The Bronze Age Collapse (approximately 1200 B.C.E.)
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>''History is written by the victors''
>be sea peoples
>arrive and cause the fall of the bronze age
>dont write anything down
>leave
Sea peoples: “there are no pictures in these written records!”
Early civilization mad lads smh
History is written by literate people lol
>refuse to elaborate
Good point! Perhaps the "sea peoples" were not invaders: but refugees. The shear amount of extra mouths to feed...was the straw that caused the chariot to collapse!? This would of course result in more migration and more collapse.
The Bronze Age civilizations can't collapse until someone asks if it's okay with Tribune Aquila.
Lmao
Hahahahaha
ROFL
The sea people waited 1200 years to ask the tribune to sack a bunch of cities.
And for that reason, I'm out.
A lot of people have pointed out that it is unlikely that a composite bow could shoot through 3 inches of metal but I didn't see anyone dig into the sources so I'll comment on what I've found. I'm guessing that particular part of the video was sources from "The end of the Bronze Age : changes in warfare and the catastrophe ca. 1200 B.C." (mentioned in description, I found a copy on Internet archive) pg. 120-121. The exact passage reads as follows:
"The pharaohs themselves took pride in their skill as chariot archers. Amenhotep II boasted of the rapidity, range, and accuracy of his shooting, claiming that from a speeding chariot he had hit four targets, set thirty-four feet apart with such force that the arrows went clean through each target's three inches of copper."
This passage is apparently from a stele (Ancient Near Eastern Texts (ANET) pg. 244), and the thickness given in this translation is "of one palm in their thickness", which the annotation says is "a litde [little?] less than 3 inches".
Regardless, it seems that this is a boast from a specific pharaoh, rather than some sort of historical fact or mixing up units, so probably not an accurate account of a bronze age era's composite bow's potential.
Interesting... Thank you!
The real MvP
Wallace MacLeod's Egyptian Bows in New York offers more information.
To elaborate, they found one of the bows buried with a prince, which makes it, to me, seem like a closed-case.
I see little reason why they wouldn't be able to verify that, or why they didn't cast aspersions on its capabilities, given that they found it and it was verifiable that it was the exact bow Egyptian sources had spoken about.
A modern bow, can penetrate sheet-metal steel, and it can do it easily.
Composite bows were an absolute gamechanger. They were unrivaled. They were the dreadnought of bows.
I don't find it a stretch that it could shoot through some copper ingots.
It *certainly* could shoot through armour, and I don't think there were tin-men covered in 3 inches of armour, which is a naval vessel level of armour, during the Bronze Age. So I figure it really doesn't matter if it's a boast, they could do exactly what was needed, and with proficiency.
@@iMajoraGaming Thanks for the info (for anyone looking its McLeod, W. E. (1962). Egyptian Composite Bows in New York. American Journal of Archaeology, 66(1), 13. doi:10.2307/501476, I found it on sci-hub). The estimate they give is that it could penetrate a metal (brass) plate 0.002 to 0.003 m thick from a distance of 30-40 m.
"Human civilization did an oopsie" is the perfect summary for a lot of human history, to be honest.
Well in this case their only real mistake was an over reliance on chariots in their military. Everything else, assuming this theory is correct, was outside their control.
IAmFourteenAndThisIsDeep
I wish we would stop doing them.
....and a perfect summary of the dumbing down of history teaching.
I am now ending all messages with "May you know it." May you know it.
i love you.
Ceterum autem censeo Carthaginem esse delendam
start all of them with: "Carthago delenda est"
@@fionafiona1146 Let us all be Cato the Elder.
I may know it
When Bill Wurtz said about tin: "idk, my dealer won't tell me where he gets it..."
I didn't know he was being serious.
Everything he said in his history of the world video was in reference to some aspect if history, there were no throw-away lines.
Volcryn Darkstar i could think of one or two that might be arguable. but it’s generally good.
Volcryn Darkstar how about “this is stupid” and then black screens for 10 seconds
Cornwall apparently I just found out tin was rare but honestly I thought it was common
I read the title and said "now the Phoenicians can get down to business."
Good factual presentation, well done. Just to explain something, the King of Ugarit referred to the King of Cyprus (Alashiya) as "Father" which means he was considered less than equal and the King of Ugarit had to prostrate himself in front of superior Kings, such as Cyprus and Egypt. In contrast, the Kings of Cyprus referred to the Kings of Egypt as 'brother', which meant they were equals and did not need to prostrate themselves nor pay tribute.
So Kinda like calling a priest father/pater? Edit: Linguisticly not Culturally. Just genuinely curious.
Ancient societies were patriarchal, and in that is the origin of their political and social systems. Clan and family systems were applied to the conception of what states were and how they should operate.
@@vorynrosethorn903 What you suggest is quite correct as well as the socio-economic system, local and foreign resources, language, farming (from the Neolithic onwards), the weather and the environment in general that played a huge part in the cultural development of a society. However, there's no getting away from the fact that kings (and queens) imposed themselves on a culture to varying degrees. There was of course the fear of invasion from outside as well as usurpation from within.
i wonder if that is the original introduction as god in the bible. they call god lord or father alot. is this possible to the king of egypt that allowed the jews to settle in isreal?
Clear and concise yet thorough examination of one of history's most troubling ages. Excellent narration and illustrations. Glad I discovered this channel. Well done!
“The sea peoples” sounds like such a vague and terrifying name for peoples that don’t even have much history to them.
It's exactly the kind of name you would give to people we know nothing about who came suddenly from the sea
They are also know as Sea Men
If northern Europe was in such bad shape and they became sea people early scandinavian vikings perhaps? I mean the drive for resources were similar as the later scandinavians wanted to spread out due to resource issues. However this situation seems more serious.
@@DudeWatIsThis you're making their case bruh
they might not have been there from the very beginning, but 3000 years is a long ass time
@@orions2908 Yes of course. The Jews themselves were not native to that land either (they had settled it a few hundred years before).
In general, Canaan/the Eastern Levant has always been one of those "in-between-empires" areas which get trampled and stomped on every few centuries.
