Ancient Egypt, the Rise and Fall (History of the Egyptian Empire)

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  • @EpimetheusHistory
    @EpimetheusHistory  5 років тому +391

    Notes/Typos
    The dates for Tuthmosis reign should be 1504 BC-1450 BC instead of 1504 BC-1550 BC (He was not a time traveler :)
    Cannan should be spelled as Caanan on the map.
    Perisan should be spelled as Persian in the caption near the end of the video.
    Reading mistake: I say "mediggo" but it is Megiddo as I wrote on the map caption.

    • @kesorangutan6170
      @kesorangutan6170 5 років тому +23

      LITERALLY UNWATCHABLE. I AM NOT GOING TO THANK YOU FOR MAKING WITTY VIDEOS WITH ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS. ESPECIALLY I HATE HOW YOU MAKE INFORMATION MORE ACCESSIBLE FOR EVERYBODY. JUST GIVE UP DUDE.

    • @YS-tn9ur
      @YS-tn9ur 5 років тому +3

      *Can you make one video on king vikramadiya empire which spread through egypt*

    • @jeremybettinson
      @jeremybettinson 5 років тому +2

      Kes... r u bipolar?

    • @yaqubleis6311
      @yaqubleis6311 5 років тому +1

      Epimetheus nice video as always

    • @juliusmatijosius2219
      @juliusmatijosius2219 5 років тому +7

      @@jeremybettinson The man tries to be funny here

  • @samuelmillerick4550
    @samuelmillerick4550 5 років тому +1257

    I really like how the map flips back at the end as the old Egyptian culture fades. The map thing is really good overall.

    • @nakenmil
      @nakenmil 5 років тому +25

      I agree, great touch.

    • @amirherselman
      @amirherselman 5 років тому +11

      I was so stupidly confused till the end ! xD

    • @shaneajose9259
      @shaneajose9259 5 років тому +1

      I really don't get it

    • @deadmatripoly
      @deadmatripoly 5 років тому +9

      I'm personally a huge fan of South-up maps these days. It's fun to think of the world in this way.

    • @kiinyuum8001
      @kiinyuum8001 5 років тому +1

      Samuel Millerick - gave me a headache 🤕

  • @Navak_
    @Navak_ 5 років тому +1502

    I loved the inverted map. Somehow it made Egypt feel way more isolated. It's such a small thing but gave valuable insight into what the world looked like from their perspective.

    • @ShahjahanMasood
      @ShahjahanMasood 5 років тому +50

      Its very immersive

    • @pseudo.account
      @pseudo.account 5 років тому +8

      Me toooo ❤️❤️❤️

    • @youngzoe7492
      @youngzoe7492 5 років тому +27

      Exactly such quality production are extremely hard to find The art style and the calm voice is extremely calming just hoped as he get bigger he doesn't use other voice to narrate the vids

    • @antoniolima1252
      @antoniolima1252 5 років тому +4

      - The fall of ancient EMPIRES comes from this, hades discovery within gradually, things get boring and people cry within for sweet home peace that they once knew, and all superficial power seems pointless. I know a secret from old Egypt, Kether-Safiroth-KA (Yiny-Yang-Tao) how humans and spirits alike unravel their true inner peace in renewed frontiers, and make the EMPIRES rise again, and again, you need to know how and what could be the problems among the inhabitants to recover and relive for the better - You could say the human race would have to die out!

    • @jacksonhoerster3966
      @jacksonhoerster3966 5 років тому

      Young zoe just a little too much Shatner. Take time and say each clause and word properly

  • @TheRomanRuler
    @TheRomanRuler 5 років тому +560

    Eqypt was so incredibly old. The famous Cleopatra (VII) lived closer to man going to moon than building of great pyramids of Giza. That is just how incredibly ancient Eqypt was.

    • @PandoraKyss
      @PandoraKyss 5 років тому +84

      TheRomanRuler - I love a comment I read recently, that Cleopatra VII was closer to the opening of the first McDonalds than to the Great Pyramids.

    • @XtoCee
      @XtoCee 5 років тому +51

      Cleopatra was not Egyptian. Cleopatra was a Ptolemy ruler of Egypt which were Greek Pharaohs stemming from following Alexander the Great had conquered Persia - acquiring Egypt in the process since Egypt was a Persian colony at the period.
      Alexander classified himself as Pharaoh, which later on birthed a dynasty of Greek Pharaohs such as Cleopatra. Thus, Cleopatra was not a real Egyptian.

    • @XtoCee
      @XtoCee 5 років тому +21

      @@rob-8541
      They weren't Egyptian. However, they were a part of the same culture: Nile Valley Culture. It would be no different than the Romans conquering the Greeks. The Romans and Greeks were basically a part of the same culture, and the Greeks later became Romans, i.e. Byzantine Empire (Eastern Roman Empire).

    • @XtoCee
      @XtoCee 5 років тому +21

      @@rob-8541
      Ancient Egypt was a civilisation that was ended in 525 BC. However, there was a brief moment where the natives reconquered their lands from the Persians during a revolt which was led by Amyrtaeus in 404 BC which he later became Pharaoh of the 28th Dynasty, the only Pharoah of the 28th Dynasty. Nevertheless, Egypt was reconquered by Persians in 343 BC.
      That was the end of African rule in Ancient Egypt in which Persians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs later ruled. Following 343 BC, Africans would *NEVER* rule Egypt again. The last Pharaoh, Pharaoh Nectanebo II was exiled to Nubia.
      The Arabs colonised the whole of North Africa in the 7th century known as the Arabic conquest of Northern-Africa. However, prior to the Arabs, there were Greek, Roman and Vandal settlements in Northern-Africa.
      Africans have not ruled Ancient Egypt for *2,362* years. Do you know what has happened since then?
      Greco-Roman rule has been since 332 BC until 642 AD ( *974* years).
      Islamic rule -Arab and Ottomans have been ruling Egypt since 642 AD ( *1,337* years and still continuing).
      .

    • @XtoCee
      @XtoCee 5 років тому +25

      @@rob-8541
      You clearly know nothing regarding Egypt or Africa for that matter. For one, Nubian civilisation is older than Egyptian. Ta-Seti and Nabta Playa are far older than the entirety of Egyptian civilisation. The first Egyptian Pharaoh, Narmer derived from the region what is referred to as 'Nubia'.
      As I mentioned, modern Egyptians are not descendants of Ancient Egyptians and people who state such nonsense are either ignorant or flat out racist. How can the same people lecture us that the modern Egyptians are the same as the Ancient Egyptians while Egypt was ruled by foreign powers for over 2,300 years but somehow tell us that the Turks who conquered Constantinople in 1453 are not Greek but Turkic whom merely conquered Constanipole 566 years ago?
      Moreover, the same imbeciles who state such nonsense believe in conspiracies such as "The Great Replacement". Somehow Muslims who merely migrated into Europe 60 years ago is somehow going to replace the native European population in a few decades? Nevertheless, but the Egyptians who were ruled by Arabs and Turks for over 1,337 years were not replaced.
      As for the Copts, you clearly do not know what you are on about. Copts derive from Greco-Romans that conquered Egypt following Alexander. Prior to 332 BC, there was no such thing as a Copt. The Coptic language derives from Greek and is an admixture of the Ancient Egyptian (native) language Demotic. Moreover, 'Coptic' is a religious classification. Not an ethnic classification.
      The Coptic Church was founded during the period of Roman rule, in which a citizen of Libya, Cyrene, a Roman colony, named Saint Mark founded the Coptic Church in Alexandria. In 49 AD, there was no such thing as religious Copts prior to the arrival of Saint Mark. Nor was there even a Coptic language before 332 BC.
      You clearly do not know what you are talking about.

