Four Great Megacities Of The Ancient World | Metropolis | Timeline
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- The series takes us to the very heart of urban life in the Mediterranean area, the hub of the ancient world. The mighty metropolises of antiquity evolved here from a scattering of settlements. And not one city is like the next. Each developed in its own characteristic fashion, each uniquely marked by its geographical location, its cultural environment, and the prevailing historical circumstances.
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The narrator sounds like John Hurt, the British actor. 👏 This is probably the best documentary I've ever seen! Thank you.
Athens 1:22
Alexandria 53:09
Carthage 1:44:53
Rome 2:36:22
so... its pretty biased... really nothing from Asia? Middle East?
@@cjyoung4080 Okay so Babylon isn't here, but the video is how long?
Beggars can't be choosers. Go make one of your own then.
@@cjyoung4080 biased? Lol🤦♀️ the title doesnt say "the only great megacities. . ." There's nothing "biased" about it. Its simply the 4 these producers etc chose. Thats inanely rediculous to say its biased smh
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This well done walk through history is a glaring reminder of the adage, then more things change, the more they stay the same.
We are all creatures of habit
So true Floy Grace...& People do evil in the name of God. It will never change, sadly.🍂
History repeating itself
@@BlueBonnie764doing evil in the name of god is a sin
This is one of the best documentaries I have ever seen about the ancient cities around the Mediterranean. There is wonderful testimony from scientists, archaeologists and historians, interspersed with vignettes about the actual people who lived in the cities. The little reenactments are tastefully done and quite interesting. I have always thanked God when people in antiquity left their stories in hyroglyphics, stellae, papyri, tablets and burial sites. We also can be extremely grateful for the boundless work of modern professionals for uncovering and interpreting the evidence and fossils.
This presentation provides the best of all sources of information about Athens, Alexandria, Carthage and Rome. It is really amazing what they were able to find out about Carthage, in particular, considering the Romans pretty much wiped it off the face of the earth. So kudos to the team who brought us this documentary. I enjoyed it and learned a lot.
Whole another lesson of English language in several sentences - thank You.
absolutely a pile of rubbish, all the architecture was inherited, all so called Victorian buildings are literally buried in the sedimentary layer of Noah's flood. They didn't put windows in the ground those were 2nd or 3ds floors up now under ground. Literally same architecture on every continent buried. Nagasakiand Hiroshima were carpet bombed not nuclear weapons no radiation to destroy the architecture that was literally the same as new york. however it did not fit the narrative. ALL FAKE his story.
Very complete documantry and after watching this i know i have to visit Greece, I'm from Iran and i love Younan 💙
Such a beautiful, well made documentary. I'm only roughly an hour into it but so far I'm loving how well it's made. Top notch everything. Bravo!
I remember watching this absolutely awesome
TH-cam, thou vanquisher and abetter of insomnia.
I use this to help me sleep .. 💤
Works like a charm 😊
AMAZING WORK & VIBE!!!! Full deep dive
I would like to congratulate the people of Greece on their restoration of the Parthenon. The whole world has been influenced by the ancient Greeks and the whole world rejoices with Greece.
A mega documentary :) this looks awesome.. perfect timing on a Sunday night 🥰
Amen. 🤳
And it still works well on this Sunday night 3 months later friend
5 months later, on this Sunday I am sure enjoying this doc!
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Wolf nipple chips! LOL the Roman Colosseum part reminds me so much of the Monty Python segments of the Life of Brian scene!
The first early big cities were always beside large flowing rivers for obvious reasons. Rome was an inland port when it started out, and there were many other similar places. Then the iron age required massive amounts of charcoal and forests were felled everywhere to produce it. That despoiling caused the rivers to begin silting up as topsoil lost its protective cover.
the beginning of man made climate change
So cool about the car for Steven ! Congratulations Steven ! Glad your family is ok. We had fires/ drought in 97 in florida and i know how stressful that whole situation is for you. I pray for rain instead of griping about it now ! And am praying for yall too !
Uuummmm...???
😂😂😂😂 maybe the fact the ancient world drove cars was lost when the the great library was burned down
OMG - this looks like a comment misplaced from another channel: Curiosity Incorporated. In fact I'm pretty sure I read this comment ON that channel. How the heck did it wind up here??
