The Entire History of Steppe Nomads & City Builders // Ancient Prehistory Documentary
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- Опубліковано 31 жов 2021
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Cheers all. Onwards to the next video. It will be another 3 hour+ monster on Britain’s early Middle Ages..
Amazing/ my mind could never dispel the suffering these things did to humans. We are no better today than then. I grieve for humankind...
Amazing episode but could have done without the claim that a citys walls were all that prevented Europe being conquered by Islam, that's nonsense. The continent has never had one faith and likely never will, its' history is more Jewish and more Islamic than generally acknowledged. Looking forward to the next episode.
This episode has given me much expansion on my knowledge of the development of modernity as we see it today. The walls by David Frye indeed provides much objective evidence to this transformation into the modern world. In the background of all achieved in this struggle of humanity is the development and or lack of Metallurgical knowledge which in combination with the steppes mindset, has provided the means to achieve modernity as we know it. Now modernity is humanity’s biggest threat.
Great job! I'd pay money for audio-books in history read by you by the way. In lack of such, I can only subscribe and press "like" on new videos. Thank you for your contribution to the education of people like myself. God bless!
I have rarely switched on notifications (I hate the things) but I can't miss your documentaries. Another peice of quality work, well researched and you can tell a story man and your viewers grow as a result. Props Pete.
I'm an afghan/pashtun and our ancestors were the scythians who were a steppe nomadic iranian people
Nope that is only speculation.
Dude does this all himself? You’re amazing man!
Thanks for your hard work in writing, directing and producing these documentaries!!!
Kim😅ouzo hi
good man
$20 and no reply? Ouch 😣
@@Andy_Babb There is likely another way for Pete to reply that is less public. It's also possible that Pete, or whoever, isn't informed of which video it was attached to, so for him to find that post would be impossible.
@@cattymajiv it wasn’t me lol I’m too poor to donate $20 lol
i cant believe youre a one man team. high standard, large scope, bbc documentary level content, no conspiracies. and wtf? only 700k subscribers? this is a crime. subbed
Most channels only grow very slowly. It's at 1.8 million now, in mid Arpril 2024. For a history channel even 700,000 is fantastic, but over 1M! That's nearly impossible! Pete is doing incredible!
@@cattymajivIt's 1.18 million in April 2024...
Can't believe this content is free, it's incredible
Shhhh!
Reading is also free. It just takes a bit more effort than clicking a button.
His work is incredible
it's comparable to commercial material despite being made by a very small group of people on a tight budget(I assume) !
Well done- best work so far.
Listening to and watching History Time videos are Zen for me. The calm smooth narration, great visuals, and brain stimulating topics, it is like a spa day for the mind!
Well put!
Yes! Me too... sometimes I close my eyes and just listen as though it’s radio - so soothing and reminds me of my father listening to archeology programs on the radio!
Its truly fantastic . I am so grateful for this content . I wish this was my history lessons at school instead of how great we were (UK)
16.11. 2021.
Absolutely right, I wish I met likeminded people like you in Manchester England.
I appreciate that I can watch these quality documentaries on UA-cam
you are one of the best UA-camrs, I cant get enough of these videos. I am a new patreon of yours. Keep these coming
The work you've done is really awesome. I enjoyed this far more than the dry content of other history docs. Not to mention, your narration is excellent, and your voice is well modulated, as pleasant to listen to as Paul Wallis.
From a house bound disabled policeman, thank you.
I sympathize with you, with your disability. I am not housebound, but suffer constant, chronic, often excruciating pain, which greatly reduces what I can do. Sending virtual hugs your way!
There are history docs with dry content? Please post some links, I'm serious. I would give my left one for a doc with information and no background music, this one excepted of course.
@@fractuss I think we do our best to forget the names of those channels. A lot, but not all, of the lectures from various universities and historical institutes are like that, at least in that there is no music, but a lot of them have unbelievably annoying camera work that does not show the visual material presented very well at all.
I find Fall Of Civilizations to be the best channel of all. I don't know if there is much or any music. I never noticed. I was so absorbed in the words. Each episode is first released as a podcast, here on his YT channel and on podcast websites, then later, once he has added the images, they are released on his YT channel as videos too. IMHO they are masterpieces!
