The Bronze Age Summarized (Geography People and Resources)
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Bronze Age Geography People and Resources (Ancient history Documentary)
The history of the near east from the rise of Sumer to the Bronze Age Collapse. How the major empires of Babylon, Egypt, Mitanni, Akkad, Elam
and more formed when and why.
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Correction:
I stated in the video that the battle of Kadesh 1274 BC was the earliest battle in history with a written account where both sides claimed victory.
Kadesh is the first battle in history where we have surviving accounts from both sides in the battle.
But, the earlier Battle of Mediggo 1457 BC is the first battle in history we have a single account of the battle(from one side, Egyptian)
In the battle, the Egyptians defeated a coalition of Mitanni vassal states.
What is your favorite bronze age civilization?
The Mitanni spoke Hurrian (an unrelated language) but there is several names and words they used that were nearly identical to Indian Sanskrit. So it is extremely likely they had some direct contract with Sanskrit speakers at a minimum...and at most part of their ruling class and people were descended from Sanskrit speakers.
Is there a way I could aquire those maps you always use in your videos? I find them very nice to see what kind of landscape and rivers are in the world without those annoying modern borders. I would even buy them if thats required.
You got the part wrong where sargon of akkad is a multinationalistic ruler. Sargon of Akkad frown down on diversity and left leaning views.
I just have to say this mate. You've got to be one of the best TH-camrs out there.
great vid
The Bronze Age world in the near east lasted more than 2000 years. That's a lot longer than our modern world. Imagine this: Cleopatra lived closer to the lunar landings than she did to the building of the Pyramid of Giza.
If the moon landind ever existed
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i never thought i'd find someone unironically saying sheeple in a comment section of a video about the bronze age
congratulations,have a chocolate medal
I really love bronze age history, is like being a child once more and hearing about ancient history for the first time.
YES! Its the first thing that got me genuinely looking into history and it still compels me. I dont know what would be worse...finding out everything about the bronze age and losing that flavour of mystery or never knowing the truth of this heroic and sophisticated age
So many weird names I love it
@@mdstanton1813 if an alien were to Give u two boxes, one which contains only few pictures of bronze age times but of most important events like the first war ever fought, first peace treaty signing etc and the other box contained high quality videos of mundane activities done by bronze age people's of sumer, egypt, elam etc which box would you chose? Btw u can only chose one,.
m D stanton I don’t think it’s possible for us to know that much about the Bronze Age.
@@extratropicalcyclone8567 prolly the second
Last time I was this early Gilgamesh still hasn’t met Enkidu
temba his arms wide open! tamok! The river tamok! In winterrrrrrr!
Ah, I see that you are a man of culture as well.
Hope he is like Bismark and get a plan for the event
@Vandit enkidu was a Spirit or demon defeated and befriended by gilgamesh
Vandit, Iron the wise's reference was a the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode where the captain of the Enterprise, Jean-Luc Picard tries to overcome a language barrier between himself and an alien species that essentially uses inside jokes and memes to communicate, while stranded on a planet trying to save themselves and get help while working together, and he referenced one of the inside ways the aliens communicate, while Miguel Montenegro referenced a running joke in a segment called Extra History that youtube channel called Extra Credits, specifically in the miniseries called Otto Von Bismark, where Bismark always has a plan.
Definitely a humble man:
K I N G O F T H E U N I V E R S E
Gustavo S.Lamarque Guess some things never end.
what a fkn chad he was
lmao I love this 🤣
The Bronze Age is such a fascinating period, especially the fall.
The whole Age is like our modern Industrial Revolution history in miniature.
A collection of rapidly advancing city-states blossoming into warring empires that all coalesce into a "globalized" collective peace. The height of the Bronze Age is disturbingly similar to right now in 2020 and our state of the world.
@Vasian Vasianich But Arabs are Middle Eastern.
Theories that compare ancient "downfalls" and pull connections to our own time annoy me to no end. "There was peace and prosperity and then ... orange king came and it was the sign of the end of times when the whole wold plundered in massive scale nuclear war ... sound familiar??! **wink wink** - Yawn. No.
@@virding232 oh yes but be my guest to tell every random tribe that
I do wonder whether we are living in the last day of "Western Civilization" as we know it
@@roberttauzer7042 History is cyclical and what has happened will happen and shall happen again. Deal with it.