Wow
@@jasondrummond9451 it was for courisity inc. Weird , huh?
Great documentary. Thank you
This was absolutely brilliant and informative Corina thank you.❤
I love how the man discusses falling in love with the vase. Lovely stuff. 🧡✨️🧡✨️💕
That vase loved me first 😢
I made love to that bowl and now he's drinking out of it...
I love lamp.
Great video Joe 👍🏼
I appreciate this series taking the time to show the lives of some normal people whose records have survived.
The “closed caption” button TH-cam provides does work for this video now, if it didn’t when you made this comment.
Wonderful, I really enjoyed that :)
loved it!
Thanks for the inspiration!!
Thanks for uploading this older video! Still good to watch!
Thanks!
Looks really interesting to me for sure . Would love to travel and explore different countries and history too. Never knew about mega cities before . Interesting for sure . Beautiful for sure . Weird snd crazy story .
For sure
@@ervishyseni7712for sure
Beautiful thanks...❤💐from Sri Lanka 🇱🇰
This is phenomenal 👌
very good work
I loved this video. I am canadian and love the states. I am Albertan and have lived in many provinces i live in southern BC now. This is the first time living so close to the montanna border. I love Americans as most of my family immigrated to canada from Massachusetts in 1636. Thank you for the history lesson that i completely forgot about in the 5th grade!!!!
great content on video
I heard her say ' all this gold just lying around, you just had to pick it up ' ...if only it was that easy today! Lol
Great seeing and hearing your Dad's views on all the turmoil going on in the world. I found him very knowledgeable, reasonable, and interesting, just like you Jake!
I thought it said something else but glad I clicked it. 💯🤙🏽
Edit: 23K views and only 720 likes? 🤔🤔🤔
Rudyard, you blew me away.
Phryne’s unrobing to prove her beauty’s worthiness of Aphrodite’s statue was an absolute BOSS move! I love this video, thank you so much.
Too bad it never happened
I'm rather suprised no one said they wanted to inspect the evidence first hand......to verify it's authenticity of course, with other unrobed beauties I could then make comparisons with....all in pursuit of the truth of course lol
I beg to differ as my imagination made it happen@@hornytarot
very informative, i like it
Thnx for your content
Please subtitles for the deaf
Go to settings and turn on auto generated captions. Best of luck.
My mother is deaf
If you’re on an iPhone, just tap the screen and tap the cc in the top right corner. ☺️
Tap the cc icon. Booya
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I likes history. back to the ancients.
Intresting how two nationalities coexisted that long ago.
Incredible documentary
Excellent !!!
This was so very well done. Thanks. A lot of this type of thing on this topic are not so well presented.
I’ll be buying some soon!!
Beautiful video
It is unfortunate the library of Alexandria was burned. I often wonder what wonderful information was lost.
I know I like to go to libraries and always try to picture what works of history were lost at the Library of Alexandria 🤔
I, too, have thought of the resources lost..
The earth was givin to the hand of the wicked! Only thing was burned was the original books of the timeline of the most high the families an the true story of which todays bibles are just a fraction of!
There are better history articles. But if this is what it takes to get people interested, good luck to you!
have been to carthage twice it is nice
I loved seeing the battlefield and the museum but it was creepy. No women anywhere and all those identical flags row upon row in black red and white up and down every street. Was like 1939 Germany.
Remarkable telling the way it once was
How did they do it? They had far greater but simple technology than we can imagine. Frequency and vibration. The beauty of sound. That's the key. We like to believe we are a greater civilization but it's just not true. These pieces of history are amazing and I thank you for sharing this ❤️
The real on my land can build a better, longer lasting home than we humans do today.! The ants are pretty good too, for that matter.
Lol u made this comment on the internet we are far more advanced.
We have ways to work around problems now, different solutions, asking other countries for their specialties, back then they had hand tools and their local think tanks. They were just like us, just way early. Think long enough on anything without help and you'll get it eventually.
Well I think he said they used a compass a ruler and a plumbline... I dont think he mentioned sounds vibrations lol
They also had slaves who worked to death, so building a city is still impressive but just less when you know this fact.
Keep doing your thing. I’ve always come here for gear reviews.
