What Was Daily Life Like In Ancient America? | 1491 | Absolute History
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- Опубліковано 4 тра 2023
- We are introduced to indigenous creation stories; discoveries by archaeologists, geneticists, linguists and anthropologists about the arrival of various indigenous people that are believed to arrive via the land bridge from what is now Russia and Alaska and also via boat and sailing down the N. American coast, settling in many areas and then developing differing languages, cultures and customs.
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Can you guys please be a bit more accurate in your video titles? This was a great documentary, don't get me wrong, but this was about the general history of First Nations people in the Americas as opposed to what daily life was like for them. It's really annoying to click on a video and have it not be what was promised.
As an European, very interested in history, I would love to see more in-depth videos of the way those people leaved before 1492, because it is such a vast continent, this video only scratched the surface. I'd love to learn more.
one of the problems is that these people didn't have written language, so there aren't really records. What records there are were recorded by European colonialists, so not exactly unbiased.
@@funsalmon unfortunately, but like often in History. (take the Romains for example) I guess loads is lost, what a pity!
You are forgetting that the Vikings came to North America before Columbus. I am glad that you are using First Nations people to narrate.
Thank you, I came here to say the same thing.
>Ancient
>1491
Osiyo..( hello) in Cherokee..
Our tribe is close kin to the Iroquois..and the land bridge theory and ocean story is both plausible..but apparently we're closely kin to the indigenous peoples of the Eurasian and central Asian step to be exact and theres even reason to believe we're kin to the Sami and even the Maori..pretty interesting..i personally think north America already had some indigenous peoples then came the eurasians and over 1,000 years of trial and error you ended up with the first peoples of North America.. anyway I really like your channel Absolute history and i think its so interesting that a BBC channel not only makes intelligent TV but is also interested in history other than English and did such a good video on native America... well done😊
You really should read about the Denton Texas archeological find of about 20+ years ago there was a huge dig where tons of local to Texas Native American potery and tools and different things at the time it was one of the biggest native crafts and utilitarian items discoveries in years its pretty fascinating and well documented 😊
1491 is not "Ancient" America. It was PRE-COLONIZED Turtle Island.
Oof liberal
Did you know these guys sacrificed women and children?
I recently lived in Colorado and visited an archeological site where the Pueblo people had built clay dirt huts and killed and ate children as well. So. I guess it was sort of a good thing that the americas were “ colonized “ as you call it.
I do think that it was indeed ancient america. Not because they were somehow... Underdeveloped or something. No. Merely, they never reached the medieval period.
Same as area where I live in Europe, and most of the Europe is said to never have been in ancient times. We went straight from prehistory to medieval.
@@calliecrider2475 Firstly it's not "as you call it" it is by definition colonization. Secondly, no. The slaughter and erasure of native peoples is not and has never been a good thing. Genocide is not okay. Suggesting so is disturbing and says a whole lot about your damage morals.
It makes a lot of sense that people who made it to the Pacific coast of Asia (and clearly China has always been a fantastic place to grow people and likely was a springboard) would have gradually worked their way north along the coastline seeking unpeopled hunting and fishing areas and living perhaps much the way the Inuit did until pretty modern times until, lo and behold, they weren’t going north anymore, but south, and weren’t in Asia anymore, but North America. From there, any spot along the coast with resources inland (such as rivers) would have encouraged spread inland. Kind of amazing how fast it all happened, though, for people still at a stone-age technology level (as was the rest of the world; it’s important to remember that Europeans were not especially ahead of the first Americans technologically and had to be taught how to farm corn in order to not starve).
They're not the first peoples
There are always some group that preceeded them
I see many comments here saying that it was not ancient americas back then. If it wasn't this, then what? I mean, if we look at the specifications of ancient world, how did the states of that time work, and so, then we see that the American states of the pre 1491 period, namely in the south are quite similar to the ancient mesopotamian or ancient egyptian states.
Besides that. To call them ancient, it merely means that they did not come to the medieval times, not that they were somehow underdeveloped in terms of economical/political/opinional/cultural means and ways.
Yea, some of those commenters seem like they think the stone age means "Humans were living stone people at this point in History" and then they evolved into bronze humans lol
2:30 i wonder if europeans livin in europe call themselves indigenous. or is this exclusive for peoples colonized by europe?
Most Europeans are actually not indigenous to Europe, with the exception of the finns and the Basques... most Europeans are descended from the Proto, Indo European cultures originally from Central Asia.
@@KohanKilletz how do experts or the people decide how long should a a group of people be living in the same area to be called indigenous?
@@creestee08 That is all pretty semantic... I guess the point isn't that the American Indians are indigenous, a nebulous term, but that their inhabitation long predates European settlement and that the the land was objectively stolen, with murder, cultural genocide, literal state supported ethnic cleansing, forced reeducation, and continued economic and environmental damage done to American Indian communities.
