Made In History | Ancient Mesopotamia (Sumer and the Great City of Ur) BEGINNINGS Ep. 2 @MadeInHistory | Uploaded November 2021 | Updated October 2024, 7 hours ago.
Ancient Mesopotamia tells the story of the first river civilizations of the Near East, with a focus on Sumer and its urban center of Ur.
A river valley civilization is an agricultural nation or civilization situated beside and drawing sustenance from a river. A "civilization" means a society with large permanent settlements featuring urban development, social stratification, specialization of labour, centralized organization, and written or other formal means of communication. A river gives the inhabitants a reliable source of water for drinking and agriculture. Additional benefits include fishing, fertile soil due to annual flooding, and ease of transportation. The first great civilizations, such as those in Mesopotamia, Harappa and Ancient Egypt, all grew up in river valleys. Mesopotamia civilization flourished near Tigris River and civilization of Egypt flourished near river Nile.
Sumer is the earliest known civilization in the historical region of southern Mesopotamia (now southern Iraq), emerging during the Chalcolithic and early Bronze Ages between the sixth and fifth millennium BC. It is also one of the first civilizations in the world, along with ancient Egypt, the Caral-Supe civilization, the Indus Valley civilization, the Minoan civilization, and ancient China. Living along the valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates, Sumerian farmers grew an abundance of grain and other crops, the surplus from which enabled them to form urban settlements. Proto-writing dates back before 3000 BC. The earliest texts come from the cities of Uruk and Jemdet Nasr, and date to between c. 3500 and c. 3000 BC.
Ur was an important Sumerian city-state in ancient Mesopotamia, located at the site of modern "Tell el-Muqayyar" in south Iraq's Dhi Qar Governorate. Although Ur was once a coastal city near the mouth of the Euphrates on the Persian Gulf, the coastline has shifted and the city is now well inland, on the south bank of the Euphrates, 16 kilometres (9.9 miles) from Nasiriyah in modern-day Iraq. The city dates from the Ubaid period circa 3800 BC, and is recorded in written history as a city-state from the 26th century BC, its first recorded king being Mesannepada.
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0:00 Intro
0:08 Early River Civilizations
1:56 Sumer
5:32 City of Ur
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Ancient Mesopotamia tells the story of the first river civilizations of the Near East, with a focus on Sumer and its urban center of Ur.
A river valley civilization is an agricultural nation or civilization situated beside and drawing sustenance from a river. A "civilization" means a society with large permanent settlements featuring urban development, social stratification, specialization of labour, centralized organization, and written or other formal means of communication. A river gives the inhabitants a reliable source of water for drinking and agriculture. Additional benefits include fishing, fertile soil due to annual flooding, and ease of transportation. The first great civilizations, such as those in Mesopotamia, Harappa and Ancient Egypt, all grew up in river valleys. Mesopotamia civilization flourished near Tigris River and civilization of Egypt flourished near river Nile.
Sumer is the earliest known civilization in the historical region of southern Mesopotamia (now southern Iraq), emerging during the Chalcolithic and early Bronze Ages between the sixth and fifth millennium BC. It is also one of the first civilizations in the world, along with ancient Egypt, the Caral-Supe civilization, the Indus Valley civilization, the Minoan civilization, and ancient China. Living along the valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates, Sumerian farmers grew an abundance of grain and other crops, the surplus from which enabled them to form urban settlements. Proto-writing dates back before 3000 BC. The earliest texts come from the cities of Uruk and Jemdet Nasr, and date to between c. 3500 and c. 3000 BC.
Ur was an important Sumerian city-state in ancient Mesopotamia, located at the site of modern "Tell el-Muqayyar" in south Iraq's Dhi Qar Governorate. Although Ur was once a coastal city near the mouth of the Euphrates on the Persian Gulf, the coastline has shifted and the city is now well inland, on the south bank of the Euphrates, 16 kilometres (9.9 miles) from Nasiriyah in modern-day Iraq. The city dates from the Ubaid period circa 3800 BC, and is recorded in written history as a city-state from the 26th century BC, its first recorded king being Mesannepada.
1. THIS VIDEO IS AN EPISODE FROM CHAPTER 1 OF OUR MADE IN ANCIENT HISTORY SERIES
Chapter 1 Playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaWQkkziGGfc7G_EHR49g-sDPjjANB7dX
Welcome to our new MADE IN ANCIENT HISTORY series! This new series is meant to be a deep dive into the Ancient and Classical periods all over the WORLD! This 1st Chapter is called Beginnings, and deals with the transition from the Prehistoric age into the Cradles of Civilization and other early civilizations.
2. CLICK HERE IF YOU'RE NEW TO HISTORY AND WANT A FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARY OF THE ENTIRE HISTORY OF THE WORLD: youtu.be/T5PwyuzSYcs
3. Check out our WORLD DOCUMENTARY playlist (Long Form Documentaries):
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaWQkkziGGfcm0zawwpoKVti5DCTsoTBH
4. Check out our playlists by PERIOD (Short Form Documentaries):
youtube.com/channel/UCFn4wt14ytUbngBJp8SsWKQ/playlists?view=50&sort=dd&shelf_id=3
0:00 Intro
0:08 Early River Civilizations
1:56 Sumer
5:32 City of Ur
This is a LONG TERM project, one we hope everyone can enjoy!
Please subscribe to Made In History for more videos! We are always trying to grow!
All images used with CC license.
Music used:
Aaron Kenny - Desert Caravan