I’m a backpacker, but now realizing my car camping gear is not up to par with my backcountry obsession. I can’t keep using my ultralight for mountain bike car camping trips.
Sumerians were first civilization. They got things rolling...
thank you
48:44 POV: Me at the flea market looking for an old CRT to pair with my Pentium II.
p2 phhht, I run a p3 coppermine @ 733 mhz peasant.
Athens wasn't that big but it was very important for its democracy,its philosophers and other thinkers and the skill and beauty of its artists and architects-a classic case of quality over quantity!
We're beginning to see that democracy isn't very useful. I can see why the founding fathers of america were against it.
big versus our cities with 8 billion of us on the planet, sure. back then there where 200m ppl i think, so quite big.
@@sebastianbergstl4423 No I wasn't comparing Athens to our modern mega cities but to the mega cities of the ancient world like Rome that had about a million and Constantinople about half a million and the big cities of ancient China and India-Athens was small compared to these -and even Alexandria and Antioch -Greek cities in Egypt and Syria respectively.
@@kaloarepo288 again your comparing different times, rome was 500 years later, Constantinople 1000 years later. Your comparing apples to pears
@@kaloarepo288 At its height, before the Peloponesian war, Athens was by far the largest city in the Mediteranean. Alexandria and Antioch weren't even funded at the time, and Rome was a village.
The catacombs were stunning.
Poor Petronius. Imagine getting your bones chewed by lion for a mere harmless fiddling with the books 😞
What’s up with all the comments of people thinking they are saying these are the only 4 ancient mega cities?
ive noticed an increase of stupidity on a few of these videos over the last few days...school on break or something maybe ?
In the 21st century, every idiot is a self-appointed expert.
Because too many ppl have terrible comprehension/reading comprehensive skills for some reason. Guess like common sense isnt common, comprehension isnt either anymore smh🤦♀️
@@kristiskinner8542 b/c the educational system doesn't believe in critical thinking anymore. Kids now a days have been dumbed down.
@@liquidgal9867 “Education” is nearly all memorization. Teaching kids to think critically is now considered “liberal” or “being woke”.🙄 If anyone doesn’t believe me…just google lists of books parents are demanding be removed from school & topics removed from school books. This documentary would absolutely make the “ban” list if included in school!
I wish that the ancient world would’ve been more connected than it was. Where culture, science, technology, and resources would be traded all around the globe leading to faster innovation in certain areas and civilization spreading faster. Imagine a medieval style world where the Chinese empire is warring with the Aztec empire. Where Rome becomes basically like a Westeros style empire with all the kingdoms across the world bending the knee to the emperor whether they mean it or not.
Historical events reappear through the timeline
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I usually listen to these when i sleep
Alexandria. The Library. All the works lost from Sophocles, Euripedes. THE GREATEST TRAGEDY IN LITERARY HISTORY
Most likely place for statue of Phryne is at the bottom of the ocean with the antikathera mechanism. That ship had a lot of carved statues on it when it sunk.
Now this guy knows how to grow a Mustache @ 7:15 ....too bad he grew it on the wrong spot .
LOL!
9:30 whenever the narrator says the American School Of Classical Studies, he is referring to The;
American School
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Athens
Educational institution in Athens, Greece
Wikipedia
Nice historically accurate bench grinder at 30:22
lol
Shame of the destruction of the library of Alexandria, but then with most ancient cities so very much of the ancient civilizations is lost .
There is no bigger expert on the genius of Greeks than a Greek.
Or those that were their teachers
Exelente
Mohenjo-daro would be an interesting subject! There are so many candidates for future documentaries 😮
Cool
The uniqueness of the Parthenon says we were smarter 5000yrs ago than we've been told all our lives. And there were other even more powerful with beautiful architecture earlier than the Greeks. Darwin's folly makes us still dragging our clubs on the ground, looking for food and women.
WE HAVE B@EN LI@D TOO!
Voice over translations because I'm trying to listen to this at work.
5:30
Athena was the goddess of wisdom & war… not victory (that was Nike).
