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Hello friend, we don’t speak Aramaic... we speak Assyrian, pure and simple as you should ask; Why do we need ‘pashqoota’ to understand the liturgy in church? The Lingua Franca theory is a myth and will be further explored by scholars eventually. The ‘Neo-Assyrian’ or ‘Neo-Aramaic’ is one big confused subject... Just like how they confuse Sumer and Sumerian and think they are a separate people that predate Nineveh, which is a lie because Nineveh was established 6000BCE, so in essence, it’s like this, your Assyrian new year is now 8019 not the 6769 new year...
@@GeorgeAshuraya That made about absolute no sense. The Assyrians spoke Akkadian. Do you speak Akkadian Assyrian? No. You have no idea what that language is, because simply put, you do not speak Assyrian. You speak some village dialect of East Syriac.
@@studyofantiquityandthemidd4449 and thanks to you guys for making the time spent in quarantine beneficial to the pursuit of a neglected interest, especially by allowing the sometimes debatable comments ( read sometimes, with a cynical smile) to flow.
Love this! I was kind of traumatized the other day after discovering the prehistory/ancient history community only to find it steaming with supremacists and ethnocentrists, so glad to find this channel!
I'm the same way! I don't bother looking in the comments on videos about Vikings, Celts, Templars, Huns, Assyrians, or the Indus Valley Civilization. The racists, ethno-centrists, and conspiracy theorists are all over the comment section if the video even touches on those subjects.
@@jesshansen1397 Obviously I didn't mean I'm literally traumatized. But I am very uncomfortable about the state of the community, and it really turns me off from engaging with it, you know?
@@peterk.9571 Dude, just ignore people like Jess Hansen. The people who are always on about others "toughening up" and "people have it worse than you so don't complain" don't have anything of substance to say, they just want those who have a differing opinion to shut up.
@@peterk.9571 Supremacists come in all races and nationalities. You just need to learn to ignore them and not change your life or they have won. If I see a Louis Farrakhan supporter commenting I just scroll on past.
Your video and the comment section is very refreshing. I was watching another video about the Assyrian warfare and their cruelty and all I see in the comment sections are people saying "Proud Assyrian" or "Worship Ashur again and take back the glory days yada yada" so annoying.
Suppose people cheeleading a 3000-year-old empire could be a pain -- if they took themselves seriously, or litterally, but frankly I imagine I'd find it hard not to simply laugh at. Or even (gasp) tease!.
I'm adding "the sphere of influence of Assyria" to places I don't want to be reincarnated in. They're fascinating, but they also sound like absolutely terrifying rulers. :\ I'll take a shot at 13th century Baghdad instead, sounds healthier.
When you read the earliest attempts by antiquity to give a formal world history, it's strange that all the Mesopotamian empires are simply considered as Assyria and Assyrian, as if they all attempted to rule and organize a basic idea and each in turn attempted it up until Alexander the Great then the Romans. That or they portrayed themselves as somehow being in succession to each other. Not sure why that is or how that came about (it's also the reason ancient near east studies was simply called Assyriology until relatively recently). There's also this mysterious Semiramis character who is constantly referred to by the ancient writers of history and a certain Bel or Belus being their first king (perhaps etymologically connected to the word Baal?).
I loved the history lesson. Is it possible to number your episodes on RUclips? I am just starting to listen to you and when you refer to previous episodes....unfortunately it is a bit difficult finding when you started .
We need to be a little bit careful here. Bronze could be smelted and moulded with relative ease, so it was the metal of choice, but relied on a secondary metal to alloy with copper, often tin, which required a trade network due to the fact that it was more rare than copper. Iron ores needed intense heat to extract the metal and further to that, early societies could not produce the heat necessary to smelt the metal, so often cold hammered it, or carburised it to create a practical strength which far surpassed that of bronze, and this carburised iron is what gives us the modern concept of steel. All steel is iron, but not all iron is steel.
@@historyoftheworldpodcast5234 True, Copper is plentiful but Tin is relatively rare and the middle east required a extensive trade network to get it. Also yes, many early societies did work iron with out smelting it and stone age societies would even use meteoric iron from time to time. I was thinking as much about why Iron replaced Bronze as anything.
