Why did Ancient Egypt Collapse?
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Why did Ancient Egypt Collapse?
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It should be stated, that by time Cleopatra came to power. The pyramids where already consider ancient history.
They don't even claim building the Pyramids. It's not on one wall in Egypt
@@jknumber5138 are you saying the Egyptians didn’t build Egypt
@@uhno5989 I wasn't there 4000 years ago. Only the Akkadian Empire existed in those days. No sign of Eypgt(yet). Still, the pyramids dates are around that time. The ancient Egyptian only claimed what was theirs. The pyramid wasn't one of them. No writting civilization existed over there yet. It's like they built and went home to Assyrian or Babylon(20 miles away). The pyramids are old as dirt(no beginning or end)
@@jknumber5138 Jesus, you're dense.
@@josebenardi1554 Stop trolling
It's always a fun reminder that Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, etc... all lived CLOSER to the Crusades, Full Plate Armor knights, Discovery of the Americas, The Industrial Revolution, Discovery of Airplanes, Nuclear Power, Landings on the Moon, the Internet... than to the building of the pyramid complex at Giza...
Ancient Egypt is probably the oldest and longest lasting empire.
Most of the time they competed with wild and primitive tribes, when they built the pyramids, created the administration, religion, improved agriculture ...
@@user-dg2ub7rn8i Dont be funny. China join in civilizations game in ~1500BC but first piramids come form ~2500BC.
@@cybercrazy1059 pyramids were tombs... all of them, evidence is fairly overwhelming tbh
They may have had uses afterwards but probably not, they were built as tombs first and foremost
th-cam.com/video/fo1okXI2kG0/w-d-xo.html I recommend for you this video which is talking about queen Hatshepsut
Egypt had a power spike early game but then the other civs developed far enough into their tech trees and Egypt spent most of its production on a wonder
Spot on
Their religion wouldve won though. Best spirituality from the early world
Nah the long drought killed them
They started the pyramids and put them on autocomplete.
They also ran out of gold and couldn't spam mercenaries anymore
I honestly have no idea why ancient Egypt interests me so much everything is so interesting and fascinating it’s crazy the mysteries everything
I once read that if u strongly feel attracted or emotionally connected towards a certain culture or region it means u were born there once and u loved your previous life.
@@reena4499 !!!
Yes it is all written in quran
With the help of quran we can solved the mystries.
th-cam.com/video/c2ovILc_sKY/w-d-xo.html
Watch this to know
It’s insane especially thinking these were black peoples and they were this smart so so long ago they were so smart we still don’t know a lot of things it’s insane to me
Being curious of your curiosity is quite precious and beautiful.
When the pyramids were built the skill level was already incredible meaning the culture was already ancient
ANDREW ROBERT HOOK good observation. I never thought about it like that. In fact, the Egyptians said that their history goes back further than what today’s historians date. Supposedly 12000 yrs back.
@@AGtheGEEK the truth of the pyramids is about time
The structure that allows it actually
The thing is this
The truth may be a bit much for many ,as, lets face it , the truth behind existance may overload the average joe
Especially if they comprehend the actual existance of a creator consciousness
@@AGtheGEEK its far deeper than you can imagine
Or perhaps you can
Well its not really skills because it was built by Aliens. 🤭🤭🤭
When Napoleon took a force to Egypt he told his men about the pyramids “40 centuries of history look down on you”
Ancient Egypt is so mind blowing! It kinda hurts to know that this civilization disappeared. Everything about Ancient Egyptians is so fascinating.
Same, I'm egyptian and feel sad for that.
@Gypsy Soul No it was appearing even in the rule of greece and romans but arab end it
This civilization is going to disappear as well. Bye.
It’s a lesson to us that no matter how powerful we think we are , the day will come & we will die . That made them unique that they thought so much of the after life
@@madassboy it ended once Egypt became Muslim.
It constantly blows my mind just how ANCIENT Egypt was. We consider Classical Greece to have been so ancient that it's beyond our comprehension, and yet the pyramids were AT LEAST 2000 years old during that time, and were part of a Kingdom which was already about a thousand years old on its own
It might be better to ask how ancient Egypt was able to sustain an Empire for so long. 3000 years is such a long time that it's difficult to even comprehend how they did it. Ancient Greek philosophers (approx. 500 BC) would visit this already ancient land and marvel at their achievements, despite the fact Egypt was already on the decline at this point (the pyramids and other sites were already showing significant signs of decay and neglect). In my amateur historian opinion I would say that it's geographical isolation kept it relatively protected from outside influence and invasion for some time, giving Egypt time to develop a deep and sustained culture (this is difficult to do when you're frequently fending off invaders). However, this couldn't last forever and eventually foreign adversaries evolved the technology and organization to mount effective invasions, and over time this weakened Egypt.
Your right everything you've just said in the end.....they knew not what they had or and what's crazy because you've just solved something else is that over time people stopped believing as far as what it was supposed to be....but then again didn't they intermingled....the end
Thanks to you I Just learned something new🤗💙
The Egyptians built a city on the ruins of an advanced older civilisation with lost ancient technology. The Egyptians know nothing about the ancient ruins as they have no connection with the original builders.
One other thing to note is that while the Egyptians had a continuous civilization for some 3000 years, they did not have a continuous state for that period. Even before outside invaders from the Arabian Peninsula and the Mediterranean came to Egypt, the Egyptians were at one point ruled by the Nubians just South of them on the Nile River, not to mention the many dynastic changes that took place during the period.
