The Origins of Sumerian Civilization

In this video the legendary Sumerian enthusiast Christopher Cressey
takes us into our upcoming series on the Origins of Sumerians and the history of Ancient Mesopotamia.

This is merely part one of a fantastic series that we have coming your way.

From discussing the Ubaid peoples and the eventual coming and development of Sumerian Civilization he guides us into a wonderful and obscure history.

From discussing the invention of writing as a foundation of Sumerian civilization we also explore conflicts over water and how these peoples tried to centralize power around these revolutionary canals.

We discuss the Sumerian world, their mindset and how they viewed everything around them.

Christopher covers their language, words and different ways they were used, accounting and so very much more.

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[Amar]

Greetings everyone from the lands of Sumer - Mesopotamia Iraq 🇮🇶

[keeperoftruth]

The amount of ads for a 16 min video is truly unacceptable. Youtube is becoming unwatchable

[davidvonkettering]

Thanks you Nick and Christopher!
Nick, your production makes the words come alive and enhance the wonderful history that Chris brings to this fascinating topic.
Hope your Holidays are great!
Love,
David

[marcoblauwe]

Please adjust volume level of the Music downwards. It wakes up my neighbors. Driving me nuts since a long time.
Thank you for this episode . Keep up your great work, , we appreciate it a lot. - edited for clarity

[wombathijs]

Thanks so much for your time and help in teaching ppl like myself for free.

[fluteboiz]

Interesting if “Gil” meant flower in Sumerian. “Gul” means flower in Persian so I wonder if the word was taken from Sumerian thousands of years ago.

[theSFCchannel]

Hey folks for those who were "commenting" on the Sumerian city or UR originally being URIM and the word UR literally means DOG in Sumerian. What follows is a more detailed explanation
: The Semetic name for that city was UR with the Sumerian being URIM (See Tablet of Ur-nammi )Lu-gal Kish Lu-gal Urim. The Word UR in SUMERIAN literally means DOG. An example would be" common use of "ur" on Sumerian royal inscriptions is in the expression "ur-sag", which literally means "top dog", and which is usually translated "warrior" or "hero"." What I did NOT say in the video is that it is possible that the word UR, comes from the Sumerian word URU which means 'town' Some more examples : urbarra 𒌨𒁇𒊏 “wolf” (“outside dog”) uridim 𒌨𒅂 “wild dog, rabid dog” (“wild dog”) urtur 𒌨𒌉 “puppy”, urgir 𒌨𒆪 “watchdog (Notice the 'UR's) So in reference to follower of Clay's "comment" based upon AMPLE evidence, I was correct in saying the UR is Sumerian word for DOG. Thanking you kindly

[elihinze]

*suffers through two ads every other minute because I want this awesome channel to get the revenue it deserves*

[Babbajune]

Enjoyed this and looking forward to more from your guest about Sumer. Thanks! ❤️

[TheKsk]

Just read an archaeological post that Elamites developed their system of writing at the same time as Sumerians

[Jyromi]

those drums sounded like the Last of the Mohicans intro and the 1492 intro too.

[stephenmichalski]

HOT This series is gonna be Stellar!!! Thanks for the links/sharing. Totally awesome!!! Do wish the names of what people called themselves and their places were used by us. I want to learn to read cuneiform but still struggling with French Latin and hieroglyphics. Hope someday someone will figure out up for Sumerian Sea Peoples and Hittite awesome!!!

[theSFCchannel]

If you would be so kind as to take this episode down, I officially withdraw my permission to use my voice on this episode. Thank you very much.

[micheldurieux]

Alcohol, drugs and sheep 🤗 Got to love the Sumerians

[FollowerOfClay]

This video is a nice example of the diference between and "enthusiast" and an academic.

[katmannsson]

IFL Sumer, This is exactly the kind of content Im trying to wake up toooo -fetches coffee-

[MarkVrem]

I kind of wish from the very beginning in the school systems we get taught the actual names and pronunciations that these people used, instead of these cookie-cutter names we created for ourselves. For immersion purposes, it makes a huge difference. Also, it links the people that live there today to their ancient civilization. Once we start latinizing, or anglicizing names and pronunciations suddenly we seem to relate to them more than the people who live there today. Which is obviously 100% wrong.

[richtaylor]

Looks like a very interesting video but the sound is awful unfortunately.

[bardmadsen]

The sky mountain was a comet which is the Taurid Stream now. They probably originated from the valley under the Persian Gulf before the 400' sea level rise.