Who were the Philistines? (History of the Philistines explained)

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  • @mohammadodeh391
    @mohammadodeh391 3 роки тому +1484

    I met a guy in college in the U.S. one time who looked almost like my little brother. His last name was Ode my last name is Odeh. I came to find out his great grand parent came from southern Greece to South America. I did a little digging and found that my last name Odeh comes from the Greek name Ode. Both my Father and Mother are native Palestinians. It is quite a shock to me now that seeing your video that two peoples who might share the same ancestry. Would meet on another continent in America in class thousands of years later is amazing. Great Video, don’t stop the work. PS I was in U.S. Marines the other guy in college was in the U.S. Navy. “ I guess the sea people’s were strong in us”

    • @seanodwyer8691
      @seanodwyer8691 3 роки тому +40

      Odeh- our family come from the middle off the north island of n.z. deep in the south pacific. My sis was in france and someone there spotted her as a member off the long lost French Royal family. Then I was in Aucklad City and this Gypsy lady from France spoted me and told me my moms ancestors were the French Royal family. I did some investigations and found out that it was true.

    • @Nderitu.G
      @Nderitu.G 3 роки тому

      But aren't you Arab?

    • @Nderitu.G
      @Nderitu.G 3 роки тому +44

      The Philistines were assimilated into the Assyrians and Babylonian empire.

    • @Nderitu.G
      @Nderitu.G 3 роки тому +150

      Modern day Palestinians are just Arabs from Egypt and Syria. The family names are similar.

    • @mohammadodeh391
      @mohammadodeh391 3 роки тому +191

      @@Nderitu.G the modern day Palestinians are the decedents of all the people who have conquered that land or immigrated throughout its history. My Mothers father is who I was named after, had blonde hair and blue eyes. His wife my grandmother brown skin brown eyes was named STAR and her original village before marrying her husband and moving to his village was originally hundreds of year back populated by Hebrews. My ancestors were originally these ancient peoples who populated the land. In time through conquest and assimilation their languages, religions and culture changed. Not to mention all the peoples that fled their lands and came to Palestine for refuge like the Arabian Christians who left Arabia 800 years ago, the Armenian Christian from the Ottoman Turks and other Christian denominations and different religious just to name a few. The myth that the Arab Muslims stormed out of Arabia and killed everything in their path and repopulated all the land with Arabs is pure fantasy. Arab is not a race Arab in the modern context people in the region describe themselves as Arab meaning either either Arab culture or the Arabic language. I hope that helps you better understand. Feel free to ask me anything else and I’ll try my best to respond with what I know. Have a pleasant day.

  • @ErikNilsen1337
    @ErikNilsen1337 3 роки тому +2016

    Another reason some scholars think the Philistines may be Aegean in origin is because of their tradition of settling battles by pitting opposing champions against each other in a duel. Goliath challenging Israel's army to single combat is pretty similar to the one-on-one duels in the Iliad.

    • @rohayeha
      @rohayeha 3 роки тому +18

      The Philistine the correct name as per the Biblical Hebrew being Felesheteyem are Ethiopians who migrated to Israel and got mixed with Eroupean ua-cam.com/video/1iCV2c9l7zw/v-deo.html

    • @TheAlmightyAss
      @TheAlmightyAss 3 роки тому +145

      This is compelling but maybe that was common ancient practice?

    • @lookoutforchris
      @lookoutforchris 3 роки тому +268

      @@rohayeha how could they migrate to Israel if they were there before Israel existed? Your comments are crap.

    • @ErikNilsen1337
      @ErikNilsen1337 3 роки тому +198

      @@TheAlmightyAss Apparently, it wasn't. A lot of biblical commentaries mention that duels between champions were very uncommon in Hebrew and other Near Eastern stories, which makes David and Goliath unusual.
      I'm no biblical scholar -- I just took biblical studies in college and remember reading about this topic, so take it with a grain of salt. However, it was evidently remarkable enough for the experts to take notice.

    • @ai97Nord
      @ai97Nord 3 роки тому +41

      @@rohayeha its not logic philistine and canaanites already exist alongside judea

  • @shanemize3775
    @shanemize3775 3 роки тому +1070

    This is an absolutely OUTSTANDING explanation of the history of the Philistines and of the Levant in general. Extremely balanced, detailed, easy to understand, and enjoyable to follow. Very, very well done!!!

    • @marciabryce1379
      @marciabryce1379 3 роки тому +6

      And the white-washing continues..all BLACK BECAME WHITE..ham still live in Africa and they are black.

    • @goprojoe7449
      @goprojoe7449 3 роки тому +22

      @@marciabryce1379 pathetic

    • @atheodorasurname6936
      @atheodorasurname6936 3 роки тому +18

      This video is one of the best of its kind I've ever seen, detailed yet clear and easy to follow, really interesting, a good learning experience.

    • @louisbarrow4671
      @louisbarrow4671 3 роки тому +3

      I got bit by ants

    • @herbertagard7435
      @herbertagard7435 3 роки тому +3

      Nothing at all

  • @aforrosaline4141
    @aforrosaline4141 3 місяці тому +23

    This ancient history documentary really takes you back in time. Incredible work!

    • @Vionna-q4x
      @Vionna-q4x Місяць тому

      It's not an ancient story, it's a made-up story with disgusting interests.

  • @Eduardo_Ventura
    @Eduardo_Ventura 3 роки тому +270

    Whoever makes this art is VERY GOOD.
    The script is awesome as well.

    • @EpimetheusHistory
      @EpimetheusHistory  3 роки тому +139

      :D I make the art and the script, so thank you very much!

    • @harolddburke4726
      @harolddburke4726 3 роки тому +15

      I agree the art makes it more interesting to watch.

    • @subhamomm5930
      @subhamomm5930 3 роки тому +6

      @@EpimetheusHistory This video is awesome and so much knowledge ful I get various knowledge from this not only from this your all videos are full of the glory of history and wisdom . Your videos are heart touching and it is quite normal that those are win the heart of any one . So according to me your UA-cam channel is best channel on you tube . I subscribed you from 5k because of your that type of great videos and admiring work so I requested you to make a video on Skanderbeg please.

    • @nugentjohn
      @nugentjohn Місяць тому

      *a lot

  • @Ironblood4564
    @Ironblood4564 3 роки тому +349

    Thanks once again for the in-depth break down of another important and (mostly) successful bronze/iron age Civilizations of the region. This period is often glossed over due to the heavy focus on the following Classical Era Empires.

    • @rohayeha
      @rohayeha 3 роки тому +2

      The Philistine the correct name as per the Biblical Hebrew being Felesheteyem are Ethiopians who migrated to Israel and got mixed with Eroupean

    • @J-IFWBR
      @J-IFWBR 3 роки тому +25

      @@rohayeha i think an ethiopian origin can not realy be backed with a lot of evidence from what i have heared their pottery mostly resembles aegean styles.

    • @rohayeha
      @rohayeha 3 роки тому

      @@J-IFWBR what can be used as evidence is the written materials from which you can follow the languages study which really comes first Amharic/Ethiopic or Hebrew and Aramaic

    • @J-IFWBR
      @J-IFWBR 3 роки тому +18

      @@rohayeha can you recomend me a paper or monography on the topic?

    • @absalomdraconis
      @absalomdraconis 3 роки тому +7

      @@rohayeha : Genetic testing of graves doesn't support an Ethiopian origin, but instead an origin from modern France.

  • @zackamor8043
    @zackamor8043 3 роки тому +611

    It would be interestig to have a history of that region all the way till now. You have done such a great job

    • @grahamrankin4725
      @grahamrankin4725 3 роки тому +18

      You may want to watch Pathos History of the Bible series which looks at the archeological evidence.

    • @RingxWorld
      @RingxWorld 3 роки тому +38

      from where the video left off, roman/parthians, then arabs, then crusaders, then turks, then british, then jews

    • @Peteristrate
      @Peteristrate 3 роки тому +11

      @@RingxWorld Yeah, this part is pretty straight forward. And Jews came last but they came as rightful owners and descendants of Canaanites.

    • @rohayeha
      @rohayeha 3 роки тому +6

      The Philistine the correct name as per the Biblical Hebrew is Felesheteyem and they were Ethiopians who migrated to Israel and got mixed with Eroupean

    • @joshuapilling3641
      @joshuapilling3641 3 роки тому +10

      It would be an unfortunately turbulent comments section

  • @samuelowoeye4848
    @samuelowoeye4848 3 місяці тому +9

    The storytelling in this ancient history documentary is top-notch. It really keeps you hooked from start to finish.