...and now in present time, Egypt is a 3rd world country 🤯
Egypt comes from Greek so "Ancient Egypt" collapsed when its named was changed to Aigyptos by Alexander. The real name for the ancient empire is Kemet. We learn a bastardized history of "Ancient Egypt" in schools. Kinda like calling Incas Ancient Peruvians or referring to Mayans as Ancient Mexicans. It's really historically inaccurate.
Lateef Khamisi
And btw while we are at it kemet means wet dark soil
Edit : it seems TH-cam is defending blk rac ists
They deleted my previous comment
We Egyptians got absolutely nothing to do with you blks
Stop saying we are blk
We aren’t
Or stop crying about racism
:0 look what i learned today :)
SergeantTypical.
Btw don’t lie
Most of the dna told us we have more in common with ppl in the (near east)
Not just European
@@N0__Name__ that's just the tip of the iceberg my friend.
@@Palestine4Ever169 negroids???
Bronze age iron age dark age and we are in plastic age
Nirakar Shrestha nope, we are in the electronic age. And more specifically the integrated circuit/ transistor age
@@absolutelysobeast r/woosh
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I've always been facinated by the Egyptian empire so this video just made My curiosity grow bigger. Thanks!
Not an empire
James Charles kinda were
You should check out joann fletcher my store of Egypt ... she connects so many influences of Egypt to our modern life’s... I will say Egypt and it’s priest/gods and it’s monuments it’s created are incredibly intelligent and powerful in there occult symbols and metaphors ... in my option Egypt is the BLUE PRINT for all human civilization for eternity, the pyramids are actually meant to be a ray of light, as the sun peaks the tip of the pyramid the triangle shape is meant to be like prism of light the sun itself forming into the earth and all of life... the pharaohs tombs and how they set up the afterlife beliefs is almost like a symbol for the life of a common man with a Grimm message “your already dead” they knew the human being was a collection of various elements/species within nature, that’s why they have the gods with the head of a scarab beetle which uses dung(Sh!t) as food and shelter for its eggs...that’s why you see the pharaoh sitting on a throne(toilet seat) basically they understood microbes, bacteria, natural cycles, and knew man was apart of that cycle...
@Stewie Griffen meh..it was the first empire .ruled by one king from Thepes
th-cam.com/video/fo1okXI2kG0/w-d-xo.html I recommend for you this video which is talking about queen Hatshepsut
Egypt: Exists
Neighbors: It's free real estate
Pretty much the same story for every nation in the past and now.
The Greek alphabet was introduced with Alexander and the Ptolemaic dynasty, and old practices like Hieroglyphs and mummification were already a lot less popular by the time Christianity had come on the scene many centuries later.
The greeks got the alphabet from the phoenicians who were semites (related to Arabs, Israelis, Berbers ect)
@@siegfriedia9986 That is true, but thousands of years earlier, and not how the Egyptians switched out of Hieroglyphs, Hieratic and Demotic into Greek specifically
@@siegfriedia9986
Did they? I am not sure about that.
@@Phaedon53simple google search can help you. greek aka western alphabet was invented by semite phoenicians. the greeks just took it from them
@@siegfriedia9986 the oldest organized language on the planet is from Kemet. Phoenicians learned from us then you learned from them.
You are actually a wonderful youtuber, never have I seen so many positive feedback from Egyptians (including me) on a foreign history Egypt. Thank you very much, I truly mean it
Assassin Creed: Origins made me like ancient Egypt
Jose Moran Go vomit out a room you could go in cry in.
@Jose Moran lame opinion on a subjective video game
@Jose Moran I agree. Assassin's creed fell off. Sad, because i really liked this video game series.
Origins took place in ptolemy (greek) egypt
Not ancient egypt
Two very different cultures and time periods
@@kylestroup3077 Its still ancient Egypt, since its in Egypt during ancient times.
Youd didnt even mention the bronze age collapse and the sea people
Because the sea people is not a proven theory and the bronze age collapse was a myriad of different problems all happening within a short period of time, all of which was explained in the vide such as the fragmentation of the empire, revolts and corruption of the system.
History is not caused by one specific factor or person. Often, collapses and falls of empire are attributed to various problems faced by a civilisation
The sea people thing is just some TH-camr saying that after Egypt was defeated by the sea people we had enough time to make mural about us defeating the sea people
@@syncout9586 all of this would be easy to explain
Watch the extra credit series
Sea people? You mean Atlantians? I mean the citizen of Atlantis.
Egyptians: we were ruled by Persians..Alexander the great..Romans..persians second time.. Romans second time.. But at least we're still speeking our language..
Arabs: i dont think so. Not anymore.
Bruh
The ancient egyptian culture was destroyed by Roman Christians. Later on the Arab muslims continued. Same fake copied religion after all
@@ahmadabdelmawla5405 No it was by the Hyksos 1500years prior to Christianity
@Gypsy Soul im sure they "choose to". People of Ancient Egypt are no more, they are literally wiped off from this earth.
@Gypsy Soul "how to dress properly" okay bro.
What amazes me the most is how the Temples at the Valley of the Kings were completely lost to the Sands of the Sahara Desert, it wasn't until the early 20th century that they were rediscovered,
nobody:
every new empire: lets go conquer Egypt
Surrendered? They were pass their prime a long time ago
@@jknumber5138 yes they always surrender and ruled by Greek 300y, Rome 600y, Persians 100, Byzantines ?, Islamic conquest 600y, Ottoman 400y , France 4y, England 70y. and since 1970's i feel like usa ruling the world now including egypt.
