Amorites - A Brief History

In this video we cover the Amorites, a people who are mentioned often in ancient Near Eastern sources but seldom discussed. This video is an introduction to who the Amorites are, where they came from and what their impact on the history of ancient Mesopotamia was. If you find the history of ancient Mesopotamia interesting, you'll want to watch this!
Sources:
The Routledge Handbook of the Peoples and Places of Ancient Western Asia: The Near East from the Early Bronze Age to the fall of the Persian Empire
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Ancient Iraq: Third Edition (Penguin History)
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Music:
Traditional Iraqi Music
"Dune Archers"
Brandon Fiechter
• Ancient Arabian Music ...
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  • @Boric78
    @Boric785 жыл бұрын

    You deserve a lot more subscribers than you have - today I watch a bunch of your videos and whilst I know more of the history, you have put them together in an excellent and attention holding manner. Great music too. Well done.

  • @Boric78

    @Boric78

    5 жыл бұрын

    When I wrote "whilst I know more of the history" I meant its a subject I have studied and have a lot into. I did not mean anything arsey - I realized after I commented and re read it, that it could be misinterpreted.

  • @HistorywithCy

    @HistorywithCy

    5 жыл бұрын

    Thanks so much, comments like that make my day and I'm so glad people like you are interested in this period of history. Hopefully the presentation of the material will get better with time...thanks again for stopping by the channel, more to come soon!

  • @HistorywithCy

    @HistorywithCy

    5 жыл бұрын

    haha no worries, I didn't think of it that way and I understood what you said in the way you clarified above. Thanks again for stopping by the channel!

  • @paradisecityX0

    @paradisecityX0

    4 жыл бұрын

    He does now lol

  • @francisc909
    @francisc909 Жыл бұрын

    your channel is one of the best to learn about Mesopotamian history! Thank you for your work.

  • @horrorhabit8421
    @horrorhabit84214 жыл бұрын

    You're doing great things here, not just with this video but all of them. Ancient history is deeply chaotic and often confusing, but you're very talented at clarification. Thanks.

  • @HistorywithCy

    @HistorywithCy

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thanks so much, I really appreciate the kind words and am super glad that you like the content. More coming soon and if you have any requests, please don't hesitate to let me know...I'l see what I do. Thanks again!

  • @horrorhabit8421

    @horrorhabit8421

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@HistorywithCy This might be a potentially inflammatory topic, but I'd like to see something on why certain ancient history researchers insist on inserting alien interventions.

  • @tom7o18
    @tom7o183 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for presenting this history in a consist and detailed way. Enjoy your videos so much.

  • @HistorywithCy

    @HistorywithCy

    3 жыл бұрын

    Glad you like them, thank YOU for stopping by. Stay safe!

  • @marksullivan7557
    @marksullivan75575 жыл бұрын

    thank you for that video it's really informative I'm just getting into this era of History and it's great to be able to have these videos please keep up the good work

  • @anitapollard1627
    @anitapollard16273 жыл бұрын

    Thank you, Cy 🤗 i like listening to you talk about history... your knowledge and your passion for it (mixed together naturally & beautifully by you) is compelling & music to my ears ❤

  • @HistorywithCy

    @HistorywithCy

    3 жыл бұрын

    My pleasure, glad there are people like you learning from these, it motivates me to put out more of these, more often. There's more on the way, stay tuned and thanks for stopping by, really appreciate it!

  • @gordonrose7097
    @gordonrose70974 жыл бұрын

    I really enjoyed that study you did, love History and archaeology.

  • @HistorywithCy

    @HistorywithCy

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you! Yeah, it's a bit of a passion of mine. Glad to know others out there are interested in this stuff as well!

  • @gianlucacolantonio8329

    @gianlucacolantonio8329

    4 жыл бұрын

    History with

  • @gianlucacolantonio8329

    @gianlucacolantonio8329

    4 жыл бұрын

    History

  • @mambojambo4870
    @mambojambo48704 жыл бұрын

    Many thanks for your great content! The music too is very appreciated, so glad I found your channel

  • @HistorywithCy

    @HistorywithCy

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you! More to come soon!

  • @Rene-ci8wx
    @Rene-ci8wx4 жыл бұрын

    You deserve a lot more subscribers, great video! Will you do one about the Kingdom of Nagar? A very ancient city and we probably don't have much sources, but we'll see!

  • @psalm3721
    @psalm37214 жыл бұрын

    Very very very well put together!

  • @HistorywithCy

    @HistorywithCy

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thanks so much, I really appreciate the feedback. Stay safe!

  • @crystalh733
    @crystalh7336 ай бұрын

    So cool!! Thank you!

  • @juandom6432
    @juandom64324 жыл бұрын

    Good content as always!

  • @HistorywithCy

    @HistorywithCy

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you, I really appreciate the kind words...more to come soon!

  • @ShowCat1
    @ShowCat13 жыл бұрын

    Just now found your channel. Love it!

  • @HistorywithCy

    @HistorywithCy

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks my friend, appreciate the kind words... more to come, stay safe!

  • @StefanScripca
    @StefanScripca4 жыл бұрын

    Where has this channel been hiding for all this time?! So few that tackle the Mesopotamian history (excluding the hocus-pocus ones)

  • @HistorywithCy

    @HistorywithCy

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you, I really appreciate the feedback. Yeah, I'm not really into the alien theories either. More to come soon!

  • @robthomas229

    @robthomas229

    4 жыл бұрын

    Stefan Scripca You need to check out Michael Heiser

  • @sebolddaniel
    @sebolddaniel2 жыл бұрын

    Love the museum pieces.

  • @michaelroper4238
    @michaelroper42385 жыл бұрын

    Keep up the good work

  • @tonyswatchchannel755
    @tonyswatchchannel7553 жыл бұрын

    Great work!

  • @HistorywithCy

    @HistorywithCy

    3 жыл бұрын

    thank you, appreciate it!

  • @valenciawalker6498
    @valenciawalker64984 жыл бұрын

    Yes , they are spoken in the Old Testament Holy Bible . Thank you for giving a history of the amorites.

