The Ancient Middle East: Every Year 

and the old one is still here

Can you maybe if you do these videos use the right terms? Its not Middle East. It is called West Asia.

The PKK’s first program, issued in 1978, states, “Our people first attempted to reside on our land in the first millennium bce, when the Medes, progenitors of our nation, stepped onto the stage of history.” When Kurds try to legitimize their rights as a nation to live in Kurdistan, their arguments tend to rest on territorial settlement rather than consanguineous ancestry. But assumptions about continuous Kurdish settlement and descent from the Medes entered the collective understanding long ago.” p. 2 Van Bruinessen, Martin. Kurdish notables and the Ottoman state: Evolving Identities, Competing Loyalties, and Shifting Boundaries, p 25 “Though some Kurdish intellectuals claim that their people are descended from the Medes, there is no evidence to permit such a connection across the considerable gap in time between the political dominance of the Medes and the first attestation of the Kurds.” White, Paul J. “Observations on Kurdish Origins.” Vol 1. Journal of Arabic, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, 1993. “This view is disputed by others, most notably by D. N. Mackenzie, who objects primarily on philological grounds, due to the uncertainty of historical data. In Mackenzie’s view, the Kurdish language (and, by implication, the Kurds themselves) is probably closer to Persian than to the language of the Medes” “Other areas around the north-west and western shore of the Caspian Sea and in Central Iran were not called Kurdish, although some of these dialects are related to Kermanjî. But over a wide area the name of Kurd embraced that of Mede and of other Aryan tribes. I would suggest that the name Mede was absorbed under the Kurds in a way reminiscent of developments in France, where the name of Frank superseded that of Gaul.” “The identification of Kurds with Aryans and/or Medes must, admittedly, be viewed in the context of the process of nation-building, being mainly a reaction against Turkish nationalism’s denial of Kurds’ distinct nationhood. The linkage with the Medes is used to engage the official claim that Kurds are of Turkish origin. The myth of the Medes is mainly used as a tool to politically mobilize Kurds by the PKK.” Hennerbichler, Ferdinand. (2012). The Origin of Kurds. Advances in Anthropology. 02. 10.4236/aa.2012. 22008. p. 64 “David McDowall approves the prehistoric origin of the Kurds, he refuses to see Kurds as a unified entity until the last century, arguing that they existed as an identifiable group for possible more that 2000 years… it was only in the early years of the twentieth century that they acquired a sense of community as Kurds.” “The view on the Median origin of the Kurds has been an important element of the Kurdish social and political discourse since their national awakening. The genetic affiliation between the Kurds and their language and the ancient Medians has always been regarded as an absolute and incontestable truth for most Kurdish authors (cf., e.g., Wahby 1964; Vanly 1988; and many others). In the academic scholarship, as far as I know, V. Minorsky was the only adept of this theory.” p. 21. “Turning from the regions of mythology to the historian finds scarcely less uncertainty in it by the early inquirers on the racial con Abu-'l-Fida, bimself a Kurd, states that he h the Kurds were Arabs or Nabataeans, while Persian Arabs, from the similarity between the that of the ordinary nomad Arab; but he see with the Jill and the Dailami as a Persian traveller, records that he was told in Persia of Arab origin,2 in which view Ibn-ul-Athir are those of Abu-'l-Faraj, who idenbified the and of some Armenian writers, who seem to and the Medes” p. 493 Galip, Özlem Belçim. Imagining Kurdistan: Identity, Culture and Society. New York: I. B Tauris, 2015. p. 17

@@rollinontheboard Not sure what you mean. This older version is not as accurate.

@b a d e d c r u a a d e r en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Asia

Malsy Pright bijji Kurdistan 😉

The black Lion #kurd what? Why r u making things up

@@gengis737 The Medes pee on your face at that time

@@gengis737 The Syrian Are Arabs And the Shawam are the sons of the Crusaders Very few of them have Aramaic not Assyrian .

@@theblackbox2847 gtfo

TheScienceofnature yeah but at the end someone came calling

Mohamed Tarek bruh u have a Muslim name( the most most muslim name in fact) and your calling Islam cancer.

@@mtraa.942 well the roman empire cancer with christianity the 1st who came and ruined their chill.

They still do it.

Nah they were just busy wrecking the Nubians the whole time and laughing at the pathetic barbarians requiring *two* great rivers to prop up their civilisation.

IRAAANNNNNNN 💚🤍❤️

Before I learned persian history, I dident that conquering the world and justice and religious tolerance was possible

@@user-zi8bd7zp2flmao , are you sure ?