  • @Dell-ol6hb
    @Dell-ol6hb 5 років тому +162

    I think it’s amazing how vast Ancient Egypt’s history is. Like they were a civilization that existed for more than 3 thousand years, they existed for longer than all of Roman history. I mean when they were constructing the pyramids they were still mammoths in some parts of the world, MAMMOTHS! Do you realize how incredible that is.

    • @monicathain8703
      @monicathain8703 Рік тому +1

      wtf for reals????? awesome factoid

    • @redclaytanto
      @redclaytanto Рік тому +1

      @@monicathain8703 Wrangel Island. Seriously look it up.

  • @lucimicle5657
    @lucimicle5657 5 років тому +1072

    NOBODY EXPECTS THE SEA PEOPLES!!!!
    This should be a thing.

    • @EpimetheusHistory
      @EpimetheusHistory  5 років тому +127

      NOBODY EXPECTS THE SEA PEOPLES!!!!

    • @tsopmocful1958
      @tsopmocful1958 5 років тому +9

      @@EpimetheusHistory 11.23 'Persian' spelt incorrectly.
      Excellent video otherwise, especially the map inversion.

    • @unklesamory9425
      @unklesamory9425 5 років тому +7

      They got Dealt with

    • @CoffeeSuccubus
      @CoffeeSuccubus 5 років тому +13

      The Sea Peoples just appear out of nowhere.
      Sea Peoples: That'ssss a nice empire you have there...
      be a real shame
      IF SOMETHING
      WERE
      TO
      HAPPEN
      TO
      IT

    • @isaiahclaeys
      @isaiahclaeys 5 років тому +5

      Most scolars think the sea people were local migrants who raided the coasts for profit since there was major instability in the mediteranean.

  • @ImpecuniousMax
    @ImpecuniousMax 5 років тому +529

    "...eventually united Lower Egypt under the pharaoh Shoshenq."
    You might call that _The Shoshenq Redemption_

    • @EpimetheusHistory
      @EpimetheusHistory  5 років тому +54

      haha...you could

    • @naelaoun3311
      @naelaoun3311 5 років тому +6

      @@EpimetheusHistory You didn't mention his conquest of the kingdom of Israel

    • @nebulanesian369
      @nebulanesian369 5 років тому +2

      😂😂😂😂😂

    • @peteroca6737
      @peteroca6737 4 роки тому +2

      I loved that flick,even if I had absolutely no understanding of ancient Egyptian.

    • @interstateneek
      @interstateneek 4 роки тому +3

      Good analysis and it gets deeper. The first thing you should understand is they were Black but I know that's to hard for you people so that why the full mystery is always hidden.

  • @andrewlentner
    @andrewlentner 5 років тому +411

    The Ancient Egyptians built the pyramids with Skillshare!

  • @shacklock01
    @shacklock01 5 років тому +345

    Like that your first thing was displaying Egypt correctly as upper and lower niles. Most people overlook this

    • @quantumtree9276
      @quantumtree9276 5 років тому +17

      Yeah it really helps you understand why the names were given.

    • @jjs8426
      @jjs8426 4 роки тому +3

      Who? Who ever does this?

    • @MR.73
      @MR.73 4 роки тому +7

      Stupidity🤦🏻‍♂️..south is up because the south land in Egypt is higher than the north and the Nile runs from south to north🙃

    • @lcmiracle
      @lcmiracle 4 роки тому +1

      @Mohammed Hassan eh, no. The nile runs from south to north, which is why upper egypt is *south* of lower egypt, or below lower egypt on the north-south maps. So yes the nile runs down to lower egypt, but it also runs from *south to north*, hence why the inverted map.

    • @lcmiracle
      @lcmiracle 4 роки тому

      @Mohammed Hassan So were you with @Ghost Flame, yet you appear to disagree with him, somehow.

  • @michaelc5152
    @michaelc5152 5 років тому +322

    What's crazy is that Egypt was around and thriving for longer than western civilization was a thing.

    • @shacklock01
      @shacklock01 5 років тому +33

      Eeh, Sumeria is well more impressive *cough* just sayin. Taking into account how the 'core' civilization there flourished right up until the Greek Diadochi's (who broke with that tradition that every invader/hegemon had assumed)

    • @tsopmocful1958
      @tsopmocful1958 5 років тому +77

      It depends what you mean by 'Western civilization'.
      The Minoans of Crete are considered to be the 'first' European civilization, who were quite advanced and were contemporary with Ancient Egypt and maintained a friendly trade relationship with them.
      But if you mean the 'modern' West of the last 500 years or so, then its rapid rise to global dominance, and advancing from sailing ships to Moon landings in that time could be seen as perhaps more noteworthy than a civilization that stayed much the same for centuries at a time, with even its art barely changing from stiff and formal, and with its best known achievements (the pyramids) occurring at the beginning.
      And of course, 'the West' could also include the Greeks (Macedonians) and the Romans who ended up conquering and ruling Egypt for about 900 years, which is a very big chunk of ancient history.

    • @shacklock01
      @shacklock01 5 років тому +15

      Minoans arent european though? Myceneanas sure, Minoans are thought to be from central Anatolia or Cyprus IIRC? But your right they were the hightech badboys of the 3rd and 2nd millenium. Geothermal, paved roads, epic economic centralization. @@tsopmocful1958
      Arguablly western civilization starts with the german ascension, as we're all technically german or of german descent here in the western world ;p But i mean pre indo-europeans were building cool shit in western europe at the same time as the pyramids. it just wasent quite as impressive as Sumeria or Egypt ahah.

    • @grandmastercrusader8724
      @grandmastercrusader8724 5 років тому +35

      Western civilization is a made up term.

    • @michaelc5152
      @michaelc5152 5 років тому +8

      @@tsopmocful1958 You misunderstand, I'm not saying that Egypt is older than Minoans, Mycenaeans (even though it is) or any other group. I'm saying that it's remarkable how they lasted for so long as a culture, so long in fact that if you measure the amount of time they were around, it's longer than the amount of time it's been since the ancient rise of the Greek City-states.
      Of course, one could also argue that Egypt *is* a part of Western Civilization, but that's neither here nor there.

  • @niccallaghan
    @niccallaghan 5 років тому +246

    Sorry if you don't care but your drawing of the Nile river is a modern one. Where Aswan is today your drawing shows the Nile break its streamline and become jagged and uneven (about halfway up the river), then return to its softer river shape. This is because in the 1960's a dam was built there flooding that area disturbing the once more natural shape of the river. Figured it'd be an interesting fact to anyone who reads this.

    • @kevinzhu6417
      @kevinzhu6417 5 років тому +7

      that was really interesting. just wondering where did you learn this? id like to read more about thus

    • @Bdelliumharts
      @Bdelliumharts 4 роки тому +2

      @Fao Gazy What does skin colour have to do with it?

    • @lif3andthings763
      @lif3andthings763 3 роки тому +1

      Didn’t they relocate the Nubians to do so.

  • @Dragons_Armory
    @Dragons_Armory 5 років тому +212

    Oy the upside down map really gives me vertigo, but I like it!
    Really immersive too

    • @theghosthero6173
      @theghosthero6173 5 років тому +2

      Didn't China had a similar thing?

    • @DavidGarcia-oi5nt
      @DavidGarcia-oi5nt 5 років тому

      Yooo why would you say that! Now I can't watch this, I was learning :/

  • @blakops000007
    @blakops000007 5 років тому +84

    The best defense is a good offense is exactly the reason why people in the past saw war as necessary.

