The Ancient Middle East: Every Year

This video shows the history of the Middle East from the rise of the city-states in 2500 BCE to the fall of Egypt to Persia in 525 BCE. This covers such events as the conquests of Sargon of Akkad, Ur-Namu of Ur, and Hamurabi of Babylon, as well as the various Assyrian and Egyptian kingdoms, and other great powers, including the Hittites, Hurrian-Mitanni, and Israel.
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1. Isin city-state
2. Borsippa city-state
3. Dilbat city-state
4. Nippur city-state
5. Larsa city-state
6. Nina-Urukag
7. Akkad city-state
8. Naftali
9. Zebulun
10. Isaschar
11. Ephraim/Benjamin
12. Bit-Gabbari
13. Bit Adini
14. Carcemish
15. Gurgum
16. Kummukhi
17. Harran
18. Bit-Adini
19. Nisbis
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Thanks to:
TeeMee for helping speed up the animation process with "Number Animationer"
Ceplio for the idea, and some research
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MUSIC:
Derek & Brandon Fiechter - Hittite Chariots
Derek & Brandon Fiechter - Assyrian Chariots

[@OllieBye]

Make sure to check out the new (2020) version: kzbin.info/www/bejne/parWZ3iHqdV2gM0

[@franznarf]

and the old one is still here

[@Valkyraw]

Can you maybe if you do these videos use the right terms? Its not Middle East. It is called West Asia.

[@thewarriorfrog]

The PKK’s first program, issued in 1978, states, “Our people first attempted to reside on our land in the first millennium bce, when the Medes, progenitors of our nation, stepped onto the stage of history.” When Kurds try to legitimize their rights as a nation to live in Kurdistan, their arguments tend to rest on territorial settlement rather than consanguineous ancestry. But assumptions about continuous Kurdish settlement and descent from the Medes entered the collective understanding long ago.” p. 2 Van Bruinessen, Martin. Kurdish notables and the Ottoman state: Evolving Identities, Competing Loyalties, and Shifting Boundaries, p 25 “Though some Kurdish intellectuals claim that their people are descended from the Medes, there is no evidence to permit such a connection across the considerable gap in time between the political dominance of the Medes and the first attestation of the Kurds.” White, Paul J. “Observations on Kurdish Origins.” Vol 1. Journal of Arabic, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, 1993. “This view is disputed by others, most notably by D. N. Mackenzie, who objects primarily on philological grounds, due to the uncertainty of historical data. In Mackenzie’s view, the Kurdish language (and, by implication, the Kurds themselves) is probably closer to Persian than to the language of the Medes” “Other areas around the north-west and western shore of the Caspian Sea and in Central Iran were not called Kurdish, although some of these dialects are related to Kermanjî. But over a wide area the name of Kurd embraced that of Mede and of other Aryan tribes. I would suggest that the name Mede was absorbed under the Kurds in a way reminiscent of developments in France, where the name of Frank superseded that of Gaul.” “The identification of Kurds with Aryans and/or Medes must, admittedly, be viewed in the context of the process of nation-building, being mainly a reaction against Turkish nationalism’s denial of Kurds’ distinct nationhood. The linkage with the Medes is used to engage the official claim that Kurds are of Turkish origin. The myth of the Medes is mainly used as a tool to politically mobilize Kurds by the PKK.” Hennerbichler, Ferdinand. (2012). The Origin of Kurds. Advances in Anthropology. 02. 10.4236/aa.2012. 22008. p. 64 “David McDowall approves the prehistoric origin of the Kurds, he refuses to see Kurds as a unified entity until the last century, arguing that they existed as an identifiable group for possible more that 2000 years… it was only in the early years of the twentieth century that they acquired a sense of community as Kurds.” “The view on the Median origin of the Kurds has been an important element of the Kurdish social and political discourse since their national awakening. The genetic affiliation between the Kurds and their language and the ancient Medians has always been regarded as an absolute and incontestable truth for most Kurdish authors (cf., e.g., Wahby 1964; Vanly 1988; and many others). In the academic scholarship, as far as I know, V. Minorsky was the only adept of this theory.” p. 21. “Turning from the regions of mythology to the historian finds scarcely less uncertainty in it by the early inquirers on the racial con Abu-'l-Fida, bimself a Kurd, states that he h the Kurds were Arabs or Nabataeans, while Persian Arabs, from the similarity between the that of the ordinary nomad Arab; but he see with the Jill and the Dailami as a Persian traveller, records that he was told in Persia of Arab origin,2 in which view Ibn-ul-Athir are those of Abu-'l-Faraj, who idenbified the and of some Armenian writers, who seem to and the Medes” p. 493 Galip, Özlem Belçim. Imagining Kurdistan: Identity, Culture and Society. New York: I. B Tauris, 2015. p. 17

[@OllieBye]

@@rollinontheboard Not sure what you mean. This older version is not as accurate.

[@Valkyraw]

@b a d e d c r u a a d e r en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Asia

[@malsypright]

The Assyrian Empire just keeps respawning

[@theblackbox2847]

Malsy Pright bijji Kurdistan 😉

[@abnalrab9483]

The black Lion #kurd what? Why r u making things up

[@user-kp9qt8pt8v]

@@gengis737 The Medes pee on your face at that time

[@user-kp9qt8pt8v]

@@gengis737 The Syrian Are Arabs And the Shawam are the sons of the Crusaders Very few of them have Aramaic not Assyrian .

[@EsamforMEMES]

@@theblackbox2847 gtfo

[@jaylastname5693]

Damn those Assyrians just did not give up

[@nahrokhochaba6511]

and we still haven't gave up who am i kidding we are nowhere to be found lol

[@leoassur2409]

And we still are)

[@Mhmd-ou6xu]

Leo Assur where lol , you dont even have your own country

[@leoassur2409]

@@Mhmd-ou6xu I don't know English. I am an Assyrian living in Russia. I use a translator. He must have translated it wrong. I wanted to write that we haven't disappeared yet, there are 4 million of us.

[@Mhmd-ou6xu]

Leo Assur oh ok got you wrong

[@ro-han4738]

6:55 Persians: it might be time to conquer the world?

