Forgotten Wars - The Roman Invasion of Nubia (24 BC) DOCUMENTARY
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- Опубліковано 9 тра 2024
- A documentary on the Roman invasion of Nubia and the Kingdom of Kush (24 BC). Watch more African history documentaries with MagellanTV here: try.magellantv.com/invicta. It's an exclusive offer for our viewers! Start your free trial today. MagellanTV is a new kind of streaming service run by filmmakers with 3,000+ documentaries! Check out our personal recommendation and MagellanTV’s exclusive playlists: www.magellantv.com/explore/hi....
In this history documentary we explore another one of the forgotten wars when the Roman army marched beyond the frontiers to explore parts unknown. However in order to contextualize this expedition we spend time exploring the ancient History of Egypt and the History of Nubia. We begin by looking at the geographic features of the Nile which influenced the development of the civilizations along its banks. Next we look at the intertwined development of both Egyptian and Nubian kingdoms over the eras. This covers the overlap of the Old Kingdom of Egypt, the Middle Kingdom of Egypt, and the New Kingdom of Egypt with the Kingdom of Kerma, the Kingdom of Napata, and the Kingdom of Meroe.
Finally we discuss how the Roman Empire became involved in Egypt and African history. This began with Pompey and Caesar during their civil war. When Rome then chose to support the Ptolemaic rule of Cleopatra they then further became invovled. The queen would support Mark Antony in his civil war against Octavian but the eastern forces would ultimately lose at the Battle of Actium. Following this event, Octavian, now turned Augustus, would annex Egypt. Over the following decades, the emperor would embark on fresh conquests to win gold and glory. One was the Roman Invasion of Arabia and the other was the Roman invasion of Ethiopia. We covered the former in a previous video and spend the remainder of our time seeing how the conflict into Nubia would unfold.
This involves a fascinating series of campaigns fought between Kandake Amanirenas and Gaius Petronius with armies of 30,000 and 10,000 respectively. Its a fascinating look into the African history that rarely gets covered.
Sources and Suggested Reading:
“Geography - Book 16-17” by Strabo
“The Natural History - Chapter 35” by Pliny the Elder
“Histories - Book 3, 7” by Herodotus
“History of Africa” by Kevin Shillington
“The Kingdoms of Kush” by The National Geographic
Credits:
Research = Invicta
Writing = Invicta
Narration = Invicta
Artwork = Gabriel Cassata
#History
#Rome
#Africa
We dive deep into the history of the Nubian archers in this episode: ua-cam.com/video/qvO3_kYRRw8/v-deo.html
That was a very enjoyable watch. Videos about Roman exploratory expeditions sound like a fun topic, like Nero's quest for the Nile you mentioned 😁
Pp0
did alexander make contact with them?
It's not Nubia back then, call it what it was back then , it is Alkebulan.
This is before Rome arrived to kill over 50 million original Jews and the survivors left out in a mass exodus and this is how we get the book of Exodus in the bible.
@@NOTTHASAME smh , i assume your an Hebrew Israelite? when you make yhese idiotic assertions you need to back it up with empirical
evidence from scholars and historians.
We NEED a video about Nero's expedition to find the source of the Nile.
Agreed. He can't just leave us hanging like that.
There's a top gear video about that.
Dude that’s so epic we need that!
I agree, that would be so interesting!
@@arthurgrande468 Nero definitely had that Sigma Grindset
Storys of ancient Egypt are what got me into history, so learning more about their underrated neighbors is a delight!
Have you seen the Nubian piramides? There are just so different from their neighbour, they have these tall piramides, they also once united all of Egypt.
They are not underrated. You don't rate civilisations like you do with movies or games
@@randolph69 Fucking hell, get off your high horse, mate. He's just happy to see something about a culture you don't see depicted often. Gives a chance to LEARN SOMETHING NEW. If THAT'S what gets you worked up your life must be rainbows and sunshine otherwise.
@@WardancerHB Got to agree man, I also think that Kush and the Nubians are "underrated" since all books and such tend to focus on the Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians.
