Cradles of Civ 1.6: Ziggurat

[SweetFurb22]

i hope he is recognized world wide

[mjarcher09]

I'm taking World Civilization online and this lecture is really helping me to tie things together!

[ianwfirestone]

LOVE that he pointed out that (and how) the earliest Egyptian pyramids were copied from the Sumerians. The earliest Egyptian pyramids were named Saqqara, essentially adapted from the Sumerian word Ziggurat.

[enlightenment2u]

it makes perfect sense on human civilization.

I hope other Professors think like him

[Kimmyloca0]

Did the sumerians come from mongolia?

[THExViCExSHOW]

@Kimmyloca0 yeah i was like WHAT THE FUCK... i like how hes talking about my cherokee people.. sequoia

[insertgamecoin]

@swaapo why do you even exist? i thought all the bigots were dead?

[swaapo]

@insertgamecoin  go put on a silly hat

[MiaMountainLover]

interesting thank's. I have a test in school next week about Mesopotamia and Egyptian art and buildings. so thank's. 

[travelinguy06]

Awesome!

[666spunday]

man what did that guy just say? what a bigot loser. i really wish i had this guy as a teacher he is so wise. great lecture!

[hellohal3]

i dont know too much about ancient history but isnt sumaria ment to be 1 of the first known civalisations known to us.

i always thought organisation was needed for a writing system to be formed, but they came from mongolia? so were are the ancient civalisation ruins in mongolia?

thanks for the upload very intresting

[TheArmeniac]

Sorry you have to read all these antisemetic comments Dr. Neiman. You are clearly a fine educator trying to spread knowledge by using facts. These days people aren't to fond of facts unless they're realted to race:(

[IfourI]

@TheArmeniac who wrote these facts and are they biast or not

[merga60]

they came from from the median province bactria and they led to in between the rivers MEDIAN GUDIAN

[AethiopidKING]

Rawlinson said the Sumerians were Kusites and they came from ETHIOPIA!!!! Rawlinson was the first researcher to detect the Sumerian language... to decipher the cuneiform writing Rawlinson used Oromo and Ethiopic language!!!

SUMERIANS and BABYLONIAS were ETHIOPIANS!

"The Babylonians were Ethiopians by BLOOD,and the Chaldeans should be viewed as Negros, not Semites or Aramaeans"

- Seven Great Monarchies -Vol.1 pp. 29 by Henry Creswicke Rawlinson

[IfourI]

@AethiopidKING is that why salacie looks like a babylonian king in the traditional close

[ChuckSchuldinerRIP0]

@Ifourl A roman goddess looks like a masculine king? That's ridiculous.

[Zuttan]

What?! Sumerians came from monogolia?! Now that is wrong

[fonna]

Wow.

I like this.

Very interesting.

[persiapersian]

talking about history never ends, but he is true "Egyptian civilization is influenced by the advances made in Sumer. The building of the temple towers, called Ziggurat lead to the development of the Egyptian pyramid." the oldest Ziggurat found in Kashan Tape Sialk in Iran 5000 years old just Google it

[drav1dan]

7:10. Dr Neiman forgot an important point about alphabets when he finds Seqoyah's writing a little funny. Although the English alphabet appears to have only 26 symbols, one has to learn the different combinations of these symbols that produce the sounds of English words. For example, the 'sh' in 'English', the 'ch' in chip. That is just the same as learning a new symbol for that combination in Seqoyah's system. Seqoyah's system wasn't weird. It was more consistent than English spelling, in fact

[raymondleeleggs]

That's the funny thing to think about , they had a more consistant written language than we do today. the worlds contradict the way they are spelled often times in the english language.

[hetikhetikhetik]

bravo

[hetikhetikhetik]

we actually created bricks not stone lol. but close enough

[acr08807]

I think its based on linguistic similaritaies.

[acr08807]

If theirs is a language isolate, then the nearby regions aren't the most probable origins.

[acr08807]

Here's something intelligent to add: it's spelled "people's."

You need to rethink your unsupported assumption that the likely origin for every ancient people is the county next door. If you'd dig a little deeper into this than just reading Wikipedia articles you might learn something.

[acr08807]

"The Sumerian symbol for "land", if, superficially representing mountains, could indicate their origins are in the nearest mountain ranges..."

Sometimes you understand that an ethnic group can have more than one origin, and sometimes you don't. You're not big on consistency, are you?

[acr08807]

My remark concerns your hypocritical observation that I should have said "origin" rather than "origins" when you yourself had used the word "origins."

[acr08807]

Because its unjustified. Unsupported by anything. County, no "r"--look it up if you don't know what it means. Not a straw man at all, it is exactly your argument. No more ad hominen than your "don't waste peoples' [sic] time remark." It is people's. Peoples' means of nations or ethnic groups; "people's" means "of persons." Thank you for correcting my typos in "it's" and "similarities;" it turns out you do have at least some limited brainpower.

[acr08807]

If "people's" versus "peoples'" isnt important, why did you waste everyone's time incorrectly criticizing my pluralization? More hypocrisy.

You attack Neiman's unsupported hypothesis regarding the origins of the Sumerians, yet you proposed no evidence for your alternative. More hypocrisy.

If you don't understand that ethnic groups with languages unrelated to those of other local ethnic groups generally are associated with distant origins, read an introductory linguistics textbook.

[hollandy2007]

this jew doctor keep ignoring the assyrian and every one no why

[DrDavidNeiman]

See "Cradles of Civilization 1.9 - Assyria".

[labelsaves000]

brah ur a fucking asshole, hollandy

[CadaverSplatter]

@hollandy2007 Because you're a bigot? The reason why, is because the Assyrians followed the Sumerian, Babylonian and Egyptian, pay attention before you spout your antisemitism.

[zzslye]

@hollandy2007 Dear Sir or Ma'am, how rude you are!

[peymaania]

@hollandy2007 Because they came later! Stope calling him the Jew Doctor, He's Brilliant!

[dking257]

i walked up those stair shown at 4:06. unbelieve. the iraqi tour guide walked us through abraham's childhood home and in some kings tomb. the most amazing thing was looking at the sand we walked on; it was covered in sea shell but we were 100 miles from the persian gulf