The World's First Superpower: Sargon of Akkad and the Mighty Akkadian Empire

The World's First Superpower: Sargon of Akkad and the Mighty Akkadian Empire - Bronze Age History

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This is the video that many of your have been waiting for - a comprehensive, in-depth look at the Akkadian Empire from just before it was created to its mysterious end. Founded by Sargon of Akkad and expanded by his descendants Rimush, Manishtushu and Naram-Sin, the Akkadian Empire was the first hegemonic state and superpower of the early Bronze Age. This program will examine Akkad's beginning, it's rise and expansion to the far corners of the known world, its economy, administration, collapse and legacy.
Contents:
00:00 Introduction: The World Before Sargon of Akkad
04:37 Lugalzagesi
09:33 The Early Life and Legends of Sargon of Akkad
13:24 Who were the Akkadians?
16:05 Sargon and Ur-Zababa
20:01 The Founding of the Akkadian Empire
22:17 Sargon Battles Against Elam and Marhashi
23:24 King of Battle
25:49 Administration of the Akkadian Empire
27:26 Enheduanna
30:15 The Glory of Agade
36:30 Rimush the Warmonger
45:48 Manishtushu the Consolidator
49:10 Naram-Sin and the Great Revolt
53:55 Naram-Sin the Divine
57:40 Naram-Sin and Elam
1:00:04 Other Conquests of Naram-Sin
1:01:28 Akkadian Administration under Naram-Sin
1:03:26 Land Distribution and Reforms
1:07:28 Family of Naram-Sin and Diplomatic Marriages
1:09:56 Shar-kali-sharri and the End of an Era
1:16:55 After Akkad
1:18:29 Thank You and Patrons
Thanks to Irena for being the voice of Enheduanna. Check out her amazing channel @ancientsitesgirl to travel so some of the world's most interesting archaeological sites.
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Sources and Suggested Reading:
The Age of Agade: Inventing Empire in Ancient Mesopotamia - Benjamin R. Foster
Before the Muses: An Anthology of Akkadian Literature - Benjamin R. Foster
The Ancient Near East: History, Society and Economy - Mario Liverani
A History of Babylon, 2200 BC - AD 75 - Paul-Alain Beaulieu
Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East - Amanda H. Podany
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@kevinmilner2072 Ай бұрын

I love how Cy's videos always have a map with an Elam token lurking off to the side obviously causing trouble.

@HistorywithCy Ай бұрын

Lol yeah in these videos the Elam token has become the bogeyman of Mesopotamia, just lurking there in the corner, waiting for the right time to strike!

@kevinmilner2072 Ай бұрын

@@HistorywithCy "and we would have gotten away with it too, if not for those meddlesome Medes!"

@HistorywithCy Ай бұрын

@@kevinmilner2072 🤣🤣

@satohime Ай бұрын

an hour and 20 minutes of Akkadian history is the best gift we could receive for the weekend🙏🏼

@HistorywithCy Ай бұрын

Thanks, hope you enjoyed it and stay tuned for more...thanks for watching!

@shzarmai Ай бұрын

@@HistorywithCy thank you very much for this wealth of information and please consider making on the Helmand Culture of Bronze Age Afghanistan

@michaellewis7959 Ай бұрын

Cy!! Hello! I must say the content of your channel has just become better and better over the years. Really impressive that your documentaries outshines and far out performs anything from multi million dollar netflix for example. Keep up the fantastic work!!

@HistorywithCy Ай бұрын

As always, thank YOU for continuing to watching these and supporting the channel all these years. You were there when I released my first video on Sargon and the Akkadian Empire when the channel was in its infancy and still here for the latest one... means the world, thanks for everything!

@WanaxTV Ай бұрын

Probably the best video on the Akkadians on KZfaq. Great job Cy! ☑️

@Fjodor.Tabularasa Ай бұрын

Fall of civilisations

@HistorywithCy Ай бұрын

Thanks bro, appreciate the kind words though I must say your Akkadian videos rocked! Love your maps!

@ancientsitesgirl Ай бұрын

Working with you is always a pleasure! Thanks for this! ❤️

@HistorywithCy Ай бұрын

Thank YOU for bringing Enheduanna to life and inspiring us all to travel more!

@ancientsitesgirl Ай бұрын

Thank you for your support and for allowing me to once again be a part of your amazing video. It's an honor!

@javieredward777 Ай бұрын

@@HistorywithCy I like your channel. Very informational. 😊.

@TERMICOBRA Ай бұрын

Outstanding episode. I instantly recognized Irena's voice. I love her channel. When she says "Let's go!" you know you're going to learn something amazing about the ancient world.

@HistorywithCy Ай бұрын

Yes, here channel is great, I'm planning my next trip to Egypt from her videos! Thanks for watching, really appreciate it!