Same man, Ancient Egypt got me into history as well. One of the first books I read was a book on Ancient Egypt.
Please Sir, MORE! Its refreshing to have the more obscure events of history presented in such a clear and engaging manner - detailed enough to give a comprehensive overview without a surfeit of trivia, and inclusive enough make the events relevant. Of course a well researched and constructed script/video and a pleasant sounding presenter make the experience entertaining as well as informative.
So, yes additional entries of this sort would be most welcome. The fact that I can not recommend any events in particular highlight the gaps in my knowledge - gaps you are slowly filling in so enjoyably.
The content of this channel is unbelievable. Don't sell out, never change what you do, its amazing.
kings and Generals and Invicta releasing videos on Romans, Kushites and Egyptians back to back, its my lucky day :)
Same
Tasting History with Max Miller has an Egyptian cake this week as well. This has been quite the Tuesday morning.
so many great history channels feeding us today, what a feast
same
In this case Queens & generals.
Ah the Roman invasion of kush, led by the wise general Snoopus Doggus himself!
He was famous for the invention of the smoke screen
Damn, well and truly a highly motivated general, for sure.
Where are my rolling papirus
@@derekbowbrick6233 The plural of “papȳrus” in Latin is “papȳrī,” and usually people use “papyri” in English as well.
The high and mighty himself
The Aksumites (modern day Ethiopia) were great warriors, who conquered a lot of land. One of the first African civilizations to mint coins and they have their own writing script called Ge'ez. It would be great if you could do a video on them sometime in the future.
Narmer, or Menes, the first pharaoh to unite the upper and lower Kemet (Egypt), was from Southern Africa. Therefore, the FIRST writing was African. The hieroglyphics were African, both the Kemetic and Meroetic. The fact that the Ancient Egyptians were African was common knowledge in antiquity, and documented by Herodotus, the Greek father of history.
No other civilization has the similarities of culture.
As they became Christians they actually finished the destruction of ancient Egyptian religion. By that time the Nubian, Kush, Sudan area were called Ethiopians ( from the greek word to refer to people with burnt face). After that victory the Askumite king took the name King of the Ethiopians that he had conquered and from there we now have the Aksumites called Ethiopians. History
😂look at adis Ababa now like a ghost town with no signs of advancement in civilisation yet they claim they founded every thing including the Egyptians who had open brain surgery eye surgery drilling into solid granite art imagery inside tombs & temples human prosthetic limbs no sub Saharan Africans were ever Egyptians 🤦
@@seifuddeenkutuz8674 that's not even remotely true
More Ancient Africa is was so interesting! I didn’t realize they squared up against so many empires and held their own.
Yes! The Kushites were able to go up against many empires and hold their own. Truly Badass.
Mansa musa
@@charlestaylor8355 did you even watch the video?Nubia got steamrolled
@@DevoteeofThunor the defeated Egypt and held Persia to a standstill. They did get steamrolled by Rome but they gained their respect as well.
@@DevoteeofThunor oh my gosh, you want the Caucasian to win so bad. You can’t stand defeat.
I think a good war for you to cover would be Viriathus’s Lusitanian War (the War of Fire), between 155-139 BC.
Rome’s pretext was that Lusitanians were used greatly by Carthage in the previous two Punic Wars. Very exciting war - lots of guerrilla warfare *:)*
Noted!
Celtiberia/Spain has been rife with Guerilla Warfare for ages.
