50% of comments: "Is anyone here because they have a test tomorrow?" Other 50% of comments: "Is anyone here because they find history interesting?" Can we just take a moment to say how awesome of a history teacher John would make at school?
To put how old ancient Egypt was in perspective, I like to point out that Cleopatra lived closer to present day than when the pyramids were built. I don’t know the exact dates but the pyramids were built 4,500 years ago and Cleopatra lived just over 2,000 years ago
Fascinating! If we look at Egypt, it seems the key to longevity of a civilization is mainly to do with isolation (not engaging in wars) and also preservation of own culture.
I agree. Egypt was hard to attack because the Sahara made it hard to flank. While Egypt had plenty of Military campaign they seemed content to control the trade routes from Nubia, Libya to the Levant.
the crazy thing about Ancient Egypt for me was how long it was?? There were guys in like 1980 BCE studying their own civilisation and thinking hmmm this was so long ago!! My mind is astounded about that.
+Ocduffy I don't think that he was trying to say fish live in water. I believe he meant that they can fly, and are made entirely of metal. The aliens living in antarctica are training them in every type of martial arts known to both their kind and mankind, then will unleash their evil flying cyborg fish army. At least that is what I think he is trying to say.
I'm a high school student (Sophomore). I hate to admit it and probably every other kid does but these videos are actually kind of cool. Thanks for an educational yet fun way of learning history and taking notes
Hi John. I'm taking my AP World History test in two days, so I have decided to watch this whole series in one night. A whopping seven hours. I just wanted to let you know, if these videos aren't helpful and cause me to fail my exam and lose all possible hope of going to college, I'm holding you personally responsible. Thanks! P.S, Great videos, short and sweet and not too boring :D
+Astropony Blast01 advanced placement test... its a college course that high schoolers take. In this case, everyone is taking the Advanced Placement World History exam...
Your awesome nerdiness has reached my daughters 6th grade science class. The class watched your Persian and Greek episode to learn about all the craziness and smarty , smart things. My daughter was totally surprised to find out that I am a nerdfighter and that you have a brother " Good morning Hank !" that is just as smart as you. Thanks , John for teaching my daughter that history and science is fun and very important. AWESOME!!
Anybody else bothered that he keeps (e.g. @6:37) saying "down river" to mean "south", which of course is actually up the river, so much so that we talk about the two pre-unification egyptian kingdoms as Upper Egypt (south) and Lower Egypt (north)?
just wanted to say that this series has been a very convenient access to a discipline very far from what i'm used to (my background is environmental science and engineering). thanks very much for all the effort in producing something insightful, down-to-earth, and pretty hilarious at times. there's so much wisdom in studying the past, in cultures far from our own, through lenses fundamentally different from what we use. i think it's so important for envisioning and building the future. kind of puts everything in persepective for us ignorant moderns. cheers!
Bear in the Woods Ya, it's interesting stuff presented in a fun, entertaining way. Sorta like John Oliver's Last Week Tonight, but for history I guess.
***** If you're interested in the far out stuff (such as The Fermi Paradox, which asks why we haven't found aliens yet), the youtube channel Kurzgesagt has some great shorter animated videos.
Bear in the Woods I watched episode 3 of this because we had a quiz on the Fertile crescent the next day, now here I am a week later really interested about history.
John Green, Thank you so much for this video! I was too lazy to study for a history test on early civilizations so I just watched your videos and I got 100%! Thanks so much!
I love this concise outline of world history. There is no evidence that the pyramids of the Nile valley were constructed by the Pharaonic culture. The pyramids must have existed already way before the rise of this civilization. No graves of pharoahs have been found in the pyramids. It is difficult to date organic material such as stone, but signs of water erosion on the Sphynx, for example, would suggest its existence in antedeluvian times (prior to the last glacial period). Megalithic structures such as the pyramids, the ruins at Tiahuanaco in the Bolivian Highlands, Teotihuacan in Mexico are anomalies. It was common in antiquity for subsequent cultures to bury their dead in or near pre-existing structures which they considered holy. The abundance of unexplained megalithic sites suggests an ancient global civilization which must have existed prior to 17 000 B.P. (before present). Such sites have even been found well under the current sea level all around the globe. Unfortunately, such data has not made it into our history books (I call them propaganda books) as it would mean revising our entire timeline. Keep up the good work.
I do think The Pyramids are older than are said but not for the same reasons you think so. I think the truth is being Hidden because that would disprove the Quran. The Quran also says the earth is 6,000 years old and Islam is the dominant religion of Egypt and Sudan. PS. there are More Pyramids in Sudan than in Egypt.
I'm not atheist. I merely don't subscribe to any christian, pseudo-crhistian, judaic, nor islamic dogmas or anything fabricated by the aberrated mind of homo-sapiens, who isn't sapient at all. I am spiritiual as I know what and who I am, and what I am not, but not religious. And lastly, I don't preach anything to people in an attempt to influence their thinking.
Jean-Pierre Delorraine "or anything fabricated" Well as you don't like or understand the reality of academic research, then clearly you do subscribe to fabricated pseudo Bull Shit. PS Don't forget to cite what food stuffs they were eating 17k yrs ago to build on this scale :)
Jean-Pierre Delorraine i agree with you! people think that everyone was as dumb as we are now, and our egos cant accept that maybe there have been civilizations that have been smarter than us.... i accept nothing i am taught, that would make me a poor copy
History teacher... you've seen the worst of the worst in historical education: "And now, dear pupils I will terrorize you with the oppression of dates."
I've used several of your videos for my classes in China. You're fun and engaging and the fact you have actual subtitles with your videos (even Chinese!) is awesome.
Egypt: 1. Built pyramids. 2. The same old Divine King. 3. Social order of high and low, because well, the pyramids required hard work! 4. Had female ruler as early as Middle Kingdom. Interesting.