  • @HistorywithCy

    @HistorywithCy

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you, I appreciate it! More to come soon!

  • @yaruqadishi8326

    @yaruqadishi8326

    4 жыл бұрын

    That's post antiquity not real info on them Bible is religious man made biased text.

  • @matthewroach3195

    @matthewroach3195

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@yaruqadishi8326 😆😆😆😆

  • @yaruqadishi8326

    @yaruqadishi8326

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@matthewroach3195 what's so funny?

  • @yaruqadishi8326

    @yaruqadishi8326

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Allan Ordway They see but but Devil Lies and Evil sad sad sad.

  • @biljanamilanovic1682
    @biljanamilanovic16823 жыл бұрын

    Lei e' GRANDE PROFESSORE! Grazie tante! Con le Sue lezioni sulle antiche civilta' che sono molto interessanti, mi tira su'! Grazie tante!

  • @ThisNinjaSays_
    @ThisNinjaSays_ Жыл бұрын

    Amorites were known to have lived in the Levant, including modern Lebanon and some parts of Syria as well as North Africa. One group was genocided by Israel. The other two groups survived, one remained in Lebanon while others were spreading to modern day Tunisia and Sicily. In Sicily they mixed with Greeks, later building Carthage, Sidon and other prosperous Mediterranean city states. The later Phoenicians gave us what became the Roman Alphabet. Seafaring Phoenicians and Greeks left their mark on the world.

  • @morneterblanche5954
    @morneterblanche59543 жыл бұрын

    Thank you , it was very helpfull.

  • @HistorywithCy

    @HistorywithCy

    3 жыл бұрын

    My pleasure. Thanks for stopping by, stay safe!

  • @jakobraahauge7299
    @jakobraahauge72993 жыл бұрын

    The Amorites are not described as unsophisticated, rather as uncivilised. Just a little note, but I do love your work! Sometimes you will reference a city or a place, though, with a map not showing its location, and I know that it may be hard to pinpoint any place that ancient, but I hope you will mark as many of such places in your future videos - that I look forward to enjoy! Thank you, and Merry Christmas! ❤️🎄

  • @elviradonaghy5422
    @elviradonaghy54224 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the history.

  • @HistorywithCy

    @HistorywithCy

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @SHEAR-JASHUB
    @SHEAR-JASHUB Жыл бұрын

    Good information.

  • @voiceinthedesert153
    @voiceinthedesert1534 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much. This helps me also in my Bible studies.

  • @HistorywithCy

    @HistorywithCy

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you! Glad you found it useful!

  • @yaruqadishi8326

    @yaruqadishi8326

    4 жыл бұрын

    This refutes the unholy bible just so you know.

  • @hurdygurdyman1905

    @hurdygurdyman1905

    Жыл бұрын

    @@yaruqadishi8326 Go soak your head.

  • @yaruqadishi8326

    @yaruqadishi8326

    Жыл бұрын

    @@hurdygurdyman1905 excuse me you should wash your head off with all the dirt that's in your hair cuz it's nasty

  • @yaruqadishi8326

    @yaruqadishi8326

    Жыл бұрын

    @@hurdygurdyman1905 it's seeming you're confused yes you are confused

  • @melvinjones3895
    @melvinjones38952 жыл бұрын

    another good one

  • @HistorywithCy

    @HistorywithCy

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @wertq672
    @wertq6723 жыл бұрын

    awesome video

  • @HistorywithCy

    @HistorywithCy

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you, appreciate it!

  • @ddwkc
    @ddwkc4 жыл бұрын

    I will use "who digs up truffles" as an insult to unsophisticated people from now on!

  • @felixsong2214

    @felixsong2214

    4 жыл бұрын

    Dario Chung. Truffles normally grows under the soil and that’s the favorite food for wild boars or many pigs for nowadays situation. Those animal searching around digging the truffles when the season comes.

  • @HistorywithCy

    @HistorywithCy

    4 жыл бұрын

    Lol that's funny... not sure if those unsophisticated people will know what you're talking about though. Thanks for stopping by, I really appreciate. Stay safe!

  • @ElizaBeth-ng3pu
    @ElizaBeth-ng3pu10 ай бұрын

    Even 4 years later, someone is enjoying this.

  • @russianbot8423
    @russianbot84234 жыл бұрын

    Hamorambi was kind of a buzz kill, amorite?

  • @Crafty_Spirit
    @Crafty_Spirit3 жыл бұрын

    Hi Cy! Are the Gutians who brought down the Akkadian empire Amorites, too?

  • @HistorywithCy

    @HistorywithCy

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hi, thanks for stopping by, really appreciate it! No, the Gutians are considered to have been a separate people who came from the east, specifically the Zagros mountains. The Amorites came from the west, probably from what is now northern Syria/Lebanon area. Good question though and thanks for stopping by, really appreciate it! Stay safe!

  • @servantofchrist7910
    @servantofchrist79104 жыл бұрын

    They’re also in the Bible

  • @MattyJohn146

    @MattyJohn146

    3 жыл бұрын

    amen

  • @crystaladdy2155
    @crystaladdy2155 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you

  • @lamardon9723
    @lamardon97233 ай бұрын

    I have a document that refers to Flinders Petrie, and it says some Amorites migrated west over N Africa to Morocco then across the sea to Spain and even up to N Central Europe and still buried their dead in characteristic cromlechs. They were tall with fair skin and reddish hair. But I'm having trouble finding that document online because a previous computer with the source material crashed. Any help?

  • @A0.917
    @A0.9174 жыл бұрын

    Tell us about the Shunamites

  • @jabujolly9020
    @jabujolly90204 жыл бұрын

    Might I suggest that the Amorites started out as nomads but over time became a loose collection of military families and bands often hired as mercenaries and who formed entire militia classes of certain cities? As kings they'd have been military kings. They were much like the Cossacks of Russia, nomadic in origin and identity but forming the militia class of city states.

