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8. The Sumerians - Fall of the First Cities

Fall of Civilizations
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WATCH AD-FREE:   / fallofcivilizations_podcast   In the dusts of Iraq, the ruins of the world's first civilization lie buried. This episode, we travel into the extremely distant past to look at the Sumerians. These ancient people invented writing and mathematics, and built some of the largest cities that the world had ever seen. Find out about the mystery of their origins, and learn how they rose from humble beginnings to form the foundation of all our modern societies. With myths, proverbs and even some recreated Sumerian music, travel back to where it all began, and find out how humanity's first civilization fell. ** Fall of Civilizations the book is now available to pre-order: linktr.ee/fallofcivilizations ** SOURCES:   / 31032299   Credits: Sound engineering by Thomas Ntinas Voice Actors: Jake Barrett-Mills Rhy Brignell Shem Jacobs Nick Bradley Emily Johnson Photography of Sumerian artefacts by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg), CC-BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons. Music by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Artist: incompetech.com/ Title theme: Home At Last by John Bartmann. https://johnbartmann.com/ ...more
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The Sumerians

6:18

Taurus Mountains

7:10

Rocks of the Mountains

10:11

The Ubaid Period

16:18

The Sumerians and the Accardians

19:19

The Sumerian Problem

20:06

Tigris and Euphrates

25:44

Homeland

32:58

Stimulus and Response Effect

39:16

The City of Eredu

39:58

Eredu

40:59

Birth of Civilizations

45:18

The First Stars

45:21

Cuneiform

47:52

Oldest Cuneiform Clay Tablets

47:57

The Period of Uruk

50:18

Pottery

50:44

Economy

51:39

Neolithic Monument Stonehenge

53:50

White Temple

57:11

The Silver Mines

1:15:16

Origin Story of Sargon of Akkad

1:17:22

The Curse of Akkad

1:35:48

Ziggurats

1:48:28

Ziggurat

1:49:06

The Death of Urunamu

1:55:52

The Matu

1:57:34

Population Movement

2:10:23

Great Coastal City of Ur

2:13:09

The Epic of Gilgamesh

2:21:44
8. The Sumerians - Fall of the First Cities
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2020Aug 16
WATCH AD-FREE:   / fallofcivilizations_podcast   In the dusts of Iraq, the ruins of the world's first civilization lie buried. This episode, we travel into the extremely distant past to look at the Sumerians. These ancient people invented writing and mathematics, and built some of the largest cities that the world had ever seen. Find out about the mystery of their origins, and learn how they rose from humble beginnings to form the foundation of all our modern societies. With myths, proverbs and even some recreated Sumerian music, travel back to where it all began, and find out how humanity's first civilization fell. ** Fall of Civilizations the book is now available to pre-order: linktr.ee/fallofcivilizations ** SOURCES:   / 31032299   Credits: Sound engineering by Thomas Ntinas Voice Actors: Jake Barrett-Mills Rhy Brignell Shem Jacobs Nick Bradley Emily Johnson Photography of Sumerian artefacts by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg), CC-BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons. Music by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Artist: incompetech.com/ Title theme: Home At Last by John Bartmann. https://johnbartmann.com/

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Fall of Civilizations

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