@@Anaris10 Viriathus is Portuguese*
@@semnombre7052 WRONG
Great suggestion. One of Rome's mightiest enemies and one that made roman warfare advanced considerably
8:25 - I like how the Nubian king flexes on the Persians by challenging them to pull a heavy-draw weight bow. Pulling heavy draw-weight bows was seen as an important display of military prowess across the world. For example, the Song Dynasty required first class infantry archers to pull 160 lb bows and first class cavalry archers to pull 120 lb bows. The Tang Dynasty required 168 lbs for first class infantry archers and 90-100 lbs for cavalry archers. Ottoman Turk warbows are believed to range from 60 to 180 lbs (with extreme outliers in the 200s), with ranges of 90 to 160 lbs being more typical. Qing Dynasty bows were typically 80-180 lbs, had imperial strength bows (for training and exams) that maxed out at 240 lbs, and outliers of elite champions shooting bows in the 200s lb range (one elite champion was recorded to have used a 240 lb bow in an archery competition). The heavier Mongol bows were supposed to be around 160 lbs in draw weight. The Liangulu tribes of Africa use powerful bows of over 100+ lb in draw-weight to hunt elephants. Japanese samurai shot warbows of ~80s-160s lbs. English archers of the 15th-16th century were shooting bows of 80-180 lbs (with 100-140 lb being typical) - and very strong/outlier examples of modern English warbow archers such as Mark Stretton and Joe Gibbs are able to shoot bows of up to ~200-210 lbs.
You need to be REALLY strong for any of those bows, old bowmen typically were really strong and often tall men so it's not even a minor challenge.
There's also Ulysses' bow.
English and Welsh.
the thing to point out is that the test you mentioned were merely feats of strength, in the sense that the archers were supposed to be able to pull the bow, once. It does not automatically mean that they would be able to repeatedly shoot and aim with that same draw weight
@@neutralfellow9736 A Qing Dynasty record states an elite champion archer won an archery competition with a 240 lb bow. So at least one person was recorded to be able to shoot 200s lb bows repeatedly to win a competition. Joe Gibbs and Mark Stretton are able to shoot their 200s lb bows multiple times as well...maybe not for hours on end with a hundred shots, but at least for one or two dozen shots. The same is probably for those outlier Turkic bows in the 200s lb range. The Tang and Song dynasty exams that required 160-168 lb draw weight bows for foot archers were not tests of strength, because those were actually archery examinations that required hitting multiple targets and accumulating points to classify archers into different tiers.
You deserve fifteen million viewers. I’ve been following you since you’ve been making Total War videos only. As a subscriber since then, you deserve the best.
Thank you so much for teaching me so much about the games I love (Rome: Total War and Shogun II: Total War) and I’m so appreciative.
You are the best Invicta. Keep doing what you are doing. We all love it and can’t get enough. We love you.
I really like the idea of doing a series of forgotten wars of Rome. I would also really like to see more interactions with other civilizations that we rarely hear about even if they are not war related.
If they were forgotten,
who would remember ?? :)
These are so good. Bring us more forgotten wars. I wanna know how the bosporian kingdom became Rome's vassal
Right?! You always see it in maps of the Republic and Empire but other than it being apart of Pontus I want to know more about its dealings with Rome
Kings and Generals has a video about the Greco-Bosporan Kingdom!
The history of Nubia is certainly a fascinating topic that could use some popularization.
One of the precursors of serious research in this area, Prof. Kazimierz Michałowski (1901-1981), coined the term "Nubiology", suggesting that it is so rich subject, that it deserves to be treated as its own discipline, as Egyptology is.
Nubia is a fascinating civilisation. They grew alongside ancient Egypt and much of Egypt’s history and culture originates from the Nubia and its ancient cultures. Also the many dynasty’s of Kush, Medjay the elite force and the conquest of Egypt by king Piye and formation of the 25th dynasty. Much of ancient Egypt has strong ties to Nubia and various Pharaohs and important members of society had their origins there!
Równie bogata co ciekawa i warta odkrywania bo rzadko kto się tam zwykły turysta zapuszcza:)
A movie about this war is coming out starring Michael B. Jordan and directed by the Black Panther director.
@@whayes8084 haven’t heard of it, that would be amazing! I hope they stick to historical accuracy
@@whayes8084 That's interesting. I hope they won't mess it up.
This is an excellent informative video. The explanation of the difference in the upper and lower Nile, and the impact on Egypt and Kush was particularly insightful.
Love it. Truly awesome bit of a mini documentary here. Love the effort you put into this. You keep putting out work this good and I'll keep watching.
Fantastic video 👏. There's not allot of coverage on ancient African civilisations outside of Carthage and Egypt so I'd personally love to see more of this type of content 👍
Same here. I know very little about Kush and would love to know more.