The invaders Chaldeans along with Medes brought that last Mesopotamian power to an end for a beginning of foreign rulers all the way up to present time. Even today the very strange relationship between some (Iraqi) in the south with the grandchildren of the Persian are doing the same to Iraq, bringing destruction and nothing else.‼️‼️‼️‼️
That stuff about iron around 16mis during this time was semi incorrect. Early wrought Iron that was used for the 500 years post collapse was not much better than bronze, and arguably inferior for both weapons and armor (Depending on the bronze as all bronze is not created equal. The reason they transitioned to Iron was because it was common and did not rely on complex trade networks to obtain tin and copper, with Tin being extremely rare (As rare as Uranium). Arsenic could also be used in making an inferior bronze, but the problems with that are obvious. Forging iron took a while to perfect, and eventually a form of steel was developed by folding carbon into the metal within a forge well into the Iron age, and that ended Bronze as the preferred metal. However, Bronze could still compete and did so well into the middle ages. Early romans who had access to steel still used Bronze in helmets and early maces were made with Bronze heads, for example. :) Bronze < Iron
Thank you! This really irked me as well. I was about to make this same comment. The consensus today is iron working in its early periods was inferior in most ways to the contemporary standard of Bronze metallurgy. The real difference was that iron was more plentiful and didn't require tin (which was a fairly scarce resource), and thus was implicitly easier to outfit a large army with, repair broken weapons & tools with, etc. etc. Early iron was NOT harder, or sharper, etc... It was lighter, and in many cases would have been less dense & sharp than the cutting-edge in bronze metallurgical technology. But iron was simply easier. Many cultures, including the Greeks (and later Romans)-- who had success militarily-- used bronze arms and armor long after having regular access to iron. Of course this was partly due to cultural value associated to it, but if it were noticeably inferior one can imagine it would have fallen out of fashion. Ease of access accounts for a lot when we are talking about warfare, which was, and to some extent still is, partly a numbers game; hence the iron age.
The original people of Assyria were not Semitic. Before 4000 BC, Southern Babylon was the original home of the Sumerians from India and Northern Babylon originally came from central Asia. The modern name Mesopotamia came from the original Madhya Vedi, according to the Historians History of the World (Vol 1 and 2, 1902). One of the most famous Kings of Babylon was Asur Bani Pal, a pure Sanskrit name. Both Hittite and Mitranis used to speak the Indo-European language. Their gods were Vedic gods. HR Hall, curator of the British Museum wrote (Hall, 1939), “The ethnic type of the Sumerians so strongly marked in their statues and relief was as different from those of the races which surround them as was their language from those of the Semites; they were decidedly Indian in type. The face type of the average Indian of today is no doubt much the same as that of his race ancestors thousands of years ago. And it is by no means improbable that the Sumerians were an Indian race. It was in the Indian home, perhaps the Indus valley; we suppose for them, that their culture developed. There their writings may have invented and progressed from purely pictorial to simplified and abbreviated from which afterward in Babylonia took on its peculiar cuneiform appearance owing to its being written with a square-ended stylus on soft-clay. There is little doubt that India must have been one of the earliest centers of human civilization and it seems natural to suppose that the strange un-Semitic people who came from the East to civilize the West were of Indian origin, especially when we see with our eyes how very Indian the Sumerians were in type”. There was a linguistic and ethnic resemblance between the Sumerians and the Dravidians, people from South India. Both Rig Veda and Mahabharata mentioned the Deva-Asura war, which lasted 32 years in which Devas, the Aryans of North India, driven other tribes. In both Harappa and Babylon, an unknown script was discovered, demonstrating a close connection between the Indus valley and Babylon. Woolley in Ur found a similar seal with a very early cuneiform inscription (Woolley, 1929). Indus culture is older than Sumerian and Egyptian culture (Hall, 1939, 1928). References: Hall, H. R., 1939, A Season’s Work at Ur, Al-Ubaid, Abu Shahrain (Eridu) and Elsewhere: Being An Unofficial Account of the British Museum Archaeological Mission to Babylonia, London: Methuen Hall, H.R., 1928, The Discoveries at Ur and seniority of Sumerian Civilization, Antiquity, 2, 5, pp 56- 98; Williams, H.S., 1902, Historians History of the World, Edinburgh: Morrison & Gibbs Woolley, C., 1929, Ur of the Chaldees, London: Ernest Benn ( This is quoted from our forthcoming book, Ethics, Morality and Business, to be published by Palgrave-Macmillan.
