Sumerians and their Civilization Explained in 7 Minutes 

The Sumerian invented the concept of time, they invented the system of 60 seconds, 60 minutes, 24hours, 12 months. Their language was like no other. They invented the word freedom. (amargi) The sumerians invented trigonometry and a better one then we use today. (Plimpton 322) They knew about the heliocentric solar system. Interestingly they were the first to depict angels. Sumerians were the first to make a map. We owe the sumerians many things. * edit, the second was not invented by the Sumerians.

Honestly I finish school and they never taught me anything about Sumerians. I just find out about them weeks ago

Beer... they made beer

It would be awesome to be able to go back in time and see them at their height or Mesopotamia timeframe. That whole part of ancient civilization has been overlooked by so many historians.

Learning about surrounding counties and civilization around Egypt's dynasties. concise.

Great vid, always find this period the most interesting.

It starts with Anu. Then Enlil and Enki. Everyone needs to know the history and the truth. It’s a long and beautiful history.

Great info and details to get one so interested in the Sumerians.

Mesopotamia has the greatest history out of any region and country. The Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, Assyrians and the Golden age of Baghdad. I really hope to see Iraq in all of its glory again.

Thats the first time I've hear of Kir, the underworld, and specifically the idea that the Moon would illuminate the Kir.

Archeologists focus way to much on Egypt when they should look elsewhere for other civilization's lifestyles

Wow…..thank u for this! Very interesting 🧐

*Thank-you for the simply awesome history lesson🍃❣🍃*

The ancient Sumerian civilization, according to Andre Marie, was forgotten, not even mentioned in the Bible texts. Thus, when the French archaeologists brought to light the monuments of the Sumerians but also the coins which bore the Cretan bull, statuettes and amphorae of Minoan Cretan style, in the second half of the 19th century, the European world was puzzled by the depth of time of this civilization. and was impressed by the perfection of the artistic creations, which had been created at the end of the 3rd millennium BC. in centers such as Lagas or Grasso, whose every trace had been erased from history.

This really helped out ty

i needed this for a 4 page-report

2:43 - I think that's a drawing of Sargon of Akkad, who was an Akkadian, not a Sumerian. This is probably my nerdiest comment ever.

Anyone else notice all the giants in their art works?

Awesome stuff

Thanks you fabulous content

Never assume that the first to document something was it's inventor. Sumer was a unique and innovative culture, a culture of many firsts, no doubt, but human culture has existed exponentially longer than civilization. Stone age cultures had technologies which is why we classify them by Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic and Chalcolithic. They are the first WE KNOW OF to do X, Y, Z. Never assume that you really know.

A plethora of ancient historians such as : Euhemerus ,Dionysius of Halicarnassus ,Diodorys of Sisily , Nonnus report that Greeks and specially Cretans were expanding by their ships in the Aegean in the mediterannea in the Indian Ocean since the time of Ammon Zeus and his son Dionysus A

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I am sooo sorry. Thank you for answering this question

now Im in 7th grade I learned this in history a month ago ang the INDUS and SHANG

Ah gawd this is my school project and a RU-vid video made me understand it more than my teacher

I would love to see and illustrated history of the Sumerians Creation story and the book of Enki

Sir you explain introduction to ancient civlization please with depth vidoe

the question is who taught them agriculture and mathematics not to mention that they are way older than the egyptians

Historians wont tell you, The summerians also were the first to invent turbo and supercharges for their chariots... Hence the word horse power...

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The Sumerians have invented lots of things, cultivated lots of food and domesticated many animals making them make history and contribute a lot to the world.

What a great Narrative Voice.

