The Birth of Civilization and the Ancient Middle East | The Ancient World (Part 1 of 5)

This video goes through the Stone Age, Bronze Age, and Iron Ages and beyond! It starts off with the Paleolithic and Neolithic, and shifts into the beginning of civilization in the Ancient Middle East. The main focuses are on Ancient Mesopotamia, Ancient Egypt, the Hittites, Phoenicians, and Hebrews, and the great empires that emerged from the Bronze Age Collapse, the Neo-Assyrian Empire, the Neo-Babylonian Empire, and the Persian Empire.
The Ancient World Series
Part 1: Stone Age and Ancient Near East: (this video)
Part 2: Ancient India: • Ancient India: A Compl...
Part 3: Ancient China: • Ancient China: A Compl...
Part 4: Ancient Greece: To be finished
Part 5: Ancient Rome: To be finished
Welcome to The Ancient World series! This series is meant to summarize broad topics in history and balances political history and events, with social/daily life, and culture. If you've watched our History of the World documentary, this series is a perfect next step. The videos are standalone, but presented in a chronological fashion. The series will be divided into 5 videos about the Ancient Period, which we call Phase 1. Upcoming videos in the current Phase will be placed at the end of these videos. Once these 5 videos are completed, we will move onto Phase 2, but this project will be considered completed, and compiled into ONE video containing all 5 parts.
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0:00 Stone Ages (Paleolithic and Neolithic)
6:15 First Civilizations
7:33 Ancient Mesopotamia
15:55 Ancient Egypt
27:41 Indo-European and Semitic Peoples
35:32 Major Empires (Neo-Assyrian, Neo-Babylonian, and Persian)
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[@MadeInHistory]

Which is your favorite empire from the Ancient Near East?

[@kenchesnut4425]

Mongol

[@detgrsketestamente3821]

The Ubaids :)

[@alexandrasilvavidal105]

Abassid

[@benicdovic5071]

Very interesting where is "middle-east"

[@TheLionFarm]

Natufians 👀

[@adamgre6819]

That was awesome. Good work Made in History!

[@MadeInHistory]

Thank you very much! Glad you enjoyed!

[@RodrigoGarcia-ly5cy]

Great video!

[@MadeInHistory]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@Rico-Suave_]

Watched all of it again

[@Rico-Suave_]

Watched all of it, great history lesson

[@jeffreyyounger5772]

I love prehistoric,ancient,and middle ages world history,the world 🌎🌍 out 🙏 of sight! Thank you 🙏🙏🙏!

[@jongoldner6521]

Seems pretty accurate!

[@wonemohsirehtafmai2982]

Fire is not only a tool, but some like myself would consider it the most valuable tool for survival and taming the chaos that made survival precarious. It also encouraged and made permanent shelters viable. Nomadic life is full of dangers. Fire encouraged domestication and in that it made fortifying territory feasible. Nomadic life is not reliable, as it brings the possibility of confrontation with other tribes and the migration of animals may change due to circumstances out of control.

[@irmooflorien5399]

Actually! Most hunter gatherer societies had men as protection from rogue bachelor pads of males :). Research and evacuation actually suggests women did most small game hunting and accounted for 80% of the food in a group! Love your series! very good introduction to people just starting.

[@thomaswieland639]

Nonsense lefty revisionism

[@TheLionFarm]

16:00 the BLACK land because of the fruitfulness of the land vs the red land of the deserted desert

[@henryvegter8773]

Mammoth, bison…they all taste like chicken! 😂 0:57 lol

[@dimitriradoux]

Interesting documentary series but you did forget half of the ancients, you know those that are responsible for most religions, languages, the wheel and horses 😉 the importance of pastoral steppe cultures is often ignored but was of immeasurable importance!

[@dylankay1189]

The steppe people were by no means one of the great early civilisations…. They didn’t build cities or create writing systems or begin agricultural development

[@dimitriradoux]

So being responsible for more than half of the worlds spoken languages, the wheel, the spread of bronze, the invention of horse domestication and riding, chariots, most of the major religions and a general cultural template that was used from Britain through Rome, through Greece, Persia, China even Japan. And the Greek, Roman, Parthian, Amorite, Elamite, Yuan, Mongol, Ottoman, …( I could keep going ) are these not great civilisations that stem directly from steppe pastoral ancestry 🤷‍♂️ and besides that, there were cities in the stepp! it’s just harder to find the remains when build out of wood, you might want to read up a bit on history my friend 😉

[@dimitriradoux]

On a side note, the luwians did have a writing system long before the Greeks and Mycenaeans and the alphabet used by the classic Greeks was invented by pastoral Canaanite nomads as you can see from the steppe composite bow that formed the basis for the letter S or the first letter A which was just a cowshead “Aleph”. 😉

[@mahmoodabbasi6120]

​@@dimitriradouxWheel was already invented a thousand years before the Steppe people existed.