Merian C. Cooper, mentioned in the early part of this amazing video, had quite a fascinating life. He was a pilot, a soldier, an adventurer, a filmmaker, an absolute legend. I strongly recommend looking him up.
I wonder if he 's related to Paul Cooper, the creator of the incredible channel Fall Of Civilisations. ? ? ?
@@cattymajivI like that channel too, that and this are 2 of the best history channels I've found on UA-cam so far, not as many different videos as some like kings & generals but these videos are longer, awesome
Just like the cannon making walls obsolete, it's dedicated channels like these that make TV channels obsolete. Amazing work you do.
What a brilliant documentary, I was completely fascinated by it.
I cannot believe this is not a professional piece for TV, complete with huge budget and a crew of 20 going on the road and staying in flash hotels paid for by the licence payer.
Please keep up the good work, as the numerous comments here attest, it really is appreciated by people from all over the world and that must surely be a good thing.
Honestly, I thought this channel just replayed history documentaries. I had no idea you guys produced the content yourselves! Thanks for doing such incredible work
It’s just one “guy”. I offered to donate some 3D animation to his channel and some photoshop work but I think he likes to be a one man band (even if I wanted no payment) but you have to respect his mission. It’s amazing work
When you finish titles of interest here, TIME TEAM is another amazing channel for those who like anthropology and archaeology. They get a group to spend three days excavating sites in proper archaeological methods, and the UK has strict rules.
@@alastairbrewster4274 Are you saying he's not a guy? Does he identify as something else? Lol
@@libertyprime6932 no idea , nor sure I was inferring anything other than hes a man working on his own. If he identifies as a transsexual good for him but I’ll be continuing to refer to him as a “man” or a “guy”. Think a lot of people of all political persuasions are pretty bored of the war against pronouns. So no idea what you on about.
@@alastairbrewster4274 Man, his channel is a gem
Nomads vs. Settlers is the oldest social conflict ever since the agricultural revolution.
That was my take home too. And kinda overwhelming in scope. Oddly enough I've been listening to the throat singers of the Steppes lately....
Makes you wonder what kind of world we would have if they won
@@josesandoval1440 Would never happen. Civilization has too many comforts. All the Khans died in the lap of luxury.
The Chinese called this dichotomy “Hua-Yi”. “Hua” means flower and “Yi” were the “others”. The Chinese were the Hua (flower people) and the nomads were the Yi.
@@FSVR54 Ture all the Khans did end up going native
My favorite part? Where the sheep told the lamb to eff off. Twice. That was great! 😂
Also, great doc, btw. I love your work!
I am thankful this content is free. We all have ups and downs in our lives, I am also thankful to those that donate their money that allow ppl like myself that cannot donate to watch this incredible content. Bless the creator and the ppl donate. Tyvm
Amen to that. God Bless Him.
Oooh, y'know what would be an excellent follow-up to this? The role of natural walls and barriers in ancient history/prehistory, like mountain ranges, rivers, straits, isthmuses, etc...
Oh man. We went over this in my ancient history class and it changed my perspective in religion forever. Egypt? Natural barriers and predictable floods = nice gods. Mesopotamia with it’s crazy floods and minimal barriers = batshit crazy gods who enjoy human suffering
@@renemccracken6319 Greek gods, fuck anything that moves = ?
There is a great book that touches on this subject. It's titled "Guns, Germs and Steel" by Jared Diamond. He states that there are geographical axes (east-west axes and north-south axes) that hugely influence human development.
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Sorry, couldn't help myself. Feel free to call the inquisation on me for such a heretical joke.
You have the perfect voice & accent for this.
Always so good to listen and learn with. Thank you again.
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GREAT TOPIC and video well done; with excellent narration.
I was thinking about building a fence for my backyard. After watching this masterpiece of a documentary, I think I will build a stone wall instead 😂
Be sure to “man” it with professional soldiers. Walls can’t defend themselves.
I don't want to meet your neighbours!