According to the great historian Soran Hamarash in his bok ”The Lost and Untold History of the Kurd”, the Kurdish spoken in Kirmaşan in Kurdistan is the closest dialect to Sumerian, which was an ancient Kurdish dialect or a Zagrosian dialect as Soran refers to it. So, if you wants to understand Sumerian, you should look for the original Kurdish dialect from Kirmaşan (Changed to Kermanshah by the colonialists) or the nearby villages. The Kurds (The Zagrosians) are the oldest population of Mesopotamia, i.e., the indigenous people. However, remember that the word "Kurd" is a collective name for all kinds of Kurds, i.e., an umbrella term. Zagrosian/Proto-Kurdish: Spoken from approximately 15,000 to 5300 BCE. This was the oldest form of Kurdish, spoken in the Zagros Mountains and the surrounding plains. Old Kurdish (OK): Spoken from approximately 5300 to 3000 BCE. During this time, languages like Sumerian, Hurrian, Lullubian, Gutian, and others were also spoken in the region. Middle Kurdish (MK): Spoken from approximately 3000 BCE to 800 CE. During this period, the languages Median and Mannaean can be considered dialects of Middle Kurdish. New Kurdish (NK): Spoken from approximately 800 CE to the present day and includes today's Kurdish dialects. Many Kurds have historically and even today primarily identified themselves through their geographic area or dialect affiliation, such as “I am Hakkari, or I am Luri or Kalhuri or Kengir or Gutian”. This diverse linguistic landscape not only enriches the cultural heritage of the Kurds but also emphasizes the complexity and richness of Kurdish as more than just a language, but as a mosaic of identities and histories woven through time. Moreover, the Kurdish language is a giant compared to other Indo-European languages. According to my interpretation, Kurdish might be the foundation of all European languages, positioning it as the mother tongue for the entire European linguistic family. A recent remarkable discovery supports this fascinating perspective: a Neanderthal was found in the Shanidar Cave in Erbil, Kurdistan. This discovery, also featured in a Netflix documentary, highlights a Neanderthal estimated by researchers to be 75,000 years old, making it the oldest Neanderthal ever discovered. So the least that can be done to correct previous misconceptions is to officially recognize Kurdish with its own branch in the Indo-European language tree, named the Zagrosian Proto Kurdish language. Additionally, whether there are misconceptions or not is up for debate, but what can be certainly stated is that Kurdish has been treated distinctively by colonial powers and adapted to fit the political agenda of the region.

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well, according to the tablets found in iraq, the sumerians claimed to have inherited everything from earlier cultures... Akkadia etc.

Sumerians most likely started being a part of complex civilization circa 5000-6000 BC but their civilization ended much later around 2500 BC after the gradual assimilation in to the Semitic speaking-Akkadians who came from the Levant c. 3000 BC.

Excellent

I really wish people stop showing and referencing ancient Assyrian reliefs and artifacts when talking about Sumerians. You did it in this video. Stop mixing them up.

The Dogon are a tribeliving in Mali, West Africa. According to one of their legends a race called the Nommos visited the Earth from the star Siriusthousands of years ago. These people had knowledge of the Sirius system for thousands of years that wasn't visible through a telescope until the 70's. They say that is where their God came from.

Seems like a lot of work goes into your videos, I only stumbled upon your channel by chance I hooked ilk are able to expand your audience seems so sad to put that level of effort out for little ret ( comparably)

Underrated

They also invented the pullout method

The millenium kingdom that was supposed to eliminate The Malice

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Very detailed

pre-dynastic and old kingdom Egypt , IVC were in the same time period not later.pre-IVC(mehergarh) may be earlier than sumerian.we don't know anything yet

please show more OK!

If i have one wish to make , i would wish to watch the beginning of time to the end of time in flesh .

Thankuu!

Look very hard at the carvings in the blocks of clay. Play close attention to the hieroglyphs look at the features on these carvings or Impressions of the Sumerians

@CaptivatingHistory I'm a first time viewer of your channel and I immediately noticed something you said at the beginning of your film you said "most scholars around the world agree that the ancient sumerians were the earliest developed civilization in our recorded history." It has me wondering if only most scholars believe that ancient sumerians were the earliest developed civilization, what do other scholars believe about our earliest developed civilizations or moreover our history?

Who were the forgotten Tartarians?

3:46 cuneiform, math 4:14 lunar solar calendar

perfect

Is that a wristwatch at 1:00 and again at 6:00?

great video keep it up

linguists : J Chadwick, Michael, Ventris Γκάρεθ Όουενς, L. A. Waddel, Fr. Delitzsch,. konstantinos Chatzigianakhs agree that the sumerian writing is structural similar to Linear A and to ancient greek , it contains a plethora of greek words and it can help in the etymology of greek words tat are hard to etymologize

Half the picture you showed were Akkadian and Assyrian not Sumerian

it's the other half of the story you never hear. like where they came from? How they got here? where they went!

Thankyou for informing us. Very interesting. We should learn about the Sumerians in school and less about the Egyptians and Greeks.. ‼️

I'm really interested in Sumerian History, specially the sumerian religion, once I Know it has a relation with abrahamic religion.

so, a dog walked into a tavern & said, “i can’t see a thing, i’ll open this one”

Do a video on the Anunaki beliefs

THEY HAVE A EPIC NAMED THE IC OF GILGAMESH

All the these artifacts.... Where are they now? What museum stores these?

Background music... making me remmeber Arcuz..

Annunaki taught them.

Sooo my teacher didn’t have to make us spend half of the year on this?

Which democracy?

Thank you very much for the valuable information but 1:38 There is an error in the map There is no place called Israel That geographical spot is called Palestine🇵🇸

A civilization advanced in the way they do things, so much so that it's mesmerizing in every way.

Very well made lecture!