  • @Kazuhiroaka
    @Kazuhiroaka 3 роки тому +589

    "Mysterious maritime piratical band of apocalyptic marauders" holy shit that writing is FIRE

    • @absalomdraconis
      @absalomdraconis 3 роки тому +14

      Some of the Sea Peoples (as far as the Rameses record goes, only two out of twelve) are actually identified, but notably _only_ some of them. Those, in turn, seem to have come from fairly far away (I recall that one group was from the north coast of modern Turkey).

    • @markberryhill2715
      @markberryhill2715 3 роки тому +10

      And I thought I could get crazy with the writing! Dang!

    • @dorianphilotheates3769
      @dorianphilotheates3769 3 роки тому +12

      The Philistines of Kaphtor: Traders turned Raiders.

    • @tomsbasement4884
      @tomsbasement4884 3 роки тому +18

      Or as we call them today US Marines

    • @batmansdad4978
      @batmansdad4978 3 роки тому +7

      @@absalomdraconis I've always found it interesting that theres 12 tribes of Israel and 12 Sea People's tribes.

  • @Awibrahor
    @Awibrahor 3 роки тому +69

    This is actually a well-informed and nuanced summary of a complex subject. Bravo.

    • @fadyal-qaisy5213
      @fadyal-qaisy5213 Рік тому

      Palestine was named after the Arab deity Baal, hence Pali-Stan. Phelastin is just the semitic pronunciation of the name. Syria was named after his wife Ashyra/Assyra. The whole region Syria-Palestina.

    • @Bilbs97
      @Bilbs97 18 днів тому

      @@fadyal-qaisy5213funny Baal was worshipped by the Jews. Why do you make up your own history?

  • @daniell1483
    @daniell1483 3 роки тому +381

    I never realized that the Philistines from my Sunday school days had such a storied history. It is interesting to wonder how different history would look if fate was just a little kinder to them. Great video.

    • @nightrunner3701
      @nightrunner3701 3 роки тому +11

      😐😐😐...

    • @billdehappy1
      @billdehappy1 3 роки тому +25

      yeah..cause fate been kinder to jews right? pfft sunday school...

    • @daniell1483
      @daniell1483 3 роки тому +95

      @@billdehappy1 It was never my intention to imply Jewish people haven't been dealt a heavy hand in life. For such an ancient and storied people, they have endured more than they should have had to bear. My prior post is just wondering how different the history may have been.

    • @billdehappy1
      @billdehappy1 3 роки тому +33

      @@daniell1483 fair enough..in such case i might have mistaken you and spoke in haste my apologizes

    • @ai97Nord
      @ai97Nord 3 роки тому

      😔😔😔😔 tragic

  • @chantalnash5615
    @chantalnash5615 Рік тому +23

    Marvellous, simple and clear explanation of a time of history unknown today by the majority. Thank you !

    • @corey1time897
      @corey1time897 4 місяці тому

      Just left out that they came from Hamm in the Bible

    • @VladM-mc6kk
      @VladM-mc6kk 4 місяці тому

      ​@@corey1time897explain that please. Bc I'm a pagan who's gone back and tried to make sense of all this. Reading the Bible...again. and i didn't see where this group of people were created or by who or what the issue was. Kinda seems like most tribes the Bible had issues with...were against the things these so called "chosen ones" were doing.

    • @VladM-mc6kk
      @VladM-mc6kk 4 місяці тому

      ​@@corey1time897I feel like I'm on a Dan Brown adventure with the Abrahamic religions and the quest is leading to the truth about all of this. I have learned one thing I'm absolutely sure about..this has fck all to do with a lot of humans here. This seems to between a few people on this planet. The Christian religion was invented to keep a infinite slave race to whoever this prison realm belongs to. Ain't my God's. I'm going the fck home after I leave here. I came. I watched. I learned. And I'm leaving. My body will NEVER be laid in this world. My instructions are clear....send me out like my ancestors. Do not trap my body on this land.

    • @corey1time897
      @corey1time897 4 місяці тому

      @VladM-mc6kk The original philistine people were from hamm, that's who fought with King David.... Arabs are from Ishmael....

    • @VladM-mc6kk
      @VladM-mc6kk 4 місяці тому

      @@corey1time897 aaand according to yalls book, that's the same family. Basically cousins fighting cousins? They weren't bad guys.

  • @bohemianwriter1
    @bohemianwriter1 3 роки тому +557

    A historical background history lesson cleansed for biases, myths or political agendas in these volatile times is a breath of fresh air in these interesting times,
    And needed.
    One of the best so far,.

    • @OrochiCr
      @OrochiCr 3 роки тому +29

      It is not that hard when you talk about people who lived 3000 years ago. Talking history of XVIII, XIX and XX century without biases... that is impossible. Maybe in 1000 years, an Ephitemus descendant can talk to people about the history of these centuries without bias.

    • @yucol5661
      @yucol5661 3 роки тому +47

      @@OrochiCr i mean. Take the movie 300. That was biased towards painting the Spartans as good guys and the Persians as a country of debauchery and blood lust. Even the telling of the oldest stories can be affected by modern politics or religion. But this video was great

    • @PaulTheSkeptic
      @PaulTheSkeptic 3 роки тому +2

      Agreed. It's quite a good breakdown.

    • @zombieat
      @zombieat 3 роки тому +11

      @@yucol5661 the persians were the inviders. there is no argument against that.

    • @ecurewitz
      @ecurewitz 3 роки тому

      agreed

  • @earltaylor1893
    @earltaylor1893 3 роки тому +58

    Simply epic. Thank you for this in depth history. Certainly not something you’d get in a classroom. Also, it would take months for me to read all of this in books. You made it possible for me to learn more about the Philistines than I would ever have time to learn on my own.

    • @X47_p
      @X47_p 2 роки тому +2

      Learning about the current Palestinians is very difficult because of the political problems

    • @fadyal-qaisy5213
      @fadyal-qaisy5213 Рік тому +2

      Palestine was named after the Arab deity Baal, hence Pali-Stan. Phelastin is just the semitic pronunciation of the name. Syria was named after his wife Ashyra/Assyra. The whole region Syria-Palestina.

    • @JeninJen1n
      @JeninJen1n 2 місяці тому

      ​@@fadyal-qaisy5213lol

  • @paulstephensia1412
    @paulstephensia1412 3 роки тому +88

    Epimetheus never fails and always surpasses my expectations, I love the way he makes history amazingly interesting to most people I am a history lover myself but the way he does things are beyond mine always glad to watch his videos.

  • @andreipop9587
    @andreipop9587 Рік тому +140

    The patterns the philistines follow sound eerily similar to what the Normans experienced. A sea faring group of warrior pirates that were defeated by the local leadership and then offered land in a buffer zone, where they mingled with the locals. The Normans, within one generation or so, switched from their Viking traditions to Christianity and from speaking their native Norse tongue to speaking the French dialect of the time. So, it's not that far-fetched to claim that the Philistines underwent a similar process of cultural integration.

    • @SonoftheAllfather
      @SonoftheAllfather Рік тому +6

      That's an interesting thought, but in reality, the Peleset were likely indigenous to Southern Canaan. The Egyptians defeated them (and several other allied groups) at the Battle of the Delta, but also fought a major land battle against them three years earlier in Djahy, which is essentially the homeland of the Philistines. Djahy is the Egyptian word for southern Retjenu, the latter being the Egyptian word for Canaan.

    • @michaelsalmon9832
      @michaelsalmon9832 Рік тому +6

      The Normans, and the Swedish Rus becoming the Slavic Rus

    • @toniaelkhayyat1507
      @toniaelkhayyat1507 7 місяців тому

      Yes

    • @DarkRockslizer
      @DarkRockslizer 6 місяців тому +8

      @@SonoftheAllfather We don't have to guess anymore because Smithsonian institute did a huge DNA analysis of the Philistine burials. They arrived at Canaan around 1100 BC and were initially Greek and Italian and not of local Middle Eastern descent at all - but after a few centuries intermarried with locals and disappeared as a separate culture.

