What Was It like to Live in Ancient Sumer?

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@atanasvasilev3228 2 года назад

I would love a tv series or epics movie about those times. Minoan civilisation. Really am interested in seeing some attempts in reviving the most ancient civilisations.

@liamgrealy6788 2 года назад

The chad real life lore needs to be explored more for sure

@simbriant 2 года назад

One upon a time, long, long ago, the Discovery Channel would have hosted a show as you described. Sadly, those days are long gone...

@dmitritelvanni4068 2 года назад

Fuck yes. We need a whole new school of film making. Like a Hollywood of historical drama. I don't trust the dipshits in Hollywood to do it right. Just watch Ekaterina 2019 vs Catherine the great 2020. Then you'll see what I mean. Russian state media does a better job than Hollywood anymore. That's fucking sad.

@conejeitor 2 года назад

Curiosity stream

@harveymogarawanderingfilip5318 2 года назад

Maybe a TV show about Sumerians surviving to the modern day seems good complete with Sumerian women in business attire!

@williamanderson3185 2 года назад

The Sumerians were, modern humans, they are like us, and had the same desires and outlook on life as we do today.

@skaetur1 2 года назад

Except for wheels, magnets, science, and secularism, sure. 😅

@williamanderson3185 2 года назад

@@skaetur1 They had the wheel, fire, they had writing, agriculture, religion, war. Other than our technology, not a whole lot of difference. Modern Humans existed now at least 300,000 years ago (and probably earlier), yet they did nothing until 5000 years ago? Hunter and gatherer for 250,000 years, hmmmm, yet they were as smart as evolved as we today? The modern science community ignores true history if it doesn't 'fit' the current model of the Human timeline.

@TheFirstAmendment Год назад

@@skaetur1 secularism. However, they didn’t worship science.

@EasternRomeOrthodoxy Год назад

🤺☦🇷🇺Ham is all of Africa, and Cush is all of the sub-sahara. Nimrod and his Cushite tribe, settled in Asia, like Canaanites, so they were different from the rest of Hamites, and therefore, we have African races all the way to far east Asia, beginning with the Sumerians and Akkadians, whose descendants migrated to east Asia, and created the Dravidian and Oceanic/Melanesian race. Marsh Arabs in Iraq only have 0.7% Sumerian ancestry. Only carriers of haplogroups L and T in Iraq are descendants of Sumerians, but not most Iraqis - they are mostly Assyrians (J1)

@aviadilo 2 года назад

Mesopotamia was not in Asia Minor!

@sagesarabia5053 2 года назад

There are lots of historical inaccuracies in this video

@atypical1000 2 года назад

@@sagesarabia5053 Yes bronze age people were all hunter gatherers apparently! I had to stop it at that point.

@sagesarabia5053 2 года назад

@@atypical1000 see how easy people can erase history

@sagesarabia5053 2 года назад

@@atypical1000 now imagine major media outlets and educators doing this. Straight brainwashing.

@zackabee5498 Год назад

I think you need to go back to school and educate yourself. Yes it’s in The Middle East and the Middle East is part of Asia (Mesopotamia)modern day known as Iraq 🇮🇶

@MrScotchpie 2 года назад

Just started reading your Mesopotamia book and now I've found your channel. Really interesting.

@checho3847 Год назад

You like the book? Thinking of buying it

@inderjitvarma6912 2 года назад

History in a story telling awesome ❤✌

@numb3r5ev3n 2 года назад

I want a timeline from the start of Ubaid culture to Ea-Nasir's defective copper operation.

@skaetur1 2 года назад

I-------------|

@Baxterbrookies 2 года назад

Nicely done!

@chuckw8391 10 месяцев назад

The artwork is awesome, I love that Tower of Babel. Thank you!

@elnino9959 2 года назад

In India there are ancient scriptures, which talk about people leaving India and settling in a place called Sumer.

