Ancient Explorers: Hanno, Himilco, and Pytheas

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  • @tygrkhat4087
    @tygrkhat4087 4 ปีที่แล้ว +63

    For everything we know about ancient times, there are hundreds of more things yet to be discovered and thousands that we will never know.

    • @impaugjuldivmax
      @impaugjuldivmax 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      so much people and their stories just disappeared as they never lived

    • @peekaboopeekaboo1165
      @peekaboopeekaboo1165 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ancient Austronaut theorists says "Yes"!

    • @CYCLONE4499
      @CYCLONE4499 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That in a nutshell is why I became a history teacher and life long student! Between all the different civilizations and advancements and stories of adventure and battle I find it nearly impossible to ever feel bored

    • @cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647
      @cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      This Guy brings this and others back to life.

  • @dirtcop11
    @dirtcop11 4 ปีที่แล้ว +84

    I often wonder about the history that was recorded and then lost over time. Had there been a duplicate of the Library of Alexandria we would probably have some amazing discoveries that would show us what treasures were lost when the great library burned.

    • @TheHistoryGuyChannel
      @TheHistoryGuyChannel  4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      th-cam.com/video/idmP_Kpjo2E/w-d-xo.html

    • @patfontaine5917
      @patfontaine5917 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@TheHistoryGuyChannel thanks!

    • @georgemalakasis
      @georgemalakasis 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The books from Alexandria' library weren't burned. There are evidences that they are hidden in Vatican.

    • @rickyusa1000
      @rickyusa1000 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      I remember hearing Carl Sagan say if he could go back in time to any one place he would go to the library in Alexandria.

    • @rnash999
      @rnash999 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@georgemalakasis What evidence? The scrolls in the library were burned probably by Julius Caesar in 48 BC, several hundred years before the Vatican was a thing.

  • @larsandrune
    @larsandrune 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    I believe there was probably many other carthaginians and greeks who sailed and traded outside the Mediterranean ocean simply because there was money to be made but these voyages were never recorded or forgotten.

  • @zach7193
    @zach7193 4 ปีที่แล้ว +89

    The History Guy never ceases to amaze us.

    • @LowdownBoy
      @LowdownBoy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I agree

    • @derrekvanee4567
      @derrekvanee4567 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      In great Ukraine tale amazed by history dude is true da.

    • @nastybastardatlive
      @nastybastardatlive 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      You got a mouse in your pocket? Who's "us"?

    • @jacquesstrapp3219
      @jacquesstrapp3219 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@nastybastardatlive "Us" is everybody that isn't them.

    • @YeshuaDisciple916
      @YeshuaDisciple916 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@nastybastardatlive when referring to "us", he was referring to all of us that feel the same way he does. If you don't agree, than it wasn't meant for you. Kind disregard is how best to handle these situations. Especially considering most of us are here because we agree. Hence the amount if likes the comment has.

  • @Zebred2001
    @Zebred2001 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    There was another great early explorer - Euthymenes of Massalia (early 6th century B.C.) who also explored the west coast of Africa.

  • @Psychol-Snooper
    @Psychol-Snooper 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Thanks for another great episode! It's good that people are paying attention to Carthage now. They were just as interesting as the Egyptians, Greeks and Romans.

    • @BenGrem917
      @BenGrem917 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Phoenician and Carthaginian civilization is extremely awesome, yes.

    • @Psychol-Snooper
      @Psychol-Snooper 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@BenGrem917 We need a movie!

  • @davidcarroll8735
    @davidcarroll8735 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I am a proud monthly Patreon supporter of this channel because prior to this video my only reference point was from Spaceship Earth and, “Thank the Phoenicians”. Partner with me this year and grow this channel by picking up some merchandise or supporting THG on Patreon!

  • @bretnielsen5502
    @bretnielsen5502 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I love having my mind jogged to remember pieces of history I'd forgotten OR learn new items for further research and learning.

  • @umami0247
    @umami0247 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I believe mankind sailed around this globe well before we give them credit for. How early we may never know but we know that man is a very adventurous Individual and not afraid to explore the world. The history that wasn't written about is way more interesting than the history we know.