Assyrians and Babylonians were Semitic. Maybe your theory holds some truth with the Sumerians, but the nonsense after it automatically discredits everything you said. Also, Assyrians are from the north. not southern Babylon.
@@w0t_m818 The Babylonians, the Scythians, the Medes, and the Arabs killed all the Assyrians, my brother, and destroyed the cities, and killed all of them, women and children.
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5 stars! It's got a unique view of a history I read many times, and that accent kicks ass. This guy is my newest favorite narrator.
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As an assyrian I thank you for making this video. Make sure to mention we are alive and still here speaking our native Aramaic
Thank you! I really hope that we have created a good representation of your national ancestry.
Hello friend, we don’t speak Aramaic... we speak Assyrian, pure and simple as you should ask;
Why do we need ‘pashqoota’ to understand the liturgy in church?
The Lingua Franca theory is a myth and will be further explored by scholars eventually. The ‘Neo-Assyrian’ or ‘Neo-Aramaic’ is one big confused subject...
Just like how they confuse Sumer and Sumerian and think they are a separate people that predate Nineveh, which is a lie because Nineveh was established 6000BCE, so in essence, it’s like this, your Assyrian new year is now 8019 not the 6769 new year...
@@GeorgeAshuraya That made about absolute no sense. The Assyrians spoke Akkadian. Do you speak Akkadian Assyrian? No. You have no idea what that language is, because simply put, you do not speak Assyrian. You speak some village dialect of East Syriac.
Ziad - Bwahahaaaa
Don’t know who you are and could care less, so, have a good one ... ‘Zaid’...👋🏼
@@GeorgeAshuraya I am a Syriac Iraqi Christian, studying Akkadian and Aramaic. And who I am has nothing to do with how wrong and brainwashed you are.
Thanks for uploading this podcast from Chris. I am listen to VOL I - Prehistory right now. Awesome work for anyone who has not experienced it.
Andrew Boehmer his work is awesome! Glad you’re enjoying it!
Thanks Andrew!
@@studyofantiquityandthemidd4449 and thanks to you guys for making the time spent in quarantine beneficial to the pursuit of a neglected interest, especially by allowing the sometimes debatable comments ( read sometimes, with a cynical smile) to flow.
Thank you I am following you from Nineveh👍🏻👍🏻🌺🌹🌹
Nineveh -- wow!
Thank you from Hong Kong.
You are most Welcome from Oklahoma, USA!
Love this! I was kind of traumatized the other day after discovering the prehistory/ancient history community only to find it steaming with supremacists and ethnocentrists, so glad to find this channel!
I'm the same way! I don't bother looking in the comments on videos about Vikings, Celts, Templars, Huns, Assyrians, or the Indus Valley Civilization. The racists, ethno-centrists, and conspiracy theorists are all over the comment section if the video even touches on those subjects.
Traumatized? REALLY? That would traumatize you? You need to toughen up.
@@jesshansen1397 Obviously I didn't mean I'm literally traumatized. But I am very uncomfortable about the state of the community, and it really turns me off from engaging with it, you know?
@@peterk.9571 Dude, just ignore people like Jess Hansen. The people who are always on about others "toughening up" and "people have it worse than you so don't complain" don't have anything of substance to say, they just want those who have a differing opinion to shut up.
@@peterk.9571 Supremacists come in all races and nationalities. You just need to learn to ignore them and not change your life or they have won.
If I see a Louis Farrakhan supporter commenting I just scroll on past.
Thanks very much
I still believe this channel is owned by the vocalist of the Sex Pistols
Your video and the comment section is very refreshing. I was watching another video about the Assyrian warfare and their cruelty and all I see in the comment sections are people saying "Proud Assyrian" or "Worship Ashur again and take back the glory days yada yada" so annoying.
Suppose people cheeleading a 3000-year-old empire could be a pain -- if they took themselves seriously, or litterally, but frankly I imagine I'd find it hard not to simply laugh at. Or even (gasp) tease!.
