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Hope in next 7 Wonders you talk about The royal Tombs of Philip II of Macedon and other Macedon royalties, The Tombs of The Persian Kings at Naqsh-e Rostam and another good ancient wonder that should be discussed is Stonehenge.
Hi everyone! I am Christian Romero, the principal modeler and animator for this video. I'm incredibly excited to have worked on this; it was a really challenging video, and the first time I have worked on something of this scale. I'm really hoping I get to work on more videos like this. I'm going to the University of Connecticut this coming Fall to pursue a Master of Fine Arts, because I want to learn all I can both about 3D art and cultural preservation/restoration efforts. While I applied to UConn before I was offered a chance to freelance with K&G, it's a very happy coincidence that I got to work on a project that explicitly ties my skills in 3D with my passion for history and culture. I certainly hope to carry this passion going forward. This is also the first time I've worked on something that'll potentially get this many eyeballs on it, so I'm really excited to read all your comments.
@@innitbruv-lascocomics9910 Thank you very much! I used Blender to make these models, which is also what the other 3D artists on the team use. It's a great program, if you are interested in 3D art I wholeheartedly recommend it. And the video was compiled with edits made in After Effects.
Even in the Middle Ages, they could admire the ruins of the Alexandria Lighthouse, if I remember correctly, the earthquake of the 14th century finally demolished it ... and knocked the rest of the veneer off the Great Pyramid🤔
I pretty sure other than earthquake damage both structures were pillaged for stone for other building projects. The colossus of Rhodes was also around for a long time though collapsed into the structure it stood over and was later pillaged for it's metals. I want to say that the mausoleum of halicarnassus had standing ruins for a long period of time until its materials were repurposed leaving the base structure that exists today.
Despite this idea people in the past were all stupid, they were just as bright as us, and had engineers, artists, construction workers and logistic technicians abound. The stuff of Greeks and Romans boggles my mind, let along in China or Middle East.
@@jordinagel1184 Lack of education makes some people have this idea that before modern times everyone was dumb and primitive. That's what encourages them to come up with these ridiculous theories.
When certain ancient settlements are abandoned, they are left to the elements and are often buried by the sands of time or are resettled but built over by newcomers who probably are not aware of the existence of the wonders they live on. The city of Troy for example was buried beneath several layers of newer cities that came after it.
Within that line of thought, Athens always comes to my mind. A lot of the ruins around the city were left alone and intact mostly because the population of the city was very low after the Roman period and into the Ottoman period and it wouldn’t be until the 20th century were it really increases to what it is today
It'd have been neat to see stuff from the Americas, since the original list was made before the two landmass made contact. Texcotzinco is a incredible Aztec palace/garden that's sadly obscure and would be an excellent choice: This was the royal retreat for rulers of the city of Texcoco, the second most powerful Aztec city after Tenochtitlan, and was engineered by Nezahualcoyotl, the city's most famous king: Texcotzinco was located on a hill, with a palace on the summit, a series of bathes and shrines, and a series of botanical gardens with different sections mimicking different Mexican biomes at the base. It sourced water from a spring over 5 miles away, with the aquaduct that brought it raising 150 feet off the ground in some spots. The aquaduct brought water to a series of basins and channels on an adjacent hills to control the water's flow rate, then the aquaduct passing over the gorge between the hills, and forming a circular circuit around the Texcotzinco hill itself, with the water flowing through the shrines and their displays with statues and painted frescos, as well as the bathes, before finally forming artificial waterfalls to water the gardens below. Fernando Ixtlilxochitl, a descendent of Texcoca royalty, from the late 16th/early 17th century decades/a century after the conquest writes about the site: "These parks and gardens were adorned with rich and sumptuously ornamented alcazars (summerhouses) with their fountains, their irrigation channels, their canals, their lakes and their bathing-places and wonderful mazes, where he had had a great variety of flowers planted and trees of all kinds, foreign and brought from distant parts... and the water intended for the fountains, pools and channels for watering the flowers and trees in this park came from its spring: to bring it, it had been necessary to build strong, high, cemented walls of unbelievable size, going from one mountain to the other with an aqueduct on top which came out at the highest part of the park. The water gathered first in a reservoir beautified with historical bas-reliefs, and from there it flowed via two main canals (to north and south), running through the gardens and filling basins, where sculptured stelae were reflected in the surface. Coming out of one of these basins, the water ‘leapt and dashed itself to pieces on the rocks, falling into a garden planted with all the scented flowers of the Hot Lands, and in this garden it seemed to rain, so very violently was the water shattered upon these rocks. Beyond this garden there were the bathing-places, cut in the living rock... The whole of the rest of this park was planted, as I have said, with all kinds of trees and scented flowers, and there were all kinds of birds apart from those that the king had brought from various parts in cages: all these birds sang harmoniously and to such degree that one could not hear oneself speak" There's plenty of other options, too: Machu Picchu is an obvious one (less known is the adjacent mountain of Huayna Picchu, which towers over Machu and has the entire summit converted into a terraced complex); Tenochtitlan in general as an entire city could quality,; the Great Pyramid of Cholula; Tikal's various water mangement systems; Teotihuacan's pyramids or urban sprawl; Cahokia, Pueblo Bontio, Chan Chan, Pumapunku/Tiwanku, Caral, etc. If you do ever wanna do wonders from the Americas, or more stuff on Mesoamerica in general, I'd love to help out: I believe we even discussed that years ago!