[@kookingwithkuscha1276]

IRAAANNNNNNN 💚🤍❤️

[@user-zi8bd7zp2f]

Before I learned persian history, I dident that conquering the world and justice and religious tolerance was possible

[@user-hs6tz9rh3z]

@@user-zi8bd7zp2flmao , are you sure ?

[@user-re1mu5xo8r]

I am from Iraq and my country is the cradle of civilization, and many kingdoms arose in it, such as Sumer, Babylon and Assyria🇮🇶🇮🇶🇮🇶🇮🇶

[@omegatetsuo664]

Akkad too.

[@prostation3844]

@Aššurbanipal love my Assyrains ❤️

[@prostation3844]

@Aššurbanipal no I'm Shrugie my ancestors are the sumerians

[@ashenone7649]

@@prostation3844 lmao shrugie

[@ashurbanipal2924]

@@prostation3844 Assyrians are the closest descendants of Sumerian’s.

[@Eniu7991]

that Homo Sapiens Empire in 150000 BCE must have been amazing tho

[@jeffkardosjr.3825]

What about neanderthal?

[@lahavmorris9919]

Burok the most impressive part about thier empire is it's tiny population compared to its vast lands.

[@yamsyria5923]

Homosapiens empire was the first place humanity left a trace....trace began there

[@restituororbis8988]

@احمد شوبكة but your name is Ahmad LMAO, what a fucking hypocrite

[@markhenley3097]

@@LetsGoGetThem But they weren't as intelligent as humans. There's a reason why they died out after a while of co existing with humans.

[@arthurlecomte8950]

4:38 Is it a bird? Is it a plane? IT'S THE LATE BRONZE AGE COLLAPSE

[@rekkitup2259]

S E A P E O P L E

[@skullking8195]

YAS QWEEN

[@jasonmartin4775]

Now the phoenicians can get DOWN TO BUSINESS

[@wildfire9280]

@Joy Chakravarty SUMERIAN PRINCIPALITY OF SEALAND

[@Poffean]

@Justin Y. YOU? HERE? HOLY SHIT!

[@dou-lheumanacara4310]

Ollie Bye, it´s notorious that your videos are full of studies and hard work. Congratularions and thanks for this huge knowlgdement.

[@meakia9]

watched this with my 6th grade homeschooler. felt like watching a sprting event and cheering for your teams, or like watching bacterial colonies duke it out for territory. Gave us some questions to start researching, made the bronze age fun. Thanks a ton.

[@TheScienceofnature]

Egypt was chilling in the corner the whole time.

[@peniseusgiganticus9558]

TheScienceofnature yeah but at the end someone came calling

[@mtraa.942]

Until the cancer cough *islam* cough came ruined everything...

[@sirbruhthefirst]

Mohamed Tarek bruh u have a Muslim name( the most most muslim name in fact) and your calling Islam cancer.

[@mohammedaljaberi2366]

@@mtraa.942 well the roman empire cancer with christianity the 1st who came and ruined their chill.

[@mcprimopl]

They still do it.

[@1Phase1]

Everybody is duking it out in the Middle East and Achaemenid Empire is just like "lemme just come in and take EVERYTHING" lol

[@skullking8195]

Everybody: frustrated becuase of wars in middle east Achamenid empire: its free real estate...

[@hattusilli2225]

When the food is cooked the hungry eater shows up

[@hattusilli2225]

Persians were accepted as liberators in the region after Harsh treatment of Assyria Kings

[@haitamc5611]

Wait till you see the rashidun.

[@javadnps8218]

@Bazel Merchad rape caliphates

[@juanducas6967]

4:43 F for the Hittites

[@Aakheperura]

F they were good people ;(

[@KnowledgeOfThePast]

F

[@KuzeKere]

F

[@indianboy59]

F

[@Riley46SelfHelp]

F

[@ArchangelB52]

King Cyrus to the Middle East: “Hello there.”

[@Lol-ql3gd]

and eveyone cheered

[@yazzthememer1736]

The Middle East... The birth place of civilisation, the greatest ones. Unfortunately, today it's just land for people to fight in... :(

[@Msaya-bh4il]

محمد حسن I noticed how your intelligence decreased and you became stupid, because anti-muslims are the ones who brought wars and destructions

[@ljiljanamuhamedovic9931]

M. saya i’am ex muslim and i can say that islam is the worst religion......but all religions are useless they are superstitions

[@user-vx4ys3pj8f]

@محمد حسن انا اسف اخي على كلامي ولكن يجب نحترم بعضنا السومريين ليسوا عرب.. العرب قاموا بعمل الكثير من الاختراعات وكلهم مسلمين وتحية الى السومريين😊

[@user-vx4ys3pj8f]

@محمد حسن السبب عقول العرب الاغبياء لكن هذا لا يعني ان نترك ونشتم سيدنا محمد والصراحة كلامك صح بس في كثير اباء مسلمين يعملون اولادهم ويعلمونهم بشكل كويس وحتى الهندوس والمسيحيين و و و الخ كلهم نفس الشي اي شخص يولد ببلد معين رح يصير نفس الدين يلي بالبلد واي شخص باي دين ابائه كانوا قاسيين معه عالاغلب رح يترك دينه شو ما كان لذلك انت حر بما تفعل وانا حر بما افعله الاسلام وكل الاديان تعلمنا السلام وكيفية العيش الصحيح لكن عقل الانسان المتوحش هو الذي يجعل الانسان متوحش ويفعل ما يريد

[@user-vx4ys3pj8f]

@محمد حسن اسرائيل يقتلون المسلمين بفلسطين ونهبوا اراضيهم وبدك يانا نتسامح معهم 😂😂 لو كانت دولة عربية مسلمة اختلت دولة مسيحية كنتوا فضحتوا الدنيا سبحان الله الناس مستحيل ما تكره المسلمين بسبب حقدهم وكراهيتهم اذا توحد المسلمين رح تصير اقوى دولة بالعالم واي شخص يترك الاسلام اكيييد رح يحب كلشي ضد المسلمين ويكره كلشي يخص المسلمين وانت تقول انك حر بدك تختار الدين يلي تريده او تبقى ملحد ومع ذلك انت عنصري ضد المسلمين لانك حاقد عالمسلمين وعلفكرة انت اول شخص عربي ليس مسلم كلامه محترم بالعادة شتم وسب شتم وسب وان شاء الله نخلص من داعش والاحتلالات وترجع الدول العربية كويسة والصراخة نحن المسلمين ما يهمنا اذا حدا ترك الاسلام او دخل لان نحن مارح نستفاد شي المهم نحن مسلمين خلص لا ترد عتعليقي لان الكلام بدون فائدة مع ناقصين العقل

[@drswag0076]

fun fact the Sumerian, Assyrian, and Babylonian kingdoms were in the same location of modern day Iraq

[@marjanperveinis8355]

and ancient cities of Ur and Uruk also!

