Civilisations- Mesopotamia [6/6]

[unab84]

Thx a lot for the serie, very nice.

[unifiedreality]

The Bible has no geological account of Pangaea, trust me on that. So there are a lot of Bible stories borrowed from Mesopatamia. That's what happened to them, they were absorbed into surrounding cultures. The Genesis accounts are distortions of ancient Sumerian myths and story traditions.

[KWontroba]

@ britishmaniac -> HIstory is not all theory and theory is not pure make-believe, but rather a picture of reality constructed from a constellation of the best evidence available. It's often all we have. Your cynicism does not make you seem any more intelligent to any of us.

[BBQFanNo1]

All the Continents in the World in it's Genesis were all connected. There was no separation of the Western Hemisphere and Eastern Hemisphere along with Australia and Antartica at one time. Genesis reveals that the Continents were all connected. Science also confirms the Genesis Account and Mesopotamia origins.

[therrydicule]

@BBQFanNo1 That's not really explicit in the bible, it is just a possibility leave by the text. And, anyway, it's not like theology matter here.

[firuinthehouse]

Very helpful, I have an exam in Art History tomorrow, and this series helped "break in" the info about Mesopotamia :)

[abaex]

faved all the parts^^

[britishmaniac1]

history is all theory

[aynradd]

the end ~ or is it just the beginning of the story of mankind ~ now nearing its ending of the past and starting anew stage in which "science/knowledge" propels this new direction not only on earth but also in space of the infinitely large and small ... bzt! .)

[THEDUDE2117]

Excellent show!! I love shows that describe and explain how ancient civilizations existed, and prospered in their own unique environment. Thank you for posting this documentary.

[OmnipotentUnknown]

A good documentary, but its not accurate at all and neglected all the other people of Mesopotamia; the Assyrians, the Babylonians, and the Akkadians. The Assyrians were actually the greatest of them, the Assyrian civilization was one of the greatest civilizations in history, and they contributed to our world even more than the Sumerians... Plus, most of the images and statues the documentary showed were Assyrian, not Sumerian (especially the ones with the famous curled Assyrian beards).

[rylze]

Sumerians....! Clever little bastards. Where did they learn all this from.. The Gods! where were they from? Niberu? The 6th moon from the 10th planet of this solar system...?

[harrisonaard1]

When we have wealth, we are invincible. We have the world at our feet. When the world takes back what is hers, we are broken and our 'world' disappears. From our histories, we must learn to stroke the beast of nature and take pleasure in what it gives back, but never tie it down, as the beast within it will rise and obliterate all before it. Plant a tree and stroke nature. Breathe in the air it provides, drink the water from the rain it creates.

[frenchie83]

the sumerians didnt disappear, they exitst today and are the modern day iraqi

[HomoGnosticus]

They didn't disappear genetically, but culturally almost all Sumerian culture did disappear.

[frenchie83]

we need to study the geneology of the modern people of that region, to see if theres any elements that traces to the somerian culture that still exist today

[HomoGnosticus]

for a start there is some basic info present on wikipedia, 2 articles I found maybe are of interest:

wiki/Iraqi_people

wiki/Marsh_Arabs

[OmnipotentUnknown]

@frenchie83 @frenchie83 Yeah, definitely there is. The Assyrian/Chaldean people stil exist until our day, and still speak the their ancient tongue (Syriac, which is a form or Aramaic). Some of the other natives of Iraq do have Sumerian roots definitely, as the Sumerians were first absorbed into the Akkadian Empire, and then all of Mesopotamia and the Levant was absorbed into the Assyrian empire.

[OmnipotentUnknown]

@frenchie83 Wrongfully, the modern stereotypical view of the Middle East & North Africa is they're arab land, where in fact only the southern part of the M.E. is actually Arab, from Saudi Arabia & below, which are basically the gulf countries. The Levant & Mesopotamia (Northern Middle East) isn't Arab ethnically, it is only because it became under Arab rule in the 8th century A.D. that in our day the picture formed that all Middle Easterners are Arabs, were probably more than 50% aren't.