    • @SonoftheAllfather
      @SonoftheAllfather 6 місяців тому +5

      @@DarkRockslizer
      Have you actually read that study or looked into who funded it?
      I'm asking because after I did, I couldn't believe how the researchers made the conclusions they did from the evidence they obtained.
      The study revealed an influx of southern European genetics that loosely corresponds with the Phoenician Rennasaince period (1200-800 BCE). At its peak, the admixture was 14%, and then it dissipated into the local population. So, at no time were the Philistines any less than ~86% indigenous Levantine, and by the end of the Late Iron Age, the admixture was

  • @FerasLab
    @FerasLab 3 роки тому +10

    Grate video and description of events as usual. Love how you mention different narrative or documentation of the history and weight them and see which makes more sense to be more accurate.
    Thanks again

  • @santanGIO
    @santanGIO 3 роки тому +672

    "bae wake up, epimetheus just dropped a new video"

    • @Yellow.1844
      @Yellow.1844 3 роки тому +18

      Based

    • @Phowok
      @Phowok 3 роки тому +5

      @@Yellow.1844 based on what?

    • @spoffy_9243
      @spoffy_9243 3 роки тому +4

      @@Phowok based

    • @ajax54
      @ajax54 3 роки тому +1

      @@Phowok yes

    • @monk9948
      @monk9948 3 роки тому +3

      Based af

  • @valerielyda6414
    @valerielyda6414 2 роки тому +14

    Fascinating presentation that clarified a long held mystery about Philistines interconnection with Phoenicians and it is just use of alternate language. Understanding the Levant and proliferation of amalgamating city states helps understanding the eventual separation of Israel and Judah. You are a very illuminating instructor and also enjoyed your illustrations!

  • @PSIRockOmega
    @PSIRockOmega 3 роки тому +148

    Thanks for covering the Philistines. I've never heard a full account of their history before now!

    • @markberryhill2715
      @markberryhill2715 3 роки тому +2

      Keep searching. They're all over the internet now. Trending topic.

    • @cecil123
      @cecil123 3 роки тому +39

      @@markberryhill2715 He means actual Philistines. Not Arabs larping as Philistines.

    • @royssche
      @royssche 3 роки тому +50

      @@cecil123 the "actual philistines" adopt new identity as an Arab, just like mesopotamian and Egyptian.

    • @cecil123
      @cecil123 3 роки тому +32

      @@royssche No, the Philistines died off long before the Arab colonial invasion of Jerusalem. About 1200 years before.

    • @aap9167
      @aap9167 3 роки тому +25

      @@cecil123 how convenient !

  • @demeterruinedmylife3199
    @demeterruinedmylife3199 3 роки тому +72

    I’ve been longing for someone to explain the Aegean connection of Philistines comprehensively, and this video did really well on that.

  • @mercianthane2503
    @mercianthane2503 3 роки тому +71

    By the way, from one artist to another... HOW THE HELL YOU DETAIL YOUR MAPS SO BEAUTIFUL? Teach me, sensei.

    • @ThxGod_ItsOver
      @ThxGod_ItsOver 3 роки тому +1

      GENESIS CH. ONE VS. TWENTY-SIX - TWENTY-SEVEN KJV = OUR IMAGE, GENESIS CH. TWO VS. SEVEN KJV = MAN BECAME A LIVING SOUL, GENESIS CH.TWO VS. ELEVEN - FIFTEEN KJV = AFRICAN NATION; GENESIS CH. ELEVEN VS. ONEKJV = ONE LANGUAGE; GENESIS CH. NINE VS. ONE KJV = NOAH, GENESIS CH. NINE VS.EIGHTEEN KJV = SHEM, HAM JAPHETH = NOAHS SONS. HAM IS THE FATHER OF CANAAN, GENESIS CH. TEN VS.ONE, SIX, FIFETEEN, EIGHTEEN, NINETEEN, THIRTY-TWO KJV = NATIONS DIVIDED. GENESIS CH. ELEVEN VS.ONE KJV = ONE LANGUAGE AND ONE SPEECH; GENESIS CH. ELEVEN VS.EIGHT, NINE KJV = SCATTER AMONG THE EARTH, GENESIS CH. ELEVEN VS.TWENTY-TWO -, NAHOR BEGET TERAH VS. TWENTY FOUR; TERAH BEGET ABRAM, NAHOR, HARAN VS TWENTY -SIX; THIRTY-ONE = LAND OF HARAN; GENESIS CH. TWELVE VS. ONE THROUGH FOUR KJV = PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO VS THREE; ABRAM DEPART FROM HARAN; VS FIVE = IN CANAAN; VS. SEVEN = THY SEED; VS. EIGHT = BETHEL; VS. TEN = EGYPT; GENESIS CH.THIRTEEN VS.FOURTEEN THROUGH SEVENTEEN KJV = N/E/S/W = AFRICAN NATION!!!! SO WHY ARE THESE CHARACTERS LOOKING LIKE THEY ARE NOT IN AFRICAN NATIONS??

    • @customsongmaker
      @customsongmaker 3 роки тому +11

      @@ThxGod_ItsOver - is it important for you to believe that all ancient slave owners were black?

    • @Lauren-vd4qe
      @Lauren-vd4qe 8 місяців тому +1

      you go to any elementary school and ask the grade 6ers art class to draw them.

  • @dominicfelixgbordoe3657
    @dominicfelixgbordoe3657 4 місяці тому +2

    I was hooked from start to finish. This ancient history documentary makes learning about the past so exciting

  • @RodrigoMera
    @RodrigoMera 3 роки тому +8

    I love the maps with colored regions and the illustrations... Outstanding the amount of work you put into these. Instant follow.

  • @kingmalcolm9605
    @kingmalcolm9605 3 роки тому +6

    I wasnt even 5 seconds into this video and hit the like button. That's how much I dig your channel.

  • @joshuapilling3641
    @joshuapilling3641 3 роки тому +12

    I love how much care you take in explaining context, great video!

  • @aamirk345
    @aamirk345 4 місяці тому +2

    This is a good video on history and the reasons are: 1) It is not very long but very comprehensive and well-researched 2) It has the most maps I have seen. Other videos are good but lack maps. Maps are key here. Folks need maps to visualize 3) Good narration i.e good voice, tone, pace etc. A pleasure to watch, again and again. Well done.

  • @randymccracken2722
    @randymccracken2722 2 роки тому +12

    Excellent presentation. Well researched! I'll recommend this video to my students. Thank you!

  • @rhubenthera3p
    @rhubenthera3p 2 роки тому +25

    Just chanced upon this video.
    Such a difficult subject, explained so thoroughly. Simply amazing indeed! The presentation, the art too is incredible! Thank u !🙏

  • @CivilWarWeekByWeek
    @CivilWarWeekByWeek 3 роки тому +319

    Judging from the thumbnail, people with funny hats

    • @robertstone9988
      @robertstone9988 3 роки тому +53

      They wear those so they can sweep the ceiling

    • @nothingtoseeheremovealong598
      @nothingtoseeheremovealong598 3 роки тому +39

      People of the past were pretty fond of fancy hats

    • @robertstone9988
      @robertstone9988 3 роки тому +30

      @@nothingtoseeheremovealong598 you judge a man by the fanciness of his hat

    • @rohayeha
      @rohayeha 3 роки тому +1

      The Philistine the correct name as per the Biblical Hebrew being Felesheteyem are Ethiopians who migrated to Israel and got mixed with Eroupean ua-cam.com/video/1iCV2c9l7zw/v-deo.html

    • @lookoutforchris
      @lookoutforchris 3 роки тому +7

      Culture is hats.

  • @apostolicinthishour
    @apostolicinthishour Рік тому +5

    These are great videos! Thank you for doing them. And your voice is perfect for it. Great job!

  • @Unknown-jt1jo
    @Unknown-jt1jo 2 роки тому +28

    I really like your detailed geographic maps. It's nice to see which rivers flow into the Dead Sea, etc.

  • @pablolongobardi7240
    @pablolongobardi7240 3 роки тому +55

    For everything that i understand, iron weapons would not give you so much of an edge against bronze weapons, at least not in small quantities. Although iron is slightly better in terms of durability, the main advantage is ease of access.

    • @pablolongobardi7240
      @pablolongobardi7240 3 роки тому +2

      Btw... great video as usual!

    • @SvenElven
      @SvenElven 3 роки тому +22

      Early iron was very hit or miss. An inferior piece could be very brittle and rust overnight. Once the smelting technology matured, huge amounts could be produced cheaply because of the availabilty of iron ore compared to copper and tin. This made it possible to equip armies on a much larger scale with metal weapons.
      So it’s not so much that a soldier with iron weapons and armor would have a huge advantage against a soldier equipped with bronze. More that once iron could be produced reliably on a large scale, there was really no need to keep producing the more expensive bronze war equipment.