I agree.
There are literally hundreds of books covering this subject. You are just too lazy to do any real research.
@@zachariahmorris833 You are right that there is a lot of research on the topic. I have read books and enjoyed documentaries on African history. I would still be interested in seeing Invicta's take on it.
When is he going to cover Wakona? Bigot.
Love it, we need more documentaries about lesser known events.
I absolutely LOVE illustrations in video. I can easily see what happening and how thing looks like.
Especially beautiful drawings of soldiers and cities!
Excellent video as always. I have learned lots of new informations about this overlooked times.
More ancient Africa history would be awesome! It's great to be able to ingest these narratives in such a short time as opposed to doing the actual research.
Thank you for all your hard work!
@Hola Hush
Thank you for covering this. Kush is frequently mentioned in the Bible. And when you travel further south into what is now Ethiopia and the surroundings, there was a great empire there which is almost completely forgotten to history, but was one of the earliest Christian kingdoms. And it brings tears to my eyes, because while they may not have been conquered by the Romans -they do not get to tell their version of history because they were not writing at that time.
They had writings we haven’t deciphered them yet
@@richardhill4938 ancient Ethiopia is basically Kush not modern ethio
@@richardhill4938 it's been deciphered its just the reconstruction of the lost Meroitic language that's not been done yet.
@@admirekashiri9879 How long do they need? I heard they started from the 70s. Also, just recently they discovered underground drainage pipes in Kush. There's more to be discovered.
The Kushite Pharaoh Taharqa is also mentioned in the Bible for saving Jerusalem from the Neo-Assyrian Empire in the 8th century BC, 2 Kings Chapter 19 Verse 9 and Isaiah Chapter 37 Verse 9, and the Ethiopian (Kushite) Eunuch who is mentioned in Acts Chapter 8 Verse 27 was the first gentile to convert to Christianity, and was baptized by Philip the evangelist in 1st century Judea.
So basically, Rome avoided a forever war…
@Andy Alvarez Egypt was weak kingdom at the time, when Kush was in the horizon.
Rome was smart enough not to have a disaster like Afghanistan.
@Douglas Fir They actually could have gotten a shit ton of gold and luxury resources like ivory and animal skins.
@@lif3andthings763 they got all that via trade so no point in wasting troops needed else where
@@kertagin1 Yeah but for themselves and more than anywhere else in the empire.
good stuff! thx for this wonderful episode and for bringing to light such forgotten historical jewels
I have always loved the histories of those living at the peripheries of the roman empire, more videos like this would be amazing
I'VE BEEN LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS FOR SUCH A LONG TIME THIS MADE MY DAY AND NIGHT AND WHOLE WEEK!... ❤️
YES! Please do more of these forgotten wars videos. It's always nice to hear of not-so-well-known events. The Illyrian Revolt is my favorite. On top of that thanks for doing a little summary backstory of the area.
Yesss, love seeing videos on ancient African history. Fascinating stuff.
This was very enlightening! Please do more videos about these forgotten wars of Nubia, Rome, Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa
Thanks for this video. Please continue to make videos on forgotten wars. It changes a lot!
*"The Thalmor are most intrigued by this information of your people, forgetting entire wars... such vast history and conflicts. Perhaps these tactics can be used to fight against the Empire we face here in Tamriel."*
Milk-Drinking knife ears. I got an axe with your name on it.
I cant wait for hammerfell
Also Aldmeris is a myth and not real. Get rekt.
Heard there's a bounty on you pointed ears. Skyrim belongs to the nords!
@@lincolnlog5977
It was real. Physically and Metaphorically. Aldmeris was the Supercontinent from which all the current ones came from. Lorkhan and his Wanderers "shattered that land into many" and we know that "much of the land sank beneath new oceans" and all that...
So it did exist, just not entirely the way that many Altmer describe it. Common mistake
Loved this video! I would love to see more videos about this as its a history that doesn't get enough attention
Should've mentioned how early Muslim conquerors of Egypt also tried their luck against Nubia.
With expected results.