I'm a hardcore Egyptologist so here: Archaic (Dynasties I-II, 3100-2860 BCE) Old Kingdom (Dynasties III-VI, 2860-2140 BCE) First Intermediate Period (Dynasties VII-X, 2140-2040 BCE) Middle Kingdom (Dynasties XI-XIV, 2040-1750 BCE) Second Intermediate Period (Dynasties XV-XVII, 1750-1550 BCE) New Kingdom (Dynasties XVIII-XXII, 1550-1070 BCE) Third Intermediate Period (Dynasties XXIII-XXV, 1070-710 BCE) Late Period (Dynasties XXVI-XXXI, 710-323 BCE) Greco-Roman Period (Dynasties XXXII-XXXIII, 323-30 BCE)
I adored learning about ancient civilizations in my college history class, and crash course has helped me remember a lot of the details id forgotten. thanks guys!
He wasn't "robbed," well he was, but not the way that we view robbing. He never actually ruled. He was manipulated into hating his father and really the rest of his family. Which, is actually sad, for as far as "fatherly love" goes, there are relief statues that seem to show him and his siblings playing with Akhenaten and his beloved chief wife. He's famous just because his grave managed to survive being pillaged. Otherwise, he'd have probably gone into obscurity for the most part. (context picture) www.seder-olam.info/seder-olam-akhenaten-and-family.JPG
Who else is here because they are delving into humanity's deep psyche by acquainting with ancient mythology, old civilizations, and sacred texts as a hobby next to their mostly un-related University studies in natural science?
My favorite way of thinking about the age and longevity of Ancient Egypt is to remember that the pyramids were as old to the Romans when they conquered Egypt as the Romans are to us today. Not sure if that gets covered in a later video or not.
true! it's weird but Cleopatra (the famous one) lived closer in time to the first Burger King than she did to the pyramids! That's how long Egyptian civilisation lasted!
During his conquests, Alexander the Great specifically detoured to Giza because he wanted "to see those ancient wonders." The pyramids: a tourist attraction since at least 500 BCE. Yikes that's old.
Don't know if you know this, but there was a pharaoh's tomb even more complete than Tut's, but it never became famous and was forgotten due to when it was discovered: WW2. It even had a silver, not gold, coffin, which is curious because gold was more common than silver in Ancient Egypt, and because gold represented skin whereas silver represented bones. So, dunno why he had a bones-coffin, but meh.
oh fuck, please why every video about egypt in the comment section is there a bunch of people fighting about what people looked like over 2000 years ago holy shit, why do i even look anymore :(
Historians, egyptologists, anthropologists etc. have created a very plausible framework to make assumptions about the ethnicity of ancient egyptians. I honestly don't know why there needs to be an argument about this.
Nino A if it doesn't matter what people look like 2000 years ago, then why not betray the ancient people of Kemet as their true color which in today's terms would be black. What if they made a movie about slavery and made all the slaves white people and the slave masters black, or they made a movie about Albert Einstein and portrayed him as a jet black Ethiopian would you think that would be okay? Obviously it matters what these people look like to Europeans, because they cannot portray these people as the black Africans that they were. It's not why does it matter to us it's why does it matter to them.
SuperHamsterhuey honestly if we did a video about Europe and made all the people black Europeans would have a serious problem with that. I think the fighting would stop when Europeans stop betraying black people as white people. You don't understand the insult to injury that does to people around the world. It's called whitewashing and when it stops the fighting will stop. With all due respect
Hahahahaha no lie... AC has had me craving more history! Would love a AC with game play centered around Alexander the Great and his conquest! Or even The Mongols
arghhh thank god for all of these videos. Idk why but I'm a crazy learner, I wanted to study everything ranging from science to arts to history to everything! This is why I have a hard time of choosing my degree because of my vast interest !
Not surprised to see people using these videos to help review for their AP test. This is a pretty good resource as it's concise and also pretty entertaining.
I came to the comments to see if anyone else found that strange. I thought the pyramids were already built and Moses and the Israelites existed in the 13th or 14th century. Somebody explain!
Moses lived from 1400 BCE to 1201 BCE (if Wikipedia is to be trusted), and the Great Pyramid of Giza was completed in 2560 BCE. You said that Moses "showed up on the scene long before [the pyramids]". That seems impossible, or am I missing something?
You can read this answer for clarity - qr.ae/8BHLHH The video gets the dates wrong, but the fact that Moses wasn't around during the time of building the pyramid is true. There were other great temples and buildings built during 1400 BCE to 1201 BCE. People confuse that with the Great Pyramid.
1. What made(makes) the Nile ricer so valuable? 2. What are the names of the 3 broad categories that Ancient Egypt is divided into? 3. Who is 'Ra'? What were they they god of? 4. How many Americas long was Ancient Egypt? 5. Why do you think people associate EVERYTHING about Ancient Egypt as being so similar?