@@jknumber5138 maybe i forgot some other nations if so just remind me.
Present Islamic Egypt: I don't think so.
@@Enacaus we are past the age of empires 🙌
Imagine all the people who lived through those times who are no longer with us today. Live everyday as if its your last
Or think of the afterlife as if we are to die now
they live today in their descendants modern egyptians altho unaware
@@coffeeandtalklmao of course. Same as the European native Americans...
@@ze_kangz932 you sound like one of them neegrows jealous of our Egyptian heritage, go back to your tree bro
@@ze_kangz932 you aren't comparing an ancient dense population created by the Nile centralized and concentrated in the Nile valley oasis in the middle of vast Sahara desert, you aren't comparing that to America's scattered tribes💀
Egypt is a fascinating historical country. I am very pleased to be Egyptian, and I am very proud of what our forefathers accomplished at that time and all over the world, and everyone wonders about that wonderful achievement, and no one knows the secret of those three pyramids. Thank you for Egypt; I shall always be proud of my homeland.
You're closer to arabs than to ancient egyptian thats why egypt is a shithole nowadays
@@johnriver69 what is this myth do you think arabs were able to just migrate to every place they conquered
@wussrestbrook1200 there were some heavy migrations also in Europe DNA studies prove current egyptians are only 10% ancient egyptian
@@johnriver69 no they are over a 80 percent genetic match and about 10 percent arab. Honestly they are culturally arabized the same way greeks hellenized the levant their dna has remained the same
@@johnriver69 that's not true, also there was never a huge population replacement in Egypt like some claim. Sure, the elites would've been foreign arabians but the current egyptians are descendants of the ancient egyptians
I love the assumption that culture and technology is always "getting better" when in real life we constantly face a collapse of society that it's basically a restart button, which in theory could mean that past civilization could be a lot more advanced than we are now, there's just no trace of them left for us to know.
Unlikely. We would have found remains of tech and/or advanced construction methods.
We cannot assume anything about their general level of knowledge, though, as most of it has been destroyed.
@@Emanon... smh 🤦🏽♂️ it’s literally obvious that my ancestors were far beyond what people today could even fathom they just were smarter to not use “ARTIFICIAL” means of technology that destroy the planet and it sucks that you actually think this artificial society is “advanced”
@@ogunmontgomery103 I have no fucking clue what you just said.
If nothing is left, than how can you assume that they in fact were "more advanced".
What you yourself consider "more advanced" is not relevant. There's a clear scale of scientific knowledge that pertains to "advancement" of a civilization.
Objective historical accounts are among them. Cut the ethno-national crap, ya basha.
Atlantis
@@Emanon... if you have no clue to what I said then you’re brainwashed like I said your under a fictitious reality fed to you by what they call the matrix and my only advice to you is to do research and free your mind because everything is not what it seems literally everything
It’s impressive how these guys figured out so much detail about events so ancient.
2000 years from now they will say the same thing about us
its not all accurate 😂
Egyptians have a good record keeping socity, and most of the records have survived.
@@teevee7678 can you give me an example of a "it's not all accurate" thing that the Egyptians did?
pretty ironic that a civilization which got such a heavy boost from the riverlands got overrelient on it and crumbled as soon as it became unstable. Though food supply was a major issue for any civilization.
On 0:24 turn on auto-captions and you'll find out how mayonnaise unites people
I read somewhere that Egypt was so old that Cleopatra viewed the pyramids of giza as old as we see her.
@a man george last Egyptian pharaoh
I hear the pyramids of Giza predate Egypt itself
Disease, war, famine...all the things that we’re doing today.
Some things never change..
You say that but then you go have a pizza the next day... lol
When he started talking about distribution of wealth and class structure you begin to realize that human beings are doomed to make the same mistakes for our entire existence. I mean this is four thousand years ago but we have the same problems in society still. It's fascinating but all very sad.
Praising a bunch of false God's couldn't have been good either.
Don't present day Egyptians feel like reviving their ancient culture? At least symbolically? How does it feel to live in one of the most ancient civilisations of the world and yet not celebrate it?
TheBookloverforever mind you business
@@Palestine4Ever169 Buzz off..
TheBookloverforever
I will when you mind you business
@@TheBookloverforever we doing that now
The Hyksos were driven out of Egypt over 400 years before Ramesses II’s reign. It was during the second intermediate period as opposed to the New Kingdom period.
Ancient Egypt started to decline as soon as the foreign invaders came into Africa the Persians , then the Greeks followed by the Romans ,who closed down all the Ancient temples , and bought Christianity into Egypt , the Coptic church was created, then 600 AD the Arabs bought Islam into Egypt and completely finished the Ancient Egyptian cultures and start to convert the people of Egypt to Islam
It was my son Cambyses who conquered Egypt for the first time in their history.
Well done by the way. 👍🏻
Didn’t the Assyrians and the Kushites conquer before though? Although Cambyses was the first to fully annex it in terms of making it a long term province.
Youshould Know No, not really. They tried, but failed to conquer Egypt fully.
@@cyrusthegreat1893 lol the Nubians and the Assyrians conqured Egypt first
watson Nata In what era exactly?