  • @lindamaemullins5151

    @lindamaemullins5151

    Жыл бұрын

    @Gentle Wise 🤔👍

  • @ariellawildefiya

    @ariellawildefiya

    Жыл бұрын

    No. We really need to stop romanticizing what they were and are to this day.

  • @ariellawildefiya

    @ariellawildefiya

    Жыл бұрын

    @Gentle Wise exactly!! Cain’s descendants and what was Cain known for doing in the Bible? Then the way it parallels to even today. Wheeew

  • @jabujolly9020

    @jabujolly9020

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ariellawildefiya Whose romanticizing the Amorites????

  • @WoodRabbitTaoist

    @WoodRabbitTaoist

    Жыл бұрын

    @Gentle Wise yes but according to the Bible the amorites are not Cain's decendants. Cain's decendants were destroyed in the flood. The amortize would have been the descendents of one of Noah's sons.

  • @ErnestoSun
    @ErnestoSun2 жыл бұрын

    Bug or feature youtube? Ad keeps flickering at the right side.

  • @attilatasciko4817
    @attilatasciko4817 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks

  • @QueenLadySummer329
    @QueenLadySummer3293 жыл бұрын

    Excerpted from: Abarim Publications' Biblical Dictionary Although the Bible doesn't mention it, we may readily assume that the name Amorite comes from the name Amor (which of course has nothing to do with the Latin word amor, meaning love). In Hebrew the latter is identical to the verb אמר ('amar), meaning to speak or say: ‎אמר The ubiquitous verb אמר ('amar) means to talk or say and may even mean to promise or command. Nouns אמר ('omer) and מאמר (ma'amar) mean speech, word, promise or command. Nouns אמרה ('imra) and אמרה ('emra) mean utterance or speech. The metaphorical noun אמיר ('amir) refers to the leafy and fruit bearing crown of a tree.

  • @biljanamilanovic1682
    @biljanamilanovic16824 жыл бұрын

    Non ho mai sentito su quel popolo. Video e' molto interessante, grazie tante! Mi piace molto che Kei ci fa vedere sempre anche arte dei popoli antichi di cui parla.

  • @AverageAmerican

    @AverageAmerican

    4 жыл бұрын

    Sono giganti nella Bibbia discendenti da Ham

  • @stevenplyler6306

    @stevenplyler6306

    Жыл бұрын

    No not exactly my friend but some probably were just a little bit taller here and there though.

  • @hazemm440
    @hazemm4404 жыл бұрын

    Listened to this twice. You’re honestly amazing and your videos are a wealth of information. Could you please answer some questions for me: 1) are the Yamhads indo-Europeans? Semitic? We’re they a Cannanite tribe or too far north? 2) are the amorites Semitic people ? Are they considered to be Cannanite or too far west ? PS: please do a video on ancient Yemen

  • @HistorywithCy

    @HistorywithCy

    4 жыл бұрын

    Hi, thanks so much for stopping by, I really appreciate it. So to answer your questions: 1.) Yamhad was actually an Amorite kingdom so yes, their ruling house, at least the most famous one, was of Semitic origin. 2.) Amorites were a Semitic people whose origin is not exactly known but many believe that they came from the Jebel Bishri area. Some put it even further west than that. I would love to do one on Yemen in the near future, just have to make sure that I have the proper sources. Thanks for the suggestion and any other questions, please don't hesitate to ask. Take care!

  • @sobriost60
    @sobriost60 Жыл бұрын

    Also the Hyksos / Hekau-khasut in Egypt were most probably of Amorite descent, according to Aaron A. Burke.

  • @user-cg2tw8pw7j

    @user-cg2tw8pw7j

    Жыл бұрын

    True, but they are very close to the Arabs and the Carthaginians

  • @adonijahmorningstar493

    @adonijahmorningstar493

    Жыл бұрын

    @@user-cg2tw8pw7j Amorites were the descendants of *Canaan, the son of Ham,* like the Egyptians, *the Arabs* are the descendants of *Eber son of She'lah* same as *the Hebrews,* so no, they would not be anything like the Arabs, as a people, the only thing the Arabs and the Amorites had in common, is that they both were migratory peoples.

  • @user-cg2tw8pw7j

    @user-cg2tw8pw7j

    Жыл бұрын

    @@adonijahmorningstar493 So why are their names similar?

  • @adonijahmorningstar493

    @adonijahmorningstar493

    Жыл бұрын

    That would make sense since *both Amorites and Egyptians* came through *Ham* sons *Cush

  • @user-cg2tw8pw7j

    @user-cg2tw8pw7j

    Жыл бұрын

    @@adonijahmorningstar493 The question is how were the Canaanites, who were few in number, able to colonize Cyprus, North Africa, the islands of Sicily, Spain and Portugal, when their numbers were very few?

  • @antoniofantroy1519
    @antoniofantroy15195 жыл бұрын

    Your my new bff. Thank you. I was clueless bout the amorites

  • @HistorywithCy

    @HistorywithCy

    5 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for stopping by! Glad the vid was able to help!

  • @Ejeby
    @Ejeby10 ай бұрын

    1:50 they spoke a Semitic language, probably something close to Canaanite or earlier forms of Aramaic Sumerian and Akkadian language documents described the Amorites; in fact, “Amorite” comes from the Akkadian word Amurrum, Sumerian word Martu meaning west (since they came from the west) 2,600 BC - 2,500 BC first mention of Amorites 3:00 ”the Martu, who know no grain nor house nor town… who digs up truffles, who does not bend his knee to cultivate the land, who eats raw meat…” “the urban Sumerians looked down on them as a bunch of migrant hillbillies” 4:10 Sargon the Great ruled all of Mesopotamia from 2334 BC - 2379 BC

  • @jimboi7391
    @jimboi7391 Жыл бұрын

    I have a question for my NHD project. Does anybody know about slavery in Amorite?

  • @user-ol2fb9fo7r
    @user-ol2fb9fo7r3 ай бұрын

    The Amorites lived all over the Levant and Mesopotamia they were a very multinational ethnic group.

  • @Ladycannonball
    @Ladycannonball3 жыл бұрын

    what is the background music that you use? its beautiful!