NOBODY EXPECTS THE SEA PEOPLE!!!
Their main weapon is surprise. And terror.
Atlantis?
@@Andreabay90, was in Andalusia.
They're the exception.
Ramses III expected them - and set a trap in the Nile, the Sea People were shot to pieces by massed archers, and those who came ashore were killed by spear men.
I am a writer creating a fictional world somewhere around this time period. This video & the previous copper age one have just alleviated so many headaches - this is such a welcome change from the generic video essay, super concise in your explanation and not annoying to listen to. Great great stuff
How has your story developed?
I love this entire time period. It feels like good fiction. Everything feels so foreign, but so familiar.
"the fall of the Roman Empire, two and a half thousand years later."
Dang.
Educated Romans talking about Sumer, "wow, imagine LIVING back then?!"
@Irish Jester
Lol i think you misunderstood
I’m a time traveler. Just came from the Bronze Age. It was pretty chill.
On the timescale, the Romans were farther away from Sumer than we are from the Romans.
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Yeah, Cleopatra as well. She's closer to the moon landing than the Great Pyramid. Incredible to think about.
This makes me wonder what people will think of our time in 4000 years.
“Imagine being stuck on only one planet” they will probably say
Bronze Age: the original GoT
Bronze Age: the original Star Wars
Bronze Age: the original MCU
Bronze Age: the original D&D
Copper Age: the original Bronze Age
and the aftermath would be the original: Fallout
"Between the time when the Oceans drank Atlantis and the Rise of Sons of Hellenica there was an Age Undreamed of, a time when Shining Kingdoms lay spread across the World"
The bronze age is such an amazing basketball player.
Really changed the game for most
What ?
the bron jame
Its the famous basketballer 🏀
You are my sunshine, my only sunshine.
Last time I was this early upper and lower Egypt were still two separate countries.
You should do a video on the Copper Age. It is a very mysterious age with little information on its politics and society.. It might make an interesting video.
just wait until they discover ...electricity... then copper mines spells world domination..
Not gonna lie, I want a neolithic video of late stone age weaponry and society
@@Oussama-sab actually no
@@dillonblair6491 you can watch Conan the Barbarian. It's quite historically accurate.
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I’m a simple man, I see something Bronze Age related and I give it a like.
:D Bronze age is the best age!...until...
Epimetheus Until...what? The Bronze Age collapse? Just like the fall of Constantinople I pretend it didn’t happen.
Loving the maps,they look sharper and much more detailed than your older videos.
Glad you like them :) I always keep trying to improve them
@@EpimetheusHistory can you post the map somewhere?
The bron james
I never knew there was a "Kingdom of Kush"....sounds like a good name for a dispensary.
We should start a bronze-age themed dispensary. Gold bongs, ancient pottery holding our plants. That kind of thing.
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the basketball man
Johnny Basketball
Bronze age politics in a nutshell: unless there's bountyful trade opportunities, everybody hates eachother.
Sorta like today
@@noelyanes2455 But without the hipocrisy
Just like today
more than trading what they really did was a complex geopolitical struggle for the domination of the goods, prty much as what happens with the wars of the main powers today for oil or so but less gay
Quite amazing! I love it! Bronze Age! Copper+tin=bronze! Bronze tools were important to work the land. Now copper, tin and even gold are used as base components to build PCBs (printed circuit boards) which are essential in the entertainment, information and high speed communication technologies.
And one of the most common items made using these PCB’s are called “tablets”.
The long jade
I can’t believe he didn’t mention Ea Nasir.
all i hear is: "itam sumra shaluti ilatim" "udreeeeeiiiiiiii"
This is one of the most underrated history channels ever.
Iltam Zunra Rashupti Ilatim
Do you have a list of books to recommend about the Bronze Age? I watched a lot of videos about this era and I find yours to be amongst the best of them, but now I really want to delve into this period in detail.
"The Archeology of Crete" by J.D.S. Pendlebury. It is specifically about the Minoans. It is the best book I have ever seen on them and if there is one better, I have yet to hear about it.
The book was written and passed on for publication just before Pendlebury's death. He was killed by the German Fallschirmjäger during the airborne attack on Crete in the opening years of WW2. His life story alone is legendary.