The Pharaohs of Egypt -Early Dynastic Period (3100-2686 BC) Narmer (First Pharaoh). Aha Djer Den Hetepsekhemwy Re’neb Ninetjer Peribsen -Old Kingdom (2686-2125 BC) Djoser (Built stepped pyramid at Saqqara) Sekhemkhet Kha’ba Huni Sneferu (Built 3 pyramids in 1 lifetime) Khufu (Built the Gr8 Pyramid of Giza) Djedefre (Tried to build another gr8 pyramid but it has been destroyed) Bikheris Khafre (Built the 2nd gr8 pyramid) Menkaure (Built the 3rd gr8 pyramid and 3. Small ones for his wives) Shepseskaf Userkaf Sahure Neferirkare Ra’neferef Neferefre Shepseskare Neusere Menkauhor Djedkare Unas Teti Pepi I Merenre Pepi I Merenre II Netjerkare Siptah -1st Intermediate Period (2125-2055 BC) Menkare Neferkare (II-III) Djerkare Shenai Neferkare IV Merenhor Neferkamin Nikare Neferkare V Neferkahor Neferkare VI Neferkamin Anu II Qakare Ibi Neferkaure II Neferkauhor Neferirkare II Meryibre Khety Nebkaure Khety Setut Merikare Inyotef. -Midde Kingdom (2125-1650 BC) Mentuhotep (I-IV). Amenemhet I Senwosret I Amenemhet II Senwosret II Amenemhet III Senwosret III Amenemhet IV Queen Nefrusobk -2nd intermediate Period (1650-1550 BC) Sekhemre Sonbef Nerikare Sekhemkare Ameny Qemau Hotepibre Qemau Iufni Seankhibre Semenkare Sehetepibre Sewadjkare I Nedjemihre Renseneb Awibre’Hor Sekhemrekhutawy Djedkheperew Sedjefakare Khutawyre Wegaf Userkare Khendjer Smenkhare Sehetepkare Seth Merebre Sobekhotep III Neferhotep I Menwadjre Sihthar Sobekhotep (IV-VI) Wahibre Ibiau Merneferre Ay Merhotepre Ini Sankhenre Mersekhamre Ined Sewadjkare Sobekhotep VII Merkheperre Merkare Mentuhotep V Seheqenre Yakbim Ya’ammu Qareh Ammu Sheshi Nahesy Khakherewre Nebafawre Saheure Merdjefare Sewadjkare III Webenre Djefare Awibre III Heribre Nebsenre Sekheperenre Babnum Apepi Salitis Semqen Aperanat Sakir-Har Khyan Khamudi Jamu Jakebmu Amu Pepi III Hepu Anati Bebnum Sharek Inek Shemsu Werqa Djehuti Sobekhotep VIII Neferhotep III Mentuhotepi Nibiryraw I Nebiriau I Seanenre Bebiankh Sekhemre Shedwest Dedumose (I-II) Montemsaf Mentuhotep VI Senusret IV Rahotep Sobekhemsaf (I-II) Intef (V-VII) Senakhtenre Ahmose Seqenenre’-Tao II Kamose -New Kingdom (1550-1069 BC) Ahmose I. Amenhotep I Thutmose (I-II) Hatshepsut (1st female pharaoh) Thutmose III Amenhotep II Thutmose IV Amenhotep III Amenhotep IV/Akhenaten (Him and his wife Nefertiti created a new religion that was controversial) Tutankhamen (His famous Golden Mask) Aya Horemhab Ramses I Seti I Ramses II/Ramses the Gr8 (Built the temple at Abu Simbel) Merneptah Amenmesse Seti II Siptah Queen Twoseh Sethnakhte Ramses (III-XI) -3rd Intermediate Period (1069-664 BC) Smendes Amenemnisu Psusennes I Amenemmope Osorkon the elder Siamun Psusennes II Shoshenq I Osorkon I Takelot I Shoshenq II Osorkon (II-IV) Pami Osorkon V Usermaatre Osorkon IV -Late Period (664-332 BC) Hedjkheperre Takelot II Pedubast I Luput I Shoshenq VI Osorkon III Takelot III Rudaman Luput II Ini Tefnakhte I Bakenranef Piye Shabaka Sbabataka Taharqa Tantamani Psamtik I Necho II Psamtik II Wahibre Haaibre Amasis II Psamtik III 525bc-Persians take over Amyrtaios (Started a rebellion against Persia) Nefaarud I Psamuthes Hakor Nefaarud II Nectanebo (I-II) Persia invades again and later Greeks. -Ptolemaic Egypt (332-30 BC) Ptolemy (I-VIII) Cleopatra (II-III) Ptolemy (IX-X) Berenice III Ptolemy (XI-XII) Cleopatra V Cleopatra VII (The last Pharaoh) And probably more pharaohs and secrets buried under the sands of Egypt.
I have only just discovered this channel today, so bare with me. Is this the brother of Hank from Scishow? Same last name and they look and sound very similar.
"What If in the middle of Egyptian history... there were hobbits." I can imagine it. 'In a tomb made of stone. Not a nasty, dirty, dank tomb, filled with spiders and oozing smells. This was a pyramid, and that means good food, lots of gold, and all the comforts of home.' (DFTBA)
Open letter: Dear John, You are the best Crash Course presenter. That is not anything against the others, particularly your brother, as they are awesome too, but I really enjoy these videos, how they are presented, and what I learn from them. Best Wishes.
Dear everyone please take a moment to remember that it is incredibly difficult to give an absolute truth when it comes to history, the only way to know for sure sure, like 100% sure is to go back in time. Now pipe down everyone, this is not battle royal.
Nobody: Literally Nobody: Not even the entire APWorld history course we presumably took: Us: @crashcourse, you have 7 hours to teach us everything we already should know
I remember being in like the 5th grade and being the Egypt nut that I am and was was the only person who pronounced Tutanhkamun s name like egyptologists did. And my teacher and everyone else telling me I was saying it wrong whilst they were butchering it by trying to make it english. Tut-anhk-Amun. Names are basically sentences and have a slight pause in between the words. Each word means somthing. Not sure what Tut- means but Anhk Amun means long live Amun.
I know this is 4 years late, but if I am going to be "that person" and offer corrections anyways; there are actually 5 stages of the Egyptian language. Old Egyptian, Middle Egyptian (the classic literary language even in later dynasties, similar to our use of latin today), Late Egyptian, Demotic, then Coptic (still in use by the Coptic Church). Hieratic is a sort of cursive script that was used for Middle Egyptian and refashioned along with the hieroglyphs for Late Egyptian, and Demotic developed as a similarly cursive script (my professor described it as "hieratic gone wild", as it developed from hieratic kindof). Demotic wasn't developed until the New Kingdom- they only had Old Egyptian in the time of the pyramid texts. Also, the Pharaoh was not a god solely after they died- they were also seen as Horus on earth, Horus and/or other gods incarnate, the son of Ra and/or other deities, etc., which is why they had multiple "stage names", if you will- the most important of these of course being the Horus Name.
