🤣 yeah that's pretty funny actually. One was an godlike hero and the other a crappy copper dealer. Due to the memes I think more kids today know the name Ea-nasir than Gilgamesh, though I could be wrong. Thanks for watching!
It was postulated that his house was burned down by people he ripped off, so the clay tablets that he collected became fired and therefore preserved enough for us to get our hands on it and translate it 37 centuries later.
Haha...while I probably do think about the Roman Empire more than most, I'd have to say I think about those a further to the east a bit more lol. Thanks for watching!
I once saw a writing prompt that read: "when you die, you get to see the number of people who know about you, and talk about you. Only a few decades after your death, the number says zero. You figure it will stay there forever, but a few millenia later, the number skyrockets into the millions." The best response to the prompt just said "and they all know I sold really shitty copper."
a writing prompt is basicaly a short introductory 'story' to write a larger story. It's bascialy the fundament of a larger story. The word prompt can also be use as "to start *something*" As example: I was /prompted/ to write a story with that comment. Hope it helps :)@@_HMCB_
Reminding me of one of my favourite two-sentence horror stories... "The damage to the time machine wasn't so bad - it looked like I'd be able to get back home after all. I just needed to find somebody in ancient Sumer who could sell me some high quality copper wire."
And that a copy of this tablet is present in the corporate headquarters of both Verizon and AT&T, who have proudly carried on his legacy of selling low quality copper to this very day.
@@HistorywithCy In retrospect, I probably should have just went for a single comment in the style of the old Top Gear. Something like "The man, the myth, the legend. Some say he would eventually found the first recorded call center in history, and that a copy of this tablet is present in the corporate HQs of Verizon and AT&T, both of whom have proudly carried his legacy of selling low quality copper into the 21st century. All we know is he's called Ea-Nasir" But at the very least, I hope that multiple comments will actually help you with the algorithm.
I always love learning about these more mundane, petty disputes in history. There's something so endearing about a situation you can relate too in ancient times
Me to, I love history but the majority of it is always about wars, the life of kings. I'm very curious about the life of ordinary people from the past. So, mundane story like this is much more interesting to me. 😊
@@anggi8699the people paying historians to write their stuff down were the people with money. Mostly kings and nobles. And most commoners throughout history were illiterate which is why wars and geopolitics are what you usually hear about
From Gregory of Tours's History of the Franks: "Amalaberg, the wife of Hermanfrid, was a wicked and cruel woman: it was she who sowed the seeds of civil war between the two remaining brothers. One day when her husband came in to have a meal, he found only half the table laid. When he asked Amalaberg what she meant by this, she answered: 'A king who is deprived of half his kingdom deserves to find half his table bare.'" In another part of this book, a king had to flee his home because he couldn't keep it in his pants, and was welcomed into the home of another king...whose wife he promptly slept with.
Ea-Nasir sure kept rules 1 and 239 of the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition: 1) Once you have their money, never give it back; and 2) never be afraid to mislabel a product.
I'd just find it hilarious if Ea-Nasir is hanging out in the afterlife; and watching this all go down. "Why do they keep talking about my customer complaints!? Nani was a major Karen, and just liked to show off that he had a scribe on retainer. I can't help it that the copper I bought was trash, I'm just a middle man. Haven't they found all the records of my charitable giving to the temple?!".
Absolutely amazing in that never in Ea-Nasir and Nanni's wildest dreams could they ever have imagined we would be learning about them over 3500 years later not on cuneiform tablets but on our cell phones via RUclips in places in the world they never knew existed!
I love that we have pretty much accepted that the derpiest Bronze Age figurine is Ea Nasir. No argument, you see it, you know it. That's the look of a merchant who is rude to messengers and servants.
We today in "modern" times underestimate the TRADE NETWORKS which were long and well connected 2,000+ bce.... despite all the hazards and perils! Tin - rare, and essential for making (most alloys of) bronze came from as far away as Wales (British isles) for millennia. Lapis Lazuli from Afghanistan mountains, cedar logs from Lebanon, and of course gold and silver from rare mines always made their way in to trade routes. And it is astounding how bold the NOMADIC TRADERS were, as the tablet says, there was always the chance of pirates, raiders, or falling in to enemy territory... yet, despite these hazards, the traders proliferated, the trade routes continued and grew
Personally what makes me tear up is this little toy horse on wheels that was found in mesopotamia dates around 1500 BC. theres a hole in the nose where we think a string once went through to pull along the horse. And this just makes me feel that there was once a little kid, whose parents worked hard enough to buy/make for him a toy, a toy that was similar to one that I had, and that child was probably loved, and that child maybe even grew up, maybe even passed down the toy. And day by day 3000 years went by, and all trace of him is gone, except that toy.