@pumpkin2477 Ай бұрын

I have a massive interest in ancient mesopotamia and you are by far my favorite channel covering the topic. Massive thanks for your hard and brilliant work!

@HistorywithCy Ай бұрын

Thanks so much for the kind words, really makes day and glad you're enjoying these! More coming up, stay tuned and thanks for watching!

@xetht600 Ай бұрын

Almost an hour and a half of Akkad??? You always do great work Cy! Thank you!

@HistorywithCy Ай бұрын

Thank you too for watching!

@HistorywithCy Ай бұрын

Thank you too for watching! Interesting, let me know when you're done developing the game... would love to check it out!

@codyclick190 Ай бұрын

Thanks Cy! Always appreciate one of your long form videos

@HistorywithCy Ай бұрын

My pleasure, thanks for watching!

@zas3141 Ай бұрын

We still have Akkadian word in our Kurdish language.

@genericascanbe3728 24 күн бұрын

Thats cool, what are a few?

@StanfordMommaerts-Brown 19 күн бұрын

Those are called loan words. We have loan words in English from Chinese. Sop Sue (left overs) = Chop Suey. I mention this because Kurdish is an Iranesque language.

@elialit123 10 күн бұрын

Most Hebrew words still have a solid Akkadian origin, and many Arabic words also

@elialit123 10 күн бұрын

@@genericascanbe3728I've actually found a website with the full Akkadian dictionary. Just write Akkadian words dictionary/lexicon and it's a very basic site, but it has thousands of words

@Azqabat Ай бұрын

I've waited for a video exactly this size. The tidbits were okay, but I digest at lest hourly themed videos far easier. Keep up the good work Cy!

@HistorywithCy Ай бұрын

Thanks, glad you enjoy these longer ones. I also prefer this format because feel that I can give more context and tell the story better, it's just that they take so long to make compared to the shorter ones. I have several longer videos like this one in the works so stay tuned and thanks for watching!

@interdictr3657 Ай бұрын

I was hoping for this. Excellent. And many thanks!

@HistorywithCy Ай бұрын

My pleasure, thanks for watching!

@kersebleptes1317 Ай бұрын

These longer videos that you do now are excellent (this one being no different!). You've always been great at summoning up the atmosphere of the past, with your well chosen and presented quotes, but now this is accompanied by the wealth of detail that there just wasn't time for before. This was a real pleasure to watch!

@HistorywithCy Ай бұрын

Thanks, so glad you enjoyed this! I will keep trying to do longer videos more because I like being able to tell the whole story in one shot and also it allows me to add more detail and context. Thanks so much for watching, really appreciate it and stay tuned for more!

@beasleydad Ай бұрын

Always a good listen/watch. I've learned so much about our past as humans. I haven't been here from video 1, but I've been around for a while. You rock.

@HistorywithCy Ай бұрын

Thanks, glad you've been enjoying these! Appreciate the support and stay tuned for more...thanks for watching!

@hughquigley5337 Ай бұрын

Wow, this was an incredible video. Thank you so much for making it! I'm sure it took a long time. I visited the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (formerly the Oriental Institute) at the University of Chicago in 2022 and I gotta say... it was breathtaking. I was interested in archaeology beforehand, but seeing an Akkadian sphinx in real life was incredible beyond words. I say this because you cited the University of Chicago several times, and it made me think of my visit to the museum. Thanks again for presenting all this information in a succinct, chronological, semi-narrative format like this!!! :D

@davidportman5557 Ай бұрын

Watching this channel grow has been awesome, I lost my original account when cy was at 60,000 to now makes me happy.

@HistorywithCy Ай бұрын

Thank YOU for all of the support and tuning in to watch these. It's viewers like you who have made this channel what it is, so this is your doing! A million thanks and glad you're enjoying the content!

@patrickotis3884 Ай бұрын

Cy comes through with high quality content once again! Thank you Cy!

@HistorywithCy Ай бұрын

My pleasure, thanks for watching!

@chriscahill4088 Ай бұрын

I hope Agade is found. What a wealth of info that would provide. Excellent video Cy! Thanks

@HistorywithCy Ай бұрын

You and me both! Thanks for watching!

@Amadeu.Macedo Ай бұрын

Outstanding, Cy, BRAVO!

@HistorywithCy Ай бұрын

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it! More on the way and thanks for watching!

@myownmusic8182 Ай бұрын

I just want to say that only today did I notice your quizzes! I did the latest quiz and went all the way back to #14. I don't know if your motivation behind the quizzes is to increase crowd interaction with your channel, a genuine desire to promote education about the subjects you make videos about, or a combination of the two, but I REALLY love it. That said, Id recommend, like, two minor changes to really streamline your process: 1.) Make at least one quiz after each video, 2.) Make multiple questions per quiz. Say, each quiz has ten questions. Those who get them all right get bragging rights, and are ousted as being super nerds. Either way, you're easily my favorite history youtuber, and I think I've probably provided you with maybe 100 or 200 views for your channel (probably 4 or 5 just on this video, I keep forgetting I've already watched it XD). Keep it up! Or don't - I'll probably just keep rewatching all of your old videos if you don't post new stuff, I'm more than happy either way! Alright, enough fan-girling! It's time for me to watch this again!