    • @bretthess6376
      @bretthess6376 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      It was recently discovered through genetic tests that some of the southwestern Native Americans are part Ainu, the Aboriginal people of northern Japan. That means several thousand years ago an Ainu took a skin boat about 5,000 miles from Japan, and probably ( across some of the wildest seas in the world ) along the Alutian Islands, down the Northwest and California coasts, and then walked inland about 800 miles where he settled with the peoples there I would have liked to have known him.

  • @dsc4178
    @dsc4178 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The loss of knowledge from the Library at Alexandria, such a tragedy. Lost knowledge is always so.

  • @anthonyhargis6855
    @anthonyhargis6855 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Outstanding history, that needs to be remembered. And taught in schools. ;-)

    • @kathyyoung1774
      @kathyyoung1774 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      What they teach now in school is activism

    • @anthonyhargis6855
      @anthonyhargis6855 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@kathyyoung1774 Oh, you are soooo right.

    • @cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647
      @cornbreadfedkirkpatrick9647 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      and things that aren't taught in school, and those that is omitted, hidden by the shools

  • @austinknowlton1783
    @austinknowlton1783 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Love your videos! Would you please do one on my Great Great Great Great Great Grandfather Lt. Col. Thomas Knowlton?

  • @MarshOakDojoTimPruitt
    @MarshOakDojoTimPruitt 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    thanks

  • @grimreaper6557
    @grimreaper6557 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you for the amazing video on a history that needs to be remembered these ancent voyages are important to remember

  • @mellissadalby1402
    @mellissadalby1402 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I don't know how you do it. You always find the greatest stories, of which I have never before heard. Good show, Sir!

  • @TheRiverPirate13
    @TheRiverPirate13 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very amazing stories of ancient mariners. No GPS but just basic navigational skills.

  • @lizarnold87
    @lizarnold87 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    You always teach me something new.....thanks .....happy holidays

  • @willgriff
    @willgriff 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is the earliest I've ever been in comment number 74 only 2 hours after you uploaded it it's crazy how special I feel even though you could be anywhere in the world from the Philippines to Denmark God bless TH-cam

  • @morrisyoung9742
    @morrisyoung9742 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Al stewart has a song 'Hanno the Navigator' on his 'Sparks of ancient light' album.

    • @taun856
      @taun856 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      You beat me to it! I really enjoy that song.

  • @Kevin-mx1vi
    @Kevin-mx1vi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    To give a little perspective, Mediterranean ships tend to have a low freeboard, suitable for sailing in the relatively benign conditions of that sea. Sailing beyond the Gibraltar Straits and into Atlantic conditions must have been very difficult and dangerous in such craft.

    • @jonathanwetherell3609
      @jonathanwetherell3609 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      The one thing they did have was time. Coastal navigation is possible in craft that would seem unsuitable if you chose good weather and stay ashore when it is not.

    • @peterhart4301
      @peterhart4301 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      At first, I also thought that sailing into the Atlantic would have been hazardous, but maybe there is an explanation. Going back in time to when these explorers where sailing, the weather would have been different. The world would have been cooler (closer in time to the last ice age), the ocean levels lower, less storms, less winds and a calmer ocean and seas. Maybe???

    • @bretthess6376
      @bretthess6376 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You got that right. Perhaps they built ships with a deeper keel and a higher freeboard. And while sticking to the coastline as much as possible is probably what they did, it is not always possible to do so.
      Those guys were good sailors, and they had balls of iron.

  • @whatshisfacemcwhatnot9550
    @whatshisfacemcwhatnot9550 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Fascinating. Thank you for making this video.

  • @jamesmoss3424
    @jamesmoss3424 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Those three are new to me.