[@T.sbchgjsoahsksja]

@Assurbanipal no we didn’t we reclaimed it

[@T.sbchgjsoahsksja]

@Assurbanipal only a tiny chunk of Kurdistan is Assyria

[@T.sbchgjsoahsksja]

@Assurbanipal Assyria doesn’t exist in anyway shape or form I didn’t even hear about u irrelevant people until 3 months ago lol

[@T.sbchgjsoahsksja]

@Assurbanipal Assyria doesn’t even exist in anyway shape or form lolololololol there’s like 800,000 of u 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@guardiansing6572]

I can only imagine what it must be like to live in this region knowing that it was the birthplace of Civilization

[@IronChin100]

I did, and to be honest, nothing is like living in the US. I was born right in the border of Babylonia and Elam, modern day Iran/Iraq.

[@jamig.7254]

Absolutely fascinating! I imagine a lot of research went into this. Many thanks.

[@zegh8578]

That very earliest interaction between the Sumerian city states - here represented only as a fleeting frame - is such a... magical era in human history. Each city is a country, as the whole perception of "country" "kingdom" "land" must be understood for its time and place, and I always imagined it would make for the most amazing computer game - both grand strategy, where you micromanage either of these main city-states and their various numerous minor satellites - or yet better, a role-play game, where you walk (no riding!) between these places, questing for either the priests and priestesses, kings or god-kings - or maybe even for the Sumerian gods themselves! Obviously, such an endevour taken into reality would be changed into something stupid and unrealistic, horseriding forced in, catapults, Roman-era armors etc, and I would probably hate it, and regret I ever wanted anything like it, so... maybe it's just as well that it does not exist. But, it's among my favorite historical periods.

[@cola_stealer5719]

@𒁲𒂵𒀀𒁕 what does your name mean.is that akkadian?

[@cola_stealer5719]

@𒁲𒂵𒀀𒁕 ah ok

[@fallendown8828]

Yeah it is like that because we don't know them enough, most of their names and histories are lost to time so we just know this period existed and some cities that are gonna get big later started here

[@starkfaktory6920]

​@@cola_stealer5719 bruh

[@m1ke244]

Oh my god, u r not the only one who thought about a game like this!

[@K55365]

Lol at the end the Acheamenid Persians come out of nowhere and take over the entire Middle East.

[@mehdinaghavi685]

k 55, funny how at the end the whole screen turned green.

[@MS-zi3pw]

And they got their ass raped by you know whom!!!! 😂😂😂😂

[@rezashia3135]

MS 1997 yep but eventually the ‘you know whom’ were evicted by the Parthians and later the same ‘you know whom’ got their asses raped in turn by the Romans, that’s how history works chum, win some-lose some!

[@EllaithiAli]

@@rezashia3135 Hmmm, the picture of Shah Ismail I.. Here's a fact to you, you know that Ismail I origin is Kurdish? Because his grandfather is Safi-ad-din Ardabili (the father of the Safavid dynasty is a Kurdush Sufi Sheikh).

[@DaDARKPass]

the word achaemenid actually just means "the empire" so... just call them Iranians.

[@Babylonia313]

3:08 sealand In Basra / Iraq and it was called the land of "Inki" king of sea 🌊

[@QUARTZXDYT]

Enki was a God too

[@Littlebit31]

This is amazing and has so much we never learned about

[@harrisonshone7769]

Sealand can into Babylon!

[@markhenley3097]

lol Sealand is also a tiny country in Britain.

[@Alextheblaster-ve2dc]

😂😂😂 Sealand can into Mesopotamic Kingdom!

[@RuneForumwalker]

Struw It's probably an EU4 joke as it's the same format as an achievement name.

[@forthepotentates7526]

Just shut up sea bitch

[@hassanbassim4007]

Epsilon Jay ɛɈ they didn’t have an empire , they were savages fighting for money , just like Vikings . But the difference is that Sea people got mostly eliminated by Egyptians and Assyrians and lost in history , unlike Vikings who attacked the weakest kingdoms in their times .

[@soralb6368]

It is great that you have illustrated geographic features as they existed back then. For example, the Persian gulf extended much further north than today and the Dead Sea was much larger. Great job.

[@yjohnnyy618]

Sor Alb actually, it's the Jordan River that was much larger.

[@Afdog]

@@yjohnnyy618 Dead Sea as well, it’s like a shadow of its former self nowadays

[@fudjutsian_man]

I did not see that, great job 👍

[@delphinegazale3861]

1:36 The Britsh Travled Back in time?!

[@person1796]

Whatt

[@grrumakemeangry]

Yurt1 UK

[@karadesu8348]

where?

[@BeryAb]

@@karadesu8348 Look at Uruk, near modern-day Kuwait.

[@shafqatishan437]

What does uruk gotta do with brits?

[@Ilayshatz]

The pro Palestine kids after discovering Israel came before Palestine: 💀🤯

[@TTGvision]

there was literally a province in the video called Philistia before Israel

[@Ilayshatz]

@@TTGvisionye but most phillistines were from Greek origin and the province of phillista is located in the kingdom of Israel

[@TTGvision]

@@Ilayshatz how do you know they’re not from Phoenician origin or canaanites? For argument sake the most likely conclusion is that the people of Palestine are the original Jewish people who were converted by the Romans (Byzantine) and caliphate to Christianity and Islam. Most Israelis today are European or Moroccan

[@Ilayshatz]

@@TTGvision no most Palestinians are either from Egypt or Jordan and yes stoat Jews are European or Moroccan they are the original inhabitants of Israel because the Roman’s kicked out the Jews out of the land before the Islamic Arabs came

[@Ilayshatz]

@@TTGvision and the Palestinians ain’t the original Jews

[@John_Fugazzi]

I found it interesting how complex the history of the Assyrian Empire was with so many changes over time.