    • @pablolongobardi7240
      @pablolongobardi7240 3 роки тому +8

      @@SvenElven exactly, that's why, although I think it's interesting the philistines had iron tipped spears, I believe the advantage that would have provided is probably minimal... However, a tiny bit of extra hardness, specially in a piercing weapon, might have been an edege in armour penetration

    • @FerasLab
      @FerasLab 3 роки тому +1

      @@pablolongobardi7240 I believe the whole collapse of bronze age was because of iron weapons. Sea people were able to defeat all major powers in the old world blundering and bankrupting them which lead after some time and domino effect to the collapse.

    • @pablolongobardi7240
      @pablolongobardi7240 3 роки тому +4

      @@FerasLab the way I see it, iron "popularized" weaponry, and made it available for the masses, without the need of a functioning central government to ensure the supply of the super scarce tin. I don't think iron is such a great advantage by itself, like @Sven-Arne Skarvik said. In a battle between 2 equal armies, the fact that one has iron weapons and the other bronze, would be a rather minor point, specially, like @Sven-Arne Skarvik said, iron of this time was probably of very bad quality.

  • @diegoversus1
    @diegoversus1 3 роки тому +11

    I'm gonna be honest. I just love your channel! Keep up with the great videos and thank you for the massive amount of effort you it obviously takes you.

  • @adinacohen3675
    @adinacohen3675 Рік тому +5

    Fantastic history video! Thank you for putting it out there

    • @senatorjosephmccarthy2720
      @senatorjosephmccarthy2720 8 місяців тому

      I notice histories are a continual series of wars and more wars.
      Mankind is medically insane. The heart of man is deceitful above all things and
      desperately wicked..
      Jeremiah 17: 9.

  • @HistoryOfRevolutions
    @HistoryOfRevolutions 3 роки тому +50

    Aristotle once stated:
    "History describes what has happened, poetry what might. Hence poetry is something more philosophic and serious than history; for poetry speaks of what is universal, history of what is particular"

    • @khaledhussain123
      @khaledhussain123 3 роки тому +1

      Quran is in perfect poetry

    • @Stephen-vq1wc
      @Stephen-vq1wc 3 роки тому +4

      @@khaledhussain123 I agree but I think being arab islamist not good thing. Brother don't forget messopotami might and your involvement in creating great civilization. Islam is not only important part of your history.

    • @yaqo6577
      @yaqo6577 3 роки тому +1

      @@Stephen-vq1wc Mesopotamian history doesn't belong to Arab Muslims. Even the Mandeans in the South cluster genetically with northern assyrians. You don't get to claim a heritage that Muslims kill us for protecting

    • @Stephen-vq1wc
      @Stephen-vq1wc 3 роки тому

      @@yaqo6577 Iraqi aren't arabs. They are arabized descendants of messopotamians.

    • @Stephen-vq1wc
      @Stephen-vq1wc 3 роки тому

      @@yaqo6577 like levant arabized population syrians.

  • @DrinkingStar
    @DrinkingStar 3 роки тому +8

    Excellent overview. Thanks for this historical coverage very often ignored or just mentioned as a footnote of that time.

  • @johnlloydaleta206
    @johnlloydaleta206 3 роки тому +67

    Me not reading the title: Well, we are an island-nation in Southeast Asia and we--

    • @reneabrea4123
      @reneabrea4123 3 роки тому +1

      dont mention ophir...that a crazy fanatics marcos fanatics believers imposible dream.

    • @theaterofsouls
      @theaterofsouls 3 роки тому

      hahahha

    • @LickyTee
      @LickyTee 2 місяці тому

      😂 Philippines

  • @MARPSTE
    @MARPSTE Рік тому +2

    Great job with the video! I never knew about the origins of the Philistines until this video

  • @KTChamberlain
    @KTChamberlain 3 роки тому +32

    I would like to see Epimetheus cover Sulla's Civil Wars because they don't get nearly as much attention as Caesar's Civil Wars, which in many respects was like the rematch to Sulla's Civil War.

    • @HighPriestFuneral
      @HighPriestFuneral 3 роки тому +1

      Ah yeah, Sulla's time is a mess of moving pieces. I would love to have more of that broken down as well.

    • @aussiemilitant4486
      @aussiemilitant4486 3 роки тому +2

      ua-cam.com/channels/v_vLHiWVBh_FR9vbeuiY-A.html
      Historia Civilis is great for Roman content.

    • @KTChamberlain
      @KTChamberlain 3 роки тому

      @@aussiemilitant4486 I know, but he has yet to cover Sulla's Civil Wars. Right now, he's nearing the end of Octavian's Civil Wars.

  • @HarJBeRw
    @HarJBeRw 3 роки тому +22

    Honestly, I think this was one of the (if not *the* ) best-made videos you've produced. And on a topic that is not inherently more interesting than others you've covered previously at that! It's a sign you continue improving in your writing, your structure, and your story-telling - very impressed and looking forward to whatever comes next :D

    • @annnaj7181
      @annnaj7181 Рік тому

      Absolutely false information lol, other lies from jews. It is written in the Bible and ancient mosaic maps clearly indicate that the Philistines lived beside the Jordan River, from the east and parts of the west, even extending to the southern region of the river in what is now called Petra. which means all the region from the far north of the river Jordan to the south, Please stop lying it's pathetic.

  • @mjwells100
    @mjwells100 3 роки тому +11

    Thank you for this wonderfully researched and presented information on how and where the Philistines originated-especially learning how many changes occurred (and convoluted it seems to have gone through) before it evolved! I enjoyed it very much.

  • @galaxysmp8163
    @galaxysmp8163 3 роки тому +65

    16:40 or they could have just syncretized their gods with the local ones. Dagon seems pretty similar to Mycenaean Poseidon who seems to have been more important than Zeus in the Bronze Age.

    • @MrRabiddogg
      @MrRabiddogg 3 роки тому +10

      A Sea people would have considered the God of the Sea as most important for obvious reasons. You are correct in that folks in that era tended to merge their Pantheons and tried to identify which god was the same as their god. Many of them, in my understanding believed, that the Gods were all the same but different cultures called them different things. Most of the PIE for example have an etymological variation of Zeus as their chief God.

    • @donaldseigel4101
      @donaldseigel4101 3 роки тому +1

      Very true, good examples are the Greek city states in Asia Minor, and in Ptolemaic Egypt the Greeks often adopted local Gods.

    • @shafqatishan437
      @shafqatishan437 3 роки тому +1

      Dagon is demon. It has a similar symbol to eye of Hourus.

    • @patriciayarber3356
      @patriciayarber3356 2 роки тому +4

      Didn't Sampson destroyed the temple of Dagon a false god?

    • @galaxysmp8163
      @galaxysmp8163 2 роки тому

      @@patriciayarber3356 true. But wasn’t Yahweh’s temple looted by the champions of Ashur and then destroyed by the champions of Marduk, rebuilt on orders of the champion of Ahura Mazda and destroyed again by champions of idk which god particularly but I guess it would be Jupiter, Mars or the previous emperor who was deified. So if wrecked temples indicate a false god Sampson’s god hasn’t a leg to stand on.

  • @TheMarco1530
    @TheMarco1530 2 роки тому +6

    Super informative, explanatory and entertaining. Thank you very much.

    • @benjaminom8045
      @benjaminom8045 9 місяців тому

      Missing tons of important information like Ahahab from Bitomri and Yerovam. Also missing is the fact the right name is Plishtim and it means intruders in the biblical language. Another mistake is the Hebrew Stele Amarnaphtach said Israel people and not foreigners. I think he made a lot of historical and archeological mistakes. Better to read archeological books

  • @TitanV
    @TitanV 3 роки тому +10

    Only channel besides Epimetheus that puts this level of effort is Historia Civilis. I thank you, Sir.

  • @intuitmusicgroup
    @intuitmusicgroup Рік тому +1

    Thanks!

  • @tomaskadlicek5926
    @tomaskadlicek5926 3 роки тому +5

    Great video. This really linked many things together. Please continue in good work!

  • @peacesports123
    @peacesports123 2 роки тому +8

    Awesome explanation. Thanks for sharing. God bless you 👏👍

  • @GaryDeeks
    @GaryDeeks 3 роки тому +72

    Fantastic work, as usual. Hope you'll cover the history of the Celts, when you'll get the chance to.

    • @rohayeha
      @rohayeha 3 роки тому +1

      The Philistine the correct name as per the Biblical Hebrew being Felesheteyem are Ethiopians who migrated to Israel and got mixed with Eroupean

    • @joshuapilling3641
      @joshuapilling3641 3 роки тому +1

      Kings and generals is doing a series on them if you're interested

    • @joshuapilling3641
      @joshuapilling3641 3 роки тому +2

      @@ThxGod_ItsOver get a life

    • @joshuapilling3641
      @joshuapilling3641 3 роки тому +2

      @@ThxGod_ItsOver wow, still can't find your life can you, want any help?