    • @dkwilliams9819
      @dkwilliams9819 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Me too, I love this guy

    • @jamesmoss3424
      @jamesmoss3424 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@dkwilliams9819 he is cool. 😀👍

  • @stevedietrich8936
    @stevedietrich8936 4 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    "To boldly go where no man has gone before ." - Captain James T. Kirk

    • @sandybarnes887
      @sandybarnes887 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      "To boldly go where no one has gone before" Jean-Luc Picard. 😄

    • @stevedietrich8936
      @stevedietrich8936 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@sandybarnes887 Yep, they changed it somewhere along the line to be gender neutral.

    • @ronfullerton3162
      @ronfullerton3162 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      With no radio to call for help. These explorers were definitely on their own. Anything goes wrong, and there you are!

    • @sandybarnes887
      @sandybarnes887 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@stevedietrich8936 bingo

    • @garysarratt1
      @garysarratt1 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      James Tiberius Kirk

  • @Eljefe003
    @Eljefe003 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    This was my favorite of your work! Thank you.

  • @bretthess6376
    @bretthess6376 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Might you do a segment on the Ainu who sailed from Northern Japan to California, and then walked inland to Arizona... About 6,000 years ago? What he must have seen! How I would like to have met him!

  • @steveclark4291
    @steveclark4291 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you for sharing this with me ! Take care , stay safe and healthy with whatever you maybe doing next ! Please have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year ! Doing well here in Kansas .

  • @jdinhuntsvilleal4514
    @jdinhuntsvilleal4514 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I'm a bit confused on Pytheas' journey north. "Pythe s adds that the land had no sunlight in mid-summer, implying that it would be within the Arctic circle." I thought the Arctic was the land of the MIDNIGHT sun, or that the sun never went down in the summer.

  • @tommy-er6hh
    @tommy-er6hh 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Nice video, i was hoping you would mention:
    1. c. 130 BC Eudoxus of Cyzicus exploring Indian Ocean for Ptolemy VIII of Egypt, discovered a shipwreck from Gadiz (Cadiz Spain), that must have come West to east around the Cape of Good Hope. He then tried to circumnavigate Africa E to W, results uncertain. He survived regardless.
    Or 2. the Roman 3rd cent ship wreck found off Brazil, which Brazil navy re-buried and then made up a tale to discredit it to preserve their Potugese discoverer Cabral....national pride.

  • @KAZVorpal
    @KAZVorpal ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Please tell me more about this bronze age description of trade in the Senegal region a thousand years before Hanno. I can't find anything about that.

  • @benjaminrees6665
    @benjaminrees6665 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Amazing. One of my favorite episodes

  • @metalsomemother3021
    @metalsomemother3021 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So, I know you can't comment to ALL of the posts, but I am a subscriber, and listen almost daily to the current or past episodes. I have made several suggestions for future episodes, and even if you don't like them, it would be good to know that. My current suggestion is to look at Julian of Norwich. She was a contemplative in the 1300's during the time of the Black Plague and was one of only a handful of women who were aesthetics, and the first woman to ever be published and we are still reading and learning from her today. BTW the other recommendations I posted were for Thomas Francis Meagher, who led an incredible life from Ireland to Australia as a convict and ended up as an American Statesman, and Grace O'Malley a 16th century Irish pirate who had many adventures, and some of them really even happened. It is perfectly fine if none of these folks strike your fancy, but please respond or change your exit mantra

    • @TheHistoryGuyChannel
      @TheHistoryGuyChannel  4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      We appreciate all viewer topic suggestions! But we get so many that we cannot guarantee what will be made into and episode or when. The best was to send a topic suggestion is to email Suggestions@TheHistoryGuy.net

  • @romeoduque7297
    @romeoduque7297 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I've always dream of an undiscovered Carthaginian civilization in south America , descending of Hano's expeditions hehe. Thanks for sharing!

  • @chrisoleary9876
    @chrisoleary9876 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Thank you!

    • @glenmartin2437
      @glenmartin2437 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Never heard of these explorers. Thanks for the forgotten history.

  • @mike89128
    @mike89128 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    In his book Ultima Thule, or, A Summer in Iceland, famed British explorer and linguist Sir Richard Burton, makes the case that Iceland was settled long before the ninth century. When Norsemen came ashore in the 7th century they found a colony of Irish monks, who told them they found a race of men already there when they came.