@HistorywithCy Ай бұрын

Hi! First off, thanks so much for your comment...it's feedback like this that not only makes my day but also inspires me to keep putting out more content for you all. Thank YOU! I'm really glad that you're enjoying both the videos and the quizzes. I really like your ideas about the quizzes. Unfortunately for each quiz, KZfaq only allows me to put one question at a time. I'd love to release 20 questions at once, but at the moment this doesn't seem to be possible. The quizzes really started with me just testing the option in the "Community" tab and after seeing that many like you enjoyed doing them, I decided to put out more to give you something to do in between videos since sometimes it takes me a while to put them out (especially the longer ones). Maybe there's an online quiz site that I can adopt but like you said, posting them on KZfaq does increase viewer interaction with the channel which is always a good thing. I'll do my best to put these out more often. Again, thanks so much for watching these videos multiple times, really means a lot! If you have any special requests for topics you'd like to see covered, let me know and I'll see what I can do. Thanks again!!

@yanshi3942 Ай бұрын

A new Cy upload for the good weekend. Thanks!

@HistorywithCy Ай бұрын

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

@galangsatriobudi4709 Ай бұрын

Thank you for uploading this valuable knowledge🙏✨️

@HistorywithCy Ай бұрын

My pleasure, thanks for watching and glad that this was useful!

@SecretEyeSpot Ай бұрын

Totally subscribed! You are awesome!!!

@SkyFly19853 Ай бұрын

real nice ! thank you so much for this video since it helps with my Civ like video game I am developing.

@megakillerx Ай бұрын

I think he goes by Carl these days.

@paladinsplace5072 Ай бұрын

The thumbnail gave me a flood of 2016-2018 memories

@Therock151214 Ай бұрын

😂

@iamathousandapples Ай бұрын

God imagine bringing this guy bill and ted style into the future and telling him "yeah this pasty chunky sad man is now more remembered than all the cool shit you did"

@HistorywithCy Ай бұрын

He's always mentioned in any video I've done featuring Sargon... never heard his stuff though. Thanks for watching!

@goddamnkids75 Ай бұрын

I spent like five minutes laughing about that, god where has the time gone?

@fluoroproilne Ай бұрын

There won't be a Cy video without mentioning Inshushinak ✌🏽😎

@richardtrujillo6894 Ай бұрын

Excellent once again

@HistorywithCy Ай бұрын

Thanks, glad you liked it and thanks for watching!

@Eugene-tm8fm 4 күн бұрын

The fact that all of this stuff happened nearly four and a half millennia ago never fails to blow my mind

@kaarlimakela3413 Ай бұрын

Suggesting Agade was located roundabout Bagdad was a new exciting idea in my ignorant bubble! Thanks, Cy!

@HistorywithCy Ай бұрын

That seems to be the consensus opinion but still has to be definitely proven. I hope they discover it one day soon... for me it'd be one of the most incredible finds of the century. Thanks again for watching, appreciate it!

@raminsadeghi7358 Ай бұрын

Nice one as usual. Another favor to ask. Can you do an episode on susa. Thanks in advance

@HistorywithCy Ай бұрын

Maybe... I did see a lot of cool stuff in the Louvre from Susa recently that I'd love to put in a video. I'd love to visit the site though before I make a video about it, though I don't know when that would be. As always, thanks for watching!

@erichtomanek4739 Ай бұрын

A traveler: What is the name of this city? A local: "Der!" Don't you know. . A visually interesting, informative and entertaining video.

@HistorywithCy Ай бұрын

😂 that's a good one, but only ancient history nerds like us will get it! Glad you liked the video and thanks so much for watching, really appreciate it!

@brendanmoran57 Ай бұрын

Lugalzagesi is such a badass name

@stevefambro189 Ай бұрын

Can’t wait to listen!!

@HistorywithCy Ай бұрын

Thanks, enjoy!

@kaarlimakela3413 Ай бұрын

Perfect timing, mon frére.

@HistorywithCy Ай бұрын

Hope you enjoyed it and thanks for watching!

@hughquigley5337 Ай бұрын

17:04 "...he was disturbed like a fish living in brackish water" is so funny to me. Kinda goes hard idk

@brendanmoran57 Ай бұрын

You have easily one of the best history channels on this dying media platform

@HistorywithCy Ай бұрын

Thanks so much, I'm honored. haha I hope this platform doesn't die because I plan to keep making more videos like this for some time. Thanks for watching, really appreciate it!