Though these are awesome suggestions indeed, im pretty the reason they didn’t include these was because this was a video on the wonders of the ‘ancient’ world. The period of time we call the ancient world ended in the 500s CE, all of the wonders you’ve suggested from the Americas were all built during the Middle Ages (roughly 500-1500).
Sir Misc has a good point. Most of the New World wonders were built during the Middle Ages. MajoraZ I love your ideas though. I was thinking about potential New World wonders as I was watching this video. I was going to comment about it myself, but then I saw your comment. I am looking forward to K&G implementing the ideas that you suggested. They could even make several whole videos specifically about ancient and medieval wonders in the Western Hemisphere.
@@sirmisc5780 Maybe, though "Ancient Americas" is a legit term used to refer to even pretty late prehispanic cultures. And some of what I mentioned is prior to 500AD: Teotihuacan, some of Tikal, Caral, etc.
@@MajoraZ Oh sorry my bad on that, there are definitely a few things you’ve mentioned that were built during the ancient world. And you’re also right on that the “ancient americas” lasted quite a while until the fall of the Aztecs. But the ancient world and the ancient americas are two very distinct things that aren’t as a whole very related due to the ancient americas lasting far longer than the ancient world. Because compared to the Old World, the New World went through very little revolutionary changes during the same period of time. So something that was built in the ancient americas, doesn’t translate to it being built in the ancient world, (ie Aztecs, Inca).
The Terracota Army is a beautiful and scary marvel, at the same time. Is Creepy how every soldier have a singular face, it is like there are ancient souls imprisoned inside the statues.
I think the first emperor of China just ordered his soldiers to have their faces engraved onto the heads of each almost completed terracotta soldier. Makes me feel bad for the sculptors who must of been working overtime under the whip of Qin taskmasters, and likely buried in the mausoleum after the first emperor's death.
actuallty at research, these soldiers faces are modeled by the real soldier that is the best soldiers of qin army. bacause the qin shihuang wants them follow to conquer the hell. but there 's evidence can prove the qin shihuang killed these soldiers and the archaeologist didn't find any human bodies in these statues.
I would add the Qin Library to the list. Contained a copy of every book held within the seven kingdoms its lost was a devastating blow to human knowledge.
The Qin were quite a mess in terms of how much more schools of thoughts were persecuted during their brief hold of the Mandate. I’d consider proposing the Han Grand Imperial Library of the Eastern Han Dynasty in their capital of Luoyang
16:26 Talking about Vespasian, there is an amazing book series written by Robert Fabbri on Vespasian's life from his youth as a soldier and friend of a teenager Caligula to his ascension as Emperor. I absolutely recommend them!
Very fair to include Tak Kasra, it's amazing how it withstood its strucrure after 1500 years of neglect and floodings. By the way, Colosseum is 55m H, not 155m!
Constantinople arguably has three things that qualify as Wonders, with several more that could well be potential candidates. First of course is Hagia Sophia, then the Theodosian Walls, and lastly the Hippodrome. I'm tempted to throw in the Cisterns, but I'll leave those for the extra-expanded list.
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One wonders how the Great Wall of China and the reception palace at Persepolis failed to make the list, both of which are far better known than many of the classic seven.
@@weirdofromhalo Their length made them special. You build a wall 2000 miles long that costs the lives of thousands of builders, that's a wonder. Yes, the Ming version is almost certainly more impressive with the surviving stone edifice. I didn't include the Grand Canal because it was built in the sixth and seventh centuries and I thought that probably wasn't ancient enough.
@@weirdofromhalo thats dumb. the library of alexandria isnt special either by your standards, since other libraries exists, that one was just bigger. the hanging gardens isnt special, other people hung plants on their second floor homes too. statue of zeus isn't special, other statues exists all over the place. the Qin walls isnt so special, just longer than any other. heck, might as well say nothing is special.
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Yeah that bit really gets me too, y'know? There's a real fragility to everything in history, even with items made today, because there's no guarantee they'll last. Whether that be due to conflict or vandalism or plain ol bad weather.
What about the Harbour of Carthage, the largest and most sophisticated port facility complex in antiquity? A marvel of architectural engineering capable of housing 220 warships in its circular harbour alone & a rectangular merchant harbour with capacities of many more trading ships? How can a history channel forget about such an important and huge facility that significantly influenced the entire Mediterranean, the Atlantic Ocean & Black Sea for centuries as the heartbeat of a vast & far-flung trading network?
A general wonder of the world you may need to do a story about is the St. Georges church and its surrounding structures which was built under the commission of King Lalibella of Ethiopia.
Venturing farther out, here are a few suggestions for a future video - Angkor Thom and the temples of the Khmer Empire, Monte Alban in Mexico and the Inca highway.
