Very well done. We are separated by such an immense span of time from Kish but I'm pleased to exist in a time where individuals and institutions are curious about those ancient people, and that we pour energy into trying to grasp and understand them. And I wonder...will people separated from us by the same span of time be as curious about us as we were about our ancestors? Will they pour through our records, explore the ruins we leave behind, and wonder about how we lived, and thought? I hope so. :)

@MatchBookNotes

2 жыл бұрын

I foresee a lot of face palming in our descendents future lol

@TeganHoney

Жыл бұрын

I, too wonder. What will they think about our way of life as they watch KZread videos on the screen of their self driving/flying car. Lucky they are.

Hi Cy, I never leave comments, but you have quickly become my favorite KZreadr and I hope you know we appreciate this hard work. Many here won't understand the hours of labor and passion that goes into projects like these, but I certainly do. Channels like yours show that engaging content doesn't need flash or clickbait. Accurate, well-sourced history in the hands of a good storyteller will always be more compelling than any blockbuster, to me, anyway. Please keep up this excellent work, you improve every video!

@HistorywithCy

2 жыл бұрын

Man, comments like this make my day! Thanks so much for the feedback and I'm also thrilled that you're enjoy these videos...motivates me to put out more of these! Lots more on the way my friend, stay tuned and thanks again for watching these and the support, really appreciate it!

So many Sumerian cities with long and distinct history. Well done Cy, keep them coming!

@HistorywithCy

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks my friend, glad you enjoyed it and lots more on the way, stay tuned and safe!

I’m actually surprised you hadn’t already covered this city, it’s such an important one! Great vid as always.

@HistorywithCy

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I've mentioned it here and there, but as you stated, it's definitely an important one and should have had a video soon! Thanks for watching and more ancient city histories on the way, stay tuned!

Kish, Babylon, Seleucia, Ctesiphon and Baghdad all are within an area of 60 km across and they all were the world's largest city at some point in time. Seems to be a very good place for a big metropolis!

@micha2909

2 жыл бұрын

@Spolierman Akkad certainly belongs to this club but we don't know where it was located. There is some evidence it was located in the Baghdad area as well, if so, it must be added to the list!

I like how the Tigris River and Euphrates River still supports cities and nations this day!!

Thank you CY. The city of Kish was once great city and thousands years later was a great archeology site but you put it in our knowledge!

@HistorywithCy

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, glad you enjoyed this and more on the way, stay tuned and safe!

You know for a fact that we are fans of both you cy, and Kish in general. Our Adventure game coming out april 19th kickstarter (shameless plug) is based on Kish and Ur. Good work as always

Thanks Cy can't wait for the next one. I love Mesopotamia, I reckon it's fascinating. Every bit the equal of Egypt and so under valued. I bet most people have no idea of how many of the stories we all learn as kids come from there.

@listenup2882

2 жыл бұрын

Equal of Egypt? You're joking right?

@alissa6

2 жыл бұрын

@@listenup2882 Europeans looked up to Greece. Asians looked up to Persia. Africans looked up to Egypt. And Egypt, Greece and Persia looked up to whatever was in between them(Iraq and Syria).

@listenup2882

2 жыл бұрын

@Spolierman still very much a stretch to say that Sumer was the equal of Egypt.

@listenup2882

2 жыл бұрын

@@alissa6 Greece and Rome looked up to Egypt and borrowed extensively from Egypt.

@alissa6

2 жыл бұрын

@@listenup2882 When Alexander conquered the known world which place did he admire the most and where did he settle down and die? Babylon. Who were the first great astronomers? Babylonians. Who is the first great law giver in the world? King Hammurabi. Who were the first great inventors? Sumerians. What was the first civilization? Sumer. Which are the second oldest civilizations? Ebla and Canaan. Who were the first farmers? Natufians. Which place has the oldest and well crafted art in the world? The Göbekli Tepe in Turkey formerly Natufian Syria. Which is the first recorded world power in the world? Eblaite empire. Which is the first world empire? Sumerian empire of Adab. Which is the first empire to conquer the known world? Akkadian empire. Lands between the two rivers, Iraq and Syria🏆

Hey Cy l, love your commitment to ancient history videos. Most channels only go as far back as 1000bc but you really produced a great amount of videos about the bronze age and copper age. Thank you for the work you do.

I have always been fond of the civilization of Mesopotamia, and I have not found a better one than you to explain this civilization in a distinctive and wonderful way... I really thank you for the tremendous efforts you are making in providing this historical knowledge

So appreciate these videos. Learning more about these early civilizations is awesome. Helps me go down rabbit holes for more information.