  • @twistysunshine
    @twistysunshine 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Would love to hear about other ancient explorers from outside of Europe too!

  • @MrWATCHthisWAY
    @MrWATCHthisWAY 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Human nature is to seek the unknown! Truer words were ever spoken.

  • @JasonTHutchinson
    @JasonTHutchinson 4 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    Astonishingly 2,000 years later, some still think the Earth is flat.

    • @yomismosoyelregalo2266
      @yomismosoyelregalo2266 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      The Flat Earth Society is not made up of people who think the earth is flat. Nobody thinks that. We think that government scientists can’t be trusted. We want to check for ourselves because we know they are lying.

    • @PanzerDave
      @PanzerDave 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      It is flat. Just watch the beginning of Monty Python's documentary The Meaning of Life! : )

    • @acharonim4659
      @acharonim4659 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Best way to describe it is that we live in a snow globe created by The Most High. Our Realm or our plan of existence is described as his foot stool in scripture.

    • @moocowdad
      @moocowdad 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      back in the early 70s i actually dated a girl in high school whos parents named her earth, true story, and well.....yeah

    • @poursomebeeronit
      @poursomebeeronit 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@moocowdad Lmao.

  • @squillz8310
    @squillz8310 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I never learned this in school. This is absolutely fascinating to me. Thank you so much!

  • @constipatedinsincity4424
    @constipatedinsincity4424 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you Playboy for such an entertaining peek into History !

  • @jameswoodard4304
    @jameswoodard4304 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks! I had never even heard of Pytheas.

  • @jamesengland7461
    @jamesengland7461 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you, History Guy, as always! Another great history lesson!

  • @wascallywabbit7102
    @wascallywabbit7102 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Outstanding and very informative video.
    From my earliest memories I have always been fascinated by history and have read everything I could get my hands on, but I have never heard of these explorers before. FASCINATING!
    I took notes and am intrigued. I look forward to researching this and reading more.

  • @patfontaine5917
    @patfontaine5917 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for all your posts. I love history and truly enjoy the wide range of history you gift us - worth remembering.

  • @glenmartin2437
    @glenmartin2437 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you.

  • @HM2SGT
    @HM2SGT 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I don't know why we're all so amazed & enthralled; after all- the man has thousands and thousands of years things the draw from!😉

  • @josephstevens9888
    @josephstevens9888 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great video History Guy! Ever since I was a small kid, I've always been enthralled with stories of exploration. I hope to live to see when humans trek across across the surface of Mars. Oh, I know we can see and learn plenty from our robotic explorers in such places, but nothing beats first-person experience!

  • @randymarsh5088
    @randymarsh5088 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Always a great way to start the day with The History Guy . Thanks for the continuously incredible content .

  • @wellbbq
    @wellbbq 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love learning from you. thank you

  • @wardaddyindustries4348
    @wardaddyindustries4348 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I think my history teacher covered this I know I've heard it before but always good to rediscover.

  • @BobSmith-dk8nw
    @BobSmith-dk8nw 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    One thing to keep in mind about these guys was - they were the ones who _wrote_ about what they did. How many others did similar things - but didn't bother to write it down - or if they did - it was lost?
    .

  • @lucifervane9580
    @lucifervane9580 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ty for all your lessons. 😇

  • @bretthess6376
    @bretthess6376 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Outstanding vid. One might mention the forensic detection of tobacco and cocaine in the mummies of Egyptian pharaohs. If these findings are accurate, then there were trade routes between the Americas and Dynastic Egypt 3,500 years ago. It wouldn't surprise me. We're very enterprising critters. I myself own a Roman coin that was said to have been found in an Indian mound in central Illinois. The mound dated to about 600-800 C.E.

  • @gregoryborlan747
    @gregoryborlan747 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Everybody praised explorers like Columbus for their journeys. Yet, The Mediterranean civilizations have been doing this long before the age of discovery began.

