Cradles of Civilization - History Begins at Sumer l Lessons of Dr. David Neiman
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- In this third segment from Dr. David Neiman's lecture series, "Cradles of Civiliazation", Dr. Neiman describes how humans first developed the concept of the written word.
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Dr. David Neiman (1921-2004) was an internationally renowned scholar, speaker, and writer who inspired many people. His life's work concerned the intricate relations between Christianity, Islam, and Judaism throughout history and in modern times. Dr. Neiman made history come alive through his dramatic presentations and unique interpretations. In light of our current world situation, Dr. Neiman's work is not only extremely relevant but also remarkably prescient. More than anything, Dr. Neiman was a keen observer of the human condition. His words convey our shared history with clarity, humor, and humanity.
Dr. Neiman was the first Jewish scholar appointed to teach Religion at Boston College, one of America's leading Catholic Universities. He served as Professor in the Department of Theology for a quarter of a century. While there he was also invited to teach at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. After retiring from Boston College, Dr.Neiman moved to Los Angeles, where he taught at Loyola Marymount University, St. John' s Seminary in Camarillo and the University of Judaism in Bel Air.
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i am very sad , just as soon as i begin to listen to his lecture and find it very intersting i discover that he died in 2004 what a great lost for humanity even thow he was jewish he was nt blinded by his religion about the craddles of civilizations and the history of mankind throught the ages and for only that he earn my respect
He never mentioned the civilization that used iron first, i believe it was the Hittites for anyone wondering.
Thank you. I just found this site. What a wonderful teacher.
Iron wasn't of tremendous interest until very late in the Hittite empire, as bronze is actually superior (less brittle, doesn't corrode as dramatically). It took centuries of advances in mining and forging iron for it to begin replacing bronze. Dr. Neiman is spot on with his statements on iron and Sumerian writing and law.
thanks for posting these!
“(History of Ethiopia, Vol. I., Preface, by Sir E. A. Wallis Budge.) In addition Budge notes that, “Homer and Herodotus call all the peoples of the Sudan, Egypt, Arabia, Palestine and Western Asia and India Ethiopians.” (Ibid., p. 2.) Herodotus wrote in his celebrated History that both the Western Ethiopians, who lived in Africa, and the Eastern Ethiopians who dwelled in India, were black in complexion, but that the Africans had curly hair, while the Indians were straight-haired.” “Before the Chaldean rule in Mesopotamia, there were the empires of the Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians and Assyrians. The earliest civilization of Mesopotamia was that of the Sumerians. They are designated in the Assyrio-Babylonian inscriptions as Ug-Sag-Gig-Ga which means the black-heads or black-faced people, and they are shown on the monuments as beardless and with shaven heads. This easily distinguishes them from the Semitic Babylonians, who are shown with beards and long hair. From the myths and traditions of the Babylonians we learn that their culture came originally from the south. Sir Henry Rawlinson concluded from this and other evidence that the first civilized inhabitants of Sumer and Akkad were immigrants from the African Ethiopia. John D. Baldwin, the American Orientalist, on the other hand, claims that since ancient Arabia was also known as Ethiopia, they could have just as well come from that country.
@DrDavidNeiman Thx for the video, it's very informative, and w/ a balanced view :-)
@zgarbi The Hittites were the first to smelt iron. Iron wasn't hardened properly until around 1000 B.C.
So many people saying history beings with wars or victors or water or fertile lands means people don't know what history is.
History is the written account of events. The oldest of which is from the Sumer civilization some time around 3000BC. Anything before that date is not history, it is pre-history ie. before there were written accounts of events.
>> An agglutinative language is a type of synthetic language with morphology that primarily uses agglutination: words are formed by joining phonetically unchangeable affix morphemes to the stem. In agglutinative languages, each affix is a bound morpheme for one unit of meaning (such as "diminutive", "past tense", "plural", etc.), instead of morphological modifications with internal changes of the root of the word, or changes in stress or tone. In an agglutinative language, stems do not change, affixes do not fuse with other affixes, and affixes do not change form conditioned by other affixes.
The term was introduced by Wilhelm von Humboldt to classify languages from a morphological point of view.[1] It is derived from the Latin verb agglutinare, which means "to glue together".
+Manu “मनु” Forster Correct. The two most agglutinative modern languages are Japanese and Hungarian. I don't know why Neiman got it so wrong.