[@Goyim-phobic]

So true🇮🇶

[@bonbonsweetness]

Still it was a terrible place

[@Goyim-phobic]

@@bonbonsweetness Rome and Greece was far worse

[@bonbonsweetness]

@@Goyim-phobic Lol, no idea what that has to do with what I said. Rome, Greece, and Assyria were all bad....

[@srt4874]

​@@Goyim-phobicAssyria is not iraq Samshi adad is syrian not iraqi

[@HVLLOWS1999]

In 879 BC, Ashurnasirpal I hosted a party were over 67,000 guests from all over the known world were invited from as far as the Zagros to anatolia and through out the Assyrian and Mesopatamian, & Egyptian realm. It is one of if not the most awesome party in history lasted 10 days straight!

[@TusharSharma-cy9xo]

@Akhand Bharat bro, who was ruling bharat at that time?

[@sanjeevdas8369]

@@TusharSharma-cy9xo Independent Kingdom Janapadas

[@yalieyal4362]

"who the fuck starts a conversation like that I just sat down!"

[@myerax]

you can read more about him in the Greek scriptures. The Greek refer to him as Sardanapalus because they could not pronounce Ashurbanipal.

[@sagamaster124]

IMPRESIONANTE ,LOS MAS PODEROSOS GOBERNANTES DEL MUNDO DE AQUEL TIEMPO .

[@saifmatar2692]

As much as the Middle East is messed up today. Couldn’t be more proud to be from a region where the birth of civilization occurred

[@TheNightEyes]

5:53 When the Assyrian Empire was a pregnant hunchback on all fours

[@z4m4suu57]

LOL

[@Arialovessyou]

So were the babylonians, akkadians and neo sumerians

[@tonykassian9914]

Proud to be Armenian. We are calling our country Hayastan which comes from Hayassa Azzi and our grandfather Hayk Nahapet of Babilon.

[@emiriye]

The more you know I guess.

[@dariusrezai8319]

Tony, in some records they say that the Ancient Armenians did not enter the Middle East until around 1500BC. Is that true?

[@-3696]

@Edward Minaei Armenians are indo europeans, they came to the middle east before the persian by a short time, persians came around 900bc, middle east was inhabited by assyrians, bablonians, arabs, sumerians.....

[@bade4ever]

But Armenians are Indo-Europeans and Babylonians are Semites.

[@hayots_lernashkharh]

It’s sucks how some Armenians now think we are “Caucasusian” but we always have and will be middle eastern.

[@EmperorTigerstar]

Great job Ollie!

[@NIA-ql5he]

احلا شباب والله .

[@TheLollonsloo]

What is wrong with yall

[@drosophyllum8418]

Lots of things.

[@RPM1776]

yea cause nazi's wore those old pikelhaubes

[@emperorconstantinexipalaio4121]

MegaPrem That was more of a WWI fashion actually.

[@ashwinraut8001]

Most of the civilization and empires lies near the Euphrates river.

[@Babylonia313]

True

[@Documentaries_and_stories]

Cradle of civilization 🇮🇶

[@robertschlesinger1342]

Excellent and very brief overview of early Middle Eastern history. Very worthwhile and well worth watching a plurality of times.

[@atruv2089]

I feel really sad for the Assyrians and Armenians. They didn't deserve the pain they had in modern history.

[@quqbalam5089]

Please. Arabs suffered just as much. The British colonial conquest of the Middle East was even bloodier than the Armenian and Assyrian genocides - supported by Germany and made possible by British imperialism anyway. Then of course you have the US bombing the living hell out of Muslim countries, with a death toll that easily exceeds the Armenian genocide after about two decades.

[@bentx7878]

@@Yerfdog1 Please: Armenians did not had war for lots and araps did after like the 18 th century there started to be like crazy things. Thats also a reason why they are behind.

[@ehsan_iq]

@@quqbalam5089 the Armenian and Assyrian genocides were done by the Ottoman Turks, not the Arabs you ignorant moron!.

[@gambigambigambi]

@@ehsan_iq the armenian and assyrian genocides are happening even before an official "genocide" is done by the turks. Since the very first conquer of muhammad.

[@ehsan_iq]

@@gambigambigambi Yeah... No.

[@obayal-raslan8403]

I AM SYRIAN CITIZEN AND I AM VERY GLAD TO LEARN THE ANCIENT HISTORY OF THIS REGION.. THANKS A LOT DUDE

[@rojwarkalo4782]

relax lol

[@uptheblues1875]

@Extra Extra been studying history for a long time, that's the first time I've heard of that. I wouldn't mind some sources if u can find some.

[@3haAD900]

@Extra Extra King Vikramaditya certainly did exist, but he probably did not rule over all of that area. The leading theory is that “Vikramaditya” is an Arya-Iranic name for quite a few Hindu rulers from Mitanni/West Armenia (present day Lazi district), to Afghanistan, to West Asia, and Indonesia. These rulers didn’t rule a singular state that stretched from anatolia to Indonesia, normdid they exist in the same time period. They were just Hindu (or whatever relative of Hinduism existed in Anatolia at the time), and as such were given similiar names. This confused historical accounts causing the Vikramaditya myth.

[@sanjeevdas8369]

@@3haAD900 yes

[@thefigure2554]

Oh a Syrian I hope your country does well tho... wish u luck:(

[@jorge.luiz1095]

A beautiful job done by historians to record all those changes in the past! Congratulations!

[@janostoth4315]

Great and very precious video. Thank you for creating this. I was thinking how tremendous effort over a long time period through the work of many, many people was needed, until enough wisdom about this area got collected, that was the base for this video. And than how much time and effort the creator of the video paid to be able to collect and to put into this video the needed information to create this changing map. I mean this video is at the end of a very, very long chain of efforts and gives much clarity about a long past period of human history ! Great work ! A real treasure.

[@ArabPride100]

It all started in Mesopotamia hence it was all in Iraq. That's why we are called the cradle of Civilization

[@zizou0655]

KURD MEANS STRONG! Kurd doesn't exist

[@corneliusdelasoto3955]

Now a shithole

[@ArabPride100]

Michael Bay Lol we will go back to the glory days.. Germany was an absolute white whole and now look at them.. Iraq was born with glory... that land has more history than any nation on this earth

[@corneliusdelasoto3955]

@@ArabPride100 That's means shit all when we whites created the computer you're using to talk to me. Pretty sure no one from the middle east can create as much or better than Europeans.

