The Largest Empires You Never Heard Of - How History Works
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- Опубліковано 24 лип 2024
- Empires rise and fall like a loaf of bread in the oven, but like a bad baker, some empires get burnt and turn to ash.
Only a few dead empires have a reputation that stand the test of time. We’ve all heard of the Ancient Greeks and Roman empire and let’s not forget the Egyptians, but what about the unlucky ones who are barely a footnote in a history textbook?
Well, they’ve got stories behind them too. So, in honor of the civilations that have faded from most peoples’ memories, we’re going to examine what made them so great and how they finally collapsed.
The Babylonians (1895 B.C.E. - 529 B.C.E.)
Chances are you’ve heard of these guys as they appear in the Bible, though not favourably. But did you know that their city gates were a wonder of the world of ancient times? Dubbed ‘Gates of The Gods’, Babylon was located in what is now modern-day Iraq. But it’s most famous contribution as a city of culture was its hanging gardens (although the ruins have never been found). In fact, most ruins were lost as the water level of lush Mesopotamia rose dramatically over the centuries. That means the ruins we have discovered were built almost a thousand years after the city was first founded. Although so little is known of its early days, historians do know that it’s most famous King was Hammurabi as it was his reign that transformed the city into the most powerful in the region. His law codes centralised his government so were ahead of its time. It helped him to maintain rule when Babylon increased in size and influence. Common laws and legal rights kept his subjects happy and his increased public works - like temples and walls - proved to them that this King was invested in the longevity of his kingdom.
However, when he died so did stability. The city was captured by different groups, including the Kassites in 13th century B.C. who renamed the city.
One of their kings, Sennacherib, was revolted against by the Babylonians. In response he razed the city and scattered the ruins. Many of his colleagues thought this was a bit extreme, so they killed him, rebuilt the city and restored the name. And you thought your office dynamic was bad!
Yet despite being the biggest and most advanced city in the world at that time, and one with such a long lifespan, the city-state eventually fell. Civil unrest with the late Neo-Babylonian rulers paved way for the Achaemenids Empire to invade. The people flocked to their new ruler, and just like that the city that was ahead of its time got kicked to the curb. (4)
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“Empires you never heard of… Babylon, Bizantine…”
I mean…..
They assume American education
The ottomans lol
@@RandomMusik It can't be _that_ bad, can it?
@@cchutney348 Empire syndrome, why learn history when you're the unipolar empire and live on your own continent. Just teach em a bit of roman and greek history to instill in them a tradition and off they go
@@badluck5647 what you are not educated about Spanish influence in the Continent in which they are the key cornerstone of the US.
Not a bad video, but the title is click baity as hell. You started out strong, and then just started naming some of the most famous empires that aren’t explicitly European.
Exactly
Piss me right off this sort of thing
Even the first is pretty well known for history enthusiasts
@@luisfilipe2023 for sure, in relation the the others it’s a decent one
Yeah, kinda pointless.
"The largest empires you've never heard of"
*Laughs in Sid Meier's Civilization V*
> the largest civilizations you've never heard of
> babylonian empire
> ottoman empire
> roman empire
15 year olds i know who don't know where taiwan is on a map know of these
he should have mentioned the mugals (who many euros don't know of) or teotihuacan, or the songhai, or some javanese empire. maybe even a country that is not thought of as an empire, like the netherlands
I've heard of all of these empires. I was still entertained though, and I appreciate the quality of videos you put out😊
I’ve literally heard of all of these
Lol same but tbh this is a video for those who are just starting to learn history
@@cupidsfavouritecherub9327 everyone knows these, with the exception of the khmer
Title: The Largest Empires You Never Heard Of
my thoughts: ohh maybe he would talk about berely known Hettittes, or short lived expansionists kingdom in the same region, or maybe about slavic "empires" of early medival period, or maybe it would be about empires in central asia of various period, or maybe about that turkic khaganate, thanks to which is persian-byzantine war (the last one prior to rise of islam) first truly global conflict, or maybe about post alexandric empires (diadochis war), or maybe about mongolic offshoot empires, or maybe some uknown(for me) attempt of unification of polynesian cultures etc..
How History Works: You definetely never heard of Roman Empire...
Hey man, you also haven't heard of the Ottoman Empire even though there's still a few people alive who lived before it fell apart!
Lmao, yeap he probably took the short bus to school
Honestly speaking, a true empire was a centralize state that had organize laws and regulations to control their society firmly. Most so called empires would not fall under this category because many of them are just de-centralize kingdoms that rely on indirect relationship with their neighbors. Thus, they never control any land or population under their rule. This is why many of them fell in just a short time span.
Everyone knows about Angkor Wat and the Khmer Empire but nobody knows about Ayutthaya’s wealth and power…
Ayutthaya wealth and power came mostly from the Khmer empire. Ayodhya was the real name and used to be a former military outpost of the Khmer empire. Ayutthaya was already a wealthy city when it was directly under the Imperial rule of the Khmers.
Aside from the already often mentioned problem that all of those Empires are pretty well known (if not the details) 1912 was most definitly not the first sign of the end, the Ottoman Empire was already called the "Sick Man on the Bosporus" (first such mentioned as such by Zar Nikolai I 1852) and the Berlin Congress of 1878 made it very clear to everybody that the Ottoman Empire was finished as a great power.
Empires you've never heard of: Number 2 - Babylon "plays game of thrones footage"
Bad one. Just because they're not from Europe it doesn't mean they're unknown. Also, there's an editing mistake...
And more than a handful of pronunciation mistakes.
The title should be: "The Largest Empires Americans Never Heard Of" because as a european guy I have heard and learned about all of them years ago in school.