"we need to talk about bronze age warfare"
* battle music starts *
Age of Mythology battle theme immediately comes to mind
I was listening to a Wendover Productions video the other day (he covers logistics and transport) and suddenly the music transitioned and I thought, "The battle of Munda?"
Droughts, earthquakes, invasions, destruction of international trade, rebellions.
Who thought it was a good idea to play on hard mode ?
Sounds familiar to now doesn’t it?
Excellent comprehensive summary of the "Collapse of Bronze Age". You covered many more possible reasons other than just Sea Peoples even though they were probable the main reason. Your summary is the only one I've seen thus far that mentions the 5 decade flurry of earthquakes.
Plus you did all of this with a very economical use of time. Thank you for your quality video.
"We have a drought, an earthquake and we still have to pay extra! What next? We get invaded?"- Some Bronze Age dude, probably
I thought u were talking about 2020
Oh wait......
1200BCE: Sea people make me anxious
2020CE: Seeing people makes me anxious
Severely underrated
2050CE: Rising sea making people anxious
Lampedusa, Italy 2020 See people still make me anxious
I wonder if we were to collapse from this not quite pandemic, combine with instability of the financial system and tension between major economies, would historian call our period the Plastic Age collapse? The Chinese Collapse? The Epidemic Collapse? The 2nd Pax Americana Collapse? The Western Civilisation Collapse? I wouldn't imagine if I were a Hittite or Mycenaean, I would have thought of the destruction of my world to be called "Bronze Age".
@@lc9245 nervous laughter intensifies
I've watched loads of history content on youtube, this has to be one of the best summaries of the topic - and of ancient history in general - I've ever seen.
I recommend Eric Cline's 2021 book "1177 B.C." It has some updated research & analysis of the time period in question, and lays out a number of possible factors that influenced the "collapse."
"Help is on the way."
"jk"
This sums up a lot of alliances in the past.
I mean, if they can't retaliate your backstabbing, why bother?
Poland:Hey Hey I've seen this before. Its a classical one
@@drretard0343 *Czechoslovakia
sums up league soloq
Even when they do send help
Help has drowned in a river along the way
“Cyprus in Cyprus”
A history teacher AND a geography teacher
This was a very clear explanation of a hugely important historical event I did not know about , until I watched a very good and long video on the subject , about two years ago .
This is the most clear and extensive video I've seen on this subject matter. Keep up the awesome work
That final battle in the Nile was probably one of the most epic battles in history.
An apocaliptic clash for survival of their world.
Right... I want a good idea of who these invaders were too
As an Egyptian, I am proud that we have such a glorious and great history
@@yousefshahin2654 Be proud !
Egypt history is amazing.
@@avalle4493 Thank you 😀😊
@Seaworth Look, it's kind of yes nad no at the same time. Traditions and society are completely different. But we still kind of embrace them, and we are proud of our ancestors.
Me : *waiting for Augustus story*
HC : ever heard about the bronze age?
Me : well.. No but.. Go on
Cicero is dead, there is nothing more to find there for HC.
@iRue399 he allready named a playlist for octavian and it will be a pretty long one as well. dont worry friend
Same lol I’ve been checking daily for the next video... I mean we are right about to see the history civilis video/videos about Octavius and Antony vs Brutus and Cassius, and then Octavius and Agrippa vs a Pompey son, and then (GOT himself- Gaius Octavius Thurinus) Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus and Agrippa vs Mark Antony and Cleopatra, and then Octavius become Augustus, the first citizen and all his great changes to Rome, and then somehow he outlives everyone he meant to give power to so he could sorta retire in peace, and he loved Livia too much to stop her evil scheme to kill the good people Augustus would have given power to, just so Livia could give power to friggin Tiberius... which set a terrible precedent and so she caused a few evil emperors... which also began the crazy awesome storyline of Roman rulers, some great and some horrible. If Augustus would have stopped her before she got started, then Augustus very well might have left a different system in place with good people and the senate with the power.. but Livia killed all the good people Augustus knew so all the power instead went to Tiberius like she planned and that’s how we got the history we have lol anyway I am so excited for these next few videos of Octavius - my doppelgänger.
Your videos never disappoint... thank you for producing them! Mostly just kicking in a couple thoughts that always bugged me about the Bronze Age Collapse - I always get a little agitated that I rarely get a glimpse into what was going on in the Black Sea region during that time. There’s plenty of archeological evidence that there was plenty of interaction and trade between the Black Sea region and the major powers of the time and they had seafaring technology to be active traders. Given migrations from Northern Europe to the Black Sea region during Roman times, it seems perfectly plausible for people living in that area to have been displaced by Northern Europeans and/or migrating tribes from the steppes who might have had their own environmental pressures due to climate change. I’m not a historian, but I am extremely curious about what was going on there at the time and what issues they might have been facing that would affect their interactions with their more civilized neighbors.
I really want to hear more about how, having destroyed their tyrant, they still failed to save their republic.
No reason, why?
This video made me watch the entirety of your chronological order playlist, and now I wish there were more of your videos, now I'm looking forward for any future video you will make whatever the topic it will be
Just be aware that his video on Work is not the best sourced. I dare say every other video is excellent, but that one is not so great.
"not as clumsy or random as a regular bow."
I love this line haha
An elegant weapon for a more civilised age.
"....what brought them here is a question we'll get into later"
*slams fist on table* Bibilus is involved in this somehow! I know it!
Not being born over 1000 years is no excuse! He must have found a way!
He got permission from tribune Aquila to time travel
Domitius Ahenobarbus has travelled back in time to eradicate Caesar's ancestors, thousands of years before he was born!
Which leads to a causal loop/butterfly effect, where murdering Caesar’s ancestors only ensues Caesar is born and even more successful!
History memes are best memes.
Easily the most shocking part of this video is how much bigger the Bronze Age world was than I thought. I think the regular belief is that it centers mostly around the Near East and Eastern Mediterranean. But now you're telling me they were trading from Britain to Afghanistan? That is just mind blowing.