    • @cossaizy6309
      @cossaizy6309 5 років тому +14

      Well for some war was a also an economic neccessity, others saw it as glorious and god-given duty. Egyptians however were just downright pragmatic

    • @MonsierBlack
      @MonsierBlack 5 років тому +4

      @@cossaizy6309 Cause dem egyptians be Hot.

  • @jamvin5647
    @jamvin5647 2 роки тому +23

    I've watched around 6 different videos all on UA-cam about Ancient Egypt and this has got to be the best one. I'm always looking for history videos that balance the different aspects of history well and this video ranks on top in my personal ranking, although I'm no one but a history buff. Excellent work!

    • @monicathain8703
      @monicathain8703 Рік тому

      this guy has one of the best history channels on youtube, been searching for the last year.

  • @monicathain8703
    @monicathain8703 Рік тому +5

    this guy is so good that he doesn't even need to really use graphics. currently in the process of watching every video on his channel!!! been through like 25 so far

  • @worsethanjoerogan8061
    @worsethanjoerogan8061 5 років тому +102

    When I was in primary school I remember struggling with the concept of Upper Egypt being lower on the map. My teacher should have just flipped the map upside down like you did here, it would have made so much more sense to my 8 year old mind lol

    • @Xenoglottomaniac
      @Xenoglottomaniac 5 років тому +8

      My primary teacher explained it like this: rivers are born in the mountains and flow down to the sea, so the north of Egypt is indeed Lower than the south. The same logic applies to many European regions where even inverting the map doesn't help, since most rivers don't flow as neatly from south to north as the Nile.

    • @MohamedSobhy93
      @MohamedSobhy93 5 років тому +5

      Actually it is called upper Egypt not because the orientation of the map, but because it has a higher elevation, and that's why the Nile flow in that direction.

    • @Fearofthemonster
      @Fearofthemonster 4 роки тому

      why do you study egypt as a 8 year old?

    • @MaidenOfHusbands
      @MaidenOfHusbands 2 роки тому +5

      @@Fearofthemonster they study ancient Egypt as an 8-year-old because you literally have to go to school as an 8-year-old and the teachers at school have to teach history because they are history teachers............

  • @boosie4l133
    @boosie4l133 4 роки тому +16

    One of the underrated pharaoh of Egypt is Inaros II. During the time, Egypt was under Achaemenid rule, and is also the time the Greco Persian war is taking place. He is supposed to be the ruler of Sais, which is the capital at time which makes him pharaoh, so he threw a huge revolt against the Persians. He lost but dealt a devastating blow to the Achaemenid men and supplies so the Greeks can win the battle of plataea

  • @gameboyhotline3712
    @gameboyhotline3712 5 років тому +154

    11:48 when the barbarians came, they flipped our world upside down...

    • @blugaledoh2669
      @blugaledoh2669 5 років тому +16

      literally.

    • @tsopmocful1958
      @tsopmocful1958 5 років тому +9

      No-one expects a map inversion!!

    • @user_____M
      @user_____M 5 років тому +15

      You mean the Romans? They were more advanced from almost all points of view and reformed Egypt for the better. ua-cam.com/video/BaCaFpAtm48/v-deo.html . Egypt was never the same after the Bronze Age Collapse, then it prospered under Roman administration, only to be turned into a s-hole by Arabs and Muslims.

    • @remisionarcidash8671
      @remisionarcidash8671 5 років тому +5

      @@user_____M stay the fuck away from us
      our pope was banished into the desert by Romans before the Muslims come and get him back

    • @ig7024
      @ig7024 5 років тому +8

      M a hole? Lmao read history more and educate yourself please sweetie

  • @manbaby6354
    @manbaby6354 5 років тому +70

    Ancient Egypt is my favorite ancient civilization and your videos are very good so this is a win win!

    • @hithere2154
      @hithere2154 5 років тому +4

      Islam destroyed everything...

    • @GORO911
      @GORO911 5 років тому +6

      @@hithere2154
      No idiot
      It was Christianity that destroyed ancient Egyptian culture centuries before Islam entered Egypt.

    • @memezoffuckery3207
      @memezoffuckery3207 5 років тому +5

      It was the Abrahamic religions that destroyed everything lol.

    • @GORO911
      @GORO911 5 років тому

      @sanjay a p p
      Whats up slave ?

    • @farhanqazi3698
      @farhanqazi3698 Рік тому +2

      ​@@hithere2154Egypt was already ruined,when Islam came there was Fatimid Caliphate,Al Azhar University etc.

  • @ABOKASTOUR
    @ABOKASTOUR 2 роки тому +19

    am Coptic Christian, we are basically the last remaining link to our ancestress. I am really upset that our language isn't more commonly spoken even if just among us, we only speak in church during liturgy. I know of family's that only speak coptic when they are home but thats rare.
    Coptic language is also closely related dialects descended from the Ancient Egyptian language, it allowed old Egyptologists to understand hieroglyphics.

    • @andrelove9634
      @andrelove9634 Рік тому +1

      Coptic language was founded in ad/ce time and is not closely related dialect descended of the ancient ancestors of the motherland. They did not call themselves Egyptian! Christian's did not exist until 33 ad/ce time. Learn your ancient facts! You are one confused person.

    • @mutualisme299
      @mutualisme299 Рік тому

      Search the Egyptian hieroglyph for face.

    • @nourahmed-sh2ox
      @nourahmed-sh2ox Рік тому +2

      Let's not pretend that the Egyptian dialect of Arabic is not a mixing between Coptic and original Arabic along with Turkish also ethnically and genetically speaking we shouldn't be so far apart

    • @Nesut-king
      @Nesut-king 4 місяці тому +1

      Isn't all the Egyptians are copts?

    • @Temarim222
      @Temarim222 20 днів тому

      ​@@Nesut-kingIf your referring to modern era, most of the demographics I've looked up were mostly Arabic with Nubians and coptics being a small percentage

  • @coreystockdale2913
    @coreystockdale2913 5 років тому +51

    I loved this it is great to see history told from the perspective of the people and kingdoms being examined

    • @APEX-qv7rm
      @APEX-qv7rm 5 років тому +1

      History
      is a symphony
      of lies + rape + slaughter
      Kings + Priests Lie to the stupid people
      Who kill each other like Rats in a Box

  • @aninditasakti
    @aninditasakti 5 років тому +19

    A lot of civilization see the world as a different way than us now. Glad to see you presented one...

  • @exterminans
    @exterminans 5 років тому +5

    Flipping the map was brilliant. Cheers, mate! Another detail I really appreciate is how you lowkey include the Mark of Chaos in most of your videos.

  • @OviD11111
    @OviD11111 5 років тому +24

    If the final season of Game of Thrones is no good I'll just come back and watch this until I'm satisfied.
    You keep outdoing yourself, sir. Well done, *great* video!

    • @EpimetheusHistory
      @EpimetheusHistory  5 років тому +6

      Thank you Docor Octavius !

    • @SirDerpofCamelot
      @SirDerpofCamelot 5 років тому +11

      How many times have you watched this video now that season 8 has ended

    • @acewolfgang276
      @acewolfgang276 3 роки тому +2

      @@SirDerpofCamelot He's too busy watching this to talk about it.

  • @tsopmocful1958
    @tsopmocful1958 5 років тому +51

    Somehow, my Ancient History teacher managed to make Egypt really boring and confusing despite us being really interested in it.
    Basic overviews of the entire history at the beginning like this would have given a much broader context than simply diving straight into deep detail from the outset.

  • @hiddenhist
    @hiddenhist 5 років тому +97

    Really like the inverted map, as has been mentioned, this is likely much more accurate to the egyptian ciew of the world, given that the nile flowed upstream down south.