@carriekelly4186 Ай бұрын

Thanks so much Cy. Although I love Sargon and his success,I still can't help feel badly for the Sumerians in this truly epic story! Never get tired of hearing of this first civilization and empire. So amazing. Well done Cy,thanks again.

@HistorywithCy Ай бұрын

Yeah I am forever fascinated with this part of the world... I've been meaning to get past the Bronze Age on the channel but I keep getting drawn back to this era and have more Sumerian, Babylonian and Assyrian content scheduled for this year. Thanks for watching, really appreciate it!

@leahpearce5128 2 сағат бұрын

5:30 hey :) so I heard a uni lecture (titled great mythical beasts or something) about Anzu that suggested earlier on when Lagash was more powerful, Anzu was a far more benevolent/neutral figure, as he is depicted in Lugalbanda's story with the nest, whereas later on while Lagash is weak, Anzu is evil. Personally, i think this makes sense, especially when you compare lugalbanda and gilgamesh's stories to one another as father and son, which is a poignant relationship in many myths that comprise the pantheon. Lugalbanda chooses to honor a powerful beast he finds in the woods, whereas Gilgamesh chooses violence when pursued by the Bull of Heaven. The parallel goes much further in the earlier texts, bc both beasts are neutral parties to reflect the hero's character. Lugalbanda myth focuses on worship and character, compared to the far more deity/battle oriented myth from later on. In any case, I believe your mention of Lagash's downfall from Lugalzagesi is perhaps the shift in power that lecture was referring to, which lead to the Anzu bird being a negative figure which steals the Tablet of Destinies and is slain by Ninurta. The battle, which includes a magical talking mace, is one of my favorites from all the myths I've read. Thanks for helping to contextualize it all!!

@bibiijaz6238 Ай бұрын

Thank you for this!!

@HistorywithCy Ай бұрын

You're welcome, thanks for watching!

@_SoBored Ай бұрын

another excellent video!

@HistorywithCy Ай бұрын

Thank you, and thanks for watching!

@henkstersmacro-world Ай бұрын

👍👍👍Perfect timing, just about to have diner!!

@HistorywithCy Ай бұрын

Haha hope you have few course meal lined up as it's a longer one! Thanks for watching!

@shzarmai Ай бұрын

Awesome 👌 video ❤ please make a video on the Sao Culture and Helmand Culture of Bronze Age Afghanistan

@wiwysova Ай бұрын

Back when Afghanistan still had culture

@IStevenSeagal Ай бұрын

@@wiwysovaBetter than a cultureless western country that has to rely on other cultures to try build its own because they dont have sheet.

@scarymonster5541 Ай бұрын

Ancient afghanistan are not indo-european make sense why

@ayanned Ай бұрын

HEEERRRREEE WEEE GOOOO! ANOTHER HISTORY W CY VIDEO.

@HistorywithCy Ай бұрын

Love the enthusiasm, hope you enjoyed the video and thanks for watching!

@user-gd3xy2vl1s Ай бұрын

Just getting a glass of wine and throwing another log on the fire before settling down to a nice long delve into the Bronze Age BLISS! Thank you Cy :-)

@HistorywithCy Ай бұрын

Thanks for watching and hope you enjoyed it!

@IStevenSeagal Ай бұрын

In 2700 BC Ebla had Syria, Lebanon, southeast Turkey and west Iraq. In 2400 BC Adab/Sumer had the entire west Asia+Cyprus. Both superceeding the Akkadian empire.

@HistorywithCy Ай бұрын

Hi. Thanks for the comment. I've never read such things... could you please provide some sources? Thanks, appreciate it!

@IStevenSeagal Ай бұрын

@@HistorywithCy Wkpidyaa. Excxuse the wrong spelling, I dont want a comment to get baanned again.

@mohammedsaysrashid3587 Ай бұрын

Nice historical coverage video about the Akkadian empire expanded in Mesopotamia .. video showed glory times of ancient Mesopotamia .

@HistorywithCy Ай бұрын

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it... more on Mesopotamia on the way, stay tuned and thanks for watching!

@blockmasterscott Ай бұрын

I thought I was going to be bored, but ended up loving it. You did a great job! Man, that one guy before Sargon was really mean. Geez.

@HistorywithCy Ай бұрын

Haha thanks, glad it kept your interest! Yeah Lugalzagesi was pretty brutal to Lagash... I guess karma's a biatch. Thanks for watching!

@shealandkeais Ай бұрын

hallelujah cy is back

@Numba003 Ай бұрын

Thank you for another fantastic long-form video! It's fascinating to hear these old tales of Sargon, his predecessors, and his successors. After all these millenia, human civilization still works in largely the same way, lol. God be with you out there everybody. ✝️ :)

@ahmedjabbar2820 Ай бұрын

Yes!!!!! Finally!!