Hallo from Denmark . Great video . We also had the conflict between settled farmers and nomades here back in the Stone age . When farmers migrated into danish territory . But slowly the nomads settled down and became farmers themself … But there were actully two parts of farmers here in Denmark . And that could be seen here in Jutland where I live . Eastern jutland was the farmland was . While the West was dominated heath landscape … So that became Denmarks Wild West . There the farmers would live by rising cattle and fishing … The western jutes had reputation of though bunch . During the middelages and later when feudal system exsisted here . The western jutes were tennants on noblity’s land . But because there was no good farmland in the West . It was an area where the Local Lord or representitives would visit evert day . So there is not many huge mansion houses in West jutland . They are in the east . So the cattle farmers in the West were more free then their fellow farmers in the east … And every year the West farmers could gather their cattle and ride down to Germany to sell their cattle … The danish borders would try to stop Them (is illegal in medevil and later Denmark). But these danish “cowboys “ would bribe the guards or beat Them up… And then they would continue to Germany to sell their cattle … But that lifestyle would come to an end . In 1700’es danish Kings (starting with Frederik the fourth) started campaigns to transform to heath landscape into farmland … Around 1758 the danish Christian the fifth had managed to get 1000 germans to setlle down in the jutland heath and grow things . Many gave up and returned home to Germany . Some remained and grow things potatoes . It could grow in heat landscape … And thats how the potato came to Denmark… And these germans became known as potato germans . And then danes started to eat potatoes … Many of their descendents still live in Denmark … And slowly around most of heath was transformed into farmland … So the cowboy cattle lifestyle western jutland was known for . It came to an end . Today were little of the orginal danish heath landscape remains … Today the remaining heath landscape are protected by law …
Also sheep was importent on West jutland heath… There was a little farm land productuon . But Ground was so bad . That it was very small . The farms on jutland heath was placed very far apart . In 1780 18 procent of Denmark was covered in heath …
Interesting story. Many jutes also migrated to England with Angles and Saxons. Interestingly, the area I’m from was heavily populated by jutes
Interesting. Thank you.
@@haroldgodwinson7241 then they migrated to the southern US where we continue to kick@$$ unlike ya'll euroqueefs
Thank you for sharing.
I've never heard the Mongol conquests described in quite so brutal and terrifying terms before, I think you did them justice in this vid.
Wrath of the Khans by Dan Carlin was pretty descriptive.
I recently left Beijing after 13 years. Whilst there I worked part time as a hiking guide, some of which included sections of renovated sections of wall, as depicted here. As it happens you used stock footage of some of the classic tourist sections of wall near Beijing. I know every brick and every step of the wall footage shown, it’s like home having walked each section over 100 times and taken thousands of photos. Thanks. I feel sad at that part of my life having moved into the past but glad to move on too. China is no longer tenable for me.
The Great Wall of China to keep the nomadic herdsmen out. 😃😃😃😃😃
Joseph Stalin annihilated a tribe of herdsman in the Soviet Union and used the long history of the wars between farmers and herdsmen as justification.
@@John77DoeOr rather keep the Chinese in
@@sab2022 no, it was definitely to keep the northerners out.
@@deborahdean8867 Out, sometimes. In, all the time.
Wow, this was great. The labor of love put into making this must have monumental. I knew some of the history of wall building, but your work definitely expanded my knowledge and understanding.
Thanks!
Classic! Linking King Kong to nomadic ancients, two of my favorite things. Plus Grass! Perfect thanks
What a great episode!! I love learning new things ( at my age, its necessary!)
Pete Kelly, you have the, most relaxing voice, vocal style , easy listening , absorbable timing & appropriate inflections of any narrator I listen to …and I listen to them all..differently styled but on par with ken burns .moreover, you stay on subject & don’t interject possible incorrect opinions based on modern attitudes which I find infinitely fascinating & refreshing . these videos are extremely well constructed , informative & interesting .thank you for doing such a fab job on your history docs. Well done I hope you will continue to Keep them coming.
I just come here to get some help sleeping
It’s a pleasure to listen the content and his voice. Just perfect for this moment.
I love Pete's work too.
Due to growing up in Mongolia, I really appreciate all the Mongol steppe imagery!
Make Mongolia great again
that steppe must be vast because I'm surrounded by Mongols in western EU
@@joerivandeweyer3056 and just think as many as 20 million people carry the DNA of Genghis Khan.
@@joerivandeweyer3056 ..well it is dude. The Steppe stretches from Mongolia to Greece
@@danfield6030 /wooooosh
Excellent videos my friend, have spent the week watching an have learned so much...