WHAT WAS THE CULTURE WHO KEPT IRON SMELTING A SECRET FIRST?????? what a cliffhanger
The Hittites: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hittites
Africans obviously
@@pheleekseh1391 No Germanic tribes not bloody afircans because the Hittites were blond with blue eyes.
@cat magic First of all you know nothing about Sumer and Sumerians and Mesopotamia and Midlle East.The Sumerians were White Nordic bleu-eyed people who came to settle down south of Iraq over 7000 BC and they were in Midlle east before Akadians.What is ridiculous you like Arabs you dont know the difference between Semitic people like Arabs,jews,many nations and Akadians and Sumerians.Sumerians were Non semitic nation who spoke a non semitic language like that doesnt belong to any linguistic branche.The Hitites didnt came from Akad but from unknown civilization that disapeared long time ago and they were fearless blond haired bleu-eyed warriors .The Hitites like Sumerians were non semitic people who spoke indo- European language.
Americans and people who have poor education like Americans , Kurds and others think that all inhabitants of Midlle East must be Arabs and semitic .Well excuse me allow me to to explain: The RH DNA and Nordic non semitic appeared first in Mesopotamia and Middle East before Europe 120000 Bc .How that happened : The first presence of Arabs was in yemen the source of Arabic nations and Iraq and Syria 7000 bc were ruled only by three sperated nations : Non semitic Nordic nation the Sumerians and Semitic nations like Akadians And other semitic nations.The Non Semitic race the Sumerians wete extinct 3000 years bc .Arabs immigrated to Syria and Iraq 2000 years ago only or less than that .HITITES dispeared long time ago and there were immigration towards Europe .
@cat magic You must understand historically speaking Midlle east was cross road of many nations : Germanic,Roman,Mongols,Hitites and Sumerians .you must be American only American talks with no knowledge .in those days the word Mesopotamia was the word not midlle east .American this site is only for educated people not Americans.The people who lived in that Era have nothing in common with what do you call Arabs and Arabised people of Midlle East .
@VonManavis so according to your theory history begins w/ monoplast? What you're talking is the beginning of archeological "epoch"; history begins when there's writing to record it, or in a broader sense whenever a city wall was built, and w/ an apparent ruling institution established.
Good morning , Dr. David Neiman History begins at sumer
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only the age change.
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I have a personal question, if you do not mind. How does this influence your Jewish faith, I mean knowing that this civilization predates the times of beginning (as far as I understand) the date of creation in the Old Test.?
Hello, I've heard an idea that writing began with Adam of Bible. The suggestion being that He could not remember all of the names of the animals he was commanded to name. Of course we don't have proof, but what if it happened that way. Thank you for videos and the knowledge you share.
Tamil, belonging to the Dravidian group of languages, is also agglutinative.
@craigpsimpson haha this is why i do my best to never repeat information
Summer was one I f the original kingdoms in africa from which black people
Reigned then it v was conquered by sargon of akkad sounds familiar to
Some of the things going on today
Sumerians were white people not black and sumerians didn't come from Africa and nobody knows from where they did come if Sumerians were Africans we will see their traces in their status .
Then how did they discover copper & tin? The conjecture serves to clarify an important point.
@tyniehawk You're Acadian, they were Akkadian.
Lots of similarities in Turkish and Hungarian writing and some words, but i'm no specialist in this. I speak Hungarian and do know that one can add tons of suffixes to a word, eventually creating a monster out of it! LOL! Luckily, the accent is always on the first syllable. From there, you pronounce everything phonetically (if you know the rules of the various vowel pronunciations). Sadly, that language, like many others, will die by the next century. I am blessed to have known it.
I'm enjoying this series. Grateful for your sharing, as always.
Ana endi Dr. Neymanni fikrlarini tarihchi sifatida qullab quvvatlayman. Haqiqatdan ham Shumerlarning kelib chiqish ildizini asoslab berdi. Demak Ural-Oltoy halqlari qadimdan har tomonlama rivojlangan ekan. Garbdagi irqchilar nuqtai nazari damini olsin.
How can anyone possibly know what Sumerian _sounded_ like?
Ooo nice funny hat he has:)
I think of homonyms and homophones but they must exist in all languages.
history begins when the conquering force says it begins....c'mon doc..u know that...I would love to take your class though . too bad I'll never have the money of influence enough to do so....