@HistorywithCy Ай бұрын

Haha I think you have been watching the channel since my first Akkadian video... thanks so much for the support!

@uLise4Life Ай бұрын

"Enlil gave him no rival" - after 4000 years no student who studied literature came with this kind of saying. the art and literature was sky high during those times!

@mrvn000 Ай бұрын

I just love this stuff.

@HistorywithCy Ай бұрын

Me too! Lots more on the way, stay tuned!

@highadmiraljt5853 Ай бұрын

Lugal zage si was so close to becoming the first emperor in know history, just for Sargon to outdo him immediately and now be remembered as such instead.

@carlosaugustodinizgarcia3526 Ай бұрын

Sargon conquest were so memorable that despite being unknown by Hebrews and Greeks his fame endured.They invented characters like Nimrod (who reigned over Accad) and Ninus of Assyria (who was the first emperor in a time before the founding of Babylon) who shared a lot of Sargon's legendary feats.

@IStevenSeagal Ай бұрын

They didn't invent Nimrod. Nimrod is Naram-Sin pure and simple, a king thar ruled the known world and was a hunter king and who called himself a god. You may call yourself Carlos but some nordic person would call you Karl.

@carlosaugustodinizgarcia3526 Ай бұрын

@@IStevenSeagalin a way you are right. Naram-Sin hubris is a perfect match for the rebelious Nimrod from the hebrew tradition (incuding stories not in the bible). But going by the bible text alone Sargon would be a good guess.He is related to every city mentioned in the text: Uruk (whose walls he destroyed),Akkad (his capital) and Babylon (a city he "made a counterpart in front of Akkad"). The irony is that either Ninus or Nimrod could be his true name.Sargon/Sharrukin is a throne name bot his birth name.

@IStevenSeagal Ай бұрын

@@carlosaugustodinizgarcia3526 But Sargon didn't/wasn't one of those things that describes Nimrod. His grandson however does. Furthermore the names Naram-Sin sound a lot closer to Nimrod(Ashkenazi spelling)/Namrud(proper semetic spelling).

@akhripasta2670 Ай бұрын

@IStevenSeagal In my language, Naram sinn means lion with human body

@ALIKN1-1 Ай бұрын

Greetings to all from a citizen of Ur :)

@brianduffy4682 Ай бұрын

Good intro music

@JM-hr4xp Ай бұрын

Thanks!

@HistorywithCy Ай бұрын

Thank you, appreciate the support!

@drswag0076 Ай бұрын

59:52 the origins of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend"

@husambotros3958 Ай бұрын

Any idea where Agade is by any chance? Thanks for the video cy.

@interdictr3657 Ай бұрын

alot of people would like to know that lol

@HistorywithCy Ай бұрын

Most guess it's somewhere near the confluence of the Tigris and Diyala rivers, but no site there so far has been identified as being that of Agade (more on this in the video). Thanks for watching!

@husambotros3958 Ай бұрын

@@HistorywithCyits buzzing right now in Iraq with many excavation teams there its only a matter of time hopefully.. try and get a video done in there if you can it would awesome.

@Jbird1988 Ай бұрын

It would be wild to travel back and see this in person. To see these ruins full of color and people. It was one of the few bright parts about deploying to Iraq.I got to see the Ziggerat of Ur but missed out on Babylon.

@kkupsky6321 Ай бұрын

They kept the spice flowing… and we all know fear is the mind killer.

@carriekelly4186 Ай бұрын

Ive been also wantimg to say that now i see why the B-52s saw Mesopotamia so important to name an record album after it back in the 1980s.❤❤❤they were quite ahead of their time as well.

@HistorywithCy Ай бұрын

Oh interesting, I didn't know they had an album called Mesopotamia... the only one I remember is Cosmic Thing with Roman and Love Shack. Thanks, I'll have to check it out now.

@williambeckett6336 Ай бұрын

That's incorrect at around 19:00 where they say clay envelopes for tablets didn't exist. They are some of the most ancient communication security devices there are. The earliest "Bullas" clay balls with distinct tokens inside them denoting measures of various goods and stamped with a seal are the oldest business contracts on Earth. And they predate writing. They were definitely using envelops for royal communications by this period.

@HistorywithCy Ай бұрын

Hi. As I stated in the video for this and other works of literature, that comes from a literary text considered to be a myth/legend about Sargon and is NOT a historical fact. Thanks for watching.

@floylde Ай бұрын

Lets gooooooooooo

@kkupsky6321 Ай бұрын

I saw an awesome documentary on imax but they called Akkad Arrakis and Sargon Paul. Shot in front of a live studio audience on location and based on real events.

@temogen2 Ай бұрын

شكرًا

@HistorywithCy Ай бұрын

Thank you, appreciate it!