50% of comments: "Is anyone here because they have a test tomorrow?"
Other 50% of comments: "Is anyone here because they find history interesting?"
Can we just take a moment to say how awesome of a history teacher John would make at school?
No i just love king Tut I’m accutly learning about king Tut
Animalscave
Studying for APWH EXAM 2019 😝
Can we just talk Egyptian history instead of leaving useless comments?
@Gengonglike Arbukle neither
Pretty bad one due to the inaccurate information he passes as facts and the bias he shows in most videos.
Most important thing I learned in this episode: the confirmation that fish *do* live in water. Thank you CrashCourse!
same lol 😂😂
I never would've known that fish lived in water
It's such a fascinating fact, isn't it.
So fascinating, i wouldn't have passed the test without it
wait really? wtf I thought they flew and were born from the wombs of, wait for it... THE MONGULS
For a few seconds I was so sure that when you combined Ahmen and Rah,
You'd get Ramen.
ROFL Thanks for that!
Kaye Penguin 💀😂
Rahmen
To put how old ancient Egypt was in perspective, I like to point out that Cleopatra lived closer to present day than when the pyramids were built. I don’t know the exact dates but the pyramids were built 4,500 years ago and Cleopatra lived just over 2,000 years ago
Love the time line context. Cleopatra lived closer to the moon landing than the building of the pyramids. Just like.... wow.
Nobody:
AP World kids: 462 minute crash course binge
Hey this isn't very nice I don't like being called out
Damn you really called us out like that
But if you set it to 1.25 speed, it's still listenable and you only have to listen to 369.6 minutes
@@BananaHead223 and if you do 2x he gets a squeaky voice and it's only 231 minutes. Plus you can skip credits
@@bighorngaming8202 genius
I’m an egyptian and learned from you guys more than I learned at school :"""
Wow. Interesting.
Yeah Egyptian history is sooo confusing i bet 50% of what we think we know isn't true
@Lee Ruan that's right hundreds or maybe thousands of years is still missing in Egyptian History
“Oppression of dates”
The hot new sequel to The Grapes of Wrath.
oof
David Stinnett facts
Fascinating! If we look at Egypt, it seems the key to longevity of a civilization is mainly to do with isolation (not engaging in wars) and also preservation of own culture.
I agree. Egypt was hard to attack because the Sahara made it hard to flank. While Egypt had plenty of Military campaign they seemed content to control the trade routes from Nubia, Libya to the Levant.
the crazy thing about Ancient Egypt for me was how long it was?? There were guys in like 1980 BCE studying their own civilisation and thinking hmmm this was so long ago!! My mind is astounded about that.
"You had to marry your sister, which hopefully you weren't too stoked about"
(laughs in ptolemaic)
I love that everyone is also here cus the AP World exam is tomorrow so much so that people are pointing it out and making it a meme
Zolaliz honestly
It seems to happen every year because that’s exactly why I’m here
It’s called whap loser
"Did you know? Fish live in water" Thanks CrashCourse!
+Ocduffy "xD
+Ocduffy LOL
+Ocduffy John Green is wrong. Fishes live on air.
H
+Ocduffy I don't think that he was trying to say fish live in water. I believe he meant that they can fly, and are made entirely of metal. The aliens living in antarctica are training them in every type of martial arts known to both their kind and mankind, then will unleash their evil flying cyborg fish army. At least that is what I think he is trying to say.
2:48
"Did you know fish live in water"
Noooo, please tell me more....
lol
@@whiteeyedshadow8423 hahaha😂😂😂
😂😂😂
no way
lol
I'm a high school student (Sophomore). I hate to admit it and probably every other kid does but these videos are actually kind of cool. Thanks for an educational yet fun way of learning history and taking notes
*Answering* *AP* *Test*
"What happend in the Middle Kingdom?:"
"No Hobbits"
I love your profile picture!!!
That’s middle earth not Middle Kingdom
Jack The12th ???
hhhhhhhhhhhhhh, of course we have no Hobbits but in the time of Roman-era we had dwarfs in Alexandria
@@maxbatkin9012 you literally have no sense of memes or humor
John Green: the Egyptians came into conflict with the Assyrians, Persians Greeks and eventually Romans
Hittite Empire: Am I a joke to you?
Indeed their 80-year conflict, and the world's first known peace treaty that ended it - are significant
Don't forget the Nubians invaded and ruled Egypt for 200 years.
@@wiseguy240Winston and the Malian empire
@@samirbedahoudi963 Mali was in West Africa and never invaded Egypt.
@@y2k21 I never said invaded but they did trade with Egyptians
Hi John. I'm taking my AP World History test in two days, so I have decided to watch this whole series in one night. A whopping seven hours. I just wanted to let you know, if these videos aren't helpful and cause me to fail my exam and lose all possible hope of going to college, I'm holding you personally responsible. Thanks!
P.S, Great videos, short and sweet and not too boring :D
responsibility isn't something to joke about...
Ha. Or you could study it the old fashion way. just a thought.
Andrew Derouin It was meant as a joke, guess it didn't come off that way
what's the A.P test
+Astropony Blast01 advanced placement test... its a college course that high schoolers take. In this case, everyone is taking the Advanced Placement World History exam...
Your awesome nerdiness has reached my daughters 6th grade science class. The class watched your Persian and Greek episode to learn about all the craziness and smarty , smart things. My daughter was totally surprised to find out that I am a nerdfighter and that you have a brother " Good morning Hank !" that is just as smart as you. Thanks , John for teaching my daughter that history and science is fun and very important. AWESOME!!
Anybody else bothered that he keeps (e.g. @6:37) saying "down river" to mean "south", which of course is actually up the river, so much so that we talk about the two pre-unification egyptian kingdoms as Upper Egypt (south) and Lower Egypt (north)?