Regarding Petra which i personally visited, at the time it was built the area was not as dry as it's today. The site was gradually destroyed by a combination of climate change (end of Roman warm period) and more importantly land mismanagement, eapecially during early caliphate. This allowed nomads to take control of the region and gradually shifting the trade routes to other locations (trade shifted gradually to Suez-Cairo route or Arabia-Iraq-Antiochia route along the Euphrates, Incense road on which Petra sat was mostly abandoned, Sea road was used mostly for military traffic and it's settlements dwindled by the appearance of malarial swamps)
Thank you for that explanation! I genuinely did not know that. I figured the city was oasis-like which is why I modeled it with all those trees (esp. based on the references I saw), but I did not know that specific point.
If you like, there are loads of shows on TH-cam of older homes being redone by ambitious younger folks in China. Sadly, many of them just get heavy equipment in, demolish a lot and throw most away. Many just take some of the materials and reuse them in new ways, but very few actually rebuild and fix things the way they originally were. Makes you think of what has happened everywhere all this time.
you should have mentioned the great bath of mohenjodaro of the great indus valley civilization which was extremely advanced as a civilization for its time
One of the best séries ever made , that change completely from battels and wars.... but this is so interesting.... great job Kings and générals !! Keep doing it !!
I have followed your channel for a few years by now. And i still enjoy have mutch i still can learn from your episodes about always something cool. Im never to old to learn and im still learning but and im almost 40 years young so yeah. But mate respect for your good work and all time and energy you putt in it to make it fun and well explained so its educative and fun to watch. And thx for that mate. Keep go on this way👊🤜🤛🤝💪
Virgin Library of Alexandria books: destroyed by fire engulfing the library Chad Library of Ashurbanipal tablets: preserved even further by fire engulfing the library
@@athongkhiamz2450 thank you! To be fair, it was my friend and teammate Leif Sick who made the first Wonders vid who came up with it 😅, I just continued that trend because I thought it was so good for this series. Still, I am glad you like it!!
The Catacombs of Kom el Shogatafa raise an interesting question. It must have been illuminated by torches or oil lamps, but how were they ventilated? Burning torches and lamps give off noxious fumes and smoke. Today, such fumes and smoke would be ventilated to the outside, and fresh air pumped inside by powerful blowers. What did they use thousands of years ago? Ventilating shafts or horizontal openings to the outside, would betray the existence of the catacombs, encouraging plundering by thieves.
Great videos! Would like to see a documentary of the Haitian revolution which was an epic war. I think you would make it even more epic. Also the muslim conquest of Spain will also be a epic one to watch.
"Most people have seen a picture of the Petra as a beautiful location carved into a mountainside...." YEP, he's talking about the image in Civ 4 isn't he
Are you going to made videos also about Wonders of the Modern World? I wonder if the Valley of the Fallen would be included amongst them. Yes, it was a monument built by and for a fascist dictator that left my country into ruin for decades, and slaughtered thousands of political prisoners in its construction. But even then, one can't deny its architectural wonder. A wonder built by the desires of a megalomaniac, but that seems to be the case with the biggest historical monuments.
@@theawesomeman9821 Good question. I tend to think of ancient as anything created before 476 AD (fall of Rome), medieval as anything between 476 AD and 1453 AD (fall of Constantinople), and modern as anything afterwards. But you could consider the start of modern times to be the Industrial Revolution or even the post-WWII era. It's very subjective
It was be amazing to be able to see all the great things as they were at their best.. so sad most armies that defeated another destroyed all of their great statues, art, and books with so much knowledge and history
"much of the funding for this mammoth project" missed opportunity there, colossal project woulda been a solid lame pun, although colossal and coliseum might not share an etymological root, I assume they do though.
Speaking of Libraries The Nalanda University in India is one of the oldest institutes in the world and is very huge and famous that ancient Greeks, Persians, Tibetans and Chinese scholars came here
Can someone tell me the name of the songs used in this video? There are lots of songs on Epidemic. Do I need to become a patreon to have access to them? I don't mind, I love this channel, but I want to have access to them.
I feel like you could quite possibly fill an entire channel‘s worth of videos just showcasing different incredible structures like these. And to think that most of what human‘s built has already been destroyed and we only get to see a very small part of it! I‘d be most excited to see some more structures from cultures outside the mediterranean region, either further into Asia, or some from the Americas. There might also be some things further into Africa that I‘ve never heard of.
I wholeheartedly agree! These videos would be cool, the tricky part is that they are labor intensive. This video took about three months of part-time but constant work to flesh out. I certainly hope this channel gets to make more vids like this. I would love to work on more videos like these in the future, but I will also be going to grad school very soon. Hopefully more animators join the team down the road!
I‘m always amazed by the graphics in these videos! Good job and I‘m sure you‘ll do great in grad school. I do understand they are labor intensive, but in the end of this video, they mentioned the possibility of more of this kind, so I just got to hoping 😅
@@alexk7973 Thank you! And I totally get that! And don't worry, K&G definitely has more planned! I already got the script for one video that I hope I can actually release before I get bogged down by grad school. Either way, I am excited!
The Arabs had a spoken language but no written one. They adopted the Nabatean (Petra) script, made changes over the centuries to the stsndardized Arabic script we see today. That script spread to other lands like Persia, Afghanistan, Turkey etc but represented thier own languages. So many places are using a derivative of Nabatean script (Turkey adopted a new script after WW1). One more thing there is a town in South Lebanon called Nabateah.
