Rise and Fall of the Akkadian Empire

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Our new animated documentary series on the history of Ancient Mesopotamia and the Fertile Crescent, continues with a video on the Rise and Fall of the Akkadian Empire.
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This video was narrated by Officially Devin ( / @offydgg & / @gameworldnarratives )
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Sources:
Marc Van de Mieroop - A History of the Ancient Near East, ca. 3000-323BC
Mario Liverani - Ancient Near East - History, Society and Economy
Amanda H. Podany - The Ancient Near East - A Very Short Introduction
Jerrold S. Cooper and Wolfgang Heimpel - The Sumerian Sargon Legend
Harriet Crawford - Sumer and the Sumerians
Richard A. Kerr - Sea-Floor Dust Shows Drought Felled Akkadian Empire
Production Music courtesy of Epidemic Sound: www.epidemicsound.com
#Documentary #Akkad #Mesopotamia

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Please do next video about Hittites

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Thank you for your kind words!

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Right? It's amazing that some dudes with a KZbin channel make content that's vastly more superior than anything a multimillion dollar television network has ever managed to put out.

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Exactly. Factual, objective, agenda free history.

[@chrisortiz8072]

Hey once upon a time the history channel actually had history

[@anoriolkoyt]

In terms of chronologie, Julius Caesar is closer to us then he is to these Akkadians.... thats insane!

[@zephz1285]

in terms of chronologie, T. Rex is closer to us then he is to Stegosaurus... thats insane!

[@karlhans6678]

@@zephz1285 wow really?

[@alissa6]

@@karlhans6678 Well humans have lived for millions of years and not just "120.000 years".

[@DDKKAY]

@@alissa6 well that's not true.......the first human civilizations are the sumerian and egyptians ...and these are nearly 3000 BC...or maximum could be 4000 B.C.......how could humans develop in the latest 6000 years so much and remain for 120 000 years or millions of years without creating any civilization? ....what the historians say that are evidences on millions of years human existence are only few bones that could be from some kind of monkey or monkey like creatures which preceded the existence of humans.........🌹

[@MUFFINHEAD1985]

Another famous one is Cleopatra to us than creators of the great pyramid.

[@ghassanal-obaidiosterslatt6366]

I was born in Baghdad and I have always known that Baghdad was built by the Abbasid king Al-Mansur. Looking at this map, Baghdad's location is exactly were Akkad used to be. No freakin one during my whole school years told us that Baghdad was built there 1400 years ago probably had to do with the location of Akkad the capital of the Akkadian empire. Thank you sir for these awesome videos.

[@MrEnric98]

How is Iraq doing nowadays? I would like to visit the country some day

[@bobbobb4804]

So was Seleucia and Ctesiphon. It’s just the most strategic place in Mesopotamia.

[@bobbobb4804]

@@eowyahsan3938 it’s in the same place, but it’s expanded a lot since

[@ak99-to1gz]

Muslim ideology has such behaviour in lot of places. They ignore their own history.

[@NYCfrankie]

Ive been waiting for a episode on the akkadian empire for so long

[@KingsandGenerals]

Good :-)

[@NYCfrankie]

Cant wait for the next asoiaf video either

[@otgunz]

@@NYCfrankie currently animating 😁👍

[@ofallmyintention9496]

I was so happy with the last video on Uruk, and I was just as excited to see this in my subscriptions.

[@alkiskosh6536]

I wait for babylonian and assyrian empire

[@ThisisBarris]

The Mesopotamia has beautiful land sites and a fascinating history, and it's a true shame that it's inaccessible to most people because of war and political instability. I hope to visit Syria, Iraq and Iran some time in my life. Thank you for yet another great video guys!

[@MeraGal]

Absolutely, Iran and Syria are on my list to travel to. Such a shame once glorious cities are some of the most difficult places to visit in the modern day.

[@PervySage13]

@@rolex1231 do you watch any news media from the US? What about the current administration(Trump's) declaring the Iranian military as terrorists? US sanctions against Iranian oil exports? All these things in the media warp the perception of Iran in people's minds.