Amun + Ra = Ramen
Believe it
Watching this while eating ramen.... 😂
Pastafarianism = Egyptian mythology
Suddy missed pun opportunity I'd say
Touche
just wanted to say that this series has been a very convenient access to a discipline very far from what i'm used to (my background is environmental science and engineering). thanks very much for all the effort in producing something insightful, down-to-earth, and pretty hilarious at times. there's so much wisdom in studying the past, in cultures far from our own, through lenses fundamentally different from what we use. i think it's so important for envisioning and building the future. kind of puts everything in persepective for us ignorant moderns. cheers!
Anyone else watching this because they find History interesting, and not because "I have a test tomorrow"?
Yes. Me.
I'm a month late but yep. But I have my first exams next year and WILL be using these eventually
Bear in the Woods Ya, it's interesting stuff presented in a fun, entertaining way. Sorta like John Oliver's Last Week Tonight, but for history I guess.
*****
If you're interested in the far out stuff (such as The Fermi Paradox, which asks why we haven't found aliens yet), the youtube channel Kurzgesagt has some great shorter animated videos.
Bear in the Woods I watched episode 3 of this because we had a quiz on the Fertile crescent the next day, now here I am a week later really interested about history.
The humor makes it so easy to learn 😂😂😂😂 especially when you love history like me
this is quality youtube content
Yup
Absolutely.
There are three types of dates: the fruit, the going out with someone, and the calendar numbers. Why not do all three
I really enjoyed your video! I never realized ancient Egypt lasted longer than Christianity or Western Civilization. That is fascinating.
I From Egypt انا من مصر 🇪🇬❤️
Me: *sees people on here because they're last-minute studying for a history exam*
Me: lmao I just really like history.
Lol same here
same
I'm home schooled. and I do this to focus
Juliette Robertson, ahh. I'm homeschooled too, but I don't use these. ^^
Mother Greece
I use Khan Academy, but I do this for extra
Im studying for my AP world history midterm and these videos are so helpful! Thanks
John Green,
Thank you so much for this video! I was too lazy to study for a history test on early civilizations so I just watched your videos and I got 100%! Thanks so much!
These graphics still hold up in 2018. The lesson, of course, is always timeless.
"did you know? fish live in water" 2:49
oh my god tell me more about it
I love this concise outline of world history. There is no evidence that the pyramids of the Nile valley were constructed by the Pharaonic culture. The pyramids must have existed already way before the rise of this civilization. No graves of pharoahs have been found in the pyramids. It is difficult to date organic material such as stone, but signs of water erosion on the Sphynx, for example, would suggest its existence in antedeluvian times (prior to the last glacial period). Megalithic structures such as the pyramids, the ruins at Tiahuanaco in the Bolivian Highlands, Teotihuacan in Mexico are anomalies. It was common in antiquity for subsequent cultures to bury their dead in or near pre-existing structures which they considered holy. The abundance of unexplained megalithic sites suggests an ancient global civilization which must have existed prior to 17 000 B.P. (before present). Such sites have even been found well under the current sea level all around the globe. Unfortunately, such data has not made it into our history books (I call them propaganda books) as it would mean revising our entire timeline. Keep up the good work.
I do think The Pyramids are older than are said but not for the same reasons you think so.
I think the truth is being Hidden because that would disprove the Quran.
The Quran also says the earth is 6,000 years old and Islam is the dominant religion of Egypt and Sudan.
PS. there are More Pyramids in Sudan than in Egypt.
The Quran as well as the Bible are fake. These were merely concoted up to to control people.
I'm not atheist. I merely don't subscribe to any christian, pseudo-crhistian, judaic, nor islamic dogmas or anything fabricated by the aberrated mind of homo-sapiens, who isn't sapient at all. I am spiritiual as I know what and who I am, and what I am not, but not religious. And lastly, I don't preach anything to people in an attempt to influence their thinking.
Jean-Pierre Delorraine
"or anything fabricated"
Well as you don't like or understand the reality of academic research, then clearly you do subscribe to fabricated pseudo Bull Shit.
PS Don't forget to cite what food stuffs they were eating 17k yrs ago to build on this scale :)
Jean-Pierre Delorraine
i agree with you! people think that everyone was as dumb as we are now, and our egos cant accept that maybe there have been civilizations that have been smarter than us.... i accept nothing i am taught, that would make me a poor copy
History teacher... you've seen the worst of the worst in historical education: "And now, dear pupils I will terrorize you with the oppression of dates."
haha
Gilian Hah! They made you look!
Gilian Not to mention he mad the joke, "You finally got to second base." If you don't get it then look it up its really messed up
Gilian I
I've used several of your videos for my classes in China. You're fun and engaging and the fact you have actual subtitles with your videos (even Chinese!) is awesome.
Proud to be Egyptian.
And call me mixed if you want, after 5000 years no one's going to be pure.
Max Myers
Thank you :)
Love Egyptians from morocco ❤❤
Egypt:
1. Built pyramids.
2. The same old Divine King.
3. Social order of high and low, because well, the pyramids required hard work!
4. Had female ruler as early as Middle Kingdom. Interesting.
fucking lost it at "that's a period historians call a long ass time"
I'm a hardcore Egyptologist so here:
Archaic (Dynasties I-II, 3100-2860 BCE)
Old Kingdom (Dynasties III-VI, 2860-2140 BCE)
First Intermediate Period (Dynasties VII-X, 2140-2040 BCE)
Middle Kingdom (Dynasties XI-XIV, 2040-1750 BCE)
Second Intermediate Period (Dynasties XV-XVII, 1750-1550 BCE)
New Kingdom (Dynasties XVIII-XXII, 1550-1070 BCE)
Third Intermediate Period (Dynasties XXIII-XXV, 1070-710 BCE)
Late Period (Dynasties XXVI-XXXI, 710-323 BCE)
Greco-Roman Period (Dynasties XXXII-XXXIII, 323-30 BCE)
I adored learning about ancient civilizations in my college history class, and crash course has helped me remember a lot of the details id forgotten. thanks guys!