Thank you !! Please make more !!
I find ancient history more fascinating than more recent history, including things I actually lived through.
Too be fair you are living the day to day and not getting to see what years and decades produce. Think about the time gaps
Really enjoyed this program. During Covid I have been studying ancient peoples since they left Africa from a Europe , the Steppes and Asia. I was watching Stefan Milo and your program came on. It covers all the periods I have been studying. I will defiantly get the book. I’m 77. Proves you’re never too old to learn. Thank you.
Stefan Milo is fantastic and his passion is infectious
What did you learn about Albanians, or are the Balkan Archaeologists and scientists still denying that Albanian descendants are the Pelasgo- Illyrians 😂
I'm 78 and still learning as well. Ancient history is more fascinating than modern history, as it isn't taught in school, so you have to look for it. You tube makes these wonderful documentaries available for those of us who have a thirst for history. This gentleman who does these videos mesmerizes you with his writing and dialogues. I love listening to him weave his stories.
Just asking, who are you defying to get the book ?
Oh my, this one is destined to be one of your best. I'm extremely excited over the subject. Thank you Sir Kelly.
@@paulspodsandmarineornament7183 yeah?
@@paulspodsandmarineornament7183 booting? _Booting?_ 😄😂🤣😂😄
A good example of town dwellers moving out to the mountains are my ancestors, old early medieval Romanians, who left their Eastern Roman urban homes after the avar invasion and spread all throughout the mountains in the area, becoming herders up until the generation of my great-grandparents. The name of the people and the language itself are the only active reminder, since Serbia and Bulgaria, their original home, became Slavic over time and the current Romanian nationalist historiography prefers another, much more rigid historical view. Any neutral and unbiased linguist and archeologist would agree though with a urban-rural mobility and herder migration theory. Thanks for the video. It provides a lot of inspiration! And by the way, the Romanian term for fortress, "cetate", comes from late Latin "civitas", meaning "city, settlement" showing that at some point in history the two words had the same meaning. Modern Romanian for city, "oraș" comes from Hungarian "varos" and it was adopted in the last 1000 years, after Romanians started to be (re) integrated very slowly into a more settled society.
Thank you for providing such high quality content! It’s well researched, written, and produced. Keep it up!
good man
I am in awe that you are able to do this alone. Thank you so much for your work!
good man
This documentary is excellent. Very well produced, interesting and educational. Well done. Thank you so much.
You have great timing. I've been interested in steppe nomads for days now.
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The hardcore history channel have a huge narration on ghengis khan you might like
@@bloodsport326 do yourself a favor and check out David Anthony and JP Mallory. Lots of stuff on UA-cam- mainly about the Yamnaya and Porto-Indo-European spread through Europe and Asia. Fascinating stuff!
I know you're joking, but the great thing about history is that there is so damned much of it..my attention span takes me all over the place..ohh..what happened over here, ohh..I wonder what these people were like..ive only been like this for 35 years. It's just a phase.
@@bloodsport326 But Hardcore History is just a podcast, right?
THis is one of the best History videos I have ever seen. It is amazing in its scale and abilty to explain a hugh swaith of human history.
Well done.
You are 💯the world heavyweight champion of historic documentaries!
He definitely is. I appreciate his work. He's gotta be a very ancient soul.
Masterful work in covering an enormous scope
Wait isn't this your brother because I love this and your channel
You are incorrect
@Straya 83 it's not unkind to point out that whoever made this doesn't truly know what they are talking about
@Straya 83 what do steppe nomads have to do with Israelite nomads?
@Straya 83 the Greeks were steppe nomads, something he fails to acknowledge
Dude, your stuff is such quality…. I love it. Don’t ever stop
Greetings from Kyrgyzstan 🇰🇬
Awesome video
Thanks
Added the book to my wish list and became a Patreon member. You have helped me so much with sleeping and I don’t mean it in an insulting way. I find these episodes interesting and calming. Thank you!!!!
omg, same!
These nice long ones allow me to go to bed when I'm not tired and watch until I fall asleep, just like a good book. But some are too good, and keep me awake if I haven't got the presence of mind to turn it off. I do make sure to set my screen to stop after every video, instead of constantly playing whatever is next.
