Ancient Sumer and the Sumerians (Ancient Mesopotamia in Minutes) 

Thanks for the video. I am so sick of RU-vid suggesting all these conspiracy history videos; ancient aliens, hidden history, amazing ancient technology. And worst of all is the videos have millions of views and the viewers actually believe it as fact. Saddens me

Always glad to see a new History with Cy video.

This is the best history channel I ever watched , keep up the EXCELLENT work CY.

I love your Ancient Mesopotamia playlist I have watched these videos multiple times and it never gets old. Most important it is ACCURATE. I have five books about this content and it is on point. Thank you for bringing this to the people there is nothing like it on the internet.

Like this "in minutes" concept......but also like the long versions too. Hope you continue both. As always........great work Cy.

Blessed be Assyria the work of my hands Isaiah 19:25

Long or short your videos hit the spot! Thanks Cy. I always appreciate the effort you put into this

Thank you. Appreciate these short insights~

i already watched the longer ones but it's fun just to hear Cy's disembodied voice explain things. he could talk about vegetable facts and i'd put it on.

Thank you Mr. Cy.

Thanks for the upload, dear CY. I truly adore anything from Ancient Mesopotamia, particularly Sumer and Akkad. Additionally, I have gradually acquired a particular fondness to specific Sumerian and Acadian historical and mythological figures, such as Enheduanna, Naram-Sin, Shulgi, and the great goddess of love and war - Inanna (Ishtar for the Acadians). I suspect that I have turned into one of your channel's great fans! I Indeed, I love your videos!

Thank you so much I needed this for my history lesson

Thanks a lot for the brief, but very interesting recap of this critically important civilization!

Excellent

Awesome! Im still waiting for the 1 hour version. "The Epic of Sumer"

Yes! Goodness again! Thank you! :)

Aw man. I have time for longer programmes. Go on. Please.

Good to hear from you! Sorry to hear about those dang fires! Hopefully, with Fall arriving, you'll get a bit o' rain! So devastating, yet as I understand it, is really good for the soil. Maybe you all will have bumper crops this coming year! Well, all I can say is, they must have had super vision!Seeing all that micro-writing! Dang! And no magnifying glasses around! Lol! Stay well Sir and thank you so much for all you put into your videos! Yours really stand out Cy! 👏😊

Yay! Another Cy Video ❣ I just saw you pop up and I had to say, 'hi'❣ I see you've been working hard❣ I loved reading comments❣ With 54k subs, it's wonderful to see you getting the views you deserve (considering all you put into your craft)❣ I've saved your video for a 'special evening' because it's almost 1:30 a.m. I just flew through because I saw you pop up and I wanted to say, hi❣ Have a nice day tomorrow and thank you as always for all you do Cy❣👋🏻😷

I see you are asking for topics we'll be interested to see all around, so I decided to suggest some. Now, I'm passionately waiting for a Achaemenid/Sassanid video series, but I know you will eventually make one. I would love to see content about Maurya, Gupta or ancient India in general as well, though I know its a very difficult area to research. It will be cool to finish up the brief overveiws of pre-Columbian cultures and perhaps reach the Aztecs. Why not even the Inca? The native american states and empires are absolutely fascinating, because they were isolated from the rest of the world yet developed complex cultural and social systems regardless. I'm a big fan of Chinese history, but I don't know how much you personally are aware of it, so I won't pressure about this. WOULD LOVE if you expand on Ethiopian /or I guess Sudanese¿/ history with Kush and Nubia. Maybe even the African empires, like Mali and Ghana, could be reached one day? Mesopotamia is and always will be my favourite historical topic, so I won't mind videos on that as well, especially the sumerians. I would like to know more about their culture, mythology and even scientific achievments. Maybe a video on the culture of the Sumerians? Anyways, love your stuff, keep it coming. And don't overwork yourself!

Thanks mate 😊

Thank you.

Good Job! I usually only watch these short summaries as refreshers to what I have learneded :) The only thing you didn't research is that the Sumerians themselves say they came from the east. Jiroft? Dilmun? or the Indus Valley (Luristan? Sindh? Rajasthan? Rann kutch?) I say Indus Valley based on genetic studies and Y haplogroups? Cheers!