They called them "archers of the eyes"
Cause fuckers never missed and shot you in the eyes lol
Holy fuck lmaaaaooo😂😂😂💀💀💀Same shit happened to the Romans.
That's hundreds of years after this though they may cover it.
@@mwanikimwaniki6801 Not really
"Eye Smitters" Is such a bad ass name
This is video takes place before Islam and the Ottomans.
Would love some more videos on Ancient African history! Those are the stories that need to be told!!
Awesome! I always wanted to hear more about the parts of history that are just left out of what is being taught in class and even university.
I love how much background information you always give!
It's great to have an overview of an often mentioned but rarely examined region followed by a detailed story. More from Africa and other overlooked areas please!
I really enjoy the forgotten bits of history like this.
love these forgotten wars documentaries, i can only imagine how many of these unkown wars occured with rome
Fantastic video as ever. Very interesting story and something I would not know about if you didn't make this video. Keep up the good work
More please, this is fascinating in the cradle of civilization.
What other forgotten wars should we cover? Here is a list of what we have so far:
The Great Illyrian Revolt - ua-cam.com/video/vbvNk-K-KYU/v-deo.html
The Roman Invasion of Arabia - ua-cam.com/video/Yz5ocjR-GXo/v-deo.html
Alexander's Invasion of Afghanistan - ua-cam.com/video/WIlR07P69tc/v-deo.html
Dacian wars
The invasion of the area which is now Morocco and Algeria, I haven't seen it covered ever.
What about the Viking invasion of Anglo-Saxon England? Not exactly forgotten, but still a great topic to cover.
The War’s of the Republik, we know much about the big one‘s like the punic or the macendoniens, but not how they concured the rest of spain or Illyriens
the Arabian invasion video was brilliant. Really brought light to an otherwise obscure point of history. Looking forward to seeing whether and to what extent Nubia got schooled!
This is my ancestors history. But we dont call ourselves Nubians, the outside world calls us that. We call ourselves Janubians. Even to this day that region called Sudan, or South Sudan is what the outside world labels it. But everybody that lives there still say Janubian. Which literally in my language translates to "people of the land of the bow"
Thaanks for the information 🙏
Interesting. Now that South Sudan is free, I am wondering if they may rename themselves to Janubia. Is your culture related to Ethopia in anyway? I would love to have a background on how these two countries differ.
Brother Yual, I wonder what your history books says about the establishment of Janubian. Please share. If you could provide books by Janubian authors please do so.
The Ancient empire of Nubia/Kush is a civilization of countless tribes that came together and created an amazing empire of Kush, which tribe are you from exactly? Janubian is a simplified term. Also in Sudan, Sudanese say Janubi in a very racist way, like they are outsiders while it is in fact 'the Arabs themselves' who are outsiders
Cool man. Thanks.
Big history fan and I’m happy to see this getting some deserved attention.
thank you sooo much for this well made one, all the love from NUBiA ❤
Thanks for sharing this video. Keep showing lesser known or forgotten battles.
Something about the story ending with Nero having help from the King to find the source of the Nile was beautiful.
Forgotten Wars is an amazing idea for a series and this is a great episode of it! I love these civs on the periphery of history that are so important but have so few surviving records.
More like this for sure, you guys are great! Never miss an episode
Great video. Your videos are very well researched and easy to follow. Thanks!
Great video! A units of history video with Nubian archers could be interesting
I love learning about ancient Africa! Thanks for the video
If I were to suggest anything else for a video, I would like to see one on the Boshin war or maybe something about the Assyrians!
Finally, glad somebody covered this topic!👍😁
I cant thank you enough. Keep up the good work.
I love seeing videos like this. All too often channels about ancient history are really only ancient Eurasian history with more of an emphasis on Europe. There's a lot of world out there with a lot of history, so it's always good to see less talked about regions get some spotlight. Thanks again and please do continue!
The format is especially helpful. Part of the reason for the focus on Europe is that it is what many history viewers (at least in Europe and the Americas) already know. Tying together a part of European history with the subject matter is a nice way of transitioning "from the better known to the lesser known."
Your Asian History ??
Youth in Asia ??