No... first the Arabs had written script specifically the old yemeni kingdoms of the south and its called old south Arabian script. Secondly, the Nabataeans WERE arabs this was their script aka the north arabian script which was then made into the standardized arabic script with the Quran being the reference and it was absorbed from Aramaic script which was the inspiration of it begin with who were inspired by the phonecians before them. If anything the southern arabian script far predates the nabataean script it's just the nabataean one survived because it was the better one.
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Do the Indonesian revolution next
Hope in next 7 Wonders you talk about The royal Tombs of Philip II of Macedon and other Macedon royalties, The Tombs of The Persian Kings at Naqsh-e Rostam and another good ancient wonder that should be discussed is Stonehenge.
Can you add the Rock fortress of Sri Lanka, Sigiriya in your next video in this series?
Can you please cover the Battle of Colachel between the Dutch East Indies company and the kingdom of Travancore ?
Hi everyone! I am Christian Romero, the principal modeler and animator for this video. I'm incredibly excited to have worked on this; it was a really challenging video, and the first time I have worked on something of this scale. I'm really hoping I get to work on more videos like this. I'm going to the University of Connecticut this coming Fall to pursue a Master of Fine Arts, because I want to learn all I can both about 3D art and cultural preservation/restoration efforts.
While I applied to UConn before I was offered a chance to freelance with K&G, it's a very happy coincidence that I got to work on a project that explicitly ties my skills in 3D with my passion for history and culture. I certainly hope to carry this passion going forward.
This is also the first time I've worked on something that'll potentially get this many eyeballs on it, so I'm really excited to read all your comments.
Amazing work man! What program did you use?
@@innitbruv-lascocomics9910 Thank you very much! I used Blender to make these models, which is also what the other 3D artists on the team use. It's a great program, if you are interested in 3D art I wholeheartedly recommend it. And the video was compiled with edits made in After Effects.
@@corboy8414 Thanks man! The After Effects really sell the look of the 3D model. Especially with the varied lighting. Appreciate the info 🙏
@@innitbruv-lascocomics9910 Hell yeah! You are very welcome :)
@@corboy8414 thank you for the work you do and the journey you are. Wish you all the best with your masters course.
Even in the Middle Ages, they could admire the ruins of the Alexandria Lighthouse, if I remember correctly, the earthquake of the 14th century finally demolished it ... and knocked the rest of the veneer off the Great Pyramid🤔
Tragic
fascinating
I pretty sure other than earthquake damage both structures were pillaged for stone for other building projects. The colossus of Rhodes was also around for a long time though collapsed into the structure it stood over and was later pillaged for it's metals. I want to say that the mausoleum of halicarnassus had standing ruins for a long period of time until its materials were repurposed leaving the base structure that exists today.
Mathematical
@@Black-Sun_Kaiser Scientific
What the ancient could achieve was truly unbelievable
Despite this idea people in the past were all stupid, they were just as bright as us, and had engineers, artists, construction workers and logistic technicians abound. The stuff of Greeks and Romans boggles my mind, let along in China or Middle East.
Unbelievable to the point that some people are convinced that only aliens could’ve been capable of such marvels… Such narrow minds, ye of little faith
@@jordinagel1184 Lack of education makes some people have this idea that before modern times everyone was dumb and primitive. That's what encourages them to come up with these ridiculous theories.
There is no need of your believe in it. Ruins and reconstructions are there.
@@vortimerofkent128 I do believe they done it. Saying it was unbelievable is just a figure of speech.
It’s astonishing how humans slowly forget and neglect these places for others to stumble upon in the future.
I suppose in some cases it's fortunate that they are forgotten. Imagine how much pillaging would have occurred at so many of these sites.
When certain ancient settlements are abandoned, they are left to the elements and are often buried by the sands of time or are resettled but built over by newcomers who probably are not aware of the existence of the wonders they live on. The city of Troy for example was buried beneath several layers of newer cities that came after it.
Within that line of thought, Athens always comes to my mind. A lot of the ruins around the city were left alone and intact mostly because the population of the city was very low after the Roman period and into the Ottoman period and it wouldn’t be until the 20th century were it really increases to what it is today
Yet we think we have our timeline correctly
It's a human superpower, forgetting. If you remembered how things felt, you'd have stopped having wars.
-Doctor Who
It'd have been neat to see stuff from the Americas, since the original list was made before the two landmass made contact. Texcotzinco is a incredible Aztec palace/garden that's sadly obscure and would be an excellent choice: This was the royal retreat for rulers of the city of Texcoco, the second most powerful Aztec city after Tenochtitlan, and was engineered by Nezahualcoyotl, the city's most famous king: Texcotzinco was located on a hill, with a palace on the summit, a series of bathes and shrines, and a series of botanical gardens with different sections mimicking different Mexican biomes at the base. It sourced water from a spring over 5 miles away, with the aquaduct that brought it raising 150 feet off the ground in some spots. The aquaduct brought water to a series of basins and channels on an adjacent hills to control the water's flow rate, then the aquaduct passing over the gorge between the hills, and forming a circular circuit around the Texcotzinco hill itself, with the water flowing through the shrines and their displays with statues and painted frescos, as well as the bathes, before finally forming artificial waterfalls to water the gardens below.