    • @ThxGod_ItsOver
      @ThxGod_ItsOver 3 роки тому

      @@joshuapilling3641 wow, still can't find your life can you, want any help? SATANIST YOU HAVE KNOW LIFE WITH YOUR LYING BEHIND! JOHN 8:44KJV! ISAIAH 11:11-12KJV = ISRAELITES
      KEEP LYING THOUGH WHY?? HELL IS REAL LUKE 16:19-31KJV!

  • @ashrafali-sb5zr
    @ashrafali-sb5zr Місяць тому +1

    This is more than just a video-it’s an entire historical experience!

  • @rutothechaser6146
    @rutothechaser6146 3 роки тому +16

    Your content is always fascinating. I rarely see content on this kind of thing.

  • @GabrielEddy
    @GabrielEddy 3 роки тому +7

    Outstanding mini-documentary! Thank you!

  • @mjfleming319
    @mjfleming319 3 роки тому +5

    Wow, this was impressive in so many ways. I am subscribing immediately.

  • @ahmadbenhachem2750
    @ahmadbenhachem2750 4 місяці тому +1

    Just finished watching this ancient history documentary of Philistines, and it’s a masterpiece. Highly recommend it!

  • @Verdandeify
    @Verdandeify 3 роки тому +4

    Informative, entertaining, and well presented. Damn, I love this channel. Keep up the good work, brother!

  • @rivkaruthgolan
    @rivkaruthgolan 3 роки тому +6

    The only long video on history I've watched until the end in one sitting.

  • @reverseunocard1807
    @reverseunocard1807 3 роки тому +202

    The Philistines had so much history but my religious teacher told us that they were just the bad guys

    • @lawindacera7219
      @lawindacera7219 3 роки тому +25

      How slaves does the Prophet he-who-we-can't-draw again?

    • @arifhossain9751
      @arifhossain9751 3 роки тому +90

      @@lawindacera7219
      The funniest thing about your comment is that you guys depict your god as a white man while he was most definitely an Arab just like our Prophet was. And you wonder why we discourage drawing him...

    • @diegoragot655
      @diegoragot655 3 роки тому +5

      @Samir Disco why?? Isn't that the same thing people teach about the Yaatzes of ww2 and the Sovi3ts??

    • @eodyn7
      @eodyn7 3 роки тому +23

      @MB A brief study of history will tell you why non Muslims hate Muslims.

    • @arifhossain9751
      @arifhossain9751 3 роки тому +43

      @Youssef S.
      And where do Jewish people originate, pray tell?
      Seperating Jews from the rest of the Arabs is how we got to this damnable conflict in the first place.

  • @aztecgoldmontizuma
    @aztecgoldmontizuma Рік тому +2

    This is so cool, I hadn’t heard of this connection to the sea peoples. Good show 👍

  • @Anonymouse166
    @Anonymouse166 3 роки тому +78

    Sadly, the history of the East Mediterranean has been greatly politicized and whole groups are labeled as good people or bad people. Thank you for your super interesting way of recounting history.
    I don’t think I blinked the whole presentation 😆

    • @CorgiCorner
      @CorgiCorner 2 роки тому +8

      Welcome to earth

    • @clonecommanderrex8542
      @clonecommanderrex8542 Рік тому +8

      Well that's human tribalism.

    • @unistavanjesquarediagonal2687
      @unistavanjesquarediagonal2687 Рік тому

      Israel is bad cause they want to expunge or exterminate the Muslims

    • @TheFlipshitz
      @TheFlipshitz 3 місяці тому

      they were pagans who worshipped all kinds of crazy gods made all kinds of crazy sacrifices and behaved like savages. the hebrews civilized the region

  • @freelow3266
    @freelow3266 3 роки тому +6

    I love your documentary. You give such good vibes.

  • @kevincastillomorales4858
    @kevincastillomorales4858 3 роки тому +16

    Will you ever do videos about meso-American civizliations? Or Chinese empires and Asian civilizations in general?

  • @1amjapan
    @1amjapan Рік тому +1

    That was exactly what I was looking for, thank you. Subscribed.

  • @motoross9237
    @motoross9237 3 роки тому +69

    “A large fellow of gath” is an understatement.

    • @jaytrace1006
      @jaytrace1006 3 роки тому +2

      He was a big’un...

    • @motoross9237
      @motoross9237 3 роки тому +4

      @@jaytrace1006 I have a poem for y’all that I wrote yesterday:
      Many rugged warriors march across their burning countryside. Their journey of late wears upon each soldier like a stone below a thunderous waterfall. Grass bends beneath the winds and fire rushes within. The mens’ strong eyes are hosted by exhaustion. Heavy hands are worn to the bone by blisters from battle. Staggering heaving helmets not held high are yet gleaming with a horrid red glare. From foot to brim and cheek to cheek, the blood of their foe and friend they reek. Hoping for an answer to the cost of what’s been lost, they scale the mountains from week to week.

    • @grot777
      @grot777 3 роки тому +1

      @@motoross9237 awesome 👌

    • @motoross9237
      @motoross9237 3 роки тому +1

      @@grot777 thank you 😊

    • @MRj0hnny5
      @MRj0hnny5 3 роки тому +1

      Realistically Goliath was around 6'4. There's no physically possible way Goliath was a towering giant, the human body can't do it. Robert Wadlow is the tallest recorded man standing at 8'11, he could barely walk, he was always short of breath, and he had tons of heart issues. Yet people think that Goliath was somehow in the 9+ feet range AND be an incredible warrior. If we base how the human body is when it gets to Robert Wadlow, Goliath wouldn't have been able to fight at all because his body would just give out. What's most likely happened about Goliath's height is that over the thousands of years the story has been embellished, especially since for hundreds of years these stories weren't written down but told verbally. If you've ever played the game telephone, you should know how easy it is for people to muddy details. Your king defeating a guy who's 9 feet tall is a lot more of an exciting story than your king fighting a guy who's just 'pretty tall'.
      Humans love embellishing height since we think height means power or strength. Even in modern history we do this. George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were both pretty tall guys for the time, George being 6'2 and Lincoln being 6'4. In many depictions of the two Presidents they're made to look taller than most. Reverse all this with Napoleon, he was average height but British propaganda pushed an idea that he was incredibly short. This creating the 'Napoleon Complex'.

  • @lookoutforchris
    @lookoutforchris 3 роки тому +277

    Sea peoples sound like mad max but with boats.

    • @lmonk9517
      @lmonk9517 3 роки тому +36

      so basically Waterworld?

    • @jocktheripper2073
      @jocktheripper2073 3 роки тому +10

      Kevin Costner had to fund Waterworld somehow.

    • @markberryhill2715
      @markberryhill2715 3 роки тому +7

      Them damn Carthaginians knew how to use elephants!

    • @melelconquistador
      @melelconquistador 3 роки тому +5

      The smokers in waterworld

    • @ecurewitz
      @ecurewitz 3 роки тому +8

      well, yeah, they were Bronze Age post apocalyptic warriors

  • @Grasshopper567
    @Grasshopper567 3 роки тому +22

    You forgot to mention that PLS(peleset/philistines) isn't their native group name but a name given to them by the natives that means 'invaders'.

    • @ObingNNgpk
      @ObingNNgpk 3 роки тому +3

      He won't mention it... because he don't want to ..... And you know why ...

    • @Batman-jm7np
      @Batman-jm7np 3 роки тому +1

      @@ObingNNgpk its funny how Moses was never mentioned either. 12 bce lol? Didn't moses crossed the red sea at 15bce. Lol if rameses 3 was around 12 bce that means he was 2000 years old. Moses was rameses 3 adopted brother. All this just to convince that the entire land belongs to the Palestinians. Moses came around 15 bce and that is correct that the philitine people came during 12bce. He said none agean influence but DNA stated of bodies discovered of the philitines people to be exact of cannites, Sarina, Iberian and greek orgins.

    • @Grasshopper567
      @Grasshopper567 3 роки тому +2

      @@ObingNNgpk But we're talking about history, not politics. We have to be objective in the pursuit of true historical facts. If we want to undersand the history of the philistines then we have to aknowlage this piece of the puzzle. Bending to one's emotions distorts reality and is a one way street to confusion and more unanswered questions.