    • @EpimetheusHistory
      @EpimetheusHistory  5 років тому +9

      Thanks man glad you liked it! Keep up the awesome work on your channel too man.

    • @hiddenhist
      @hiddenhist 5 років тому +2

      @@EpimetheusHistory thanks for the recognition mate :D

    • @LuisAldamiz
      @LuisAldamiz 5 років тому +11

      Not only for that reason. The North on top convention is rather recent and quite Eurocentric. A good reason to have South on top (from a Northern Hemisphere viewpoint) is that the Sun is always to the South, at least if you're north of the tropic. Another convention, quite popular in the Middle Ages was with the East up.

    • @hiddenhist
      @hiddenhist 4 роки тому

      @King Kush These archaic humans were not black. Some of these groups may have shared some features we associate with black people (darker skin, kinkier hair, etc), but they would be very genetically distant from any modern population.

  • @kevtony1490
    @kevtony1490 5 років тому +39

    Egyptian history and culture is very interesting. Thanks for the video.

    • @EpimetheusHistory
      @EpimetheusHistory  5 років тому +7

      Thanks Anthony! Glad you liked it :)

    • @Somali-Puntite
      @Somali-Puntite 5 років тому +1

      Gengonglike Arbukle Yes, he is a devil, it’s in his blood to lie, notice how he made the ancient Egyptian and the surrounding people with white skin. I pray that the earth becomes very hot.

    • @beninwarrior4579
      @beninwarrior4579 5 років тому +4

      @@Somali-Puntite Sigh!!! When will you people study the real black african history and stop claiming egypt. He literally talked about nubia!! Why don't you start from there.

    • @PaladinPoppie
      @PaladinPoppie 4 роки тому

      Benin Warrior Good luck getting them to stop. The PseudoHistory is strong in them. Goodluck 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻

  • @tafri961
    @tafri961 5 років тому +48

    The Great Egyptian civilization... Respect from India, the land of Gold.

    • @PandoraKyss
      @PandoraKyss 5 років тому +10

      Priyamjeet - Respect from Philadelphia to the Indus River Civilization, which is so often overlooked by scholars in favor of Egypt, Greece, Babylon, et cetera.

    • @hithere2154
      @hithere2154 5 років тому +7

      Islam destroyed everything...

    • @unknownfrvr6767
      @unknownfrvr6767 5 років тому +4

      Hi There your just angry cause my race was building status in gold and building pyramids when your people hadn't even discovered fire yet 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @selendriamuganogo7077
      @selendriamuganogo7077 5 років тому +1

      Priyamjeet Mohanty I’ve read about your history too... I didn’t realize how similar ancient Egyptian culture and ancient India had in common... Hindu religion and gods are so similar to Egypt gods, even the names of the gods are similar... Hindu Kush 👍🏾
      Then I started to wonder if that’s why East Africans look different, ancient trading between Africa and India

    • @notalentstudios1106
      @notalentstudios1106 5 років тому

      Actually....MESA MUSA had more GOLD on the WEST of AFRICA than EGYPTIANS

  • @jason4275
    @jason4275 5 років тому +7

    *Its fascinating that Ancient Egypt, is the only civilization that has so much history, were're still looking for more history to be discovered today in Egypt.*

  • @tyrian_baal
    @tyrian_baal 5 років тому +39

    Tuthmosis 1504BC-1540BC?
    Is he a time traveler?

    • @EpimetheusHistory
      @EpimetheusHistory  5 років тому +9

      Good catch...unfortunately he was not...I'll pin a comment at the top :) was 1504BC-1450BC

    • @crusaderofthelowlands3750
      @crusaderofthelowlands3750 4 роки тому +3

      @@EpimetheusHistory I think you're lying. You let some secret information slip and now you're trying to cover it up.
      I'm onto you.....

  • @LightHolmes
    @LightHolmes 4 роки тому +7

    I have now realized that I know very little about Ancient Egypt's political history. I only remember a few popular pharaohs from what we'd been taught at school. The map thing is honestly eye-opening.

  • @unknownmf2599
    @unknownmf2599 5 років тому +8

    Awesome video! You're one of my favourite UA-camr. Your videos are pretty accurate.

  • @AntovNile
    @AntovNile Рік тому +1

    Thanks!

  • @MickeyMouse-ef4ez
    @MickeyMouse-ef4ez 5 років тому +139

    Before Greece! THERE WAS EGYPT!

    • @AIA1990
      @AIA1990 5 років тому +11

      Look there’s an unhappy Greek down here lol

    • @lolo-om9rs
      @lolo-om9rs 5 років тому +37

      @john bloggs
      Mesopotamia

    • @ΚώσταςΡωμ
      @ΚώσταςΡωμ 5 років тому

      @Έλληνας Εθνικιστής φίλε οι Αιγύπτιοι υπάρχουν από το 4.000 πΧ

    • @hmmm6317
      @hmmm6317 5 років тому

      @Έλληνας Εθνικιστής και οι "πελασγοι" δεν ειναι καν Ελληνες! Επισης ουτε οι μινωιτες ελληνες ηταν. 2ο Επισης,το ονομα σου τα λεει ολα : )

