years) 2:12 7667-7717 HE (50 years) 2:36 (7717 HE again) 2:51 (since 6851 HE) 3:00 7847-7889 HE (42 years) 3:10 7889-7997 HE (108 years) The Age of Sumer spanned millennia and the time between Sargon of Akkad to the end of Sumer at the hands of the Amorites was 300 years
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it looks like there were multiple statues of Gudea, ruler of Lagash, in this video, but he wasn't ever called Gudea in this video. Great video, regardless
2:20 Proud of my large son Carl Nah but srsly, thanks for this video. I do just want to ask though, how does your research process usually go for these or your knowledge in general? And what kinda reading would you suggest to pursue Mesopotamian history?
Where does the tower of babel described in the Bible come into this time frame? Is there archeological evidence for the sumerian civilization being disrupted around 2600 BC? If there was many civilizations at that time, that means that not everybody had the same language?
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...and hopefully there will be more :)
Epimetheus full thanks for your hard work
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I agree. We need to stop the governments of Saudi, Turkey and Iran from intervening.
Please do history of the hmong people
Sargon... sounds like the next Star Trek villain.
wait a minute - the cost line what was it ? it move?
The coastline has silted up and moved further out to sea since ancient times
@@EpimetheusHistory so they think it was from time to time and not in one moment?
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How old is the Sumerian civilization and did they have horses
To not confuse ancient sumer. There are two ancient sumer And there two kish city. Kish city of sumer founded first city before the great flood. Kish city in Egypt near Nile river. Sumer divided into 2 Pre flood sumer founded 436,000 years before kish city founded. 1Eridug - Adam/alulim /adapa 2Badtibira -enmengulanna/Enoch 3Larak 4Shurupak- king ubara-tutu/Amelech Amelech-ubaratutu the father of Ziusudra/Noah. Post flood sumer Kish city founded by kush or cush son of ham,cush father of nimrod. Urok- Gilgamesh Ur- Abraham Nippur Umma Akkad Babylon Girsu Adab Lagash Inis
next do ancient persian history and zoroastrian history and also history of islamic iran from after the arab conquests
Bakunin que the shitstorm in the comments for those ones from people who ignore the golden ages the region went through after those conquests
Controversy will happen...
Victorian Era please!!!!
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Can someone explain to me what Sumer really is? Is Sumer a City State? Or Is it a Region composed of many city states? Thanks in advance!
Sumer mean native tongue i think
Perhaps the Sumerian may be Japanese emperor. The coat of arms is also the same.
What?
I really wonder what had happened to the ethnic sumerians and their language
Their the so called caucasians in today's world
They becomes arab
Very good and informative video. There were two cultures dominant in Mesopotamia since recorded history . That coexisted and lived n relative symbiosis. The Semitic Akadsians and non semitic sumerian . In addition to language they differed in representing themselves sumerians usually used a clean shaven look . While the akkadians wear long beards
Mustafa Alwan Bo even the Sumerians had long beards and long hairs, the ones you are reffering to are the ensis and soldiers, but not the lugal. The Sumerian had natural black gair and beards, but presumably out of simple fashion taste and/or medical reasons shaved themselves. Besides there are a lot of semetic people, whith clean shaven faces like Nebuchadnezzar II and many viziers. So no, it's not a thing of ethnicity.
there could be some overlapping in later periods , it was common though that the gods represented with long beards