If you are interested in more ancient kids stories, they found in the old russian city of Novgorod serveral carvings on wood dating from the 11th century. They were drawings made by a child (I think his name was Orfinn). From what I remember, some of them include the boy playing with his friends on the classroom, several symbols and random drawings of creatures, and the boy looking at a knight riding a horse
I’d like to see you cover the new discovery at Lagash. They found the roof of a restaurant’ and once they wiggled inside they found beaten tin plates for service still stacked on the shelves as well as cups and vessels which held drinks and tables etc. The pictures taken are amazing because they show social life from something like 5,000BCE. I’d like to see more videos on everyday living. For example Irving Finkle once read from a seal that came from a man who’s business was constructing homes for others. That would be fascinating to hear about! Great video as always Cy
Gotta love how so much preserved cuneiform is business correspondence. Like the one from a trader advising his servants to hide ingots in their undergarments to avoid tariffs, or many that are essentially, "This is your second billing, If you have already sent your payment, please disregard this tablet."
Thank you! Lol never thought my name would be in the same sentence as Ea-nasir... I don't know if I should be honored or concerned? Thanks for watching, appreciate it!
this is the best kind of history in my opinion. it’s cool to learn about history of kings and queens and empires and wars etc. but this is so much more fun, relatable and interesting.
I believe they actually did find an apology letter written by him but I can't recall. They did also found what they believe to be Ea-Nasir's house, which contained a lot of similar complaint tablets addressed to him. As such, in my opinion, there's sufficient evidence to fairly conclude that Ea-Nasir was at best incompetent, and at worst actively a swindler.
This unfortunate merchant helped scholars understand a little bit about his time period, which is fascinating. Long live the cuneiform tablets may archeologists discover more !
@@NickScribe3 When you leave a comment or a like it pops it up in the AI algorithm that this is a video people are watching so the algorithm will recommend it more to different people or similar videos... whatever you watch or hit like on especially if you comment - that's how recommended videos are generated.
Imagine being so AWFUL, that your name endures far longer than the the names of countless BETTER people around you. The literall equivalent of a modern day used car salesman achieving immortality. 😂
So Nani just glossed over the fact that he owes Ea-Nasir two mina of silver 🤔 maybe we've been too hard on old Ea... I wanna know why Nani expects his money bag when he owes Ea all that silver!
I feel like these old tablet translations are always sound repetitive because their language was probably structured like “(in-past-time) (you-give) (copper) (me) (and) (show-me) (bad)” which then probably gets thrown in as “you have have given me bad copper and treated me with discontent.”
An extremely important recovery of an ancient correspondence between Nana and Nasir. I am sure such correspondences between Sumeria and India or reference. This might open a new chapter of ancient history.
You just know that future Civilization games will have a technology discovery quotation about Ae-Nasir and his shenanigans. Probably about copper, I bet.
Wonderful exposition on Trade in ancient Mesopotamia. This reminds me that Dilmun was much later claimed to be conquered by Assyria. That would have been during the times of the Vedic City States. What was traded, most likely through Dilmun at that time.
im relentlessly playing KOTOR (i know im like 20 years after the fact) so seeing you post something new gives me an excuse to pause them game and have a snack while i learn something
Been sick all day yesterday. Revisited that Voyager episode "False Profits". And then this shows up on my notifications. Crom truly works in mysterious ways 🍻
This does raise questions about literacy though. If Ea Nasir could read and write and presumably he wasn't the richest merchant then we can assume literacy was at least common among the 'middle class'. Merchants richer peasants people working in administration would almost always have had some basic literacy.