@tommyodonovan3883 2 года назад

Great Show

@theguyfromsaturn 2 года назад

Did you just say that Sumer and Mesopotamia were in Asia Minor? Sumer was in Mesopotamia, true, but as far from Asia Minor as you could be in Mesopotamia (which is not in Asia Minor either). With a beginning like that, how reliable and well researched is the rest of the video?

@skaetur1 2 года назад

Seventy four point six five per cent?

@thuringervonsausage5232 2 года назад

Don't do Geography? Iran & Iraq are in Asia Minor - the location of Sumer

@thuringervonsausage5232 2 года назад

@Muslim terrisost No Shit Sherlock. Have you never seen a Map?

@gideonmele1556 2 года назад

@@thuringervonsausage5232 Asia Minor is just in modern Turkey. It was called that because it juts out into the Med vs the larger part of Asia (from the Greek worldview of the time)

@thuringervonsausage5232 2 года назад

@@gideonmele1556 Gee Thanks' Captain Obvious

@loganhair8325 Год назад

Really Nice

@mysteryqueen1 8 месяцев назад

this is great i love ancient history

@voiceoversbystefmarie6750 2 года назад

Loved their architecture and culture

@Saber23 Год назад

how? we know nothing about it

@algore5644 2 года назад

Always liking that sumerian stuff

@abdulhakimsaid9264 2 года назад

Vi una representacion de Marduk peleando contra Tiamat/o Thea(el Jupiter luchando contra el Caos o algo asi/pero el basorelief es babilonico!!!)Le agradesco mucho por el videoclip!!(Es asi que pude recuerdar mi de algunas cosas que olvide con el tiempo!!!)Vesselâm.

@MrlspPrt 2 года назад

Tenochtitlán was the exact opposite of most of Sumer cities... the Spanish said it was the "Venice of America" because it was in the middle of a lake... I wonder why it's in the thumbnail, it's not the oldest civilization in this continent either.

@AaronAtkinsHonorableChairman 2 года назад

when we’re hawks first domesticated for hunting? do you think the sumerians used them? being that it’s so ingrained into middle eastern culture since hella days back

@AaronAtkinsHonorableChairman 2 года назад

apparenty they’ve used hawks to hunt in the middle east as far as 8,000 years ago… that’s unfathomably badass

@skaetur1 2 года назад

When did Egyptians start using guard cats?

@KJL111012 2 года назад

Hi! Would you do one on the Khmer Empire?

@rogeramezquita5685 2 года назад

What is interesting is that the Sumerians and Egyptians emerge at the same time like even Egyptians royalty were though cuneiform writing. And reading ,

@angeld1103 2 года назад

Is that Tenochtitlan in your thumbnail?

@MrlspPrt 2 года назад

Same question.

@edwardelliott5756 2 года назад

Thanks. You provide an enthusiastic view of the Sumerians. Unlike many others who seem to equate them with cave dwellers. Though I believe you should include their human sacrifice to round out the picture. Their gods were a reflection of themselves: imperfect, fallible and at times irrational. The Hebrew god, you describe as puritanical, was actually wholly “other” and therefore Holy.

@jamessell1394 Год назад

Great video . In Iranian plateau were such of rich culture for last over 12 thousand years and Sumerian another great Iranian tribes created writing . Over Two thousand prior of Sumer were jirof in sistan created farming Southern Iran.

@Ahmed-nz3oi Год назад

Aran child trying to steal the history of Iraq

@CrookedRosePOD 2 года назад

Do what life was like in ancient Nineveh

@EzraB123 2 года назад

Free Assyria!

@leapeace1201 Месяц назад

Sources?

@debbier6458 2 года назад

My akashic records say my beginning was in sumeria Love and light to everybody Namaste

@Captain_Brown_Beard 2 года назад

We Wuz the Sumerians too

@williamking3301 2 года назад

If you are just specifically concentrating on Sumerian civilization, then why include an Egyptian wall painting at 2:34? Unless it had something to do with trade between Sumer and Egypt. But I do not see any Sumerians depicted in the painting at 2:34. Other than that, great video.

@sagesarabia5053 2 года назад

you said the city of Ur was in Turkmenistan when it’s actually in Assyria which is modern day Iraq.