@Omar24737 Ай бұрын

I have a question please who were the people of the kingdoms of ebla,nagar and mari

@clarenceonyekwere5428 Ай бұрын

Is the podcast back?

@HistorywithCy Ай бұрын

Hi! I've started posting the audio from the longer episodes (this one and Mycenaean Greece) as podcasts, but I haven't put out a specific podcast episode in a while. I have a few abstract topics that I've scripted (religion, aspects of culture, etc.) that I've been thinking of just releasing as podcasts. Any particular subjects you'd like to see? As always, thanks so much for watching, really appreciate your support of the channel over the past few years!

@Eugene-tm8fm Ай бұрын

>Opens KZfaq >Sees hour and 20 minute History with Cy video on Akkad Tonight will be a good night

@HistorywithCy Ай бұрын

Love the enthusiasm and hope you enjoy it...thanks for watching!

@BMWE90HQ Ай бұрын

I follow this guy on X!

@temogen2 Ай бұрын

thanks

@HistorywithCy Ай бұрын

My pleasure, thanks for watching!

@Fatherofheroesandheroines Ай бұрын

The title makes me wonder something. Egypt was already a power by then even before the Akkadians. Were they not considered a 'superpower' then? Just curious.

@IStevenSeagal Ай бұрын

Egypt only had Egypt by then. It wasnt until after the Akkadian empire that they had taken Nubia. And it wasnt until after the Babylonian empire that they had taken south Levant and Libya.

@ahab3620 Ай бұрын

@@IStevenSeagalnot true refer to (branislav andelkovic, Hegemony for beginners) and (Ellen morris 2018 page 21) for a massive amount of archeological egyptian finds in canaan from the proto/early dynastic period

@IStevenSeagal Ай бұрын

@@ahab3620 They also found Iraqi artifacts in Egypt dating from 3450 BC. Did Egypt also have Iraq back then? What a sillly argument.

@ahab3620 Ай бұрын

@@IStevenSeagal they didn't find iraqi artifacts in egypt but motifs similar to those found in sumer on local made artifacts As for what i posted about, Plenty of egyptian settlements and even architecture with egyptian objects representing 90% of the finds in some locations. Percentages that will only be repeated in the new kingdom. You can check out the sources i referred to instead of lazy uninformed replies

@ahab3620 Ай бұрын

@@IStevenSeagal here’s a Quote from the book about dealing with the archaeology: “The percentages of Egyptian‐style pottery at these sites varies between roughly 10 and 35% for the enclaves and up to 80-90% for the Egyptian‐dominated settlements, yet even the more modest numbers are significant. Indeed, the Syro‐Palestinian style pottery seen at Tell el‐Dab’a during the Fifteenth Dynasty-when this site served as the capital of the Levantine Hyksos kingdom based in the Eastern Delta of Egypt-only hovered between 30 and 40%!”

@MatchBookNotes Ай бұрын

Holy shirt balls, i hope you get good ad revenue for all the ads i had to sit through every 3 minutes

@starcapture3040 Ай бұрын

any episode coming about prehistoric mesopotamia or an episode about Nabatia?

@HistorywithCy Ай бұрын

Great suggestions. Prehistoric Mesopotamia sometime this year, Nabatia no idea.

@Drietfoga Ай бұрын

What is the name of the Enlil's temple in Nippur? There are no subtitles and English spelling is very irregular.

@HistorywithCy Ай бұрын

The Ekur. Thanks for watching!

@matthewplehn4271 Ай бұрын

If Sargon's birth story is a "legend"...than so is Moses's.

@joshuasiramarco3233 Ай бұрын

Well ya....

@user-km6dl1uh9l 23 күн бұрын

Moses didn't even exist

@TheBibleHistoryShow Ай бұрын

Literally me

@katmannsson Ай бұрын

I am simple folk I see Cy upload about Akkad I click

@HistorywithCy Ай бұрын

Thank you, hope you enjoy it!

@noureldinmohammed7612 Ай бұрын

Egypt videos please???

@HistorywithCy Ай бұрын

On the way!

@hammersaw3135 Ай бұрын

I could imagine Sargon leading the last emperor Lugal-Zage-Si by a leather dog collar on a leash to the gate. He was an ambitious king with the first documented large empire, perhaps the first "imperialist" Lugal-Zage-Si united Sumerian cities, but was greedy and wanted more, he waged extremely cruel military tactics against his neighbors, he was a brutal and cruel ruler, his humiliation should give anybody interested in historical Schadenfreude

@ahab3620 Ай бұрын

I have a question… Why is it usually touted as the world's first empire for unifying Mesopotamia when we had early dynastic Egypt centralising much of the nile valley from the med sea up to the second cataract after a conflict with Nubian A group and also colonising southern canaan into modern day israel?

