Civilisations- Mesopotamia [4/6]

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

[AriniaLendin]

French translation: There are many similarities between the bible and Mesopotamian mythology. Archeologists speculate that many of the stories found in the Bible have Mesopotamian origins. Many civilizations have stories about the creation of man/ about a great flood that are similar to the biblical model. Mesopotamia is one of the first to document them. Perhaps the stories were spread through travel on one of the many trade routes that existed in the ancient world. We may never know.

[Taveren22]

French translation: " Mesopotamia was a big laboratory for the "gods".

[Nomak020186]

Mesopotamians were about 3-4 meters high.

[fuelban]

Where there is the locking of two stones by these metal staples, I knew it was seen before, there is a Sumerian statue of a goddess, that locks the lower arms to the upper arm and torso using this same Method from some “4 thousand years before” we see it used in south America… check this video at 09:43 mins, (Civilisations- Mesopotamia [4/6] )

Thom in Scotland.

[bg24955]

the french guy is wasting my time.

[marshtart01]

I think that is a very cool way to collect tar. I kind of want to collect tar now.

[marshtart01]

@AriniaLendin

Thank you! : D

[CIEArmenia]

When naming the places where Sumerians ventured for ceder trees and wood, the speaker mentions Turkey along with Syria. Attention should be made while using current geographical names of certain territories with ancient Sumerians in order not to create confusion for the audience which is less familiar with the history of the area.

[iraqituber]

love you iraq , thanks to you we are who we are

[AloofPeregrine]

@TheMoosenuts I would suggest two videos on the SagansCosmos channel, "Ancient Astronomy" and "Pictures in the Sky." Ancient astronomers were extremely observant of the stars. They noticed a few stars that appeared to move and shift about in their own independent patterns compared to the other stars that always remained in proximity to each other. They turned out to be planets. Some are visible to the naked eye (Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn). BTW Sitchen was a scifi novelist, not a historian.

[unifiedreality]

I was just told to retrieve a law stone by Hammurabi on classic Age of Empires :)