I love Bronze Age history. My favorite perspective being the Minoans, so I am happy to suggest this book and I hope it helps.
"The epic of Gilgamesh", simply the oldest story known to man, it's an original tale from Uruk
Sir, thank you so much for the comprehensive history of the Bronze Age into one video! This helped clear up a lot for me, and saves me from re watching a number of older videos to figure it all out.
If only bronze were more durable and stronger. It looks far cooler, aesthetically, than iron or steel weapons.
I agree, Bronze is so pretty. Skallagrim did a video on a bronze sword. Surprisingly sharp and effective. It can bend, but also be bent back into place. But it will yield to iron and steel.
@@shorewall lihk?
@@shorewall adequate and reliable supply of tin was the Achilles's heel of bronze
Just watched a video from Meletron about that. Fellow says bronze is actually more durable, just as strong, and can be sharpened to an edge just like iron. It's also just as good, or better, in the making of armor. The reason, he says, that iron eventually won out, ( they were used side by side for hundreds of years ), was that it required free and open trade routes to ensure supply of both copper and tin. The Roman empire loved to wage bloody campaigns of conquest, which tends to shut down trade. If they couldn't get either metal reliably--no weapons, no armor, no conquest. Iron, on the other hand, only requires iron ore; plentiful on every route the Romans plan to invade. It only requires one metal, (iron ore), and carbon,( burnt wood ), to make iron weapons and armor. Dude says that's the reason iron won. Just sayin.....
it is objectively superior to raw Iron, it's only when Iron becomes stell that it beats bronze. bronze still lasts longer though.
Man those maps are always so good! You put so much detail into them. Absolutely amazing! I love the high quality of this channel
Copper + Tin = Civilization upgrade
p.s.: great video to kill the boredom of quarantine.
Talk for yourself lol. College is being even harder from home. The teachers think they are kings of the universe or something
@Miguel Montenegro Haha my sister is a teacher...from what she tells me it seems she is working more than when she was showing up to class. But she teaches little kiddos. I can only imagine what some of my former professors would do in a time like this :)
@Marcello SDLT Glad I can help! most of my family and friends are living where there is a "shelter in place" order going on most can work from home, but I also have friends who have been laid off of work. I have had to cancel upcoming plans to go visit family because of current events. Hopefully, this is all over in not too many weeks/months.
I have the coronavirus and I can confirm this helps
Iron + carbon = big upgrade
*Ahhiyawa* sounds close to _Achaea, Αχαϊα_
The comparison has been drawn by some great minds so I think you're on to something 😊
That's because it is. Like Wilusa = Ilion, Taruisa = Troy, Apasa = Ephesus, Miliwanda/Milawata = Miletus, Lukka = Lycia, Lazpa = Lesbos, Assuwa (probably equals) Asia... a lot of Classical names can be found in Hittite texts, although it's not always easy to make the connection, and "back in the day" some scholars were reluctant to jump on the idea that we had found places named in the Trojan War in Hittite documents, so were hesitant to accept the connections.
Yep, and _Danesh_ sounds like _Dannans._
Because they are the same thing
I really appreciate your work. You are able to pack so much information into short videos and make them interesting and easy to follow. Keep up the good work.
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@@blagoevski336 the long day
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It’s crazy how they barely mentioned this in school. We basically only went over the local bronze age (scandinavia) and we weren’t really up to anything back then.
I love your simple explanations, map work and art work! You are truly talented. Nothing distracting here!
Probably one of the more unknown areas of history that I would love to learn more about. Great video!
Thank you for detailing the topography and climates, I have never seen a more useful and enligtnening diagram.
I instinctively raise the volume whenever you upload a new video. My ears paid dearly this time. Great work!
