4 Incredible Times History Was Rewritten
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The idea that the servants/slaves who built the pyramids were buried with lavish trinkets, that their health was tended to... even if they had weapons or crowns... regardless of the degree of lash to flesh was required... does not detract from the simple fact that the imperatives of an entire society were shunted to serve the frivolous mortal fears of a potentate. the pyramid is material proof of the societal order.
You CAN have highly decorated slaves... it is the protestant american version which hinges upon the contempt and brutality as distinguishing features--perhaps fetishized because the taste hasn't left the mouth and thrill is gone.
Slavery is about the denial of ones own choice to participate... just because that impulse to determine ones own fate has been thwarted, denied or dispelled from ones notion of the possible... does not change the fact... An entire society served the insecurities of a single potentate... and his foreman class, or priestly order.
It is the same pattern we see in our society... where the slave-owners became trapped by their own institution--and it is that contemptible culture of that foreman class which today persists and strives to recreate that same servile order... through a dispensing with of 2000 years of governmental evolution culminating in modern democracy... in favour of a strong man. As we see Trump promising the end of politics. That is... tearing down of the order which grants some assurance of protected rights... in favour of a carpetbagger's promises. The mere allocation of societal resource and relative importance and lack of political redress... we see in ancient Egypt... is proof of slavery. No matter how little of the good stuff, rape, murder and brutality... we see.
I wouldn't suggest that the Egyptians were broken into accepting their plight... perhaps they simply didn't know the possibilities. It doesn't change the material reality which is proof enough.
The Idea that this wasn't a slave order is propaganda... as we still have pyramid builders willing to sacrifice your freedom to allay their insecurities about death... through great wealth and power over others... by buying their way into a somewhat lofty position in an oppressive hierarchical order through their service to such systems.
Those people weren't free... they couldn't just leave. And their labor was used to support their own oppressive hierarchal order. That is slavery. no matter how resigned to their fate they may have been... no matter how fancy the collars they wore.
Neanderthals didn't go extinct any more than that branch of homo sapiens.
The two branches bread into each other. So it's not really extinction, now is it? ;) IT'S SEXTINCTION!
He wasn't an idiot. He had to use Dynamite because his digging license was expiring. IF he had not have used that Dynamite we would STILL be without that discovery, today.
Simon you need to fire your writers.
Columbus was put on trial for doing horrible things to the SPANISH. He was NOT put on trial for doing horrible things to the Natives. In fact, the Crown was pissed he didn't do ENOUGH horrible things and sent over Nicolas De Ovando who was MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH worse to the Natives.
As bad as Columbus was, he wasn't 1/10th of the asshole who replaced him, problem is people keep attributing Ovando's crimes to Columbus because nobody taught you who Ovando was.
Thousands of years in the future, historians will be struggling to accept just how many TH-cam channels were hosted by Simon Whistler.
"Surely he must have been using slave labour"
"Dude it was an alien numbers station for sure"
And how he never retained any of the information he ever presented. A true puppet.
That's what I've been saying!
There much have been multiple Simon whistlers
CLONES
"...and with entirely too much dynamite...". One of the funniest lines ever uttered by Whistler.
lmao....There was a whale washed up in Oregon a number of years ago....The same statement was made after.
Yes. They had a big deal on it in 2020 for the 50th anniversary. Blew chunks all over the beach and many whale explosion watchers. Since 1970 dynamite is the first thing crossed off the list whenever a whale washes up on an Oregon beach.@@richardcheeseman6330
That statement also implies that there is an agreed upon amount of dynamite that is ok to use for archaeological digs. 😁
Yeah the amount is zero @@DarkZodiacZZ
According to Schliemann himself, it was in fact not enough dynamite.
The timing of Simon stating that Neandarthals being just as intelligent as we are, then immediately going to a commercial for a questionable beauty product is perfect!
Got a Kamala ad right after
Humanity does seem to have experienced a decline in intelligence over the last few dedades...