[@KingsandGenerals]

Yeah, Iran is very safe. Unfortunately, you may have visa problems if you visit - especially if you are planning to travel to the US afterwards.

[@Muhammed552]

well you welcome any time bruh :)

[@ThisisBarris]

@@rolex1231 I know Iran is safe but I'm afraid of getting issues at the border crossings since I'm also a US citizen. It's what stopped me from visiting Pakistan with a Pakistani friend. I may be wrong though I just don't want to take the risk since I travel a lot.

[@barbiquearea]

Even Wikipedia doesn't go as far as you guys in detailing the life and legacy of Sargon of Akkad.

[@habernack2932]

Wikipedia isn't exactly the best in depth source for anything tho

[@admontblanc]

@@habernack2932 Wikipedia isn't even a source, it uses sources to build up compilation articles. Back when I was in school teachers forbade the use of Wikipedia for this exact reason, I mean they forbade citing Wikipedia as a source not using it for research altogether.

[@00Trademark00]

Check out the Ancient World podcast. Obviously, it has none of the amazing art that Kings and Generals have (and it can help a lot with all these ancient mesopotamian names) but it is very in-depth, starts with the earliest history of the first cities in Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus Valley, China, Minoan Crete, southern America (there was a civilisation as old as these others although then disappeared) and the British Isles and continues mostly with Egypt, Mesopotamia, China and to a lesser degree India (fewer written sources) and Crete/Greece all the way to the 3rd century BC (I think, I'm still at the 9th or so episode, but that was the original plan, I think it's now went beyond that). The narration is very good too.

[@reinvonpreuen1113]

Imagine scrolling through everyone’s comments to argue with them about how good/bad you think Carl Benjamin is on a video about a historical figure.

[@danieltsiprun8080]

I like the guy but i dont get why people just push him to the topic of the video when he does not fit.

[@fzzy5739]

who’s carl benjamin?

[@alexwallachian7720]

@@celestialdodo4912 what? He joined ukip? I really liked him, but now this has put me off him. Very dissapointing.

[@alexwallachian7720]

@@dailymass4924 UKIP is the most despicable party in the UK. I would never support a party that was led by the Russian puppet like Nigel Farrage, a man whose sole goal was to bring the UK to its knees and the eventual breakup of the country.

[@thimization]

I just find it fascinating that it's possible more people have heard of the modern Sargon than his ancient counterpart, even out of all humans who ever lived, since we have such a higher population with so much more mass media.

[@dfreltzya541]

Strange women lying in ponds distributing favors is no basis for a system of governance.

[@ritikshaw5868]

Help! Help! I'm being oppressed.

[@Liquidsback]

I order you to be quiet.

[@giannisg3387]

I fart at your general direction !

[@PaperclipClips]

Ni!

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Look, look and see the violence inherent in the system!

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Desire to know more, *INTENSIFIES*

[@KingsandGenerals]

As usual, more in the works!

[@magnuscoles5010]

@Zachary Thomas I understood that reference!

[@Drowronin]

Amazing that the story of Naram-sin claiming divinity, raiding a temple, and causing the destruction of his empire almost perfectly mirrors the Fall of Numenor in Tolkien's Silmarillion. He was a scholar, after all.

[@dingleberry4234]

Wow you’re right 😅

[@MrBigCookieCrumble]

_"We are the fighting Uruk-hai, give us your king!"_

[@henkjanwolvega]

Aragorn, take me to the city of Uruk hai

[@carlosaugustodinizgarcia3526]

@@StateholderofLunt I think Tolkien based Gondor and Arnor in Byzantine and Roman empires.

[@Kardia_of_Rhodes]

@@StateholderofLunt One does not simply walk into No-Mans-La...I mean Mordor.

[@Liquidsback]

Always good to hear about the real Sargon.

[@wu-ren]

Boomer of Akkad

[@samjones8119]

@some boby It's a shame really, even google the name you get just some fat dipshit. Way before you get the real historical figure. Worst thing about internet people using historical names.