Glass beads from Egypt have been found in Denmark (presumably paid for with amber)
@Alex Gully I mean, we've found evidence of complex civilization dating back to 10,000 b.c. with Göbekli Tepe, so I shouldn't be as surprised as I was. I guess I always thought of the Bronze Age as a few hotspots of cilivization surrounded by untamed wilderness. Looks like that wasn't the case.
@Alex Gully Sounds like the same thing that happened after the fall of the Roman empire. People started loving inside old stadiums fallout style because no one played sports anymore and places needed walls.
@@andrasbeke3012 gobekli tepe is not evidence of complex civilization. its evidence that religion had a much more important role in developing civilization as these megaliths presumed to be places of congregations may have been the seeds of fully fledged settlements.
It's an example of the limitations of history, history by definition is about the times and areas we have written sources from but people settled down and started building complex societies long before writing was invented or spread to them. This has for a lot of the history of history left us in the dark about what life in those areas and times was like but modern archeology is helping to uncover a lot of this and fill in our gaps, still it's not quite the same as written sources and it's just a lot easier to imagine what a place was like when we actually have the words written by those people.
But yeah global trade is actually a lot older than you might think and areas outside of what we tend to think of as the "civilized world" were actually a lot more like that world than we imagine. For example a few thousand years after the Bronze Age you might think that beyond the borders of the Roman Empire were just endless forests with small villages and people walking around with helmets that had horns on them but actually it would be more or less impossible to tell these areas apart from the Roman Empire as they looked very similar. The differences between these areas was more like the difference between the the current superpowers like the US and China and their smaller allied states in Europe, Africa and Asia. But if your only source for learning about our world was Hollywood you might think that everywhere outside of the US was backwards and untamed and that's basically the situation we're in when trying to learn about the past.
I really enjoyed this History Lesson and The Narrator was one of the best I have ever heard~! I was glad to be a new subscriber and look forward to watching all the other lessons.
the range of this channel is awesome.
9:24
“Not as clumsy or random as a regular bow”
A more elegant weapon from a more civilized age then?
Before the dark times... before the Sea Peoples.
Hello there
Garrett Fuhrman ah, you beat me to it!!
@@Arashmickey Sea Peoples itself sounds scary af for me but that quote just made them even more terrifying.
Greece.
Hittites.
Egypt.
Cyprus.
Long ago, the four empires lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Sea Peoples attacked.
Hardly in harmony.
@@12coudak000 I don't think you got the reference pal
Only tin, the metal essential to all of our crafts, could stop them.
But when the world needed it most, it vanished.
A generation has passed and my brother and I have discovered the new Pharao, a bronzebender named Ramesses.
And altough his chariots are great, he has a lot to learn before he's ready to defeat anyone.
But I believe Ramesses can save the world...
Pharao, the last bronzebender
@Lovecraft Nope... It's from the only western animation cartoon that is worth watching: Avatar, the last airbender
Lovecraft Is spongebob anime then?
A great approach for a "non easy to resume" moment in man kind history history.
Great job, thanks!!!!
Thank you so much for making wonderful, easy to understand and entertaining videos. I have been watching lots of them and will continue to do so. Awesome.
How was the Bronze Age warfare:
-Chariots.
-Chariots.
-Chariots.
-People protecting chariots.
Accurate as hell.
Even vedic traditions are always talking about chariots.
"Chariots Chariots! Cave here...Prime. Look in this next test I need you to go to Cyprus in the bronze age for a chariot...For Science!"
8:35
Even the Art of War by sun tzu mentions chariots
And composite bows. Not as clumsy or random as a regular bow, but an elegant weapon for a more civilized age... before the dark times, before the Sea Peoples.
It's sort of terrifying and amazing how we literally have our own "Lost civilization" mystery like you see in fantasy and sci fi games.
We have many, Atlantis being another.
Games are based on history.
In a sense, all tropes come from history, not the other way around :)
@@DLimit
Actually no, Atlantis straight up never existed.
It was little more than a blueprint for Plato to describe his Ideas.
@@jorenvanderark3567 wrong. The city most likely existed and they even have a location for it. But people exaggerated a lot about the city based on Plato's book.
This is the first comprehensive explanation I have seen for the Bronze Age collapse and its relation to the Sea peoples. Thanks for sharing!
Watching this in light of recent events doesn’t make me feel so warm and fuzzy inside.
You are correct , but we still have a little time
When you're Sardinian, and the last time your people were relevant in any meaningful way was when they were part of the sea people coalition which kinda caused a halt in the advancing of human civilizations
They were based af
What about that time Sardinia sailors sailed with Spain and Venice to stop the Ottomans invasion of the Mediterranean and basically ended the ottomans as a naval power?
In the XIXth century, the major power in Italy was Sardinia, and it's them that pushed for Italy unification, so... not that irrelevant :p
Well, of course it was actually Savoy, but still, it counts ^^
Feels bad man
Napoleon Bonaparte notwithstanding, I suppose that you are correct.
"Oopsie." I guess that's one way to describe a collapse of civilization so complete that we had to rediscover stuff like writing and so on.
Writing? Is that true?
@@hotkulen2196 I don't know if it's completely true, but I think during the time after the bronze age collapse there is a lack of any written sources from all the places mentioned in this video except Egypt, which I think is how the theory of the bronze age collapse initially began
@@hotkulen2196 During the bronze age collapse literacy went extinct in Greece and had to basically be reinvented over time.
Haha that annoyed me too.
it kinda makes sense. trade and abundant agriculture is what lets people specialize. If everyone isn't farming then they can take the time to write down history. Once civilization collapsed there is no one with free time to write things. Not saying writing went away...not that it didn't
“Not as clumsy or random as a bow”
I see what you did there.
Time to rewatch this entire channel
"Human civilzation did an oopsie". Now, that's worthy of a thesis.
The human civilization is the oopsie. The current state is a result of thousands of years of human stupidity and greed.
@@Jaml321 Why have human societies made stupid decisions? Why has greed been such a strong factor? You seem to radically reduce something so complex and interesting as humanity's development, to such a boring, overly simple conclusion, without even asking some very impirtant questions.