I was waiting for the hat to drop and the gentleman to say “I’m sending down by thugs and you better have my money beatch” 😂😂😂 I can see this scene happen as if it were today. Thank you for amazing content. 🙏🏽
Quite a few years back my friend was doing some thing where he was downloading lots of movies and games and burning them on discs for people. He kept getting letters from his Internet provider warning that they may investigate his large downloads, and if he's using his connection for commercial or illegal reasons they will get the law involved. And in one of the letters it starts out all formally warning him about downloading over a terabyte in a month. And at the bottom of the letter, right before where its signed, it said "next time we're coming round" (They never did "come round" though)
@@BezoomyKoshka-ip4dz times have changed. Way back when, large downloads would have sent off red flags to an ISP. I was online around ‘96/97 and speed was slow unless you had broadband, which not many people had. Then broadband got more prevalent about 2000 and I started downloading from torrents. Never music, just apps and smaller stuff. Surprised I never got a letter.
I find it hilarious how, thousands of years later after he and the cities he knew were sent to the sands of time, ea Nasir became a meme just because he was a good swindler and loved his complaint tablets
I'd imagine this mans spirit is blushing wherever he rests now being roasted this hard thousands of years later. It's actually insane how much we know about this man just from excavating the area he lived in. Dude was wild😂
In the next Terminator movie, I want him to go back in time and save Ea Nasir. And in the process of doing so, Ea Nasir recognizes the errors of his ways and changes as a merchant.
@@HistorywithCy yes because Abraham and his dad were living in Ur in this period, and the reason of the wealth of Abraham was that he was honest, among dishonest people. This story fits the biblical account beautifully
Yes but they're not as scathing as the one from Nanni. The others are more of "when will I be getting my copper" vs "...I will not accept here any copper from you that is not of fine quality. I shall from now on select and take the ingots individually in my own yard, and I shall exercise against you my right of rejection because you have treated me with contempt..." etc. Thanks for watching!
Classic Ea-Nasir, always swindling his customers with substandard copper. The ghost of Nanni probably wishes that he had had clay tablet style Yelp reviews during the First Babylonian Dynasty, to spread awareness and get a boycott going against his arch nemesis.
Sorry one typo... at 07:25 the caption should read "Samsu-iluna" and not "Samsu-luna." Thanks!
good thing you addressed it or else the internet would have been furious 😛
I knew dat 😉
how phawking dare u
Don't worry!
no one would notice. but thanks
Ea-Nasir has now become as famous as Gilgamesh through his ability to sell terrible copper. Amazing.
🤣 yeah that's pretty funny actually. One was an godlike hero and the other a crappy copper dealer. Due to the memes I think more kids today know the name Ea-nasir than Gilgamesh, though I could be wrong. Thanks for watching!
Golden boy Gil has his place in memes, although it's specifically the Fate version. So degenerate weebs only.
Wonder what Ea-Nasir would think if someone went back in time and told him that, one day, he would be remembered with the same reknown as Gilgamesh.
I bet Ea-Nasir was the one who gave Gilgamesh the false plant of immortality....thats why Ea-Nasir is immortal
Fate//Zero should take advantage of this XD
Ea-Nasir. The man, the myth, the legend.
justice for nani!
Ea nasir is not myth?
@@Jejdnxjx817 The quality of his copper was though.
What if Ea-Nasir is the victim and Nani is just trying to steal money from an honest copper merchant? I'm on team Ea-Nasir.
The meme…
I like how Ea-Nasir just collected complaint tablets in his home. Dude loved getting one over on poor schmucks. What a scoundrel.
It was postulated that his house was burned down by people he ripped off, so the clay tablets that he collected became fired and therefore preserved enough for us to get our hands on it and translate it 37 centuries later.
And because of that, we're all making fun of this guy for being such a scumbag...
@@Willie5000 Better to be hated than forgotten.
Some men may always be thinking about Rome, but any of us who have been on the raw end of a deal think of Ea-Nasir.
Haha...while I probably do think about the Roman Empire more than most, I'd have to say I think about those a further to the east a bit more lol. Thanks for watching!
I once saw a writing prompt that read: "when you die, you get to see the number of people who know about you, and talk about you. Only a few decades after your death, the number says zero. You figure it will stay there forever, but a few millenia later, the number skyrockets into the millions."
The best response to the prompt just said "and they all know I sold really shitty copper."
Interesting prompt... very true in a lot of cases. Thanks for watching, appreciate it!
