The History of Ancient Mesopotamia in 15 Minutes

It's hard to cover about 8,000 years in roughly 15 minutes, but let's try. This is a quick refresher video for those of you interested in the history of ancient Mesopotamia. Topics included are the end of the last ice age, the Sumerians, Sargon the Great and the Akkadian Empire, Assyrians, Hittites, Babylonian and a few of the other major civilizations of early Mesopotamia.

[caleblynn]

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[kartheyansivalingam]

So in summary: Summerians -> Akkadians -> Assyrians & Babylonians -> Hittites -> Assyrians -> Neo Babylonians -> Persians.

[stclassknowledge]

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[michaellee]

i am learning about Mesopotamia this year, and this video was so helpful. I really found it simple and this is a very well worded video. I am doing a lot better in school. Thanks, History with Cy!!

[ericcloud]

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[andywomack]

I appreciate the link between the beginnings of cities and the formation of modern coastlines.

[skye]

Thank you for this video. I played it during my History Class about Mesopotamian Civilization. My students listened and watched attentively. It aids their learning aside from reading the book.

[micha]

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[adrianobier]

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[chrisklimis]

To add to the discussion, for non-Greek speaking readers, Mesopotamia is the Greek for "between -meso- and rivers -potamia". Euphrates in Greek is called the river easily blocked, and its waters can be diverted for irrigation, which is the case of Euphrates. Tigris on the other hand, is the Greek for tiger, untamable, not easy to use for irrigation.

[timdench]

Superb information, very well presented. Thanks

[valenciawalker]

Great video ! I’ve always been interested in early Mesopotamia era .

[itarry]

Agriculture was a very big thing but I've always found it interesting that humans were better fed for much of our hunter gatherer history than for nearly all of our history after agriculture until very recently. The size and shape of the bones found appear to prove that we has a better nutritional diet than after we learned to farm...

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[kirubelmillion]

The 15 mins compression is awesome. Thanks

[titnesovic]

Thank you for this short and informative lesson.

[karenbartlett]

Saw this listed in my "feed", so naturally watched it. Great!

[herberthutchinson]

It's totally mind blowing how it occurred to someone one day many years ago how to cultivate that kernel of wheat that grew naturally there ( we assume ) and reproduce it to go beyond the rivers. Food control is what made civilizations. But that moment when that first person had the idea to cultivate it. It would be so interesting to be there and know the exact time...