If humans were naturally stupid, our cavemen ancestors would've all died from poor decisions. If humans were naturally greedy, our early ancestors wouldn't have shared food or shelter during hard times with those who need it, losing future allies either through their death or worsening relations. They'd be ostracised from their tribes, and have no one to turn to when they were in trouble.
Humanity is not the oopsie; nothing is absolutely bad or good, even if they do approach one end or the other; a wrench can be used to build or to sabotage, power by itself is neutral, and humanity is very powerful; the difference, is that a wrench has no mind of its own, but humanity can choose to do bad or good.
Please, do yourself a favor, leave this misanthropic pessimism behind, and ask questions, with the end goal of how to make sure humanity can do more good than harm. Giving up on something is sure to bring defeat, whatever the goal may be, and humans are all we got, so give ourselves a shot.
They didn't subscribe to Pewdiepie. Now look what happened
@@katiaquirino6020 Humans kill each other and destroy nature and the planet from the moment they took it over to make a quick buck. Its like we are shitting the bed we are sleeping in. We are a scourge on the planet and there is no doubt it would be better off the moment we die out from whatever stupid war or other contraption we are going to create that speeds up our demise. Humans pose only problems for the earths ecosystem, they are the oopsie of evolution.
@@Jaml321 @Jaml321 Ah yes, I sure am glad my corporate and stately overlords didn't sign an agreement designed to heal what damage we wrought on the planet. God forbid the stockholders lose their money. And don't get me started on the progress of ww3 so far!
Look, humanity has its many faults, but the attempts at making the world a better place are not unfelt. Organizations like the Red Cross, Habitat for Humanity and the many USA organizations dedicated to preservation of nature would be impossible in the world you just described. And excuse my crassness, but people like you are a part of the collection of problems that plague us.
You sound defeated by things you do not even understand. You sound as if you willfully remain ignorant in an attempt to appeal to blind pessimism. If humanity were to listen to people like you who condemn them to shame in spite of their great achievements, then we would lose all motivation to progress. We would be driven to such complete stagnation that we would seek to die in our own shit. You seem to want humanity to fall, to not do everything in its power to try and reverse the damage it sows. You are your own evil.
I got Sea People Return in the December slot of my 2020 Apocalypse bingo card.
Lmaooo
I put all my eggs in the Jesus basket, so he better come first.
@@MagplarImposter
Funny I've got them pegged for October.
I've got Third Impact scheduled for December and Sea People in October
Some of the fires could even be caused by city fires out of control. I have to imagine the damage from something like that would make everyone give up and walk away.
You're an epic teacher.
Thanks.
❤
History Channel in the 90s and 2000s: The Collapse of the Bronze Age and their ancient civilizations remains one of human civilizations' greatest mysteries
History Channel today: "Aliens"
Ancient astronaut theorists say, yes.
Aliens ate my homework.
the aliens invaded northern Europe causing the mass migration and the heat was because the aliens needed a warmer Temperature to survive but then they ehree finally beat back but then time traveling scientists from the year 3031ish used thier time traveling machine to go back and clean up any trace of alien life.
What you meant to say was " I'm not saying it was aliens, but........". :)
I'm an Alien and I agree, we really outdid ourselves on this one 💫👽
It’s amazing to read these ancient letters and see a literal apocalypse be recorded, but still have no answer as to what the hell was causing it.
It's possible that even at the time, many may have disagreed as to the "true" causes of their crisis. Famine? Droughts? Earthquakes? Sea people? Bad politicians? Punishment from the gods?
It might be difficult to see even the cause, let alone solutions, especially through the haze of fear, despair and anger which would likely have been present in discourse.
That's a lot of speculation though.
Also because they were kinda similar to us, most people give too much of a credit to these nations. Famines were commonplace in anatolia back then, so a few crises at the same time can absolutely destroy hitites. Once the central authority gone, cities are easy picking for raiders of any kind.
Sounds like today
cmon guy, you know, your living it.
To be fair information was very limited back then. The average person on the ground was obviously aware of bad things happening, but not exactly why.
I love this content! Really informative.
Insane video, thanks
"A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one."
Not as clumsy or random as a blaster...
"this does put a smile on my face"
I see Rainbow H, I click.
Goddamn Civ. You do all those vids on my favourite period in histiry that I know the most about and then to mix up the content then you do the period I know the most about relative to average person. Like i know more about the late republuc but its also so famous every average person knows a little about it but with the Late Bronze Age Collapse they cant name like 3 of the main powers from the end of the month .not a knock against them at all im saying it's a societal thing. I mean when i started grtting into it, 3 of the first 4 books i was recomended to read each had an explict separate section purely for promoting the argument that this was more significant historically than the fall of Rome and likely had more of an impacton modern socitu.
Also he's always arguing that this event should simply be called "the dark age" and post Rome should be called "The Roman/Western European dark age" like he's real fucking invested in it.
Anyway point is thanks for some reason deciding to pick you video topics based purely on what will make one random Sub in Australia Happiest I should have done it a while ago but you legit have a new patreon when i get next paid
Eamon isn’t the average person, he’s a step above.
300 year long drought? Wow. Can you imagine every generation knowing hunger over and over again? It must have been a very low point in human history
yeah I imagined a Great Depression (I knew it was economic not agricultural) but for 300 years. Sounds like a bad time
imagine africa
Oof
From what we know, what followed this collapse was one of the darkest periods in human history fro centuries, we're limited in what we know because across most of the old world written languages died out almost completely. Almost every major city outside Egypt was gone and every remnant of the old empires eventually collapsed over the centuries, never even being close in scale to the pre-collapse civilizations.
Edit: Even China's Shang Dynasty saw apparent decline in this time and a few centuries later (1000BC) were eventually overthrown by the Zhou dynasty.
Global warming man. Started 3000 years ago
I had to rewatch this video, it is really an interesting topic.
Great InfoVideo! Best Regards from Portugal! ❤🇵🇹
"They were runners."
I need a Bronze Age zombie movie NOW DAMMIT.