PS So many people have forgotten about the value, and even the existence of books! But Wikipedia is a pretty good way to introduce kids or adults to SOME of the joys of reading. Especially to the interelatedness of ideas. The links can be used to surf around that giant website endlessly. I love it, and I use it to read myself to sleep very often. I prop up my tablet on it's $10 stand beside my bed. Then I can read, listen, or watch whatever I want, and of course I can take it anywhere too, unlike a tv.
You are amazing. Being a documentary videographer, a Dane too & loving my history, and knowing just how much time goes into planning & making a simple 30 (20 minutes because of commercials) show...
And the way you project each video you make. Unbiased of any country. Just pure history, is refreshing.
Well done.
Pete, seriously mate I could listen to you narrate anything. You really do have a gift for it and I know others agree. Your videos are just getting better and better. I know when you take a month or two to put out a video it’s because you clearly work by ‘quality not quantity’.
I've listened to this several times ! Love it, thanks Pete. I got Walls for my nephew's birthday, nurturing the next generation of history buffs.
Wow that was so good! The delivery, the voice, the sentence structure, the vocabulary, the timing, the presentation, the film clips, amazing!!! Thank you so much! I look forward to being a subscriber.
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Just started watching your videos this week and realized that one of the biggest things I appreciate about the approach you take is that it is a wider view than most that links the pieces together into the giant topic of human history. It gives context that enriches my understanding of history and beyond. Thank you.
My complete respect for the work you do on these videos. I’ve been chasing the history of this region for forty years, since I first read of Alexander’s encounter with them. I’ve just ordered “Walls” and will watch this video again. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
These documentaries are absolutely sensational. Thorough and comprehensive overviews. Thank you so much.
I love your videos because I can just throw one on in the morning whilst getting ready for my day and still learn something.. you deserve a spot on tv! You have a great voice and great unbiased outlook for history. Love your content man. Keep it up
thank you for making this and doing this content for free! I'm back in college studying anthropology and your videos have been such an inspiration!
If you liked this you should Check our the anthropologist Robert Sepehr, he’s got some great videos on the scythians
All right. You twisted my arm, Pete. Ordered Walls today. Hope it doesn't disappoint. Your docs are great. So is you colleague Paul Cooper, but I am nearly burned out on viewing things this year! Thanks for you patch at History Time.
All of ancient civilization: "I just want to farm my land plz stop."
Nomads: _"OUR land"_
All of ancient civilization: *_"What are you doing steppe-nomad?!"_*
classy way to sum up mass genocide. this generation is fucked
Wow, I just saw you made this video. I am about to watch it now but the title makes me feel like this is a perfect prequel to your bronze age collapse video. I am excited to watch this. Your content is so well done man, don't ever sell out to TV or a publisher, just keep doing what you're doing. Your passion and hands on methods elevates the content
What an absolutely epic history of one of the most important places in the history of humanity!
Amazing. Thank you so much for your content and narration.
Reading the “walls” book, it’s great - thanks for the recommendation and of course, your excellent channel!!
half an ambien , chamomile tea, and history time = night time wind down bliss.
Really great doc as always. Will make sure to re-watch it soon again. Don't want the live chat to distract me the way it did during the premiere.
The steppe actually extended further west than the " shores of the Black Sea." It extended into present- day Romania and Hungary.
To the Moldavia and Wallachia region, well agreeable, but Translyvania and the rest of Carpathian valley (Hungary and Slovakia)? No way, they're not really easy to trespass by these nomads, and due to this mountain range as a great obstacle that cutting these steppes in the middle, thus it stops at the land shored in the Black Sea.
@@williemherbert1456 I wonder what happened when the Mongols met with the Vlachs living in that region (arguably, they were nomads, too) or if any conflict ever happened.
@@mabeSc As always the story of nomadic people's fate goes in history, they are being pushed out from the present position of settlement and thus replaced by other nomads in that area, or if not being deeply integrated either the newcomer or these old settled communities, most of the time these nomads just integrated into the assimilation of culture and faith as nearby concentrated sedentary community, thus we could assume those Mongols that migrated to there had been intermixed with the locals and lost their original identities, just like the Hungarian that significantly had lost their original culture they had brought with them in their early nomadic lifestyle before settling in the Carpathian valley.