We will forever be discovering, rediscovering, and re-writing history.
Essence of science really; if new evidence is discovered, examine and test it - don't just poo-poo it because it goes against what has been established as 'fact'.
Never stop learning.
Until someone discovers us.
I forget who said it ... "History is written by the victors~!"
I just can't get over how we figured out how to make bows so early in our history. We still use them for hunting, it's like an Einstein of a person thought of it.
If you're travelling through thick undergrowth, you quickly become aware of the relationship between tension and potential energy - even if you don't truly understand the physics involved. Someone absent-mindedly fiddling with branches and vines could also have lucked in on the concept - it could even have been literally child's play....
An important thing people need to think of when reading history is that humans haven't changed in tens of thousands of years. People wrote letters or left messages on the public city forums to each other rather than send text messages. If a really cool monument was built you can be certain someone wrote "Jenkins was here" and a pennies was drawn on it. The "your mom..." jokes are probably older than Rome and Greece. It's weird, but people were living their lives then as we do now, but with less luxuries. Just as intelligent, dumb, hopeful, depressed, imaginative, calculating, and so on as we are today. They just didn't have electricity
Or funny cat videos, what a horrible existence
The oldest joke I know of is a fart joke. The oldest movie joke, "he is behind me, isn't he?" Is older than the odyssey. It was used in the odyssey, and there is some evidence that it was a reference to an older work.
Pompeii has roof tiles that animal prints (mostly cats) were pressed when making the tile. they used these "flawed" tiles much like how we keep concrete that our pets walk through
@KilledByThatTrain I was thinking about that, and while they didn't have the cat videos, they did have cults and religions dedicated to cats
Right? We all know that Halfdan visited the Hagia Sophia. There's also a great episode of Tasting History with Max Miller, I'm not 100% sure which but it might be "Ancient Roman Fast Food" or something like that, where Max reads a bunch of the inscriptions left behind, including one that was essentially "The service here was terrible so we took our money and spent it instead on whoores".
I think the "your Mom" jokes are pretty new, I've only ever heard them in the past few decades.
However, there is graffitti in a boarding house in Pompei that references a good place to buy food and where to find more carnal pleasure and what they charge. It is almost like an ancient Trip Advisor. There are phallic carvings on Hadrian's Wall, it is quite common in Roman architecture, when you consider that such work took hours of carving in stone rather than a couple of seconds with a marker pen or spray paint, it is quite impressive.
The comedy of posing the question ‘were Neanderthals our intellectual equals?’ then running a skin care ad is not lost on me. Bravo editor!
I’m in my 50s and my Californian public education taught me about the Vikings inhabiting Lanse-aux-Meadows in North America. It was discovered in the 60s, I believe.
Yeah, don't remember about school, but I remember my godmother telling me about it, and none of the other adults seemed suprised. I always thought it was common knowledge.
The Greeks go to all the effort of waging a massive war then building the Trojan Horse to get into Troy. The next guy just blew it all to hell with dynamite. Complex problems require simple solutions?
If the ancient Greeks had had dynamite, they wouldn’t have bothered with the horse.
They recently figured out that the "horse" was a type of warship.
The attacking Greeks didn't build a giant hollow wooden statue of a horse for some weird reason; they just left one of their big wooden warships "abandoned" on the shore.
Boy, do we look dumb now, eh? XD
Tropan*
That's what Alexander the Great thought when he used a sword to untie the Gordian knot.
@@fredblonder7850 "If the ancient Greeks had dynamite..."
Now there's a frightening thought experiment
10:46 you seem to have a media file issue, i am not sure if that was on purpose, but seems like you are missing a clip.
I have seen the exact same red screen on other videos and channels.
Most times just a flash to fast too read. This one was there a long time.
ya i wasn't to sure if it was supposed to be there or not, just wanted to let them know
5:09 That awkward moment when your third arm merges into the stick you were holding..
