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Peter , your wonderful coverage of everything and everywhere EXCEPT where science has proven as the origin of man, ensures that the world will continue it's ever stalled knowledge of HIS Story. Great scholars such as yourself have are invaluable instruments in distilling insignificant parts of HIS Story like Mansa Musa, the Dogon Tribe, the truth of the Bible's 12 Israelite Tribes (wonder if anyone ever found Dan's offspring scathered in the north, they are rarely discussed in Bible text...🤔) Thank You fine sir, you even gave Egypt a moment of in Sun, and skillfully edited the KNOWN facts of their western continental influence. Because anything Darker than Egypt is too Dark for discussion. Thank You for your contributions kind sir!!!!!
I had a Cultural Anthropology teacher in university who could read Sumerian and Akkadian cuneiform. He told me learning the languages "did something to your mind...." He looked really odd. He had great bulging eyes and his beard was long, curly and square cut. He looked just like one of those old Sumerian statues from Eshnunna. Nice guy, but really out there.
Where's the part about him only stepping down from ruling because he invented a time machine and traveled to the 21st Century to start a RUclips Channel?
The atheist preacher stole the religious man's image because no atheist in history is cool. Just look at Kim Jong Il, leader of the most atheistic nation in history where they DON'T call their leaders gods.
Imagine how much pain historians feel in their soul when ever someone thinks of Carl Benjamin instead if the actual Sargon whenever someone utters "Sargon of Akkad ".
I never knew of sargon of akkad until he made his YT channel, then i decided to look into the history of his alias. Without the YT channel, i would have never knew a sargon existed
@Jonathan Lane. Kush was ancient name of Sudan. While Hindu Kush mountain range is mostly in Afghanistan and can be considered as continuation of Himalayas.
A man who made his legacy by founding the first state to be classified as an empire, and all half the internet can think of is some British guy getting mad at social justice on the internet. Can't tell if that's funny or sad.
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The word "Nimrod" in hebrew means "valiant". It is likely that Nimrod (most likely not an actual name) is Sargon. "Now, the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Uruk, Akkad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. 11 From that land he went out to Assyria, and he built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah, 12 Resen between Nineveh and Calah; that is the great city."
Do the Kekistanis and the Cuckistanis share a border? If they do, are there asylum seekers at their ports of entry? Which direction are they going, and is it voluntarily?
Sargon was certainly a badass and deserves his place of honor. However I feel that technically Ebla was the first "empire" I mean they controlled several city states outside of their cultural area. It was sort of a missing link between a city state and an empire in the evolution of empire building.
@@carlosaugustodinizgarcia3526 I would argue that that is going too far. afawk, Uruk's cultural expansion was not directly controlling these cities. This seems to have been more of a large trading colony thing. So rather than Uruk conquering or annexing Nineveh, they just had trading posts there. Ebla on the otherhand, seems to have had direct control over these cities so I would argue that they were the first "empire" But of course, we would debate what constitutes an empire until the cows come home. An empire is generally supposed to be a state of several nations and what constitutes a nation in this context?
The dynasty of Lagash (c. 2500-2270 BC), though omitted from the king list, is well attested through several important monuments and many archaeological finds. Although short-lived, one of the first empires known to history was that of Eannatum of Lagash, who annexed practically all of Sumer, including Kish, Uruk, Ur, and Larsa, and reduced to tribute the city-state of Umma, arch-rival of Lagash. In addition, his realm extended to parts of Elam and along the Persian Gulf. He seems to have used terror as a matter of policy.[51] Eannatum's Stele of the Vultures depicts vultures pecking at the severed heads and other body parts of his enemies. His empire collapsed shortly after his death. Later, Lugal-Zage-Si, the priest-king of Umma, overthrew the primacy of the Lagash dynasty in the area, then conquered Uruk, making it his capital, and claimed an empire extending from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean. He was the last ethnically Sumerian king before Sargon of Akkad. Wikipedia entry on Lagash
I dont think Kish would be pronounced "Kush". Although it sounds familiar the Kingdom of Kush was in Nubia(Sudan) and in a different time frame to Akkad, great content though.Keep up the good work!
