Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism

Warfare, Advancement, and Revisionism

by Thomas Preston Floyd

Government History Social Sciences

Season 4

The Dalma, the Jeitun, and the start of the Anau

Happy New Year! We start off 2025 by talking about the Dalma culture and its spread from the banks of Lake Urmia. We discuss their pottery, mixed life ways, their settlements, and their trade. We also cover the end of the final part of the Jeitun culture. The spread of their sites and speculate on their influence and trade with their neighbors. Finally we cover the abandonment of Jeitun itself, and the establishment of several site around the same time including Anau, which will grow into another cultural nexus in Central Asia. Twitter/X: https://x.com/WarAdRevPod YouTube: https://youtu.be/5InccYjYmms

Chogha Mish and the Susian Culture

This week we talk about the Susian culture and its start at the start at the site of Chogha Mish. The devastation it faced in the early 5th millennium and it's continuation after this near disaster. We also talk about the expansion of copper artefacts and tools the is happening all along the Iranian Plateau but particularly in Susa itself. Also Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Twitter/X: https://x.com/WarAdRevPod YouTube: https://youtu.be/6DQoIYhXW7s

The Caspian Neolithic and Zagros Mountain Cultures

This week we talk about the shift in the life style of the peoples living along the Caspian Sea and in the Zagros Mountains. How they differed from each other and their Southern Caucasus cousins. We also talk about their closest neighbors and their trade relations. Twitter: https://x.com/WarAdRevPod YouTube: https://youtu.be/eY-Rh57wp3c

The Neolithic Caucasus and the Shulaveri–Shomu culture

This week we're back to more historical and archeological information. We're going over the arrival of agriculture and people who made the foundations of the Shulaveri-Shomu culture. That culture's characteristics advancements and its eventual decline. YouTube: https://youtu.be/pQ5Phf11zZw Twitter/X: https://x.com/WarAdRevPod

Back from Vacation with some Etymology

I am back after a couple of weeks off! Today I'm easing myself back into the swing of things by going over some etymology of the mountains and rivers in the areas we will be talking about the next couple of episode and some small facts about each of them. Join me as we talk about the Caucasus and Zagros mountains as well as some smaller neighboring ranges. We also talk about the salt lake Urmia and a couple of rivers including the Kura. Twitter/X: https://x.com/WarAdRevPod YouTube: https://youtu.be/-I3fgQoZQsM

Eridu Genesis and Debate between Summer and Winter

In our final episode on Sumerian mythology this season we cover the tablets containing the Eridu Genesis and the Debate between Summer and Winter. The Genesis covers the creation of cities, kingship, the gods plan to wipe out humanity, and their survival thanks to the sage king Ziusudra thanks to the intervention of Enki. We also cover the birth of the defied Summer and Winter, Emesh and Enten and the roll these two forces played in the cycle of life in Sumer. Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/WarAdRevPod YouTube: https://youtu.be/AKAUuzXFyyY

The Sumerian King List Before the Flood

This week we go over some points from last week that I wanted to make and then we move onto the Sumerian King List. What it says about history up to the flood and just after and how much it can be trusted. Twitter/X: https://x.com/WarAdRevPod YouTube: https://youtu.be/vV3a16TJ7tg

The Top of the Sumerian Pantheon

This week we go over the state and origin of most of our Sumerian religious and mythological sources. We then go over the most important gods of the Sumerian pantheon, their roles, domains, their relations to each other, and their primary cities and temples. Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/WarAdRevPod YouTube: https://youtu.be/BpF9EP33An0

Ubaid Follow Up and Uruk and Sumerian Origins

This week I go into more detail on some Ubiad points I went over last week. Including statuary, linguistics, and warfare. I also talk about some more potential advancements they potentially made when it came to wool and fishing. Twitter/X: https://x.com/WarAdRevPod YouTube: https://youtu.be/xKIHp2wOI5I

The Ubaid Period

This week we talk about the Ubaid culture of southern Mesopotamia. Beginning with their discovery and then going over their evolution from simple settlements of reed huts to early cities of up to 5000 people and spread out of the south to cover areas that belonged to the cultures that we discussed the last few weeks. Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/WarAdRevPod YouTube: https://youtu.be/plOvDcc9gEY

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