[@Raz0rking]

@johl kohl bwahaha!

[@fritz1816]

@Cegesh so?

[@hailgiratinathetruegod7564]

@@samjones8119 who hurt your feelings, my dear child

[@desertstorm272]

"We have killed Babylonians! We have killed Mesopotamians! We have killed Assyrians, Mycenaeans, Sumerians, BUT we have never had the pleasure of killing... an Akkadian."

[@shinsenshogun900]

Quoth thy edgy Bronze Age ship worshipping, farm pillaging Sea Raider

[@tonytruong861]

Scorpion King?

[@nicholasventura5375]

Mathias!

[@msb8792]

Technically Assyrians and Babylonians are Akkadians!!! ... regardless of that I do miss The Scorpion King, hehe

[@blakops000007]

@@msb8792 No, Assyrians and Babylonians are Amorites, who are another nomadic conquerers of Mesopotamia.

[@Kus519]

River of blood, child getting sent away on the river, and magical dream. Hmmmm sounds like moses

[@royegabrieli5858]

The ancient Hebrews originally came from Mesopotamia. They than migrated to Syria than Cnaan and finally Egypt. So it would make sense their stories and culture would be based on the Mesopotamian one + local cultures they had contact with during their travel before settling in Cnaan (Modern Israel).

[@bunsenagnew1039]

Actually - those particular mythological accounts of Sargon are based on accounts from Nineveh 1500 years after Sargon was alive. They were released as part of historical archeology in 1870 from ancient Nineveh. Historically the accounts of Moses are actually older than these Nineveh accounts of Sargon. The prestige of the name Sargon was known in this time in the same way we would know the title Caesar brings prestige.

[@tazboy1934]

Moses separated the sea,and his staff turn into snakes wen thrown down,and his hand illuminate all by God permission,Jesus raised the dead and heal the leprosy all by God permission,Mohammed split the moon in half ,miraj on buraq

[@hassanbassim4007]

Abdirahman Greeks Persians and Egypt have very small amounts of influence on Abrahamic religions . Only Mesopotamian mythology that has a heavy influence on these because Judaism basically appeared in Babylon during Nebuchadnezzar II time .

[@averdadeeumaso4003]

Teddy Bear Nope completely different cases, when Moses was sent there was no river of blood, that was when he was an adult and sent by God to liberate the Hebrew people and God punished the egyptians with the 10 plagues, one being the river of the Nile turning into blood, this awestruck the egyptians because they thought only pharaoh had power over the Nile.

[@napoleonibonaparte7198]

*would you be interested in a trade agreement with England?*

[@nemesisprime1890]

I would prefer death instead 😝

[@monkeydog8681]

Gandhi would.

[@nemesisprime1890]

@@monkeydog8681 Gandhi was a coward..... Im on Napoleon's side.... Vive L' Empereur!

[@nemesisprime1890]

Trade with England is suicide. My European brothers side with us French n we will all reap d benefits of the Continental system 😛

[@thedutchman01]

@Kuroi Karasu That, and Sargon of Akkad is a YT'er famous for being a fan of the total and utter shitshow that is brexit, aswell as using the N-word, calling women all kinds of name, telling one who was a victim of rape previously that he wouldn't even rape her and so on... Also... Brexit is another thing that's being made fun of for the total and utter shitshow it is. And that's only because of the YT'er.

[@superlegomaster55]

I hope there will be a video ahout Hittite empire someday.

[@LeSethX]

I hope they cover the Late Bronze Age Collapse. The collapse the the Akkadian Empire sounds similar to the suspected theories.

[@fyrwrkboy]

@@LeSethX Yes and Yes!

[@TheMrgoodmanners]

@@LeSethX they already did last yr

[@rotciv1492]

Take a look at the channel Epimetheus. He already has a very gppd video about it.

[@ukaszkowalski725]

Epimetheus makes good videos about that.

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More more of Ancient Middle Eastern history.