Hey man I love your channel. For a reccomendation could I ask you to possibly do a video on the "Central Asian" bronze age? India and Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Eastern Iran, the Steppe etc. all fascinate me during this time. BMAC culture, Indus Valley people, Indo-European migrations into Iran and India, migrations of the Persians. The BMAC and IVC people specifically are incredibly interesting. I know their isn't much writing but we have hordes of Archaeological evidence :)
Jiroft civilization, The Burned City
Unfortunately at school we don`t learn anything about the Bronze Age. In Bulgaria We know Roman empire, Byzantine and Ottoman empire. Ancient history is much more interesting. Thanks for the useful video! :)
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History is interesting when it is told in the right way
I personally dont feel much connection to medieval history
Or modern history
But when lindybeige tells stories about them they are almost always interesting still
I don't know when you studied and where but in the 80s and 90s we studied the Bronze age. Don't you remember the lessons on smelting and metal works, the changes in society, the agriculture changes and the archaeology from the time in Bulgaria? Also we had lessons on the Middle East and Mesopotamia, the writing.
There was so much..
Great video , it’s important to mention that Hammurabi didn’t invent law as we know it , he took many things from already existing law codes in Sumerian states like Ishnona and Lamar Ishtar law codes . Also the Kissites would later be kicked out of Babylon by the Assyrians who considered the Kissites as foreign peoples and thus returned the rule of Babylon to native Babylonians .
I’ve been waiting for a video just like this THANKS SO MUCH
Wow! Absolutely fascinating! I learned so much just from this 12-minutes, thank you for your efforts nonetheless!
Thank you! Enjoyed to a great extend!
Introducing bronze, made from special ingredient tin from the far lands of Tinland
the todays Turkey had a small tin mine, most tin came from the todays afghanistan.
but a big mine in todays england was known too
Right next to Bronzia
Really great, holistic summary of this vast and complicated topic.
Your maps and simulations are superb; your facts are enlightening and pertinent. Highest recommendations for your channel, sir!
I admire your organization and scholarship.. This is a time of the birth of so many legends, and so is fascinating.
Anyone else binge watching this channel? :)
Beautifully presented. Love the warriors in full regalia for each clan!
My favourite video of yours. A perfect and concise way to explain centuries of history.
EP just in time with an Awesome video at the time when the quarantine was getting on my last nerve! Thx Mate.
excellent. another video. i love when i see these uploads
Great summary of the development of that ancient area! Thanks!
This is exactly what I needed, a visual aide on a map. Love it!
:D
please do more of these !!! you are very good at it, in fact, you are very good at everything history related...
Awesome vid as always!
Man great video! Really informative, just Bronze age in 12 minutes thanks to this video I have broadened my horizons in this topic
So cool, very well presented, great pace of such a huge time period made it a pleasure to watch.
wonderful work!
Came for the ancient history facts, stayed for the badass narration voice.
This video was great! Very well done. It have been nice if you posted the year number in one of the corners so that we would more easily see the events fall on a timeline :)
I am shocked for this explanation. Super explanation thanks 👍🏻 from India
Ur's name has always bothered me, like one dude asked another dude when they were setting up the city, "Woah, dude, what should we call this place?" "Uh, er...ur....Ur?" "Ur?" "Yeah, Ur," "K." Like, they got Thebes and Ninevah and Jerusalem, but they couldn't do any better than Ur? Lazy.
haha...yeah real creative of them. I guess they were just getting started with the whole writing thing and were looking for something simple. Maybe there is the lost city of Uh... next to it
@@EpimetheusHistory A city of Uh and its sisters city, Uhm.
@@siechamontillado Don't forget 'Ah"
Not missing the point, but it was most likely pronounced _Oor._
Isn't that the root for words that mean "Origin/Source" in many languages?
Wow, a masterpiece. Fantastic video.
Thank you
I just discovered your channel and so far it looks like an interesting one. Thank you!
:D Glad you like it!
hoa hoa! dude... what an extraordidary well performed and worked out piece of ancient history.... VERY WELL DONE!!!
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“The fall of the Roman Empire two and a half thousand years later”.
The Eastern Roman Empire has entered the chat.
Love your Bronze Age videos, thank you
Youre the man! Great framework for my newest obsession. Thanks for putting in the work... you King Of The Universe you.
great video. Interesting as always
Very nice to get some overview over the main "barbaric attacks" on established nations. Usually, I find it hard to visualise their impact, because they appear out of no man's land, yet they are shaping the events. Sea people have their meme because of the Sea at least as a (mystical) place, but so should Amorites, Hurrians etc.
Maybe one could put some dashed line around the moving letters of tribe names in their original region, just to make them more of a visual entity, even if it is a bit arbitrary. But on this zoomed out scale, it would remain fuzzy enough, I think.