According to a paper by Harrison (as cited in Sikes, 1895) Nike was once a facet of the Greek goddess Athena, who was composed of Boulaia (good council), Ergane (skilled handcraft), and Nike (victory). According to this theory, Nike eventually broke off from Athena to form her own distinct personality.
cool
Athens
Alexandria
Carthage
Rome
Apparently the "Ancient world" was only around 2000 kilometers long
Interesting watch. Occupied breakfast, two breaks, a lunch and a few bowls of cannabis. Thank you :3
Omg me too 😂😂😂😂 just finished a bowl now
@@charliekezzalol same, been finding my way to this channel a lot lately
Strange how smoking weed makes intellectual things even more interesting...
@@lagodifuoco313 wholeheartedly agree.
Got through half a cartridge
I bought a house the house was built in the late 1600s and when I discovered a well under one of the additions I really regret going now and seeing what was I'm sure there were some goodies down there
Prolly just water bro lol
@@Laocoon283 They really regret going now and seeing what was bro.
Sending prayers and a few bucks brother. All I can do right now man.
This the beginning of western thought. It was from the onset above all else a civilization.
Wonder when this was made. Judging by a glance of a computer, crt monitor, im guessing around 1995 or so.
I’m figuring this comments section is littered with people pissing and moaning why (insert city) wasn’t included. Just a wild guess
started watching call of duty videos and woke up 3 hours into this.
ok dont know how to spell the name but the best vause painter statement falling love with the peice that your painting love is the master of artistry perfect statement only way i done my best works too ...same saying different language
Never knew George Costanza was a historian.
We look at child sacrifice as such cruelty now, which it is, but I'm sure carthage felt like they were giving the gods their purist souls. I can't imagine it being easy for them. We see many animals morn their offsprings deaths.
dude we try to end child sacrifice today, not for gods, but merely so we can dispense with the hassle and get back to the corporate grind...
and there's marches in the streets to allow the slaughter to continue
is Venice there?
Venice was like 1500 years later
Interesting how the documentary keeps heralding and praising democracy in ancient Athens as an "advanced form of government", yet many enlightened philosophers of Athens at the time (including Socrates and Plato) were highly critical of Athenian democracy and skeptical of its efficacy.
tap touch the square ⬛️ box third from the top right side and you can start reading on the bottom of your screen.
Anyone else hearing the hitchhikers guide to galaxy voice?
Now I can't un-hear it...🤣😂
I immediately guessed which four cities. The truth is they each peaked at vastly different times.
also rome just kinda killed or conquered the other three eventually.
Mr Viko, "changed his tune" since back then... hmmm 👁️
3:26:00 why are the birds flying sideways?????
The color on the statues on the friezes on the Parthenon did "wear off because of time" -- Elgin had them scoured off so they fit into an early 19th century vision of what classical Greek statues should be -- pale marble shapes. It wasn't an act of nature, but an act of a British Lord.
Most wore off because of time - but by the early 19th century experts began to realize they were originally colored and sculptors like Gibson began to give his sculptures a pink tinge to look like flesh tones -an example in Liverpool U.K. I think -of his "pink" Venus.
He scraped it off all the Roman statues, too? 😂😂😂
We probably should be grateful to Lord Elgin for "rescuing" the Elgin marbles - the Parthenon had been heavily damaged in the Ottoman -Venetian Wars when a powder magazine blew up inside it and the structure lay decaying . The Ottoman authorities were not interested in Greek antiquities and heartily agreed to the Scottish lord's request to have the marbles taken down and taken to Britain. The Ottomans were very grateful to the British for saving their bacon against the Napoleonic threat and Elgin was the British ambassador to Constantinople. Had they remained in situ the marbles would have probably totally disintegrated or even destroyed by the Turks themselves especially in the period of the Greek War of Independence as retribution for the Greek uprisings. The Hellenistic "Altar of Pergamum" now in Berlin, just as beautiful and spectacular as the Parthenon marbles was allowed to be given to the Germans by their new allies the Ottoman Turks in the late 19th Century. Here again the Turks were not particularly interested in ancient Greek statues and temples but as ancient Pergamum is located within the territory of modern Turkey the Greeks have no say in the matter of trying to return these artistic treasures to Greece.
@@kaloarepo288 nah
@@demitasse22 Yes! Yes! it makes a lot of sense.
Awesome video
3:03:30 - Roman? Openess & "Honesty" Revered! Amen!
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I love how the guy was hammering nothing 😫
Chipping stone with no safety glasses
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