[@jakec5618]

I wonder how come development took so long in the Paleolithic age. That seemed very slow and somewhat linear. Whereas during the neolithic age, development increased exponentially. Prior to the neolithic age, it seems strange that development was so slow.

[@dmitritelvanni4068]

I think the answer to your query lies within it. Exponents. They tend to stack. 2² is 4. But 4² is 16

[@jakec5618]

@@dmitritelvanni4068 Yes agree with exponential growth and how it can be suprising. But i feel as if there was something that catalyzed/encouraged this initial growth.

[@dmitritelvanni4068]

@@jakec5618 probably all the things we no longer appreciate about our humanity.... Ambition, discipline, ego, lust, pride... These things build empires and dynasties. Bloody and destructive as it may be.

[@daaner4367]

Probably also has to do with population growth, more people = more brains to solve problems

[@stellachimpson]

@@jakec5618 the advent of agriculture is what sparked exponential development. Farming allowed people to stay in one place rather than look for food, so if everyone settles in one spot so they can have a secure food source, means they have more time to do other things. This is when writing, law, art, business, metallurgy and culture all exploded and started to become complex

[@edgabrielocay3376]

my die hard christian friends will have a meltdown seeing this video.. 😂

[@taseenahmed8735]

Where is indus vally civilizetion

[@redzmaja1805]

12 000 B.C. in Europe was Vinca couture today Serbia first agrocoulture in world 🌎🌍

[@clarkharney8805]

Our cousins, the chimpanzees make tools but they don’t make tools for tools. Other animals don’t cook food or think of abstract entities; only several primates do that (i.e. genus homo), Australopithecus made and sculpted tools for reasons different than the chimpanzee’s simple circumstantial use of stone. Humans developed an articulate abstract language and then developed agriculture and other animal domestication (something unique to our genus as well as fire) and eventually more complex urban settlements that evolved into villages and eventual cities as opposed to nomadic lifestyle. Architecture is also another aspect not unique to humans since other vertebrates build in their environments, but we have over time eventually (unlike other vertebrates) developed reason and the ability to construct abstract thought due to complex individual cultures.

[@TheLionFarm]

Thos the last generation evolution will last Didn't you learn anything from the Piltdown Man? By real genetics men don't come from chimps

[@bunnylarese2161]

You have never been another species, it’s utterly fascinating that you know what chimpanzees think. There was a reason that Jane Goodall was sent to Africa and not someone like you who already has been ‘educated’.

[@artycuen3572]

He said "A Millenia ago."

[@ismailelazzouzi7112]

Is the voice generated by AI ?

[@DarkZerol]

It's my voice. I was contracted to do VA for this channel.

[@randtlindauere9538]

33:58

[@moderatecanuck]

Putting Ancient Egypt as part the Middle East just further push the narrative that it is separate from Africa

[@ramibakkar]

Civilization started in Syria Not in Sumer

[@stunna6389]

My babylon ancestors lived like kings, while the rest of the world was in caves or trees😂

[@sharongallacher6625]

bce ? you mean BC.

[@phillipalexandercarr1462]

No

[@bethbartlett5692]

Although a well done Production and Narration, the content is a repetition of the "Mainstream Academic Paradigm and Timeline", aka story. The "Mainstream Academic Paradigm" uses a "19th Century Theory as their focal fact foundation" and further use it as a "tool for measure and/or comparison" of all other data, that which doesn't fit is ignored, discarded, or deemed as inauthentic. Their Paradigm, having a Theory as its core focal thesis, is in direct opposition to the *"Standards of Science and Research"* which forbids one holding a belief, theory, opinion, as a value of fact. Therefore their Paradigm is a "Story based on Theory" and may not be held as fact, nor taught as fact, nor used as a measure to invalidate any relative form of data (fossil, artifact, Oral or Written History). It actually meets the definition of Psuedoscience and should be valued only as *"a Theory Story", with some points of facts.* *"Authentic Academics"* follow the "Standards of Science and Research" and respect all the "Peer Reviewed and Journal Published" contents/findings as Facts, "Mainstream Academics" actually "do not respect Peer Reviewed Findings that don't support their Paradigm". These are fact points and they clarify the subject points relative to 2 of the Academic Perspectives. They are statements that define, and are neither judgemental nor personal. I do adhere to the *"Standards of Science and Research"* in my determining perspectives on Academic Subjects/Content. It is a value that the DNA and Finds are proving to be most worthy in the emerging facts. Updates of facts are necessary for the mind to advance in the subjects of Science and History The 19th Century Theory has actually been *proven inaccurate* relative to Modern Humans, as well as the "All out of Africa Theory". (and Both are Peer Reviewed) The latter was a work by David Reich, PhD, Geneticist, Harvard, "DNA Mapping of Migrations", (repeated the data 3 Times) 2019 or 2020, Journal of Science.