@thomasmalacky7864 Ай бұрын

It's not the world's first Empire that's why. It just picked up the title as a cliche which draws clicks. Here's a small list of all the Empires prior. Uruk Empire, Cutuceni-Trypllia?, Talianaki, Dimini?, Early Minoans, Kish Empire, Empire of Nekhen, Hong Bang Empire, Thinite Empire, Early Dynastic Egypt, Lagash Empire, Adab Empire, Empire of Umma (Lugalzagesi then moved to Uruk), Caral Supe Civilization c. 3500 BC.

@HistorywithCy Ай бұрын

@@thomasmalacky7864 Hi. No, it's not to draw clicks. With all due respect, if we definite empire as "an extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority" then I don't think most would agree that the states/cultures you've listed were empires. Most of these were relatively homogeneous states that at times expanded their territory, but they don't fit the standard definition of empire. For our purposes here, I'll stick to Mesopotamia and Egypt since I'm most familiar with the history of that part of the world. Uruk was more a cultural phenomenon and though it may have had trading posts, settlements and dominated its neighbors from time to time, its leaders didn't possess control over the entire region. There is a theory about a Kish Civilization, but it does not have wide acceptance amongst those in the field and there is no real evidence that its ruler was ever in charge of multiple states or a wide region. Lagash conquered its neighbors at times but never possessed them for long. Never heard of an empire of Adab. Only Umma under Lugalzagesi may have been the center of a short-lived empire, but since Sargon conquered the region during Lugalzagesi's lifetime, and, other than the fragments of a vase there is no other evidence that Lugalzagesi's words are true, Sargon of Akkad is given credit as the world's first empire builder. As for Egypt, I have never read or heard about an empire of Nekhen (Hierakonpolis) or Thinite empire. These were kingdoms - Narmer being from Thinis and conquering Lower Egypt doesn't mean that he ruled over an empire, just that he expanded his kingdom - or unified the lands of Upper and Lower Egypt as the ancient Egyptians would have believed, creating one single kingdom. There was also no empire during the era of Early Dynastic Egypt (Dynasties I and II). Raids into Canaan and Nubia, yes, but not long-term control over these area. On the other hand, Sargon and his descendants ruled over what were once several independent states made up of Akkadians, Sumerians, Elamites, Eblaites, Hurrians and others with their own languages and cultures. As he was the sole ruler over all of them, he is credited with founding the first empire in world history. Hope this helps to clarify things and thanks for watching.

@HistorywithCy Ай бұрын

Hi @ahab3620. Great question. See my response to the other commenter. Any questions, please let me know...thanks for watching!

@ahab3620 Ай бұрын

@@HistorywithCy So you call these "raids” but akkadian texts claiming territory without supporting archaeological evidence is “long term control” ? By what standards ? "Numerous Protodynastic Egyptian finds in the Early Bronze IB Southern Levant include almost every class of artifact (e.g. Andelkovié 1995, 25-56): architecture (fortifications, embankments and buildings), a tremendous amount of pottery, alabaster vessels, palettes, stone and copper tools and weapons, seals and seal impressions, amulets, jewelry, figurines, Nilotic fauna - large freshwater molluscs (e.g. Nile shells have been found at Petura, ca. 2 km east of Tel 'Erani: see Braun and van den Brink 2008, 655), fish bones of Nile perch (dried specimens transported as provender), Nile catfish spikes (used as small harpoons), etc." -Hegemony for Beginners: Egyptian Activity in the Southern Levant during the Second Half of the Fourth Millennium B.C, Branislav Anÿelkoviü The percentages of Egyptian‐style pottery at these sites varies between roughly 10 and 35% for the enclaves and up to 80-90% for the Egyptian‐dominated settlements, yet even the more modest numbers are significant. Indeed, the Syro‐Palestinian style pottery seen at Tell el‐Dab’a during the Fifteenth Dynasty-when this site served as the capital of the Levantine Hyksos kingdom based in the Eastern Delta of Egypt-only hovered between 30 and 40%!" -Ancient Egyptian imperialism, Ellen Morris

@thomasmalacky7864 Ай бұрын

@@HistorywithCyI'll go through each civilization. The Empire of Adab refers to Adab under Lugal Ann Mundu Early Dynastic Period. According to the fragmentary inscription attributed to Lugal-Anne-Mundu, (but known only from two copies dated from the reigns of Abi-Eshuh and Ammi-Saduqa in the 17th century BCE), he subjugated the "Four Quarters of the world" - i.e., the entire Fertile Crescent region, from the Mediterranean to the Zagros Mountains. His empire is said to have included the provinces of Elam, Marhashi, Gutium, Subartu, the "Cedar Mountain land" (Lebanon), Amurru or Martu, "Sutium" (?),[10] and the "Mountain of E-anna" (Uruk with its ziggurat?). According to the inscription, he "made the people of all the lands live in peace as in a meadow".