[@MS-zi3pw]

Cornelius De La Soto U whites were living in caves while middle eastern were investing writing , math and astronomy., everything started in the Middle East. The reason You live is because of the Middle East. The first writing, the first math , and the first technologies were invented in the Middle East... u even worship a middle eastern religion

[@arasimonian2745]

Armenians have always been in the same geographical location up until today.

[@awesomeanbar9402]

Egyptians as well

[@thecommenter7201]

No wars, no treaties, no castles. Sort of an isolated community.

[@hattusilli2225]

They were pretty harmless and non combatant even Mongols took advantage of this and so did the Turks

[@orpheasnestos7444]

That’s not true. Most of Armenia is still occupied by the Turks!

[@flaviusbelisarius7517]

They had an empire that took most of Syria and eastern anotolia. Up until the genocide there where still millions of Armenians in eastern anotolia.

[@misterambrose3292]

What a power iraq have ... 💜 4 empire (sumerian.Assyrian. babylonian.Akkadin) and many great king... 💜 Mesopotamia the best civilization in history...🙏💜

[@assyrianmf]

The saddest part is Iraqis speaks Arabic now and they lost their old identity

[@khikhikhiland1099]

@@assyrianmf so what language they must speak now instead of arabic?

[@assyrianmf]

@@khikhikhiland1099 Aramic, the language that unite Kurd with assyrians and Chaldeans

[@TERRORIST.SAIKAT]

@@assyrianmf Hyper Nationalism brings nothing but chaos perfect example of nowadays Middle East ...

[@assyrianmf]

@@TERRORIST.SAIKAT because they are loyal to fake national ideas , not their true one

[@norahclarissa6352]

Like, subscribed, your channel is refreshing and amazing

[@HVLLOWS1999]

4:35 Oh no it's coming...they're coming 🌊👥.

[@user-vm9xz4kv9z]

@Lord Voldemort the "sea people" Mentioned by many impires at the time, they're blamed for the collapse of the bronze age.

[@user-vm9xz4kv9z]

@Lord Voldemort i know, i said that they were blamed for the collapse, not that they cased it.

[@Aakheperura]

DAMN PELESET

[@saredodevil]

Vikings of ancient history

[@teriyakichicken1848]

Wow. This may be one of the most timely and impressive videos i've seen. Literally just this week I've been interested and highly confused on the many kingdoms vying for power before the persians came. This cleared a lot up, and I will most definitely using it for reference if I have more questions in the future. Thank you.

[@aManwithaList]

The interesting thing is that what made Persia a big empire, uniting all these small kingdoms into a big empire is the Idea that we now call "Iranshahr thinking" in the universities, the union of many peoples with different races, ethnic groups. , culture and different gods

[@MackerelCat]

Thanks, really interesting and helpful to understand the different periods

[@JRNarian]

Amazing work!

[@PicklePickle7]

the fertile crescent keeps being screwed over and constantly goes from one empire to another

[@nebuchadnezzarii3418]

yo yo It remained on this situation to these days.

[@PicklePickle7]

Nebuchadnezzar II true. I'll imagine the time with the least change was under ottoman rule

[@xenotypos]

yo yo -> And the few centuries after the Arabs invasions, probably. The difference in this part of the world between ancient antiquity and now is that in this ancient past even with empires warring against each other it was basically the center of the world, now it's just a shithole. Harsh distinction.

[@blackmonkeysfuqwakanda3461]

yo yo who are the fertile crescent?

[@PicklePickle7]

Talip Zengin It is the cradle of civilization middleeasternregion.wikispaces.com/file/view/fertile1.jpg/166037419/399x299/fertile1.jpg

[@neillefrancis8568]

0:12 The last time the Middle East has was ever unified

[@MalaKrekar]

Neil LeFrancis haha

[@joffreybaratheon9044]

Ottomans empire Abbasid caliphate Umayyad caliphate All of these united the middle east

[@InvasionWW]

@@joffreybaratheon9044 yea sure

[@ShidaiTaino]

ZeLegend how about you open a history book

[@InvasionWW]

@@ShidaiTaino how about you keep your mouth shut?

[@JrShen-dw3cj]

6:36 the border was straight

[@murtadhaalkenani3876]

Easy-to-control desert

[@lucasistrom]

4:36 is the bronze age collapse

[@StrickenWithFear]

It must take such a long time to produce such intensely intricate videos about things that aren't quite as well known for various reasons.

[@DrHrishikeshApte]

Yeah these history channels including emperor tigerstar need nobel prize

[@RowanProductions]

3:24 Egypt fights Egypt

[@freezeyou1953]

Lol

[@montagnegign3978]

Egypt won

[@bebekdragon7604]

@@montagnegign3978 nope they lost

[@pleaseenternamekral8670]

6:56 egypt gg

[@leozaz9402]

Love it dude!

[@Etanmaccabean]

I liked watching Israel repeatedly retaking its territory it’s also fun to think they continued to do so with the Greeks and the Romans 🇮🇱

[@mhmoodplh913]

😂😂😂😂

[@yakov95000]

​@teomulard6990 Exact same people but yes without the temple

[@crazyboris7392]

Absolutley Amazing work as always. This is one of my favorite subjects in history. ^^

[@MasterFqF]

As someone who's really interested in Ancient Egypt and the ancient times in general, this is really well made! Thanks for making this.

[@oyungogdfrust4136]

this is so helpful. thank you.

[@halleylow3615]

Incredible. thank you.

[@OllieBye]

Thanks to Ceplio who came up with the idea and helped with research a bit: kzbin.info/www/bejne/emHXYah6jdh6btU Also, some of the dates are different to "History of the World: Every Year", because I used a different chronology. This one's also more detailed than that video, simply because there's more room on this one.

[@ceplio]

Thanks a ton Ollie! :D

[@OllieBye]

ceplio No problem :)

[@OllieBye]

***** That's a consideration for the future, yes.

[@dedetawil28]

Ollie Bye why was the Phoenician civilization was not in there , but it was in your videos ?

[@OllieBye]

Dede Tawil It was there. I usually just show it as "Phoenicia", but in this one, I showed all the individual cities. So that's Sidon, Tyre, Arwad, Beiruta and Byblos. They're the same thing.