    • @hmmm6317
      @hmmm6317 5 років тому +1

      Ας δουμε τι εχουν να πουν οι αρχαιοι ημων προγονοι,καλο διαβασμα ; )
      1,[ Ηροδοτου Ιστοριαι]Δεν είμαι σε θέση να δηλώσω με βεβαιότητα ποια γλώσσα μίλουσαν οι Πελασγοί, αλλά θα μπορούσαμε να λάβουμε υπόψη την ομιλία των Πελασγίων που εξακολουθούν να υπάρχουν σε οικισμούς πάνω από την Τυρρηνία στην πόλη Κρεστον, πρώην γείτονες των Δωριέων που εκείνη τη στιγμή ζουσαν στη γη που ονομάζεται Θεσσαλλια. Επίσης οι Πελασγοί που κάποτε ζούσαν με τους Αθηναίους και στη συνέχεια εγκατασταθηκαν στην Πλάκα και την Σκύλακε στο Ελλήσποντο. Και μαζί με αυτούς,αλλοι που έζησαν με τις άλλες κοινότητες και κάποτε ήταν Πελασγοί αλλά άλλαξαν τα ονόματά τους. Αν μπορούμε να κρίνουμε με αυτά τα στοιχεία, οι Πελασγοί μιλούσαν μια βάρβαρη γλώσσα. Επομένως, αν η γλώσσα των Πελασγίων μιλιωταν σε όλα αυτά τα μέρη, οι άνθρωποι της Αττικής, αρχικά Πελασγοι, πρέπει να εμαθαν μια νέα γλώσσα όταν εξελληνιστικαν. Στην πραγματικότητα, ο λαός της Κρεστονίας και της Πλάκας δεν μιλα πλέον την ίδια γλώσσα, πράγμα που δείχνει ότι συνεχίζουν να χρησιμοποιούν τη διάλεκτο που έφεραν μαζί τους οι προγονοι τους όταν μετανάστευσαν στα εδαφη τους.
      2, Όσο για τους Έλληνες, μου φαίνεται προφανές ότι από τότε που ηρθαν στον τοπο αυτο(ενν.την Ελλαδα), χρησιμοποίουσαν πάντα την ίδια γλώσσα. Ήταν αρχικά αδύναμοι, [...] αλλά μεγάλωσαν από μια μικρή ομάδα σε ένα πλήθος, ειδικά όταν πολλοί λαοί, συμπεριλαμβανομένων και πολλών βαρβάρων σε μεγάλους αριθμούς, τους είχαν προσχωρήσει. Επιπλέον, δεν νομίζω ότι οι Πελασγοι, οι οποίοι παρέμειναν βάρβαροι, αυξήθηκαν σημαντικά σε αριθμό ή εξουσία.[Ηροδοτου,Ιστοριαι]
      3, Πριν από την εποχή του Έλληνα, γιου του Δευκαλιωνα ... η χώρα ειχε τα ονόματα των διαφορετικών φυλών, ιδιαίτερα των Πελασγίων. Δεν ήταν μέχρι που ο Έλλην και οι γιοι του έγιναν ισχυροί στην Φθιώτη και προσκλήθηκαν ως σύμμαχοι στις άλλες πόλεις, που απέκτησαν σταδιακά από τη σύνδεση το όνομα των Ελλήνων. Αν και περάσε πολύς καιρός πριν αυτό το όνομα μπορέσει να προσκολληθεί σε όλους.[...] .. μικτές βαρβαρικές φυλές που μιλάνε τις δύο γλώσσες. Υπάρχει επίσης ένα μικρό χαλκιδικό στοιχείο. αλλά ο μεγαλύτερος αριθμός είναι οι Τυρρηνοί-Πελασγοί που κάποτε εγκαταστάθηκαν στη Λήμνο και την Αθήνα, και οι Βισαλίτες, οι Κρεστονικοί και οι Έωνες. Ολες αυτες οι πόλεις είναι μικρές.
      [Θουκιδιδης. Ιστορια του Πελλοπονησιακου πολεμου]
      4, Στην περιγραφή της Ελλάδος, ο Παυσανίας αναφέρει τους Αρκάδες που δηλώνουν ότι ο Πελασγός (μαζί με τον λαο του) ήταν ο πρώτος κάτοικος της γης τους . Όταν έγινε βασιλιάς, ο Πελασγός ήταν υπεύθυνος για την επινόηση καλύβων, παλτών από δερας πρόβατων και μιας διατροφής που ειχε βαση τα βελανίδια. Επιπλέον, η γη που κυβέρνησε ονομάστηκε "Πελασγία". Όταν ο Αρκάς έγινε βασιλιάς, η Πελασγία μετονομάστηκε σε «Αρκαδία» και οι κάτοικοί της (οι Πελασγοί) εξελληνιστικαν και εγιναν οι «Αρκάδες» . Ο Παυσανίας αναφέρει επίσης τους Πελασγούς ως υπεύθυνους για τη δημιουργία μιας ξύλινης εικόνας του Ορφέα σε ένα ιερό της Δήμητρας στη Θήρα καθώς επίσης και για την απομάκρυνση των Μινυών και των Λακεδαιμονίων από τη Λήμνο.

  • @emmasbooknook4576
    @emmasbooknook4576 5 років тому +19

    Egyptian history is so interesting! Great video!

  • @charliekhosravi4509
    @charliekhosravi4509 5 років тому +21

    Awesome video
    Also I'm just gonna keep suggesting Nader shah

  • @TheSonny3333
    @TheSonny3333 5 років тому +62

    to afrocentrist claiming the ancient egyptian were black hum... and what about the copts ?
    they are not "arab invader"

    • @TheSonny3333
      @TheSonny3333 5 років тому +12

      @@esiebun5119 im not europeans im of north africans descendant...

    • @TheSonny3333
      @TheSonny3333 5 років тому +1

      @Admire Kashiri ok

    • @TheGreatOne93
      @TheGreatOne93 5 років тому +3

      Hoda Kobt from NBC news is copt and clearly a Black woman by American standards (where the label was invented, aka colored)

    • @bagchaser3859
      @bagchaser3859 5 років тому +6

      Coptic form later in the dynastic periods when kemet was invaded by the christian empires of rome, hence the christian presence in the coptic religion. Which was nothing but a formality of ancient mystery system, by then kemet was already several thousand years old. kemet goes back way further than egyptology purports

    • @bagchaser3859
      @bagchaser3859 5 років тому

      @john bloggs there are no facts when it come to white people whose build their sciences around lies

  • @Gandalf-The-Green
    @Gandalf-The-Green 5 років тому +26

    Wow Memphis has been moved so often that by now it's over in Tennessee!

    • @d-christian3749
      @d-christian3749 3 роки тому

      😂😂😂

    • @destubae3271
      @destubae3271 3 роки тому +1

      Water weathered the land over time, causing the city of Memphis to sink through the earth and come out the other side

    • @japanesebitter1066
      @japanesebitter1066 3 роки тому +1

      It even has a pyramid from the Bass Pro Shops dynasty!

  • @angelaclarence8819
    @angelaclarence8819 4 роки тому +2

    Incredible encapsulation of Egyptian history in 12 minutes. Wow! Congrats Epimetheus.

  • @sankara6823
    @sankara6823 5 років тому +18

    I wish the pharaohs had skill share,they would show us how to build the pyramids

  • @mtraa.942
    @mtraa.942 5 років тому +15

    Your video is one of the best in summarizing the ancient Egyptian history . regards to you sir from lower Egypt :p
    Liked and subscribed :-)❤

    • @EpimetheusHistory
      @EpimetheusHistory  5 років тому +1

      Thank you! Glad you liked it Mohamed :)

    • @totalwartimelapses6359
      @totalwartimelapses6359 5 років тому +2

      Did you notice that the portrait of that Romano-Egyptian guy looks eerily similar to Mohammad Salah?

    • @AhmedAbdulaziz-j1c
      @AhmedAbdulaziz-j1c 13 днів тому +1

      ​@@totalwartimelapses6359yea

  • @juandom6432
    @juandom6432 4 роки тому +3

    The details on the map are so good! Your visual support is top notch as the general quality of your channel! Good job!

  • @Qwufi
    @Qwufi 5 років тому +2

    I usually dont like invideo ads but Im happy that his channel grows so much skillshare made a deal with him.

  • @blakehillman6494
    @blakehillman6494 5 років тому +3

    I also liked how you turned the map upside down to give us a perspective of how the Egyptians viewed the world. I liked the music, too.

  • @parikshitrao4208
    @parikshitrao4208 5 років тому +5

    Just started the video and dropped a like already.
    No questions on the quality of your work, wonderful as always.👏👏

  • @williamkartatar4759
    @williamkartatar4759 5 років тому +45

    I didn't realise it is an inverted map first and I was like ''owo where is dat place'' lol.I would like to listen story of mamluks from you.Your videos are awesome.

    • @mustafaelnady5161
      @mustafaelnady5161 5 років тому +1

      Mamluks are the second best people who ruled Egypt after old kingdom pharaohs. Most of what we call now old Cairo was built during their time. Cairo has the largest collection of Islamic architecture in the world because of the Mamluks. Not a single bad/weak Sultan during their whole time.

    • @julianbell9161
      @julianbell9161 5 років тому +4

      Don’t you dare “owo” me you fuck!

  • @soleb542
    @soleb542 5 років тому +32

    Really great video Egyptian history is great when afro and eurocentrics don't argue who the identity of the ancient Egyptians were we should enjoy learning about civilizations without bringing race into the matter

    • @mtraa.942
      @mtraa.942 5 років тому +14

      @@grandmastercrusader8724
      Especially afrocentrism
      They believe that china and the vikings were black !! Bruhh

    • @beninwarrior4579
      @beninwarrior4579 5 років тому +17

      @@mtraa.942 They are equally bad. I have seen europeans claim china, And claim that they taught the mexica to build pyramids.

    • @beninwarrior4579
      @beninwarrior4579 5 років тому +14

      @@reese8097 how are eurocentrist historians? Let me guess. You must be a eurocentrist?