@ALIKN1-1 2 года назад

We still live same simple life :)

@jackeddemon 2 года назад

Did they have AC or no?

@thuringervonsausage5232 2 года назад

Just DC

@MadKingOfMadaya 2 года назад

*_Yes they lived in Modern day Iraq and Kuwait but don't think for one second that they were Semites._*

@MadKingOfMadaya 2 года назад

@@sumerian777 Yeah and I'm saying sumerians were not semites. I don't see the point in your comment.

@badweetabix 2 года назад

This is already out of date with the discovery of Gobekli Tepe that is at least 5000 years OLDER than any city of Mesopotamia.

@conejeitor 2 года назад

When the Islam conquered that area, muslims were actually way more progresive and egalitarians than other contemporaneous cultures, certainly more than middleage Europe.

@dayros2023 2 года назад

Not really true, and anyway look where they are today.

@conejeitor 2 года назад

@@dayros2023 True, and look what Europe looked like for 1000 years (believe it or not, time passes, and today rarely is a direct reflexion of yesterday).

@susanmyers1899 2 года назад

Sumer?

@harveymogarawanderingfilip5318 2 года назад

What of Sumerians never collapsed?

@harveymogarawanderingfilip5318 2 года назад

*if

@elohim660 2 года назад

1:20

@nicholaskazantzidis 2 года назад

Sounds like a story

@MrTrogjrog 6 дней назад

when life got back to what it was before the flood

@tiawouldntwannabeeya3788 2 года назад

You added a picture of Egyptian hieroglyphics at 2:42 when talking about Sumerian writing.

@verifiedbobcallahan7972 2 года назад

Chill

@danchisholm1 Месяц назад

hmm. title is not very accurate. half of this video is rote history dates. felt like i was in middle school

@skaetur1 2 года назад

The most advanced mud users in history!

@gregoryrice2121 2 года назад

I highly doubt these people know how the Sumerians lived thousands of years ago. Academia my ass!

@82dorrin 2 года назад

I hear their Wi-Fi was atrocious.

@chuckw8391 10 месяцев назад

😂

@vmatin1 2 года назад

Sumer wasn’t the first. The tepes of Anatolia were 6000 years earlier.

@hansberger4939 2 года назад

0:05 NO! Asia Minor is somewhere else!..... are you american?

@janedoe7251 11 месяцев назад

Great video but Mesopotamia is not Asia Minor.

@ALIKN1-1 2 года назад

7:55 that is islamphobic view in my opinion

@thuringervonsausage5232 2 года назад

Truth Hurts?

@the3zoooz1 2 года назад

@@thuringervonsausage5232 nah most cross history women were equal and had more rights than men Islam history

@thuringervonsausage5232 2 года назад

@@the3zoooz1 PoppyCock

@BlahBlahs1000 2 года назад

What was it like to live in Amy Schumer? IDk but that's gross.

@lostsoul5043 2 года назад

Wow all these great cities and powerful empires never lasted longer than the Israelites.

@TheFirstAmendment Год назад

Bro, smh!!! There was a plethora of random inaccuracies in this. ( Bronze Age most were hunters and gatherers.!?) your kidding right ?

@neds3528 2 года назад

I don't doubt sumer is really old but definitely not the oldest civilization. What they are uncovering in antarctica will shake history to it's core. We have been here much much longer than the smithsonian wants you to believe.

@acropolismauve8496 2 года назад

How does the smithsonian have so much power? Also why would they hide a history that would no doubt bring people to their museum?

@bigpapa2195 2 года назад

Who are “they”??? Where are you finding this information published?

@neds3528 2 года назад

@@acropolismauve8496 do your research, the smithsonian on record has been caught hiding data since 1900

@MrlspPrt 2 года назад

I get you liked Alien vs. Predator, but that movie was fiction...