Desentact of the Samarians still lived today unrecognised but they still exist and they. Still use the same words they have use before

What about the older recorded history?

Was having a talk on how religions now kinda stole ideas from Egyptians with the jewels and hats etc. then dude in sauna said where u think they got it from n was talking about them had to look it up idk how I never heard about them

ancient world has me shook, many holy books from world religions seem to be history books of the ancient world annunaki and all that lelel

yes

what is the next video

the most interesting thing is that is no evidence of an evolving culture that became Sumer. The development of the things that are mentioned in this video would take hundreds of years, at least, yet there is no physical evidence of stages of development, only a fully formed culture that included much of the core elements of modern society. The answer as to why is what archaeologists should be searching for, the possibilities are intriguing.

There is some controversy about the early history of the Sumerian people. The earliest known settlements in Mesopotamia were in 6500BC as stated, but the statement that it ended in 4100 BCE is categorically false as I have seen several sources that state otherwise. In fact the Sumerian culture reached its highest form in the 3rd milennia. There were eventually overcome by the Akkadians in about 2400 BCE. The Sumerians enjoyed a brief renaissance in 2100 BCE, but this only last for a century or so. The Cuniform was still used in religious text until 100 BCE almost 2000 years later!! And that early Cuniform writing wasn't developed until later in the 3rd milennia BCE. It began with pictographs similar to Egyptian hieroglyphics. The pictographs evolved into Cuniform in the late 3rd milennia. At least that is the dates of the earliest tablets of Cuniform of which there were thousands as the Sumerians kept comprehensive records.

Was taught about them in Middle School, Massachusetts early 2000s timeframe. I think most people had bad schools or simply paid no attention.

NOW I KNOW WHO TO BLAME FOR MAKING SCHOOL!

The Sumerians were the original Chinese. They used pictograms and ideograms which was resembled by the ancient chinese picto ideo grams. Ug Sag Gi Ga by which they called themselves were actually a four-word chinese expression pronounced wu sau ji ga and meaning literally black -head-of(used reversely)-family = a family of black-haired people. The pronunciation in turn showed they spoke Cantonese or cantonese-like language.

Intresting.

Sumerians, 1st in about everything from drinking beer to laws, contracts, marriage, farming, calendar, 60 sec, 60 min, 24 hrs, math, calculus, and look at some of their statues, it shows the solar system, and it goes on and on.

Every Empire on this Earth has fallen - we too will fall. So what will you do for your inevitable end? Will you gorge yourselves on what ifs and idle conjecture? Or will you learn from those who came before and question what it all meant, what it all means for you ? Don’t join the nation, show determination!

0:04 Lol Thise are Scythians! and this picture belongs to Persepolis!

LOOKS LIKE I KNOW ALL THIS

Architectural innovators examples abound in ancient Ur of the invention and use of the arch thousands of years before the Romans.The great ziggurat of Ur basically a bitumin mortared fired brick sheathed earth and fill mound reveals engineering techniques still commonly used today like mechanical soil stabilization and hydraulic pressure relief portals which accounts for it lasting 6+ thousand years‼️Thankfully, not all the practices of the Sumerians lasted till today such as their practice of human sacrifice. Which might explain why the ancient Egyptians distinguished themselves as distinctly different from their Asiatic semitic neighbors to the east.

Huh 6500 BC to 4100 BC? That's absolutely off, shocking that people haven't pointed it out. The sumerian civilisation lasted approximately from 4500 BC to 1900 BC. Before them the Mesopotamian lands were inhabited by the Ubaiad and Halaf people.

Yeah but where did they come from ?

What fascinated me reading these comments is so many people assume they are studying and have so much insight to history, or are you just begging for likes!

Didn;t Drake from Blade Trinity come from Sumer ?

FYI it’s not called the Persian Gulf … it’s Arabian Gulf

Euhemerus reports that the ancient Greek Minoan Cretans, led by Zeus, had settled in Arabia, Persia, the islands of the Indian Ocean, the island of Paghaia, Mesopotamia, where much later they were called Sumerians, until the Black Sea. and settled as chalibes. By order of Cassander, Euhemerus traveled to the island of Paghaia in the Persian Gulf. In his work "Sacred Inscription" he describes the life of the inhabitants of this island, claiming that they were Cretans who were transferred there by order of Zeus himself and lived in Paghaia ( Socotra ) under a common ownership regime.Euhemerus implies this "inscription", that he read it on the altar of Panara, the capital of Paghaia and wrote that Uranus, Saturn and Zeus were kings of Paghaia ( Socotra )and were deified after their death.

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So I believe in a higher power believe there is God but so if these religions now are real what about Samaritan’s religion tho ? Curious if anyone wanna respond

This sounds incredibly idealized.