Go check out the FULL documentary here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/prWdYNOYl82YnGQ.html&t -- Thanks as always for watching folks, hope you enjoy this one. We'll wrap up the Akkadian Empire in the next video :) Corrections/clarifications will be posted here.

My whole life I grew up only finding historical material on great people and great wars. Only in the past few years have people been covering things I actually care about, the regular guy.

"My big naked hairy Akkadian boss says I really have to come in today, nevermind the ice rain storm." Yes, that has some serious weight to it.

You are without a doubt my favorite history KZfaq channel!

You have the best small history YT channel. Please continue making videos and don't sell out when you get big!

The ancient Chinese called themselves The Headed Ones too.

I'm glad I've stumbled upon your absolute unit of a channel, your work is awesome!

Every single video on your channel is fantastic man. Every time I see a new upload I get excited, like the next Historia Civilis.

You do a great job at building excitement for the next episode

I was just thinking about the Akkadian Empire. More specifically, I was reading the book Ancient Warfare by Carman and Harding and noticed there's not much they said about Akkad.

I will always jump on one of your new videos when I see it. Great work as always, and I love seeing you bring in more aspects of social history

fantastic! enjoyed watching it. hope you make more!

very good program, enjoy the subject and found viewing this as time well spent

Great quality vid! My new favorite history channel!!!

Great video thanks!

Fantastic content yet again, i sure am glad i came across this channel!

Well done -- I wish you every success with this channel. 👍👍👍

So glad to find this!

Such a well researched video!!! you deserve far too many views.I've always wondered about life in those earliest empires!

Nice educational video 😊

struckingly excellent documentarry sir!

Very interesting - Thanks :)

Excellent

Can’t wait for more

Thank you for keeping background music quieter.

19:25 of course the feet are the most well preserved part.

feels like an episode of "In Search Of..." well done!

Gods, I love this man's channel.

My uncle's father was Akkadian. He was big, naked and hairy. And really really old. Mullet and curly beard and all that.

18:26 got me paranoid as hell figuring out where random laughter was coming from

I have to say, you will rise fast In popularity. Not only due to the quality of your work but also the topic. Your topics cover eras and empires which are usually skipped by most. Eg. Rome, then jump to HRE.. You covered the in-between which adds much needed socio-economic context and development. Moments of history that show " it could be all different be it not of this event". Or Akkad. You get Babylon and Sumer but not that much Akkad. So with your topics, combined with the quality, you are filling a rather empty niche on YT

Every time I learn about most ancient empires I'm reminded how the only difference between an empire and the mafia is whether or not they win.

♪♫♥Very Interesting - Thank you for sharing Builders ;)

He actually just goes by Carl now

On min 18:17 you mentioned kushuk as a food made from yoghurt...matter of fact we still eat that in Lebanon. So if you have a reference on its Akkadian origin I would much appreciate it.thank you in advance

This video is like a time machine, but better than Bill & Ted because it has facts! Forget gods and heroes, the real story is about everyday people farming, fishing, and rocking mullets under Acadian rule. Spoiler alert: they weren't all chilling in luxury like naram-sin with his fancy feasts. But hey, at least they had cuneiform writing.

Very interesting, no one has reported anything about his private life yet. Naram Sin had the name white bull Taurus. The fact that he declared himself to be God does not mean that he abolished the other gods. This is shown by the horned helmet he had. The horned helmet was the symbol of the sun god who was depicted as a bull. The light of the sun god was represented by the horns. To this day, the Hebrew name for sunlight is the same as for horn = Koren. 🤠

The thing about any and all human civilizations is that though technology and ease of life might have changed, as well as economics and craftsmanship, people did not. From angry and humorous KZfaq comments and arguments scratched and painted on the walls in Roman buildings, to good or bad reviews left on the walls of ancient establishments. The Ancients were very much the spitting image of people today. They did the same things we do, albeit more rudimentary and with slight cultural differences. Life was just harder and people were hardier, but personalities, hobbies, interactions were not all that different.