I laughed so hard at this. Holy shit
Can you explain what you mean by “prompt?” You mean an ancient artifact or AI? Sorry for my ignorance.
a writing prompt is basicaly a short introductory 'story' to write a larger story. It's bascialy the fundament of a larger story. The word prompt can also be use as "to start *something*" As example: I was /prompted/ to write a story with that comment. Hope it helps :)@@_HMCB_
@@_HMCB_ A writing prompt. You have subreddits and other sites dedicated to giving people a prompt and then they write a short story
Ah yes, our favorite sleazy bronze age salesman, Ea-Nasir.
True, but we're still talking about him... haha thanks for watching, appreciate it!
@@HistorywithCy Anytime!
Now I know who truly inspired the business practices of EA (Electronic Arts)
🤣🤣🤣
Lmao
Truly the legendary founder of the company
Nanni tried to warn us of EA 37 centuries in advance and we didn't listen
This comment, should be immortalized on a clay tablet
Reminding me of one of my favourite two-sentence horror stories... "The damage to the time machine wasn't so bad - it looked like I'd be able to get back home after all. I just needed to find somebody in ancient Sumer who could sell me some high quality copper wire."
That's 3 sentences
Is she the protagonist of dino crisis ?
He's out of luck if he meet Ea Nazir lmao
Ea-Nasir: “Could I offer you some high quality copper in these trying times?” *pushes bad review tablets into a corner with his foot*
Legend has it, Ea-nasir would eventually found what is now known as the first customer support center
And that a copy of this tablet is present in the corporate headquarters of both Verizon and AT&T, who have proudly carried on his legacy of selling low quality copper to this very day.
🤣🤣🤣
@@HistorywithCy In retrospect, I probably should have just went for a single comment in the style of the old Top Gear.
Something like "The man, the myth, the legend. Some say he would eventually found the first recorded call center in history, and that a copy of this tablet is present in the corporate HQs of Verizon and AT&T, both of whom have proudly carried his legacy of selling low quality copper into the 21st century. All we know is he's called Ea-Nasir"
But at the very least, I hope that multiple comments will actually help you with the algorithm.
The whole channel's history has been leading to this video.
🤣 it's definitely been on the list of topics to cover for a while...thanks for watching!
The whole of written human history has been leading to this video
I always love learning about these more mundane, petty disputes in history. There's something so endearing about a situation you can relate too in ancient times
Me to, I love history but the majority of it is always about wars, the life of kings. I'm very curious about the life of ordinary people from the past. So, mundane story like this is much more interesting to me. 😊
@@anggi8699the people paying historians to write their stuff down were the people with money. Mostly kings and nobles. And most commoners throughout history were illiterate which is why wars and geopolitics are what you usually hear about
From Gregory of Tours's History of the Franks: "Amalaberg, the wife of Hermanfrid, was a wicked and cruel woman: it was she who sowed the seeds of civil war between the two remaining brothers. One day when her husband came in to have a meal, he found only half the table laid. When he asked Amalaberg what she meant by this, she answered: 'A king who is deprived of half his kingdom deserves to find half his table bare.'" In another part of this book, a king had to flee his home because he couldn't keep it in his pants, and was welcomed into the home of another king...whose wife he promptly slept with.
Ea-Nasir sure kept rules 1 and 239 of the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition: 1) Once you have their money, never give it back; and 2) never be afraid to mislabel a product.
He should have remembered rule Rule 57 of the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition. "Good customers are as rare as rare as latinum. Treasure them"
I'd just find it hilarious if Ea-Nasir is hanging out in the afterlife; and watching this all go down. "Why do they keep talking about my customer complaints!? Nani was a major Karen, and just liked to show off that he had a scribe on retainer. I can't help it that the copper I bought was trash, I'm just a middle man. Haven't they found all the records of my charitable giving to the temple?!".
Absolutely amazing in that never in Ea-Nasir and Nanni's wildest dreams could they ever have imagined we would be learning about them over 3500 years later not on cuneiform tablets but on our cell phones via RUclips in places in the world they never knew existed!
In other words learning about their dispute on a magic crystal
the chain of specific events that had to occur to turn Ea-Nasir into a meme 3500 years later could make a decent sized book
On our obsidian tablets
This is a certified "Ud reeeaaaa!" moment.
I love that we have pretty much accepted that the derpiest Bronze Age figurine is Ea Nasir. No argument, you see it, you know it.
That's the look of a merchant who is rude to messengers and servants.
4000 years from now, some future historian finds an intact AWS server. The only data that are not corrupted they could decrypt were customer reviews.