​@@user-zi8bd7zp2f Hindu messengers !!

Ahahaha love the Iranians as an Assyrian ☺️🫡🫶🏼

and we still haven't gave up who am i kidding we are nowhere to be found lol

And we still are)

Leo Assur where lol , you dont even have your own country

@@Mhmd-ou6xu I don't know English. I am an Assyrian living in Russia. I use a translator. He must have translated it wrong. I wanted to write that we haven't disappeared yet, there are 4 million of us.

Leo Assur oh ok got you wrong

What about neanderthal?

Burok the most impressive part about thier empire is it's tiny population compared to its vast lands.

Homosapiens empire was the first place humanity left a trace....trace began there

@احمد شوبكة but your name is Ahmad LMAO, what a fucking hypocrite

@@LetsGoGetThem But they weren't as intelligent as humans. There's a reason why they died out after a while of co existing with humans.

and eveyone cheered

The Hindu messenger!!

S E A P E O P L E

YAS QWEEN

Now the phoenicians can get DOWN TO BUSINESS

@Joy Chakravarty SUMERIAN PRINCIPALITY OF SEALAND

@Justin Y. YOU? HERE? HOLY SHIT!

Everybody: frustrated becuase of wars in middle east Achamenid empire: its free real estate...

When the food is cooked the hungry eater shows up

Persians were accepted as liberators in the region after Harsh treatment of Assyria Kings

Wait till you see the rashidun.

@Bazel Merchad rape caliphates

Akkad too.

@Aššurbanipal love my Assyrains ❤️

@Aššurbanipal no I'm Shrugie my ancestors are the sumerians

@@prostation3844 lmao shrugie

@@prostation3844 Assyrians are the closest descendants of Sumerian’s.

احلا شباب والله .

What is wrong with yall

Lots of things.

yea cause nazi's wore those old pikelhaubes

MegaPrem That was more of a WWI fashion actually.

and ancient cities of Ur and Uruk also!

@Assurbanipal no we didn’t we reclaimed it

@Assurbanipal only a tiny chunk of Kurdistan is Assyria

@Assurbanipal Assyria doesn’t exist in anyway shape or form I didn’t even hear about u irrelevant people until 3 months ago lol

@Assurbanipal Assyria doesn’t even exist in anyway shape or form lolololololol there’s like 800,000 of u 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I did, and to be honest, nothing is like living in the US. I was born right in the border of Babylonia and Elam, modern day Iran/Iraq.

Sor Alb actually, it's the Jordan River that was much larger.

@@yjohnnyy618 Dead Sea as well, it’s like a shadow of its former self nowadays

I did not see that, great job 👍

محمد حسن I noticed how your intelligence decreased and you became stupid, because anti-muslims are the ones who brought wars and destructions

M. saya i’am ex muslim and i can say that islam is the worst religion......but all religions are useless they are superstitions

@محمد حسن انا اسف اخي على كلامي ولكن يجب نحترم بعضنا السومريين ليسوا عرب.. العرب قاموا بعمل الكثير من الاختراعات وكلهم مسلمين وتحية الى السومريين😊

@محمد حسن السبب عقول العرب الاغبياء لكن هذا لا يعني ان نترك ونشتم سيدنا محمد والصراحة كلامك صح بس في كثير اباء مسلمين يعملون اولادهم ويعلمونهم بشكل كويس وحتى الهندوس والمسيحيين و و و الخ كلهم نفس الشي اي شخص يولد ببلد معين رح يصير نفس الدين يلي بالبلد واي شخص باي دين ابائه كانوا قاسيين معه عالاغلب رح يترك دينه شو ما كان لذلك انت حر بما تفعل وانا حر بما افعله الاسلام وكل الاديان تعلمنا السلام وكيفية العيش الصحيح لكن عقل الانسان المتوحش هو الذي يجعل الانسان متوحش ويفعل ما يريد

@محمد حسن اسرائيل يقتلون المسلمين بفلسطين ونهبوا اراضيهم وبدك يانا نتسامح معهم 😂😂 لو كانت دولة عربية مسلمة اختلت دولة مسيحية كنتوا فضحتوا الدنيا سبحان الله الناس مستحيل ما تكره المسلمين بسبب حقدهم وكراهيتهم اذا توحد المسلمين رح تصير اقوى دولة بالعالم واي شخص يترك الاسلام اكيييد رح يحب كلشي ضد المسلمين ويكره كلشي يخص المسلمين وانت تقول انك حر بدك تختار الدين يلي تريده او تبقى ملحد ومع ذلك انت عنصري ضد المسلمين لانك حاقد عالمسلمين وعلفكرة انت اول شخص عربي ليس مسلم كلامه محترم بالعادة شتم وسب شتم وسب وان شاء الله نخلص من داعش والاحتلالات وترجع الدول العربية كويسة والصراخة نحن المسلمين ما يهمنا اذا حدا ترك الاسلام او دخل لان نحن مارح نستفاد شي المهم نحن مسلمين خلص لا ترد عتعليقي لان الكلام بدون فائدة مع ناقصين العقل

Hold my tea*

@𒁲𒂵𒀀𒁕 what does your name mean.is that akkadian?