@TheRedneckPreppy Ай бұрын

Truly, another gift from Cy.

@HistorywithCy Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it... as always, thanks for watching!

@annaquay4183 Ай бұрын

Yes Cy!

@noahlogue Ай бұрын

History with Cy Mesopotamia video!!!

@HistorywithCy Ай бұрын

Hope you enjoyed it and thanks for watching!

@noahlogue Ай бұрын

I always enjoy your videos!

@MrPhange Ай бұрын

I wanted to make a pun but all the good ones Sargon.

@HistorywithCy Ай бұрын

😂 Love it! I'm going to have to use that sometime...thanks so much for watching, really appreciate it!

@lastofmygeneration Ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@dannydorito1 Ай бұрын

The cuneiform is so beautiful 1:57

@trasnulachemumulache8590 Ай бұрын

And the beautiful city of Mari

@cate-rf4dw Ай бұрын

What if agade is actually under Baghdad? They also have similar tones also azupiranu means the city of saffron is also a name of one side of Baghdad called al za'afarania which also means the saffron place just guessing tho

@ilikeitidont Ай бұрын

Lovvvvve!!!

@HistorywithCy Ай бұрын

Thank you!

@jhoee2487 Ай бұрын

Always remember, they never invaded the land currently known as Israel. They passed though it, but there was nothing there yet of any significance to conquer. Just a bunch of loose tribes that later became the 12 tribes of Israel in about 1198 BCE. Good Work, Love the Videos

@markb6978 12 күн бұрын

Must’ve been a lot of job security in building up and breaking down walls in those days!

@botchvinik8668 Ай бұрын

It is my belief that you are mistaken in your interpretation of the meaning of the inscription that is shown and narrated at the 4:25 time stamp. In speaking about the King, 'Lugalunda' (sp?) you refer to his "abuses of the people" and then go on to say he "....banned the man in charge of the boatman from seizing the boats. He banned the head of the shepherds from seizing the donkeys and sheep. He banned the man in charge of the fisheries from seizing the fisheries." I think you misunderstand what that inscription is telling us. Those words are not evidence of an oppressive, abusive King. Quite the opposite. The words are telling us of a King who is protecting the shepherds, the boatman, and the fisheries. I read that and see a King who is putting men in charge of overseeing these various areas of the economy but is also wise and fair enough to tell those ones in charge that they may NOT abuse their power and positions of authority. I think the King was laying down edicts to protect the boatmen, shepherds, and the fisheries.

@HistorywithCy Ай бұрын

Hi, thanks for your comment, really appreciate it. No, it is not Lugalunda who "...banned the man in charge of the boatman from seizing the boats. He banned the head of the shepherds from seizing the donkeys and sheep...etc", but Urukagina who did these things. Those individuals in question were not protecting the people but exploiting them - Lugalunda is the one who supposedly appointed such people who in turn exploited the common people; Urukagina is the one who did away with them, at least that it how the text is interpreted. Thanks for watching, really appreciate it!

@botchvinik8668 Ай бұрын

@@HistorywithCy Ahh ok, i see what you're saying. That does make sense. You're welcome for the feedback and thank you for the very interesting and well done video, and also for making a reply to my comment. I appreciate that.

@theScrupulousBerserker Ай бұрын

.. I know what I'm doing for the next hr & 20 mins... 📜🙌🏼🐻

@HistorywithCy Ай бұрын

Thanks, hope you enjoyed it!

@theScrupulousBerserker Ай бұрын

@@HistorywithCy as always

@BarrySuridge Ай бұрын

I believe the latest research attributes the fall of Mesopotamia to an extended El Niño event.

@Kevin-iv3lv Ай бұрын

The birth of Sargon sounds a lot like the Moses story don't it? Like other stories. Edit- Al Bundy & Sargon once scored 4 touchdowns in a championship game

@johnnychavez Ай бұрын

Carl Bizmark

@daniellemartin9896 Ай бұрын

I was excited to listen to this but the speech is somehow bright/ sharp while also being uncomfortably robotic.

@michealferrell1677 Ай бұрын

Dr Doug Petrovich has given reasons for understanding the biblical Nimrod as Sargon

@chrisrhodes2 Ай бұрын

Wouldn't Uruk be the first? We don't have written record, but definitely archaeological

@HistorywithCy Ай бұрын

Hi. Most would say that Uruk wasn't so much a large state/superpower as much as it was a cultural phenomenon. While its cultural influence spread far and wide and there were several Urukean colonies/settlements relatively far from the city itself, it doesn't seem to have been the head of large political unit or vast, multiethnic empire like that of Akkad. That seems to be the consensus view. Early Uruk is a very interesting topic and maybe I'll do a short video on it. Thanks for watching, really appreciate it!