That's some tough wood
Yeah wonder if that is the actual Neanderthal museum or some more AI crap.
@@Hyde_Hill Absolutely AI, look the next guy's hands flow down and melt. Bet it's Simon's trap for (c) things. I've been wondering if Simon is AI generated already, since similar sounding videos from year or so ago repeat now, but it's just sign of the times (youtube dates change etc I bet). Darn AI hallucinates all over my internets.
guy next to him has extra legs
and they're all wearing pants, which weren't invented until people in ukraine/russian steppes domesticated horses and started riding them.
So if Neanderthals blew up Troy to build the pyramids, what did the Vikings do again?
History can be so confusing.
They discovered Columbus.
They made first contact with the Asgardians. This super-advanced space-faring civilization with magic-like technology were so impressed with pre-industrial Viking culture that they adopted its trappings.
They were first to set foot on the moon
Bro, pay attention. You got everything wrong. The Vikings blew up the pyramids to build troy as a home for the neanderthals who migrated from Columbus Ohio... Jesus
@@Yahman1969 Actually, this is a mistranslation. There were 6 kings, in Roman numerals VI kings
10:44 Adobe didn't seem happy 😂
There does seem to be some sort of grudge 😂
Is that why we keep seeing the "no media" placard on some of these videos? I was wondering. I thought it was an inside joke. 😂
I was waiting for other post-production junkies to notice the dreaded media offline screen 😅 deadline versus QC, the fight is real
@@mickipixel the perils of quickly re-organising the clips to the project into a folder with a more friendly name than "New Folder (7)"🤣
I'm glad I'm not the only one who was like, "wait, what the hell?'
Good to see Captain Caveman again. I used to enjoy that cartoon
Oogly boogly ug ug.
I had a city builder game in the late 90s called "Pharaoh", and in that the pyramid builders were also the farm labourers - they'd build monuments outside farming season, then go back to planting/harvesting when the season resumed.
If a game (though admittedly an incredibly accurate one) from the 90s could get that right, it honestly boggles my mind that it was nearly another 20 years before people found empirical proof worth believing...
Well Neanderthal s had animated cave paintings so they were pretty advanced. I am surprised noone spotted that earlier on
I enjoy that there are semi fossilized squares of moss in a hole in the middle of 4 posts in the ground...outhouses for the win. Definitely clicked to find out what torp was.
'they were short and fat, thus they must have been stupid'. A lot of modern prejudices have been around for centuries.
Millennia
The music was way too loud around the 12 minute mark.
1:05 - Chapter 1 - So easy a caveman can do it
2:00 - Mid roll ads
3:25 - Back to the video
6:05 - Chapter 2 - The lost city of troy
9:40 - Chapter 3 - Who really built the pyramids
13:00 - Chapter 4 - The discovery of the new world
Lifesaver!!
I'm an American and I learned that Leif Erickson beat Columbus to America in elementary school in the 1990s.
Same.
Yep, it is always interesting the revisionist views of history the general population of Europe has about Americans as a whole.... just because some of us are socially back sliding religions zealots doesn't mean we all are...😊
And then forgot about it. Until Columbus rediscovered it, and everyone wanted a piece of it.
American boomer here; I remember learning about Leif Erickson in 5th grade in 1970. They also taught us about Columbus proving the world was round, though, and how everyone else thought he would fall off the edge of the earth and be eaten by sea monsters, but brave Columbus yada yada yada...
I was in US public schools through the 80's and 90's. We never once heard anything about anyone other than Columbus. I remember in 1992 they released a movie on it and our whole school went full "Columbus" for a few weeks. We did plays, art shows, essays, you name it.
When a student saw something about the Norse discovering it on TV and brought it up, we were told it was just made up to make a show.
Not all schools are equal it seems. But our history books were brand new! And wrong!
In fact, Atlantis was very probably based on the explosion of the volcanic island of Thera which led to the end of the Minoan civilisation.
Definitely worth a video!