What I like about cy is that he covers underrated topics and civilizations. Plus cy videos have always been high quality, even when his channel was very small.

Fantastic narration and content.

As always an excellent presentation to one whose knowledge of this period and people woefully lacking. Cheers mate! 👍👍

Fantastic presentation as always. Thank you Cy!

@HistorywithCy

2 жыл бұрын

My pleasure, thank you for watching!

I was excited when I got the notification! Once again wonderful work!

@HistorywithCy

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks my friend, glad you're still enjoying these videos on ancient Mesopotamia! Can't wait to put out more for all of you, stay tuned!

Another fantastic video, Cy! I really enjoyed this one.

@HistorywithCy

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks and glad you liked it! More of such cities on the way, stay tuned and thanks for watching!

Making learning about history enjoyable. I learning a lot from your videos.

Nice. I've been wondering about Kish because of your previous videos.

Excellent! Thank you so much! I always love to hear about these ancient cities.

@HistorywithCy

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, glad you enjoyed this and thanks for watching!

Thank you again Cy. I love your videos and content

@HistorywithCy

2 жыл бұрын

My pleasure, thank you for watching, really appreciate it!

Thank you for another informative episode.

@HistorywithCy

2 жыл бұрын

My pleasure, thanks for watching!

Awesome as usual Cy! Thanks 👍

@HistorywithCy

2 жыл бұрын

My pleasure, thanks for watching!

always enjoyable and a great refresher.

@HistorywithCy

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it! More on the way, stay tuned!

👍👍👍Thank you Cy, I always enjoy your video's!!

@HistorywithCy

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, and I'm so grateful that you consistently tune in to these! Thanks so much for watching and the support, really appreciate it!

Great video again CY.

@HistorywithCy

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it! Other ancient cities on the way, stay tuned and thanks for watching!

What!!!? Another History with you, Cy! YAY 🤗💕

@HistorywithCy

2 жыл бұрын

Haha yeah, and more on the way, stay tuned! Thanks for watching!

@anitapollard1627

2 жыл бұрын

@@HistorywithCy Thank YOU!!

Fantastic job as usual

@HistorywithCy

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much 😀

love your presentation style. keep it up.

@HistorywithCy

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much, glad that you enjoy these... more on the way, stay tuned!

@ajithsidhu7183

2 жыл бұрын

@@HistorywithCy uruk and indo aryan please

@alissa6

2 жыл бұрын

@@HistorywithCy You have the best history channel on YT bar none. Do you know who ruled the Akkadian empire in it's zenith, Naram-Sin or Sharkalisharri? I know that Naram-Sin had the whole known world by the bawls.

Excellent work Sir

@HistorywithCy

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it! More on they way, stay tuned!

Great video! 👍🙏

@HistorywithCy

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks my friend, appreciate it!

Fascinating!

Thanks. Your videos are riveting.

@HistorywithCy

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, and thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed it!

Love your vids

@HistorywithCy

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Great video. Will you do a video on Nippur, the holiest and most sacred city of Mesopotamia?

Nice one as usual. Still waiting for an episode on Susa. Happy persian new year.

@HistorywithCy

2 жыл бұрын

Nowruz pirooz baradar! Haha yes, there will be one on Susa eventually but before that I'll have a quick one on Pasargadae. Also thinking about one for summer/fall on Elam similar to the longer one I did on the Sumerians... stay tuned and thanks for watching my friend, be safe!

So glad for this.

@HistorywithCy

2 жыл бұрын

My pleasure, thanks for watching!

Best channel on KZread 💯

@HistorywithCy

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, I'm so honored and thrilled that you enjoy the content here that much! Lots more on the way, stay tuned and safe!

Great job

@HistorywithCy

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Great video, thanks!

@HistorywithCy

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it! Other ancient cities on the way, stay tuned and thanks for watching!

@carlinberg

2 жыл бұрын

@@HistorywithCy nice! Looking forward to it! I'm enjoying the Egypt dynasty series a lot too :)

@HistorywithCy

2 жыл бұрын

@@carlinberg Oh great, a lot on Egypt coming out in the next month, hope you like it!

Another great video! I just love ancient Mesopotamian history. The older the better in my opinion.

@HistorywithCy

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it!

