Iraq, the Cradle Of Civilization - Documentaries

The historic period in Iraq genuinely begins during the Uruk period (4000 BC to 3100 BC), with the starting of a number of Sumerian cities, and using Pictographs, Cylinder seals and mass-produced items.
The "Cradle of Civilization", is hence a typical term for the area consisting of modern Iraq as it was home to the earliest known world, the Sumerian people, which emerged in the productive Tigris-Euphrates river valley of southerly Iraq in the Chalcolithic (Ubaid period).
It was right here in the late 4th millennium BC, that the world's very first writing system and recorded record itself were born. The Sumerians were additionally the initial to harness the wheel and produce City States, and whose writings record the initial evidence of Mathematics, Astronomy, Astrology, Written Law, Medicine and Organised religion.
The Sumerians talked a Language Isolate, in shorts, a language entirely unassociated to any other, consisting of the Semitic Languages, Indo-European Languages, Afro-Asiatic Languages or other Isolates. The major city states of the early Sumerian period were; Eridu, Bad-tibira, Larsa, Sippar, Shuruppak, Uruk, Kish, Ur, Nippur, Lagash, Girsu, Umma, Hamazi, Adab, Mari, Isin, Larsa, Kutha, Der and Akshak.
Cities such as Ashur, Arbela (modern Irbil) and Arrapkha (modern Kirkuk) were additionally extant in exactly what was to be called Assyria from the 25th century BC, however at this beginning they were Sumerian ruled administrative facilities.
Success stele of Naram-Sin of Akkad In the 26th century BC, Eannatum of Lagash produced what was perhaps the first Empire in history, though this was brief lived. Later, Lugal-Zage-Si, the priest-king of Umma, overthrew the primacy of the Lagash empire in the area, then controlled Uruk, making it his capital, and claimed an empire prolonging from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean. It was during this period that the Epic of Gilgamesh originates, that includes the tale of The Great Flood.