What The Ancients Did For Us - The Mesopotamians Part 1/6

Mesopotamia (from Greek Μεσοποταμία "[land] between the rivers", rendered in Arabic as بلاد الرافدين bilād al-rāfidayn)[1] is a toponym for the area of the Tigris-Euphrates river system, along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, largely corresponding to modern Iraq,[2] as well as some parts of northeastern Syria,[2] some parts of southeastern Turkey,[2] and some parts of the Khūzestān Province of southwestern Iran.[3][4]

Widely considered as the cradle of civilization, Bronze Age Mesopotamia included Sumer and the Akkadian, Babylonian and Assyrian empires. In the Iron Age, it was ruled by the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian empires. The indiginous Sumerians and Akkadians (including Assyrians & Babylonians) dominated Mesopotamia from the dawn of written history circa 3100 BC to the fall of Babylon in 539 BC. It was then conquered by the Achaemenid Empire. It fell to Alexander the Great in 332 BC and after his death it became part of the Greek Seleucid Empire, by around 150 BC Mesopotamia was under the control of the Parthians. Mesopotamia became a battle ground between the Romans and Parthians, with parts of Mesopotamia (particularly Assyria) coming under periodic Roman control. In 226 AD it fell to the Sassanid Persians, and remained under Persian rule until the 7th century AD Arab Islamic conquest of the Sassanid Empire. A number of primarily Christian native Mesopotamian states existed beween the 1st Century BC and 3rd Century AD; Adiabene, Oshroene and Hatra. The Assyrians

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[Treckorz]

@TheAlexagius Yeh.. most of it is still fertile and green but not how it was 30 years ago.. as Iraq had the most palm trees in the world, but the now gone dictator cut most them off.

[TheAlexagius]

@Treckorz the land would be much better aswell i mean less desert more fertile land it was one of the greatest place on earth

[Treckorz]

@MaidenofApollo Thank you so much :D I think so to !

[Treckorz]

@osallent Yeh you are very right, it sure wasnt as peacefull as it even is now! But i did just mean to just have a glimps to see how it was :)

[osallent]

@Treckorz Not well. If you were lucky enough to avoid dying due to the constant warfare, you would have been dead by age 45 from illness, famine, or other awful means. Be thankful you were born when you were. Life back then was not as pleasant.

[Treckorz]

Proud to be an Iraqi, I wish I could go back in time and see how my generation was living

[liketowatchcovers]

nice video!!!

[jbadal1]

Nicely organized, great history. I loved this series of programs.

[FuLLBl00dStuNNa]

interesting stuff

[Mojon2020Mn]

v niceeee plz do add more vid likee dis