Fernando Ixtlilxochitl, a descendent of Texcoca royalty, from the late 16th/early 17th century decades/a century after the conquest writes about the site:
"These parks and gardens were adorned with rich and sumptuously ornamented alcazars (summerhouses) with their fountains, their irrigation channels, their canals, their lakes and their bathing-places and wonderful mazes, where he had had a great variety of flowers planted and trees of all kinds, foreign and brought from distant parts... and the water intended for the fountains, pools and channels for watering the flowers and trees in this park came from its spring: to bring it, it had been necessary to build strong, high, cemented walls of unbelievable size, going from one mountain to the other with an aqueduct on top which came out at the highest part of the park. The water gathered first in a reservoir beautified with historical bas-reliefs, and from there it flowed via two main canals (to north and south), running through the gardens and filling basins, where sculptured stelae were reflected in the surface. Coming out of one of these basins, the water ‘leapt and dashed itself to pieces on the rocks, falling into a garden planted with all the scented flowers of the Hot Lands, and in this garden it seemed to rain, so very violently was the water shattered upon these rocks. Beyond this garden there were the bathing-places, cut in the living rock... The whole of the rest of this park was planted, as I have said, with all kinds of trees and scented flowers, and there were all kinds of birds apart from those that the king had brought from various parts in cages: all these birds sang harmoniously and to such degree that one could not hear oneself speak"
There's plenty of other options, too: Machu Picchu is an obvious one (less known is the adjacent mountain of Huayna Picchu, which towers over Machu and has the entire summit converted into a terraced complex); Tenochtitlan in general as an entire city could quality,; the Great Pyramid of Cholula; Tikal's various water mangement systems; Teotihuacan's pyramids or urban sprawl; Cahokia, Pueblo Bontio, Chan Chan, Pumapunku/Tiwanku, Caral, etc. If you do ever wanna do wonders from the Americas, or more stuff on Mesoamerica in general, I'd love to help out: I believe we even discussed that years ago!
Though these are awesome suggestions indeed, im pretty the reason they didn’t include these was because this was a video on the wonders of the ‘ancient’ world. The period of time we call the ancient world ended in the 500s CE, all of the wonders you’ve suggested from the Americas were all built during the Middle Ages (roughly 500-1500).
Sir Misc has a good point. Most of the New World wonders were built during the Middle Ages. MajoraZ I love your ideas though. I was thinking about potential New World wonders as I was watching this video. I was going to comment about it myself, but then I saw your comment. I am looking forward to K&G implementing the ideas that you suggested. They could even make several whole videos specifically about ancient and medieval wonders in the Western Hemisphere.
@@sirmisc5780 Maybe, though "Ancient Americas" is a legit term used to refer to even pretty late prehispanic cultures. And some of what I mentioned is prior to 500AD: Teotihuacan, some of Tikal, Caral, etc.
@@MajoraZ Oh sorry my bad on that, there are definitely a few things you’ve mentioned that were built during the ancient world. And you’re also right on that the “ancient americas” lasted quite a while until the fall of the Aztecs. But the ancient world and the ancient americas are two very distinct things that aren’t as a whole very related due to the ancient americas lasting far longer than the ancient world. Because compared to the Old World, the New World went through very little revolutionary changes during the same period of time. So something that was built in the ancient americas, doesn’t translate to it being built in the ancient world, (ie Aztecs, Inca).
This is a great idea. Wonders of the Americas
The Terracota Army is a beautiful and scary marvel, at the same time.
Is Creepy how every soldier have a singular face, it is like there are ancient souls imprisoned inside the statues.
I used to think they are like the dead in Pompeii. Live soldiers buried alive by lava...
I think the first emperor of China just ordered his soldiers to have their faces engraved onto the heads of each almost completed terracotta soldier. Makes me feel bad for the sculptors who must of been working overtime under the whip of Qin taskmasters, and likely buried in the mausoleum after the first emperor's death.
Yes, I toured that site in Xi'an about 9 years ago....it's amazing!
actuallty at research, these soldiers faces are modeled by the real soldier that is the best soldiers of qin army. bacause the qin shihuang wants them follow to conquer the hell. but there 's evidence can prove the qin shihuang killed these soldiers and the archaeologist didn't find any human bodies in these statues.
I would add the Qin Library to the list. Contained a copy of every book held within the seven kingdoms its lost was a devastating blow to human knowledge.
The Qin were quite a mess in terms of how much more schools of thoughts were persecuted during their brief hold of the Mandate.
I’d consider proposing the Han Grand Imperial Library of the Eastern Han Dynasty in their capital of Luoyang
@@shinsenshogun900 I agree with your assessment of the Qin, but the loss of their library was still a great pity. Xiang Yu had a lot to answer for.
They should have backed them up to the coud
they might have had the cure for cancer
@@426mak xiang yu was a brute
The animating and modeling of this video is absolutely stunning. Keep the amazing work up.