We today in "modern" times underestimate the TRADE NETWORKS which were long and well connected 2,000+ bce.... despite all the hazards and perils!
Tin - rare, and essential for making (most alloys of) bronze came from as far away as Wales (British isles) for millennia.
Lapis Lazuli from Afghanistan mountains, cedar logs from Lebanon, and of course gold and silver from rare mines always made their way in to trade routes.
And it is astounding how bold the NOMADIC TRADERS were, as the tablet says, there was always the chance of pirates, raiders, or falling in to enemy territory...
yet, despite these hazards, the traders proliferated, the trade routes continued and grew
That’s the indomitable will of the human spirit for you
It is always amazing to get this intimate perspective of the lives of the ancients. Makes one feel much more connected to the past.
Personally what makes me tear up is this little toy horse on wheels that was found in mesopotamia dates around 1500 BC. theres a hole in the nose where we think a string once went through to pull along the horse.
And this just makes me feel that there was once a little kid, whose parents worked hard enough to buy/make for him a toy, a toy that was similar to one that I had, and that child was probably loved, and that child maybe even grew up, maybe even passed down the toy. And day by day 3000 years went by, and all trace of him is gone, except that toy.
@@Yatagurusuah jeez that’s sad. Kinda teared up a bit. Let’s lighten the mood. EA NASIR GIVE ME BACK MY SILVER YOUR COPPER IS TERRIBLE
If you are interested in more ancient kids stories, they found in the old russian city of Novgorod serveral carvings on wood dating from the 11th century. They were drawings made by a child (I think his name was Orfinn). From what I remember, some of them include the boy playing with his friends on the classroom, several symbols and random drawings of creatures, and the boy looking at a knight riding a horse
@Cropak_NapeikThat's so cool!
I’d like to see you cover the new discovery at Lagash. They found the roof of a restaurant’ and once they wiggled inside they found beaten tin plates for service still stacked on the shelves as well as cups and vessels which held drinks and tables etc. The pictures taken are amazing because they show social life from something like 5,000BCE. I’d like to see more videos on everyday living. For example Irving Finkle once read from a seal that came from a man who’s business was constructing homes for others. That would be fascinating to hear about! Great video as always Cy
beer FTW!
Link to this find?
Is good
«The smartest man in every room, is Ea-Nasir.»
- Nasir fanboi c. 1750
I would love an Uncut gems type movie about Ia-Nasir bamboozling and lying to all his business partners and it's just a very stressful day in Ur.
Like wolf of Wall Street
Assistant: Ea-Nasir, someone sent a clay tablet.
Ea-Nasir: Nanni!?
Tell him I'm not home...
I've been bamboozled by Ea-nasir!
Gotta love how so much preserved cuneiform is business correspondence. Like the one from a trader advising his servants to hide ingots in their undergarments to avoid tariffs, or many that are essentially, "This is your second billing, If you have already sent your payment, please disregard this tablet."
humans have been sending spam emails (or clay tablets) since time immemorial
I've waited for this video for almost 4000 years
Yeah I've been meaning to make this one...glad you enjoyed it and thanks for watching!
as long as ea Nasir's customer have been waiting for better copper
A video about Ea-Nasir
This should be good
Hope you enjoyed it and thanks for watching!
Surely better than his lousy copper
One of my favorite sayings of Ea-nasir:
"Iltam zumra rashuptim elatim"
First CEO of EA Games
🤣🤣🤣
EA Nasir is John Riccitiello's ancestor lmao
My two favorite things about ancient history-Ea-Nasir and History With Cy-go so great together! Very excited!
Thank you! Lol never thought my name would be in the same sentence as Ea-nasir... I don't know if I should be honored or concerned? Thanks for watching, appreciate it!
this is the best kind of history in my opinion. it’s cool to learn about history of kings and queens and empires and wars etc. but this is so much more fun, relatable and interesting.
This is practically a holiday special episode. I'm so happy. Thanks for the quality content
Let’s not jump to conclusions. I would like to hear Ea-Nasir’s side of the story.
I believe they actually did find an apology letter written by him but I can't recall.
They did also found what they believe to be Ea-Nasir's house, which contained a lot of similar complaint tablets addressed to him. As such, in my opinion, there's sufficient evidence to fairly conclude that Ea-Nasir was at best incompetent, and at worst actively a swindler.
