Prof. Pierre Zalloua

So if we think about it, so if we go back 7,000 years ago,

or a bit earlier during the Neolithic time and the agricultural expansion, let's put it this way.

So let's talk 8,000 to 9,000 years when actually people started to leave their hunter-gatherer styles into small communities and agricultural expansions and start farming.

So this happened in the Fertile Crescent.

This happened in Mesopotamia.

And who were the cultures that actually lived there back then?

So there were very few of them.

And as I said earlier, these actually were the people who lived in the Zagros mountains at the foot of the Zagros.

These people who lived in Anatolia and the Natufians.

So this is how it all started.

So these are the people who actually were the ancestors of Anatolia.

The Sumerians, Sumer, the first city in the world, right?

As we call it, you know, 3,100 years ago, 100 BC.

So these are the original cultures that actually led to the people who live today.

I mean, all of us.

So you have Sumer that started around 3,100.

And then after Sumer, then came the Akkadians.

And the Akkadians came somewhere from northern Euphrates, perhaps more from western

Asia, perhaps the Levant, they were Semitic people.

The Akkadians were Semitic people.