Is the music from the Nebuchadnezzar game? 😁

Hot take: the lion's allies in the reedbed are the reeds themselves. A lion can hide among the reeds while it's hunting and gain an advantage over its prey.

What movies did you use?

can someone give me the source on akkadian being mullet heads

how did they get footage from back then?

Ancient Iraq Mesopotamia 🇮🇶❤️ Thank you ❤

ignore the people complaining about imagery, theres not much you can do when media like that is limited/inaccurate (hollywood sourced). maybe if those people put their time into expanding visual sources, (if they know where to get "real" footage, by all means, thats more useful than complaining) instead of barking at others who are actually putting an effort for this information, we can have more visual representation for these nitpickers

Sumer had The First Empire. Akkad learned Imperialism from Sumer who was already Akkad's Suzerain before then.

The mullet has kinda made a comeback so an Akkadian might’ve been quite fashionable nowadays

9:20 The city marked on the map as Borisppa should correctly be named Borsippa. ='[.]'=

So heroic that noone but no one could save the Bronze age

Orks love dakka!

Udreeeeeeeaaaaaaaaa

How dare you besmirch the mullet, especially over the manbun!

These images you associate with Sumer are midleading. Taking of slaves. The sumerian system is based on biomass production in the rather disequilibrated lower mesopotamian delta. The river systems had in the beginning only ben a couple of thousand years from the rise of sea level at the beginning of the climate optimum. As a result the rivers flow frquently changed, and some early cities, like Ur, were completely wiped out by floods. Eridu, further away and on the high bank side of the Euphrates enjoyed an abundance of water that flood in from the hills and came from the ground, Absu. This was a neolithic culture, and the copper age was coming, and Eridu had no copper. The precedent for Obaid culture was Samarah culture, which connected with Tell Shemshara and sites on the eastern slopes of the central Ararat mountains. This was probably the impetus for eastablishing Bad Tibera on the Tigris river near the gulf, Wall of Smiths. Immediately To the north of these grounds Kura-Araxes cukture, for all intents and purposes this was protoIndoeuropean giving rise to hittites and luwians. Between KA and these Samara/Obaid trading cooperative developed the Bronze age. Without bronze and copper cultures did not survive and access to metal sites created contention. The way that these various cultures controlled tribes on their border lands was to appoint warrior kings who would the raid the outlyers and take slaves. This kept the populations in check. Slave culture itself is slowly integrating into Sumer. Another reason for taking slaves is to keep trade routes open and ensure the loyalty of trading partners, this is extemely important in Elam because Elam gave access to the lucrative central iranian trade routes and access to Lapis Lazuli. During the late copper age Uruk developed from a collection of small villages and began to trade up the Euphrates, at this time the remnants of Halaf culture probably began moving into cities on the NW fronteir of Sumer as Euphratean trade was lucrative, copper from the region of the upper/middle Euphrates. At the same a semetic people from the Mediterranean coast began moving into the same region (possibly from Natufia/Jericho), these Mar.tu may have had a counterpart that settled villages on the banks of the Euphrates like Anah and Hit and acted as points of trade for the herders. Obsidian could be moved from Cyprus to mesopotamia. Thus they developed protocities like Ebla and Damas. As bronze age begins Sumer is trying to push from shuruppak toward the middle Euphrates, they fail at Mari and Shuruppak is razed (and then flooded) this was a major changing point in the history of Sumer marking the antediluvian boundary in the Sumerian Kings List. We assume these are semites, the Mar.Tu (Amorite) are curse in the literature. But this literary reflection dont represent what happens on the ground, because the Sumerians and Amorites eventually come to a settlement and Mari is reoccupied. This then begins the period of the Marian Kings and the conquest of Canaan at the at the transition of the 25/6th century BCE. However just after this begins Sumer falls into a series of increasing degrading civil wars that ended in an unpopukar dynasty, and the Amorites were gaining influence in the west of Sumer. This is the pretext for the growth of Akkad. Draft Animals in Sumer and Akkad. The first war wagons were ox driven carts. "Evidence of wheeled vehicles appears from the mid 4th millennium BC between the North Sea and Mesopotamia." This likely represented cultural flow between the S and N protoindoeuropean culture via Mycopt and Kura-Araxes culture, the ox driven war wagon continued to be used through the Akkadian period (mid 24th to mid 23rd century BCE). Horse back riding and horse driven chariots did not appear in the region until the 18th crntury BCE. Probably under the hittites, later the Kassites (ambiguously indoEuropean), however this is 500 years after Akkad was razed. More over, as I pointed out, Akkad is basically S. Mesopotamia and metal wealth at this time was something Sargon had to engage in extensive expansive warfare to obtain. Both Wood and metals were a premium in Akkad, and copper is still being used, the Elites and the Elite soldiers having access to bronze and oxcarts. During the later Akkadian period , Ur III major acquistion of the lucrative cedar trade in the Bakaa valley will allow the growth of major building projects in sumer, as well as carts. When you think of Akkad and Sumer think this. Eridu was born of a wellspring in a swamp. Its commodity was water, mud, reeds and fish. Mudworks = irrigation and river control. Water = cereal crops (more importantly beer). Fish = protein. Beer was at the center ot temple life. These things are the staple of life. You built monuments of adobe, without wood you could not fire the bricks, if you did not fire the bricks the monuments melted in the rain. As a consequence a huge effort needed to be made to get wood and metal into cities, often with 10,000 to 80,000 population. Ergo slaves and warfare. This is not the picture you paint. What you paint are images Europeans make of Antiquity, off by more than 2 millenium and a couple of thousand miles.