Thank you very much! I super appreciate that, friend!
Cool thing about Petra is how well preserved it is.
Honestly yeah, for real. It's incredible
16:26 Talking about Vespasian, there is an amazing book series written by Robert Fabbri on Vespasian's life from his youth as a soldier and friend of a teenager Caligula to his ascension as Emperor. I absolutely recommend them!
Thanks for the recommendation!
I second this recommendation. His current book series is about successor wars after alexander the greats death.
Thx for the suggestion, will pick it up for sure.
Very fair to include Tak Kasra, it's amazing how it withstood its strucrure after 1500 years of neglect and floodings. By the way, Colosseum is 55m H, not 155m!
Constantinople arguably has three things that qualify as Wonders, with several more that could well be potential candidates. First of course is Hagia Sophia, then the Theodosian Walls, and lastly the Hippodrome. I'm tempted to throw in the Cisterns, but I'll leave those for the extra-expanded list.
Yes, if they include AD buildings like Taq e Kisra and Colosseum then the Hagia Sophia should be on the list too.
Keep up the good work, king's and generals! You have been delivering amazing videos for many years now, and on behalf of your viewers we appreciate it ❤️! Also thanks Christian Romero (Cory Roy) for this cool style of animation..
Hiya! Thank you for the name drop, I supper appreciate it!
Awesome video. My 11 year-old brother wants to see more from you about ancient wonders:) Keep up these great videos.
I sincerely hope your brother enjoys these videos! The fact that a video I made is enjoyed by people of all ages brings me great joy :)
One wonders how the Great Wall of China and the reception palace at Persepolis failed to make the list, both of which are far better known than many of the classic seven.
The Great Wall of China isn't an ancient wonder. It's a modern one (1600s). The rammed earth walls of the original aren't anything special.
@@weirdofromhalo Their length made them special. You build a wall 2000 miles long that costs the lives of thousands of builders, that's a wonder. Yes, the Ming version is almost certainly more impressive with the surviving stone edifice.
I didn't include the Grand Canal because it was built in the sixth and seventh centuries and I thought that probably wasn't ancient enough.
@@weirdofromhalo thats dumb. the library of alexandria isnt special either by your standards, since other libraries exists, that one was just bigger. the hanging gardens isnt special, other people hung plants on their second floor homes too. statue of zeus isn't special, other statues exists all over the place.
the Qin walls isnt so special, just longer than any other.
heck, might as well say nothing is special.
Kings and Generals out with another gem! I have been a viewer for over 4 years now and I'm more and more impressed after every new video! Keep up the fantastic work!
Hell yeah, I loved you in Attack Of The Clones Mr. Coleman
It's too bad we don't know more about The Paradise of Daphne in Antioch. I think that would've been a wonderous site.
The Leshan Giant Buddha is another one.
For me one of the most impressive monuments.
The kailasa rock cut temples in southern India is what blows me away.
It blows my mind just how much written history and knowledge has been lost to wars and battles over the lifetime of mankind.
Yeah that bit really gets me too, y'know? There's a real fragility to everything in history, even with items made today, because there's no guarantee they'll last. Whether that be due to conflict or vandalism or plain ol bad weather.
I really think persopolis deserves recognition for the marvel that it is.
Honestly yeah it does
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You do a great job on your channel
You guys are taking it to another level with your videos. Thank you.
Great selections! I think Persepolis would have made for a solid selection too
The setting, the music, the topic .. all of it, gold. Thx
What about the Harbour of Carthage, the largest and most sophisticated port facility complex in antiquity? A marvel of architectural engineering capable of housing 220 warships in its circular harbour alone & a rectangular merchant harbour with capacities of many more trading ships? How can a history channel forget about such an important and huge facility that significantly influenced the entire Mediterranean, the Atlantic Ocean & Black Sea for centuries as the heartbeat of a vast & far-flung trading network?
I agree. It was a most impressive shipyard, likely the most impressive of the ancient world.
they forgot the inside of the tomb of qin shi huang
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Good Video!
If you ever do a 7 wonders of the medieval period, I would like to suggest the Church complex of Lalibela
Honestly the rock churches of Lalibela are incredible. They might need their own video
This is one of the channels that made me love history . Thank you
Hell yeah. Kings & Generals is definitely one of the channels, ever.
I really like your narration style and tone👏🏻👌
Whatever you're paying the artist for this, it's not enough, this looks amazing
Thank you complete and total stranger 😢
damn, wasn't expecting such nice original animation. You guys continue to surpass expectations.
Thank you! I am not the only animator working with K&G, but I am incredibly proud of the work I put into this video! Your kind words mean a lot!
"The chief land of all antiquities" ...how proud should an Egyptian like myself should feel when his country is described in these words?
Sumer and Ebla be like: 😑
I get goosebumps and I'm not even Egyptian
I'm waiting for the first Iraqi to show up 😀
@@micha2909 now that is the ancient of ancients
A general wonder of the world you may need to do a story about is the St. Georges church and its surrounding structures which was built under the commission of King Lalibella of Ethiopia.
Venturing farther out, here are a few suggestions for a future video - Angkor Thom and the temples of the Khmer Empire, Monte Alban in Mexico and the Inca highway.