Hi! bothering you again ☺ Is it possible to try make one special episode on the topic of the cultural turn from the period of Mithraic belief to Zoroastrianism and the very undertaking of the ruler to pass the first laws except the gods or Manus. You have studied a lot the development or degradation of the Middle East and for sure you can give some insight by studying cultural conflicts.

@48walsh15

2 жыл бұрын

Great idea

@siminfarahani6566

Жыл бұрын

👌 great idea I love to watch and listen to that video

O love your vídeos because is Very good

AWESOME! Do something on Harrappa.

@HistorywithCy

2 жыл бұрын

One day, yes...thanks for watching!

7:40 Narām(ogu)-Sīn ඞ Great video as usual btw

@HistorywithCy

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, more on the way!

It would be a dream fulfilled to be able to visit Iraq to see these incredible places. 💕

Thank you.

@HistorywithCy

2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

I've been to one of the ziggarots and it was one of three spiritually powerful places I've been in my life the other 2 are when I climbed a Mayan temple and a mississippian shrine to their underworld God that's around my families land (made a video on my channel showing all the red paintings if anyone is interested) great video man kinda crazy that my country butt has been around alot of those places in modern Iraq u were talkin about

Does this posible proto-Akadian civ be related to the Assyrian origin where we see the comment of the king list of "the kings who live in tends" or it has been totally proof to be related to the Amorrites? I don't know if was on your channel or somwhere else tp have read that probably some of the king lists where altered afterwards the Amorrite assimilation, tho this new narrative could give them some ground for an exclusive Akadian origin.

@alissa6

2 жыл бұрын

It's amazing how a bunch of farmers from the Levant ruled south and north Mesopotamia and north Egypt.

Hey Cy have you by chance tried studying any of these languages. I’m learning Assyrian text and didn’t know how hard it would be.

*that is truly telling...* _"the kingship had once again descended from the heavens"..._ now... if i could only understand it...

I spent 2008/09 and again in 2010/11 in Iraq, I have always been fascinated by that land, so much history and time has passed, that you can feel it, no other place on this planet makes you feel what I felt in that land. One feels very small.

@HistorywithCy

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I've always want to visit some of these sites ... hopefully one day. For now, the closest I can get is in some of the great museums like the British Museum and the Louvre, but that's nothing like actually being there. Thanks for stopping by and watching, really appreciate it! The next ancient city will be Mari, stay tuned!

ok... i haven't watched it yet... but the beginning looks real good....

@HistorywithCy

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, hope you enjoyed it!

5:11 could be asyrians or kassite , there was a migration from the city due to war. and the people from the civilization moved all over Asia. there was one group who even went to Kazakhstan. what happsn to them is unknown to me but rest have named land after Kash and for my ancestors they only kept the land named after them. similarly elam or Ilam in iran also has nepal Ilam. the sounding of word is similar.

thanks! Iran exhibition now ready at villa

@HistorywithCy

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I saw some of the photos from the exhibit that one of my professors posted on his Facebook... the little I saw looks great - one photo had the akinakes of Artaxerxes I! I can't wait to go but won't be able to make it for a few weeks. Ahh, the suspense...

I recall learning of Mesopotamia in grade school. Hopelessly over-simplified version of a long and complex period. Nice to know of someone who appreciates the details

Good day Cy. I suspected that the time or period of the Great Revolt during the reign of King Naram-Sin, must had been somewhere around or after about 100 years since the worldwide Great Flood occurred. The presence of many kings and impostors were widespread during this time, when many races of different tribes, speaking different tongues intermingled with the descendants of Noah. At the site of the Tower of Babel it was the language confusion and chaos, with the mix-up of newcomers. Coeval with this event in Egypt was the timeline of the First Intermediate Period History of Egypt, after the destruction of the Old Kingdom by the Great Flood. The First Intermediate Period was the great chaos and language confusion in Egypt when, the Hebrew group of Mizraim mixed up with the returning Egyptians to claim their land and inheritance. Thousands upon thousands of different races, unlike the physique of Noah's group, returned and were scattered in every corners and nook of the planet beginning after about 100 years since the Great Flood. Plants and animal life were likewise distributed where we could see them in their respective regions and habitat afterwards. The more noticeable of some people and personages that descended to earth post-flood, were Melchizedek, the Olympian Gods, the Divine Royal Ancestors of the Japanese and really many, many more. Have a nice day and future soon. Thank you.