You all ain't want no body to know, a black man was the First, eh? And it's said he was so Right, and can Write, Civilized the world, where no Man was above the Law, give thanks knw? They all were in that area for a Period of time, he wasn't? But sirus and Alexandra, did, and when Tutmose wipt your ass again for aways missbehaving, wetting his sword, on an in that "redsee" and since you all are the red People, ok, not red Ruddy brown, But red pink red white, lol
@@nigelwilliams5653 The Nubian dynasty that took over Egypt got kicked out by Assyrians. Ancient and modern Egypt both have more in common with western Asia than sub-Saharan Africa.
@@scintillam_dei They are Kushites. And yes Kush = Kish. Same person and lineage. Kush was son Ham and was black…After the dispersal event ( Tower of Babel), these Kushites (blacks, Nubians, ancestors of sub Saharan Africans) moved west into Africa…so yes they are the same Nubians you speak of….Sargon the Great = Nimrod. Nimrod is the son of Kush and Grandson of Ham and Great Grandson of Noah…. The Yoruba in Nigeria (among others) say they descend from Namurudu or Lamurudu, which is their word for Nimrod.
The Assyrians also had 2 kings named after Sargon of Akkad, and they were Sargon I of the Old Assyrian empire and Sargon II of the Neo Assyrian empire.
given finds like nevali cori, gobekli tepe and similar findings in the 10-12k bc range, likely this wasn't the first 'emperor', however this wholly depends on how one chooses to define empire and where you start looking.
This video has been going through my mind for months. I had to come back to it. I am wondering about if he REALLY was the FIRST emperor. I define an emperor as somebody who rules over several kingdoms. Well, maybe they are no longer kingdoms after they become part of an empire, but anyway it is the entity that is created through the process of unifying kingdoms. So I just think Narmer/Menes has an earlier claim to be the first unifier of kingdoms. I am sure you know Narmer, so i wont elaborate. Can you give me some feedback to help me understand why Sargon has the better claim to "First Emperor" status?
Well my reasoning boils down to the fact that he was an Akkadian, spoke a different language to and had a different culture to the vast majority of people he ruled over (who were mostly Sumerians- a different ethnicity altogether to Akkadians) Narmer/Menes may have unified the two Egyptian kingdoms, though both of the kingdoms seem to have been pretty similar in terms of culture and language- almost like two different Sumerian city states- though the very different, more favourable landscape they inhabited in Egypt allowed larger states to form unlike the relatively small Sumerian city-states. However since I made this video I have increasingly questioned by own reasoning in arguing that Sargon was the first emperor (hence the question mark in the title). Further research has revealed a number of other 'conquerers' and empire builders who predated him. Though I might add the mainstream view is generally that Sargon was one of the first if not the first. I'll be revisiting the subject in several new videos over the next year or so. Thanks for the interest by the way, its great to get educated reasonable feedback on my vids. Thats why I started this channel - to get people talking about history :)
Thank you for the reply. You pin a lot of my comments. I can't wait for the new videos. I really like your videos on the bronze age. The others are fine too, but my interest is more on the bronze age.
Good man, the Bronze Age is one of my favourite eras. You'll be pleased to know I've got loads more videos planned on it, several entire series in fact.
That is great news. I also like the stone age. It is interesting to see the comparative linguistics, the DNA examination and other lab work, and all the other far out research that is needed to learn about it. It takes some real digging to learn about the stone age. Pun intended. I wonder if you will make videos about the Yamnaya, the Nautifians, the Federmesser,, the Solutrians, the Gravetians, the Erlitou, the Jomon, etc. There are a bunch of groups that videos can be made on these topics.
Brandon Redmond awwww dude now you're speaking my language. There are so many incredible cultures in the ancient world. I really do want to try and cover all of them eventually. I'll at least be doing a series each on the Hittites, Assyrians, Phoenicians and Carthaginians. Some of me faves. And a whole bunch more no doubt. The very first ancient explorers of antiquity are what've been interesting me the most recently. For example Pytheas of Massilia who became one of the first people from the Greek world to visit not just Britain but also the Arctic, writing a comprehensive account of his journeys (including polar bears) which unfortunately has since been lost to history, leaving mere scant sections of it that were later incorporated by later Greek and Roman historians.
History Time keep up the good work. I think a great idea for a video would be on cnut the great or on the organization of early western medieval armies
Note: This is about the actual Sargon of Akkad that lived thousands of years ago, not this strange British guy with an obsession for blue-haired feminists.
There’s 1 thing specifically I need simplified, could someone tell me how many years ago from now the reign of Sargon was? WITHOUT the BC, BCE and AD stuff.