That's doesn't make any sense. Thera was a city on Santorini, an island that still exists.
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Wrong. Thera is now the name of the main town on the island of Santorini, but the island was called Thera in classical times (clue - Saint Horini is clearly a Christian name). If you look at a map, you'll see the main island of Santorini is a crescent shape. There are two other smaller islands forming a circular archepelago, with a volcano in the middle. The whole is a giant caldera, some kilometres across - the remains of a conical island which exploded in cataclysmic fashion around 1,600 BC. The resulting tsunami wiped out the thriving Minoan civilisation on neighbouring Crete., which the Egyptians recorded and Plato later came to hear of. This is by far the most likely origin of the Atlantis story.
Yup. The modern-day shape of the island is pretty-much Exhibit A for what was once the most powerful known category of volcanic eruptions. (Short of a supervolcano.)
You the man Simon. Excellent presentation.
My ears perked up when you said Vinland, after watching Vinland Saga I looked it up and never found anything on it so thank you for that 😊
I've always wanted to visit Trop.
Trop? Now that's what I call a typo.
Not sure how that got approved. Unless it was strategic for clickbait.
😂
This thumbnail is the epitome of the quality of this creator.
I was so confused, because in French it means 'too much'. Discovering too much? Being too enthousiastic in discovering?? Then it hit me 😂
@@JeeVeeHaychhaha 😂
Cool, a family member got a reference in the video! Sweet. Great great uncle Rasmus was a interesting dude. We still have quit a bit of his stuff.
Harry Harrison wrote an absolutely hilarious book called The Technicolor Time Machine about the Vikings traveling to Vinland.
About Columbus: in his time, a conqueror was considered entitled to some looting and having his pick of women from the nation being conquered. His behavior was so egregious, even people who were ok with that basis were appalled. Safe to say that this was not a nice dude. You also left out that Columbus didn't try to convince his sponsors that the earth was round, since they already knew that. The difference of opinion was about the size of the planet. The sponsors knew a number that was close enough to being correct that for their purposes it made no difference and rightfully believed the expedition would run out of food and drinkable water long before reaching land. Columbus was convinced the Earth was a lot smaller than that. The sponsors were right and if there hadn't been this whole continent in the way of the journey to India, Columbus and his crew would indeed have starved.
Well, by 1492, it was known from Eratosthenes' work that Earth had a circumference of 25.000 miles. But from Marco Polo and other travelers along Silk Road, it was known that China lay 7.000 miles, to the East. This leave 18.000 miles to the West, in order to reach China. And this was the source of concern for his sponsors, as no ship would cross 18.000 miles of endless water.
Or sailed off the edge😂😂😂
More on the pyramids, this is speculation for you to consider. During the Great Depression, the US government created jobs for the unemployed, such as The Tennessee Valley Project. When the Nile flooded before the building of the Aswan Dam, there was a large population in Egypt basically unemployed. There were professional rock masons employed year round, but the stones were moved by this temporary workforce. In a way, this was how Egyptian government created work during the floods. I don’t know why this stopped, perhaps instead of funerary campuses(like the Giza Complex)the temps were used to move stone for east bank temples, granaries, and other infrastructure.
If Professor Daniel Jackson says it was aliens who built the pyramids, (and even were launch pads for spaceships) I believe him!
“Trop”
Oh man…how do you even…that bad…😆
I see the thumbnail has been corrected! Was very interested in "discovering trop" as I had no clue what 'trop' might have been, but was too busy to click on the video. Slightly disappointed that I now will never know what 'trop' is or might have been, but it was fun to speculate for a day or so!
There’s a reason Zahi is former minister, and that reason is alleged to be fraud, and abuse. I doubt he has ever actually discovered anything himself, as much as he stole credit from those he oversaw.
10:43 err...media offline?
🤔
You got the work experience guy doing the video for this one?