I suppose wherever there is an abundant supply of clay and water, then perhaps people are smart enough to do something with it? It's like we must think that ancient man was sooooo stupid, they slept on the ground until one day someone had a bright idea to play with the clay and accidentally discovered something useful with it.
I'm acadian.. is it the same as the old school acadian? lol i dunno crap
history begins with summerian langue every1 older is prehistory
Professor !! Tatarlak runic writing about 2000 yrears prior to Sumerian (KNGR ) from Karpathian basin - you like it or not is there !! Hungarian grammar 95 % same as Sumer few 1000,s of words are the same in meaning too !!
Zoltan Juhasz Its pathetic how people like you try to make themselves feel better by claiming that since an old artifact was found in their country, they are superior. First of all, one piece of writing does not prove there was an advanced civilization in that region as it could've belonged to a traveler from another nation. Second of all, Hungary takes its name from the Huns, a Turkic tribe that emigrated into Europe under the reign of Attila the Hun. So stop spamming every video of this channel with your nonsense or present solid evidence of continuous settlement in the region you are talking about.
I,m sorry if you feel the TRUTH pathetic and I don,t feel better or superior just closer to the TRUTH !!! It wasn,t one piece , but whole collection ...but even if was one 2000 yeras before Sumer !!! Yes HUN, s gavve us name with MAGYARS who were alredy in KARPATH region ... THEY migrated all over the world .. that,s why all magyar sounding names by thousends ... SAMOS, KARPATHOS islands , UR , URU - Solyma < HIERO- Solyma = today JERUSALEM , ARAD , ARPAD etc.IF you involved with history you have to be familiar with geography too !! This is not nonsense BUT the TRUE history
Zoltan Juhasz Thanks for blabbering more nationalist propaganda nonsense and proving my point. Provide, if you can, proof of civilized life which is by definition prolonged settlement in towns and cities. Magyars were nomads that moved from one land to another on horseback. Sumer has traces of permanent settlements since 6000 BC and unfortunately, no matter how blindly you like to believe, there is no connection between Sumer and the Huns even if their original homeland was the same. Romans and Hittites were both Indo-European but no Roman ever tried to take credit for building Hattusa
SIMPLE !! take a bloody map and face the truth instead of insulting me .. We have many proof ... SORBONNE 1977 -search of archaic ethimons , 68% magyar 26 % turkish and the rest under 10 %.. WE have 1000,s of words similar to SUMER ( KNGR ) for your information and archaic greek ... SEMINO search , + reccommed you Mario A;linei , and Michelangelo Naddeo ( just not to be nationalist )
Zoltan Juhasz You are repeating the same nonsense. The research you're referring to is an analysis of the Hungarian language. Let me repeat for the 10th time, where is the archaeological evidence that Huns and Magyars had permanent settlements and cities before the cities of Sumer? As far as history is concerned, they were nomads.
so what I'm confused about is if early egypt started in 3400 BC and sumer started in 4000 BC. how can sumer be the cradle of civilization if the egyptians were nubians who migrated to egypt then the nubians would have the oldest civilizations. seems like to me when people found out early egyptians were black they tried to find something else to fabricate.
You need to get your information from reliable peer review sources like archeologist and anthropologist instead of afrocentrics.
Why so many brainless comments? Is there a competition I am not aware of?
ההיסטוריה השומרית, ההרצאות המעניינות ביותר על המזרח הקדמון. מומלץ בחום. שנה טובה לכל עם ישראל.
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History is written. "Cave men" having sex is a different discipline. Try anthropology.
Please could you do a video on the 216 letter name of YHVH - have you heard this theory?
Why is it Jews can agree on the definition of a rock or a stone? Too much education confuses the mind.
history began when the cave men had sex
History began when SUmer started and Sex is for animals.
Recast the ancient myth to pervert it^^
History began in Sumar , Yea Right , there is NO Civilization on this PLANET that can compare to ANCIENT KEMET , which later became known as EGYPT , and if you want to be more Technical about it , the Earliest people of Ancient Sumerian Culture and Civilization we're Infact BLACK PEOPLE , and the images speak for themselves , and let's be even more honest , BLACK PEOPLE are at the ROOT of ever Culture and Civilization on this Planet ............ Believe Me , I've Done My Research