This unfortunate merchant helped scholars understand a little bit about his time period, which is fascinating. Long live the cuneiform tablets may archeologists discover more !
Outstanding Presentation! I always love your posts.
I am also commenting to help your channel with the algorithm.
🤓
@@minaw6618Was it "algorithm"?
Thanks, really appreciate the support and glad you enjoyed the video!
@@NickScribe3 When you leave a comment or a like it pops it up in the AI algorithm that this is a video people are watching so the algorithm will recommend it more to different people or similar videos... whatever you watch or hit like on especially if you comment - that's how recommended videos are generated.
" I shall exercise my right of rejection" Sumerian speech is something
I hope that we all have had a chance to see the modern day meme that someone put together because of this guy. Truly wondrous
Ah yes! Ea-Nasir.....the progenitor of EA company
Imagine being so AWFUL, that your name endures far longer than the the names of countless BETTER people around you.
The literall equivalent of a modern day used car salesman achieving immortality.
😂
Yeah, funny how things work out. Offhand I can't name one honest, capable or good businessman or merchant from 1750 BC. Thanks for watching!
This is it, this is huge
Thank you!
Fascinating, I am so happy to see this covered and the added context explains so much!
So Nani just glossed over the fact that he owes Ea-Nasir two mina of silver 🤔 maybe we've been too hard on old Ea... I wanna know why Nani expects his money bag when he owes Ea all that silver!
because he sell him a crappy bad copper so its mean he doesn't have to return the silver he owns him
That jumped out at me!
I feel like these old tablet translations are always sound repetitive because their language was probably structured like
“(in-past-time) (you-give) (copper) (me) (and) (show-me) (bad)” which then probably gets thrown in as “you have have given me bad copper and treated me with discontent.”
I came here to write something witty but there's so many great comments already! Ea-nasir really is a legend. 😂
Thanks a million Cy. Your videos are always top notch. Your channel is my to go in all history matters.
"He was the best guy around"
What about the poeple he treated with contempt?
"What contempt?"
Thanks!
Thank you, appreciate it!
Funny how many great heros of past have been forgotten but we are here, discussing about an unsuccessful businessman.
Truly shows who we are.
I love this kind of video, shedding light on the lives of regular people!
Imagine going back in time, to tell Ea Nasir that 4000 years after his death, he'd still be famous for his shitty copper
An extremely important recovery of an ancient correspondence between Nana and Nasir. I am sure such correspondences between Sumeria and India or reference. This might open a new chapter of ancient history.
You just know that future Civilization games will have a technology discovery quotation about Ae-Nasir and his shenanigans. Probably about copper, I bet.
Imagine being 4,000 yrs in the future from now and people deciphering the internet and find obsession with thousands of years prior...
The most interesting man in history still boggles my mind how we aren't so different thousands of years ago
Apparently he also went on to sell used chariots at insane prices.
With bad copper parts I'd imagine lol. Thanks for watching!
😆@@HistorywithCy
He has returned
Ayyy Ea-nasir, the guy
I'm pretty sure that the archaeologist who found Nanni's letter were laughing their asses off when they were interpreting it.
Also, I love your work, sir. Looking forward to the next.
Wonderful exposition on Trade in ancient Mesopotamia. This reminds me that Dilmun was much later claimed to be conquered by Assyria. That would have been during the times of the Vedic City States. What was traded, most likely through Dilmun at that time.
Dilmun is in India?
@@stormshadow5283 - No. It seems to be the same area as Bahrain. Dilmun seemed to be the trading center between Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley.
im relentlessly playing KOTOR (i know im like 20 years after the fact) so seeing you post something new gives me an excuse to pause them game and have a snack while i learn something
Haha still the best star wars game out there... all hail Darth Revan!!!!!!!
Been sick all day yesterday. Revisited that Voyager episode "False Profits".
And then this shows up on my notifications.
Crom truly works in mysterious ways 🍻
Excellent video, as usual. Keep it up my friend!
You're the worst copper tradesman I've ever heard of
Ea-Nasir - "But you've heard of me"
Ea-nasir. Truly one of the businessman in Babylonia.
Amazing video. Thank you!
Thank you much for your hard work, Cy!
My pleasure, thanks for watching!
This does raise questions about literacy though. If Ea Nasir could read and write and presumably he wasn't the richest merchant then we can assume literacy was at least common among the 'middle class'. Merchants richer peasants people working in administration would almost always have had some basic literacy.