Amazing video. A shame that despite being one of the major players in sumerian times we have just a few epics related to Kish (just the story of Etana). Maybe it is related to the sumerian renaissence choice of focusing in writing about Uruk ,the city goddess Inanna and the exploits of the kings Enmerkar,Lugalbanda and Gilgamesh. In a way the same happened to Greek culture in late Hellenistic and Roman times.With time they become too foccused on Athens and its legacy.

@missourimongoose8858

2 жыл бұрын

Just my 2 cents but it seems like the land of kish would of been attacked first by the steppe people who don't really care about writing so alot of it was prolly destroyed when they collapsed

Goat

@HistorywithCy

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

2:36 flood or water level that surrounded earth is quite important as khash people who migrated from the city chose high elevated land for civilization. atleast that was one of the reasons they settled in Nepal. similarly according to Hindu and Buddhist text flood surrounded the earth and god took human to mountain of Nepal and Tibet ( highest elevation) and from there people moved as water level dried. according to Hindu text their 4 vedas where also distributed here. now this is somewhat ironic becuse as khash we know we came from city of kish. but then here we went from Nepal to kish to back to nepal. anyways it could just be a Grey area I mean it so old to provide evidence on where human moved from. some claim turkey mountain but again it could just be Victor's who changed the placement of history. that being said their Is a saying all bird fly back home. and it kind off ironic that 9% of bird species in earth come back to nepal (birds from Serbia to Australia which is suprising).

I really do not know rhat about Kish, everybody knows about Babylon, Ur, auruk and Lagash. Nice !

@HistorywithCy

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, glad you found this useful! Yeah, Ur and Babylon are the big ones I supposed because they're mentioned in the Bible so there is a lot more interest in them. A lot of interesting cities though and will do my best to cover more of them in the near future, stay tuned!

My ancestors where from the city of kish. Also known as khash people. who where known as khash which kept their identity and their root from the city. Iran has kashmar and kashan which can be named after these people, similarly khash people occupied Afghanistan including the capital Kabul at one point in time and have left a mark as kash provience in one of the region. then looking at Pakistan kashmir and kashmere provience. looking at china kashghar (Qing gang), infact from China Qing gang and Tibet region my ancestors moved to nepal. khash make 70% of Nepal population. even the language nepali arives from khash kura. which is basically language of the khash. similarly nepali pahdee people (khash) closest blood will be the people of Caspian region. when the initial khash migration started some also went to Kazakhstan and northern India additional to above country. further certain word of Caspian country like Armenia and nepali are very similar even if it is so far away. for example nepali word for father is baba same as armenia. yes in nepali is ho and po in armenia and then it is in nepali is esto and este in armenia. that being said kish was part of one of the oldest civilization that saw it people move to so many various country ( china, india, Pakistan, nepal, Afghanistan and more). Chinese specially called khash as yartsee tribe. and many of the khash population in southern Asia where humilated and harassed to lose their identity. specifically By new Indian groups such as rajput of india. that being said khash brought Iranian agriculture as well as tradition of using right and left hand for specific task such as eating. this influence is also known as babylonian tradition which is seen in all religious book from Torah, Bible and Quran where a person uses a specif hand for specific task such as wielding a sword to fight and eating food. one other importantly factor about khash people is that the ancient Roman knew about them and so did the Indian and Chinese. becuse Indus Valley civilization on it own has seen Iranian knowlge for example the irigation pipeline used in Agriculture in sewage movement in Indus Valley. last khash people also the people with advanced civilization for their period saw one of the first literature of any kind. the kish tablet is the proof that show their civilized charaxteristic.

Has anyone thought about tye language of the blind? This may be a way...to understand even more????

Did zigarrots have rooms or were they solid?

@HistorywithCy

2 жыл бұрын

Mostly solid, though some of them had large niches and rooms and were built on top of older temporaries and sanctuaries. A complete ziggurat though had the main sanctuary on the top. Thanks for watching and more on the way, stay tuned!

Abraam or Abraham resident of UR Babylon is ancient patriarch of Sumaria or Dravidian of ancient Indian culture 😍😍

@thegutiinvader8727

2 жыл бұрын

God is Tamil also?

👍

@HistorywithCy

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Nourooz Pirouz!

@HistorywithCy

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks baradar, you too! All the best... this year will have a lot of Persian history content coming up!

@cyrusthegreat1893

2 жыл бұрын

@@HistorywithCy Sépās bärādär! Looking forward to seeing all of them!

@HistorywithCy

2 жыл бұрын

@@cyrusthegreat1893 For sure, I've been waiting so long to complete and post them!