First video I have watched where the auto captions worked. You have a very impressive pronounciation. Edit: One very wrong part of captions- "Romans may have much larger butts"
Nimrod is Sargon. Nimrud is a place that was under Sargon's rule. During this time period the hebrews were wondering nomad tribes of the Perso-Sümur era. Mostly Medens. This is when Genesis was written but it was around longer as an oral tradition before the copper age. Point is the story of Nimrod is more of a tribal story of King Sargon. Not saying what might of happened in the story is true or wrong but the person's name is switched.
@@calonarang7378 According to the Chronicle of Kish, the following chronicle is given for Nimrod = Tascio = Ninus, the first king of Assyria See "Prof. Waddel "MAKERS OF CIVILSATION" • ~2750BC Peoples spread out. The first king Atyr = Adar rules from Kurru = Kura Araxes. • ~2700BC. Tower of Babel, King Nimrod = Tascio and Tant tan, Dan peoples Aryans and Asuras live together peacefully. Proto-Assyrian Dan and Teuton peoples settle on the Sea of Azov and on the north side of the Black Sea. The son Trebeta of Nimrod = Ninus, founds Trier. • ~2500BC. Uspia builds the temple of the god Assur. Assyria on the river Tigris = Tetschera is created. Aryans and Asuras become enemies, Vanir against Asur. • 2300 BC. Sargon 1 subjugates Assyria. Assyrians and Akkadians mix. The Persians call the Assyrians Tazian = Thazi or Tatschi (Germans) • King Manistusu subjugates Egypt. • King Naram Sin the White Bull Taurus. Anatolia and the north side of the Black Sea become Assyrian. Anatolia is called Titnu and the Crimea Tauritia. • 1900 BC. Assyrians in league with Anatolia = Titnu wage war against Abraham in Canaan. • ~1800 BC. Adasi, a man of unknown, probably Mittianite origin, becomes king of Assyria. • ~1600 BC. Proto-Assyrians Teutons and Agatyrses and Gambar = Cimmerians, live on the Crimean peninsula = Tauritia, which was obviously Assyrian. 🙂🙃🙂🙃🙂🙃
Only 5 minutes? Or was this simply an introduction to a more in depth video? The history of Mesopotamia deserves more detail on Sargon the first. I would also like someone to do a documentary on what the roots of the biblical great flood were. Most likely it came from between 9000 BC to 4000 BC when the ice age ended and the ocean was still rising because of the ice age glaciers melting. The current Persian gulf was once probably fertile dry land and got flooded by rising ocean waters.
Unlike Neckbeard of Akkad, this man had followers older than 13 and could win UKIP more than 0 seats. It sucks that his empire and legacy shares the name with the British Burger King.
He is a fan of ancient history... he has/had a channel called Ancient Recitations wherein he would read ancient accounts of historical events... n shiieeet.
Ahmed Tarek. Have you even read John Locke? Sorry I mean the definition of being dumb (low iq) and how it actually works. Just because you disagree with someone it doesn't suddenly change their IQ to low. Absolutely subjective response, maybe next time consider how badly you are neglecting your intellect if you have much but I doubt it.
Your father doesn't want you to be ignorant of history. Usually the young struggle to appreciate history but as people grow older and wiser they come to enjoy researching and learning how man and civilization grew and the differences culture and environment had in our evolution.
The Akkadians are descendants of Arabs and they immigrated from the Arabian Peninsula. Many scholars have said that they are Arabs. I am proud to be Akkadian.
I actually found out about this Sargon before the internet guy, so I'm appropriately pissed that the world's first emperor is now an identity theft victim.
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Peter , your wonderful coverage of everything and everywhere EXCEPT where science has proven as the origin of man, ensures that the world will continue it's ever stalled knowledge of HIS Story.
Great scholars such as yourself have are invaluable instruments in distilling insignificant parts of HIS Story like Mansa Musa, the Dogon Tribe, the truth of the Bible's 12 Israelite Tribes (wonder if anyone ever found Dan's offspring scathered in the north, they are rarely discussed in Bible text...🤔)
Thank You fine sir, you even gave Egypt a moment of in Sun, and skillfully edited the KNOWN facts of their western continental influence. Because anything Darker than Egypt is too Dark for discussion.
Thank You for your contributions kind sir!!!!!
History Time Sargon of Akkad is a great channel.
Carl is awesome.