    • @tsopmocful1958
      @tsopmocful1958 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I think an important point about the 'Age of Discovery' that differentiates it from the earlier explorers is the initial motivations for doing it.
      The Portuguese and Spanish already knew where they wanted to go, and so it was a completely mercantile decision to get around what was essentially a continent sized beseigment blocking trade to the Far East.
      So far from curiosity driven 'discovery' or the search for potentially new trading opportunities, the Europeans were trying to reestablish preexisting links as a response to externally applied pressure, causing the Europeans to be popped out onto the unknown oceans like an orange pip squeezed between a finger and thumb.
      If that pressure hadn't been there, it may well have taken many more years before Africa was circumnavigated or the Americas found and permanently settled by people of the 'Old World'.

    • @mred8002
      @mred8002 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      And the Phoenicians, Chinese, Norse, Egyptian, and all the rest,

    • @kathyyoung1774
      @kathyyoung1774 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      They were all brave and taking huge chances

  • @beaumartinez8705
    @beaumartinez8705 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I just saw another video about this about a month ago. Very good job as always.

  • @62forged
    @62forged 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow! Thanks for another great video.

  • @JamesD92763
    @JamesD92763 4 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    11:50,... I'm pretty sure that's Bill Clinton sailing that boat....

    • @theuglybiker
      @theuglybiker 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      He was sailing to an island owned by Epstein, ruler of the Kingdom of Pedophelia.
      The king known to history for not killing himself.

    • @MattRichardsonX
      @MattRichardsonX 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Or Tony Spilotro

    • @alohathaxted
      @alohathaxted 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      So he went down on the sea in ships?

    • @johntabler349
      @johntabler349 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Creepy

    • @markgarin6355
      @markgarin6355 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ha...

  • @RetiredSailor60
    @RetiredSailor60 4 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    I was fortunate to have sailed most of the world's seas and oceans with the US Navy

    • @derrekvanee4567
      @derrekvanee4567 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Join da navy. Yavn ad noij

    • @a3skywarrior929
      @a3skywarrior929 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Enterprise, Roosevelt and Truman

    • @zoeyshoots
      @zoeyshoots 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Thank you for serving my country

    • @RetiredSailor60
      @RetiredSailor60 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@a3skywarrior929 Semmes, Cape Cod, Kinkaid, Whidbey Island and Wasp.

    • @josephstevens9888
      @josephstevens9888 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Cool.... Fair winds and following seas!

  • @buzztp5119
    @buzztp5119 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Greatest Explorer of all time Bilbo Baggins.

  • @briansmith9439
    @briansmith9439 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Couldn't help but notice "Oualidia" on the map of Morocco - came as a surprise as it is such a small town which I had the great fortune of visiting in September 2019. A Dutch ancestor was appointed admiral of the port in 1634 and I thought that seeing his residence and ruins of the kasbah was going back in time. Did not know there was anything there that predated that time period. Looks like I'll have to make a return trip.

  • @rosemcguinn5301
    @rosemcguinn5301 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Excellent! Great episode

  • @trishthehomesteader9873
    @trishthehomesteader9873 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I never realized they ventured so far north. 🙂
    I love your Christmas bow tie, THG! 🎄💜

  • @austind4098
    @austind4098 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I may have missed it but if you haven’t already you should do an episode about Yi Sun-Sin the Korean admiral who led one of the most impressive naval defenses against the invading Japanese forces. I think the Japanese fleet at 333 ships and he had 13. If I remember correctly he never lost a battle and even his final battle where he was killed he had an amazing quote that were his last words and amazing summed up his genius

  • @FuzzyMarineVet
    @FuzzyMarineVet 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Lance, perhaps you could investigate the Natchez civilization in modern Louisiana and Mississippi. There are some who believe these people were a colony of Phoenicians that settled the delta area around the time that Solomon was building the Temple in Jerusalem.