@𒁲𒂵𒀀𒁕 ah ok

Yeah it is like that because we don't know them enough, most of their names and histories are lost to time so we just know this period existed and some cities that are gonna get big later started here

​@@cola_stealer5719 bruh

Oh my god, u r not the only one who thought about a game like this!

lol Sealand is also a tiny country in Britain.

😂😂😂 Sealand can into Mesopotamic Kingdom!

Struw It's probably an EU4 joke as it's the same format as an achievement name.

Just shut up sea bitch

Epsilon Jay ɛɈ they didn’t have an empire , they were savages fighting for money , just like Vikings . But the difference is that Sea people got mostly eliminated by Egyptians and Assyrians and lost in history , unlike Vikings who attacked the weakest kingdoms in their times .

Thanks a ton Ollie! :D

ceplio No problem :)

***** That's a consideration for the future, yes.

Ollie Bye why was the Phoenician civilization was not in there , but it was in your videos ?

Dede Tawil It was there. I usually just show it as "Phoenicia", but in this one, I showed all the individual cities. So that's Sidon, Tyre, Arwad, Beiruta and Byblos. They're the same thing.

So true🇮🇶

Still it was a terrible place

@@bonbonsweetness Rome and Greece was far worse

@@Goyim-phobic Lol, no idea what that has to do with what I said. Rome, Greece, and Assyria were all bad....

​@@Goyim-phobicAssyria is not iraq Samshi adad is syrian not iraqi

k 55, funny how at the end the whole screen turned green.

And they got their ass raped by you know whom!!!! 😂😂😂😂

MS 1997 yep but eventually the ‘you know whom’ were evicted by the Parthians and later the same ‘you know whom’ got their asses raped in turn by the Romans, that’s how history works chum, win some-lose some!

@@rezashia3135 Hmmm, the picture of Shah Ismail I.. Here's a fact to you, you know that Ismail I origin is Kurdish? Because his grandfather is Safi-ad-din Ardabili (the father of the Safavid dynasty is a Kurdush Sufi Sheikh).

the word achaemenid actually just means "the empire" so... just call them Iranians.

@Akhand Bharat bro, who was ruling bharat at that time?

@@TusharSharma-cy9xo Independent Kingdom Janapadas

"who the fuck starts a conversation like that I just sat down!"

you can read more about him in the Greek scriptures. The Greek refer to him as Sardanapalus because they could not pronounce Ashurbanipal.

IMPRESIONANTE ,LOS MAS PODEROSOS GOBERNANTES DEL MUNDO DE AQUEL TIEMPO .

relax lol

@Extra Extra been studying history for a long time, that's the first time I've heard of that. I wouldn't mind some sources if u can find some.

@Extra Extra King Vikramaditya certainly did exist, but he probably did not rule over all of that area. The leading theory is that “Vikramaditya” is an Arya-Iranic name for quite a few Hindu rulers from Mitanni/West Armenia (present day Lazi district), to Afghanistan, to West Asia, and Indonesia. These rulers didn’t rule a singular state that stretched from anatolia to Indonesia, normdid they exist in the same time period. They were just Hindu (or whatever relative of Hinduism existed in Anatolia at the time), and as such were given similiar names. This confused historical accounts causing the Vikramaditya myth.

@@3haAD900 yes

Oh a Syrian I hope your country does well tho... wish u luck:(

yo yo It remained on this situation to these days.

Nebuchadnezzar II true. I'll imagine the time with the least change was under ottoman rule

yo yo -> And the few centuries after the Arabs invasions, probably. The difference in this part of the world between ancient antiquity and now is that in this ancient past even with empires warring against each other it was basically the center of the world, now it's just a shithole. Harsh distinction.

yo yo who are the fertile crescent?