Can you cover this please, ruclips.net/video/PJ5y3NFtQRw/видео.html
0:48 Umma moved to the Euphates River from the Tigris :-) in Lugal-Zage-si ruclips.net/video/qi7Xpf1fuTs/видео.html
"I just wanted to play video games"
- Sargon of Akkad
@@faisal7818 Um, No. The people of Mesopotamia have no genetic relation to the Arabs, sorry.
oof
@@tinman1843 In Iraq, not only Arabs exist, but there is cultural and ethnic diversity
@@zeroakk4339
Yes, Arabs are indeed thriving there, but the region's natives are not Arabs. No disagreements.
inb4 demonetised because it has "Sargon" in the title
B-List History hahaha I was waiting for someone to mention the other Sargon
😂😂
Sargon will make a response video complaining that that it's just over 1 sargon.
Lol
He wouldn't even conquer the world
I got that reference 😁
Calm down, everyone, he said he WOULDN'T even!
Do a video on gilgamesh and Uruk please!
For sure :) tons of Sumer on the way
Mongrel
History Time -- The Endless Sumer?
@@HistoryTime, i love reading the works of Zecharia Sitchin. Its mind expanding stuff.
Gilgamesh and Enkidu at Uruk.
#FakeNews - No mention of Kekistan! Just kidding, great stuff as always mate!
History With Hilbert didn't know you support our struggle as simple meme farmers
just realized that nut probabbly believes in reincarnation lol
Loool
They didn't even mentioned his black grandfather
is that the Sutton Hoo helmet with sunglasses on it?
It's like the old saying goes, "History is written by those who know cuneiform."
I had a Cultural Anthropology teacher in university who could read Sumerian and Akkadian cuneiform. He told me learning the languages "did something to your mind...." He looked really odd. He had great bulging eyes and his beard was long, curly and square cut. He looked just like one of those old Sumerian statues from Eshnunna. Nice guy, but really out there.
@@Bufoferrata The great history teachers usually are really out there.
Entire middle east was using cuneiform for 3000 year except egypt
Sargon really needs to narrate a historic documentary about Sargon
That atheist preacher stole the face of the religious man's because no atheist in history is cool.
I don't think his voice should be publicized anymore
His first battle, fighting in Cuckistan against the REEEEgyptians
I only came here for the comments about the other Sargon - was not disappointed.
I thought there would be a few. Nope its all of them.
Don't mind him. It's just old age. He is over 4,000 years old after all.
Where's the part about him only stepping down from ruling because he invented a time machine and traveled to the 21st Century to start a RUclips Channel?
The Keksadler did you even read John Locke
That's the magic of a time machine dude, you can travel and return just a split second after
Captain Falcon Arhh what the hell does government theory guy have to do with time machines? Yes, I paid attention in history, dumass
The atheist preacher stole the religious man's image because no atheist in history is cool. Just look at Kim Jong Il, leader of the most atheistic nation in history where they DON'T call their leaders gods.
Imagine how much pain historians feel in their soul when ever someone thinks of Carl Benjamin instead if the actual Sargon whenever someone utters "Sargon of Akkad ".
If i had a tail, it would wag
Well alright I imagined it...and it was hilarious!
@@sunnyjim1355 Hey! You are very wrong Sunny Jim. Historian here with indeed pain for people not knowing the real Sargon of Akkad.
I never knew of sargon of akkad until he made his YT channel, then i decided to look into the history of his alias. Without the YT channel, i would have never knew a sargon existed
@@cubiusblockus3973 Did you never play Civ 5?
Sargon of Akkad: From King of Sumeria to King of Kekistan.
Hey look, it's Carl
From Swindon.
he wishes. the real sargon wouldn't cry like a bitch if a woman called him human garbage.
And then parted her body and stuck it on spikes
who
The real sargon wouldn't even rape Anita
You know you've achieved total badassery when your title is King of kush.
@Jonathan Lane. Kush was ancient name of Sudan. While Hindu Kush mountain range is mostly in Afghanistan and can be considered as continuation of Himalayas.
Glad they never used the term "badass" or they would lose a thousand epic points.
It's actually Kish, not kush.
@@vadergamerboss6660 Kish = Kush..same son of Ham and father of Nimrod = Sargon the Great…He was black btw
A man who made his legacy by founding the first state to be classified as an empire, and all half the internet can think of is some British guy getting mad at social justice on the internet. Can't tell if that's funny or sad.
Such is life in the zone.