[@FlowaMan]

African/eurasia

[@FlowaMan]

@Aurangzeb so you say that with no follow up you going to give your argument some body to your argument or just say what you feel?

[@xandro2445]

@@FlowaMan You literally did the same thing

[@GalacticSpartan]

No. The very first empire on Earth.

[@kriosatimoss6562]

I am about to die of happiness! The pre Persian Middle Eastern Empires are some of my favorites to learn about. Thanks again for yet another great video. This is honestly my favorite KZbin channel. Also, you're artist is fantastic.

[@user-ly8sp4bo4z]

WTF Akkadian is semitic not persian

[@Deridus]

What part of "pre persian" did you not understand?

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@@Deridus i think the pre part of it 😀

[@kararfadialkadwy8838]

This Mesopotamia not Persians

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@@kararfadialkadwy8838 The two are not mutually exclusive.

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Thanks for watching!

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The priesthood of Extra History

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and baz battles

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Vorpals legit ashamed I forgot about him

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Lindybeige and Metatron are also very respectable and knowledgeable history KZbinrs.

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Hernando Malinche I’m talking about history not other stuff he talks about.

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Amazing!!! This series has been great! Thank you so much

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Beautiful recreation of this part of the history . Thanks a lot

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Thanks for the great content keep it up!

[@Efraim_71]

Kings and Generals, you are one of the best channels in KZbin! Great video, about an era which is very often forgotten and not much is known for it. Keep it up!!

[@KingsandGenerals]

Thanks!

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Amazing video! Good work. I love that you're covering topics, which are so overlooked by many. Btw - what is the music from 14:20 onwards?

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Thank you for watching!

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One of the most under rated channels ! waiting for the next part in the series !

[@KingsandGenerals]

Thanks!

[@Crytica.]

Kings and Generals delivering the good stuff! I LOOOOVVEEEE this period in history and I also like that you do things aside of battles these days. It's great of course, some battles, that's why I subscribed, but damn I also love myself some good old historic politics, economy and just simple "how was life back then" kinda videos. Thanks again for the consistent uploads and the amazing work you and your team put behind it. Can't thank you enough!

[@KingsandGenerals]

Thank you for watching!

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this was all so true thank you very much!! thoroughly enjoy the content.

[@Kalpitahoover]

This is astonishing work. The explanation is very good, the rythm is good, and the artwork is really cool. Not usual to talk about those civilisations that are less popular than Egypt or Greece. It's very good, I love it.

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Wooow, Carl Benjamin had a extensive career before taking on KZbin!

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88kjk75 you win

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Amazing video on the Akkadians I hope you one day do a series on Ancient Egypt I recently finished a brilliant overall history of Egypt It’s history is so vast and filled with many characters long before the Ptolemies and Rome

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Fraser Whyte Ave Roma

[@Xagzan]

Gorgeous animation brings to life a time and place that doesn't get much focus in history classes in the west, for various reasons. But I've always gravitated toward it. There are only so many cradles of civilization, after all, the originators of life as we know it. Spot on with the facts as well. If I were a history teacher I would definitely show clips from these videos as aides.

[@ahmedsalah-im2ik]

as an iraqi WELCOME. TO IRAQ MORE THAN 7000 YEARS OF CIVILIZATION

[@3nzy346]

@Sargon lll 𖤓 Why not ?

[@3nzy346]

@Sargon lll 𖤓 what is the difference ? and where are you from

[@3nzy346]

@Sargon lll 𖤓 The Egyptians speak Arabic after Islam, so are they Arabs in origin?

[@3nzy346]

@Sargon lll 𖤓 My dear, you should study history well. Iraq,, Egypt and North Africa are not Arabs, but after they entered Islam they were Arabized

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@Sargon lll 𖤓 you are Iranian !

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I'm a simple man. I see a video of ancient Mesopotamia, I watch.

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thank you, love this early civilization period , bronze and late bronze, its amazing how human nature hasnt changed one bit since we decided to settle down.

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Always interesting...Thank you for ur hard work..

