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Mesopotamia: Crash Course World History #3
821 views / 0 likes - addedIn which John presents Mesopotamia, and the early civilizations that arose around the Fertile Crescent. Topics covered include the birth of territorial kingdoms, empires, Neo-Assyrian torture tactics, sacred marriages, ancient labor practices, the world's
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Who was the world's first author? - Soraya Field Fiorio
396 views / 0 likes - addedTravel back in time to ancient Mesopotamia and meet Enheduanna, a high priestess and the worlds first author.--4,300 years ago in ancient Sumer, the most powerful person in the city of Ur was banished to wander the vast desert. Her name was Enheduanna, an
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The rise and fall of historys first empire - Soraya Field Fiorio
359 views / 0 likes - addedDiscover historys first empire: Sumer, located in Mesopotamia, which built the worlds first cities and created the first writing system.--Historys first empire rose out of a hot, dry landscape, without rainfall to nourish crops, without trees or stones fo
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Vampires: Folklore, Fantasy And Fact - Michael Molina
969 views / 1 likes - addedView full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/vampires-folklore-fantasy-and-fact-michael-molina The myth of the bloodsucking vampire has stalked humans from ancient Mesopotamia to 18th-century Eastern Europe, but it has differed in the terrifying details. S
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The End of Civilization (In the Bronze Age): Crash Course World History 211
870 views / 1 likes - addedIn which John Green teaches you about the Bronze Age civilization in what we today call the middle east, and how the vast, interconnected civilization that encompassed Egypt, The Levant, and Mesopotamia came to an end. What's that you say? There was no su
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A Brief History Of Recording Ourselves
713 views / 0 likes - addedIn Egypt's sandy silence, all alone, Stands a gigantic Leg, which far off throws The only shadow that the Desert knows:— "I am great OZYMANDIAS," saith the stone, "The King of Kings; this mighty City shows "The wonders of my hand."— The City's gone,— Noug
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A brief history of divorce - Rod Phillips
253 views / 0 likes - addedDig into the complicated history of divorce from the earliest known divorce laws in ancient Mesopotamia to modern day. --Formally or informally, human societies across place and time have made rules to bind and dissolve couples. The stakes of who can obta
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A brief history of toilets - Francis de los Reyes
309 views / 2 likes - addedExplore the history of the toilet and how waste management has evolved from from ancient Mesopotamia to modern day.--On sunny days, citizens of ancient Rome could be found exchanging news and gossip while attending to more urgent business at the public la
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Eclipses Used To Be Terrifying
130 views / 0 likes - addedThis video is supported by the NASA Heliophysics Education Activation Team (NASA HEAT), part of NASAs Science Activation portfolio.Because eclipses are powerful and frightening events, ancient cultures went to great lengths to understand eclipses, leading
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