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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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This week we talk about two material cultures that emerge in the Tigris River Valley, the Hassuna and Samarra. We go over what made them unique and what they have in common and the areas they overlapped with each other and the Halaf.

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This week we give an overview of the Halaf culture that established itself in the upper Tigris River Valley and spread to occupy land to it's West, North, and Southeast. Not to mention spreading it's material culture well outside of these bounds. We go over what we believe made the Halaf the Halaf, their pottery, statuary, agriculture, and architecture. Their innovations in burial and religious practices are also covered.

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This week sees us finish our overview of the northern Levantine coast by talking about the foundations of Ugarit and Adana, the mystery of who founded them, and the differences between them. We also talk about a couple of smaller sites in the border regions between the two.

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This week's episode is focused on the geography and some etymology of the regions we talked about in our central Levant episode and the places we will be discussing for the next week or two. I had some questions come in about several of the places and I though this might be a good time to slow down a bit and talk about it. Next week's episode we see us shift back to discussing in more depth the people and sites occupying the places I talk about this week.

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