[@ral.9269]

In this time they were not Turks in middle east but Greeks! So many great cultures.. Assyrians, Armenians, Persians, Greeks and Arabs

[@moroccanfreethinker2739]

no greeks either, there were anatolians and hittites and armenians

[@ramaabdulrahman9475]

Rol Dant kurds*

[@ozkul_arda200]

They are still here?

[@ramaabdulrahman9475]

Lord Lahmacun kurds have always been there were also the medals and elam

[@romuluspopulus1250]

@@moroccanfreethinker2739 Are you serious? Greeks controlled anatolia and part of middle east for many years

[@mlvcsj]

As an Asian, we are thought that Middle East is a Eurocentric term. We usually call it West Asia instead and to respect and embrace our Asian Heritage.

[@youtubeisabitch5758]

Yes it should be called west Asia

[@aman-hl9re]

Europe will be Middle West then lol

[@Ambrosia-]

Middle eastern should only used to Arabs countries. West Asia is for non Arab countries.

[@CAPRlCE]

So what we learnt from this video that north of Mesopotamia (iraq) is not kurdish, it’s Assyrian lands and always will be, the true inhabitants of the north

[@tekhayat5995]

but the Kurds genetically carry the heritage of the Mesopotamian natives, especially the Hurrians, Mitanni and Gutis. this does not mean that they do not belong to that land. I am not a Kurd but science cannot lie.

[@CAPRlCE]

@@tekhayat5995 No kurds carry the genes of the medes, a native persian and antolian, hurrians, mittanis are not from Mesopotamia they’re originally from anatolia, over the years they fought Mesopotamian and settled. If you just see the population of the kurds in those 4 countries you’ll know that 20 million kurd live in iran, 20 million live in turkey and only 5 million live in north of iraq and north of syria which proves the history is right, when assyria fail alot of medes migrated to assyrian lands which led to having 5 millions of kurds in syria and iraq, and the capital of north of iraq (krg) name is arbil, which is an Assyrian name (arbila) which they trying so hard to change the name to (hawler).

[@murtadhaalkenani3876]

Kurds were brought by abbasid caliph in the middle ages to defend against constant Byzantine raids

[@azizmarshal9438]

Now a days only 100,000 Assyrian left in north , but Kurdish is about 6 million, sorry we won

[@CAPRlCE]

@@azizmarshal9438 3.8 million and you seem happy on the massacre of assyrians?

[@nancywald22]

3:09 WOW I THOUGHT SEALAND WAS NEAR BRITAIN BUT HERE IT IS IN THE MIDDLE EAST

[@christiank1109]

No man this is THE Sealand the eponym of New Zealand

[@kairon5249]

@@christiank1109 its actually zealand from the dutch province zeeland.

[@KrytonXBP]

It is near UK, just check 1:37 time. Uk occ

[@user-yi1eq2ql4v]

6:10 : unmm 6:17 :oh 6:21 :OH god 6:40 :daam 6:55 : GOD DAAAAM

[@hattusilli2225]

So literally Islamic Caliphate consumed all the two major powers after long infighting of locals in the fertile lands. History shows that Arabs were present in the area as wayfarer all the time. They did the caravan trades and during Akkadian they settled in little towns.

[@alp2409]

@@hattusilli2225 The video ends over 1000 years before muhammad is born...

[@mozhhosseini982]

@@hattusilli2225 That is not the Islamic Caliphete. That is ancient IRAN.

[@user-dz4pb2ll3k]

@@mozhhosseini982 are you muslim?

[@spr6065]

@@user-dz4pb2ll3k does religion matter?

[@folklore9062]

This video is for some people who say Israel never existed. Wow and the Assyrians never gave up and great to see history of middle East,much more useful than my History class

[@iraqimapper1595]

They were literally a tribe conquered by everyone , insignificant for a history

[@folklore9062]

@@iraqimapper1595 Yeah,but for the people it will be very significant

[@DrFish547]

Notice how "Philistine" is also shown way before the creation of Israel?

[@folklore9062]

@@DrFish547 cause Palestine has Always existed obv

[@adad-nerari4117]

Great work,very useful for students in assyriology.

[@aliyasser9723]

The False Modern Assyrian Church

[@user-gz1iy3ju8w]

Hayassa =Nairi=Armenia!

[@millena1290]

And Urartu

[@classicmapper364]

Babylon (As.). If you'll add one more "s", you'll understand the true relations between Assyria and Babylonia.

[@Johighness]

Yes, true because they were basiclly the same people and Spoke the same language.

[@youmelhermiz5638]

Alright.

[@firasshakosh1152]

MrRussianMapper all these civilisations forms the greater Syria according to the SSNP

[@AliMohamed-hx5bi]

MrRussianMapper Russia is like a hot pussy bitch

[@AliMohamed-hx5bi]

Omar Nasir 😂😂😂😂 yes , I wish it happen again

[@jenniferodion8378]

Thanks a lot for the knowledge

[@RacingGuy570]

Nice Ollie *:)* (i liked)

[@FirstLast-wo4dt]

sometimes you wonder how accurate our records are of these times long ago

[@Apokalypse456]

most of the times you realize that almost always you are limited to very few sources, taking the romans and carthage as an example, we know carthage existed, we know they fought, but what do we know of carthage ? we have a few signs of their scripture left, but not even close to enough to restore the language, we only know pretty much what the romans told us about carthage. do we believe it though, do we believe that the people of carthage regularly sacrificed children to their gods ? we cannot assume it to be correct, we can neither assume it to be entirely wrong, because we have no sources left that can tell us if it was wrong or correct, only the romans who very well might have been lying considering they were sort of on hostile grounds if you know what i mean.

[@Yougottacryforthis]

I mean, as a fan of mapping videos, it's very shaky in general. Ten fold when you try to depict times before the Bronze Age :)

[@bananian]

Apokalypse456 it saddens me when emperors burn down libraries or destroy cultural artifacts like in Mao's cultural revolution. 😭

[@marijadjuric8751]

@@Apokalypse456 Romans & Carthage - both Phoenician. Allegedly Carthage lost to Rome, but only then was the Roman Empire formed. From there the conquests went on to Europe. It's the baal worshipping, child sacrificing Phoenicians behind it all the whole time. They are in control to this day. They just take on different masks.