[@m.a.9571]

I've been waiting for this for a long time

[@philRminiatures]

Awesome work, love the atmosphere and the maps, many thanks for these fabulous 16 minutes of time travel ...👌👌👌

[@KingsandGenerals]

Thanks for watching!

[@Aziraal-Starhammer]

A very enjoyable episode as always. Well done.

[@KingsandGenerals]

Thanks!

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Finaly a ancient world vid ,well done!

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These videos are elite, i love your work so much! Also the Rome II Bronze age inclusions are a nice touch.

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Loving the high production quality videos on such an interesting period of world history, keep up the awesome work K&G team!

[@KingsandGenerals]

Thank you very much!

[@Kariakas]

Great episode, it's an era that invokes ones imagination.

[@KingsandGenerals]

Thank you!

[@rgunitx]

Always well done

[@oriffel]

amazing. i love learning about this super early history

[@InJusticeWon]

Great work again K&G.

[@KingsandGenerals]

Thanks!

[@ardiharyadi5020]

Akkadian, the first empire of men

[@alioshax7797]

@Stavros S. Why the fuck are you talking about men and women ? He just wanted to say that maybe, there were earlier empires, because akkadians writed.

[@alioshax7797]

@Stavros S. actually you did not

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Should I tell this guy that Kings and Generals are a pretty left wing channel and are friends with the left wing sphere of KZbinrs? I'm worried it might break his brain

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@Stavros S. The future is liberal and diverse. Get over it.

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@Cuck Slayer The only good conservative is a dead conservative. The future belongs to the liberals.

[@EndOfSmallSanctuary97]

11:25, I really love this shot, very cinematic with great use of perspective.

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you guys are always awesome.

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Thanks kings and Generals for Giving me my daily dose of history. I am in high school, and your channel has helped me a lot with history.

[@KingsandGenerals]

Thanks for watching!

[@Raveler1]

I very much appreciate this summation - I'm working my way through the Great Courses series "Between the Rivers" and have long been fascinated with these most ancient peoples. It appears that the main thing the Akkadians were missing was a mythos that united the people, so that instead of feeling oppressed, they would feel a part of the deeds of the empire. I also wish that the origin myth of Sargon were complete. At the moment, it's sort of an ancient version of: 1 - Be raised in exile 2 - Be exiled again 3 - ??? 4 - Conquer the land between the rivers (profit!)

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Thank you for the amazing videos

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Great Work. good job !

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here it comes, another gem

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This documnetary with flying colour animation are outstanding with a great documentary keep up like this :)

[@KingsandGenerals]

We will, thanks!

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Great work!

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This was very interesting! Thanks! I didn't know about all these before this video.

[@KingsandGenerals]

Thanks for watching!

[@hashimbokhamseen7877]

summer vacation: starts. kings & generals: uploads a viduo about the bronze age. me: grin on the face.

[@KingsandGenerals]

Thank you :-)

[@Argacyan]

(I know it's akkad but I have to do this pun...) **Sumer** vacations

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@@KingsandGenerals wellcome

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@@Argacyan hahahahahahau

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Thanks again for letting me know more about my country history and ancestors keep it up and can you do babylon kingdom next?

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Best notification of the day.

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Nice one, good topic :-D

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I love that artwork of that lower sea ceremony so much!

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Thanks!

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Thank you 😊

[@Ticonderoga444]

Cool. I just stumbled upon this channel. I like listening to ur videos while relaxing drinking my coffee

[@KingsandGenerals]

Welcome aboard!

[@siechamontillado]

You did not just make my dream video, did you?! Hell yeah Akkadians!!!

[@ersturdevant2831]

Objective, factual, & agenda free history. Good vid! 😊

[@KHK001]

Great! as always

[@KingsandGenerals]

Thank you!

[@peymanmostafaei6963]

The next in this series should be Assyrians, specially Neo-Assyrian empire and then the Elamites. Also, the Hittites even though they are more Anatolian.