[@Anuchan]

What points in this presentation contradict established science practices? Although not an expert in the realm of this video, I didn't find anything that qualified as story other than the parts that were identified as such.

[@behzadn5386]

34:10 we wish we never have had released jews from Babylonians's captivity

[@MellonVegan]

Reported for hate-speech :) We don't need more antisemites in this world

[@YenkammaNe]

Ancient name of California USA is Kapila Aaranya.. A Mexican City has name ChoCholas Ancient name of central American country Guatemala is Gautam Aalaya ( after maharishi Gautama) Ancient Mayans Aztecs Incas have Hindu origins... Post Vaman avatar King Mahabali went towards Indonesia, far east and his descendants ended up in central, south America.. became Mayans, Aztecs Incas and built temples all over America 5000-2000 years ago. Ancient cholas spread Hinduism to Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand Cambodia, China.. central , south, North Americas.. Temples architectures of Mayans,Aztecs,Incas.. Native Americans are close match with Cambodian Tamil hindu Temples.

[@TSZatoichi]

none of this is true

[@MellonVegan]

I longingly await your peer reviewed study elaborating these claims in broken English.

[@seppheinzl9378]

Not watchable with the AI narrator

[@nuritkasantini7937]

no no no all of it

[@edgabrielocay3376]

it was the two naked people in the garden with a talking snake, started it all . 😂

[@phillipalexandercarr1462]

Not so sure about this

[@redzmaja1805]

12 000 B.C. in Europe was Vinca couture today Serbia first agrocoulture in world 🌎🌍

[@verdi2310]

@@redzmaja1805 You guys really need to stop with this childish nationalism. Do you know about a thing called "DNA"? 12.000 years ago the populations in europe were a mix of groups coming from asia and the middle east. A popularion that you could call serbians was NOT existent. The DNA of current europeans has nothing to do with those ancient populations. They were desteoyed by indo europeans miggrations.

[@redzmaja1805]

@@verdi2310 DNA sample taken from Vinca match with Serbians today. Do you know that fakt? Serbians are Slavic,Slavic people have the biggest land in World by far, nearly half World is Slavic (Vinca) and most White people is Slavic about 800 000 000 ,80 percen white people is Slavic ( Russia Poland Checz Slovakia Moldavia Belorussian Slovenian Croatia Bulgaria Serbia Bosnia and Herzegovina Montenegro Macedonia Romania) do you know about this fakt. I respect all Population in World and love,i only say this fakts about Vinca and Slavic people and culture. Sorry about not so well English ,God be with you and your family.

[@mahmoodabbasi6120]

half world is Slavic ? Lol. Dude, Most of Russia is empty and occupied land of other nations​@@redzmaja1805

[@mahmoodabbasi6120]

​@@verdi2310Nationalism is a great curse for humanity. Even in our part of the world most people are not interested in serious research and scholarship just "we Wuz kangs and shitz"

[@edwardshafer1729]

AI. Not a real person narrating. I won’t listen to it. Mind numbing.

[@annakalakatroni4708]

How do you know? 😮

[@delculbert2175]

And what does that have to do with the information given in the video?

[@zanethayer3373]

Ok then don’t watch, simple as that

[@HungPham-ki9wu]

Yeah. One day robot take over the world huh.

[@giuseppelogiurato5718]

Umm... This has all the charm of an 10th-grade oral book-report. ("Umm, I read a book about ancient humans, and, um, yeah, they did stuff, and they ate things. They were Indians because it was like a long time ago, when everybody was Indians, and then they made corn and stuff, cause they got sick of hunting all the time. Then they turned into modern people because of algacruchur, and that's how church got invented, because they were too stupid to invent KZbin and other smart stuff... SAN DIMAS HIGHSCHOOL FOOTBALL RULES!

[@user-hl4rp7wp8y]

All this is Lies

[@Kidraver555]

Never mentions egyptian slaves, they are being airbrushed out of history, hawass promotes this.

[@palniin]

dear team, we're impressed with your content, like to request of usage in our platforms pls share email id, official portal, thanks

[@inaxaaji1935]

The narrator tries so hard to disassociate Egypt with Africa calling it the near East 🙄

[@alhashemi.]

Egypt is from the Middle East, and this does not contradict the fact that it is located in Africa