@@cyrusthegreat1893 It was a kushite king named pyre conqured Egypt in 744bce and founded the 25th dynasty but the kushite rule didnt last long as the Assyrian king Assurbanipal invaded Egypt in 663bce drove the kushites back to nubia.Assyrians made Egypt part of their Empire as a vassal state and place Necho 1(26th dynasty) as their puppet ruler.
Great Video! In my personal analysis, the decadence of Ancient Egypt began during the so-called Late Period of Egypt ( 664-332 BC). The Late Period represented a clear sign that the once powerful Egypt under the New Kingdom ( 1550-1069 BC) no longer existed. The Late Period ( which included the XXVI, XXVII, XXVIII, XXIX, XXX and the XXXI Dynasties), in turn, was a period of invasions, wars and defeats. Unlike the relative peace of the Third Intermediate Period ( which comprised the XXII, XXIII, XXIV and the XXV Dynasties), the Late Period, on the other hand, was marked with several foreign invasions.
In 670, for example, the Assyrians invaded and plundered the powerful Thebes/Waset, once the powerful center of the New Kingdom and the capital of Upper Egypt ( Ta-Shemu). The city of Memphis, once the powerful capital of the Old Kingdom and Lower Egypt ( Ta-Mehu), in turn, was also conquered by the armies of Ashurbanipal and Esarhaddon. Pharaoh Taharqa, the penultimate pharaoh of the XXV Dynasty and also the penultimate Pharaoh of the Third Intermediate Period, on the other hand, was also defeated during the invasions carried out by Esarhaddon and Ashurbanipal. The rule of the XXVI Dynasty, in my personal analysis, was one of the most importants of the entire Egyptian history!
Despite Pharaoh Psammetichus' initial victories ( which expelled the Assyrians in 663/662), the rest of the rule of the XXVI Dynasty became marked by invasions, some victories and several defeats.
• Pharaoh Necho II's pro-Assyrian policy, for exemple, was a complete failure. Assyria and the once powerful Nineveh would be completely destroyed during his reign. Although victorious at the Battle of Megiddo against Josiah, the last great king of Judah, Necho's victory ended up weakening the Egyptian Army for the decisive battle against Nebuchadnezzar at Carchemish.
• After Pharaoh Psamtik II's relative isolation, Pharaoh Apries' attempts to "ressurect" the Egyptian former military and political hegemony, on the other hand, failed considerably. The destruction of the vassal Kingdom of Judah by Nebuchadnezzar in 586 BC, the beginning of the Babylonian hegemony and the ill-fated campaign against the Greek colonies in Cyrenaica, for exemple, were a clear sign of this failure. Nevertheless, Apries was one of the greatest kings of the XXVI Dynasty and a fierce opponent of the Neo-Babylonian Empire.
• Pharaoh Ahmose II, in turn, was the last great Pharaoh of Egypt. Following Neduchadnezzar' death and with the evident Babylonian decadence, Ahmose's great concern in his foreign policy became concentrated with the rise of the Persian King Cyrus II ( Korosh Kabir).
• Pharaoh Psamtik III ( the last pharaoh of the XXVI Dynasty), on the other hand, inherited a completely isolated Egypt during the political context of Middle East in the VI century BCE. Following Cyrus' conquests and victories in Lydia/Sparda ( 546 BC), Media/Madā( 549 BC) and Babylon/Babirūs ( 539 BC) during the reign of Ahmose II, Egypt became completely isolated and vulnerable to the Persians. Following Psamtik's defeat before Cambyses' at Pelusium ( 525 BC), Egypt became the vital satrapie of Mūdraya ( which started the period of the Persians kings of the XXVII Dynasty). Despite Pharaoh Amyrtaeus' sucess in freeing Egypt from the Persian rule in 404 BC ( whose reign marked the entire XXVIII Dynasty), Egypt would remain within the orbit of the Achaemenid Empire until the definitive conquest carried out by Alexander the Great. The XXX Dynasty, in turn, was the last native Egyptian dynasty before the definitive foreign control of Kemet ( Egypt). Pharaoh Nactanebo II, on the other hand, became the last native Egyptian ruler before the Greek and Roman domination. Although Artaxerxes III managed to recapture Mūdraya in 343 BC ( founding the XXXI Dynasty), the Persian rule would not last long. Following the conquest of Egypt carried out by Alexander in 332 BC, foreign domination would definitely be installed.
The Greek domination of Egypt ( the so-called Ptolomaic Egypt), on the other hand, became a strong political organization during the governments of Ptolomy I Soter/Πτολεμαίος Σωτήρ ( who founded the Ptolomaic Egypt as a political organization), Ptolomy II Philadelphus/Πτολεμαίος Φιλάδελφος ( who built and financed the Great Library and the Lighthouse of Alexandria) and Ptolomy III Euergetes/Πτολεμαίος Ευεργέτης ( whose reign marked the maximum territorial expansion of the Ptolomaic Egypt). Nevertheless, during the reign of Ptolomy IV onwards, Greek Egypt began to decay until it became a vassal kingdom of the Romans ( under "Roman protection"). During the reign of Ptolomy XIII, Egypt was practically a new Roman province. In the 40s BC, only Egypt stood between the Romans and their total control of the Mediterranean ( MARE NOSTRVM/MARE INTERNVM). Following the defeat of Cleopatra and Mark Antony at the Battle of Actium ( 31 BC), Egypt officially became the Roman Province of Egypt ( PROVINCIA AEGYPTI).
TL;DR
Outstanding
Wow.