13:40. “Columbus never set foot on mainland North America, only the Caribbean islands.” False. Columbus was a rotter, but that doesn’t mean he shouldn’t receive due credit. The logs from Columbus’ 3d voyage clearly show he set foot on South America, near the Orinoco River, so his party may have been the first Europeans who could make that claim. Also, his notes said he recognized the Orinoco’s flow is too large for an island, and he surmised (correctly!) that the river drained a large land mass. Further, on his next (4th) voyage, there is plenty of evidence he sailed along the coast of what is now Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama, making multiple landings. That area is part of Central America, which most geographers today consider to be part of North America. So Columbus DID set foot on the mainland of North America. It just didn’t happen until his 4th voyage, by which time many other people were exploring North America. Lastly, in Panama Columbus was told of a great ocean 9 days journey to the west, but due to factors such as poor health Columbus did not undertake the trek which could have led to him, not Balboa, getting naming rights to the Pacific Ocean.
Here’s sth which could be the basis of an interesting video: According to various sources, British, possibly Icelandic, and other fishermen were fishing in the Grand Banks BEFORE 1492. The official British record credits John Cabot (another Italian sailing under a foreign flag) with discovering the Grand Banks, part of the continental shelf of N. America, in 1498. If European fishermen already knew about the fishery, why didn’t they sail further west and “discover” North America?
Ah yes, Trop. From where we get the Tropan goat legend.
Good vid broski
I don't have the specific resource names handy, but the Norse discovery of America is a special interest of mine, and there's actually evidence to suggest Norse settlement and/or travel to North America throughout the few centuries leading up to Columbus, rather than just one short stint around 1000 AD. I think it's somewhere in the financial records of the Norwegian church at the time, because they would receive tithes from Greenland (and I think Iceland) periodically, which is where the Norse settlers to America had originally come from. There've also been alleged claims of other Europeans who supposedly reached or at least sighted North America before Columbus, but they're hard to prove or disprove one way or another, such as the Italian brothers Nicolo and Antonio Zeno. Also, it's widely theorized that Columbus had visited Iceland in 1477, well before the Americas, and I have a feeling that he could've easily found out that North America existed already from speaking to the locals (or having a translator speak to the locals).
What surprises me is that we still call Neanderthals a different species given that we know we interbred
Yeah. Public perception normally lags a decade or three behind scientific advancement, and that's when scientists agree which they quite often don't. When I was reading up on neanderthals 10-12 years ago, their scientific name was almost always given as _Homo sapiens neanderthalis_ (if I remember the spelling right), a subspecies.
Simon Whistler is inevitable.
SideProjects, how did you not mention that the dismissal (at 14:44) of the Kensington runestone 100 years ago was itself disproved recently by the evidence of unforgeable root growth on it from the tree that grew over it many years before it was dug up?
"Historia" was the title of Herodotus' work and gave the name to the field. Contrary to some feminists, it does not mean His Story, but Inquiries. His inquiry was ultimately about how the small Greek city states beat the huge Persian Empire. In answering it, he dug up a lot of facts and near facts about other lands which were peripheral to his subject.
Had he chosen to write about women's role in the Persian Empire, he would have used mostly other sets of facts, insofar as they were available.
History changes in part because we know more, but also because we ask different questions than our predecessors. For instance, there was a school of archaeological thought when I was a grad student which was engrossed in the study of trade, what was traded, how much, trade routes, origins and markets, etc. Economic history. In the course of this, some stray stories of Herodotus were confirmed, a few were discredited, and some were found to be partially true. Herodotus is generally very clear when he knows something personally, and when he is relaying what he was told.
No feminist thinks "history" comes from "his story"
I have seen it numerous times in print, and since Herodotus, indeed, the whole field off ancient history, is not exactly a popular field of study, I have no idea how many seriously believe it, but I would not want to bet that there are none.
I really appreciate that you are labeling which images in your videos have been created by AI. I don't mind AI but prefer it when people disclose it, so thank you 🙏
As someone who worked in producing textbooks for grade schools in the United States, Viking explorerers as the first Europeans have been noted scince 1990s.