  • @korbell1089
    @korbell1089 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you, never knew about that but at the same time it really doesn't come as a surprise. There are 2 traits that make humans unique among all the species of Earth. We are curious and also we are restless, and that is how humans have come to inhabit every corner of the globe. It is those 2 qualities that will one day enable us to travel to the stars! (if we don't blow ourselves up first)

  • @1stAmbientGrl
    @1stAmbientGrl 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    To my knowledge, "thule" means north. I remember coming across that info years ago.

    • @bretthess6376
      @bretthess6376 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Actually, it does not. The origin of this word is unknown. Perhaps it is a native word adapted to Latin use.

  • @a-skepticalman6984
    @a-skepticalman6984 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Fascinating.

  • @nickvandergraaf1053
    @nickvandergraaf1053 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very nice overview! Pytheas almost certainly left Masillia and went via established Gaulish trade routes overland to the Bay of Biscay. They had a vague knowledge of the geography, that they lived on land between the Mediterranean, the Western Sea and the Northern Sea. The route up the Rhone and then NW was likely known of by the Massaliotes, though probably not personally experienced by any of them.

  • @DanH34
    @DanH34 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Imagine the sheer bravery that making those voyages into the unknown in such primitive vessels must have taken...

  • @chuckw1113
    @chuckw1113 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I don’t know if you are a fan of Al Stewart. He’s a rock historian, for lack of a better description, most of whose songs are historically based. He has a song called Hanno the Navagator. One of my favorites.

  • @jmac8092
    @jmac8092 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    ty sir

  • @logiticalresponse9574
    @logiticalresponse9574 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Future 8th wonder of the world will be the amount of history the history guy can compress into 15 minutes. Keep this pace up and one day u just might run out of history....
    ..........😅
    Nevermind, I forgot what I was gonna say
    .............. oh well, I guess that deserved to be forgotten . Or would forgetted be more accurate here,.............. I cant remember 🤪

  • @bjs001001
    @bjs001001 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great stuff. Love these videos.

  • @christophertcraig
    @christophertcraig 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Another great vid THG

  • @SB-qm5wg
    @SB-qm5wg 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video.

  • @franknicholson6108
    @franknicholson6108 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    WOW Before Rome they must have been excellent sailors. Great episode thenks for teaching the people who sre unaware.

  • @jessiejones6633
    @jessiejones6633 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    "All I ask is a tall ship, and a star to steer her by." - Captain James T. Kirk (not sure who he was quoting)

    • @sandybarnes887
      @sandybarnes887 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
      And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by;
      And the wheel’s kick and the wind’s song and the white sail’s shaking,
      And a grey mist on the sea’s face, and a grey dawn breaking.
      www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/54932/sea-fever-56d235e0d871e

    • @jessiejones6633
      @jessiejones6633 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@sandybarnes887 thank you

    • @sandybarnes887
      @sandybarnes887 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@jessiejones6633 you are very welcome. I'm glad I could help. It's a pretty poem.

    • @mred8002
      @mred8002 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      John Masefield

    • @kevinbyrne4538
      @kevinbyrne4538 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That's from the poem "Sea Fever" by John Masefield. It was my dad's favorite poem. He learned it in high school.

  • @untruelie2640
    @untruelie2640 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    According to chinese chronicles, Emperor Huan of Han received a delegation from the Roman Empire in 166 AD. However, contemporary roman chronicles don't mention this diplomatic mission; therefore it is unlikely, that Emperor Marcus Aurelius knew about this journey. According to the historian Lionel Casson, it's more likely that these romans were just merchants who pretended to be an offfcial delegation in order to gain direct access to the silk trade. Nevertheless, this is an astonishing journey as well.
    Roman trade with India (via the Red Sea) was much more frequent than many people believe. There is evidence for several hundred merchant ships (!) travelling to India and back to the egyptian ports on the Red Sea every year. The Romans even produced a map of India, the "tabula peutingeriana", which shows that they knew the river Ganges as well as Ceylon/Sri Lanka (known as "isola taprobane"). There is also evidence for the existence of several small communites of roman merchants on the southwest coast of India. The map even shows a temple of the deified Augustus near Muziris (near modern day Kodungallur in Kerala).