Alot of people think that Martin Luther was the civil Rights guy
It's definitely sad.
Peter Cahill. That's a matter of perspective. If people want to be depressed by this they are free to do so. I personally find this hilarious.
If you dont think MLK influenced the world you are an idiot and probably a racist to.
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Sargon of Akkad: History's First Boomer?
The word "Nimrod" in hebrew means "valiant".
It is likely that Nimrod (most likely not an actual name) is Sargon.
"Now, the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Uruk, Akkad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
11 From that land he went out to Assyria, and he built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah,
12 Resen between Nineveh and Calah; that is the great city."
Cool. I was wondering if Nimrod is Sargon.
Nimrod didn't build Nineveh. That was Asshur, Noah's grandson. You need to stick to the KJV.
Also, Nimrod doesn't mean "valiant"; it means "we shall rebel".
Sargon, the hero who did not own a family or even himself and spent 600 years of conflict, is actually a legend of the first Akkadian emperor
The Kekistani people appreciate your candor.
somewherelse I thought kekistani people hate west asians
Do the Kekistanis and the Cuckistanis share a border? If they do, are there asylum seekers at their ports of entry? Which direction are they going, and is it voluntarily?
@2:08 '(...) Sargon became the subject of several legendary narratives about his rise to power from humble roots.' :P :)
Natasja van Dijk, started from the bottom now we a widely recognized channel on RUclips
#FreeSargon
History's Greatest Shitposter
Sargon is king of Kekistan
I heard he has a black Grandfather
**we wuz ntensifies**
Carl Benjamin is Crowder’s producer confirmed.
@@carsonianthegreat4672 perfect comment!
Grandson of Kush. Nimrod
The historical irony of the first Sargon forming the first empire and the second trying to stop auhtoritarians.
You could probably build an empire under more libertarian beliefs.
Duck ,formally known as Censor I believe that's what the first Persian Empire did, right?
Basically promised to leave them alone if they paid taxes.
Probably
MrDUneven you mean empower authoritarians. He's right wing.
You're funny
Sargon was certainly a badass and deserves his place of honor. However I feel that technically Ebla was the first "empire"
I mean they controlled several city states outside of their cultural area. It was sort of a missing link between a city state and an empire in the evolution of empire building.
Thanks for bringing Ebla to my attention :)
You're welcome! I love your channel. I hope to see your take on Ebla someday.
Carl is certainly a badass. Sargon of Akkad is one of the best channels on RUclips.
Uruk at the time of Uruk period (between 4000-3000 B C) could be a empire.It had a dozen colonies across Mesopotamia that shared a common culture.
@@carlosaugustodinizgarcia3526 I would argue that that is going too far. afawk, Uruk's cultural expansion was not directly controlling these cities. This seems to have been more of a large trading colony thing. So rather than Uruk conquering or annexing Nineveh, they just had trading posts there.
Ebla on the otherhand, seems to have had direct control over these cities so I would argue that they were the first "empire"
But of course, we would debate what constitutes an empire until the cows come home. An empire is generally supposed to be a state of several nations and what constitutes a nation in this context?
Came to hear SJW bashing, got a history lesson.
Jordy Leffers hahaha youve been had! 😉
Haha, fair play for watching it anyway 🙈 these videos are excellent, as are the other Sargon's 😂👍
Jordy Leffers I bet the historical Sargon did some SJW bashing in his day too... although he used weapons not words.
RushyG he did the mesopotamians had become weak city dwellers and got conquered by sargon and his army who were strong mountain dwellers
I'm glad I found this channel! Keep up the good work!
The dynasty of Lagash (c. 2500-2270 BC), though omitted from the king list, is well attested through several important monuments and many archaeological finds.
Although short-lived, one of the first empires known to history was that of Eannatum of Lagash, who annexed practically all of Sumer, including Kish, Uruk, Ur, and Larsa, and reduced to tribute the city-state of Umma, arch-rival of Lagash. In addition, his realm extended to parts of Elam and along the Persian Gulf. He seems to have used terror as a matter of policy.[51] Eannatum's Stele of the Vultures depicts vultures pecking at the severed heads and other body parts of his enemies. His empire collapsed shortly after his death.
Later, Lugal-Zage-Si, the priest-king of Umma, overthrew the primacy of the Lagash dynasty in the area, then conquered Uruk, making it his capital, and claimed an empire extending from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean. He was the last ethnically Sumerian king before Sargon of Akkad.