Even when I was a kid of the 70s and 80s were taught that Columbus didn't discover the world was round, did he find North America.
However discovery of North America goes to those that cross the land bridge and became the first nations.
(history books get updated every 5 years)
I'm sure the Vikings were as much savages to the proud Europeans of the Age of Discovery as the people they conquored, if they thought of them at all.
I thought it went "fourteen hundred and ninety two Columbus got us a day off school".
That Segway from neanderthals to radiant skin really threw me through a loop
The Vikings were indeed in the Midwest as my deceased brother-in-law discovered signs of Vikings on the Viking Trail in North Western Wisconsin and Minnesota! He passed in 98 so it's been known for over 36 years!
Columbus did, in fact, set foot in mainland North America. It wasn't until his fourth voyage, though, which touched base in what is now Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama.
If I could go back to a moment in history, I would like to watch that person figure out the bow and arrow.
I think it comes from fire making. You can roll a stick between the hands pressed onto some wood to make fire, but it is hard work. If you can make any sort of string (from sinew, strands from plants etc.) wrap it round the stick and tie the ends to a bent stick to provide friction and move that bent one back and forth, you have a bow drill (look up videos of this). It doesn't take much to then realise that the bow can propel a stick then work to make a bigger and better one.
It is also possible that this method of fire making may have come from trying to make holes in wood for construction.
@@nlwilson4892 do you think the bow drill came first or the bow for hunting?
@@anthonycade9034 The bow drill would make sense, much simpler. A bow for hunting need to be much more refined, you need much better "string" and a stronger bow to get and force or distance and arrows need to be very straight and all the same weight and width to be predictable in where they will hit. Although they probably used them quite close-up at first and refined them over generations to go further.
Viking presence in North America was taught to me in elementary school in the 80s and 90s.
Simon, you rock!
14:48 The best part about this “hoax” is that it has since been proven false! The Kensington Runestone was found embedded in the ROOTS of a tree that was at least 200 YEARS old… so yeah it was largely considered a hoax for around a century until the technology caught up and proved otherwise. 😂😂😂 But do Minnesotan schools teach this cool piece of state history? Not when I was in school from 2001-2014. It might be taught now but I highly doubt it.
I'm surprised you mentioned Atlantis as an example of something that was purely fictional, since it was quite possibly inspired by a massive volcanic eruption that nearly destroyed the large island of Santorini (Thera) in the Aegean sea around 1600 BC.
American education leaves a lot of room for improvement in many areas, but they ceased teaching the 'Columbus' myth a long time ago.
23rd Century:
“Wow those 21st Century scholars and people sure were clueless about humans.”
The inhabitants of Trop were The Tropics, right?
Many Americans now call the date that was Columbus day Indigenous People Day
History is fascinating and amazing.
Don't spread misinformation about Herodotus!!
The "mythical information" he includes is when he explains (for example) "The locals who live in this region of Asia Minor believe the Elder God C'thulhu lives in this area and that the only way to placate him is by sacrificing a pregnant rat every night before the full moon..."
I'm sure you'll agree that reporting on the crazy beliefs of others is VERY different from saying "And the Cyclops monsters live here with us, along with the Hecatonchires, forever guarding the summit of Tartarus..."
So please, don't malign Herodotus and don't spread misinformation about him!
Yo Simon. Can we get a video on where all the money going to Ukraine is winding up? Or how about one that tracks the stock trades of politicians worth 100 millions that only have a salary ~$220k
Comrade Simon would be all to happy for 100% of your money to disappear in the Ukraine with no accountability. He's not going to make a video about it. It is possible he'd make a video about politicians making millions off of stock trades, but I'd wager he'd only include certain politicians in the video.
The US isn't sending money to Ukraine, it is sending US manufactured arms and ammunition. The US Gov (and others) have satellites that can see where it is ending up along with loads of videos in the public domain.