I HAVE SCOLIOSIS KING TUT AND I ARE LIKE THE SAME PERSON
except the incest... And the ruling Egypt.. And being grave robbed...
He wasn't really robbed, he was found by archaeologists.
He wasn't "robbed," well he was, but not the way that we view robbing. He never actually ruled. He was manipulated into hating his father and really the rest of his family. Which, is actually sad, for as far as "fatherly love" goes, there are relief statues that seem to show him and his siblings playing with Akhenaten and his beloved chief wife. He's famous just because his grave managed to survive being pillaged. Otherwise, he'd have probably gone into obscurity for the most part.
(context picture)
www.seder-olam.info/seder-olam-akhenaten-and-family.JPG
Anisa Ally I volunteer to rob your grave so you can be more like King Tut. You're welcome
WE WUZ KANGZ
+2502 1230 In Egypt,we don't even have half what they found in his tomb,so technically it was "robbed"😂
Great videos! John and Hank are the best. I enjoyed the Crash Course playlist on U.S. History too. Thank you guys. Keep up the good work.
Good old John Green. Helping me through high school and now through college.
"did you know: fish live in water" xD 2:51
Ashley Tern oh hey ashley
Who else is here because they are delving into humanity's deep psyche by acquainting with ancient mythology, old civilizations, and sacred texts as a hobby next to their mostly un-related University studies in natural science?
me
me
me
This is just accurate as it could possibly be!
I'm here for midterms...
My favorite way of thinking about the age and longevity of Ancient Egypt is to remember that the pyramids were as old to the Romans when they conquered Egypt as the Romans are to us today. Not sure if that gets covered in a later video or not.
The tyrannosaurus rex lived closer to now than to the brontosaurus
true! it's weird but Cleopatra (the famous one) lived closer in time to the first Burger King than she did to the pyramids!
That's how long Egyptian civilisation lasted!
During his conquests, Alexander the Great specifically detoured to Giza because he wanted "to see those ancient wonders." The pyramids: a tourist attraction since at least 500 BCE. Yikes that's old.
The first and the best human civilization in history .... God blessing my grand father
Don't know if you know this, but there was a pharaoh's tomb even more complete than Tut's, but it never became famous and was forgotten due to when it was discovered: WW2. It even had a silver, not gold, coffin, which is curious because gold was more common than silver in Ancient Egypt, and because gold represented skin whereas silver represented bones. So, dunno why he had a bones-coffin, but meh.
loner844 The tomb of Psunness I?
Interesting.
8:47 tactile nuke inbound!
Man, Egypt was so unique! Nobody else was like them. They seemed to have their own music, clothing and spiritual beliefs... Just completely original.
Our history teacher made us watch this for a worksheet. I love how youtube is now becoming homework. Lol. Thanks Mr. Meier.
oh fuck, please why every video about egypt in the comment section is there a bunch of people fighting about what people looked like over 2000 years ago holy shit, why do i even look anymore :(
***** We don't need MORE arguments here. We're already talking about race, and Moses was already brought up in the video, we don't need more fighting
Historians, egyptologists, anthropologists etc. have created a very plausible framework to make assumptions about the ethnicity of ancient egyptians. I honestly don't know why there needs to be an argument about this.
Because WE. WUZ. KANGZ.
Nino A if it doesn't matter what people look like 2000 years ago, then why not betray the ancient people of Kemet as their true color which in today's terms would be black. What if they made a movie about slavery and made all the slaves white people and the slave masters black, or they made a movie about Albert Einstein and portrayed him as a jet black Ethiopian would you think that would be okay? Obviously it matters what these people look like to Europeans, because they cannot portray these people as the black Africans that they were. It's not why does it matter to us it's why does it matter to them.
SuperHamsterhuey honestly if we did a video about Europe and made all the people black Europeans would have a serious problem with that. I think the fighting would stop when Europeans stop betraying black people as white people. You don't understand the insult to injury that does to people around the world. It's called whitewashing and when it stops the fighting will stop. With all due respect
John, what you are calling “downriver” in Nubia and thr rest of east Africa is actually UPriver from Egypt.
Amon + Ra should have been Ramen, not Amonra.
lol
+Hajae Ko lols
+Hajae Ko Ramon
+Hajae Ko Lol, does John do these kinds of videos anymore?
MrMegaDanila I don't think so. He's busy writing books.
Went here just for Assassins Creed Origins!
Hi Hank!
I burst out laughing when that tree knocked over the cow.
First time seeing this series, I never knew about it. Awesome production. I'm just an old guy trying to get a brain tune up. Thanks.
Watching this so I know some stuff goin into the next Assassins Creed lol
Andre Leclerc ahaha
Lol my history teacher let us play assassin creed origins for our Egypt unit
That cat productions Cool! It’s my fav game! Ironically I’m half Egyptian 😂
Hahahahaha no lie... AC has had me craving more history! Would love a AC with game play centered around Alexander the Great and his conquest! Or even The Mongols
ayoooo this comment is two years old and I'm here doing the same thing. playing the game for the first time:)
8:04: The Hyksos were conquered by Egypt... talk about the Empire Strikes Back.
arghhh thank god for all of these videos. Idk why but I'm a crazy learner, I wanted to study everything ranging from science to arts to history to everything! This is why I have a hard time of choosing my degree because of my vast interest !
+Nelly L I feel you dude, but I ended up majoring in law lol who can predict life
No thank Ra haha get it...😂 no...ok
Wawa Hamdan same here bro
Monika Febiola what made u choose law?
I’ve got my World History AP test tmrw and this period confuses the heck out of me
Lol I have it on Monday. I need help help meeee
Mannie K why?
Who needs Princeton review when there's John Green?
done
I agree
Not surprised to see people using these videos to help review for their AP test. This is a pretty good resource as it's concise and also pretty entertaining.