    • @brightwinismylife3952
      @brightwinismylife3952 3 роки тому +2

      Peleset is not equal to Philistines

    • @osman7240
      @osman7240 3 роки тому

      @@Batman-jm7np watch sheikh imran hosein on Jerusalem and jews and muslims

  • @dialloabdoulalay3190
    @dialloabdoulalay3190 Місяць тому

    Fascinating to learn about the Philistines! They were so much more than just the rivals of ancient Israel - their influence on the history of the Levant and Mediterranean is incredible. From their origins to their cultural impact and complex interactions with surrounding civilizations, it’s clear that the Philistines played a critical role in shaping the region's history. This history documentary does a fantastic job shedding light on the unique culture, advanced craftsmanship, and strategic importance of the Philistine cities. It’s amazing to see how archaeology continues to unravel the mysteries of these ancient people!

  • @mohamedhoosain6266
    @mohamedhoosain6266 2 роки тому +10

    Hi , I like your videos on the Philistines and other peoples as well as the other historical stuff . I'd like some more videos on the Ottomans, Seljuks , Khwarezmids , Mongols , Abbasids , Romans , a little bit info on the origin of the modern Palestinian people , on the Israelites , Arabian history like Himyarites , Sabeans , Nabateans e.t.c. and on the Mali Empire , Songhai Empire and maybe a bit more on African history. Also maybe a bit more on Indian history ,the Indo Aryans , Native Americans and Vikings

  • @Dale_The_Space_Wizard
    @Dale_The_Space_Wizard 3 роки тому +142

    Can we please see the happy pig in future videos? He's cute.

    • @theq6797
      @theq6797 3 роки тому

      Sorry, I had to when you referenced the happy pig: Blood for the Blood God.

    • @ecurewitz
      @ecurewitz 3 роки тому +3

      he was happy until he became bacon

    • @crazysilly2914
      @crazysilly2914 3 роки тому +3

      The reason pork is forbidden in the Old Testament/Torah is because God didn’t want the Hebrews associating with the philistines, since the philistines introduced pigs, and pigs were *_NOT_* native to the levant before that?
      Of course, when that rule was made, it was before the Philistines arrived and introduced pigs.
      That’s why the rule doesn’t _specifically_ mention pigs, only animals in general that meat a certain characteristic, because if pigs had been mentioned by name, nobody would have known what they were at the time(until the philistines introduced them later on…).

  • @talknight2
    @talknight2 3 роки тому +45

    I have been to the actual museum of Philistine Archaeology in Ashdod and I approve this video :D

    • @meyergaelle8108
      @meyergaelle8108 Рік тому +1

      So the palistinian pf today are not real palistinian??

    • @mr.biscuits2160
      @mr.biscuits2160 Рік тому +7

      ​@@meyergaelle8108 Nope, those are greeks

    • @fadyal-qaisy5213
      @fadyal-qaisy5213 Рік тому

      @@mr.biscuits2160 Not true, g-d called it Palestine in Joel 3:4. Palestine was named after the Arab deity Baal, hence Pali-Stan. Phelastin is just the semitic pronunciation of the name. Syria was named after his wife Ashyra/Assyra. The whole region Syria-Palestina.

    • @chronikhiles
      @chronikhiles Рік тому +9

      Fadyal, stop spreading your uncited BS.

    • @zeyadghanim8271
      @zeyadghanim8271 Місяць тому

      ​@@mr.biscuits2160have you even watched the video lol

  • @VladTevez
    @VladTevez 3 роки тому +22

    Α video about Cyprus would be interesting, from the unified realm of Alashiya to the Mycenean and Phoenician city-states

  • @RockinDbop1
    @RockinDbop1 3 роки тому +4

    Epimetheus, thanks for another great video...maybe its just me but i think itd be super helpful to incorporate some kind of timeline in these videos

  • @timebank1949
    @timebank1949 3 роки тому +6

    Thank you for your great work and all the information summarized in 24 minutes
    EDIT: you got a new subscriber today 👍

  • @BenjaminISmith
    @BenjaminISmith Рік тому +31

    I've only ever heard of the philistines in a biblical context, so to hear someone talk about them like they're actual people, not just evil from whom to take land from is so refreshing

    • @fadyal-qaisy5213
      @fadyal-qaisy5213 Рік тому +1

      Palestine was named after the Arab deity Baal, hence Pali-Stan. Phelastin is just the semitic pronunciation of the name. Syria was named after his wife Ashyra/Assyra. The whole region Syria-Palestina.

    • @tamie2714
      @tamie2714 Рік тому +1

      Then go and live in Palestine. See and feel the truth for yourself .

    • @Ahmad-oh6ic
      @Ahmad-oh6ic Рік тому +3

      ​@@fadyal-qaisy5213Palestine was named by roman empire

    • @fadyal-qaisy5213
      @fadyal-qaisy5213 Рік тому +2

      @@Ahmad-oh6ic the name preceded the Roman empire. Herodotus called it Palestine before Rome became an empire

    • @omarosman7084
      @omarosman7084 Рік тому +1

      ​@@fadyal-qaisy5213and philistine/canaan were actually pheonocians, hence the purple dyed clothes, baal is a pheonocian god son of EL (later named elohim, elah, allah, meaning the one above all). Anyway genetics revealed that lebanese/syrian/ and palestinians have major genetic ancestry related to pheonocians, some scientist even theorized that the Jews were nothing but a pheonocian tribe who got united and advocated the worship of EL (Yahweh, some accounts say Yahweh was son of EL and then the two were basically combined and used interchangeably, ehem ehem jesus and Christianity) anyway long story short, judaism was created to unite multiple pheonocian tribes and waged war against other tribes and controlled the land. Palestinians arabs and jews are still related to these ancient people, while Ashkenazi jews (they should be call AshkeNazis) aren't and are mostly european.

  • @AncientInsights1
    @AncientInsights1 3 роки тому +5

    Good video... Why are the Philistines considered uncouth Barbarians? Is only due to their biblical description?
    I'm currently working on a video about the "fall of Gath due to the conquest by Hazael forces about 2800 years ago, but discovered that the Philistines are not necessarily bad people.

    • @MegaKikeGasGas
      @MegaKikeGasGas Рік тому

      Samson killed 1000 PHILISTINES.. that says it all..

  • @freelow3266
    @freelow3266 3 роки тому +11

    Can you make a part two explaining what happened past BC era. Everyone would love to see it.

    • @mumbullz3480
      @mumbullz3480 3 роки тому +2

      Basically (Romans - Arabs - Crusaders - Arabs - Huns - Arabs - Brits -Modern situation) this particular spit of land and the peoples who inhabit it was and still is unfortunate

    • @Chronos4088
      @Chronos4088 3 роки тому +5

      @@mumbullz3480 Turks aren't arabs. They belong to a different group.

    • @mumbullz3480
      @mumbullz3480 3 роки тому +5

      @@Chronos4088 true in fairness all the ''Arabs'' I listed should be replaced with Islamic Caliphates since they always consisted of a mix of different peoples

    • @alexcompierchio6269
      @alexcompierchio6269 3 роки тому

      @@mumbullz3480 "huns"? How lol

    • @ai97Nord
      @ai97Nord 3 роки тому +1

      @@mumbullz3480 caliphate also bring with them Arabic language and Arab culture that why Land around levants and palestine speak Arabic

  • @fyreborneblu6706
    @fyreborneblu6706 3 роки тому +22

    Wow this kind of storytelling reminds me of an asoiaf worldbuilding....anyone else remind you this of the Bone Mountains or Patrimony of Hyrkoon?

  • @kathyn8780
    @kathyn8780 Рік тому +1

    I loved the art work along with explanations, intense but so interesting thank you

  • @bassem9545
    @bassem9545 3 роки тому +15

    Awesome and really accurate based on what we have of evidence. Just missing the the Ebro (Hebrews) invasion to Canaan which was mentioned in the Amaranth letters to Akhenaten and happened 200 years prior to the sea people invasion to the costal Canaan region

    • @Abilliph
      @Abilliph 3 роки тому +4

      Archaeologists don't agree that the hapiru were Hebrews, it's just a name for different peoples living on the margins of society, like bandits.
      Currently the prevailing opinion is that the Judeans and Israelites were just remnants of the Canaanite hill people.

    • @littlesushi7503
      @littlesushi7503 3 роки тому +1

      There wasnt a hebrew invasion. The Judean people are the last remaining canaanites. There was only a phillistine invasion.