Make Assyria Great Again.....they are everywhere in space and time
@@IosifStalin2 that's my next T-shirt right there
Thanks...
I'm adding "the sphere of influence of Assyria" to places I don't want to be reincarnated in. They're fascinating, but they also sound like absolutely terrifying rulers. :\
I'll take a shot at 13th century Baghdad instead, sounds healthier.
The SS...The SS
When you read the earliest attempts by antiquity to give a formal world history, it's strange that all the Mesopotamian empires are simply considered as Assyria and Assyrian, as if they all attempted to rule and organize a basic idea and each in turn attempted it up until Alexander the Great then the Romans. That or they portrayed themselves as somehow being in succession to each other. Not sure why that is or how that came about (it's also the reason ancient near east studies was simply called Assyriology until relatively recently). There's also this mysterious Semiramis character who is constantly referred to by the ancient writers of history and a certain Bel or Belus being their first king (perhaps etymologically connected to the word Baal?).
Neo-Assyrian Kings List ‘Various posers’ 😂😂 Great video! Thanks & keep it coming 👍
Had to play back 3 times bc kept hearing “he used the labor of enslaved CAT KIDS….” 😳😳😳
TGIF and we get a new video
It is my Friday as well! Can't wait to relax over the weekend and I wish you a wonderful weekend as well!
8:47 ...what, these heads?
Check out the jewelry on those men. Somewhere down the line we decided it was less manly to wear jewelry.
I loved the history lesson. Is it possible to number your episodes on RUclips? I am just starting to listen to you and when you refer to previous episodes....unfortunately it is a bit difficult finding when you started .
For all mentions of Iron, read Steel.
Yeah, Bronze is harder than Iron and makes for better weapons and armor. It's just that Iron is generally cheaper and easier to work.
We need to be a little bit careful here. Bronze could be smelted and moulded with relative ease, so it was the metal of choice, but relied on a secondary metal to alloy with copper, often tin, which required a trade network due to the fact that it was more rare than copper. Iron ores needed intense heat to extract the metal and further to that, early societies could not produce the heat necessary to smelt the metal, so often cold hammered it, or carburised it to create a practical strength which far surpassed that of bronze, and this carburised iron is what gives us the modern concept of steel. All steel is iron, but not all iron is steel.
@@historyoftheworldpodcast5234 True, Copper is plentiful but Tin is relatively rare and the middle east required a extensive trade network to get it. Also yes, many early societies did work iron with out smelting it and stone age societies would even use meteoric iron from time to time. I was thinking as much about why Iron replaced Bronze as anything.
@@historyoftheworldpodcast5234 Thx, informative, clear & not just btw, accurate -- if I remember correctly!
The invaders Chaldeans along with Medes brought that last Mesopotamian power to an end for a beginning of foreign rulers all the way up to present time.
Even today the very strange relationship between some (Iraqi) in the south with the grandchildren of the Persian are doing the same to Iraq, bringing destruction and nothing else.‼️‼️‼️‼️
Babylonians who are you?
That stuff about iron around 16mis during this time was semi incorrect. Early wrought Iron that was used for the 500 years post collapse was not much better than bronze, and arguably inferior for both weapons and armor (Depending on the bronze as all bronze is not created equal. The reason they transitioned to Iron was because it was common and did not rely on complex trade networks to obtain tin and copper, with Tin being extremely rare (As rare as Uranium). Arsenic could also be used in making an inferior bronze, but the problems with that are obvious.
Forging iron took a while to perfect, and eventually a form of steel was developed by folding carbon into the metal within a forge well into the Iron age, and that ended Bronze as the preferred metal. However, Bronze could still compete and did so well into the middle ages. Early romans who had access to steel still used Bronze in helmets and early maces were made with Bronze heads, for example. :)
Bronze < Iron
Thank you! This really irked me as well. I was about to make this same comment.
The consensus today is iron working in its early periods was inferior in most ways to the contemporary standard of Bronze metallurgy. The real difference was that iron was more plentiful and didn't require tin (which was a fairly scarce resource), and thus was implicitly easier to outfit a large army with, repair broken weapons & tools with, etc. etc.