  • @arailway8809
    @arailway8809 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    In the Florida of the Inca, it is said that de Soto's men, in the 1540's
    found a tribe perhaps near where Star City, Arkansas is today.
    The name of their town was Anno, I believe, and the
    people exhibited some of the characteristics of the Phoenicians,
    being friendly, aiding in building ships, providing supplies.
    (The copper trade from the Great Lakes region reached that far south.)
    Not surprisingly, the other tribes tended to be war-like
    and pursued the Spaniards in color coordinated canoes
    as they fled down the Mississippi River.

  • @JTA1961
    @JTA1961 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Things get lost in translation... wonder how conversing with the various peoples took place

    • @nastybastardatlive
      @nastybastardatlive 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      At spear point would be my guess.

    • @wolfvale7863
      @wolfvale7863 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      person1 Mmmm that looks tasty
      perso2 Mmmm that looks shiny
      both exchange their bags and if nobody drops dead in the next minute they're buddies.

    • @skysurfer5cva
      @skysurfer5cva 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Google Translate. :-)

    • @JTA1961
      @JTA1961 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Peter Rogan thanks for sharing your knowledge. Had channel shut down. When I questioned... upon further review... obviously things are getting lost in the translation even now. I've been ALL over & paying attention to tone of voice & body language have kept me alive several times. Obviously not something google can utilize. Maybe it was my " no man is an island however ifn you lash alot of bodies together they make a pretty good raft" comment ???

  • @archielundy3131
    @archielundy3131 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    There's a version of Hanno the Navigator in the outstanding scifi novel The Boat Of A Million Years by Poul Anderson. Highly recommended for anyone who likes both history and scifi.

  • @gerryjamesedwards1227
    @gerryjamesedwards1227 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Apparently, a decent proportion of the copper, that, with tin from Cornwall, went to make the bronze of the Age, came from the huge copper mine at The Great Orm in North Wales.

  • @PanzerDave
    @PanzerDave 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    We always assume that those who lived before us weren't capable of much, yet we constantly find out that they accomplished a lot more than we gave them credit for. We are also pushing the timelines back for ancient civilizations. For example,, back in the seventies there was little evidence for Pre-Clovis peoples, but now there is much more. We used to think that the Egyptians, the Indus Valley, or the Mesopotamians were the oldest but now we know of the Jiahu and the people who built Gobleki Tepi and their much older civilizations. I can't wait to see what we find in the next fifty years!!

  • @cliffwoodbury5319
    @cliffwoodbury5319 ปีที่แล้ว

    There was so much tin in England in medieval times and especially in West England. The Welsh are more related to peoples in North Spain and France. Never put that together but it makes sense as far as being a reason for the move.

  • @XX-gy7ue
    @XX-gy7ue 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    excellent

  • @djolley61
    @djolley61 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    The trade in tin, etc. brings up the flourishing civilizations in the Eastern Mediterranean and it's subsequent collapse. That would make an interesting video.

  • @achimkohlhage1328
    @achimkohlhage1328 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    As always vry interesting, tks. May I say 'Helgoland' ist a rocky island in the north sea. It belongs to Germany n ist also nearer to it than Denmark. Cheers fm Achim, Singapore+

  • @havareriksen1004
    @havareriksen1004 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    And there may have been even earlier european seafaring explorers. On the Azores there have been found what appears to be hypogeum, monoliths and wheel ruts that predate the official discovery by as much as 2000 years, if not more. There have been pottery discovered that carbon-14 date to more than 2500 years ago. The Azores are a fair bit out into the Atlantic ocean, so it is a larger feat to sail there than to sail along the coast line. The phoenicians are suspected, but some aspects of the structures there share more with the neolithic cultures of Malta, Sardinia, Corsica etc.

  • @Paraglidecrete
    @Paraglidecrete ปีที่แล้ว

    The Engineers - Technicians Eupalinos, Sostratos, Heron, Zosimos, Kallinikos, manufactured topographic instruments for trigonometric surveying, automatic mechanisms and instruments.Explorers Skylax, Pytheas, Eudoxus, Strabo, Pausanias, Cosmas Indikopleistis, Hecataeus, had mapped the entire surface of the planet.