@cyrusthegreat1893

2 жыл бұрын

@@HistorywithCy It’s so exciting to see the Parthian and especially Sassanian series finally coming out! Thanks for all your hard work efforts to make such great and wonderful educational history video! 🙏🏻

Jii

I think modern scholars confuse Kish with Eithiopia today.

We wuz kangs, city if kangz dayemmmm son

Kush to Kish.

We of European decent, are related to the fertile crescent, our ancient mothers came from there.

@listenup2882

2 жыл бұрын

Untrue.

@rnedlo9909

2 жыл бұрын

@@listenup2882 Really. Prove it wrong

@thegutiinvader8727

2 жыл бұрын

@@rnedlo9909 Prove it correct?

@rnedlo9909

2 жыл бұрын

@@thegutiinvader8727 You first.

@thegutiinvader8727

2 жыл бұрын

@@rnedlo9909 wait so you make the citationless claim first. But others have to disprove you first. I smell bs

Actually there is not soo well know fact becouse its going to rewrite history but actually this civilization lived in todays Bulgaria. Around 6000 BC Black sea was lake and the oldest gold treasure is found in Varna Bulgaria, Also the ancient city of "Stara zagora" is around 8000 years old and after the great flood in Black sea this civilization become nomads in order to spread their knowledge around the world !

@alissa6

2 жыл бұрын

But that's a culture not a civilization. The oldest known culture is the Natufian culture.

@alissa6

2 жыл бұрын

@Spolierman And Göbekli Tepe has some amazing art for it's time.

@thegutiinvader8727

2 жыл бұрын

Least nationalist Bulgarian

Ur Uruk Maari and Amma or Umma 😍are original Dravidian names 😍 Tamil names of South India

The bible has one of Ham's sons named Kush /Cush or Geesh as the father of Nimrod; could Kish be the same person? Also Is Gishur really (Kish of Ur) Why do you say King Gishur ruling for 1200 years was a dynasty? Did they not have a word for a 'Dynasty?' Also how did a Dynasty survive for 1200 years without being overthrown? No wars? No coups? No famines? This Gishur guy sure was powerful maybe because he had the (King ship?) The bible has people living into their 900s and now Kish has (a single king) rulling for 1200. Perhaps we should study how they lived so long? Also what is this [King ship] you skip over? Is there any other references to the (King ship) when did they loose it? Was it lost in battle or did it just leave? The Hindu have stories of giant (King ships) too; are they related?

@fordprefect80

2 жыл бұрын

No one has ever lived anywhere near that long. The ancients loved to tell stories and exaggerate the facts.

@charlesco7413

2 жыл бұрын

@@fordprefect80 Your cognitive bias pushes you to that conclusion. (They told "tall tales" in their historic accounts of rulership?) Then why stop at 1200? And why put another rulled for less why 900? Maybe a YEAR for a king was 3 months so 1200 king years would be 33 human years? But thats just a guess.

@fordprefect80

2 жыл бұрын

@@charlesco7413 Or the ancient scribes loved to exaggerate to an extreme degree. I wonder what Cy or Dr Miano would say about kings reigning for enormous lengths of time?

@AloisWeimar

2 жыл бұрын

@@charlesco7413 mainly due to numerology and cultural impacts of a base four counting system.

@charlesco7413

2 жыл бұрын

@@AloisWeimar what bases do you have for the base 4 counting system? I can only find a base 60 system

cuneiform... looks a lot like ancient Chinese script to me...

@jonerlandson1956

2 жыл бұрын

@Spolierman so is china... younger...

@jonerlandson1956

2 жыл бұрын

@Spolierman it just depends upon trade...

@jonerlandson1956

2 жыл бұрын

@Spolierman no... there is a lot of shit...

@thegutiinvader8727

2 жыл бұрын

I assume you are an expert on both scripts?

@jonerlandson1956

2 жыл бұрын

@@thegutiinvader8727 *abhorrence...* is a word we should recognize... buttz.. we don't.... all is goodz here in buttzfuckzland... you abhorrent fucking beast you... where?... i don't believe in the things i seeze... buttz... you'ze does... perversion before justice... because... i can associate with it... the united states... has never in G-d's name been about... "we the people"... those peoples are long gone... the united states is about... we the principles... vision... getz yerz checked... because... when in the course of human events... andz... of Nature's God... we find ourselves at crossroads... a natural phenomenon... division... diversion... evolutions...

Sumer = 🇦🇱 Shumë Herët 🇦🇱 = Way Early