[@scipioafricanus5871]

@@bananian Or more recently, ISIS destroying pre-Islamic artifacts in Mosul.

[@1997saltydog]

Do the history of the universe every second

[@manPi1122]

ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ we need some aliens to help

[@JoeRafinski]

Put a fork in it!

[@johnyeat1155]

but how we will watch a trillion years long video

[@scipioafricanus5871]

Actually, in the beginning, I think we'll need a history of every picosecond. First seconds kinda important.

[@Chirchy]

Yes, it shall be 4.32E17 seconds long

[@lamiseldeftar6333]

Proud to be Egyptian 🇪🇬❤️ The greatest civilization in the world Long live EGYPT

[@srt4874]

Only one 😂

[@irancountryball302]

Hi there 🇮🇷👋

[@obenrob]

you know your civilisation must be old when you call your kingdom 'new' and the Hittites and Assyrians still are on their 'old' kingdom

[@skelet8337]

You know your civilisation is old when it was in it is golden ages while the mammoths were still around

[@manetho5134]

0:34 Larak (UK occupied). The British building colonies since 2432 B.C

[@Bryce-yw8hf]

lol i just noticed that

[@SxVaNm345]

During the first agricultural revolution in the Fertile Crescent, Germanic & Celtic people still belonged to the PIE in the Caucasus Steppes.

[@eyuin5716]

UK stands for Uruk not the United Kingdom.

[@jordanirving9724]

Nah it isn't Uruk, it's the UK from the future time travelling and shit

[@thesuperamazingalex810]

That is Uruk

[@persianguy1524]

Achaemenid Persian empire wrecking everybody's shit.

[@mehrdadb9789]

yo yo And after the Seleucids ?? Oh wait They disappeared for 2 Thousand YEARS :OOO .. meanwhile Iran Bossed the middle East :O

[@PicklePickle7]

Mehrdad B I from Iran and I am not a fan of Khomeini or the shahs. But one thing that the islamic republic does that makes it more preferable for me is that the republic doesn't take sh!t from anyone. The west tried to sanction Iran and hypocritically denounced the nuclear program but Iran didn't care and the sanctions are over and the country is back at it is feet. While the corrupt Shah made Iran a puppet.

[@persianguy1524]

+yo yo doubt youre from Iran. shah wasnt perfect but he was a nationalist not an islamist. he wanted Persian culture to be dominant, not western culture or islamic sharia at the end of the day.

[@PicklePickle7]

Darius Ashkani He promoted Americanism. Of course many good things came from Mohammad Reza and his father but at the end of the day he was a puppet, Came and stayed in power because of his British and American masters.

[@persianguy1524]

+yo yo how did he promote Americanism?

[@ItsWolf0]

Thanks. I need this for homework!

[@gengis737]

An interesting view about Iraqi states is that nearly each city was self-governing, either as a republic, a theocracy managed by priests or a kingdom, but without today state administration over the city administration. Thus large kingdoms and empires were the exception in the norm of independent cities, a bit like ancient Greece cities before the Macedonian and Roman empires.

[@mint8648]

Well there was a long tradition of large centralized theocratic and bureacratic states to maintain irrigation canals

[@gengis737]

@@mint8648 When you look at the history of Mesopotamia on 2000 years, city state was the norm, large empire the exception, quickly decomposing in city states, able to organize irrigation

[@mint8648]

@@gengis737 maybe for early part not late mesopotamia

[@Matay150]

Proud to be Assyrian !

[@pvt.t-bone9277]

If Kurdish means strong how come you could not be 100% independent in 200 years of fighting?

[@MalaKrekar]

Guys for fucks sake there is no problem with being proud of your history I am kurdish and even tho we kurds have been the assyrians rivals in the past doesn't mean that we are still enemies and have to hate each other the assyrian empire was a great empire and the assyrians have an interesting history and so were we kurds both of us have a great history and great people :)

[@babylonking6104]

Rand Aram The problem is that the Assyrians are not receiving any rights in the middle east because they are Christians

[@3d8dmusic85]

mohammad 13305 shut up assyarin is aryans not muslim

[@mesopotamiankurdishgirl6340]

@komigennufan kurds are decent of sumerians !!

[@farshidmon3777]

Interesting. History of the middle east prior to the establishment of the Persian Empire is quite confusing. Thanks for the video. Pretty educational

[@hayots_lernashkharh]

proud to be armenian 🇦🇲❤️

[@suryaniortodoks5784]

🇦🇲👍

[@3d8dmusic85]

🇮🇷❤️🫱🏽‍🫲🏻🇦🇲

[@d.m9841]

ARMENIANS 🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲

[@amortality999]

🇦🇱🤝🇦🇲

[@Goyim-phobic]

Armanians are from different origins just look at thier extremely diverse haplogroups

[@user-ip6cw7dn7f]

Great work. But it would be more informative to use a physical map as a background, so that it would be clear how natural features had affected migrations an conquests... And they certainly did.

[@juanvilchis7062]

6:53 "The LORD, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth..." - Cyrus the Great

[@freezeyou1953]

He was half median wich means half kurdish lol

[@ajr1247]

Kurds are very nice and hospitable people

[@skullking8195]

He was a lur from a current city called izeh...

[@azurestocke1592]

Freeze You Medians weren’t kurds

[@rolandorodriguez4504]

Aj R Tell that to the Assyrians

[@omidjj7864]

Acaemenids empire the gratest PERSIAN empire.

[@zshosseini3687]

@not A HANZO MAIN median is not just belong to kurds media was 3 parte(persia+media+partia)

[@kingcyrus4480]

@not A HANZO MAIN 🖕u idiot

[@zshosseini3687]

@Matthew Tenorio_3200654 median were not just kurds!

[@gtaddict3666]

not A HANZO MAIN YOU KURDS WERE NEVER EXIST AT THAT TIME !!!

[@omidjj7864]

@not A HANZO MAIN Iran had three main trbes Persian, Parthian and Median. They were all arian and Iranian. Any of them made an Iranian government except Persian that made two.

[@matthewssah]

IM SYRIAC / ASSYRIAN AND PROUD ✌️✌️🇸🇾

[@matthewssah]

At that time, there was no Iraq to say that they are from northern Iraq, that they are from Mesopotamia, and half of Syria is located in Mesopotamia, and the word “Syria” came from Assyria.