Yuri Brito bravo
You said all that to say what exactly?
It was brought down by a drought caused by carbon emissions from all their chariots.
Hahahaha
I know! They didn't trust the science and now look at them! Fascists!!
Cleopatra is closer to our era than to the building of the pyramids (1:30).
Nas said In his song "I know I can" Egyptians taught the Greeks and Romans with ancient history and books/scriptures and then were over threw eventually being this video I guess
It's interesting to see how a civilisation can be conquered so many times throughout history. What made other civilisations want to conquer Egypt exactly ? Was it a strategic location ?
It was a centre of trade due to it bordering Africa, the Red Sea, the Meditaranian sea and the middle east.
They were amazed and mesmerised by its beauty and enlightenment, just as how we marvel at the Egyptian antiquities today.
Agricultural wealth.
So Egypt fell because of the lack of iron, yet their kings were buried with gold
This sounds scarily similar to the current divide in the US...
Bible says nothing ia new under the sun
USA's "division" is nothing compared to rome or egypt
Why scarily tho ?
Roman Empire
the sad end , i call it like this as egyptian . pharohs remained for 2000 years Perfect until the invaders . the pharohs didnt invade countries bec. they were statsfiyed with their resorces until forgeners invaded us
From time of Assyrian empire it was just fought over as a bread basket supply region.
I don't think the question is why did they fall, but how they managed to be so stable for so long to begin with
Word
Faith
Facts indeed
@@egyptianindc8590 that too
Thanks and useful info. I finally got my answer. Getting tears listening how they lost their culture. So it started with Nile and ended with Nile. Such a nice history we have. Feel satisfied that i found the reason behind Egyptian culture extinct..!! Love your video..!!
I’m Egyptian I visit the pyramids a lot to see those amazing stuff
your nickname is haram
Rian Folt all my friends and family accept it so I’m okay with it it’s just my online nick name i don’t say anything bad about god at all
@@Inferno9767 are you not religious?
The original Egyptians were black…
@@_dontdowhatidid the original egyptians had nothing black stop that bs
Sounds like us right now. Who knows what's actually going on behind the curtains
I am surprised that there was no mention of the Sea People and the Bronze age collapse here, which I am confident was a far bigger factor than religion, considering that Egypt has always been religious. But a very well edited and told video, about a fascinating and very interesting mysterious civilization which may be one of the most important ones in history, which may in its mystery hold the secret to where we as a human race really came from.
by now it's pretty well known and accepted that the Egyptian's biggest contribution to the pyramids was the graffiti
You mean modern egyptians? because if so then you right
@@hodisfut I hear you but where do we create the cut off I mean I am talking about the Egyptians of 5,000 years ago
Every Civilization has Golden age and Then It Fall...
If you Read Books of History you should know that is Normal think...
Not necessarily, most history is circular like you said, the wheel moves slowly forward as things repeat, but there is a linear end of the road in my opinion.
The Pyramids served many functions. First it was the final resting spot for the Pharaohs. Second, they showed the power and strength of the Pharaohs. Third, they revealed the military power of Egypt, so that potential invaders and conquerors might think twice before attempting an attack on Egypt. And lastly, there were many more smaller pyramids and memorials to other important people. And you can see see all these other structures surrounding the major Pyramids today, but nearly all pictures, photos, and books ONLY cover the three major pyramids.
6:22 - “...citizens grew more displeased...” - There were no citizens in pre-Ptolemaic Egypt; citizenship was a concept and institution invented by the Greeks. There were inhabitants, subjects, ‘free-born’ people - a populace - in Pharaonic Egypt, but definitely no citizens in the Graeco-Roman or modern sense.
Semantics
Ngm Mngw - Far from it.
@@dorianphilotheates3769 nope you are reaching really hard
Ngm Mngw - You think so? I suppose giving up your citizenship status and identifying yourself as a “thing” instead of a “person” subject to law is simply a matter of “semantics” to you - o.k., whatever floats your boat...
Ancient Egypt: *exists*
Other empires: it's free real estate
Something I've always found funny: Cleopatra lived closer to the moon landing than the building of the pyramids.
Egypt surrounded by many civilizations, strong country will conquer weak country. It’s the nature.
Probably not true in my AU
The way this dude pronounced “nubians” really grated on me.
Ancient egypt really inspires me a lot
Thank you, learnt a lot of new stuff
Wounder what the future world will see us as in the same time as we see ancient Egyptians ... if it still exists 👀
Modern people with modern technology and applications such as tiktok. LOOOOL
It will be no more new civilizations this is the last one
@@egyptianindc8590 there will be a new civilization ones not born on this planet but another
This channel is so underappreciated. Where tf are the people. I love your videos
U didn't mention how sick Pharaohs were due to inter family marriages
It’s interesting to think that most major cradles of civilizations (I emphasize “major” here) have modern descendants in some way; China, India, GrecoRome, Aztecs have descendants today, I believe Mesopotamia eventually became the Middle East as we know it today, but ancient Egypt, one of the earliest cradles of civilization, totally disappeared, culture, people, everything.
Modern Egyptian has ancient Egyptian DNA.
That is not true. Nubians of southern egypt and upper sudan are still native and have kept a lot of the culture. And they did not readily mix with the arab invaders.
They didn't dissapear, the culture evolved... Greek influence led to Demotic Coptic, the Arabization of Egypt, cultural, not pop replacement, took centuries and didn't succeed entirely as there are lots of traces left in Egyptian Arabic and folklore
What led the downfall of Egyptian religion and their culture is that they were neighbours to middle east countries.