Talip Zengin It is the cradle of civilization middleeasternregion.wikispaces.com/file/view/fertile1.jpg/166037419/399x299/fertile1.jpg

Please. Arabs suffered just as much. The British colonial conquest of the Middle East was even bloodier than the Armenian and Assyrian genocides - supported by Germany and made possible by British imperialism anyway. Then of course you have the US bombing the living hell out of Muslim countries, with a death toll that easily exceeds the Armenian genocide after about two decades.

@@Yerfdog1 Please: Armenians did not had war for lots and araps did after like the 18 th century there started to be like crazy things. Thats also a reason why they are behind.

@@quqbalam5089 the Armenian and Assyrian genocides were done by the Ottoman Turks, not the Arabs you ignorant moron!.

@@ehsan_iq the armenian and assyrian genocides are happening even before an official "genocide" is done by the turks. Since the very first conquer of muhammad.

@@gambigambigambi Yeah... No.

Yeah these history channels including emperor tigerstar need nobel prize

Whatt

Yurt1 UK

where?

@@karadesu8348 Look at Uruk, near modern-day Kuwait.

What does uruk gotta do with brits?

KURD MEANS STRONG! Kurd doesn't exist

Now a shithole

Michael Bay Lol we will go back to the glory days.. Germany was an absolute white whole and now look at them.. Iraq was born with glory... that land has more history than any nation on this earth

@@ArabPride100 That's means shit all when we whites created the computer you're using to talk to me. Pretty sure no one from the middle east can create as much or better than Europeans.

Cornelius De La Soto U whites were living in caves while middle eastern were investing writing , math and astronomy., everything started in the Middle East. The reason You live is because of the Middle East. The first writing, the first math , and the first technologies were invented in the Middle East... u even worship a middle eastern religion

The interesting thing is that what made Persia a big empire, uniting all these small kingdoms into a big empire is the Idea that we now call "Iranshahr thinking" in the universities, the union of many peoples with different races, ethnic groups. , culture and different gods

Neil LeFrancis haha

Ottomans empire Abbasid caliphate Umayyad caliphate All of these united the middle east

@@joffreybaratheon9044 yea sure

ZeLegend how about you open a history book

@@ShidaiTaino how about you keep your mouth shut?

The more you know I guess.

Tony, in some records they say that the Ancient Armenians did not enter the Middle East until around 1500BC. Is that true?

@Edward Minaei Armenians are indo europeans, they came to the middle east before the persian by a short time, persians came around 900bc, middle east was inhabited by assyrians, bablonians, arabs, sumerians.....

But Armenians are Indo-Europeans and Babylonians are Semites.

It’s sucks how some Armenians now think we are “Caucasusian” but we always have and will be middle eastern.

True

Cradle of civilization 🇮🇶

F they were good people ;(

F

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@Lord Voldemort the "sea people" Mentioned by many impires at the time, they're blamed for the collapse of the bronze age.

@Lord Voldemort i know, i said that they were blamed for the collapse, not that they cased it.

DAMN PELESET

Vikings of ancient history

The False Modern Assyrian Church

Egyptians as well

No wars, no treaties, no castles. Sort of an isolated community.

They were pretty harmless and non combatant even Mongols took advantage of this and so did the Turks

That’s not true. Most of Armenia is still occupied by the Turks!

They had an empire that took most of Syria and eastern anotolia. Up until the genocide there where still millions of Armenians in eastern anotolia.

LOL

So were the babylonians, akkadians and neo sumerians

ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ we need some aliens to help

Put a fork in it!

but how we will watch a trillion years long video

Actually, in the beginning, I think we'll need a history of every picosecond. First seconds kinda important.

Yes, it shall be 4.32E17 seconds long

lots of reading

Where can I find these books..

@@amrisa4161 i want to know as well

Probably a source like Britannica

no greeks either, there were anatolians and hittites and armenians

Rol Dant kurds*

They are still here?

Lord Lahmacun kurds have always been there were also the medals and elam

@@moroccanfreethinker2739 Are you serious? Greeks controlled anatolia and part of middle east for many years

lol i just noticed that

During the first agricultural revolution in the Fertile Crescent, Germanic & Celtic people still belonged to the PIE in the Caucasus Steppes.

UK stands for Uruk not the United Kingdom.

Nah it isn't Uruk, it's the UK from the future time travelling and shit

That is Uruk

Alexander, Romans, Parthia, Sassanids, Byzantines, Allahu Akbar, Modern Day.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-HURVTE45YjY.html

Deadpool GR you forgot the Hasmonian kingdom of Judah

@@giannisd.6587 Allahu Akbar 😂😂😂

@@giannisd.6587 Fuck...... off

Easy-to-control desert

Lol

Egypt won

@@montagnegign3978 nope they lost

6:56 egypt gg

Arabian gulf

@@skrigged9270 cry about that

@@skrigged9270 cry about that👌

@@skrigged9270 say as much as you can U can't change the truth

What changed it? Also look at the Dead Sea at 3:55

If you're asking specifically about the borders, they aren't certain. The borders I showed were based on natural features, such as rivers and mountains.