    • @Paraglidecrete
      @Paraglidecrete ปีที่แล้ว

      and Euhemerus (/juːˈhiːmərəs, -hɛm-/; also spelled Euemeros or Evemerus; Ancient Greek: Εὐήμερος

  • @michaelfoulkes9502
    @michaelfoulkes9502 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    They also came to America. There are thousands of copper mines near Lake Superior that date to 1800 BC.

    • @stevedietrich8936
      @stevedietrich8936 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Likely not mined by peoples from the Mediterranean. Native Americans have mined various metals and quarried stone in that region for at least the last 5000 years.

    • @michaelfoulkes9502
      @michaelfoulkes9502 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They find metal tools left in the mines. Nothing like what Native Americans used.

  • @CrazyCuteThing
    @CrazyCuteThing 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Could you do a historical video on Thomas Mayhew governor of martha's vineyard. He is a direct ancestor of mine and I'd like to know more of him. Thank you

  • @scottyj6226
    @scottyj6226 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    More of this stuff please. Perhaphs an episode on Thor Heyerdahl.

  • @TheMariepi3
    @TheMariepi3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thyle was six days' sail north of Britain and two days south of the frozen sea.

  • @davidaltman3867
    @davidaltman3867 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    ideas for future videos..watching the video about the japanese escape attempt down other made me think about 3 others in europe durning ww 2. the wooden horse escape which like the great escape took place at stalag 3 (different compound though) both the book and movie were mainly fictional versions of the escape and the author of the book "the wooden horse" was one of the three guys who escaped. the other two were done in board daylight and are mentioned in the book version of the great escape. 20 pows dressed as german soldgers marched out the front gate. the other was where two pows actually noticing a blind spot in the guard towers cut through the fence in board daylight .

  • @tomspencer1364
    @tomspencer1364 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Three interesting lives in the field of Medicine: Howard Taylor Ricketts, Alexandre Yersin, and Wu Lien-Teh, from the heroic age of pathology. Ricketts has an entire order and family of microorganisms named after him -- a distinct earned the hard way. Yersin has streets and parks named after him in Vietnam. Wu establish hospitals and medical education institutes throughout the Far East and earned fame quelling the Manchurian Pneumonic Plague outbreak of 1910.

  • @shawnr771
    @shawnr771 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Interesting.
    Where are we going?
    That way.

  • @wolfgangkranek376
    @wolfgangkranek376 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vandino_and_Ugolino_Vivaldi
    Vandino and Ugolino Vivaldi were connected with the first known expedition in search of an ocean way from Europe to India (Cape Route). Ugolino, with his brother Guido or Vandino Vivaldo, was in command of this expedition of two galleys, which he had organized in conjunction with Tedisio Doria, and which left Genoa in May 1291 with the purpose of going to India "by the Ocean Sea" and bringing back useful things for trade. Planned primarily for commerce, the enterprise also aimed at proselytism. Two Franciscan friars accompanied Ugolino. The galleys were well armed and sailed down the Morocco coast to a place called Gozora (Cape Nun), in 28º 47' N., after which nothing more was heard of them. The expedition of the Vivaldi brothers was one of the first recorded voyages that sailed out from the Mediterranean into the Atlantic since the Fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD

  • @deadhorse3389
    @deadhorse3389 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    For some reason the audio on this episode sounds very bad

  • @princessalize7618
    @princessalize7618 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    WOW!!!!!!!!

  • @TaxPayingContributor
    @TaxPayingContributor 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Watch these again.

  • @youtube.youtube.01
    @youtube.youtube.01 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I believe that men were more driven to explore once they mastered sailing. The ease of simply guiding their boats over distances beyond the horizon in a single day's travel with little more to carry on their own backs than a sunshade, was greatly prefered over walking. Serving a boat was easier than serving a herd of service animals. Fresh water was their limit between stops.