Taking bronze in the 30 year dash
@Violet Mia shut up boy
11:55
"Sire! The enemy can destroy our chariots! We're done for!"
"How!? Do they have their own chariots? Elephants? The gods themselves on their side???"
"No sire. They know how to R U N."
"....Dear gods, we are doomed"
Back when running wasn't invented
The Zulus, with shields and assegai defeated the British at Isandlwana (with Martini Henry rifles 7 pounder field guns, and bayonets) with their ability to run (to the flanks and rear of the British).
Usually it is mobility versus fire power in the military. Spearmen and chariots are different class of unit, but I believe when armoured, trained spearmen in decent formation could beat the chariots.
@@pavel9652 I mean, you don't hear much about chariots going against a phalanx. So it's safe to say that.
Fabulous presentation! Good pace, good narrator, good visuals andinformative. Rate it 5,☆!
Really interesting and captivating. Thanks very much !
"Arrows could penetrate three INCHES of metal"
What the hell were they using to shoot them, RAIL GUNS??
Well, aliens *did* build the Pyramids, after all. :^)
is not steel... not even Iron, is bronze.... and of course not the quality we made bronze nowadays... by today standars was pretty rubbish
Yeah the majority of claims about arrows effectiveness on armor are greatly exaggerated by modern historians. I'm pretty sure they're just using linear equations starting with a very thing material control to accomplish this.
Either way these metrics are demonstrably wrong.
@@Doctor_Mantis what kind of armour would people need to have 76.2mm thick of armour lol.. they are a tank obviously.
I reckon this was supposed to be 3 millimeters or MAYBE 3 eighths of an inch, but even that would be quite a stretch. There is no fecking way, an arrow went through 3 inches of solid metal at room temperature. not even lead.
A severe drought in the Mediterranean may also explain why Egypt was less affected and survived the Bronze Age Collapse as the only major power in the region. Egypt's agriculture is totally dependent on the yearly flooding of the Nile which is caused by heavy rainfalls in distant Ethiopia and therefore unaffected by changes in local climate systems.
climate is not local
@@BenState "its raining outside my house so it must be raining in tehran and beijing too"
U wot m8?
@@BenState typically when one area is extremely hot and dry, another area is extremely wet and temperate. We see this especially with just our yearly climate patterns, like with the el niño/la niña events. Most especially significant, is that most the world is unaffected.
@@BenState This planet is divided up into many climatic zones. You have heard of Artic, tundra, boral, temperate and tropical, right?
He is correct. Nile water comes from Ethiopia and the Rift Valley of Africa, thousands of miles from Mediterranean sea.
This is fascinating to think about in comparasion to the collapse of the Shang dynasty around 1150 - 1050 B.C.E, also a Bronze-Age empire in China. Copper and Tin were relatively abundant in China, and we were also far from the threat of foreign migration, which might explain the 50-100 year delay, but many historians attribute the Shagn collapse to similiar observed effects of climate change and drought (the mongolian gobi deserts used to be lush forests where elephants were known to inhabit because of their recorded use in warfare in the region). Perhaps this was a global event to some extent?
But there had not really been a "collapse" of the bronze age in ancient China as far as I'm aware. The Shang collapsed because the Zhou conquered it, which then lead the continent into the first civilizational zenith of the Chinese Civilization. The Zhou were a mixed bronze and iron age civilization as they used both types of metallurgy. I could be wrong, but to my knowledge there was never a "Chinese Dark Age" period unlike in Greece. There was the post-Zhou period of chaos, but that wasn't "Dark." Just chaotic what with all the feudal states trying to Game-of-Thrones one another.
"The Bronze Age Collapse" was not global. The decline of the Shang dynasty was not similar to the collapse of these civilizations. A contemporary collapse did not occur in India, with the Vedics seeing a golden era during this period, and a collapse didn't occur for the Mayans until a thousand years after this. This was definitely a regional thing, highlighted and romanticized because of Eurocentric studies. Civilizations experience cyclical histories that can be seen parallel with others, but this event did not occur for all of them at the same time.
Loved your video. Thanks!
Just as a note: The Cyprus was so closely identified with copper that the metal derived its name from it. The Latin for copper is cuprum, shortened from an older word cyprium, meaning of Cyprus.
Yes, I believe also that the y to Greeks and Romans was more like an u sound at the time
@@omegacardboard5834; Don't know about Greek, but Latin (Roman) 'V' was the original 'U' before the 'U' letter was introduced in the 16th century. A dead giveaway is that the letter 'W', to this day, is still pronounced "double-u", and not "double-v".
@@pintorpi333 yes that it correct. But the Romans also adopted the Greek y for Greek names/ words they borrowed from Greek. It’s not quite the same V/u sound in Latin, it’s like a u but with tighter lips and you sort of lift them up a bit and it’s a bit more aspirated I believe
@@pintorpi333 Depends on language. In French it's "doobla-veh". Double V.
I think the more obvious pointer would be that in Greek Cyprus is Kypros. A hard K sound and not a soft S sound. Although some prominent etymologists say that's just some popular, lazy bs.
@@aaronleverton4221 well you can always look it up. There is no letter C in greek. There is kappa K and there is sigma S Cyprus is spelled Κύπρος and is pronounced Kupros or Kipros.
13:37 - Egypt prevailed because Ramses could transform into a Titan
Oh boy have you not been keeping up to date with the manga if you think that Rameses was the biggest thing here. Wait until you see in the manga actual giants 50 meters tall, millions of them, marching out of the ocean with a 500 meter tall Eren walking skeleton leading it, stomping out entire cities
@@robertjarman3703 ok spoilers man
Egypt is apparently Paradis then LOL
Given other Bronze Age artwork throughout the region this seemed to be a common strategy.
@@MrAaaaazzzzz00009999 out of all the places I hoped to avoid Aot spoilers lol
Very informative video. Thank you!
Great analysis and explanation.
"...a composite bow, not as clumsy and random as a regular bow..."
Ah, an elegant weapon from a more civilized age.
Killing hasn't been as stylish and refined in Ages, wink
The Jedi Sea Peoples
Well, times have changed.