Technical point: He keeps correcting himself incorrectly. "Upriver" means toward the source of the river. It has nothing to do with north and south.
6:06 "Man fears time, yet time feareth the pyramids."
"Moses and the Jews showed up long before the pyramids?" How can you say this? It is really late where I am so maybe I am misinterpreting you?
I came to the comments to see if anyone else found that strange. I thought the pyramids were already built and Moses and the Israelites existed in the 13th or 14th century. Somebody explain!
5:09: Moses and the Exodus were around during the reign of Pharaoh Ramesses II (1279-1213 BCE), who lived long after Khufu.
I love crash course
Same😂
Moses lived from 1400 BCE to 1201 BCE (if Wikipedia is to be trusted), and the Great Pyramid of Giza was completed in 2560 BCE. You said that Moses "showed up on the scene long before [the pyramids]". That seems impossible, or am I missing something?
You can read this answer for clarity - qr.ae/8BHLHH
The video gets the dates wrong, but the fact that Moses wasn't around during the time of building the pyramid is true. There were other great temples and buildings built during 1400 BCE to 1201 BCE. People confuse that with the Great Pyramid.
"And the Eye of Horus is staring at me and judging me. I can-I can feel your judgement!"
-John Green, 2k12
1. What made(makes) the Nile ricer so valuable?
2. What are the names of the 3 broad categories that Ancient Egypt is divided into?
3. Who is 'Ra'? What were they they god of?
4. How many Americas long was Ancient Egypt?
5. Why do you think people associate EVERYTHING about Ancient Egypt as being so similar?
The Pharaohs of Egypt
-Early Dynastic Period
(3100-2686 BC)
Narmer (First Pharaoh).
Aha
Djer
Den
Hetepsekhemwy
Re’neb
Ninetjer
Peribsen
-Old Kingdom
(2686-2125 BC)
Djoser
(Built stepped pyramid at Saqqara)
Sekhemkhet
Kha’ba
Huni
Sneferu (Built 3 pyramids in 1 lifetime)
Khufu (Built the Gr8 Pyramid of Giza)
Djedefre (Tried to build another gr8 pyramid but it has been destroyed)
Bikheris
Khafre (Built the 2nd gr8 pyramid)
Menkaure (Built the 3rd gr8 pyramid and 3. Small ones for his wives)
Shepseskaf
Userkaf
Sahure
Neferirkare
Ra’neferef
Neferefre
Shepseskare
Neusere
Menkauhor
Djedkare
Unas
Teti
Pepi I
Merenre
Pepi I
Merenre II
Netjerkare Siptah
-1st Intermediate Period
(2125-2055 BC)
Menkare
Neferkare (II-III)
Djerkare Shenai
Neferkare IV
Merenhor
Neferkamin
Nikare
Neferkare V
Neferkahor
Neferkare VI
Neferkamin Anu II
Qakare Ibi
Neferkaure II
Neferkauhor
Neferirkare II
Meryibre Khety
Nebkaure Khety
Setut
Merikare
Inyotef.
-Midde Kingdom
(2125-1650 BC)
Mentuhotep (I-IV).
Amenemhet I
Senwosret I
Amenemhet II
Senwosret II
Amenemhet III
Senwosret III
Amenemhet IV
Queen Nefrusobk
-2nd intermediate Period
(1650-1550 BC)
Sekhemre
Sonbef
Nerikare
Sekhemkare
Ameny Qemau
Hotepibre Qemau
Iufni
Seankhibre
Semenkare
Sehetepibre
Sewadjkare I
Nedjemihre
Renseneb
Awibre’Hor
Sekhemrekhutawy
Djedkheperew
Sedjefakare
Khutawyre Wegaf
Userkare
Khendjer
Smenkhare
Sehetepkare
Seth Merebre
Sobekhotep III
Neferhotep I
Menwadjre Sihthar
Sobekhotep (IV-VI)
Wahibre Ibiau
Merneferre Ay
Merhotepre Ini
Sankhenre
Mersekhamre Ined
Sewadjkare
Sobekhotep VII
Merkheperre
Merkare
Mentuhotep V
Seheqenre
Yakbim
Ya’ammu
Qareh
Ammu
Sheshi
Nahesy
Khakherewre
Nebafawre
Saheure
Merdjefare
Sewadjkare III
Webenre
Djefare
Awibre III
Heribre
Nebsenre
Sekheperenre
Babnum
Apepi
Salitis
Semqen
Aperanat
Sakir-Har
Khyan
Khamudi
Jamu
Jakebmu
Amu
Pepi III
Hepu
Anati
Bebnum
Sharek
Inek
Shemsu
Werqa
Djehuti
Sobekhotep VIII
Neferhotep III
Mentuhotepi
Nibiryraw I
Nebiriau I
Seanenre
Bebiankh
Sekhemre Shedwest
Dedumose (I-II)
Montemsaf
Mentuhotep VI
Senusret IV
Rahotep
Sobekhemsaf (I-II)
Intef (V-VII)
Senakhtenre Ahmose
Seqenenre’-Tao II
Kamose
-New Kingdom
(1550-1069 BC)
Ahmose I.
Amenhotep I
Thutmose (I-II)
Hatshepsut (1st female pharaoh)
Thutmose III
Amenhotep II
Thutmose IV
Amenhotep III
Amenhotep IV/Akhenaten (Him and his wife Nefertiti created a new religion that was controversial)
Tutankhamen (His famous Golden Mask)
Aya
Horemhab
Ramses I
Seti I
Ramses II/Ramses the Gr8 (Built the temple at Abu Simbel)
Merneptah
Amenmesse
Seti II
Siptah
Queen Twoseh
Sethnakhte
Ramses (III-XI)
-3rd Intermediate Period
(1069-664 BC)
Smendes
Amenemnisu
Psusennes I
Amenemmope
Osorkon the elder
Siamun
Psusennes II
Shoshenq I
Osorkon I
Takelot I
Shoshenq II
Osorkon (II-IV)
Pami
Osorkon V
Usermaatre Osorkon IV
-Late Period
(664-332 BC)
Hedjkheperre
Takelot II
Pedubast I
Luput I
Shoshenq VI
Osorkon III
Takelot III
Rudaman
Luput II
Ini
Tefnakhte I
Bakenranef
Piye
Shabaka
Sbabataka
Taharqa
Tantamani
Psamtik I
Necho II
Psamtik II
Wahibre Haaibre
Amasis II
Psamtik III
525bc-Persians take over
Amyrtaios (Started a rebellion against Persia)
Nefaarud I
Psamuthes
Hakor
Nefaarud II
Nectanebo (I-II)
Persia invades again and later Greeks.