[Blutstrupfs]

@OmnipotentUnknown For your information they are all Semitic, whether they're Arabs, (Hebrews or Jews), Akkadians, Babylonians, Sumerians, Pheonicians, Carthaginians, Egyptians, Assyrians, Arameans, all of these people are related in language and culture, they are fall under the Semitic ethnic group, they'll only difference is religion between the Arabs and the Jews other than that they are the same people. So yeah M.East & North Africa do belong to Arabs & Jews.

[Moods921]

@Blutstrupfs but i thought that Ancient Egyptians were Hamites not Semites.

[milekrizman]

@Blutstrupfs Sumerians spoke an language isolate.

[milekrizman]

@OmnipotentUnknown Totally agree. In my opinion Iraqi Arabs are in fact arabized Sumerians, and I hope that this language will be revived in 21. century, as was Hebrew in Israel in 20. century.

[ambrosiustranquillus]

@frenchie83 Except Sumerians spoke a completely different, unrelated language to any other language we know of, certainly not Arabic.

[IraqSpirit]

really enjoyed it, thanks for sharing.

[obregado18]

great documentary. really enjoyed it:) thanks for posting!

[perusperiaate5]

The title of this was misleading. It was really about the Sumerians, not also about other early Mesopotamian civilizations.

[perusperiaate5]

Subtitles are not automatically part of video on a DVD. One has to choose to have them shown. Maybe that is why they were not shown. Thankfully I am fluent in French, because the French man had a lot of interesting things to say.

[britishmaniac1]

@perusperiaate5 im fluent too and he was the most intresting part of the clip

[bradtehawsome]

@perusperiaate5 want to translate for me?

[bradtehawsome]

@perusperiaate5 want to translate for me?

[sapiensape]

Just curious about the French portions of this series: Was this documentary filmed for the Canadian audience that is "bilingual" (Canadian schools teaching French and English)? A well-done documentary! Click on my username in blue appended to this comment box for my 15 videos on the "Mesopotamian background" to the Garden of Eden myth in the Bible based in part on Liberal PhD scholars' research in professional journals, monographs, and scholarly tomes circa 1862-2009.

[Mankindfails]

@sapiensape I'm a french Canadian and few of us are fully bilingual so we usualy have french subtitles or translations and english Canadians dont speak french. +This guy is a French from France.Sometimes when you get a video from the internet it comes with sub files so maybe he couldnt put them on Youtube

[Mankindfails]

@sapiensape And for the school.We learn a bit of english in school but only a little base for a second language and we have french university.But english Canadians dont learn french at school they dont like us they never did and they'll never like us lol

[JBelcovich]

Hey! I'm English-Canadian and I like French-Canadians. In fact, I decided to enrol in French immersion just to learn the language.

You're half-right about the school thing. We are taught French until about Grade 9 but few remember much of it into adulthood.

[Mankindfails]

@JBelcovich lol you're right i shouldnt have said 'all' english canadians :-)

[ilikekickassidea]

Thx for posting,,,

Thx for French translation Arinia...

[hutube500]

thank you, enjoyed it.

[lhrciuaut9]

It would have been better if the french guy was also translated...but anyway...nice documentary.

[MKAskina]

Very good and interesting

Thanks for sharing

[hseddin75]

thank you for sharing

[RebelVoDKa]

Absolutely wonderful. Best thing on youTube. Thanks a million for posting.

[smashbeans]

awsome,bravo!

[sam11222221]

Thank you poster!

[Mikkysixx]

Thank you for posting this! This is a great documentary!

[RobDeManc]

Great documentary. Thanks for posting.

[triroberto]

Thank you for posting this.

[3XXKeturah]

A very well-made and fascinating documentary. Thank you easeen for posting this.