  • @Sarke2
    @Sarke23 жыл бұрын

    Didn't Amorites somewhere descibed as people with blue eyes?

  • @HistorywithCy

    @HistorywithCy

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yeah I've read that but I think it comes from monuments or ancient depictions of them in art as having blue eyes. Other than that I haven't read or heard anything else about their eye color. Thanks!

  • @GregJay
    @GregJay4 жыл бұрын

    Funny just as Assyria fell they were all cozy in Babylon, something tells me after Babylon they migrated to Egypt, then perhaps Rome ending up in London. Very informative thanks

  • @HistorywithCy

    @HistorywithCy

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @someone-wi4xl

    @someone-wi4xl

    4 жыл бұрын

    if so then you wouldn't speak English or any Indo-European language but a Semitic language .. your hypothesis is hard to digest

  • @husamabed6527

    @husamabed6527

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@someone-wi4xl not sincerely, you have many nations who adopted foreign languages for their-own.

  • @bigfel3240

    @bigfel3240

    4 жыл бұрын

    someone European and Semitic are closely related so you don’t know what you’re talking about. Look into V.S.O sentence structure for a start if you like.

  • @bigfel3240

    @bigfel3240

    4 жыл бұрын

    You are incorrect and I don't know why you would reply to something that you are ignorant to?

  • @BarryBranton
    @BarryBranton4 жыл бұрын

    Thanks, Bro.

  • @HistorywithCy

    @HistorywithCy

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for stopping by, stay safe!

  • @JV-lk6md
    @JV-lk6md4 жыл бұрын

    Reading some interesting anthropological papers on the ethnic mix of people in the area back then. Some suggest that it could have been the Amorites that lent their pale skin and light hair to the Jewish population. It is not popular to bring up actual facts about how different peoples mixed and what they looked like back then because of all the current racial issues that divide people but the genetic remnants can still be seen in places like Iran of the people who were there at the time.

  • @lilSenDog

    @lilSenDog

    10 ай бұрын

    Yup if you don’t say they were black or white then you don’t know anything lol it’s so bad people refuse to do the research

  • @abdosaky5394
    @abdosaky5394 Жыл бұрын

    The genetic remains of the Amorite monuments, which are of the J1 lineage from which Jews and Arabs descended, were examined

  • @user-cg2tw8pw7j

    @user-cg2tw8pw7j

    Жыл бұрын

    The Jews, not the Arabs, and the people of the Middle East, except for Iran, yes

  • @user-vs7gv4cn8o

    @user-vs7gv4cn8o

    8 ай бұрын

    ​@@user-cg2tw8pw7jarab j1 😂

  • @jenathent4840

    @jenathent4840

    3 ай бұрын

    @@user-cg2tw8pw7jyes Arabs lol

  • @donnie27brasco

    @donnie27brasco

    2 ай бұрын

    @@user-cg2tw8pw7j (The Jews, not the Arabs, and the people of the Middle East, except for Iran, yes) You ignorant racist, the Arabs are the original inhabitants of the Arabian Peninsula and the Fertile Crescent, and from them all the Semitic peoples emerged, and for this reason when you want to decode an ancient “Semitic” inscription you always have to open Arabic dictionaries, while the Jews are the original inhabitants of the European ghettos.

  • @QueenLadySummer329
    @QueenLadySummer3293 жыл бұрын

    I had a dream where a woman told me that the the Bible will pick fruit from US or choose fruit from trees in the United States. I woke up to scriptures about the Amorites and ran into your video. Thank you for posting, it has great meaning. Many scripture were given to me but this one right at the watching of your video. “I said to you, ‘You have now reached the hill country of the Amorites that the Lord our God is giving us.” ‭‭Deuteronomy‬ ‭1:20‬ ‭NLT‬‬

  • @JasonJacksonJames
    @JasonJacksonJames4 жыл бұрын

    Secular historians regularly associate the Amorites of the Bible with the people called the Amurru in early Akkadian (Assyro-Babylonian) cuneiform texts. The Amurru are represented as invading Mesopotamia early in the second millennium B.C.E. and as having had a kingdom in Babylonia for several centuries. Hammurabi, famed lawgiver of that period, is often referred to as of “Amorite” origin. The evidence concerning the Amurru, however, does not appear to warrant the strong conclusions that are advanced as to their positive identification with the Biblical Amorites. Amurru in the ancient cuneiform texts basically meant “west” as referring to the region W of Mesopotamia. A. H. Sayce, in The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, says that the name Amurru is “a purely geographical indication of their immediate origins, from the perspective of Mesopotamia, and conveys no information about their ethnic composition or their real name.” (Edited by G. W. Bromiley, 1979, Vol. 1, p. 113) While Mari, an ancient city on the Euphrates in northern Mesopotamia, is referred to by modern secular historians as a center of the expansion of the Amurru into Mesopotamia, the thousands of tablets recovered there were almost all in the Semitic Akkadian (Assyro-Babylonian) language, with some names of West Semitic origin. As noted, however, the Biblical Amorites were Hamitic, not Semitic, and while the adoption of a Semitic tongue by some branch of them is not an impossibility, it is equally possible that the early Amurru were simply “westerners” from among the Semitic peoples living to the W of Babylonia. Professor John Bright in A History of Israel (1981, p. 49) says: “For some centuries [of the late third millennium and early second millennium B.C.E.] the people of northwestern Mesopotamia and northern Syria had been referred to in cuneiform texts as Amurru, i.e., ‘Westerners.’ This became, apparently, a general term applying to speakers of various Northwest-Semitic dialects found in the area including, in all probability, those strains from which later sprang both Hebrews and Arameans.”

  • @benjonesthe3rd200
    @benjonesthe3rd2003 жыл бұрын

    Are you able to clarify how they were nomads but they lived in cities such as lachish in Israel ? In Genesis , it says how after the Israelites conquered it from the Ammorites they changed the name .

  • @olenickel6013

    @olenickel6013

    3 жыл бұрын

    They started out as nomads, but by the time of the events in the bible, would long since have conquered cities and/or settled down.