Great video on the near east bronze age, would love to see one about the far east
I enjoyed this vid. Great job.
I would like to request a Vid on the Luwians.
It's so interesting to me that these two metals which combine to create something stronger were so disparate that they in effect combined isolated tribes into stronger empires.
Don't you think Cornwall and Afghanistan are worth a mention when it comes to Bronze age resources?
Cornwall is the neglected little brother of Britain. Whales is the middle child that everyone makes fun of. And England Scottland are the two twins that fight all the time.
@@crapwithanopinion2919 Wales*
Historia Civilis mentions it in his video.
Amazing video. Very helpful. Will subscribe. Thank you for sharing
So interesting and delightfully explained.
This got me thinking of what I would consider the greatest what if for history: What if the Iron Age began in 3300 BC? Basically, what if Iron's usefulness was discovered much sooner than it was? Now there's a thinker.
Iron was known pretty far back in time, but nobody seemed inclined to use it very much.
To work with iron ore you need much higher smelting temperatures, which was extremely hard to achieve for a long time
We can't know but not necessarly it would change a lot. Look, Subsaharan Africa actually never had a Bronze Age, they jumped directly from Stone to Iron Age.
Without the need to get tin, trade wouldn't have been as important. Without an advantage in weapons, the local kingdoms wouldn't have been conquered by the big empires. We probably would still live in small tribal societies without much research and development.
something happened in bronze age that after it fall. people start using iron. my guess is meteor start to fall in in bronze age. then people start using iron from meteor. egyptian even know that meteor contain iron.
amazing video epimetheus and thanks for letting me learn stuff in quarantine :)
I very much enjoyed the video. Have you thought about doing a video on the document called "Periplus of the Erythraean Sea"? It's a Greco-Roman document that tells how the massive trade routes were documented and how Rome traded with many people such as pre Arabian Kingdoms, Aksum, pre Swahili east Africa, Persia, Indian Kingdoms, China, and Southeast Asian Kingdoms.
I'm a history fanatic! I just can't get enough. So much i tend to play Total war games (Lately TROY).
I just LOVE history. Do alot of reading. And from what i can see.
This video is VERY well made my friend!!
We need a proper bronze age total war game
Excellent video, enjoyed it to the fullest👌👌
The title is misleading IMHO.
There were Bronze age civilizations out of the geographical area you discussed as well. Indus Valley Civ. being much bigger in population and spread than either Egypt or Mesopotamia.
China too. I'm pretty sure he knows of these places, he just confined the space
Indus should have been included, it traded with everything else in this video. The blue lapis stone from Afghanistan made it's way to Egypt frequently. As for China, it started it's bronze age like a thousand years behind the rest of these places and would not be in contact with the rest of civilization until the very end of the BC era.
Yeah the indus valley was also important, i read some were that they had trade with the sumerians
@@MohammadAli-iz9ld yes and were called meluah.
@@ShubhamMishrabro interesting, i actually thought meluah was never discovered and it's just a legend, cuz some people said that it existed in Egypt and some said in yemen, thnx for the info
Very informative! Thank you.
Always beautiful maps :) thank you
Nobody expects the sea people!
Bronze age is very interesting, its the beginning of written history, so we know some things, but there are many things we don't know. Its like a whole different world, especially since the cultures then are COMPLETLY different the cultures there nowadays or centuries early. All of our legends and myths come from this period, its the most fascinating point in human history. What I would do to visit that time period.
Excellent overview!
great as always
A video of the Trypillian culture next would be good, as well as something on earlier indo Europeans, very crucial info but less known.
Also a video for Pyrrhus of Epirus would be great.
Huuum, you respected the limits of the persian gulf of that time period, thank you! Very common to see videos about bronze age and mesopotamia where people completely ignore this.
Subscribed, awesome stuff
These videos are awesome!
Not an easy region, not a small period, thank you for clarifying many confusing terms.
I am so glad i could clear thing up :D
@@EpimetheusHistory what about Oman and uae and India bronze age . Oman and uae was famous shipbuilding and copper in bronze age plus they have same culture
This period is fascinating. I suggest reading Mika Waltari's The Egyptian. It's an incredible historical novel set in this period, with great attention to detail.
Great video!