That's probably what they would've been based on, at least de facto.

What do the three gradations mean?

I believe the darkest of the colours is the full territory, the middle colour is any vassals, and the lightest colour is territory of another country they occupy.

DinosaurFilms - Maps Spot on

most of the times you realize that almost always you are limited to very few sources, taking the romans and carthage as an example, we know carthage existed, we know they fought, but what do we know of carthage ? we have a few signs of their scripture left, but not even close to enough to restore the language, we only know pretty much what the romans told us about carthage. do we believe it though, do we believe that the people of carthage regularly sacrificed children to their gods ? we cannot assume it to be correct, we can neither assume it to be entirely wrong, because we have no sources left that can tell us if it was wrong or correct, only the romans who very well might have been lying considering they were sort of on hostile grounds if you know what i mean.

I mean, as a fan of mapping videos, it's very shaky in general. Ten fold when you try to depict times before the Bronze Age :)

Apokalypse456 it saddens me when emperors burn down libraries or destroy cultural artifacts like in Mao's cultural revolution. 😭

@@Apokalypse456 Romans & Carthage - both Phoenician. Allegedly Carthage lost to Rome, but only then was the Roman Empire formed. From there the conquests went on to Europe. It's the baal worshipping, child sacrificing Phoenicians behind it all the whole time. They are in control to this day. They just take on different masks.

@@bananian Or more recently, ISIS destroying pre-Islamic artifacts in Mosul.

🇦🇲👍

🇮🇷❤️🫱🏽‍🫲🏻🇦🇲

ARMENIANS 🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲

🇦🇱🤝🇦🇲

Armanians are from different origins just look at thier extremely diverse haplogroups

"it's not just about the Roman empire" average western when he realize that human history doesn't revolve around ancient Italians LMFAO

@@hashira9223 Average Western history class…

@@lordbauer5983 fr

​@@hashira9223 calling romans "ancient Italians" is like calling ancient semites "ancient jews" lol. The current Italians are a mixture of romans, lombards, normans and celts.

No man this is THE Sealand the eponym of New Zealand

@@christiank1109 its actually zealand from the dutch province zeeland.

It is near UK, just check 1:37 time. Uk occ

Enki was a God too

The saddest part is Iraqis speaks Arabic now and they lost their old identity

@@assyrianmf so what language they must speak now instead of arabic?

@@khikhikhiland1099 Aramic, the language that unite Kurd with assyrians and Chaldeans

@@assyrianmf Hyper Nationalism brings nothing but chaos perfect example of nowadays Middle East ...

@@TERRORIST.SAIKAT because they are loyal to fake national ideas , not their true one

I like that

There may be a video out there that does just that.

Yes make video about both Iberia will be interesting

After 1492 there will be only french occupation

dont you mean during the 1800's? after 1492 spain started beating the french hard on italy and aragon recovered the rosellon as well as conquering navarra

It was never realy a unified state, but rather a group of divided city states with minimal tribute based centalization to Tyre.

And Bible study

King George III Retake the Thirteen Colonies!

I have a feeling you would use non of your knowledge during your reign.

Yes, the 4:40 mark is where the great collapse of nearly all civilizations happened. Egypt barely survived and was never as strong as before. This is when the Tribes came from Egypt and invaded via Sinai desert.

Yes, true because they were basiclly the same people and Spoke the same language.

Alright.

MrRussianMapper all these civilisations forms the greater Syria according to the SSNP

MrRussianMapper Russia is like a hot pussy bitch

Omar Nasir 😂😂😂😂 yes , I wish it happen again

Sorry, but I probably won't do that, because I've already done Africa as a whole: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NzKejJIwieE.html I hope you understand :(

yep

Ollie Bye I know you did but Africa is a huge continent. So you weren't able to really fully dissect some regions. You've done videos like "history of the British Islands" things like that. I just think doing videos for particular parts of Africa will help erase the negative images of Africa lacking a history. People tend to club the second largest and most culturally diverse continent into one giant mass rather than exploring the insanely large amount of history and diversity there.

From Nothing Yes, that's a good point. Well I'll let you know if I decide to go ahead with it.

Ollie Bye Thank you. I love your videos!