@neds3528 2 года назад

@@MrlspPrt Time will tell if it's true

@shawnodonle9674 Год назад

ancient sumer introduce Ea nasir xD

@moneyflow5766 2 года назад

Civilization did not start in Mesopotamia

@moneyflow5766 2 года назад

@Spolierman older than Nile Valley civilization.....don't think so😂

@moneyflow5766 2 года назад

@Spolierman no it's not funny man😂😂they're only credited with having maybe the oldest writing system. Which is debatable cause only only a small fraction of the language has been deciphered.

@moneyflow5766 2 года назад

@Spolierman you need to research outside of google, my friend 😂

@MrlspPrt 2 года назад

Please, share with us your spiritual/extraterrestrial trusted sources.

@ALIKN1-1 2 года назад

Speak lies as you want …… cause the Indians like lying on themselves until they believe it

@2ttrdw932 Год назад

-3000

@boldcounsel9406 2 года назад

What a Beautiful, Democratic, Slave-Owning, Monarchy... From 6,000 years ago. That, somehow, has all this detailed information on it.

@johnboychuk1467 2 года назад

Everyone owned slaves in all of history until Americans decided it was bad a couple hundred years ago

@friendlyreminder3280 2 года назад

You just described the british empire a century ago...

@amyp.575 2 года назад

Nope. Southern native smericans had it going in Prru long before Mesopotamia. Fscts

@georgevakos4906 2 года назад

Mesopotamia is not Asia Minor. Asia Minor is what is now Turkey.

@berilsevvalbekret772 2 года назад

hi a turk here Turkey only cover the part of the asia minor we have what is called anatolia. East side to be specific. The western side is where we bind Europe.

@thuringervonsausage5232 2 года назад

Asia Minor includes Iran & Iraq - Where Sumer was.

@alabastergreen7444 2 года назад

I don't know why but they scare the crap out of me

@inhisimage5173 2 года назад

Why can't your people stop imitating others culture..tell the story of the caves ..the sumerians called themselves the 'black'headed People..nimrod was from ham .ham is the father of the African race.nimrod was born there and was king.

@dayros2023 2 года назад

Lol king and sheet

@inhisimage5173 2 года назад

@@dayros2023 your mother what?

@dayros2023 2 года назад

@@inhisimage5173 she wanted to talk with your mother because she stalk me too much bro :D

@dee3489 Год назад

We now know the Kush people help build this, they have it thanks to black Africans.

@Noisemansoundinsect 2 года назад

What is life as we know it? Was it as bullsssshhitt as this?

@davidmichaels299 2 года назад

mostly incorrect

@zackabee5498 Год назад

Love what you said about Babylon, but you need to educate yourself about Islam. Your mixing culture with religion.

@WyattTheGreatX97 2 года назад

Anytime I hear BCE or CE I immediately stop watching and thumbs down.

@omdkk7123 10 месяцев назад

nerd

@sumtendechaba9717 Год назад

Lies! The civilisation is Egypt. Give correct scholarship! Lies is not helpful!

@danlewandowski7402 2 года назад

i thought you were a serious historian? but you proved me wrong when you went woke and changed to the imagined b.c.e. its B.C., you need to correct yourself.

@gogreen7794 2 года назад

So if you don't like being "woke", are you in a coma? Besides, as a Christian Protestant, I applaud that we stop basing our years from a Christian perspective. There are more non-Christians on this planet, than Christians. Besides, I'd rather be "woke" that not.

@danlewandowski7402 2 года назад

@@gogreen7794 I would rather be right than woke, changing something because you have a temper tantrum doesn't make you right is makes you a idiot , it is BC, fyi you are noticing how if you go woke how you end up losing..... Red tsunami coming....

@gogreen7794 2 года назад

@@danlewandowski7402 You obviously learn nothing from history.

@danlewandowski7402 2 года назад

@@gogreen7794 that's 🤣, just like a woke person, talking out of your ass, 1) history major 2) civil war living historian, I know more and do more than you ever think, you might want to check yourself before you get your butt handled to you

@anirudh177 2 года назад

What? BCE and BC are the same thing lol, no real difference.

@Saber23 Год назад

yeah and us Muslims are correct multiple women must serve in a single man's stead and a single up right male is more reliable then a single upright woman