Im really curious in what way was a composite bow an improovement over a normal bow during the bronze age?
@@s_for_short2400 I believe the material was able to store more energy while being flexed back, making arrows being launched faster/stronger, it also was smaller and less cumbersome, but I haven't read about it in ages so I might be missing details.
me: alright Ceasar is dead, now we're moving on to the Roman Empire.
HC: this is my time machine
I think he likes variety. It took him several years to complete the Ceaser playlist. He might get burned out if those are the only videos he worked on.
@@rodneylagrone7180 I mean I'm not complaining. All his videos are great
@@qnteban True. I was avoiding the "Can animals commit crimes", video. But after I went through all of his other videos I finally watched it and throughly enjoyed it aswell.
@@rodneylagrone7180 me too. The dude is tip top.
@@rodneylagrone7180 He had also been working on Macedon, Philip and Alexander series, I thought that now all the players he talked about in Ceasar are dead (Cicero, Kato, Ceasar), that his next video would be about Alexander. My best guess is that he is taking a time out from serial videos and making one offs until he finishes a better script for Alexander or Augustus. I think he is even thinking about moving a bit into the English Civil war.
But I can see his style, he loves to build up the culture and system of the civilizations before moving on to the main series, if my hopes aren't too high, he could be preparing a post bronze age collapse series in the next two years or so.
Good job. Thanks 🙏
Such a great video!
With regard to environmental changes, that could again explain why Egypt survived. Agricultrue in Egypt is driven by the waters of the Nile, and the Nile is fed by far-flung lakes and tributaries in regions that may not have been as effected by an environmental change. Thus, Egypt could maintain enough agricultural output to survive even as it’s neighbors dried up.
yep, exactly Egypt
Everything that led to the bronze age demise can be tied to there being a
Grand Solar Minimum ...
as well as a concurent 2000+/- conjunction of the gas giant planets.
The climate changes and seismic up-ticks were relentless
the "sea people" were. forced to migrate due to major drought that began in
western Europe first ~ desperate people exasperated desperate events
Egypt suffered heavy droughts also during this period. The drought was believed to have been caused by the "Hekla 3 volcanic eruption" causing a "volcanic winter" in Ramesses III's reign. The disruption of sunlight was so bad that worldwide tree growth was stymied for 20 years.
On top of all this, Ramesses III had to deal with lots of wars.
Constant war; Dealing with the Sea Peoples.
Draining of the treasury.
Drought -> Famine -> Instability
It left Egypt terribly weakened and divided.
From what I understand, of the various Bronze Age major powers, 2 survived: Egypt and Assyria. The Assyrians had it real bad and they basically withdrew into only their home territory. However, Assyria recovered and carved a powerful empire in the wake of the Bronze Age collapse while Egypt never really did. It got to the point that the Assyrian Empire subjugated Egypt.
@@billheineman472 There are a lot of things I could correct here but I'll settle for saying you mean "exacerbated." "Exasperated" would only make sense the other way around (desperate events exasperated desperate people).
The aftermath of a volcano that blocks the sun is terifing such as in 536, or that time in 70k bc that humans almost went extinct due to one.
@@Warmaker01 of the various Bronze Age major powers in western asia* fixed that for you
I know I just watched a video explaining that the "sea people" likely came from areas in Italy and around the Mediterranean...
But I can't get the image out of my head of Rameses defeating an unstoppable horde of Lovecraftian fish people in hand to hand combat for the glory of Egypt
I would love a movie of Rameses defeating a lovecraftian army of fish people!
i would watch the shit out of that movie
@@origami83 be better than 300 that's 4 sure
@@dominickdibart12 It totally would be! i mean, ancient egpyt and fish people! How could anything top that? :D
sort of like doom, but at the bottom of the ocean
What a great video, the bronze age collapse and the sea peoples were always a bit of a mystery for me.. Egyptian here :)
Thank you for explaining! I never understood the "...far lands of tin land. I don't know, my dealer won't tell me where he gets it" part from Bill Wurtz but now I do.
Bronze age alex jones once wrote: “egypt was 100% behind the earthquakes”.
they made COVID-1200BC as well
Everything Alex Jones says is eventually proven correct. A lot of people put words in his mouth about aliens and things, but he doesn't talk about those. He refers to things published by the corporate media like any other opinion columnist, which is what all the major networks have become anyway. Don't take other peoples word for anything. You have to investigate for yourself. And yes, these days we really do have the ability to trigger small earthquakes and to manipulate the weather by pumping substances into the air. It's called cloud seeding.
@Jimmy De'Souza He was also right about the ChiComs! He was calling that out YEARS ago!
@@namenameson9065 oh yeah he was so right about the parents of school shootings being crisis actors /s
The only thing peope should believe Jones about is that he will absolutely eat his neighbours if civilization collapses
@@namenameson9065 Was he right too when he said psychosis was the cause of his rantings and ravings Re: Sandyhook? You want to follow his crack-pot, flat-earth, anti-science cult, there are plenty of places for that. Historia Civilis is not one of them.
Everything changed when the sea people attacked...
Everything changed *then* the sea people attacked
Damn you SeeMen...
@V R thats not a woosh bruh
@V R buddy he corrected the quote there's no woosh here
Beat me to the punch
11:55 The Rush tactics of the Sea People's reminds me very much of the tactics that Charles XII of Sweden used for his army.
Amazing. Subbed.
Chariots: I'm the result of hundreds of years of technological and military research, I terrify battlefields.
Sea peoples: I'm fast as f*ck boi
Bruh you could switch them with Battleship and plane respectively, and it would still make sense haha
You: I'm not amusing.
LOL well put, thanks fer the laff
3000 years later:
Germans: we have state of the art tank warfare
Finland: *stuffs rag in a bottle of gas and lights it on fire* LIGHT EM UP!
@@HolyKhaaaaan Makes sense to replace Germans with Soviets, seeing as Finland allied with the former and fought the latter.
It's wild to think that the amount of human history we know is a drop in the bucket compared to the entirety of the unknown, lost history of human civilization.