Why are Americans always ragged on with this kind of thing? If you like history even a little you've heard of all of these. Its just a bad title
People never heard Ottoman Empire? They must be American.
Nah. We learn about them with the other gunpowder empires and as why Columbus went out and found the Americas
American also loves to learn about their wars so we learn a ton about the late Ottoman Empire in World War I
Most of the territories under the Ottoman consist of tributary kingdoms so I would not call it an empire but more like a Kingdom
These are the only real empires in our pre-modern history that created an imperial state base on a centralize system. Roman empire, Khmer empire, Incan empire, Qin dynasty, Han dynasty, Mughal empire. These centralize entities all had one thing in common. They all built roads, cultural assimilation, and provincial capital centers to directly control the area they conquered. Now a days the term "empire" is used quite loosely to describe all kingdoms and states from the past without taking into consideration how the central administration control the outer regions and area outside the capital city.
No Neo-Sumerian empire?......? Or any of the empires between the Tigris and Euphrates? Bit weird. They invented the postal road system and strong centralization. I'd say a proto communist command and control economy with central distribution hubs is fairly centralized haha.
@@shacklock01 To be fair, a true centralize empire in the past was highly autocratic with a strong integration system. It's pretty similar to modern day countries like China, Russia, and even the US. Most of those civilizations in the Tigris and Euphrates region can be called state level societies. They never fully develop into a highly centralize state where everything is directly ruled under the central government.
At least partially written by AI?
Not even one indian subcontinent or Russian Empire in the video.
Maurya Dynasty!!
"We're going to describe some of the biggest empires you've never heard of"
Describes some of the most well known empires in history.
Who the hell have no heard about these empires??
The hanging gardens of Babylon are a myth. There were hanging gardens in Nineveh and one of the rulers of Assyria renamed it as Babylon because the guy was infatuated with Babylon after conquering it.
I don't think many people have never heard of Byzantine & Ottoman Empire
people who don't know these never played age of empire
and those empires are some of the most known empires
compared to the Umayyad Caliphate or the Malian empire for example
or the Tibetan or Bulgarian empires
or the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth who did defeat Russia around 1605 to 1615 and conquer moscow.
are way less known outside their successor country's
polish lithuanian commonwealth is a good one. far to few know it
Hey man I enjoy your finance videos but you have got to step up your game as a history channel if you ever want this channel to make money. Your recent videos are generic and the views reflect that. The 2,3,4 videos you posted were a little different that's why they performed better than the recent videos. If you want this channel to grow you have to come up with better video ideas and a better script. For example make a video on how the English/Europeans destroyed homosexuality in the east through colonialism (Video title - how Europeans destroyed homosexuality for the whole world.) , you can also try alternate history type content like what if Americans were conquered by French/ Dutch . I hope you evolve and make the channel a success.
Nice story of Empires from the Khmer Empire to the Ottoman Empire.
I’ve literally heard of all of these empires lol
Cool!
Babylon? Really? One of the most famous Empires in history probably doesn't belong here. The Persian Empire, really???
The hanging gardens of "Babylon" were likely actually in Nineveh.
it would be a great addition the lakota empire :(
Check mate, I am such a nerd that I heard about all of them before 😏
Pretty much everyone has
what the hell is that profile picture
10:02 btw it stayed constantiople until the 1920s. After the ottoman sultanate was abolished
I've heard and read about all of these.
The sultunate of Turkey was abolished in 1922, not 1992.
Off by a good 70 years
I have heard of most of these
I’ve heard about the Byzantines and ottomans. But the Akkadians, heard the name and don’t know much about it
Lol guys chill out... I'm sure someone had no idea who the Byzantines were 😂
Byzantines (Greeks) did not wear togas. Even when western Rome fell, togas were only ceremonial at that point. Togas were popular in the classical period of rome, but as time went by only politicians wore them for ceremonies. The toga is so overused and misused in pop culture. Please don’t contribute to more misinformation.
........... Do you mean the streets escort never heard of?
Honestly Byzantine could barely be called an empire, it was just so small after losing almost all of its territory to the Caliphate.
But it actually took quite a while to lose it's territory and kept gaining back off and on.
I know all of these except the first one
"We'll admire the shit out of you!"
-Alexander The Great, probably
Couldn't even mention the Bactrians?
Generally, you do great videos. Perhaps relabelled this video would do better.
Only 2 were obscure.
Rest were famous
He said “Place” intrigue. Palace intrigue? You just reading and not comprehending what you’re saying 😅
The title might apply to Americans... In Europe every 14 year old knows all those empires
4 the algorithm
I knew all of these.
Everyone here trying to flex their brains on the vid. Perhaps consider that not everyone is a history buff and his channels are obviously geared towards the broad strokes. Just enjoy the show my guys
no. the author is better than this.
the civs are some of the best known historical entities. they are A-Tier on the well-known tierlist. After the s tier that only includes rome
9:27: 💀
Why do Millennials and Zoomers use "more" and "most" to modify single-syllable adjectives? You, for example, said "most rare". Why not say "rarest"? I notice that you youngsters do this all the time. Where did you learn this?
Not 1992, 1922.
A lot more asian empires are missing
Perjorative title.
Also, just because an Empire isn’t European doesn’t mean it isn’t well-known. Be better
Me who watched hotewig 100 times🤓
what about the turdburglarian empire?
Angkor What?
It’s not pronounced Ka-mur. It’s closer to K-ma-ei
Ottomans❤❤❤
The Ottoman Empire was more-or-less finished long before 1912. Poor video - a lot of people have heard of all these empires.
lol fail
Byzantine and Ottomans... Unknown empires.... Lol😂