Wikipedia entry on Lagash
wait, you forgot to mention his luscious british accent
And the white supremacy
I dont think Kish would be pronounced "Kush". Although it sounds familiar the Kingdom of Kush was in Nubia(Sudan) and in a different time frame to Akkad, great content though.Keep up the good work!
Correct. I misread it when recording the audio. Thought I'd clarify it by putting the text on screen. Thanks buddy!
You all ain't want no body to know, a black man was the First, eh? And it's said he was so Right, and can Write, Civilized the world, where no Man was above the Law, give thanks knw? They all were in that area for a Period of time, he wasn't? But sirus and Alexandra, did, and when Tutmose wipt your ass again for aways missbehaving, wetting his sword, on an in that "redsee" and since you all are the red People, ok, not red Ruddy brown, But red pink red white, lol
It’s obviously pronounced Kek, like in Kekistan, if which Sargon of Akkad was prime minister.
@@nigelwilliams5653 The Nubian dynasty that took over Egypt got kicked out by Assyrians. Ancient and modern Egypt both have more in common with western Asia than sub-Saharan Africa.
@@scintillam_dei They are Kushites. And yes Kush = Kish. Same person and lineage. Kush was son Ham and was black…After the dispersal event ( Tower of Babel), these Kushites (blacks, Nubians, ancestors of sub Saharan Africans) moved west into Africa…so yes they are the same Nubians you speak of….Sargon the Great = Nimrod. Nimrod is the son of Kush and Grandson of Ham and Great Grandson of Noah…. The Yoruba in Nigeria (among others) say they descend from Namurudu or Lamurudu, which is their word for Nimrod.
Ah yes, Sargon led the Sumarians against the mindless hordes of Social Justice Warriors.
LMAOO
,
Punch BLMers in the face.
Nice use of the music!
Uruk aye where have I read that before.....
Looks like literary inspiration is back on the menu boys!!
Wow this is a great channel 😳
Cool can you make a video about Sargon Carl Benjamin of Akkad?
HTKoof why? He's a moron? Listen to Shaun.
_Listen to Shaun._
HAHAHAHAHA
Fail.
Who's shaun?
Shaun Facts
Sargon of Akkad Lies
@Rogerio Lopes ?
But sargon doesn't think info wars is reliable
this is such a great channel
Thank you very much!
Love all the videos 👏🏼👏🏼👍
Thanks! Glad you like them
Watching all your vids.
Thanks! So much more on the way in the next few weeks :) stay tuned!
The Assyrians also had 2 kings named after Sargon of Akkad, and they were Sargon I of the Old Assyrian empire and Sargon II of the Neo Assyrian empire.
I liked the part where the destroyed the feminists with facts and logic
given finds like nevali cori, gobekli tepe and similar findings in the 10-12k bc range, likely this wasn't the first 'emperor', however this wholly depends on how one chooses to define empire and where you start looking.
Excellent work!!!
This video has been going through my mind for months. I had to come back to it. I am wondering about if he REALLY was the FIRST emperor. I define an emperor as somebody who rules over several kingdoms. Well, maybe they are no longer kingdoms after they become part of an empire, but anyway it is the entity that is created through the process of unifying kingdoms. So I just think Narmer/Menes has an earlier claim to be the first unifier of kingdoms. I am sure you know Narmer, so i wont elaborate. Can you give me some feedback to help me understand why Sargon has the better claim to "First Emperor" status?
Well my reasoning boils down to the fact that he was an Akkadian, spoke a different language to and had a different culture to the vast majority of people he ruled over (who were mostly Sumerians- a different ethnicity altogether to Akkadians) Narmer/Menes may have unified the two Egyptian kingdoms, though both of the kingdoms seem to have been pretty similar in terms of culture and language- almost like two different Sumerian city states- though the very different, more favourable landscape they inhabited in Egypt allowed larger states to form unlike the relatively small Sumerian city-states.
However since I made this video I have increasingly questioned by own reasoning in arguing that Sargon was the first emperor (hence the question mark in the title). Further research has revealed a number of other 'conquerers' and empire builders who predated him. Though I might add the mainstream view is generally that Sargon was one of the first if not the first.
I'll be revisiting the subject in several new videos over the next year or so.
Thanks for the interest by the way, its great to get educated reasonable feedback on my vids. Thats why I started this channel - to get people talking about history :)
Thank you for the reply. You pin a lot of my comments. I can't wait for the new videos. I really like your videos on the bronze age. The others are fine too, but my interest is more on the bronze age.