Regarding Petra which i personally visited, at the time it was built the area was not as dry as it's today. The site was gradually destroyed by a combination of climate change (end of Roman warm period) and more importantly land mismanagement, eapecially during early caliphate. This allowed nomads to take control of the region and gradually shifting the trade routes to other locations (trade shifted gradually to Suez-Cairo route or Arabia-Iraq-Antiochia route along the Euphrates, Incense road on which Petra sat was mostly abandoned, Sea road was used mostly for military traffic and it's settlements dwindled by the appearance of malarial swamps)
Thank you for that explanation! I genuinely did not know that. I figured the city was oasis-like which is why I modeled it with all those trees (esp. based on the references I saw), but I did not know that specific point.
@@Haijwsyz51846 Thank you for that explanation too!
Great job
I hope you add Persepolis to your list in your next seven other wonders of the ancient world video
If you like, there are loads of shows on TH-cam of older homes being redone by ambitious younger folks in China. Sadly, many of them just get heavy equipment in, demolish a lot and throw most away. Many just take some of the materials and reuse them in new ways, but very few actually rebuild and fix things the way they originally were. Makes you think of what has happened everywhere all this time.
you should have mentioned the great bath of mohenjodaro of the great indus valley civilization which was extremely advanced as a civilization for its time
One of the best séries ever made , that change completely from battels and wars.... but this is so interesting.... great job Kings and générals !! Keep doing it !!
Hell yeah, thank you!
Please make this a full series!!
You should totally do more! Explore more around the world, i would love to see temples and palaces in India, far Asia and America
A great video, but I think the ancient city of Persepolis should’ve been in the list too
i love this channel. This channel provides authentic information that depicts how hard the admins work. Keep up the good work.
And it's all for free and regular uploads. Truly, K&G are the best of the best
@@jonbaxter2254 totally agree with you
I love this so much, great work team. Please keep doing this series, ancient architecture is an enthralling topic.
Hell yeah, and thank you!
If you plan to do a third video on that topic, please talk about the port of Carthage. It seemed magnificent !
I have followed your channel for a few years by now. And i still enjoy have mutch i still can learn from your episodes about always something cool. Im never to old to learn and im still learning but and im almost 40 years young so yeah. But mate respect for your good work and all time and energy you putt in it to make it fun and well explained so its educative and fun to watch. And thx for that mate. Keep go on this way👊🤜🤛🤝💪
Wonderful idea! Please do seven more!
There may very well be seven more :)
I knew about some but not all & thanks for the video 👍🏻
You are welcome :)
How can u miss The Kailasa Temple biggest monolithic structure.
Virgin Library of Alexandria books: destroyed by fire engulfing the library
Chad Library of Ashurbanipal tablets: preserved even further by fire engulfing the library
Yeah, essentially
In this video many south and southeast Asian wonders simply Ignored
Fantastic! How amazing it would have been to see these wonders in their primes.
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You should have included ellora caves specially kailasha temple
I love the Game of thrones intro style of moving from one civilization to another ,😍
Heck yeah :) glad you like it!
@@corboy8414 you nailed it bro ! 👍
@@athongkhiamz2450 thank you! To be fair, it was my friend and teammate Leif Sick who made the first Wonders vid who came up with it 😅, I just continued that trend because I thought it was so good for this series. Still, I am glad you like it!!
The Catacombs of Kom el Shogatafa raise an interesting question. It must have been illuminated by torches or oil lamps, but how were they ventilated? Burning torches and lamps give off noxious fumes and smoke. Today, such fumes and smoke would be ventilated to the outside, and fresh air pumped inside by powerful blowers. What did they use thousands of years ago? Ventilating shafts or horizontal openings to the outside, would betray the existence of the catacombs, encouraging plundering by thieves.
Don't stop until you reach the 700 wonders of the ancient world
Great videos! Would like to see a documentary of the Haitian revolution which was an epic war. I think you would make it even more epic. Also the muslim conquest of Spain will also be a epic one to watch.
I was very happy for this video of the other 7 wonders man had made. good info as usual.
සීගිරිය (Sigiriya) - The Lion Rock of Sri Lanka is another one. Check it out.❤️❤️❤️
"Most people have seen a picture of the Petra as a beautiful location carved into a mountainside...." YEP, he's talking about the image in Civ 4 isn't he
Fantastic video keep it up your doing amazing job
Thank you!
Awesome
Are you going to made videos also about Wonders of the Modern World? I wonder if the Valley of the Fallen would be included amongst them.
Yes, it was a monument built by and for a fascist dictator that left my country into ruin for decades, and slaughtered thousands of political prisoners in its construction. But even then, one can't deny its architectural wonder.
A wonder built by the desires of a megalomaniac, but that seems to be the case with the biggest historical monuments.
what qualifies as "Modern Wonders"?
@@theawesomeman9821 Good question. I tend to think of ancient as anything created before 476 AD (fall of Rome), medieval as anything between 476 AD and 1453 AD (fall of Constantinople), and modern as anything afterwards. But you could consider the start of modern times to be the Industrial Revolution or even the post-WWII era. It's very subjective
If we talk about 20th century wonders in Spain, i would much rather nominate the Sagrada Familia basilica than a fascist pilgrimage site.