Thank you!

Can you made video about Meshweh/Tehenu or Ancient Libyan or Kaskian Marauder of Hittie

thank its amazing Im from south iraq this video is great about civilization

Thank you, Cy. This is a very useful video for people like me who are not scholars, yet have a keen interest in the history of the ANE. I'd say, too, that it's very useful for anyone interested in history generally. It's important for people to know that history, not matter the time or place studied, shows that change is the constant, that over the course of time the languages of regions change, their ethnic compositions change, their cultures and rulers and religions change. If there are eternals, we hope that they are human values held by all: compassion, mercy, humility, and tolerance, as well as courage, temperance, and patience. War and violence have always been with us, but so have the virtues that have preserved humanity for as long as they have.

Great video as always. If possible, could you make videos like this for all of the civilizations from the early to the late Bronze Age?

Thanks

Big unanswered question: where were those other earlier civilizations that predated the Sumerian?

Was so happy to see a new video! Love it. Too bad my wifi is shit rn so it’ll take a fucking hour to watch!

Would it be possible to cover the exotic foods cylinder scroll,thank you for sharing Sir.

Thanks bud.

00:45 isn't that the gutiens that are being showed or the indigenous Sumerians?

Very nice video as usual. Thank you

I mean if you look at earliest human settlements they not far from Africa thus connecting history to pre historical periods stone ages anthropology, natural history an stuf

Most of us love books.Most of people read few pages of books then put book aside. Thats how my interest in ancient history grew coz those first few pages have early periods of human history. Egypt, Mesopotamia, Sindh(region north of India).

One of the most interesting thing is that each of these "mythical" kings ruled for a number of years that are divisible by 3600 years. No one comments because no one has come up with any idea why without involving aliens

Linking the previous posts helps in completing the narrative.

I love the Sumerians

Could you do some like a few hours

As a large nose person I wonder if my ancestor came from Sumerians 😮the reason why I wonder 💭 is in their drawings everyone seems to have large noses 😮

In my opinion they weren't just bullshitting in the earlier parts of the king's list, many old text say the same thing that these chosen kings by the gods rules for thousands of years, maybe they had knowledge on how to live longer lost or kept a secret to us

Backwards Annunaki is ikanunnA. With society about 2:24 at upper right.

Very helpful, thank you

You know, I can't say that this was bad, because it was great, but I still prefer your bigger, more complete videos. Anyway, good luck on this new project!

I've seen that you corrected a small mistake you made on your Umma vs Lagash video. There you said that Eannatum only conquered Umma, and that Lugalzagesi conquered all of Sumer. In this one you mentioned that Eannatum conquered most of Sumer, which in my opinion is more accurate. Great video as always!!!

Was the Danube valley a civilization?

What would I give to be able to walk among the houses of Uruk or any other of the sumerian cities.

5:07 If we replace Years with Days, then... 28,800 Days = 79 Years 36,000 Days = 98 Years 43,200 Days = 118 Years That actually sounds more reasonable. Abraham from the Bible lived to be 175 Years Old.

Chaldean iraqi and proud.

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The link to the quiz does not seem to work. Can you share it again in a reply, please?

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Sgagia means covered head man not black headed .

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Wow

Thank you very much! Great education I hope all Chinese people watch.