Early iron was NOT harder, or sharper, etc... It was lighter, and in many cases would have been less dense & sharp than the cutting-edge in bronze metallurgical technology. But iron was simply easier. Many cultures, including the Greeks (and later Romans)-- who had success militarily-- used bronze arms and armor long after having regular access to iron. Of course this was partly due to cultural value associated to it, but if it were noticeably inferior one can imagine it would have fallen out of fashion. Ease of access accounts for a lot when we are talking about warfare, which was, and to some extent still is, partly a numbers game; hence the iron age.
the only clever comment here
You guys wanna know what's so cool? No Kurds on here trying to disclaim our rightful ancestry. Win for Assyrians! Lol.
As Assyrian we will conquered the whole world again
My sword and spear are at your disposal
you're not assyrian you made up a fake history
Assyrian shout out!!!!
wasnt sennacherib murdered by his son
Sennacherib never took Jerusalem in the bible. He lost his forces to a plague. In the end he was assassinated by his son's.
Noice
B.C. "E."?
before common era
Common?/Current?
@@rakkassan2187 common :)
ASSRYAN
Kurdistan history, long live kurds
The original people of Assyria were not Semitic. Before 4000 BC, Southern Babylon was the original home of the Sumerians from India and Northern Babylon originally came from central Asia. The modern name Mesopotamia came from the original Madhya Vedi, according to the Historians History of the World (Vol 1 and 2, 1902). One of the most famous Kings of Babylon was Asur Bani Pal, a pure Sanskrit name. Both Hittite and Mitranis used to speak the Indo-European language. Their gods were Vedic gods.
HR Hall, curator of the British Museum wrote (Hall, 1939), “The ethnic type of the Sumerians so strongly marked in their statues and relief was as different from those of the races which surround them as was their language from those of the Semites; they were decidedly Indian in type. The face type of the average Indian of today is no doubt much the same as that of his race ancestors thousands of years ago. And it is by no means improbable that the Sumerians were an Indian race. It was in the Indian home, perhaps the Indus valley; we suppose for them, that their culture developed. There their writings may have invented and progressed from purely pictorial to simplified and abbreviated from which afterward in Babylonia took on its peculiar cuneiform appearance owing to its being written with a square-ended stylus on soft-clay. There is little doubt that India must have been one of the earliest centers of human civilization and it seems natural to suppose that the strange un-Semitic people who came from the East to civilize the West were of Indian origin, especially when we see with our eyes how very Indian the Sumerians were in type”.
There was a linguistic and ethnic resemblance between the Sumerians and the Dravidians, people from South India. Both Rig Veda and Mahabharata mentioned the Deva-Asura war, which lasted 32 years in which Devas, the Aryans of North India, driven other tribes. In both Harappa and Babylon, an unknown script was discovered, demonstrating a close connection between the Indus valley and Babylon. Woolley in Ur found a similar seal with a very early cuneiform inscription (Woolley, 1929). Indus culture is older than Sumerian and Egyptian culture (Hall, 1939, 1928).
References:
Hall, H. R., 1939, A Season’s Work at Ur, Al-Ubaid, Abu Shahrain (Eridu) and Elsewhere: Being An Unofficial Account of the British Museum Archaeological Mission to Babylonia, London: Methuen
Hall, H.R., 1928, The Discoveries at Ur and seniority of Sumerian Civilization, Antiquity, 2, 5, pp 56- 98;
Williams, H.S., 1902, Historians History of the World, Edinburgh: Morrison & Gibbs
Woolley, C., 1929, Ur of the Chaldees, London: Ernest Benn
( This is quoted from our forthcoming book, Ethics, Morality and Business, to be published by Palgrave-Macmillan.
Assyrians and Babylonians were Semitic. Maybe your theory holds some truth with the Sumerians, but the nonsense after it automatically discredits everything you said. Also, Assyrians are from the north. not southern Babylon.
@@aperson8916 notice they're also exclusively using citations from 100+ years ago, something's up.
@@w0t_m818 His words are true, unlike this liar
@@عليياسر-ذ5ب which one of us are you calling a liar, me or OP? Just making sure.
@@w0t_m818 The Babylonians, the Scythians, the Medes, and the Arabs killed all the Assyrians, my brother, and destroyed the cities, and killed all of them, women and children.
10 minutes at the end of this video asking for donations all these messianic care about is money
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