  • @potupchik

    @potupchik

    2 жыл бұрын

    The biblical stories were written well into the Iron age, in the mid first millennium BCE. As Cy stated in the video, the Amorites were nomads in the early 2nd millennium BCE, and by the late bronze age, they were already established as city dwellers. The authors of the Hebrew biblical books would not have known that Amorites used to be nomads 1000s of years in the past.

  • @MichaelJohnson-ik9vi
    @MichaelJohnson-ik9vi4 жыл бұрын

    Love history

  • @HistorywithCy

    @HistorywithCy

    4 жыл бұрын

    Me too! Thanks for stopping by, I really appreciate it...stay safe!

  • @kaledcsakra8535
    @kaledcsakra85354 жыл бұрын

    Great job...but their cities were Yamhad , Qatna , Ebla not Elba ( in Italy)and Mari which is within inland or Aram whereas those of coastland or Canaan where Acco, Sidon, Tyros/ Tsour, Jbeil, Ugarit .. etc.

  • @wilcoxcl01
    @wilcoxcl013 жыл бұрын

    Perhaps I can find clues here. I'm seeking interactions between Amorite and Hittite peoples. Particularly decrees, edicts or depictions of unions between the two groups that were considered taboo to the point that a pregnancy would be determined most ghastly. The Hebrew Bible tale found in Yechezkel 16:1‭-‬3 OJB "Again the Devar Hashem came unto me, saying, Ben adam, cause Yerushalayim to know her to'avot (abominations), And say, Thus saith Adonoi Hashem unto Yerushalayim: Thy origin and thy birth are from Eretz HaKena'ani; avicha was HaEmori (the Amorite) and your em Chittit (a Hittite)." The story goes on to say the child was born but tossed out into the open field, placenta intact, without even swaddling it, washing it or cutting the cord. Any suggestions as to where to find the cause or reasoning for this deed of utter abandonment?

  • @lindamaemullins5151

    @lindamaemullins5151

    Жыл бұрын

    👍😬😔🤷‍♀️

  • @laxman90210
    @laxman902103 жыл бұрын

    Fate of Sumerian border wall sounds similar to that of China and US walls

  • @realmaxtovar
    @realmaxtovar7 ай бұрын

    very educational specially for those of us studing the bible

  • @HistorywithCy

    @HistorywithCy

    7 ай бұрын

    Thanks, glad you found this useful and thanks for watching!

  • @bugsytv6852
    @bugsytv68523 жыл бұрын

    He CY you know what’s an amazing biblical fact ? god refers to Israel and I quote “ Your father was an Amorite and your mother a Girgashite “ wouldn’t this elude or Abraham who was Chaldean being an Amorite ? Unless there is more to the context than I can figure or assume.

  • @HVLLOWS1999
    @HVLLOWS19994 жыл бұрын

    Kool.

  • @lokomk9725
    @lokomk97253 жыл бұрын

    r they still around? Who did they become?

  • @ChefBoyarbeeze

    @ChefBoyarbeeze

    3 жыл бұрын

    Modern indigenous Syrians

  • @lokomk9725

    @lokomk9725

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ChefBoyarbeeze like the bedouin? Or like the average citizens of syria?

  • @madridmadrid6978
    @madridmadrid69782 жыл бұрын

    The Amorites are an ancient Semitic Syrian people, and they are said to be from the Arab Amalekites. They are the ancestors of the Arab Amalekites from Jedis, Tasm, and Jasim. The Amorites inhabited the Badia of Al-Sham, their capital and their original home. The Bishri Mountain was in the Syrian desert in Palmyra, Syria. They also existed in the Syrian mountains...The Amorites established kingdoms in Syria before the millennium The third AD, including the kingdoms of Mari in eastern Syria and the kingdom of Ebla in western Syria, and then the expansion of the Amorites throughout the Levant. Ruling dynasties in Babylon..also a dynasty of the Amorites called the Hyksos lived in southern Syria and then the Amorites expanded in the Sinai and were able to enter Egypt and the Hyksos occupied Egypt for two hundred years.

  • @iimaanabdulle467

    @iimaanabdulle467

    10 ай бұрын

    Indeed u said the truth BarakAllah akhih

  • @Zerubaba
    @Zerubaba7 ай бұрын

    Amorites came from Urim that is Rim, Amor son of Canaan is named after Rim son of Arpakhased.

  • @user-ky4ny2ri3u
    @user-ky4ny2ri3u4 жыл бұрын

    excellent video thank you, if you would allow me to disagree only on their origins, they existed in west of the river. and from their migrated a group to Palestine and were Kennan and a group went to Syria and were Aram, so the Amorites are the origins of both, exactly as you said there is no proof of Amorites in Kennan or Aram

  • @HistorywithCy

    @HistorywithCy

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thanks so much for the feedback and the info, I really appreciate it! Yeah, I am constantly learning more about them and appreciate you sharing your knowledge with me... thank you, and thanks for stopping by the channel! If you're interested in more videos with regard to the Amorites, at the moment, the most recent episodes I've been producing have been discussing the Amorite dynasties of Mesopotamia. You might find those interesting as well. Thanks again for stopping by!

  • @mhmdmor2170
    @mhmdmor21702 жыл бұрын

    I'm Amorites , from Syria, and my last name it's Amorites entil today,

  • @muhammetjabir8667

    @muhammetjabir8667

    Жыл бұрын

    هلق العمورين عرب يعني من القبائل العربية القديمة

  • @crimsOn0011
    @crimsOn001111 ай бұрын

    It is remarkable how Amorites, Arameans, Mongols, Turks, Arabs, Scandanavians had the kind of influence in history

  • @hemdanimadjid18
    @hemdanimadjid184 жыл бұрын

    IS it ammorite from Yémen !! Before they migrated to kannanean ??

  • @lvctgz709

    @lvctgz709

    4 жыл бұрын

    No amorites probably originated from the Levant I’m aramean with aramean amorite descent

  • @hemdanimadjid18

    @hemdanimadjid18

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@lvctgz709 ..no it is not. .. amorite are ancien arab . .. Do not forger thé giant . Giant are tribes of amorite. Thé giant lived in hijaz thé amorite lived in All middle east. .. Araméen are différents . And by thé way araméen.did not pop out from levant. They came from otherwise .