@@robyenney951 Of course it's not impossible to pass, but that's a costly endeavour if you're trying to bring in a huge army to pass this narrow, high, and steep passage although not that extreme compared to the passage passed by Hannibal across the Alpine, but it's still quite a rigorous effort to be made though by the Mongols, Huns, Cuman-Kipchak, Vlach, Magyar, Proto-Slavic, etc in trying to do as such, and that's why the plain in the Carpathian valley isn't really could be said an unhindered continuation of vast steppe land as the plain in southern Russia. And through the Danube corridor in the souther part of the Carpathian valley means you had to pass through the Danube river to the other side, at that time had been erected numbers of fort and walled-settlement by the Romans and then preserved by those who later on settled there, and there lies the river itself act as natural boundaries and bulwark for any nations in seeking for a protectable border, that's why land that now being settled by Hungarian are not that often compared to the steppe land in Ukraine, in being forced to be inter-changed of who's ruling it and settling it more widely there by various tribes of nomads.
@@williemherbert1456 please buy some periods before your next magnum opus.?
This something you can actually binge watch for days , then start over !! .. Excellent job my friend..
What a fascinating and expertly put-together documentary. I can't thank you enough for your efforts.
Another incredible piece of work from this channel. Consistently producing amazing quality. Outstanding job.
This documentary is work of art, i am still amazed how just one person can make this fantastic quality, thank you for exsisting :)
Watched this to fall asleep last night - stayed up and watched it all and I’m going to watch again today so I can absorb the information better. This is the most interesting video I’ve ever watched.
I just love your series and can't wait for the next episode!
Just ONE wish..
When you speak the volume of the music is perfect.
Could you please make it the same volume between narrative so doesn't get louder between the narrative as it is now.
Otherwise this channel is just perfect!
Many thanks from Sweden!
Thank you so much for your time, effort and quality content! Your narration (and video) is soothing and informative. Unlike others that don't enunciate nor even speak slowly, overlaid with loud music.
Another masterpiece! You should cover the migration period of the Slavs and Germanics and early medieval society
Man, you are amazing. Great job, great channel. Thank you for your time and your talent.
I love your videos. The long ones are my faves but I love them all. Thanks for your hard work😊
Thank you, Pete and David, we appreciate all your time and effort. This presentation was wonderful !! Pat
If anyone wants a theoretical context for these events, check out the variants of Heartland-Rimland Theory. The steppe peoples controlled the Heartland, and their incursions into the Rimlands make up the subject matter of this video.
Wow, so interesting.
To be honest I expected a more detailed description of the lifestyle of nomads, rather than a quick rundown of the various walls in history. But if I can find it, I'll might watch that Grass movie, it looks interesting.
You can’t do that much in an hour and 30 minutes , I’m interested too though lmk if you ever found it!
Great video mate, loved it
Whoever the 17 people that disliked this video are, show yourselves. Now.
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The Huns maybe ;)
No kidding. I wonder what kind weird beliefs these people have?
And leave the building, No, keep walking....
@@cernunnos_lives Imagine speaking to a true druid and seeing his view of the world. And its questions like that that keep us looking for more history books to read or docu-drama to watch.. Hey it beats soaps lol.
So well made, thanks mate
I absolutely LOVE all your videos. Your voice is extremely soothing. Even though I've viewed every video (more than once), I like to put one on at bedtime because your voice calms me. Thanks for the excellent educational content!!
I just came across one of your videos last week. I have watched several since then. Thank you for your work.
The anthropological information was fascinating ... the farmers and the herders ... who became the city dwellers and the warriors. If one wishes to understand the present, study the past ...
Fact
Great video. Bin Laden survived in mountains very much like those described. Taliban also fled from modern armies 20 years ago into mountain to hide. They came back again to conquer once the modern armies gave up its efforts due to lack of stamina and persistence city dwellers experienced since Sumerian days.
40 years ago the Mujahids did the same against Soviet Union in Afghanistan. 60 yeas ago, the Viet Kong did the same, but in the jungles of Vietnam.
Guerilla warfare has worked in the long term, especially for those feeling oppressed by a larger foe, for cultural, economic, ethical, moral, and/or religious reasons.