How do we know they were eking out an existence. They probably worked far less and had more leisure than us.

Y'kydaa

1:32 this image of the man walking over the bodies of his peers is the most powerful thing about this entire video. even in ancient times they knew that supposed 'great men' had to reach their positions through the aid of countless others whose names are now forgotten.

Big, Naked and Hairy Akkadian Boss, ok i subbed.

You take, we take, coin (you harvested too much)? (Well have to make more agricultural workers because of you.) “Dont bother with the reading.”

Scorpion king ❤

Many of the pictures, films shown here show periods in Mesopotamia that cover over 2,400 years. Some well after the Akkaidian (Accadian, Acaidian) period and even some that predate it. Beware..

They were Semitic ❤ like meee

How can you claim to present an accurate picture of Akkad without showing Carl Benjamin threatening to r@pe his political opponents?

earliest my ass

Old video with a new narration. Cheesy.

if the text is as wrong as the images used, we are loosing our time 😂😂😂

without watching the video i'm going to call the answer right here: the same as in the worlds latest empire: ok if youre rich, shit if youre poor.

Stone boring, that's what life was like back then. No Lights, No Motorcars. Not a single luxury. Like Robinson Crusoe, everybody that could become pregnant, did so, sir. -detail from "The Raft of the Minnow" (Grenache), 1965, Pasadena 🎉

Sargon = Master Gardener Nimrod = Hunter Sumarian = Samaritan Akkadian = Hebrew

This picture of Europeans is a joke!!!

If you want to have a history channel, it's kinda important to, ya know, get your facts right and get the timelines correct. The irony here is you are using clips of Sumerian artifacts. Akkad and Sumer did "merge" at one point, but Sumeria was already ancient by the time that happened.

This is like a high school project. Ain't great.

You can start buy depicting the Akkadians properly. They didn't look like your cover picture. They were in fact Black people like so many of the ancient civilisations predating Europe. I know there is historical racism but a this point it's just ridiculous. Even believe it or not Hollywood has depicted Akkadians correctly I. E. Grace Jones is Conan the Destroyer and Peter Clarke Duncan in The Scorpion King. They weren't white or Arabs it's time you woke up and stop shovelling BS down people's throats.

Glad I found your channel. Love your content!