  • @lvctgz709

    @lvctgz709

    4 жыл бұрын

    Hemdani Madjid no it has been proven in the Akkadian and Sumerian scripts that the arameans sons of aram were of amorite decent togheter with Chaldeans and Canaanites

  • @hemdanimadjid18

    @hemdanimadjid18

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@lvctgz709 .. IS this french school that your information came !?!

  • @lvctgz709

    @lvctgz709

    4 жыл бұрын

    Hemdani Madjid no I’m aramean where the Arabs descended from and the arameans descended from the amorites I have read countless of books the Mesopotamian history learned myself ancient Aramaic and some cuineform

  • @McadMcad
    @McadMcad3 жыл бұрын

    The "Hawk of the Ham"

  • @mikztif2663
    @mikztif26634 жыл бұрын

    In the bible it states,Amorites came from Hams line (Noahs son)Hams son Canaan had sons, Sidon and Heth, (don't know if there were more, im assuming there were more, ?)but from them we got the Jebusite, Amorite, Girgashite, Hivite, Arkite, Sinite, Arvadite, Zemarite, and Hamathite. Afterwards the famiies of the canaanites were dispersed.And from these tribes, we got a lot of giants.......Hmmmm??? Love this video, thanks for doing it, I learned more! :)

  • @HistorywithCy

    @HistorywithCy

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thanks so much, I'm really glad that you learned something new... such comments inspire me to make more vids!

  • @mikztif2663

    @mikztif2663

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you!!!! Keep the videos coming! I know how much work this is for you, and appreciate that someone (you) is willing to do them!!!!Much appreciated!!!! :)

  • @someone-wi4xl

    @someone-wi4xl

    4 жыл бұрын

    they were Semites

  • @yaruqadishi8326

    @yaruqadishi8326

    4 жыл бұрын

    Bible is not a source and its a godless book of fiction true Amorites are prehebraic and pre ham and gentile unlike ham Adam and Noah and Shem who are jews. Their god is a man made like.

  • @someone-wi4xl

    @someone-wi4xl

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Alex Sunderland the Ammorites were Semites their names .. their culture .. their old gods as well as the Ancient DNA of them found in Jordan (mainly J-P58) which is common among Semites of today and one of the main Semitic Y-DNAs

  • @matthewgorgoglione5492
    @matthewgorgoglione5492 Жыл бұрын

    Chawkiki...🦁🔧🌍👑✨

  • @ramih7528
    @ramih75282 жыл бұрын

    Amuru kingdom is in the coast of the mediteranian near the city of tartous nowadays amrit...and the amorits means all the people of the west or syria for the Sumerian or akkadian people I mean they are not one grope.

  • @ghanvedsingh8946
    @ghanvedsingh89464 жыл бұрын

    It seems that amorites were members of agricultural society of that time with whom pastoral people were in conflicts all the times

  • @tsegawnetsanet
    @tsegawnetsanet2 ай бұрын

    I'm an Ethiopia Amara, but when you talk about Amara history, I wonder why you don't talk about Ethiopia Amara together.

  • @redit5332
    @redit53324 жыл бұрын

    What of the Moabites? In the Old Testament, Lot and his daughter's were said to be the Father/Mothers of the Amonites and Moabites after the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. The Amonites were the last race of giants that were destroyed by General Joshua of the Israelites.

  • @potupchik

    @potupchik

    2 жыл бұрын

    Ammonites and Amorites are different groups that you are confusing. The giant Amorite king Og that you're talking about is not an Ammonite. Another thing to consider is that the words only look similar in the defective Latin/Greek transliterations, because the original Semitic terms began with differnt consonants. Aleph for Amorite and 'Ayin for Ammonites.

  • @redit5332

    @redit5332

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@potupchik Yes, thank you. I had forgotten about the Ammonites. There is a difference.

  • @justkenzie
    @justkenzie3 жыл бұрын

    If I recall correctly, the ammorites also worshipped Moloch... the god whose statue was also a sort of fire altar where they would place their live babies for sacrifices. This was why we see that the Living God commanded His people NOT to allow their children to "pass through the fire" in the Old Testament. God abhors the evils of these pagan religions for good reason.

  • @LoganNYC

    @LoganNYC

    Жыл бұрын

    Your idea of god is a mixture of Mesopotamian, Egyptian folklore and myth about kings! Yet somehow you found a way to virtue signal!! just wow the ignorance is strong with this one.

  • @moonmagickisreal

    @moonmagickisreal

    Жыл бұрын

    That’s Carthage and Jebusites

  • @user-cg2tw8pw7j

    @user-cg2tw8pw7j

    Жыл бұрын

    @@moonmagickisreal They are from the same people my friend

  • @moonmagickisreal

    @moonmagickisreal

    Жыл бұрын

    @@user-cg2tw8pw7j THEY wouldn’t have agreed with you at all.

  • @user-cg2tw8pw7j

    @user-cg2tw8pw7j

    Жыл бұрын

    @@moonmagickisreal But they worship Baal and they were living in Palestine, but King Solomon made them migrate to Mesopotamia to expel the kingdom of Elam and console the kingdom of Babylon and the kingdom of Ashwar

  • @sovietroulette
    @sovietroulette5 жыл бұрын

    this video was cool af am I right or amprites?

  • @HistorywithCy

    @HistorywithCy

    5 жыл бұрын

    Haha thanks! Love the play on words!

  • @bigfel3240

    @bigfel3240

    4 жыл бұрын

    Amprites?

  • @Al-Shaheedi
    @Al-Shaheedi Жыл бұрын

    Amorites are from north Arabia 🇸🇦 not Canaan

  • @ThisNinjaSays_

    @ThisNinjaSays_

    Жыл бұрын

    That's Petra. King Herods people. They Not Amorites nor Phoenicians.