-Ptolemaic Egypt
(332-30 BC)
Ptolemy (I-VIII)
Cleopatra (II-III)
Ptolemy (IX-X)
Berenice III
Ptolemy (XI-XII)
Cleopatra V
Cleopatra VII (The last Pharaoh)
And probably more pharaohs and secrets buried under the sands of Egypt.
I have only just discovered this channel today, so bare with me. Is this the brother of Hank from Scishow? Same last name and they look and sound very similar.
Yes, indeed :)
they have a channel together called vlogbrothers it is very good
Yeah, same here. I already knew most of what he talks about, but I love History.
And this channel is both of theirs, John Green doing the history stuff and Hank doing the Sciencey stuff
Proud to be an egyptian
Arab*
SkepTic
Most of us are not Arabs ethnically .
Only 12% .go search some history boy before you talk .
just 12% of egyptian are arab
@@skeptic781 Ignorent 😞
Mohamed Ibrahim you mean *Arab not real Egyptian
The Nile flows from south to north. Aka from upper Egypt to lower Egypt. Into the Med.
Your videos are awesome. I wish had a history teacher like you when I was in school.
"What If in the middle of Egyptian history... there were hobbits." I can imagine it. 'In a tomb made of stone. Not a nasty, dirty, dank tomb, filled with spiders and oozing smells. This was a pyramid, and that means good food, lots of gold, and all the comforts of home.' (DFTBA)
Open letter:
Dear John,
You are the best Crash Course presenter. That is not anything against the others, particularly your brother, as they are awesome too, but I really enjoy these videos, how they are presented, and what I learn from them.
Best Wishes.
3:00 Aka more output with less input, aka productivity.
Dear everyone please take a moment to remember that it is incredibly difficult to give an absolute truth when it comes to history, the only way to know for sure sure, like 100% sure is to go back in time.
Now pipe down everyone, this is not battle royal.
@Crash Course. Crash Course, what is the significance of the UFO at 2:07?
The AP finals are looming and this is my way to study for it.
Nobody:
Literally Nobody:
Not even the entire APWorld history course we presumably took:
Us: @crashcourse, you have 7 hours to teach us everything we already should know
i feel attacked
The pyramids were built well before Moses and the Israelites were slaves in Egypt, not the other way around as this video states.
that's quite right I caught that too
They corrected it in an annotation - it doesn't appear on mobile phones and I didn't see it, until I watched it on a computer.
Anyone else binge watching for the AP world test?
+Hollows Mom Right there with ya, trying not to think of next thursday
+Sam Beatty *cries*
+Hollows Mom Yessssssssssssssss!
+Sam Beatty yes,for realz. Thinking about how imma get a 1 on that test :-:
+Hollows Mom Yup ;~;
I remember being in like the 5th grade and being the Egypt nut that I am and was was the only person who pronounced Tutanhkamun s name like egyptologists did. And my teacher and everyone else telling me I was saying it wrong whilst they were butchering it by trying to make it english. Tut-anhk-Amun. Names are basically sentences and have a slight pause in between the words. Each word means somthing. Not sure what Tut- means but Anhk Amun means long live Amun.
The Nile flows slows south to north, so nubia/sudan/etc is actually UP river from what we now call Egypt
What if instead of amen-rah he was called ramen
Actually, he was called Ramen. But as the Egyptians wrote from right to left, the historians got it all wrong ;-)
I like it lol
ARMYYYYYYYYYYYY💜💜💜
Aanya Kabra WEIRDOOOO
That's total noodles
Who else is just listening to this for entertainment and some learning opportunity? Or is it just me?
i am XDbut I'm supposed to know those,its my country:p
Lol,gl next time XD
I am too 🙋
I am but..
same
I know this is 4 years late, but if I am going to be "that person" and offer corrections anyways; there are actually 5 stages of the Egyptian language. Old Egyptian, Middle Egyptian (the classic literary language even in later dynasties, similar to our use of latin today), Late Egyptian, Demotic, then Coptic (still in use by the Coptic Church). Hieratic is a sort of cursive script that was used for Middle Egyptian and refashioned along with the hieroglyphs for Late Egyptian, and Demotic developed as a similarly cursive script (my professor described it as "hieratic gone wild", as it developed from hieratic kindof). Demotic wasn't developed until the New Kingdom- they only had Old Egyptian in the time of the pyramid texts. Also, the Pharaoh was not a god solely after they died- they were also seen as Horus on earth, Horus and/or other gods incarnate, the son of Ra and/or other deities, etc., which is why they had multiple "stage names", if you will- the most important of these of course being the Horus Name.
Scarlett Carnahan I’m 5 years late
Im 6 years late
^^~ YAH
I'm 5 yrs late xD
Nerd
huge fan of these series. love learning
You all have made history interesting! Thank you!
It's that time again for APWH bois.
as an egyptian i could confirm how huge the history book looks like 😄
Wonderful!!
I am studying the ancient world BC of Ancient Egypt, Greece and Persia!
You make it so fun!!
Nile flows north; shouldn’t “downstream” arrows point north @2:40 on?
can u do. Ancient Africa? like Kush, Axum and stuff.
Did anyone else notice the ufo at 2:06?