    • @igbounitedforum3386
      @igbounitedforum3386 2 роки тому

      @@Abilliph
      Does it mean non of the original Canaanites tribe kept any record of the Hebrew invasion after they crossed the Red sea into Canaan? The Bible was very detailed about the various tribes the Hebrews had to fight and overcome before settling the land. Recall also that the scouts sent out by Moses into Canaan prior to their invasion reported to have met huge people (giants) and we know that the Hebrews invaded from the south which incidentally lies on the same latitude as the Philistine lands. My point is that the Philistines are most likely descendants of a mixture of the rest of the southern cannaanite tribes and the sea warriors just like the author of this video stated. I'm yet to identify who arrived first between the Hebrews and the sea warriors into the area but I know that the Philistines only appeared to be at war with the Israelites only after the Hebrews had decided to have kings just like all other surrounding tribes of the area. The few hundreds of years they were led by judges had many cannaanite tribes mentioned except the Philistines.

    • @Abilliph
      @Abilliph 2 роки тому

      @@igbounitedforum3386 yes.. there is no record of a Hebrew invasion to Canaan anywhere else.
      I'm talking from the scientific standpoint of course.
      The Philistines left behind material culture that suggests their origin was Greek.. I'm sure they also mixed with the Canaanites to some degree.
      Judeans and Israelites material culture is equivalent to the Canaanite one.. No part of their culture suggests that they originated in other places.
      Also, we have evidence suggesting that the Philistine language was a type of Greek... While the Hebrew language is a Canaanite language to its core.
      There is nothing on the ground to suggest, the Hebrews weren't just a group of Canaanites.

    • @igbounitedforum3386
      @igbounitedforum3386 2 роки тому

      @@Abilliph
      Hmmm... Does it mean the whole biblical chronology about Abraham's journey from Mesopotamia through Canaan land down to Egypt through to the formation of the nation of Hebrew in Egypt and their Exodus was all untrue? Does it mean that the series of wars they fought with different tribes of Canaan before supplanting those tribes to occupy majority of the land weren't true? Was canaanland uninhabited when Israel was still in it's formative stage i.e when Jacob was still a family man in Canaan?

  • @FelipeGarcia-ch3iw
    @FelipeGarcia-ch3iw 3 роки тому +12

    Awesome video! I also enjoyed your Parthian empire video, can you do a cover of Mauryan empire?

  • @scratchyass2369
    @scratchyass2369 3 роки тому +48

    thanks its been difficult to find accounts on this that are not completely biblically based

  • @someguy6076
    @someguy6076 Рік тому +5

    Epimetheus: I am unashamedly a history-nerd (without formal training), and really enoy these long-form videos which go into greater detail. I am curious ... you mention that the Peleset/Philistines imported pigs from the Aegean area. As these peoples are mentioned in biblical sources being enemies of the Canaanites, I wonder if this could have had any influence on the religious ban by the Canaanites/Aramaic inhabitants against eating porcine flesh ??

  • @jafferh9322
    @jafferh9322 3 роки тому +6

    Neutral and factual information. Thanks

  • @Brandazzo22
    @Brandazzo22 3 роки тому +10

    Great video. It was well organized and put together. I liked how you displayed multiple options that could have happened. There is a been a lot of dna testing the past 5-10 years in that area that would make a great addition to future videos like these. All in All an excellent, educated performance my friend. Keep doing what you do

    • @fadyal-qaisy5213
      @fadyal-qaisy5213 Рік тому

      Palestine was named after the Arab deity Baal, hence Pali-Stan. Phelastin is just the semitic pronunciation of the name. Syria was named after his wife Ashyra/Assyra. The whole region Syria-Palestina.

  • @tundra5171
    @tundra5171 3 роки тому +224

    Undoubtedly one of the best history channels on UA-cam. Being an artist, I am especially in love with the consistency of your custom art. The art style is crude but vibrant and soulful, which is perfect! Wouldn't have it any other way at all. I cannot help but feel really impressed at the sheer amount of assets you have made at this point in your YT career. Characters, map assets, little details like the textures of the sea being creatures, recreations of historical objects (ie the Minoan warrior urn).
    Do you ever think you will share your art? The number of ancient character drawings you've done alone could literally fuel the next dozen years' amateur historians and tabletop roleplayers' passions. I can't help but think that the world is weird and if UA-cam explodes sometime in the future then literally all you've done will be lost and your art resources on ancient world cultures is so comprehensive at this point if you kept doing it and eventually released it publically you'd gain a lot of popularity and also in my view really help build up your brand and name.

    • @muneirovalibas6194
      @muneirovalibas6194 3 роки тому +15

      You are exactly right! The art style is what brings this channel to life and makes it unique!

    • @mrbabam7032
      @mrbabam7032 2 роки тому +3

      I agree 110% His art style is kinda Bevis and ButtHead meets The Rugrats yet it is in it own class you know kinda like whimsical yet sophisticated !!!

    • @fatnsassy99
      @fatnsassy99 2 роки тому

      @@mrbabam7032 😄👏👏

    • @badgoy534
      @badgoy534 Рік тому

      Not true, g-d called it Palestine in Joel 3:4. Palestine was named after the Arab deity Baal, hence Pali-Stan. Phelastin is just the semitic pronunciation of the name. Syria was named after his wife Ashyra/Assyra. The whole region Syria-Palestina.

    • @badgoy534
      @badgoy534 Рік тому

      Not true, g-d called it Palestine in Joel 3:4. Palestine was named after the Arab deity Baal, hence Pali-Stan. Phelastin is just the semitic pronunciation of the name. Syria was named after his wife Ashyra/Assyra. The whole region Syria-Palestina.

  • @notgoddhoward5972
    @notgoddhoward5972 3 роки тому +45

    Watching this makes me even more mad about Paradox interactive stopping development on Imperator Rome.
    Great video though.

    • @loremastedex
      @loremastedex 3 роки тому +4

      Well atleast we have Imperium Universalis for EU 4

    • @TheSwirlyMango
      @TheSwirlyMango 3 роки тому +3

      Ngl, Epimetheus video's make me want to play Imperator.

    • @tnk4me4
      @tnk4me4 3 роки тому +1

      Get more people to play the game. I.e. get more content of it on social media and Twitch to get more people to buy the game and thus increase it's popularity for paradox to see its development as net positive.

    • @TRAINAlytics
      @TRAINAlytics 3 роки тому

      @@loremastedex Yeah, that mod is excellent. Shame it doesn't go back all the way to the Bronze Age though.

  • @darrenwalley91
    @darrenwalley91 Рік тому

    Brilliant video 📹 Epimetheus & thank you for sharing. 😊

  • @Cneq
    @Cneq 3 роки тому +42

    9:30 By Egypt's "truth" they never suffered a single battle loses so yeah pretty sure they have no problem completely lying about some things lmao it's not really about lying but their view of "history" as more of a collection of "best moments" instead of actual events of the past

    • @shalomgomez2111
      @shalomgomez2111 3 роки тому

      No nation I know hase been,over run and ruled by outsiders,than Egypt. But the most autragious thing of all is that,Egyptians have hard time telling truth.
      After one see the fact Egypt has been under occupations by various rulers from 525 B.C up to1954 A.D ,I ask is there any thing I can say about Egypt such and such thing is purely Eguptian!
      1 The Achaemenid empire, or the Persians ruled it
      I-525 B. C.
      2-Mecedonian in 332 B. C
      3-Rome ruled from 30 BC-641 A.D.Almost forever.
      4-Ottoman Sultan (1517-1867)A.D
      5- French Occupation
      (1798-1801)A.D
      6- Great Britain (1882-1954). A.D
      7- Egypt become independent in 1954.

    • @eca3101
      @eca3101 3 роки тому +1

      @@shalomgomez2111 bro, who hurt you

    • @Seif-Music-Videos
      @Seif-Music-Videos 3 роки тому +1

      @@shalomgomez2111 None of these invaders are denied by any Egyptian historian or in any Egyptian history textbook. If anything, Egyptians take pride that their land have always been targeted as resourceful and strategic. You seem to be so confident like you know exactly how many times each and every land/culture/country has been invaded. Also you speak like you know which country nowadays is absolutely truthful and objective about its history and that's pathetic. So check your facts first and have a dose of humility instead of vomiting bullshit and arrogance. Oh and also, check your spelling, would you? Reading your writing induces a major headache. It only shows how well educated your are

    • @Seif-Music-Videos
      @Seif-Music-Videos 3 роки тому

      Where did you get that Egyptians never claimed they suffered a single loss throughout history? please enlighten me.

    • @gingerfox7143
      @gingerfox7143 3 роки тому

      @@shalomgomez2111 Kemet/Egypt was over ten thousand years old and florishing before it became weak and was conquered. No other nation on earth has had such a magnificent and millineum long lasting peaceful and prosperous existence.