The Viet Cong are not nomadic herdsmen. They were master's of rice cultivation and should have been easily subjugated by the American cowboys, who were literally nomadic herdsmen. 😃😃😃😃😃
@@John77Doe Lol Nomadic Herdsman with a military that make the Chinese look like boys.
I like History like this tells us a lot about our own ways of today in so many ways
A really revealing history and explanation of the evolving and diminishing civilisations that came before us. Thankyou
1:01:10 really incapsulates how terrifying the mongol horde was
Awesome. Freaking can’t wait to get into this; these images are amazing… wow🤩 This subject totally gathers and nails down what you’ve been researching for years!!!✨🙌🏻
You do a great job and have a voice that is easy to listen to. I appreciate that you differentiate between what we know and what we have interpreted and from whose point of view it is from. You are a natural teacher.
If Frye's book is even half as engaging as your videos, it's worth a read. I bookmarked it for Kindle purchase!
Bravo. Standing applause. * Five Explicit Questions:* (Perhaps to be part of another project). Scandinavian raiders came from settlements.
* Why did Scandinavians succumb to barbarism when trading was an option they frequently turned to?
* Were Scandinavians raiding campaigns mostly about survival or warrior culture?
* Had Scandinavians come from warrior cultures from the East - around the Ural Mountains or into deeper the steppes?
* Do Scandinavians have any genealogical connection to the Huns? (I'm thinking, they may have carried a nostalgic loyalty to their roots as warriors, so that raiding had nothing to do with shortages, but was residual to ancestral traditions). So, maybe a Part II, motivations, warrior culture (as you mentioned manhood).
* Finally, when the Mongol Khanate took root, wasn't one of their kings accused of being _too Chinese_, no longer interested in warrior status, Mongolian lifeways? My thinking - Scandinavians feared drifting completely away from pre-settlement traditions.
Thakur Deshraj writes in his book on History of Jats “Jat Itihas” (Hindi) that the country Assyria gets its name from Asiagh gotra Jats. The origin of word Asiagh is from Sanskrit word ‘Asi’ meaning sword. According to Kautilya the people who depended on ‘Asi’ (sword) for their living were known as Asiagh. The Asiaghs moved from Asirgarh in Malwa to Europe. Those who settled in Jangladesh were called Asiagh and those who moved to Scandinavia were known as Asi. Jats entered Scandinavia around 500 BCE and their leader was Odin. James Tod considers Odin to be derived from Buddha or Bodan. The Asi Jats founded Jutland as their homeland in Scandinavia. The religious book of Scandinavia ‘Edda’ mentions that the ancient inhabitants of Scandinavia were Jats or Jits who were Aryans known as Asi people and came to this land from Asirgarh. Asirgarh is a site of an ancient fort situated in Burhanpur district of Malwa region in Madhya Pradesh, India. Thakur Deshraj further quotes Scandinavian writer Mr Count Johnsturn who says that Scandinavians came from India. According to James Tod Scandinavia is derived from Sanskrit word ‘Skandhnabh’. Chaudhary Dhanraj published an article in 'Maharathi' (January 1926) that son of Banasur, Skandh, was defeated by Krishna who moved to Skandnabh.
It is interesting to note, in Icelandic Saga, ancient Teutons separated Asia from Europe by the river Tanakvisl (or Vanakvisl), which flows into the Black Sea. Eastward across the River (in Asia), so legend tells, was a land known as Asaheim or Asaland, where dwelt Odin, chief god, in his citadel named Asgard.[25] However, Aesir and all its forms are related to Sanskrit Asura and Avestan Ahura. This confirms the theory of Thakur Deshraj that the country Assyria gets its name from Asiagh gotra Jats who came from Asirgarh.
@@Hrodwulf9 is there genetic evidence to prove this? That Scandinavians come from India? Because it's more direct evidence, because a lot of what you say is indirect evidence.
@@EdwardOfEastAnglia Silva, M., Oliveira, M., Vieira, D. et al. A genetic chronology for the Indian Subcontinent points to heavily sex-biased dispersals. BMC Evol Biol 17, 88 (2017).