Correct bro. Islam and Christianity are the culture destroyers
Al Gore would have made a lot of money with that temperamental river.
It collapsed because they raged quit after they couldn’t find iron
@@JohnDoe-on8gl very true
Its a marvel of achievement , although multiculturalism was the main culprit that divided Egypt ,
How powerful was Austrian Empire and how it managed to hold on so many languages together as one state? Make an video from that.
Well bakc than there wasnt the idea of a Nation like today, people werent United with language and history but under their King
The Pyramids are way older than that
Yessir!
arent they like 5000 years old? or am i a tad too high and drunk
I built the pyramids
@@muksimulmaad7413 Depends which ones we're speaking of? Some are 40'000 yrs old
Shut up pussy
A better analogy is that Cleopatra lived closer to our age than the period of the pyramids
Pyramids and sphinx have water erosion. So these structures must be thousands of years older than originally thought
Because great flood at noah era
@@youcantmakemetosuscribe4745 But Egypt didn't exist during Noah's time according to scripture...
@@youcantmakemetosuscribe4745 Up until the birth of Mizraim, Ham's son...
@@bakaribradford
It is the same scripture which say human wrestle with god and god loss, so as the reward his got name servant of god?
@@bakaribradford
But maybe the sphinx and pyramid itself earlier than egypt era
You glazed right over the 25th dynasty which was ruled by the Nubians. They’re the ones who were defeated by the assyrians. They actually helped Egypt get back to their roots and identity.
He always does that he obviously doesn't know what he is talking about
helped ? they destroyed it more than anyone else they were the reason why the Assyrians invaded Egypt
As Willy Wonka would say: _"strike that - reverse it."_ The "Nubian Pharaohs" overran Egypt at a time when it was already in decline. The New Kingdom was failing and Egypt was fragmented. Accordingly they took control for about a century - the same as the Hyksos took control of northern Egypt at the end of the Middle Kingdom - before the Nubians were in turn driven out = by the Assyrians.
The Assyrians then set up a vassal state for a brief time - 26th Dynasty - before they were also driven out by the Persians. So what you claim reflects the pseudo-historical nonsense sometimes perpetuated by the "Kemet" moppets who similarly present a skewed version of history.
@@varyolla435 hey keep your obnoxious nose in your own continent.
@@listenup2882 lol! History = belongs to humanity. Accordingly there is no "local ownership". What I noted is a matter of historical record. That some fail to learn the actual history in preference to their own misguided pseudo-history is frankly their problem and not humanity's. I realize how some may be drawn to claims which may appeal to them on some emotional level. The fact remains however that one either bases their worldview on reality..............or else on their own imagination regardless of the rationalizations employed to cling to that "alternative reality".
Moral of the story: there is no such thing as "alternative facts" = merely alternative realities premised upon assumption, innuendo, conspiracy theories, and misinformation. So what people choose to believe - or not - is less important that what credible evidence if any is behind said beliefs. Facts matter.........not mere belief. Have a nice day.
You may have brought Egypt down but you have NEVER recreated its greatness.
Why does your accent sound like an Englishman trying to sound American?
To me it sounds like an American trying to sound English.
I actually think he's neither, but definitely not English, as he posted an ad a couple of years back requesting a British English narrator. I think he's just a foreigner with amazingly good English.
Maybe Canadian.....they have a tendency to pronounce and stress every single syllable.
He most certainly does not!
Liam Neeson is British...
Currently Egypt is occupied by Muslims, not the real Egyptians. Most went down south of africa and west Africa leaving their homeland
Good joke
If west Africans took a dna test no Egyptian would show up. Don’t claim something that isn’t yours.
Imagine an alternate universe that this civilization was still around
This guys accent and prononciations are giving me a stroke. He sounded Irish, British, American and Indian at times. Even said Nubians and Macedonians terribly wrong.
He is romanian dont judge him
You can mute the sound👍
Lynx I would if there were subtitles
@@jerrardtate5112 it was a joke though, lol.😂
Apparently he is from another race then you.
It didnt bother me because im surrounded by people with different accents and dialect, including myself.
Lynx I guess I’m just not used to his kind of talking
Their empire collapsed when Cleopatra took over
It was already declining before she took over, pretty sure the empire officially went when she died
Vitruvius Antarchius Yh and the Egyptians now look nothing like the ones living in ancient Egypt did lol unlucky really
Oscar Cordero Not quite. Egypt was the grain provider of the empire during the roman period. It was a huge loss for Byzantium.
Cleopatra was a Greek.
@Vitruvius Antarchius The demographics of Egypt never got changed. Egypt was the most populated province of the Roman empire and the people remained the same and modern Egyptians are proven to be a genetic continuation of Ancient Egyptians.
Don't buy into that "woke" kangz crap spewed by Afrocentrists online. They claim the whole world as black.
Imagine if Egypt kept its power and culture by the time Rome came onto the scene. Nuts.
Ok😊
And when we lost knowledge of the Hyroglyps so did many spells with it.
First.. and im Egyptian haha
I am Lebanon’s
NuclearSubmarine , I am New Zealand 🇳🇿
What about Massa musa he crashed the Egyptian economy
@marios gianopoulos Greeting ally, we will never forget how you guys liberated us from the Persians ❤
@marios gianopoulos and we forever will be allies 💙
POV: your doing this because of school
Its sad how they lost everything all because of inner fighting . If they would have worked through there problems non of these would have happened.