Further proof that bad customer service is in fact a timeless concept.
Loved the meme, and the episode too!
EA Nasir, it's in the copper.
Thank you Cy. Keep up the good work!
Thanks for watching, appreciate it!
Really enjoyed this. Thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for watching!
Dude really kept all the complain letters. I like to imagine that the reason his house burned down was coz all the people he scammed burned it. 😂
I wonder if Nanni ever got his copper
I was waiting for the hat to drop and the gentleman to say “I’m sending down by thugs and you better have my money beatch” 😂😂😂
I can see this scene happen as if it were today. Thank you for amazing content. 🙏🏽
Quite a few years back my friend was doing some thing where he was downloading lots of movies and games and burning them on discs for people.
He kept getting letters from his Internet provider warning that they may investigate his large downloads, and if he's using his connection for commercial or illegal reasons they will get the law involved.
And in one of the letters it starts out all formally warning him about downloading over a terabyte in a month. And at the bottom of the letter, right before where its signed, it said "next time we're coming round"
(They never did "come round" though)
@@BezoomyKoshka-ip4dz times have changed. Way back when, large downloads would have sent off red flags to an ISP. I was online around ‘96/97 and speed was slow unless you had broadband, which not many people had. Then broadband got more prevalent about 2000 and I started downloading from torrents. Never music, just apps and smaller stuff. Surprised I never got a letter.
I think the word "mina" of silver is still recognisable today, where I live.
Amazon Market Place, ca. 1750 BC
I find it hilarious how, thousands of years later after he and the cities he knew were sent to the sands of time, ea Nasir became a meme just because he was a good swindler and loved his complaint tablets
Never heard of a man before or since held in such contempt! Who did he take him for?!
I'd imagine this mans spirit is blushing wherever he rests now being roasted this hard thousands of years later. It's actually insane how much we know about this man just from excavating the area he lived in. Dude was wild😂
In the next Terminator movie, I want him to go back in time and save Ea Nasir. And in the process of doing so, Ea Nasir recognizes the errors of his ways and changes as a merchant.
I just realized no one has tried a facial reconstruction of Ea-Nasir. It's beyond time. 😁
Next do Sin-gamil's unheeded calls for more water for his sesame fields. THE SESAME WAS VISIBLY DYING, not that Sin-id-dinam cared😡
Ibbi-Ilabrat saw it!
Gudea of Lagash still my fav despot, built a city on his own and took on the big boys
Yeah Gudea is in my list of top 5 rulers of ancient Mesopotamia. Thanks for watching!
imagine getting immortalized just to get roasted for thousands of years after your ddeath
He collected his own hate mail too lmfaaooooo
Imagine the Life and Times of Tim, but in Mesopotamia. And Ea-nasir could be someone ike Saul in Breaking Bad xD
Came for the memes. Stayed for the history lesson.
Crazy Ea-nasir his prices are low they are Insane !
Dude lives on through history
Haha for all the wrong reasons...but we're still talking about him today. Thanks for watching, really appreciate it!
Such an interesting peak into the past, very interesting story
I wondered were cy was. I was in Vermont. Lovely country. I hope nothing in history changed while I was gone… good show mate.
Amazing insight
Thank you, glad this was useful!
@@HistorywithCy yes because Abraham and his dad were living in Ur in this period, and the reason of the wealth of Abraham was that he was honest, among dishonest people. This story fits the biblical account beautifully
what were the money deposited at the temple on ae-nasir's behalf? some sort or escrow account? a sacrifice?
Wait... there are more complaint tablets?!
Yes but they're not as scathing as the one from Nanni. The others are more of "when will I be getting my copper" vs "...I will not accept here any copper from you that is not of fine quality. I shall from now on select and take the ingots individually in my own yard, and I shall exercise against you my right of rejection because you have treated me with contempt..." etc. Thanks for watching!
Classic Ea-Nasir, always swindling his customers with substandard copper. The ghost of Nanni probably wishes that he had had clay tablet style Yelp reviews during the First Babylonian Dynasty, to spread awareness and get a boycott going against his arch nemesis.
I thought this was another bronze age shitpost but i just realised its Cy’s video 😅
Lol yeah hopefully it's better than the memes! Thanks for watching!
When you've been hustling all Sumer long...
Well done here