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There are different theories. One theory is the Sumerian people are people who came from Anatolia and settled in the Euphrates because it was good for agriculture. Okay? So, that's one theory. But there are other theories. There are other people who believe the Sumerians came from the Zagros Mountains. Okay? There are other people who believe they came from Arabia and settled. And then there's another group of people who believe the Sumerians are people who came from the Indus Valley. Okay? We'll talk about the Indus Valley next class. But all you need to know is the Indus Valley, it is a very advanced civilization. It's very large. Five million people. And it covers three major areas. Afghanistan. Pakistan. And northwest India. It is larger than Egypt and Mesopotamia combined. Okay? So, people believe that the Indus Valley sent a colony to Mesopotamia, which found it in Uruk. 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So, these are the different theories. But then there's another theory. Okay? Which I think makes the most sense. Which is this. Sumerian is a Creole language. It was invented by a melting pot of cultures and languages. Okay? And it's very similar to the Mandarin we speak today. Right? Where Mandarin didn't exist. But because you had so many different cultures coming to the palace. They had to create their own language in order to communicate with each other. And we call that language today Mandarin. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay. So, why do I think this idea makes the most sense? And again, just to be absolutely clear. No one knows. And we'll probably never know the answer. But I believe that Sumerian is a Creole language. This theory makes the most sense because of this. Why was Uruk able to develop into the first city?", "word_count": 150, "timed_chunks": [ { "id": "seg-0013-chunk-001", "start": 1064.6, "end": 1069.76, "text": "Okay? 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But I'm going to give you the generalization which will be useful for our purposes. Okay? So, let's look at Egypt. So, and then we'll look at Mesopotamia. Okay? Egypt. Egypt believed the first god was Ra. Okay? There are other gods who they believed to be the first god, like Atum and Amon. Okay? But let's just say the first god is Ra, who is a sun god. He comes to our world and he creates life. Okay? And basically gives life to everything. Okay? Including humans. And as such, we worship him. But eventually, we start to become misguided and we start to worship another god, a false god. Ra becomes angry and kills many of us. And, but after he kills many of us, he has tremendous regret and he decides his time is up. He should give his throne to someone else. Okay? And this other god becomes Osiris. 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And when they did that, they spread agriculture. And remember, the agriculture, the mythology is the mother goddess, which meant that they were mainl..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-e92jybmmaym@transcript:v1#seg-0010", "segment_id": "seg-0010", "start": 828.77, "end": 903.65, "time_label": "13:48", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "And the Sumerian civilization is considered the cradle of civilization. It is the beginning of the foundations of modern civilization. They gave us irrigation technology. They gave us mathematics. They gave us astronomy..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-e92jybmmaym@transcript:v1#seg-0011", "segment_id": "seg-0011", "start": 903.67, "end": 980.95, "time_label": "15:03", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "like, massive warfare that we would see during the Greek and Roman periods, it's still pretty absent. There's conflict. It's short -term. And they have conflicts in order to resolve, like, territorial disputes. Okay? Or..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-e92jybmmaym@transcript:v1#seg-0012", "segment_id": "seg-0012", "start": 981.46, "end": 1064.2, "time_label": "16:21", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay? No one knows. There are different theories. One theory is the Sumerian people are people who came from Anatolia and settled in the Euphrates because it was good for agriculture. Okay? So, that's one theory. But th..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-e92jybmmaym@transcript:v1#seg-0013", "segment_id": "seg-0013", "start": 1064.6, "end": 1130.23, "time_label": "17:44", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "Okay? So, these are the different theories. But then there's another theory. Okay? Which I think makes the most sense. Which is this. Sumerian is a Creole language. 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We are doing Mesopotamia today. This is the Bronze Age. We did Egypt last class. We are doing Mesopotamia today. In the next class, we will finish with the Indus Valley. So, before I begin, I want to..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-e92jybmmaym@transcript:v1#seg-0008", "segment_id": "seg-0008", "start": 629.43, "end": 721.5, "time_label": "10:29", "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "excerpt": "And the Akkadians, under Sargon of Akkad, or Sargon the Great, united these city -states and gave us the idea of Sumerian civilization. After the Akkadian Empire fell, North Mesopotamia became the Assyrian Empire. 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