Fun fact: the Maine Coon cat exists only because of forest cats going loose from norse ships. Also, they just traded and went home. They weren't chased off. The Wendigo is based upon the draugr.
I was at school witha really big lad who couldn't pronounce the word properly and called them Nan-derfal, which became his nickname, but you had to be a fair distance away if you were gonna yell it at him because he's smush you like a mammoth! 🦖
Also, slaves might not be mentioned in accounts of a workforce. They possibly were considered non-persons, equivalent to animals. Thus an Egyptian overseer might by called "the builder" without mentioning his workforce.
History doesn't always tell the whole tale.
The Vikings discovering America is the equivalent to writing "first" in the comments section of TH-cam, whereas Columbus would be the entire works of Western European literature. There was no actual greater consequence of the Vikings travels. Columbus' voyage created the modern world by allowing Western European countries to become extremely wealthy and continuously advance scientifically and technologically to today. The Vikings discovery is the literal definition of the word trivial.
Fun fact. I am 70 years old, and I learned all of that when I was in school.
Minor correction
"Scræling" means "one who screams” cause they couldnt understand their war cries as anything other than screaming.
Thanks for that. I thought "wretched" strange as the Vikings seemed to use factual names and couldn't imagine why the locals would all be wretched.
To most of us (in the US) the whole "in 1492, Columbus..." thing was non-sense by the time we got out of elementary school. By secondary school, we knew that (this is back in the 80's) that it was most likely that (A) Columbus never actually set foot in North America and (B) the Scandinavians had been here CENTURIES before. Yeah...Americans are ignorant sometimes...but not on this case.
If the islands off the coast off the Americas don't count as part of the Americas than England is not part of Europe and Japan is not part of Asia. Thus the English aren't European and the Japanese aren't Asian.
Also, Columbus may have not been the first European to set foot in NA but he did discover Americas in the sense that Europe was made aware of the new world because of his travels. The same cannot be said of the Norse expeditions.
I was in school in the same era, and I was not taught about the Scandinavians in the Americas.
@@Guy-cb1oh Neither Leiv Eriksson (norseman) og Columbus did find America. The American continent had already been found by "what is later called" American natives 20000 or 16000 years ago. What Leiv Eriksson and Columbus did find was the sea way between Europe and America. Europeans didn't discover much, we just wrecked the life of others in our so-called discoveries
It was an incredible introduction video
Mr. Whistler. Ill have you know my wife is a teacher, and plenty of her textbooks are brand new.
We printed them out ourselves..... At home.
"To make ammunition for the Crimean war"
Something things just don't change...
The history of our evolution, in my humble opinion, is so incomplete that our "conclusions" are wrong by default.
Everyone is just accepting that one race/species just went right into the smart stuff… It's quite unbelievable… we should see a ton of failures, from the cats that mastered fired, to snakes with axes… yet we know of nothing even close.
I went to school in the US and graduated high school in 1998. I was absolutely NEVER taught that Columbus was brave nor the first European to discover America. You're kind of judgmental dude, Simon.
He lies in most of his videos. Most Brits were taught lies and believe them to this day. There’s a reason why the UK is obsolete now
I’m hoping if we make fun of the thumbnail enough Simon will complain about it on the next business blaze
As an American i can say i did learn the rhyme that goes in 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue but you left out what happened after he hit the rock
I love the stories about Melen of Trop, and how she was incredibly ugly. So ugly a war was started, because she was too ugly to be left alive.
Someone once said history is what we're told happened the past is what you did getting out of bed this morning.
Some gimp.
There's a shock!?
Hawass was wrong about something in Egypt... 😂
From what i've heard the leading theory is that the reason we sapiens out competed neanderthals because sapiens relied in ranged hunting which let sapiens take down prey safely. Meanwhile the Neanderthals were hunting up close which led more often to people dying during hunts as well as Spaiens being able to take down megafauna that the Neaderthals couldn't.