Good man, the Bronze Age is one of my favourite eras. You'll be pleased to know I've got loads more videos planned on it, several entire series in fact.
That is great news. I also like the stone age. It is interesting to see the comparative linguistics, the DNA examination and other lab work, and all the other far out research that is needed to learn about it. It takes some real digging to learn about the stone age. Pun intended. I wonder if you will make videos about the Yamnaya, the Nautifians, the Federmesser,, the Solutrians, the Gravetians, the Erlitou, the Jomon, etc. There are a bunch of groups that videos can be made on these topics.
Brandon Redmond awwww dude now you're speaking my language. There are so many incredible cultures in the ancient world. I really do want to try and cover all of them eventually. I'll at least be doing a series each on the Hittites, Assyrians, Phoenicians and Carthaginians. Some of me faves. And a whole bunch more no doubt. The very first ancient explorers of antiquity are what've been interesting me the most recently. For example Pytheas of Massilia who became one of the first people from the Greek world to visit not just Britain but also the Arctic, writing a comprehensive account of his journeys (including polar bears) which unfortunately has since been lost to history, leaving mere scant sections of it that were later incorporated by later Greek and Roman historians.
Came here for the Sargon of Akkad (Carl Benjamin) comments. 11/10👌
Good job bro, thanks!
Your vids are great
Thankyou so much!
History Time keep up the good work. I think a great idea for a video would be on cnut the great or on the organization of early western medieval armies
Cheers mate. Cnut is a true giant of history and I will be making several videos about him :)
History Time awesome
Wasn't Gilgamesh likely around some centuries if not thousands of years before the Epic was written?
Iraqi and I am proud....sumer,akkad,ashur,Babylon.. those our civilizations.
Note: This is about the actual Sargon of Akkad that lived thousands of years ago, not this strange British guy with an obsession for blue-haired feminists.
AWESOME MUSIC
Great Channel 👍👍👍
There’s 1 thing specifically I need simplified, could someone tell me how many years ago from now the reign of Sargon was? WITHOUT the BC, BCE and AD stuff.
Nimrod?
Adapted.sargon of akkad settled about 4370 years ago( akkad was a place close to neipour) and sargon expanded up to syria.
First video I have watched where the auto captions worked. You have a very impressive pronounciation.
Edit: One very wrong part of captions- "Romans may have much larger butts"
thank you for your hard work ~
Praise KEK
ongo bongo I already have
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Yes, King Sargon's prestige was such that an Assyrian king was called Sargon as well, centuries after the death of the legendary Akkadian king!!
Sargon is a very smart man
i wouldn't even rule you
Free Kekistan.
They seemed to have use highly fashioned composite reflex bows which is amazing considering how long ago this was.
Sargon was a brutal barbarian. He plundered. You all need to stop praising these type of people.
Eh. It’s alright
@ why isn’t it time humans develop morals?
@@Itsuser_1234 what are you talking about?
@ never mind. When you have time go see a psychologist ask for iq test.
Sargon was not the first Empire. The first empire was Nimrod, 430 Years bevor Sargon.
Nimrod is Sargon.
Nimrud is a place that was under Sargon's rule.
During this time period the hebrews were wondering nomad tribes of the Perso-Sümur era.
Mostly Medens.
This is when Genesis was written but it was around longer as an oral tradition before the copper age.
Point is the story of Nimrod is more of a tribal story of King Sargon.
Not saying what might of happened in the story is true or wrong but the person's name is switched.
@@calonarang7378 According to the Chronicle of Kish, the following chronicle is given for Nimrod = Tascio = Ninus, the first king of Assyria
See "Prof. Waddel "MAKERS OF CIVILSATION"
• ~2750BC Peoples spread out. The first king Atyr = Adar rules from Kurru = Kura Araxes.
• ~2700BC. Tower of Babel, King Nimrod = Tascio and Tant tan, Dan peoples
Aryans and Asuras live together peacefully. Proto-Assyrian Dan and Teuton peoples settle on the Sea of Azov and on the north side of the Black Sea. The son Trebeta of Nimrod = Ninus, founds Trier.
• ~2500BC. Uspia builds the temple of the god Assur. Assyria on the river Tigris = Tetschera is created. Aryans and Asuras become enemies, Vanir against Asur.