[@alioshax7797]

Yeah Third Dynasty of Ur is a major state of this periode, almost 1000 years before Assyrians

[@hassanbassim4007]

Not yet , next ep will be about Lugal Utu-Hengal the Sumerian king who liberated the land of Sumer and Akkad from Ghot invasion , with the help of Ur-nmu who will be the emperor of Sumer and establish the Ur dynasty after the death of Utu-hengal .

[@alioshax7797]

@@hassanbassim4007 the youtuber will decide, of course, but it is impossible to make a video for every kings in ancient mesopotamia. I think they will make videos about great empires (Hittites, Assyrians, Bablyonians, maybe Mitanni ?), but not that much detail (impossible to show 2500 years of history in 10-minutes videos

[@hassanbassim4007]

ALN Alioshax true , but I think the next episode will be the last one about Sumerian civilization because after the Third dynasty of Ur there will be a huge cultural invasion from Aramaic nomadic people , and Elamites will attack Sumer and destroy it , making them completely under Amorites power and would later become amortized . However some of them will go deeply to the Marshes of Southern Mesopotamia and maintain their life style until this very day , they still would forget about their language and religion and convert to other cultures .

[@MessiMerdo]

I didn't knew that Anatolia was located outside of the Near East :)

[@marcelpavlik7976]

Uuuuaaaa thanks. This is my favorite part of history

[@user-tw6js1xr6t]

Great presentation

[@Tiberon098]

This is why I wish time travel was possible, so we could go back into the past and get accurate and complete records of these early civilizations.

[@EurasiaOnYT]

Great video like always!!!!

[@KingsandGenerals]

Thanks!

[@hottopics5192]

Great video, can you make one about Caanan and the Kingdom of Kush?

[@brianbuckley1234]

Amazing content, thank you

[@MrCordycep]

9:04 I love how the chariots continuously plough through their own soldiers. Reminds me when I had my knights retreat in MTW2, they did so right onto the pikes set by my own archers.

[@carlosaugustodinizgarcia3526]

Technically he used donkeys,horses were not introduced in Mesopotamia yet during Akkadian era.

[@Jeremiah_Aintthere]

Im sorry but can you explain how chariots fight do they ram their horses to the enemy lines or not?

[@0ji.a]

@@Jeremiah_Ainttherefrom what I know, chariots would be manned by a driver and a bowman or spearman, it’s like a highly mobile unit in ancient times. I don’t think they rode horses at this time of history either so this was what they’d do instead. And I don’t think it was until later that they added blades that would spin with the wheels as the chariot moved but it could’ve been an innovation at this time for all I know. If the chariot had blades on the wheels I’m pretty sure it was then used to break the enemy formations and create chaos in their ranks ? I’m no expert tho

[@nantzstein3311]

I know this is your second favorite subject K&Gs. MESOPOTAMIA Edit: Amazing work 🎩

[@KingsandGenerals]

Thanks!

[@armanonexpo6818]

Wow the anamation was really good😁😁

[@jayjohn9893]

Awesome video, really interesting stuff.

[@KingsandGenerals]

Thanks!

[@redcapetimetraveler7688]

5:00 the ritual of washing the royal weapons into the see , was an hint of a folktale or myth very important in the region ( and so much popular that we can recognize later greek legends) : the tale is the one of Baal becoming king of the gods after defeating his rivals Yam god of seas and Mot god of hell, when a mesopotamian king did this ritual it was like telling to everybody : "i defeated all kings , now i'm the king of kings as Baal is king of gods".and not a borders' thing.

[@karrarjassim7793]

This great. Historians believe that Akkad is located to the west of Baghdad, in an area called Mahmudiyah 🇮🇶❤

[@rahulkelkar1246]

You are best as always..!

[@KingsandGenerals]

Thank you!

[@ReyDawid]

1st time seeing your channel, immediate subscriber lol I liked the way you told history with illustrations, Plus it felt like this was from The Lord of the Rings.