Ur Anus ??
Is There A Relationship ??
:P
Well that's because nothing of importance has really happened outside of Europe, the USA and Asia. Also africa and other jungle people did not keep records like we did they have oral history which cannot be trusted as fact.
@@bruderschweigen6889 Egyptian are African and they keep all records
@@animalworld3440 north African and sub Saharan are two completely different ethnicities
More more more ancient Africa. Amazing video. Great job bud 👍🏽
Great! Thank you for these African History Series! This is amazing!
That was really good Bro. Yes please make some more
Would love to see more of Africa featured here. Great production and research
Yes! More ancient Africa please!
I prefer to have c*ncer instead
@@beremuts1171 Je crois que tout le monde le souhaite, au moins on auras plus à supporté tes élucubrations.
@@beremuts1171 good luck with that cancer then
@@beremuts1171 have fun
@@beremuts1171 good for you get lost then if you don't want to see videos on Africa.
Great video! Yes, talk about Kush a bit more. Fascinating stuff! :)
Amazing video, I really enjoy the history of Kush. Please make more video about it!
I would love to see more wars in ancient Africa
Well, just watch the news. The people there are still a bit "ancient" the only things they have nowadays that aren't ancient are automatic machine rifles.
@@beremuts1171 Le seul truc arriéré c'est ta mentalité.
@@beremuts1171 Low IQ comment
Idk if anything in AD counts but the Muslims vs Kush was pretty cool and ended in a draw
@@beremuts1171 such a shame to see comments like this in such a great video.
Definitely want to hear more about Kush.
Yes, I really liked this history story. Please provide more documentaries on African history.
I definitely will like to see more of this. Great work and a great education.
I would still love to see a How They Did It: Growing Up Ancient Egypt.
Problem is: Ancient Egypt evolved from Old Kingdom, 1st intermediate, Middle Kingdom, 2nd intermediate, New Kingdom, Late Period, etc. So, a "Growing up" would be hopelessly generic or would be specific to one period, and have to ignore the others.
@@companyman4713 Then stick to the Bronze Age. Egypt may've evolved through different dynastic phases, what with the Hyksos Occupation, but very little changed culturally, artistically, and religiously. I mean for over 2,000 years they used copper and bronze weapons/tools, worshipped cats to the point where cat killing was a death penalty offence, and stuck to the same type of customs here and there. Bottom line: I'm sure it's feasible for Invicta to have a go, if not for at least one specific phase that everybody associates with Egypt.
You mean Kemet
@@wejuggernautentertainmentl3156 Yes, Kemet referring to the fertile black soil of the Nile.
@@wejuggernautentertainmentl3156 More recently the missing vowels are proposed to spell "Kumat"
I'd love to see more videos about lesser-known battles.
Fascinating stuff, thank you. 👍
That was badass, would love more of this!
Love the channel by the way Big Homie.
I love happy endings!! Two great powers flexing and fighting then realizing they are better off as friends and both prospering because of it. Augustus was wise.
@hugo Lopes Ok, typical white
@hugo Lopes typically, they were extremely weaker than Roman.
nope they defated the romans stay mad buddy. Ancient egytp was black african. nubai is even older than egypt cry about it buddy.@@gjergjaurelius9798
Very interesting video, love the maps as usual. Maps are so crucial for me to 'properly' visualize historical events.
Excellent work! Very informative.
Kush/Nubia/Abyssinia/Ethiopia are so fascinating
But remember that Abyssina and Ethiopia are different from Kush and Nubia, which was in Sudan instead.
I fail to see any fascination about these rather unimportant areas.
Great video! Great to learn something about my countries ancient past.
Thank you for covering this topic! Yes, please cover more African Ancient Civilizations! 👍👏
Great video bro 👍😎
Keep up the Good work.
Would love to hear more storys of Romes contact with ancient Africa.
Would love to hear more stories about Kushite contact with Europe.
@@Niani23455 much better
@@Niani23455 Well the peace treaty between Kush & Rome was negotiated on the Greek island of Samos in the Mediterranean - so clearly the Kushite ambassadors were the ones who visited Europe in this case.