  • @seansaidiraiqat2936
    @seansaidiraiqat2936 3 роки тому +4

    It's nice to hear some unbiased history for a change.

  • @joshuaedelman3861
    @joshuaedelman3861 3 роки тому +7

    I love the Bronze Age series of videos man, keep it up please

  • @saxonhermit
    @saxonhermit Рік тому +49

    This is really neat! I learned a little bit of Philistine history in Sunday School, of course, but only insofar as it touched on Hebrew and Judeo-Christian history. I think now that I'm older I appreciate the idea of a more nuanced outlook on ancient civilizations that weren't taught to me as being "the good guys." There's something to be said for complicating the Biblical narrative, I think, and allowing our take on the people in the narrative to become more complex. Obviously, I am coming at this from a Judeo-Christian perspective, but even from that perspective, I find this more complicated relationship presented here much more likely and more compelling than the simple "Israelites good, Philistines bad" narrative.

    • @NikoBellaKhouf2
      @NikoBellaKhouf2 Рік тому +1

      The ONLY reason why the Filistines were portrayed as the bad guys was because they were polytheists. Where's the crime in that?
      Those texts were written by ✡️ who were very biased against Filistines. Everyone feared and envied the Filistines. The Brits envied the Filistines so bad that they turned philistine into an insult.
      If you're looking for good guys and bad guys, the 🇮🇱 were always the bad guys. They caused nothing but trouble everywhere they went.

    • @theunbeatable6598
      @theunbeatable6598 Рік тому

      Only the 🤡 muhrican evangelicals think israel good philistine bad

    • @death2abrahamism
      @death2abrahamism Рік тому

      The Biblical narrative is all sorts of Highlander-level of propaganda.
      The 1st Commandment screams of, "there-can-be-only-one," types of mentality.
      Jerusalem at the center of world commerce seems to be the end goal of that blueprint called the Bible.

    • @ΓιώργοςΑ-ψ7ψ
      @ΓιώργοςΑ-ψ7ψ Рік тому +7

      the Jewish texts logically present them as enemies of the Jews and since both the Greek and Jewish peoples were settlers in the area and had many disputes between them. the Bible clearly says that the Philistines are descendants of the Cretans, therefore of Greek origin.

    • @VoFALT
      @VoFALT Рік тому

      I mean a civilization can be very complex but still be bad.

  • @WildTraderAppeared
    @WildTraderAppeared 2 роки тому +38

    good job ! well told :D i did always assume that the philistinians were basically "Greek" as there well loads of these colonies around the Mediterranean and mostly because the greeks were very active mechants back then (well were forced by their own city states to colonies other areas because of the issue with limited agricultural areas in mother land :D )

    • @Israel85324
      @Israel85324 Рік тому

      Assume?
      It clearly shows in scripture they come from NOAH SON HAM…
      Ham was the father of the dark races.
      Greeks come from Noah son Japeth

  • @redcastlefan
    @redcastlefan 3 роки тому +13

    Hey epimetheus, can you do a video about the nabateans and people who lived before and after them in Petra and whatnot ? It's very interesting yet has very little media about it.

    • @kamoplasym7199
      @kamoplasym7199 3 роки тому

      The nabateans were interesting indeed, you should visit Petra if you haven't already, beautiful place

    • @redcastlefan
      @redcastlefan 3 роки тому +3

      @@kamoplasym7199 I'm from Jordan been there. Find shards of those agean pots in my yard

    • @kamoplasym7199
      @kamoplasym7199 3 роки тому +1

      @@redcastlefan I'm from palestine but my family lives in the uk and jordan, cant wait to go to jordan this summer

    • @redcastlefan
      @redcastlefan 3 роки тому

      @@kamoplasym7199 Nice. good luck and i hope you have fun. Just dont forget to drink water cuz its hot.

    • @kamoplasym7199
      @kamoplasym7199 3 роки тому

      @@redcastlefanI'm used to the heat, its fine lmao

  • @marvfj6451
    @marvfj6451 3 роки тому +9

    Thank you very much for this review! I was delighted to learn so much about the Philistines, who had previously just been sort of rule breaking, pleasure seekers in my book.

  • @george-8043
    @george-8043 Рік тому +1

    Hi after thought, great video!

  • @swedichboy1000
    @swedichboy1000 3 роки тому +11

    Could you do one about the Kingdom of Alashiya?

  • @admetussenatorofthesullane7759
    @admetussenatorofthesullane7759 3 роки тому +194

    In Ethiopia, Palestinians are still called ‘Philistines’

    • @rohayeha
      @rohayeha 3 роки тому +3

      Not philistine they are called falash but the correct word is Felesheteyem as per bibilical hebrew

    • @admetussenatorofthesullane7759
      @admetussenatorofthesullane7759 3 роки тому +54

      @@rohayeha no, the ‘Falasha’ are the Beta Isreal community in Ethiopia. They identify as Jews. Most people call them ‘Falasha’ which basically means “Outsider”. ‘Philistine’ means Palestinians, not the Beta Israel community

    • @rohayeha
      @rohayeha 3 роки тому

      Ancient Ethiopia and Israel were all jews those that migrated both ways are called Felesheteyem that is how the Biblical Hebrew bible calls them there was no "p" letter in ancient time or at least in the Phoenician alphabete ua-cam.com/video/1iCV2c9l7zw/v-deo.html

    • @admetussenatorofthesullane7759
      @admetussenatorofthesullane7759 3 роки тому +27

      @@rohayeha which time period are you referring to?. The whole of Ethiopia was never a Jewish state. Most tribes practiced paganism. I know Ethiopia was once one with modern day Yemen which explains the route for migration. Also explains the Ge’ez alphabet deriving from Sabaean alphabet who were also pagans. Palestinians are the closest people to the philistines since they have inhabited the land since and never left. The Jews and Palestinians of the ancient world were one people.

    • @rohayeha
      @rohayeha 3 роки тому +3

      Judaism was first practiced in Ethiopia and it migrated to Israel. The north and central part of Ethiopia were the first jews. Those who migrated to Israel were the Felesheteyem/Philistine but they mixed with Europeans and came to be known as Arabs. While later some jews came back to Ethiopia and they also came to be known as Felesheteyem/Philiatine and they mixed with the people of Ethiopia.
      ua-cam.com/video/1iCV2c9l7zw/v-deo.html

  • @khodotany
    @khodotany 3 роки тому +6

    Well, Greek historian Herodotus mentioned in the 5th century BC and area in Syria called Palestine between Phoenicia and egypt. And Palestine is currently between Lebanon (ancient Phoenicia) and Egypt.

    • @giladlapid7028
      @giladlapid7028 3 роки тому +1

      Paleset is in Gazan coast.

    • @mizrahiwithattitude2733
      @mizrahiwithattitude2733 2 роки тому +1

      Palestine is currently not a country and never was one its israel who is between lebanon and egypt

    • @khodotany
      @khodotany Рік тому

      @@giladlapid7028 not true

  • @Numba003
    @Numba003 2 місяці тому

    Thank you for the excellent video! I only learned about the interesting potential origins of the Philistines a few years ago, but I've enjoyed learning more about them ever since.
    God be with you out there, everybody. ✝️ :)

  • @pythonBlender7
    @pythonBlender7 3 роки тому +23

    This was very satisfyingly as a Christian history buff. Love the Channel o7

    • @noahtylerpritchett2682
      @noahtylerpritchett2682 3 роки тому +1

      Same lol

    • @sorrybro4890
      @sorrybro4890 3 роки тому +1

      Biblical is more suitable term

    • @olliefoxx7165
      @olliefoxx7165 3 роки тому +9

      @Ghost Ghost It has many references to historical events and people.

    • @olliefoxx7165
      @olliefoxx7165 3 роки тому +8

      @Ghost Ghost Yes, historical as well. Many events in the Bible has been confirmed in other sources. There was a great flood that's been mentioned through carvings and other objects. The Egyptian, Roman, Babylonian, Philistines etc...are all mentioned in the Bible and those mentioned have been found through other sources as well. Have you read the Bible?
      Edit: I believe the word of God is correct as written in the Bible. There may be errors in translation from one language to another but that is man's fault not Gods. I changed a sentence bc there might be very slight errors in translation.

    • @olliefoxx7165
      @olliefoxx7165 3 роки тому +8

      @Ghost Ghost I said it contained historical references to events and people. It does, that's factual. You may disagree with it's messaging but it does contain truth.

  • @JaelaOrdo
    @JaelaOrdo 3 роки тому +4

    Very good video 👍🏽