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🗓️ 25 August 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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On this episode, we review our cumulative, natural knowledge on the history of Mesopotamia. And then, we stay completely on topic, and cover the case of a murder that took place there, and how exactly they place calls to 911 from Mesopotamia? All of your questions have answers on this riveting episode. Hugs. ❤️
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0:00.0 | This is the 911 Calls Podcast with the operator and his exact twin, minus being born and raised in Kentucky and his heroic military service and being born to a completely other mother, Kent Chungus. |
0:30.0 | Oh, hello, Kent. Hi. Hey, do you know what the, do you know what they call, do you know what they call the cradle of civilization? |
0:51.0 | Have you ever heard that phrase, the cradle of civilization? No, probably McDonald's Walmart. |
1:01.0 | The cradle of civilization is basically what the historians consider to be kind of the epicenter of when language written language written history, all that cultural culmination or melting pot if you will. |
1:21.0 | A human reduction sauce, if you will, of culture, came into play and you're like, you probably are like, well, the operator, where is the, where was this cradle of civilization? I'm going to tell you it was Mesopotamia. They believe it was Mesopotamia. |
1:37.0 | There are a lot of discoveries that are being made now that says there probably were other things other than just Mesopotamia around that time, maybe predating it that were considered maybe factors or other cradles of civilization dotting the world. |
1:53.0 | But we got some deets on Mesopotamia and you might have heard of the people, the Samarians, you ever heard of the Samarians, they lived in Mesopotamia. I'm just going to cut you off right there and I'm just going to tell you they lived in Mesopotamia. |
2:05.0 | Yeah. Yeah. So they developed the first world's known form of written language called Kunea form. And it was done on clay tablets using a stylus, which is a stick. And, and we've got these. Yeah. |
2:20.0 | Also, really interesting thing. We even have Kunea form on tablets of what would be considered today, Yelp reviews. Believe it or not. We have complaints about businesses written in clay. |
2:41.0 | I don't think there were stars on it, but basically complaints about a business. |
2:47.0 | There's a really popular thing. Everybody's probably heard of it. I'm going to bore everybody with it for a second, but called the epic of Gilgamesh in the ancient tale from Mesopotamia. |
2:57.0 | It's one of the earliest pieces of literature that we've ever found and it recounts the adventures of a legendary king named Gilgamesh. |
3:07.0 | Also, get this. There were actually emojis as part of the first written language sort of. Kunea form might have included some of the earliest attempts to convey emotions in writing. |
3:21.0 | So certain symbols would represent like certain human emotions. It's pretty cool. Can I say something? Yeah. Yeah. Go right ahead. No. Yeah. |
3:30.0 | I took a college course on Mesopotamia specifically. Oh, and here I am just talking like you don't know anything. Sorry. |
3:40.0 | I got an A in that course. You did. And this is true. I don't know if you know this. They didn't bring it up in the course, but I learned it myself. |
3:56.0 | 100% of Mesopotamians. And at never at any point, and this is true in Mesopotamia, they never once none of them ever ever once placed a non one one call. |
4:17.0 | I see where you're going. You're thinking that this is not connected. Is that what you're thinking? This is loose like I'm violating the rule that just said right before we started, which is stick to the script, right? |
4:31.0 | I'm going to give you one more hot fact about Mesopotamia. And then I'm going to show you how this all these loose tendrils connect to the groin of this case we're going to cover. |
4:43.0 | Beer production. Did you know the Samarians loved beer? They even had a goddess of brewing named Nincasi. Yes. |
4:53.0 | And there's an ancient hymn that I could sing for you about. It's actually a hymn that is a recipe for making beer. And it's technically the only hymn I can't sing. |
5:06.0 | Crazy crazy other words. I could go on and on hydraulics and laws. I'm just excited for how this all comes to a head. Get it beer. |
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