And the history we have is still mostly written as "great man" history instead of looking at systemic and socioeconomic dynamics. I feel like we are in a very exciting age of scholarly debate over how we view our history and I hope especially now with climate change and the coming collapse of old power dynamics we also focus and learn more about our own history with the environment and how it affected civilizations in the past.
@Akhand Bharat The bronze age collapse didn't affect human civilizations apparently to this ultranationalist
@Akhand Bharat You misunderstood his comment which meant a part of history was lost in these places Zindabad
I disagree. we know EVERYTHING humans have done thruout history, because the HUman Being is a very consistent ROBOT.
Violence?
CHECK!
War?
CHECK!
RACISM or Corruption?
CHECK!
plus
environmental crises?
CHECK!
It reminds me of Xenephon's Anabasis, where the Ten Thousand Greeks find ancient ruined Mesopotamian cities that were older to them than Xenephon is to modern people.
This is fascinating stuff to see.
Historia Civilis always got the bangers in the outros
Me: So what ended the Bronze Age? War? Famine? Cataclysm? Innumerable catastrophes?
Historians: Yes.
No....iron
Too many moderate-to-severe problems hitting all at once.
It was actually war, famine, pestilence, and death
@@CarlosRios1 nope....the iron age....ha
@@Great_Olaf5 This can be put into perspective with our world today: global warming, income inequality, pandemic, migrations, rogue states. A lot of crisis a once.
They always ask, "where did the sea peoples come from?"
I always ask, "Where did the sea peoples go?"
Prob were assimilated like vikings were or the greeks did later on ?
@@Ilikeavocados123 the Greek is still exist
Most scholars think they became the phoecians of the Bible who went on to found Carthage
If it hadn't been for the Sea Peoples, I'd have been married long time ago.
@@happyslapsgiving5421 where did you come from, where did you go? where did you come from sea foam jones?
Ironically, the only time the Dreadnought sank an enemy ship, it rammed it
Very good summary
When the king of Ugarit said that the invaders had 'seven ships' I think it was understood at the time that he meant more than seven. 'Seven and seven' is an idiom (meaning many) seen in the Epic of Gilgamesh, and it's possible that its meaning was persisted through time. Just as 'one' to us can mean 'a united people', seven probably isn't literal. Not to mention that I couldn't see seven ships as all that threatening, what with the navies these civilizations had.
I feel like 7 ships would've been a lot in 1200bc.
@@johnnysasakithethird1209 Actually 7 warships has been "a lot" since the XIX century forwards, because it can carry so many cannons.
I don't think they had cannons in 1200bc
@@johnnysasakithethird1209 Use your brain to analyze things that you are told. *Because they didn't have cannons, 7 ships was very little, you needed a lot of ships because fighting was done man to man
@@johnnysasakithethird1209 the ships were much smaller, 7 ships couldn't carry anything worth batting an eye at.
"the chariots were handcrafted..." well they should have ordered up some cheep manufactured chariots from Asia or something
Lol
*cheap
I thought it's sheep manufactured chariots.
Buying isn’t “CHEAP”
Why are people so terrible at spelling words like “cheap” and “tough” now? I see people writing “cheep” and “tuff” now more than I did a few years ago.
Awesome video would just add that including dates would make it a little easier to understand and follow
Great video!!
We've been in quarantine long enough for this man to have uploaded *thrice.*
That's easily the best measure of time.
I agree, maybe he's getting tired of covering the Roman civil war.
There's an important bit left unsaid: Rulers of the time relied on the favor of the gods. Famine, no rain, earthquakes, even sending an enemy are typical actions of an angry god. People turn against rulers that apparently make the gods angry and thus have lost legitimacy.
ye kinda feel like that aspect of it all would have been quite an important factor tbh, what I found funny though was him showin western and central europe as " northern europe"
@@goranpersson7726 well it’s northern in relation to the greeks and the other civilisations that were destroyed lol
well to be fair their countries got hit by famin, no rain, instability and invasion and the earth itself going "nah bruh" and shaking their building until they colapsed all at once, maybe they really did anger the gods lmao
Yes. Like the Mandate of Heaven in China.
That sort of Mandate of Heaven philosophy is not native to the near east or Europe.
Even though I have seen all your videos a bunch of time, I always enjoy them. It's like hanging out with a old friend.
I always thought, for the last decade or so, that the Sea Peoples were mercenaries hired by Greeks to attack Troy. Once they sacked the city the mercs wanted to go after another. I thought this explained why so many Sea Peoples were from all over the Mediterranean. Once they sacked Cyprus, which had the purest copper, trade died.
"The bronze age civilizations were dealing with five crises at once."
That sounds unfortunately familiar...
@Stephen Jenkins Yeah, the Late Antiquity citizenry was probably feeling the same. Until the elites couldn't maintain the illusion anymore. Then suddenly they found themselves surrounded by barbarian warlords and tax collectors, having to feed on their own production instead of global imports, having to defend themselves instead of relying on professional soldiers coming from afar, and so on. Laugh! ...while you can. Don't take your living conditions of today as granted, for they might change very, very quickly.
@Stephen Jenkins almost all of those have happened in the past 10 years you moron... maybe look at countries outside your own for once?
Thats all literally happening right now arouns the world. Look outside the us, europe etc
@Stephen Jenkins Somebody's always first.
@Stephen Jenkins Alright, I'll show you what we're up against.
1. Peak Oil. Eventually we're going to produce less oil - so the oil-producing countries will face a significant shortfall in income and, thus, power. The countries which rely on oil will be forced to either find new sources or kick the habit. I don't know how many methheads you personally know, but I know some tweakers and, let me tell you: America ain't kickin' it's oil addiction in a generation.
2. Climate change. Climate change is such a big issue that it's startling that nobody seems to realize its great threat. Of course, it may seem like some folks are going wacko about how it's going to cause the end of the world (it won't), and others just have their heads in the sand, but the truth is a lot worse.
You see, the people that seem to be screaming about the end of the world are just failing to realize that human civilization will go on long after you and I and America are dead. It might even be better in the future. But between now and then, we're going to face a period of unimaginable suffering. We're going to have worldwide famines, and we're facing the leading edge of these famines right now. Look at the Syrian Civil War and the massive refugee crisis caused by it - that war was in part caused by climate change. Imagine that happening all of the countries of the global South, not merely a couple.