• 2300 BC. Sargon 1 subjugates Assyria. Assyrians and Akkadians mix. The Persians call the Assyrians Tazian = Thazi or Tatschi (Germans)
• King Manistusu subjugates Egypt.
• King Naram Sin the White Bull Taurus. Anatolia and the north side of the Black Sea become Assyrian. Anatolia is called Titnu and the Crimea Tauritia.
• 1900 BC. Assyrians in league with Anatolia = Titnu wage war against Abraham in Canaan.
• ~1800 BC. Adasi, a man of unknown, probably Mittianite origin, becomes king of Assyria.
• ~1600 BC. Proto-Assyrians Teutons and Agatyrses and Gambar = Cimmerians, live on the Crimean peninsula = Tauritia, which was obviously Assyrian.
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Only 5 minutes? Or was this simply an introduction to a more in depth video? The history of Mesopotamia deserves more detail on Sargon the first. I would also like someone to do a documentary on what the roots of the biblical great flood were. Most likely it came from between 9000 BC to 4000 BC when the ice age ended and the ocean was still rising because of the ice age glaciers melting. The current Persian gulf was once probably fertile dry land and got flooded by rising ocean waters.
Unlike Neckbeard of Akkad, this man had followers older than 13 and could win UKIP more than 0 seats. It sucks that his empire and legacy shares the name with the British Burger King.
I'm nineteen but okay
Lol you sound almost as triggered as the anti-trump crowd
You do a GREAT job! But your thumbnails are so HARD TO READ ;)
Why did the youtuber choose Sargon as his name? Just curious because literally all the comments are about him.
He is a fan of ancient history... he has/had a channel called Ancient Recitations wherein he would read ancient accounts of historical events... n shiieeet.
Carl Benjamin says God doesn't exist...has he never looked in the mirror?
Great book called Dawn of Empire about the beginning of Akkad. Fiction but excellent
did he also play that music while ruling as a king?....
Praise Kek
Is this the oldest known example of an organized army practicing violent conquest - of epic proportions?
yes
Can’t wait for Iraq to return to its former glory.
This is not what any source tells us about Sargon. This is pure conjecture
Sumerians used the wedge to write their cuneiform scripts
I wish this was narrated that sargon youtube bloke.
عراقيين
I came here for the comments and was not dissapointed
Sargon of Akkad: The Worst Enemy of Communism
Now I like him more. But note priests and cheftons have ruled longer than kings or Emperors.
Sargon = Nimrod
What was the Akkadian relegion?
Also one badass youtuber
Ahmed Tarek spotted the butthurt islami
Ahmed Tarek. Have you even read John Locke? Sorry I mean the definition of being dumb (low iq) and how it actually works. Just because you disagree with someone it doesn't suddenly change their IQ to low. Absolutely subjective response, maybe next time consider how badly you are neglecting your intellect if you have much but I doubt it.
My dad wanted me to do a project, explaining The oldest civilization, and 5 facts about it. And I'm only like 10.
Your father doesn't want you to be ignorant of history. Usually the young struggle to appreciate history but as people grow older and wiser they come to enjoy researching and learning how man and civilization grew and the differences culture and environment had in our evolution.
Love it
Sargon lost weight.
He's rock climbing and laying off the Applebees.
i wonder if sargon said "FIRST!" after he did it
Rambo > Sargon 👍.
sargon may be the offspring of cain. some believe he was in fact cain. the son of a gardener? garden of eden? dont quote me, this is new info to me.
Actually Egypt beat out the Akkadian Empire by 800 years, becoming a unified state in or around 3100 BCE.
Not true because before the akkadian empire there was Sumerian empire
It was more of kingdom than an empire
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The father of the ruling class was a Nimrod..
Probably Sargon and his grandson Naram-Sin were the historical figures that inspired Nimrod myth.
@@carlosaugustodinizgarcia3526 you realize the name Nimrud has been found in same Mesopotamian (Sumer) ruins??..Nimrod = Sargon the Great
So that’s where it’s from
The Akkadians are descendants of Arabs and they immigrated from the Arabian Peninsula. Many scholars have said that they are Arabs. I am proud to be Akkadian.
3 seconds longer then a true sargon lost opartunity
Sad
I actually found out about this Sargon before the internet guy, so I'm appropriately pissed that the world's first emperor is now an identity theft victim.
Who was "zulqarnain"?
Djoser in Egypt is the first emperor of the history