[@vcrsalesman2606]

This era of history is interesting as to even get a basic idea of what happened intense arecheology was needed. In contrast, the basics about the Greeks and Romans were in the collective memory of educated people constantly after they declined. For example, we didn’t need to escalate to find out about the Iliad, but we didn’t discover Gilgamesh until the 1800s AD. That goes to show how much older the Mesopotamian civilizations are compared to the Romans. Crazy

[@crtuneman]

Now do one on the most famous Akkadian of all; Dwayne, the Rock Johnson, the Scorpion King. :)

[@edwinbetancourt3958]

The real scorpion king isn't Akkadian bro

[@leonrothier6638]

@@edwinbetancourt3958 shut fool

[@edwinbetancourt3958]

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[@PMMagro]

Really good video again!

[@otgunz]

The next part of Mesopotamia series is coming up!

[@stevend2877]

Beautiful

[@TechWzBst]

Can you make a series about the Holy Roman Empire? Great job guys

[@KingsandGenerals]

It is planned, thanks!

[@sjinnie_boy4988]

Could you make a video about the Swedish empire, with Gustavus Adolphus and Carolus Rex?

[@hassanminbaghdad]

Love your videos

[@Michael-ts3gj]

This is the best show

[@I-am-Hrut]

Overall, a fairly decent video. I'd like to point out that there is a Sargon stele and a Manishtushu stele which give some fascinating insight into just who the akkadians were fighting and making deals with. The former is interesting as it depicts sargon's subjugation of the sumerians (from hair styles). These fragments are rarely talked about and I find them very interesting from the standpoint that Sargon was trying to portray himself as a subjuator rather than a liberator. It's interesting to note that his successors suffered from rebellions against Akkadian hegemony which could have been averted if he had better PR. The later is a land grant document. It shows how the Akkadian kings redistributed lands to high officials as essentially bribes. Considering that both Rimush and Manishtushu were killed in palace coups we can infer that the state of akkadian court politics was volitile and cloaked in intrigue. Very unstable. There is also the rimush stele which is interesting because it shows both sumerians and akkadians in subjugation. It's like Rimush just threw his hands in the air and said, "imma smite all yall SOBs".

[@kenny5577]

Could you do a video on The Scythians.

[@yunisturabov9118]

This is too interesting video.I love it.I thank you very much for this.Scene is great!.How do you prepare this? What's your program for it?

[@otgunz]

Photoshop for drawing, After Effects for animating/sound editing, Machinima for TW video footages 👍 Thanks for watching!

[@loupiscanis9449]

Thank you.

[@faiazislam7870]

Great work

[@KingsandGenerals]

Thanks!

[@katrinajarrett4206]

Kings and Generals can you do history on why Jews are so mixed population. I'm a Jew but mixed with North African Berber and French and Mizrahi Jew and Sephardic Jew mixed.

[@lindahashem9281]

@@katrinajarrett4206 i'm not Jewish but if i can guess it could be because of the diaspora

[@Muhammed552]

I always wanted to see series about 1- Russia and it foundation and rising as great power in europe and the battles russia involved in it 2- Sweden as it risen as a top power in europe 3- Muslims early battles and Rashidun Caliphate battles

[@arawn1061]

I think they did do the early muslim conquest. You know the battles of Yarmouk and al-quadishia

[@Muhammed552]

@@arawn1061 there was an early battles m8 will be interesting to cover and there is still some battle after the ones you mentioned

[@arawn1061]

@@Muhammed552 ah yes your right. The ridda wars for example or the conquest of africa, Guadallete, the fall of persia, the rashidun civil war

[@Muhammed552]

@@arawn1061 and early battles too islam rising and it battles vs mecca during prophet muhammed era some of battle were interesting

[@arawn1061]

@@Muhammed552 true

[@lool389]

hey there i love watching ur videos, there a certain battle i hope you guys cover up later on its called the battle of changping its between the Qin kingdom and the Zhao kingdom in China, hope you guys do a vid about it later. Thanks and keep it up

[@arun3202]

Eagerly waiting for the video on subject "rise and fall of hittite empire".