We bred them out. Take a DNA test. You have neanderthal dna. Explain that any other way
Couldn’t the building of the pyramids be a hybrid workforce of artisans AND slaves? Makes sense to me
No. The Egyptian army was small and dispersed. You couldn't control that many people
Also slavery was unheard of in the 3rd and 4th dynasty when they built them
They were built by workers not slaves they were paid good
Nah, artisans and laborers. The workers were well fed and well cared for, with their own on-site towns and all the beer and grains they could want. Egypt didn't really do the slave thing at this point in their history anyway.
@@semaj_5022it makes sense to me, especially after I started watching the TV show "Hell on Wheels", a fictionalized accounting of the traveling tent city that moved along as the train tracks were built across the U.S.. this is how things get done.
If you really think about it. Given the immense importance your burial holds to an ancient Egyptian. Just the prospect of dying and being buried in such a holy place. It was probably a greater honor than for dying in war. So the workforce was probably easy to gather. Hell they probably turned a ton of Egyptians down. There may have even been a lottery or something.
Who picked the music at 6:52? Heinrich Schliemann has music that sounds like he's on a SitCom.
Man they didn't teach us that Columbus was heroic.
He was tho
The fact that Neanderthals were just different adaptations of humans depending on where they lived disproves evolution by itself. Scientists literally just put the skeletons together wrong.
I was waiting for the twist where archeologists had discovered the true name of the city was Trop and history had been revised to call it Troy
i watched this today the 21/10/2024 the back to the future reference hit hard.
Beginning to get whiplash from these ad pivots
Plato actually does say the story of Atlantis was real and not just a story, it actually originated in Egypt.
During the Ice Age the sea levels were higher so there are quite a few civilizations around the world that went under water and got lost.
I suspect that the human/canine partnership is a larger part of the explanation of why modern humans survived and Neanderthals did not than is currently understood. I'm not basing this on any science I've actually seen, just on the fact that dogs are so ubiquitous through human populations. This partnership was clearly incredibly important to humans.
As an American, I have never heard that rhyme before in my life...
If you think you can trust Zahi Hawas for telling you not only that he discovered something himself, but that he proved anything about ancient Egypt, I have no words for you😂
Re Troy, the real story of Troy is far more important than the still disputed location of the City. Many people still believe Homer's story that a group of defeated Greek Soldiers built a large wooden horse, hid inside it and waited for it to be wheeled inside.
The trouble with this story is that it has been translated from (ancident) Greek to Latin and then to English and other modern languages. Those who can read not only Greek but ancient Greek will tell you a different story.
In short: a few Greeks were welcomed into the peaceful City of Troy, where they worked their way up in status, encouraging more Greeks to come to the welcoming City of Troy. Eventually there were so many Greeks that the Trojans had no choice but to adapt their own ways to suit the newcomers, eventually being out-numbered by them.
This is supported by a study of migration flows around the World since. Here in England, I know that about 1,200 years ago my Germanic ancestors did the same to the indigenous olde Englishmen. Indeed this is happening to many populations around the Western World today. NB no political or social comment intended- just a narrative of history.
There have been efforts to combat it throughout history too. In the 19th century, California enacted unconstitutional laws against Chinese to stop it happening in San Francisco. I'm sure I've read of others I can't recall right now. There's the Bible book of Exodus of course, in which Pharaoh orders the oppression and even attempted genocide of the Israelites exactly because he fears they would soon outnumber the Egyptians.
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“But not Atlantis”. Me and Fact Boi are so on the same page 😂.
TROP HAS BEEN FIXED. good job guys.
Wow!! New Sunday video!! Who needs football!?!? 😊
0:12 pedantic comment: you don’t need to specify “reverse time travel” to weed out the pedants like me, better to say “control travel through time” because we’d be happy to freeze and fast forward time as well I think.
Why does the thumbnail say "Discovering Trop" and how did nobody catch it??
CAPTAIN CAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAVE MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!
The music @ about 7 mins lol 😂