    • @JustinBanks
      @JustinBanks 5 років тому +5

      @@mtraa.942 nobody said the vikings were black fam.

    • @hassanbassim4007
      @hassanbassim4007 5 років тому +4

      Afrocentrics and Eurocentrics have the most stupid thoughts ever . Both of them were the least people to get civilized so they are trying to claim West & East Asia civilization who its people are neither Black or White .

  • @lukezuzga6460
    @lukezuzga6460 5 років тому +3

    Good job EP, always a pleasure!

  • @ahmedmekki1349
    @ahmedmekki1349 5 років тому +9

    Thanks and Greeting from Egypt.

    • @APEX-qv7rm
      @APEX-qv7rm 5 років тому

      Greetings from Canada
      Here is my question to you
      Why are Muslims now Zionists Puppets ?

    • @mohamedelrazaz3227
      @mohamedelrazaz3227 5 років тому

      @@APEX-qv7rm I guess every state that doesn't want to get invaded has to be a Zionist puppet, doesn't mean the people are !

    • @GORO911
      @GORO911 5 років тому

      @@APEX-qv7rm
      Because of Saudi monarchy.
      They are Zionists in Arab dress.
      They are the source of treason in our region.

    • @LightHolmes
      @LightHolmes 4 роки тому

      @@APEX-qv7rm what on earth does that have to do with the video or the comment?

  • @milkultraviolence7808
    @milkultraviolence7808 5 років тому +44

    can you do king Alaric and the Sack of Rome

  • @monicathain8703
    @monicathain8703 Рік тому +2

    dude you are straight up a badass . you make me want to both study history and create my own youtube channel. Being a bored teacher, using youtube to create videos that teach people stuff I am interested in or that I think people should know, your videos really helped me to envision the possibility of making this a reality. Im in the process of watching all your videos, thank you for the inspiration and education.

  • @rosswebster7877
    @rosswebster7877 5 років тому +5

    Excellent video as always! Most Ancient Egyptian history has been pretty confusing to me until now!

  • @kennykeating5243
    @kennykeating5243 5 років тому +6

    I think it's fascinating how the old kingdom built the more impressive structures.

  • @bostonsawyer8355
    @bostonsawyer8355 5 років тому +6

    Great video like always!

  • @crapwithanopinion2919
    @crapwithanopinion2919 5 років тому +4

    this channel is so freaking good.

  • @KTChamberlain
    @KTChamberlain 5 років тому +3

    In ancient Egypt the worst curse you could ever visit upon someone was to erase a person's name, image and to never say their name again, similar to the Roman practice of a damnatio memoriae. To them, a name had power, a name told a person's story, and a name kept a person's memory alive, so whenever you say someone's name they're remembered, they live on in their afterlife. To never say their name again basically meant to deny them an afterlife and, so far as I know, they only did that to Hatshepsut and Akhenaton.

  • @FatKidAtRecess
    @FatKidAtRecess 5 років тому +3

    Its always a good day when i see your video posted

  • @quantumtree9276
    @quantumtree9276 5 років тому +9

    I wish Egypt was still Egyptian. What a cool culture that would be to see first hand. Probably in the top 5 oldest (Semi continious) civilizations

    • @histguy101
      @histguy101 5 років тому +14

      @@Tu51ndBl4d3 Egypt is an Arab country because of the language, not because of ethnicity.

    • @spragon6940
      @spragon6940 5 років тому +5

      @@Tu51ndBl4d3 kick the left over greeks? One of the best dynasties in egypt was the Ptolemaic dynasty

    • @rebelac4926
      @rebelac4926 5 років тому +5

      chris conerly
      Egypt is still Egypt ,
      I guess you want it to be Roman or British colony to like it ??

    • @rebelac4926
      @rebelac4926 5 років тому +1

      Tu51ndBl4d3
      Egypt is an Arab land you كافر

    • @quantumtree9276
      @quantumtree9276 5 років тому +2

      @@rebelac4926 No, I just wish it was cultural distinct like it was for thousands of years before. I find Arab culture to be very interesting in it's own, I just wish more elements of old Egypt still existed today. And when it was a colony it was still cultural arab.

  • @bornassassin2111
    @bornassassin2111 5 років тому +1

    I don't know how I've never heard of the Egyptian's map being upside down,it did cross my mind when I learned where actual Lower and Upper Egypt were but never made the actual connection.Thank you for this video.

  • @zurielschubert9410
    @zurielschubert9410 5 років тому +39

    Damn Egypt used to be so cool but nobody expects the Sea People.

    • @kool9174
      @kool9174 5 років тому +1

      It amzing the lies you have been taught to accept.
      Everything you hear about sea people's (Who's identity are all based of speculation s) know that there is something being hidden.
      Everytime you read about a dark age, just know that deception is happening

    • @marcusaurelius7604
      @marcusaurelius7604 5 років тому +12

      How are people lying by saying they don't really know who the Sea people were or where they came from? Do you know where they came from? Perhaps you can enlighten the rest of us with your evidence.

    • @APEX-qv7rm
      @APEX-qv7rm 5 років тому +4

      @@marcusaurelius7604
      You are being Logical
      Demanding the Evidence
      What the fuck is wrong with you ?

    • @FrogWalrus
      @FrogWalrus 5 років тому +2

      @Kool yeah dude, we wuz Kingz.

    • @FrogWalrus
      @FrogWalrus 5 років тому

      @Samir Dizco No, they are not.

  • @maud3444
    @maud3444 5 років тому +1

    Turning the map upside down to their view of the world was an awesome touch!

  • @gzpo
    @gzpo 5 років тому +6

    Yeah, got much from the graphics. A new perspective for me. Great job. Thank you.

  • @fiddleriddlediddlediddle
    @fiddleriddlediddlediddle 3 роки тому +2

    For some reason, flipping Egypt upside down makes me more comfortable with it. Like it's supposed to look like that.

  • @juliusmatijosius2219
    @juliusmatijosius2219 5 років тому +5

    Could you review the Grand Duchy of Lithuania next?
    Excellent video by the way

  • @landonzuchowski6029
    @landonzuchowski6029 5 років тому +1

    This was great. The way you turned the map upside down was genius. Never thought of that before.

  • @Nill-o8z
    @Nill-o8z 5 років тому +3

    This is great ! Can you make more of these, please ?

  • @desiafterdark
    @desiafterdark 5 років тому +2

    This channel should be way bigger than it is. Quality content.

    • @EpimetheusHistory
      @EpimetheusHistory  5 років тому +4

      :D thank you, Desi!

    • @desiafterdark
      @desiafterdark 5 років тому +2

      @@4chukwuebuka Nothing against Black Africans, they held some badass Empires of their own (Mali, Ethiopian, Zulu), but this is just demonstrably false. Genetically and linguistically, the direct descendants of the ancient Egyptians are the Coptic Christian minority in the country.

    • @EpimetheusHistory
      @EpimetheusHistory  5 років тому +2

      @John O I feel sorry for you. Dude, you should drop the hate. Your nasty words only disrespect yourself.

    • @desiafterdark
      @desiafterdark 5 років тому +1

      @@4chukwuebuka Yikes, you seem to be filled with a lot of hate on the internet, which is equal parts funny and sad. I don't think you warrant a response, but suffice it to say that I think any sort of critical examination of demographics and political history will tell you that you're wrong about this. You do realize that for most of history it was impossible to cross the Sahara, which clearly delineated the geopolitical boundaries between North Africa and the rest of the subcontinent. It wasn't until the arabs showed up with camels that this was able to be bridged. Anyway, good luck with whatever it is that you're trying to do.