  • @DrCorvid
    @DrCorvid4 жыл бұрын

    Amorites or AKA Amurru also occupied the entire Amur river/Black Dragon drainage system, the largest in Asia, and named it after themselves. From the Tarim Basin we have giant tartan-weaving Amorites right down the river to the Bay of Tartary and Amore Bay. It's the black Dragon clans. They always ruled and more recently they brought their Mongolians with them to colonise most of North America. They had by then 6 cities and more than 100 towns along the great salt lake alone. These are our redheaded giants the indians chopped up.

  • @lvctgz709

    @lvctgz709

    4 жыл бұрын

    Micheal Hnat no and they have never had a connection with them either

  • @stevenplyler6306

    @stevenplyler6306

    Жыл бұрын

    That is just not true no not true.

  • @gagamushin6853
    @gagamushin68532 жыл бұрын

    My true ancestry dna results said that im an amorite descendent 😶

  • @Deeznutz002
    @Deeznutz002 Жыл бұрын

    No horse's? Israelites originated in Caiana, if you follow one religion..Not that fact's matter. The Joy of believing is in faith..... Celt's are a group with common tradition, druid are chosen.

  • @user-cm9ft5bg7i
    @user-cm9ft5bg7i4 жыл бұрын

    They did not refer to them selves as Amorites they are just Semites from Arabia and they did not settle in Sumer they established Babylon and Mari

  • @ag-py6to

    @ag-py6to

    3 жыл бұрын

    no they werent native to mari, i can say that because there were amorites in mari, but they were working slaves

  • @stevenjohnfoster8785
    @stevenjohnfoster87854 жыл бұрын

    weren't these people descendants of Lots daughters after tricking Him into sleeping with them?

  • @autobot_jazzman9856

    @autobot_jazzman9856

    4 жыл бұрын

    No those are the ammonites and the maobites

  • @ThePoeticPariah
    @ThePoeticPariah11 ай бұрын

    They were lovers, not fighters.

  • @rocketraccoon1976
    @rocketraccoon19763 жыл бұрын

    Didn't Kenny Loggins make a song about these people? 🤔 🎵 "Am O Rite, Nobody worry 'bout me, You've got to gimme a fight, Why don't you just let me be" 🎵

  • @borabur543
    @borabur5435 жыл бұрын

    one of amorites tribe are amara tribe in ethiopia today

  • @user-mq6qv6bi2g

    @user-mq6qv6bi2g

    5 жыл бұрын

    have you looked at Akkadian Dictionary ??? many words match Ge'ez and Amharc

  • @reya720

    @reya720

    4 жыл бұрын

    John Smith yes because ge’ez language derived from Aramaic the language Jesus spoke

  • @reya720

    @reya720

    4 жыл бұрын

    Tell that to the amhara who think they r original Ethiopians they are not! When Greeks said aethiopiens the burnt faces they meant cushites Oromo anuak afar etc

  • @nelioanderson5315
    @nelioanderson5315 Жыл бұрын

    Wasn't Hamurabi the one who came up with an "eye for an eye" law? The Amorites were wiped off the face of the earth by the Israelites according to the Torah. One of many civilizations in the area during the Jewish conquest after they left Egypt

  • @user-cg2tw8pw7j

    @user-cg2tw8pw7j

    Жыл бұрын

    No, the Torah is distorted by the Jews, but the Pharaohs are the ones who did this

  • @ThisNinjaSays_

    @ThisNinjaSays_

    Жыл бұрын

    Hamurabi is definitely credited with codifying the 1st written laws such as the one you mentioned. Not all Amorites were exterminated by Israel, just the ones that lived in Canaan.

  • @ka-sekham2439
    @ka-sekham24393 жыл бұрын

    Ezekiel 16:1 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations, 3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite. "The first occupants of Syria appear to have been of Hamitic descent --Hittites, Jebusites, Amorites, etc. After a while the first comers, who were still to a great extent nomads, received a Semitic infusion, while most Probably came to them from the southeast." Syrians can trace their Biblical heritage back to a man named Aram. He was a descendant of Shem, Noah's son. Also known as Arameans, the plight of the Syrian people can be read about throughout both the Old and New Testament. Syria is one of the oldest Biblical lands that still exists in present day. In the book of Genesis, we first hear mention of the people who would become Syrians. Their lineage is recorded here: "The sons of Shem: Elam, Ashur, Arphaxad, Lud and Aram. The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether and Meshek." (Genesis 10:22-23) It is also found in 1 Chronicles 1:17. The people of Syria settled between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, also known as Mesopotamia. (Genesis 24:10, 25:20) This included a land called Paddan Aram. (Genesis 28:5) Paddan Aram may sound familiar, as this is the homeland of Rebekah, the wife of Issac, Laban, her brother and his daughters Rachel, and Leah, the wives of Jacob. Other key Biblical figures of Aramean descent include Boaz, David, Solomon, Hezekiah, Josiah, and Joseph, the adoptive father of Jesus.

  • @user-cg2tw8pw7j

    @user-cg2tw8pw7j

    Жыл бұрын

    Jesus did not kill these prophets

  • @ka-sekham2439

    @ka-sekham2439

    Жыл бұрын

    @@user-cg2tw8pw7j lmao this is God not Jesus ha try once more

  • @MachineThatCreates
    @MachineThatCreates4 жыл бұрын

    Basically they were todays Lebanese. Their greatest gift to mankind? Falafel.🌴

  • @Alusnovalotus

    @Alusnovalotus

    4 жыл бұрын

    MachineThatCreates thought it was yogurt. And no. Too many peoples came, stayed and left or were integrated over the six millennia in that area. 🤷🏽‍♂️

  • @saqer3863
    @saqer38634 жыл бұрын

    my name isc Saqer Samer Amorite

  • @HistorywithCy

    @HistorywithCy

    4 жыл бұрын

    Nice! that's a cool name!

  • @ms-nl5io

    @ms-nl5io

    4 жыл бұрын

    You certainly look like an Amorite

  • @hemdanimadjid18

    @hemdanimadjid18

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@ms-nl5io what ??