'African and Middle Eastern origins are most apparent among the male genetic lineage, the Y-chromosome. The female lineage, mitochondrial DNA, suggests a large influx of people from Central Asia migrated to India 5,000 years ago.
Researchers believe these Bronze Age migrants were Indo-European speakers who populated the grasslands between the Black and Caspian seas. These male-dominated, roaming pastoralists domesticated the horse and spoke an early iteration of Sanskrit.
Some 200 years ago, linguists showed Sanskrit is related to Greek and Latin. Previous studies have suggested the same population of horse-riders settled Europe. The latest findings suggest Europeans and Indians share a common ancestor.'
It is becoming almost impossible to find information on the earliest Indo-European civilizations because the knowledge of these people is tainted by accusations of white supremacy, which is absolutely laughable in my opinion, nobody looks at the Egyptians history and tries to cover it up. They praise it and are fascinated by it. So just a fair warning that when you look for information on the Scythians, who basically dominated the European continent from the Steppe to all of Europe to Persia, and even India, at around the same time Egypt was a world power, you will be hard pressed to find info that will admit the connection between the Scythian and these early people. They expanded their civilization, and over time developed many different cultures, but for me a single thread running through the timeline is a similar world view, culture, and religion.
@@Hrodwulf9 well, that was an interesting slant. If this is true, in full or in part, how did we end up with the tall, blonde haired blue eyed scandinavians? They don't appear to be from the Indian sub-continent. Also, if that is the correct theory, how do you account for the fact that when they came east to the Eastern Empire, they had to learn entirely new language dialects, with roots in Germanic tongues, in order to trade and to become the Varangian Guards of the Eastern Emperor?
@@andrewgoldman1710 East to which Eastern Empire? of Rome? that would be a much later period, of course, I'm not clear on what you are referring to. Roots in Germanic tongues would mean roots in Sanskrit to my knowledge. Many different tribes branched off, but there is a root culture and a very interesting story to be told about the old Royal Scythians as they are known, probably because of being the oldest and held the original traditions of these tribes. I have no reason to doubt that over a period of thousands of years the various Indo European traditions and religious practice evolved within the scope of their own progression on knowledge and culture, as it is influenced by people they made contact with, while at its best keeping an original idealistic nature. With regards to different looks this can be easily explained by different racial groups mixing over time, I imagine that's not far fetched.
Bro! I had no idea you were a one man army! That’s awesome man! You do a hell of a job
Also, I became a Patreon member @ 5.00 per month but paid the 1 year option. You are so smart to add that option. Not only do I save a bit (sorry but that counts) but I don't have to deal with notifications in my email. Again, love your channels!
This video will be vibrating in my head for a long time. Amazing piece, Thank You!!!
Thank you, and the book has been added to my waiting list ( I had to make a rule saying no more ordering new books until you are reading the last one from the previous order 🙃)
"Barbaian" was a Greek term, inherited by the Romans, from the Greek word for foreigner.
Conan the Tourist?
I think 'barbarian' in great was more literally 'unshaved/with-beard'
@@daongo8994 Conan the unkempt?? Which is it? 😄
I have heard the term meaning "to babble incoherently ". I can't seem to recall where.
@@kevinnickel7529 It's an onomatopoeia for dogs barking, which is what the Greeks said foreign speech sounded like.
I love his shows and history. He's so smart.🎉
i love you man , your stuff is awe inspiring and i've learned more from your channel than in almost 18 years of education or at least it feels that way.
I think it’s pretty awesome that you’re able to do all this by yourself.
I’ve thought of trying to make UA-cam videos about history as well.
Do it. Just do it !!!
Do it, we are in dire need of intellectual you tubers. You heard the man himself telling you...
Just make sure you have good audio
@@josesandoval1440 id rather have good/facual information than good audio. 🤪
@@whidoineedthis No you don't 🤣🤣
The juxtaposition reminded me of a video from the early Seventies by the BBC where this guy, who's name I have unfortunately forgotten, put out the thesis that war came into the world with exactly this polarization which he saw at the root of the legend of Cain and Abel. Ask Mr. Fry whether he was inspired by this old video
@Delereos Sorry, I cannot, but it was a BBC production of the early 70's, and I can recall that he was famous; alas not to me
Thank you Pete Kelly, I love you and all the work you do.💙