    • @JustinBanks
      @JustinBanks 5 років тому

      @@desiafterdark you do realize that the Sahara wasn't a desert back then, right?

  • @anasevi9456
    @anasevi9456 5 років тому +3

    great video, one of your best.

  • @Vanic00
    @Vanic00 5 років тому +1

    YES, THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH!!! Been waitin for this one.

  • @williamtempelmann852
    @williamtempelmann852 5 років тому +11

    9:24 nice subtle nod to 40k,
    PRAISE CHAOS!

    • @Fordo007
      @Fordo007 4 роки тому

      The Pharaoh protects

  • @jamvin5647
    @jamvin5647 2 роки тому

    That skillshare ad was so good i was sitting there for a solid 3 minutes after it was over not even paying attention to the video but just thinking about skillshare lol. They should give you a raise!

  • @orkboi5726
    @orkboi5726 3 роки тому +3

    Alright... NOW I really want know more about aegypten culture AND this epic music at the beginning :D

  • @moose6182
    @moose6182 5 років тому +2

    Awesome video, I enjoyed it. Good work with the map flippery too, that made it extra-interesting!

  • @obayal-raslan8403
    @obayal-raslan8403 4 роки тому +3

    Your channel is just a heaven for any one who loves history.
    Thanks for you simple but still brilliant videos ❤️❤️❤️❤️

  • @michaeldriskell2038
    @michaeldriskell2038 8 місяців тому +1

    I enjoyed this. Thank you. One thing though, after Assyria the Babylonian Empire emerged again and conquered Assyria, Judah and Egypt. Still, an informative presentation!😊

  • @connorgolden4
    @connorgolden4 5 років тому +27

    I’ve always wondered why Egypt never really got back on its feet after the Bronze Age collapse, why was it so fragmented? Why did no one succeed in unifying it for so long?

    • @oxjmanxo
      @oxjmanxo 5 років тому +18

      Check out extra credits on the bronze age collapse. The bronze age relied heavily on international trade. When their neighbors collapsed the tin trade stopped and their ability to produce more bronze stopped as well. The economy crashed, tax revenue plummeted, and the states ability to fund a army stopped. Unable to rely on the state regional nobles supplied security and central authority lost it's control.

    • @LuisAldamiz
      @LuisAldamiz 5 років тому +18

      Egypt was back on its feet with the Ptolemaids, sorta, but the center of gravity had changed: it was not anymore just West Asia and the Eastern Mediterranean: first it was the growing power of Greece, suddenly consolidated into Hellenism by Alexander (sometimes a single leader changes things a lot), then two new powers based to their West arose: Rome and Carthage, their advantage was that, being roughly equal to their Eastern Hellenistic rivals, incl. Egypt, they had "barbarian" Western lands to expand onto, notably Iberia with its then still fabulous mineral riches. Once the Rome-Carthage conflict was settled, the Eastern powers could only submit one by one, by grade or force, to the victor. The only one who did not was Persia reborn (as Parthia first, Sassanid Persia later) but even these could not hope to wrestle control of the Mediterranean coasts to Rome without a navy.
      It was a geopolitical shift, somewhat comparable to the one that happened in the Middle Ages when the center shifted from Italy and the Mediterranean to NW Europe around Belgium, and also to the one that happened in the 20th century when Europe lost its global preeminence.

    • @APEX-qv7rm
      @APEX-qv7rm 5 років тому +2

      @@LuisAldamiz
      History is a Symphony of Slaughter

    • @rayoflight8498
      @rayoflight8498 5 років тому +6

      Kj_mast_er We wuz khanz and shiiiet with no evidence and all the real evidence pointing to the opposite...Example, egyptians used chariots. Where in african history do you see them using wheels let alone chariots...

    • @lif3andthings763
      @lif3andthings763 3 роки тому +1

      @@rayoflight8498 Nubians, and there are literally hundreds of drawings of chariots on the walls of caves and ruins across West African. They also used them for pottery and weaving all across Africa just not transportation it took too much manpower to build roads and they already had horses, camel, and donkeys.

  • @ListyLobster
    @ListyLobster 4 роки тому +1

    Awesome episode . No youtuber comes close to your great informativ videos

  • @TrafficPartyHatTest
    @TrafficPartyHatTest 5 років тому +9

    I love this video, and history! Could you make a video about germany? I live in America but I am mostly german so, yeah

  • @joan9569
    @joan9569 5 років тому +1

    Excellent. Good graphics. I wouldn't mind longer segments. Thank you.

  • @unleashingpotential-psycho9433
    @unleashingpotential-psycho9433 5 років тому +4

    Great history 👍🏾

  • @comb528491
    @comb528491 5 років тому +2

    Awesome video bro

  • @MikeMaris
    @MikeMaris 5 років тому +4

    Very cool how you flipped the map since not only did it explain a lot of the names of the areas but also gave us the perspective of Egypt

  • @octapusxft
    @octapusxft 4 роки тому +1

    There is something almost magical about ancient egypt and how well it did for so long

  • @year111
    @year111 4 роки тому +7

    Long ago the Egyptians and Hittites lived in peace. Then everything changed when the Sea People attacked.

  • @freshprince69
    @freshprince69 5 місяців тому

    Thank you for this easy information, I've been interested in ancient egypt quite recently.

  • @PandoraKyss
    @PandoraKyss 5 років тому +4

    With relatively modern equipment, it still took thirty years to finish Philadelphia's City Hall, from 1871 to 1901. Whereas it took twenty years to build the Great Pyramid at Giza. My mind is broken.

    • @dafuqmr13
      @dafuqmr13 4 роки тому +2

      well if all the people in North America at the time helps building it it would be faster, the amount of labors matters

    • @mahmoudsobhyx
      @mahmoudsobhyx 4 роки тому +1

      in the 1800's . suez canal was built in 10 years. the new canal was built in 1 year

    • @davidsnoek8686
      @davidsnoek8686 4 роки тому

      Maybe thats a wrong number? Or maybe the egyptians did not build the great pyrimide at all

    • @الفضاء-ض8غ
      @الفضاء-ض8غ 2 роки тому

      @@mahmoudsobhyx Egyptians always do miracles

  • @titnesovic4522
    @titnesovic4522 3 роки тому

    So much info in such short time. Will have to rewatch it a few times. Thank you for your effort.

  • @omegaink5635
    @omegaink5635 5 років тому +11

    Great video bro! The ancient Egyptians were a controversial yet fascinating ancient group!

    • @mtraa.942
      @mtraa.942 5 років тому +1

      @ydntbh122 just Egyptians like modern Egyptians...

    • @omegaink5635
      @omegaink5635 5 років тому +6

      @ASuperSomali yeah, but that's crazy! I never viewed the ancient Egyptians as being the modern Americanized definitions of black or white. They were their own distinct north african group..

    • @omegaink5635
      @omegaink5635 5 років тому +1

      @Bblurre no, that's not true. Black people like us in America today came from west Africa not North East Africa. Groups like the Ethiopians, Lybians, & those from Sudan are closest peoples we have to the ancient Egyptians would have been. & even then their still not accurate...

    • @omegaink5635
      @omegaink5635 5 років тому

      @Bblurre oh okay I thought u were talking about modern black American people...

    • @GORO911
      @GORO911 5 років тому +2

      @@omegaink5635
      Ethiopians and Sudanese are nothing like the ancient Egyptians.
      Whether Blacks of west Africa or mutts of East Africa, none of them are even remotely similar to the ancient Egyptians.
      Only modern Egyptians are the closest to the ancient Egyptians, especially modern Egyptians in rural areas who are pure literal descendants of the ancient Egyptians, and guess what ? They look nothing like Ethiopians or Sudanese.