[@matthewssah]

Syriacs- 00:15

[@GreoGreo]

@شمس علي Learn English kid.

[@srt4874]

@@matthewssah Assyrian is syrian not iraq

[@gha23]

I am from Syria and lived in Idlib which was the capital of one of the oldest empires in history Ebla.

[@mideastruth]

remember the time when arabs stayed in arabia? Damn these were the good old times

[@user-ui3pw1ys3k]

Nah the Babylonians and Arabs are the same the only difference is that the Arabs are nomads They used to mock each other's.

[@amitaygibli4129]

Middle East TRUTH נודר

[@user-kt9xj6ir2h]

Origin of Arabs from Iraq and Syria

[@Mazzawak]

no but I remember when Europeans stayed in Europe. Now these were peaceful times

[@yakov95000]

Arabs is those people who live in the Wilderness(Aravah/Aravi) they were never one people before Islam but bunch of different tribes bound by lifestyle and culture,btw we know from the story of the Amorites in Syrian desert that invasion from the desert into fertile land was common,very common since the beginning and they were the greatest warriors and mercenaries,shame though that the oldest and greatest family Semitic who diverged the oldest lost it's diversity and now everyone is "Arab" they even Started to call Jews who lived in Middle East "Arabs" just because they know Arabic...

[@dariogutierrez6716]

I just love Elam. It's been just there, looking at those weirdos.

[@anomaly5734]

@كل شيء نسبي ياجماعة !! 🤡

[@dahraz9871]

@S U They used to speak Akkadian and Elamite, and the descendants of the Elamites are the Arabs of Khuzestan, who are de facto from the customs, traditions, dialect and geography of Iraqi Arabs.

[@dariogutierrez6716]

And Susa is just a wonderfully sounding name for a capital. Long live Elam.

[@maestro9765]

According to wikipedia at least, Assyrians conquered Elam in 639 BCE

[@nimajafari7336]

@@maestro9765 And Elam conquered Babylon for once

[@andrewc2753]

When will you do a modern version of this that leads up to the present day?

[@vds4327]

Persia (achaemenid empire) be like: oh yeah, very funny, my turn now **Proceeds to invade every single territory they can see*

[@bobbobato]

I've never seen a map of the ancient Middle East with such clear and definite boundaries before - I'm surprised that archaeological evidence has been able to give us so much knowledge. What sources were used?

[@OllieBye]

If you're asking specifically about the borders, they aren't certain. The borders I showed were based on natural features, such as rivers and mountains.

[@dinosaurfilms]

That's probably what they would've been based on, at least de facto.

[@nardo218]

What do the three gradations mean?

[@dinosaurfilms]

I believe the darkest of the colours is the full territory, the middle colour is any vassals, and the lightest colour is territory of another country they occupy.

[@OllieBye]

DinosaurFilms - Maps Spot on

[@marijadjuric8751]

Where's Phoenicia? P.S. It would be cool if all the known battles were overlayed on these awesome maps of yours - would help tell more of the story... Great work, love your channel!

[@YDECOY8]

It was never realy a unified state, but rather a group of divided city states with minimal tribute based centalization to Tyre.

[@ponianyoutube8071]

5:23 David just casually expanding

[@thebestofrealmroyale7576]

Assyrians really be learning from their mistakes

[@KingGeorgeIIIiwanttoperish]

This is perfect for my History class

[@KingGeorgeIIIiwanttoperish]

And Bible study

[@markhenley3097]

King George III Retake the Thirteen Colonies!

[@soralb6368]

I have a feeling you would use non of your knowledge during your reign.

[@mikabitar2945]

Wow beautiful video thanks for sharing! as a Syrian my self i already knew a lot about it, but always get informed more its such a huge heritage and culture to carry. (edit: ask me anything ill reply when i see it, stay decent)

[@mikabitar2945]

i agree, as a Syrian id say we have very different traditions and mentality to the people from the Arabian peninsula or north Africa, i consider myself closer to the the Levant (east Mediterranean) region and culture, however i have to say many people who are uneducated or just a proud Muslims would say that they are proudly arab (nothing is wrong with that ofocurse) but as an educated person my self i know its simply not true.

[@mikabitar2945]

well, from your name i guess you are kurd, thats cool, and i dont know why a Syrian arab would be fucked up, im sure there is Arabs, kurds, Palestinians, muslims christians or whatever, we all have fucked up people, clearly, just look at the middle east ;)

[@mikabitar2945]

i dont hate Kurds too, but im Sure many many syrians hate kurds, because the Syrian government propaganda has always told us to hate kurds and Israelis, i am an educated person i dont believe that rubbish, and many syrians are also educated, but some are ignorance and they hate on everyone.

[@AliMohamed-hx5bi]

Martin Kian well , that depend on what you mean by the word Arabs . if you mean the ethnic Arabs who are the Semitic tribes who came from Arabia and settled Iraq and Syria , then Assyrians , Canaanites , Phoenicians , even Jews (the real ones ) are Arabs . and most of Syria and Iraq today are ethnic Arabs except Lebanese and Palestinians . they are a mixture between ethnic Arabs and crusaders .

[@weisthor0815]

divide and conquer, it is the same old game everywhere. greetings from germany.

[@user-qf3yq9xh6o]

Man you are awesome 👍

[@wishup2192]

what program are you doing this with?

[@artilleryman895]

2:54 - 3:45 Well seems like Sealand found the time machine XD

[@eugeneofsavoy9612]

Turul Kaiser what is sealand?

[@hoodlum4443]

@@eugeneofsavoy9612 a tiny building on the north sea which was self declared as a country though nobody recognizes it

[@orfeas8]

LOL

[@meowung9848]

Kuwait, persian gulf

[@AHMEDALI-vq4vc]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealand_Dynasty

[@brunocarlos3931]

Can you do the History of Iberia?

[@PicklePickle7]

I like that

[@szfpa]

There may be a video out there that does just that.

[@v.seturidze4103]

Yes make video about both Iberia will be interesting

[@kerembugra2753]

After 1492 there will be only french occupation

[@kyomademon453]

dont you mean during the 1800's? after 1492 spain started beating the french hard on italy and aragon recovered the rosellon as well as conquering navarra

[@prembhattarai.christian]

Thank you!