@@creestee08indigenous people are the people who were there first
@@FrogsLikeFruitSnacks how do you know they were really first? Can you prove that they didnt kill or drove away the people who were living there first?
Don’t muddle myth with science by prefacing with: “some people believe…”. Instead, define and seperate what the scientific evidence suggests.
Agreed
this is a video about history not science
3:08 why are there bananas in pre colombian america? isnt this exclusive to SE asia?
Isn’t this like this fourth time this channel has aired this, with the fourth different title? I mean, the documentary still stays the same even when ya change the title… hope the creator knows that 🤦🏻♂️🙄
How many teachings have been lost because their practical applications were directly connected with the land? From Maine to Florida, New York to California, roads and cities and factories and towns, and all that comes with, pesticides and smog, pollution and irreversible ecosystem damage make living according to the non-European ways impossible, and thus the applications of those teachings are not practiced today in the face of all the superimposed European standards of living and governance.
Yes that's why i am here and my great grandma i think Lapulapu i Ancient American also
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George Santayana famously said that history is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
Correction there were Ancient people not Ancient Americans. It didn't become America till we named it America. If we haven't come over from England America wouldn't have excisted. Was Russia Russia before they named it Russia I think not.
Isnt it crazy how Native Americans knew how humans became well humans and how the came to occupy America. Thats so awesome.
so before the indigenous people arrived were there no humans in the Americas and the Caribbean? Such a vast land mass with no people?
Since it was separated from the "cradle of life" or the first known origins of man it is not that hard to believe it took time for people to get here
What do you mean “arrived”? They came from outer space or something?
@@TheRedRaven_ When you "arrive" at a party do you come from outer space or something? What about when you "arrive" at your destination? Do you drop from the sky or something? Please check the definition of arrive or please watch the documentary so you can see that it is suggested that migration of people lead to civilizations in the Americas and the Caribbean.
@@nicolettec6681
Lol they're trolling, if you see the rest of their comments, such as one I laughed a little at about Native populations stealing the dinosaur's land. I'm thinking they're being facetious but there's always the chance they're being serious, too.
@@ElysetheEevee 😂
Since 1492, we shared...
Is share another word for genocidally conquered through deception and overwhelming forces hell-bent on acquiring more for greedy kings and religions.
Yet they werent the first ppl here 😂
These people went where they thought at the time, there best chance to survive just like you and your family would do now.
@@Tsumami__ It gets even more complicated if you're someone related to both the native tribes and the colonizing families.
@@zacharybond23
Yeah...I'm in that boat as well. My mom has been doing genealogy for decades, and you find some pretty interesting things. Add to that DNA testing these days to confirm and spice things up even more in the ancestry department. It's definitely complex in this specific situation, though. I just wish enough of my native ancestors had made it through to teach my family more about our heritage....
@@Tsumami__ I was talking about the Indians dummy.
Probably gonna get some hate for this...
We keep referring to them as "indigenous peoples" while also acknowledging that they migrated from somewhere else. Seems like a contradiction. Just like 1492 when Europeans immigrated, all these "indigenous people" migrating prior to this date would bring their language, culture and technology with them and often supplant the existing tribes. There is a long history of native American tribes dominating and sometimes wiping out other smaller weaker tribes.
Lots of examples or extreme torture, terrible stuff. Humans will be humans, but the romanticism is annoying
They are indigenous because they are the first people on the land... in fact, there are some parts of the Americas that Europeans are the indigenous people, because no humans reached there as far as we know before the Europeans such as the Falkland islands
Columbus put an end the much of the human sacrifice practices that were common among the indigenous ' peoples of the Caribbean. Does this make HIM bad?
He should have stopped it in Europe, and let the natives resolve their own problems.
OK ,why just view Columbus or Whites as another competing tribe for better or worse just as many other tribes interacted throughout world history?
The "Disease" they blame on Europeans actually spread from Asia the very place where it is claimed that "Indigenous Americans" came from so take that.
Well he also enslaved them so yeah he's BAD
@@srdool, because Columbus took joy in raping and murdering, his own journals show it. People back in Europe thought he was disturbed. Why make a hero out of a murdering bastard? Why are you people so desperate to make the natives look evil for killing but make excuses for colonizers, who supposedly were more advanced and less barbaric, doing the same horrors in the name of land and money? At least most sacrifices were done out of a true belief it was needed for their survival. Not greed like the Europeans
Dorry but, The human sacrifices will stop.
Native Americans committed horrible atrocities against other tribes, including extreme torture and violenc e
like how Europeans also did? i dont see your point.
@@FrogsLikeFruitSnacks the point f's like you who always complain about Europeans as if the rest of the world wasn't doing it. Stop romanticizing one while vilifying others, hypocrite