Civilisations- Mesopotamia [6/6]

Mesopotamia, or 'the country between two rivers', is the oldest civilisation to have flourished at the confluence of two rivers: the Tigris and the Euphrates. The Mesopotamians included various peoples, the Sumerians, the Babylonians, the Akkadians, who coexisted and succeeded one another, mixing and inter-relating in a Near East with a wide range of racial facets. These different peoples, who once lived along the banks of the two rivers, have left behind an archaeological heritage of inestimable value.How did they flourish in such a hostile environment? Where did their wealth come from? And how did this perfectly structured civilisation finally fade and disappear for ever?

This popular series gives new insights into some of the most influential civilisations to shape the world as we know it. To understand where we are now, it might help to understand where we have been.

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• mesopotamia
• tigris
• euphrates
• iraq
• babel
• sumerians
• islam
• muslim
• allah
• muhammad
• mohamed
• qur'an
• quran
• koran
• sunnah

[3XXKeturah]

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

[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.

[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.

[bradtehawsome]

@perusperiaate5 want to translate for me?

[bradtehawsome]

@perusperiaate5 want to translate for me?

[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.

[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.

[milekrizman]

@Blutstrupfs Sumerians spoke an language isolate.