ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA: THE CIVILIZATION THAT INVENTED EVERYTHING
Episode 15 | Human History — Civilizations & Empires
In this History episode we focus on Ancient Mesopotamia — the land between the Tigris and the Euphrates, five thousand years ago, where writing, law, cities, the wheel, the sixty-minute hour, and the first literature all came from.
This episode covers the Sumerian city-states and the invention of cuneiform writing, Sargon of Akkad's first empire, Hammurabi's 282 laws, the Assyrian library at Nineveh with its thirty thousand tablets, and the Neo-Babylonian Empire that destroyed Jerusalem and produced the exile that shaped the development of…
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