The famines will cause the price of bread to go up, and the shortage of fuel will also cause the price of bread to go up. The price of bread going up too greatly will result in revolutions which will see the rich get their heads cut off. I'm not complaining or saying we should avert this because I like rich people. I most assuredly don't.
We are at the beginning of the collapse of global civilization - the very earliest point. This is why Historia Civilis uploaded this, because we are seeing a microcosm of this collapse. At this very minute, there are people dying in droves because of a virus that our economic system wasn't prepared to fight, that the psyche of the American people is unwilling to come to terms with, that provides the leadership with the perfect scapegoat with which to blame all of its problems upon. This infighting is not how it used to be. It is something new for us, or at least new for living memory. America is undergoing a drastic political polarization, there is going to be an enormous wave of famines and refugees in the not-so-distant future, and we are going to become economically, uh, "worse off" because of our insane dependence upon fossil fuels which we *have the technology* to remove ourselves from.
Ironically enough, if we kick the petrofuel habit, we kill one major factor behind climate change! It's almost as if this were all some horrifying dialectical system which exists purely to showcase the contradictions of our present society.
So, yeah. This ain't no "it needs to happen big time before I believe it" type nonsense. It's happening right now, right under our noses, and nobody realizes it because it starts out real subtle like.
"On the whole, the picture is fuzzy, but its fair to say that there was chaos in Greece."
When has there ever not been chaos in Greece?
When they weren't Greek but Roman
@@chestersnapdragonmcphistic579 even them there was many minor rebellions
They invented chaos.
@@adamcoyne1315 as everywhere else
Blame philosophers
great video!
9:37
No, an ancient composite bow cannot pierce 7.6cm of metal. I have my doubts that it could pierce through 7.6cm of wood. If the penetration of this style of bow was that immense, it would have rendered bronze and other armours obsolete and would have completely demolished shields. Despite this, dense formations of soldiers equipped with armour and shields persisted as the dominant military formation for centuries even after the regional advent of the composite bow.
Those defending this claim on the basis that the metalworking of the time was poor fail to understand just how thick a 7.6cm plate of metal is, and very much underestimate the capability of ancient metalworkers. Ancient bronze is comparable to ironworking developments (the primary reason for the shift from bronze to iron was economic - iron is much more abundant but requires higher temperatures to manipulate), and so would be basically equivalent to iron in its inferiority to steel. With this in mind, would you also believe it reasonable that an arrow from an ancient composite bow could pierce a 7.6cm plate of iron? A bow capable of slicing through a 7.6cm iron or bronze plate would pierce through the steel armour of medieval knights without issue, as that armour was only a few millimetres thick. One must also consider that the metalworking technology of the time would also extend to arrowheads, and so the argument that poor metalworking allowed arrows from this bow design to slice through metal plates made through a contemporary method makes no sense, as that same metalworking would have to be responsible for the quality of the arrowheads.
I am surprised that this blatantly false claim slipped past your video creation process. Other than that, this video is good. It would be nice to see even more content on the ancient world that isn't centred on Rome.
Glad I'm not the only one who noticed. I had to switch my comments from top comments to new just to see if someone else noticed. As a blacksmith I was shocked to hear that statement. 3 inches of metal is very think. Be it steel, iron or bronze. No arrow can pierce that, ever. Unless that arrow is traveling WAY faster than a bronze age bow could lose.
I believe Tod Cutler made a video showing and I believe accurately demonstrating what heat treated steel platemail could withstand Interms of stopping arrows.
I only wounder what other things are wrong in this video. 3 inches of metal penetration is frankly bullshit.
@@frozenironforge5133 It is unfortunate that one mistake can cast doubt on the rest of what someone is saying, but Historia Civilis is pretty good when it comes to matters of history. This mistake is probably due to a combination of a claim being read in passing from a less reliable secondary source, and a lack of specific familiarity with weapons, armour, and metalworking.
I watched your video on forging a camp axe. It was pretty cool. Do you plan on uploading more of your work to TH-cam?
@@philodox9991 Okay good to know, still I can't help but take everything he says with a grain of salt. Hey thank you! I do yeah, just a matter of getting around to filming some videos, definitely something I need to do more of!
The fact that you had to explain it is hilarious, who actually believes that a bronze age bow can kill a ww2 tank? Bruhhh
@@aluminiumknight4038 How about 100,000 bronze age bows against a ww2 tank?
“The peoples made a conspiracy in their islands. All at once, the lands were removed and scattered in the fray. No land could stand before their arms: from Hatti, Qode, Carchemish, Arzawa and Alashiya onward, being cut off at once. A camp was set up in Amurru. They desolated its people, and its land was like that which has never come into being. They were coming forward toward Egypt, the flame going before them. Their confederation was the Peleset, Tjeker, Shekelesh, Denyen and Weshesh, lands united. They laid their hands upon the land as far as the circuit of the earth, their hearts confident and trusting, ‘Our plans will succeed!’”
-Pharaoh Ramesses III, 12th c. BCE
you watched the video too?
@@legion999 he actually just ripped off the full quote from the Sea Peoples wikipedia article, I can tell because he included "their confederation was the peleset, tejeker" etc, which is not included in the video. but if you look up "Peleset, Tjeker, Shekelesh, Denyen and Weshesh" on google the first result is the Sea Peoples wikipedia page.
"Shekelesh" OK so the sea peoples were Jewish
you can just feel the anger radiating from the full inscription.
We should remember that this inscription is hagiographic propaganda meant to aggrandize Ramesses III after his death. The more fearsome the enemy, the more glorious his victory.
“Chariots. Chariots chariots chariots.”
I’m glad to see that you’re the real Historia Civilis and not one from another timeline
But what if this is a an alternate Historia Civilis that just likes saying chariots a lot?
Wonderful!
@17:50 "I'm no 'sky-entist' but that seems bad" made me chuckle a little bit.