Happened with every civilisation.
That makes no sense : they couldn't get iron ? They moved megalithic stones all over the desert, but couldn't figure out how to buy some iron and make weapons.
No, they didn't move 50 ton stones. Thoth built the pyramids with the help of demons
Alex Hall 🤣🤣 what...
Yeah right buy some iron to neighbouring countries that tried to kill you.
@@JD-dh3yn read Emerald tablets of Thoth. Pyramids are used for transferring spirits. Egyptians believed in immorality. This is actually the Mark of the Beast /to live forever, but these will be the people in revelation who will wish to die but death will flee them. Then they will be thrown into the lake of fire
Alex Hall the origins of Christianity came from ancient Egypt... live forever? Doesn’t Christianity believe in the after life?
Imagine being alive back then, with all the world to be discovered not yet made.
Short answer: romans, Persians, and Greeks.
USA: telling the world that they can nuke Russia at anytime if it came to war
KGB: I’m about to end this guy’s hall career
CIA: Reverse Uno Card Afghanistan.
@@memoofjacoboarbenzjuanarev9724 and then 9/11 happened
@@Dhhu333 U.S.A: hahah great job muslims but hey we kinda are all deep into this imperialist stuff now we have since WW2 ended with us nuking a nation(U.S leader of Peace) a small lobby from U.k to bring Iran back into order (iran1953)got us on a power high now...and we love that oilll....so yiah we are staying FOREVER.
Mujahadin: Reverse Uno Card(then Taliban and al Quada are born and look at that already armed up by the guys they worked for and with)
@@memoofjacoboarbenzjuanarev9724 hmmmm
Omg This really made me tear up.
Egyptians saw Alexander as a liberator and the Ptolemaic dynasty was so successful(last Hellenistic kingdom to fall to Rome)because Egypt and Greece had close relations since pre History there is even a City called Thebes both in Greece and Egypt(there are many undiscovered Pyramids in Greece older than the Pyramid of Giza even the word is Greek😛)many Greek Historians thought of Egyptians as close relatives of Greeks something like the Minonians in Crete ,maybe not genetically, but definitely culturally Egyptians were not like other Barbarians of the time for Greeks ,because of their higher level Civilization ,just like Egyptians perceived Greeks as a high level Civilization too ,more liberal than the Persian and that is why they crowned Alexander the Great as their Pharaoh and called him Son of Amon-Ra(Sun God) ,even the High Priest of Egypt when he met Alexander deep in the Desert, he called him in Greek “Oh Pe-Dios “ (Oh son of Zeus) but historians argued that this might have been a mistake by the priest who wasn’t that fluent in Greek ,because Pe-dios sounds a lot like the greek word for child(παίς-παιδί-pe-di) and Egyptians called Greeks “Children that never grow” to show the energetic nature of Ancient Greeks(and their immature curiosity)or as frogs🐸 that live around the pond🌊(Aegean-Mediterranean) to show the dependency on naval affairs of the Ancient Greek World.
Alexander and his successors were fascinated by Egypt and he created probably the most beautiful City of his Kingdom there Alexandria named after him.Cleopatra is the proof of the fusion between Egypt and Greece because although she was 1000% Greek in our collective memory and History she was immortalized as Egyptian.Ancient Greece and Egypt were so close in all levels more than Greece&Rome(actually Rome became Greece 2.0) that created the Eastern Roman Empire(Byzantium)& the Greco-Roman/Western Civilization in general.
Constantine XI
Yes, history written through the eyes of the Greeks. The Greeks were famous for their usage of hyperbole alongside usage of over exaggerated lies.
The only reason there is a city in Egypt called Thebes is that greeks change the name of the city of Waset.
Pyramid is a greek word and the greek association with those monuments ends there. The Egyptians had their own words for everything that the greeks renamed. There are none in Greece. The greeks had not even made it to Greece at the time the Giza pyramids were built. To even call them greeks at that point would be an error. They were still in Ukraine.
To think that people from a culture, that was already 3000 years old by the time the greeks showed up, would have seen a butt-load of commonality with the greeks is something only a greek would come up with. Egyptians tolerated the greeks because they had no choice. To the average egyptian commoner it made no difference. You just keep working for the new boss like you did for the old boss. They certainly didn’t partake in some new fusion of the two cultures. That was something for the nobility only.
I’m not a greek hater. I just have to call bullshit when I smell it.
Does no history channel teams ever just google the names of things? I mean 'Nubbians'? 'Hikesose'? It would take 0 effort to copy paste these phonetically from Wikipedia
The youtuber's 1st language is obviously not english so he hired a narrator but he apparently doesn't know much history so he was unfamiliar with the pronunciation of these ancient peoples it seems. That's my guess
@@hazzmati He has a very thick American accent though?
Yes the american voice is not knowledgia ofc but some narrator he hired because people were complaining about his accent.
Hazzmati vi
Very informative
Thank you
The Ptolemies gave Egypt a new lease on life, helping it to at least partially overcome the inherent limits set by the Nile river and the lack of iron and the subsequent lack of a modern army:
- The Ptolemaic army was (at least initially) mostly made up of Macedonian Greek mercenaries, with modern iron weapons, armor, and tactics derived from Alexander's Macedonian army. They hired a few other kinds of mercenaries as well (such as Galatians), but it was mostly Greeks.