It was be amazing to be able to see all the great things as they were at their best.. so sad most armies that defeated another destroyed all of their great statues, art, and books with so much knowledge and history
Thanks!
Everyone when a Fire breakout near the the Library: Nooooo out books made of weak paper.
Mesopotamians: yes clay go Harder in Fire
Also make a documentary on the seven wonders of medieval world!!!
I visited the tomb in Xi'an and saw the terra cotta warriors - a true world wonder!
"much of the funding for this mammoth project" missed opportunity there, colossal project woulda been a solid lame pun, although colossal and coliseum might not share an etymological root, I assume they do though.
I was hoping Indian architecture in this list.
Anyway, excellent video.
Thank you! Hopefully more videos will cover Indian Architecture!
exactly. Atleast Takshashila/nalanda should've been mentioned
Speaking of Libraries The Nalanda University in India is one of the oldest institutes in the world and is very huge and famous that ancient Greeks, Persians, Tibetans and Chinese scholars came here
Ideas for future videos:
History of the Bulgars
The Umayyad invasion of Iberia
History of the Caucasus
Good video. Would have been nice to see the latest pics of the area where some of these are / were
the Modern Wonder nowadays would be the Rolling Stones, built in ancient times, the amazing band stands the test of time
Talk about Chaco Canyon and the people's cosmology expressed through their architecture aligned with solstaces
I would say, that the port of Cartagena can also be in this list
It's impossible to see Petra and not think if Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
Please make a Video on Rashtrakuta Empire
You must pay him via patreon to suggest the topic of your choice
how the f persepolis isn't on any of these lists
Excellent.
Why thank you, you are also excellent
Can someone tell me the name of the songs used in this video? There are lots of songs on Epidemic. Do I need to become a patreon to have access to them? I don't mind, I love this channel, but I want to have access to them.
I don't know the song for the first part, but the last song playing is The Byzantine Empire by Andreas Waldetoft
@@corboy8414 Thank you!
The temple mount and second temple(built by herod the great) in Jerusalem
Yeah
More, more, more!
All in due time, my friend, all in due time. :)
Mankind really need to create a monument for the modern age.
Best that one should provide critical infrastructure together with the megaproject, unlike the tallest skyscraper’s residing city
@@shinsenshogun900 Maybe a semi-conductor reaching around the world.
@@LazyLifeIFreak oh yes
and I was referring to Dubai's state
Nice video
Hands up anyone else who knew most of these thanks to the brilliant Civilization games.
I'm surprised Solomon's Temple did not make it on the list...
Some ppl say Petra was the original Mecca
It hurts my heart to see the library burn in 3d
😔😔😔
Make part 3
I feel like you could quite possibly fill an entire channel‘s worth of videos just showcasing different incredible structures like these. And to think that most of what human‘s built has already been destroyed and we only get to see a very small part of it! I‘d be most excited to see some more structures from cultures outside the mediterranean region, either further into Asia, or some from the Americas. There might also be some things further into Africa that I‘ve never heard of.
I wholeheartedly agree! These videos would be cool, the tricky part is that they are labor intensive. This video took about three months of part-time but constant work to flesh out. I certainly hope this channel gets to make more vids like this. I would love to work on more videos like these in the future, but I will also be going to grad school very soon. Hopefully more animators join the team down the road!
I‘m always amazed by the graphics in these videos! Good job and I‘m sure you‘ll do great in grad school. I do understand they are labor intensive, but in the end of this video, they mentioned the possibility of more of this kind, so I just got to hoping 😅
@@alexk7973 Thank you! And I totally get that! And don't worry, K&G definitely has more planned! I already got the script for one video that I hope I can actually release before I get bogged down by grad school. Either way, I am excited!
The Arabs had a spoken language but no written one. They adopted the Nabatean (Petra) script, made changes over the centuries to the stsndardized Arabic script we see today. That script spread to other lands like Persia, Afghanistan, Turkey etc but represented thier own languages. So many places are using a derivative of Nabatean script (Turkey adopted a new script after WW1). One more thing there is a town in South Lebanon called Nabateah.
No... first the Arabs had written script specifically the old yemeni kingdoms of the south and its called old south Arabian script. Secondly, the Nabataeans WERE arabs this was their script aka the north arabian script which was then made into the standardized arabic script with the Quran being the reference and it was absorbed from Aramaic script which was the inspiration of it begin with who were inspired by the phonecians before them. If anything the southern arabian script far predates the nabataean script it's just the nabataean one survived because it was the better one.
Just something I had read. Your narrative sounds plausible
Right On
that Geezer of Pyramid was quite the lad.
A real old geezer, I tell you what
@@corboy8414 nice job on the animations bud.
@@Catonius Thank you
Hello,
Would you ever consider doing an episode on the Idrisid dynasty of (northwest Africa) Morocco
Shorts UI is incredibly annoying.... Why not just upload 1 minute regular videos? What's the difference, monetarily or whatever else?
I feel like the Second Jewish Temple should be included on this list. Many ancient historians wrote of its glory.