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| Queen´s lyre from Sumer, 2,600-2,350 BC. Source: British Museum via Liliana Osses Adams. |
By Gundhramns Hammer
May 17, 2015
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We take most of the things - if not all - for granted. Most people never take the time to learn about ancient cultures, to find out how these with their inventions have shaped our present way of life.
And way too many people could care less, being blinded by the prevaling shallow mainstream which is only interested in keeping humans enclosed in a pen shaped by ingenious social engineering designs so that the global elite can tap people´s vital energy for their secret agenda.
Learning about ancient cultures is connecting to them, for we are what they were and we could become what they became - only ruins - if we do not pay attention to what they did not or could not at the time and thus we avoid making the same mistakes they committed if we want to survive as a species.
We humans are not exempt from the phenomenon of extinction. We are only a small part of a whole. We have forgotten that, becoming destroyers of the whole that sustains us and by doing so we might be doomed in the not so distant future.
Thus, the study of history is not only fascinating but also important and binding, for we get to know and see our own link along the chain which compose what we all call "culture", which was defined by one of our professors of anthropology simply as "learnt behaviour".
So, wake up even for a short while and let us travel back in time to Sumer, the ancient civilisation that arose in southern Mesopotamia, the region we know today as Iraq.
This time Michael Wood takes us on a trip back in time to "Iraq, the cradle of civilisation" (Video 1). He says that "the history of Iraq is rich in splendors and sorrows. The most gifted of civilisations and yet the most tragic. The first attempt by humankind to bring people together in organised societies with a measure of happiness." We will learn that we do indeed owe a lot to Iraq.
And way too many people could care less, being blinded by the prevaling shallow mainstream which is only interested in keeping humans enclosed in a pen shaped by ingenious social engineering designs so that the global elite can tap people´s vital energy for their secret agenda.
Learning about ancient cultures is connecting to them, for we are what they were and we could become what they became - only ruins - if we do not pay attention to what they did not or could not at the time and thus we avoid making the same mistakes they committed if we want to survive as a species.
We humans are not exempt from the phenomenon of extinction. We are only a small part of a whole. We have forgotten that, becoming destroyers of the whole that sustains us and by doing so we might be doomed in the not so distant future.
Thus, the study of history is not only fascinating but also important and binding, for we get to know and see our own link along the chain which compose what we all call "culture", which was defined by one of our professors of anthropology simply as "learnt behaviour".
So, wake up even for a short while and let us travel back in time to Sumer, the ancient civilisation that arose in southern Mesopotamia, the region we know today as Iraq.
This time Michael Wood takes us on a trip back in time to "Iraq, the cradle of civilisation" (Video 1). He says that "the history of Iraq is rich in splendors and sorrows. The most gifted of civilisations and yet the most tragic. The first attempt by humankind to bring people together in organised societies with a measure of happiness." We will learn that we do indeed owe a lot to Iraq.
Video 1. Iraq, the Cradle of Civilization. Uploaded by MrHistoryChannelITV.
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