The Sumerians-Last of the Andites When the last Andite dispersion broke the biologic backbone of Mesopotamian civilization, a small minority of this superior race remained in their homeland near the mouths of the rivers. These were the Sumerians, and by 6000 B.C. they had become largely Andite in extraction, though their culture was more exclusively Nodite in character, and they clung to the ancient traditions of Dalamatia. Nonetheless, these Sumerians of the coastal regions were the last of the Andites in Mesopotamia. But the races of Mesopotamia were already thoroughly blended by this late date, as is evidenced by the skull types found in the graves of this era. It was during the floodtimes that Susa so greatly prospered. The first and lower city was inundated so that the second or higher town succeeded the lower as the headquarters for the peculiar artcrafts of that day. With the later diminution of these floods, Ur became the center of the pottery industry. About seven thousand years ago Ur was on the Persian Gulf, the river deposits having since built up the land to its present limits. These settlements suffered less from the floods because of better controlling works and the widening mouths of the rivers. The peaceful grain growers of the Euphrates and Tigris valleys had long been harassed by the raids of the barbarians of Turkestan and the Iranian plateau. But now a concerted invasion of the Euphrates valley was brought about by the increasing drought of the highland pastures. And this invasion was all the more serious because these surrounding herdsmen and hunters possessed large numbers of tamed horses. It was the possession of horses which gave them a tremendous military advantage over their rich neighbors to the south. In a short time they overran all Mesopotamia, driving forth the last waves of culture which spread out over all of Europe, western Asia, and northern Africa. These conquerors of Mesopotamia carried in their ranks many of the better Andite strains of the mixed northern races of Turkestan, including some of the Adamson stock. These less advanced but more vigorous tribes from the north quickly and willingly assimilated the residue of the civilization of Mesopotamia and presently developed into those mixed peoples found in the Euphrates valley at the beginning of historic annals. They quickly revived many phases of the passing civilization of Mesopotamia, adopting the arts of the valley tribes and much of the culture of the Sumerians. They even sought to build a third tower of Babel and later adopted the term as their national name. When these barbarian cavalrymen from the northeast overran the whole Euphrates valley, they did not conquer the remnants of the Andites who dwelt about the mouth of the river on the Persian Gulf. These Sumerians were able to defend themselves because of superior intelligence, better weapons, and their extensive system of military canals, which were an adjunct to their irrigation scheme of interconnecting pools. They were a united people because they had a uniform group religion. They were thus able to maintain their racial and national integrity long after their neighbors to the northwest were broken up into isolated city-states. No one of these city groups was able to overcome the united Sumerians. And the invaders from the north soon learned to trust and prize these peace-loving Sumerians as able teachers and administrators. They were greatly respected and sought after as teachers of art and industry, as directors of commerce, and as civil rulers by all peoples to the north and from Egypt in the west to India in the east. After the breakup of the early Sumerian confederation the later city-states were ruled by the apostate descendants of the Sethite priests. Only when these priests made conquests of the neighboring cities did they call themselves kings. The later city kings failed to form powerful confederations before the days of Sargon because of deity jealousy. Each city believed its municipal god to be superior to all other gods, and therefore they refused to subordinate themselves to a common leader. The end of this long period of the weak rule of the city priests was terminated by Sargon, the priest of Kish, who proclaimed himself king and started out on the conquest of the whole of Mesopotamia and adjoining lands. And for the time, this ended the city-states, priest-ruled and priest-ridden, each city having its own municipal god and its own ceremonial practices. After the breakup of this Kish confederation there ensued a long period of constant warfare between these valley cities for supremacy. And the rulership variously shifted between Sumer, Akkad, Kish, Erech, Ur, and Susa. About 2500 B.C. the Sumerians suffered severe reverses at the hands of the northern Suites and Guites. Lagash, the Sumerian capital built on flood mounds, fell. Erech held out for thirty years after the fall of Akkad. By the time of the establishment of the rule of Hammurabi the Sumerians had become absorbed into the ranks of the northern Semites, and the Mesopotamian Andites passed from the pages of history. From 2500 to 2000 B.C. the nomads were on a rampage from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The Nerites constituted the final eruption of the Caspian group of the Mesopotamian descendants of the blended Andonite and Andite races. What the barbarians failed to do to effect the ruination of Mesopotamia, subsequent climatic changes succeeded in accomplishing. And this is the story of the violet race after the days of Adam and of the fate of their homeland between the Tigris and Euphrates. Their ancient civilization finally fell due to the emigration of superior peoples and the immigration of their inferior neighbors. But long before the barbarian cavalrymen conquered the valley, much of the Garden culture had spread to Asia, Africa, and Europe, there to produce the ferments which have resulted in the twentieth-century civilization of Urantia. Ref. The Urantia Book

8:23 Does that means that even during Parthian rule Sumerian was still being taught in scribal schools? And if so, in which cities? Because I thought that by that point the ancient Sumerian cities (Ur, Uruk, Eridu and others) had all but been abandoned.