- The Ptolemies used Egypt as a major trading hub, importing goods from countries accessible from the Red Sea, including Indian spices, Ethiopian Ivory, and many other goods. They even built an ancient version of the Suez Canal for this.
- In addition, the growth of other Greek cities in the Mediterranean (and Rome) led to a major market for Egyptian grain. On top of that, the Ptolemies introduced olives to Egyptian agriculture, making olive oil a major export, on top of Egypt's other goods (papyrus, linen, certain gemstones like emeralds, etc).
- Finally, the Ptolemies made the capital Alexandria into the world's largest city, attracting intellectuals and tourists to come to the capital.
Egypt was still limited by the Nile, but considerably less so than before, as Egypt could derive money from trade and other products. Ultimately, the Ptolemaic model had its limits. Its mercenary armies were made up of relatively small numbers of elite troops who were expensive and hard to replace. The absolute monarchy of the Ptolemaic kingdom only worked well when there was a competent, strong, and sane ruler on the throne; many of the later Ptolemies were lacking in at least one of those categories if not all three.
Frequent wars drained the supply of Greek mercenaries, especially when Asia minor and Greece itself were conquered by Rome. Egypt still lacked sufficient iron of its own, had few good native soldiers, and few skills in making modern weapons and armor. Egyptian troops filled in some of the gaps, but the quality of the Ptolemaic army went way down as a result. Even if Egypt had enough iron and the skills to use it well, the Egyptians were still limited by the Nile river. Any large empire capable of using resources pulled from territories sustained by farmland away from a river valley would have been able to overwhelm them eventually. Even with perfect flooding, the Nile placed a cap on their power which could only be very slightly exceeded by exploiting what few resources were available away from the Nile, such as a handful of oases and some mines and quarries in the desert, which were difficult to access in any event. It also didn't help that Egypt's only natural barrier is the desert. While this was formidable in the bronze age, the larger and better-organized armies in the iron age and onward could handle deserts better due to better logistics (getting supplies from one point to another).
When Egypt found itself fighting Rome, it went up against a military power which far exceeded it in quality, quantity, and leadership. Cleopatra made a brave last stand with Mark Antony's help and played a strong hand pretty well, but she was going up against an insanely powerful force in Augustus and his general Agrippa. There was just no way she could have won, even with Antony's legions and her crash-built fleet of massive, budget-breaking ships.
Nicely Written. Egypt never truly recover after that
Only one mistake. The ancient version of the sues canal was build by the Persians.
@@edrickhuge4637 Not quite. The Persians tried to build it, but failed. The Greeks succeeded.
So the moral of the story is: iron is superior to bronze
ChromeMan04 The moral is education is key.
It was already ancient history at the time of Greek civilisation during the dark ages
This makes me respect Western civilization is the greatest most enduring ever, from Greece to Rome to France and British Empire., now to US. It's the reason we speak English here.
Eastern civilization no longer exists?? Last time i checked China still there and been here forever
@@Johnny_McClintock what has china done? Be ruled by Japan throughout history and murder millions and millions of its own people? Build factories? Not much.
@@VolReed same west, Europeans were barbaric and backwards tribes like the natives before the Romans and Arabs civilized them, Arabs also taught Europeans how to clean themselves, they even brought them soap, alchemy and paper etc.
4:02 The NABians LOL its Nubians pronounced Noobians
CuzImMOODY LMFAOOOOO
There are other mispronunciations in this vid. It's typical.
That annoyed me
Noobs
@THE ONE YOU ONLY NEED TO WORRY ABOUT i care
"The Hike- So's and the Nubb- eans". Way to butcher a name.
It went out of balance once it allowed barbaric tribes to trade with it. Resulting in a catastrophic flood.
This is a great channel... I always wanted to know what happened about the fall of Egypt. Hmmm... Now I wanna see why The Roman Empire fell 🤷🏻♂️
And fast too
some of these later pictures looks like an acid trip
The animation or edit is awesome im also learning all edits soon ill be a pro editor ill be soon editing hard af people gonna love it
Inbreeding among the Pharaohs also contributed towards ending bloodlines. I thought that was also a significant reason leading to the collapse of Ancient Egypt.
inbreeding was only with royal bloodlines. And its only a problem if there's genetic impurities. However, if there are genetic advantages; you create a super race. The same concept is used in cross breeding across all platforms. Its why we don't see a huge population of special needs dogs walking around.
@DEBANG MAITY Well, the virgin Mary was roughly the same age; arguably 14. She was impregnated while married to another man; by The Holy Spirt/Dove; kinda like who Zeus turned into a bird to engender Jesus, I mean Perseus.
We waz kangz !!!
Ight, imma head out.
N sheeeeit!!!!
Gouf Gundam Yup we were the kings and we still the kings my ancient history is oldest then any ancient in Europe, my Nubian ancient history back to 7000 years although we are not Egyptian we have our own history that connected with Egyptian by trades and they were allies so go fck your self by your fcking meme
WE EDGY UP IN HEEEERRRRRAAAAA 😤
@@Palestine4Ever169 shut up and go blow sumin up while screaming Allah snake bar! or sumin brownie...
shwat2013
Yea another lie from a nigga trying to be me lool
Get over it we Egyptians got nothing to do with y’all
Very informative and touching a relatively unfamous, yet important
Pyramids are much older !!!
Source?
C R basically every historian and source on the Pyramids imaginable if you just research it