  • @camelxravennova
    @camelxravennova 3 роки тому +2

    I love how the great pyramid of Giza is aligned to true north as well as aligned with Orion and how it tells the circumference of the Earth and so on.

  • @alfredosauce1
    @alfredosauce1 5 років тому +7

    0:12 why does the upside down map make me so uncomfortable?!

    • @BloodRider1914
      @BloodRider1914 4 роки тому

      I knew I women once who had a map of the world with everything upside down. It's certainly interesting

  • @emmaavelar2325
    @emmaavelar2325 5 років тому +2

    Great video! Really like the art! The smaller art is very detailed!

  • @Ethan-cz8xq
    @Ethan-cz8xq 4 роки тому +4

    A more accurate title would be "Ancient Egypt, the rise and fall and rise and fall and rise and fall and rise and fall and rise and fall and rise and fall"
    (Once for Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, Neo-Egyptian Empire, Post-Assyrian Egypt, the Egypt briefly independent from Persia, and Ptolemaic Egypt each.)

  • @bunzeebear2973
    @bunzeebear2973 4 роки тому

    I like the short condensed version which is more informative than the other long drawn out versions.

  • @connorgolden4
    @connorgolden4 5 років тому +8

    Hey epimetheus could you do another video on ancient Israel?

    • @connorgolden4
      @connorgolden4 5 років тому +1

      Darth Revan He did another? I know he did one a while back but I felt it was a bit bare bones tbh.

    • @Qwufi
      @Qwufi 5 років тому

      The ancient times of the late 1940s? Just kidding :)

    • @omegaink5635
      @omegaink5635 5 років тому

      @Darth Revan no he didn't...

    • @APEX-qv7rm
      @APEX-qv7rm 5 років тому +1

      @yah' qub
      Cult of Foreskin
      God wants your Foreskin
      Religion is used to make you a Slave
      Try some Logic, bro

  • @blackbladeszoro2984
    @blackbladeszoro2984 5 років тому +2

    Great Vid , Subscribed

  • @azeraganis4370
    @azeraganis4370 5 років тому +7

    Egypt history
    Knock knock its persian
    Knock knock its macedon
    Kncok knock its Rome
    Knock knock its byzantine
    Knock knock its rashidun caliphate
    Knock knock its mongol (almost)
    Knock knock its ottoman empire
    Knock knock its French empire
    Knock knock its British empire
    Egypt: seal the fu*king dor and never open it again

    • @_Avitohol
      @_Avitohol 5 років тому +5

      before the persians:
      Knock knock it's Assyria
      Knock Knock it's the hyksos

    • @soleb542
      @soleb542 5 років тому +4

      Knock knock it's the kushites

    • @rob-8541
      @rob-8541 5 років тому

      Knock knock its nubians

    • @WorthToBuyy
      @WorthToBuyy 4 роки тому

      You forgot umayyad abbasid and fatimid

    • @AhmedAbdulaziz-j1c
      @AhmedAbdulaziz-j1c 13 днів тому +1

      ​@@WorthToBuyyfatimid are egyptians

  • @EurasiaOnYT
    @EurasiaOnYT 5 років тому +2

    Great video!

  • @ekmalsukarno2302
    @ekmalsukarno2302 5 років тому +15

    Epimetheus, can you please make a video on the history of Cambodia. Please respond to my comment.

  • @AltarofMetal
    @AltarofMetal 5 років тому +2

    Very nice job. Your videos are next to perfect. So glad I subbed long ago.

  • @GarfieldRex
    @GarfieldRex 5 років тому +11

    So, is it possible that the Hicsos be predecessors of the Sea Peoples?
    Saddest part was abandoning the Mitanni :/
    Nice video indeed, loved the map! Thank you for all your videos 😎
    Still waiting for Elamites video xd

    • @LuisAldamiz
      @LuisAldamiz 5 років тому +2

      Some (but surely not most) of the Sea Peoples were surely Semites. Israel is mentioned for the first time in the SP wave led by the Hitites. Another likely Semitic SP were the Shekelesh, who are documented as circumcised (the Egyptians would cut your hands as war trophy if you followed their own custom of circumcision but your genitals if not, and other than Egyptians and some Black Africans only the Semites did so) and also have a name that may mean "mercenary" (shekel = Canaanite "pound", first weight later coin). These people surely ended in Sicily, not just because of the name resemblance but also because Sicilians are in terms genetic anomalously tending to the Levant (and there's no other good explanation).
      But otherwise most Sea Peoples were northerners from the Aegean or westerners from NW Africa (Libu, Meswesh) and Sardinia (Sherden), maybe even mainland Italy in the case of the unidentified Weshesh (sounds to me like Ausones, an aboriginal nation of southern Italy).

    • @GarfieldRex
      @GarfieldRex 5 років тому

      @@LuisAldamiz very interesting, thanks!

    • @LuisAldamiz
      @LuisAldamiz 5 років тому +1

      @yah' qub - What? We don't know for sure who exactly the Hyksos were. If anything it's you who's talking "pseudo-history" by assimilating them to Hittites (Nesites), who were not yet in the regional geopolitcal scene even.
      Almost uniformly historians agree that the Hycsos were Semitic warlords of some sort. Many theories have suggested proto-Hebrews and maybe there's something to it, but they were mostly worshipers of Seth, the Egyptian god of Chaos and War, so if anything something way too "proto" to be identified as such.

    • @LuisAldamiz
      @LuisAldamiz 5 років тому

      @yah' qub - Just to set the record straight: the Hyksos are from the Second Intermediate Period, at the beginning of the Bronze Age, while the Sea Peoples are from before the Third Intermediate Period, at the very end of the Bronze Age. A thousand years separate both groups!
      And yes Israel (or something very similar that is almost universally accepted as that) is mentioned in the "Nine Bows Coalition" or Hittite-led early "Sea Peoples" invasion. But these are not exactly the groups we know as Sea Peoples decades later, led probably by the Mycenaean Greeks (Deneen = Danaoi) on rampage after destroying Troy, although some groups do overlap in both waves (not Israel though, only mention). Look up "Israel stele" if you don't believe what I say.

    • @LuisAldamiz
      @LuisAldamiz 5 років тому +2

      @yah' qub First of all: LOL, you clearly have no idea of what you're talking about.
      Second and more to the point: the Hebrews are and were Canaanites, just a destructive cult at the semi-desertic margin at first (or something like that), the Canaanites were Semitic, all the Levant was Semitic since at least 4000 BCE and the Semitic-speaking Phoenicians considered themselves to be Canaanites (Phoenician is a Greek exonym). Hebrew is just one branch or dialect of the Canaanite language. El is how the Canaanites said "God" and Elohim is how the Canaanites said "the gods" (Allah is also derived from that root but Arabic is a slightly distinct branch of Northern Semitic, Southern Semitic is now only spoken in Eritrea and Ethiopia but was in the past extended by Yemen and much of Arabia). After the conquest of Sumeria, all the Middle East south of Turkey and Kurdistan and West of Iran was Semitic.
      "Hamite" was used in linguistics to refer to what we now know as the main non-Semitic branches of Afroasiatic. It is an obsolete term (of Biblical origin indeed): today the linguistic consensus is that the family is Afroasiatic and also includes Semitic, and not only Berber, Coptic and Cushitic (Somali, Oromo, etc.)
      Back to the Hyksos, I'm glad you seem to concede that they were not Hittites and were from Canaan or otherwise the Levant. We're making improvements. Now you just need to accept that the Canaanites were Semitic, something we know for a fact, partly because of their Hebrew branch and partly because of their other historical branch: the Phoencians (self-named Canaanites).