0:12 that statue somehow looks remarkably Indian with the posture, the expressions, clothing style and overall physique of the woman

I was curious, what editing software do you use?

I bet you Cy the only thing more exciting than your videos would be digging for artefacts in the land of the rivers😁😁😁 gr8 job my friend keep them coming.

UR and EA coming together is possibly a separating forcerather than full impact of the two together. Ask a urologist.

Sumerians may have moved to the area from areas further south that are now under the waters of the Persian/Arabian Gulf. They would have been forced to move by the rising ocean waters.

great video as always but I have a question wasn't Susa the oldest city ???? I'll be glad if you can answer.👍👍👍👍

Is it true that Abraham studied in Babylon? I mean is there any evidence or was that just a hypothesis ?

The 'sudden' civilization the Sumerians baffles the archaeologist, historians etc. but to some it is clear - its not Myth but from other wordly beings.

I cant access the quizz!

According to the historians referring to these similar language facts, Sumerian is an ancient Turkish language. Although Sumerian language has common typological peculiarities with Altay languages, this theory has been put forward for the first time by a historian named Julius Oppert

The lands to the left are solid and barren and rocky... ur. Impact sound of solid ground. EA are la not ds of the east in jungles and open chasms... falling sound...*ea*

the quizz link is a spam

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I really would appreciate that the written information would remain the time to stop the video in order to copy the dates and informations.

Make Sumer Great Again.

iltam zumra rashubti ilatim

The bible and other archeological resources Record a massive siege happening at Babylon, and it was Belshazzar who fought against the Persians, the Persians dug tunnels under the gates of Babylon and went in the city and bloody battle happened and Belshazzar died fighting. After this, than the Persian King granted peace in Babylon and had respect towards the city for its religion being the same as his belief. I think Ashur and Enlil and Ahuru Mazda are the same Gods with different names for each nationality.

5:15 "...[O]bviously, isn't true." How do you know? Gods DO live longer, and reign longer, than mere humans! :)

I got the question about the dates wrong =( No surprises there...

Or alternatively, they might have called themselves The Baldheaded People 😁

The Smithsonian reworked allot of ancient artwork to make it seem like there was never great black civilizations

They look like Canaanites, isn’t Ur where Abraham came from? Maybe that’s just a story of a tribe that left the Samarians and joined the Canaanites to become the Israelites?

I think Abram came from Ur. I think the first peoples there came from the garden of Eden.

Unfortunately, it seems so much of history/evidence seems to have been destroyed by conquerors/invaders thru time. It'd be nice to know what the truth of it all is.

I am from Iraq, from the city of Nasiriyah. Ur, the capital of the Sumerians. Iraq contains enormous monuments and is the cradle of civilizations. Unfortunately, no one is interested in her. Nobody cares about the antiquities department in Iraq. You know that the antiquities discovered in Iraq are only 10/100. If you excavated, there would have been a great change and a look at the ancient Iraqi civilization. With you is one of the archeology students in Nasiriyah, Abbas Rahman. Ur, the city of the Prophet of God, Ibrahim, pbuh. Thanks, my dear

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The sumerians are the ilk of the nephilm.

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SUM ER=The black anknown Earliests!! Gift by Albanian-Atlant language!!

Sumerians,Elamites and Dravidians are like 3 sons of a mother

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ALIENS. They were aliens.

Sumerian was kurd and glgamesh was kurdish gil means nation or people and gamesh means the female of ox and read soran hama rashid book then u know that Sumeri was Kurd and similar language 469 common word and more similar words and term sorani taken and came from sumeri term after islam came kurds separated the term sumeri changed to sorani. and they are aryan just like kurds

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Sumerians it is turks and mongols They migrated in a early ages But they mixed with hunns - indigenous people of China Hunns lived in China and they are conquered Kazakhstan and then moved to Europe and founded Hungary

They were the ancestors of Kurds today

That name they called themselves 'sangiga' (black headed people) proves that sumerians were black people

Dress wearing girly boys.

Harapa earlier, zugerot found 30 years ago predates sumarians and harappa. Great documentary, however all dates have been pushed back.