  • @fruitypebbles2470
    @fruitypebbles24703 жыл бұрын

    Thanks I'm Jewish and i took a genetics test and got 44% cannanite 35% amorite and 7% hittite. And a few cannanite and amorite relatives they dug up Ashkelon and Galilee. ♥️

  • @Ermek57

    @Ermek57

    3 жыл бұрын

    So you have no connection to Abraham, right?)

  • @fruitypebbles2470

    @fruitypebbles2470

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Ermek57 Abraham was from Ur in Iraq which is where cannanites and amorites also lived :)

  • @Ermek57

    @Ermek57

    3 жыл бұрын

    Fruity Pebbles But you have no connection?))

  • @fruitypebbles2470

    @fruitypebbles2470

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Ermek57 it comes our as Levanite Arab on dna test and 34% iraqi :) the cannanites/amorite shows you ancient populations.

  • @Ermek57

    @Ermek57

    3 жыл бұрын

    Fruity Pebbles No

  • @nowankersallowed2115
    @nowankersallowed21154 жыл бұрын

    The intermingling of the different people would have essentially created new religion as they brought their own into one another's lives it would seem. This would have brought issues of its own. To marry into another religious background would mean compromising their own beliefs and traditions. Marriage to a Christian doesn't determine a long Christian marriage though because one person in that marriage can backslide which creates its own conflicts and feelings of betrayl because they married believing that was the common goal to further into God together. However the focus begins to shift and can cause the still believing to struggle within that situation and may even become resentful towards God himself. No matter how strong a person's faith initially is or seems to be, over time there can be a shift within the heart. The same thing can begin to happen within the marriage. This is why I didn't want a religious man.. but rather someone I enjoyed spending time with. I have seen the fruits of the marriage where they have been in that situation. However I myself cannot not believe in God. I wouldn't want to be with someone of a belief of a differing deity which only creates conflict that is not healthy. So I won't apologise for that.

  • @joelasher78
    @joelasher784 жыл бұрын

    Asherites

  • @lvctgz709

    @lvctgz709

    4 жыл бұрын

    What are you saying ashur has nothing to with amorites

  • @clin4everchey
    @clin4everchey Жыл бұрын

    Am curious to find out why you didn't use more of the bible as a source of reference for these in this video

  • @user-cg2tw8pw7j

    @user-cg2tw8pw7j

    Жыл бұрын

    The Amorites, the Bedouins, do not have traces, but when they took control of Iraq and made the kingdom of Babylon and Ashwar, they had traces.

  • @ezzovonachalm9815
    @ezzovonachalm9815 Жыл бұрын

    Matty John How is it that the holy Bible does not tell us that the Israëlites were pastoral nomads who came from Amurru to settle among the " land of Canaan , " later pretending that Canaan was promised them by their own god YHW ? So one could ask: what is the historical value of a chronic that hides the provenience of the Israelites ?

  • @PTM720
    @PTM7202 жыл бұрын

    I am Amorite...

  • @hemdanimadjid18
    @hemdanimadjid184 жыл бұрын

    Ammorite are ancien arab. Tho .

  • @Ermek57

    @Ermek57

    4 жыл бұрын

    Hemdani Madjid No

  • @hemdanimadjid18

    @hemdanimadjid18

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@Ermek57 . Yes they are . Do not Say just no without knowing shit . You know my ppl better than me .. you ignorant !!

  • @lvctgz709

    @lvctgz709

    4 жыл бұрын

    Hemdani Madjid no they are not the descendants of the amorites were arameans and Chaldeans and Arabs came from an arameans tribe called Arabi that’s why the Arabic alphabet is derived from that of the arameans

  • @hemdanimadjid18

    @hemdanimadjid18

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@lvctgz709 . It is rubbish. .. thé ammorite. Lived in Yémen in first place before migration to thé rest of middle east. The ammorite are thé rare semit group who occupéd all middle east . Not liké their other cousin liké phénicien and orhers. ... I am speaking. Of descent of Ismaël ..his sons married with amortie and from them arab Ismailite came. Liké nabatéens and qidari Thé Alphabet is other subjecte.

  • @lvctgz709

    @lvctgz709

    4 жыл бұрын

    Hemdani Madjid first of all the amorite people were so scattered that some could have lived there and even if so it wasn’t their origin that originated from the Levant because that’s were the fits traces of the amorites could have been found and the amorites called them self people of the was regering to the Levant and ancient Mesopotamia

  • @JRRodriguez-nu7po
    @JRRodriguez-nu7po4 жыл бұрын

    Main point of this video: despite his internet presence, Sargon of Akkad was defeated by the lovers of ites, the Amor-ites. Well I tried.

  • @HistorywithCy

    @HistorywithCy

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for stopping by! Lol... that's a good one. There are a few other Amorite jokes I've heard, some I think are in the comments.

  • @chelebelle2223

    @chelebelle2223

    4 жыл бұрын

    For which 'ole Sargon accused them of being Amor-wrong for doing that.....(Ok, I think I better take my cornball self to bed now....'Night all) 😴

  • @JRRodriguez-nu7po

    @JRRodriguez-nu7po

    4 жыл бұрын

    OK, no Sargon, but we got Boris!

  • @Sara-bs9rz
    @Sara-bs9rz2 жыл бұрын

    The Amorites are the ancestors of the Arabs

  • @Stauroforos12

    @Stauroforos12

    2 жыл бұрын

    Nope, Arab already exist, there many tribes in arabia

  • @Stauroforos12

    @Stauroforos12

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@sumerian777 yeah but syria is assyrian land

  • @Sara-bs9rz

    @Sara-bs9rz

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Stauroforos12 this is not true

  • @Sara-bs9rz

    @Sara-bs9rz

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Stauroforos12 The first mention of the Arabs was 800 BC in Syria, The amorites were much older

  • @algarniAS

    @algarniAS

    Жыл бұрын

    Canaanites, Amorites, jurhum and Yemen tribes Are The Old Arab Who Ismael peace upon him lived, married and learned from them, then became an Arab like them