@@disapearingboi True. Some Greek historians such as Strabos stated that Kushite king Tahaqa, travelled and built fortifications in Europe as far as Spain. The source is in this book; Strabo (2006). Geography. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. p. 7. ISBN 0674992660.
Of course, it hasn't been proven yet but it may have been inspired by Kushite voyages there.
@@Niani23455 Interesting - I did not know that. I wonder if this was to curb Phoenician expansion.
In the end, the true conquest of territory was the political ally we made along the way of the war.
The Conquest was in you all the time.
Most beautiful things are not associated with conquest; they are memories made when marching with the Legion
The real victory was friendship
@Tough Nation Chill man, do you know what humor mean ?
Plus the concept of race as known today is a bit of an anachronism
@Tough Nation Thanks for outing yourself as the only racist in this thread.
I'll be sure to feel sorry for you for your bitterness and stupidity.
this is very interesting and valuable information, thanks and we need more
Keep up the great work invicta
Ancient Africa is fascinating and so poorly covered in conventional historical education I'd love more videos on Kush
Heaven forbid school children should know that Africa was ever successful.
@@pakde8002 nah Slavery and being seen as victims is more interesting apparently
it was done by design
If your forefathers didn’t burn our books and tell you we couldn’t write messed everything up
@@afcrotv2282 what books ??
The Christians burned plenty of European books but somehow the knowledge managed to survive.
If you had books why have none survived ??
The proof of non-existence lies in the failure to be manifest in reality.
Hell ya definitely want to learn more about African history especially around antiquity!
Excellent video from excellent historical channel about kush kingdom( Nubian kingdom) through different historical periodicals thanks for sharing
Wow! Thank you! I love this stuff!
Absolutely, make more videos of ancient Africa!
Great video! More on ancient africa would be great, especially sub-sahara-africa! I'd also like to see one about Nero's expedition to the source of the nile and about the cartheginian expeditions to africa. Oh and more about lesser known roman expeditions that failed.
Yes, I enjoy learning new history. Thank you.
Great stuff! as always.
Thanks for these maps!!
The history of the entire African continent seems to be have forgotten tbh, I'm glad you're bring this interesting information to light.
Not forgotten just underrated or just ignored.
That's because there aren't surviving written records of anything.
@@OhSanjiBoi
Nobody even knows what the hell the history is for most of it bcuz all our history comes from surviving accounts of the Mediterranean cultures and only the north of Africa was even known much about.
Only Indian merchants even have accounts of trading with eastern costal African cities but the west coast of Africa was not civilized or anything of reknown.
@@Byronic19134 West Africa had many complex civilizations like Djenne-Djenno, Wagadou, Mali, and Songhai. They also had an iron industry before contact with the Mediterranean. Some even had some scripts.
Not forgotten just not explored as much.
An excellent video, extremely well presented and keep you watching till the end. As for your comment, yes more of this please. Have now subscribed.
Excellent video. Thanks for posting.
Thank you for introducing me to the concept of a Roman domus with your Roman fast food video.
I am an amateur writer and I have taken some inspiration from it in my sci-fi story telling.
What kind of Sci-fi story you make?
@@kringeynoty2217 It takes some strong inspiration from the episodic style of Star Trek, but takes a little bit of inspiration from hard sci-fi as well.
@@mitwhitgaming7722 Didn't Star Trek already create Romulans? "inspiration" a bit too much on the nose isn't it?
@@Wallyworld30 Yes, but what I'm talking about is the specific kind of building the Romans used, the domus. Which I have reimagined as a modern building for one of my alien races.
As an Egyptian id like to learn more African history that isn't just Egypt, this was really cool thanks
Thank you very much for helping us know the best way for me to get the best out of the two teach our people to our history.
I absolutely love this forgoten wars series.
Keep the Ancient Africa vids going! Keen to learn more about this vast continent
Would love to see more videos on African military history! Particularly the empires and kingdoms of West and Central Africa. Perhaps the Battle of Mbandi Kasi?
Yes definitely love this, I would like to see more