TimeLife: The Lost Civilisations - Mesopotamia 1/6

Mesopotamia "land between the rivers" (Aramaic: ܒܝܬ ܢܗܪܝܢ "Bet Nahrain", Hebrew: ארם נהריים "Aram Naharaim", Arabic: بلاد الرافدين "Bilad Al-Rafidayn") is a name for the Tigris-Euphrates region in the eastern Mediterranean, largely corresponding to Iraq, as well as northeastern Syria, some parts of southeastern Turkey, and some parts of the Khūzestān Province of southwestern Iran.
Widely considered as the cradle of civilization, Bronze Age Mesopotamia included Sumerian, Akkadian, Babylonian and Assyrian empires. In the Iron Age, it was ruled by the Neo-Assyrian Empire and Neo-Babylonian Empire, and later conquered by the Achaemenid Empire. It mostly remained under Persian rule until the 7th century Islamic conquest of the Sassanid Empire.

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[goran21715]

Urban life at Arbil can be dated back to at least 6000 BC,and it is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. At the heart of the city is the ancient Citadel of Arbil. The Hurrians were the first to establish Urbilum and expand their rule to the rest of Northern Mesopotamia. Afterwards, The city has been under the rule of many regional powers since that time,

[Greyshark09]

@goran21715

Remarkably, there are even older city-like locations (of course we cannot call them "cities" in modern term) - among them 8000 year old Jericho site in Canaan and 10,000 year old Gobekli Tepe in western Mesopotamia, right near Urfa (recognized as the Ur Kassadim - City of the Khaldis, where traditionally Abraham had once lived).

[AryanMede]

Oh Greyshark, nice video by the way, but I was wondering why you didn't add Hurrians? I mean, they lived in Northen Mesopotamia, and they surely did great things? They wrote down songs 4000 years ago; /watch?v=7ZatnTPhYWc

[Greyshark09]

@AryanMede

first of all, i'm not the director of this film, but thanks for the credit :)

Sumer, Akkad and Babylon have an important role in history because of the linguistic impact on the Middle East. Sumerians invented cuineform writing, Akkadians imposed their language on all peoples of fertile crescent and Babylon was the first "super power". Many other kingdoms made vital contribution to human development. Hurrians, Elamites, Eblaites were surely among them and have their place in history.

[Vortigern99]

Here I am looking for a good, scholarly video on Mesopotamia and the origins of human civilization, and no matter where I look I find videos fawning over the Bible, the Garden of Eden, the supposed historical accuracy of the Torah, blah blah blah blah blah. Give me real, academic data in the narration and show me images of the surviving architecture and artwork, and SHUT UP about the Bible already.

[Greyshark09]

For the Sumerian fans, i'm srry to disppoint you, but nobody in the world knows how to speak Sumerian language. Linguists can read the Sumerian and have some understanding of the written cuineform language (because semitic Akkadians made some "dictionaries" of Sumerian and used it for writing themselves), but nobody knows how Sumerian sounds. It is an isolate language like Elamite, not a Semitic tongue like Akkadian or Eblaite (which we can relate to via later Babylonian and Phoenician).

[SinnFein4ever]

For the love of Darwin!

Aren't there ANY vidios of the history of Summaria, WITHOUT these old "Garden of Eden" myths?

It's FICTION.

Time to join the 21st centuy.

That's it, I'm just going to a bookstore and BUY an actual historical book on Summaria.

[SuperDelusionist]

@Vortigern99 DAMN... can you and I be friends. :) I was saying the same damn thing in my head during the first 1 minute of this video!!

[Swidhelm]

@Greyshark09 Well, there goes the creationist view that the world is only 6000 years old. :P

[ramonibeya]

@goran21715

give me a proof

[sieracki001]

Is this a doc about Mesopotamia or is it a doc about the bible? All I hear is

Bible,bible,bible,jesus,bible,­god,bible,etc,etc

[Shaodw6Murder]

some one please can give me a summary..!!! please...!!! i need it..!!!

[connorqb17]

@obscurecult Well, history goes furthest back with the semitic religions, in any recorded instance, and Moses' people, when the Hebrews were actually in Egypt, used to be based on this culture, but slavery ruined their history too them, so somehow the Torah was based off of these kind of similar old scripts that they find in sumeria, and mesopotamia, but the Torah is more monotheistic, the Torah, (first 5 books) influenced the New Testament, which all leads to the Qur'an. Semitic religions.

[connorqb17]

Are the sumers, the sumerians? 

[obscurecult]

this documentary seems too...christian. Is it? For those who watched if full?