if you believe you know everything about history, you are just an ignorant person trying to become famous. if you want to know who the so-called ancient Greeks are, I am sending you a link to learn the history of the Pelasgian Peninsula better.
The Roman's wanted to be like the greeks and that's why they copied everything like the greek gods and other things but the problem with copying it's that you can't copy something you don't understand (the idea)
@@emmanouilachladiotis5272 Romans didn't copy Greeks, Romans were descendants of Greeks, that's why almost everything were like Greece. But there are also differences: 1. Roman weapons were far more superior than Greek weapons. 2. Rome was an one republic/empire, while Greece had city states. 3. Greece was far more superior to the Rome in terms of science, geography mathematics, art & philosophy.
@@Desertfox18 i agree that the romans were hellenes.we know from irodotos who say exactly that but in the ancinet world the most powerful weapon was the sarisa from macedonian phalanx not the gladius and greek ancient machines from all greek word.
These are the names of the 7( 8 ) kings of Rome. Romulus,(Titus Tatius), Numa Pompilius, Tullus Hostilius, Ancus Marcius, Tarquinius Priscus, Servius Tullius, Tarquinius Superbus. Romulus =Troian origin , Titus Tatius = sabine from Lacedemonian origin ,Numa Pompilius =sabine from Lacedemonian origin ,Tarquinius Priscus =Etruscan from paternal corinthian Doric origin ,Tarquinius Superbus granson of Tarquinius Priscus . Every attempt to dissociate Rome and Roman empire from Greek influence is doomed to failure. The granting of citizenship to allies and the conquered was a vital step in the process of Romanization. This step was one of the most effective political tools and (at that point in history) original political ideas. Previously Alexander the Great had tried to "mingle" his Greeks with the Persians, Egyptians, Syrians, etc. in order to assimilate the people of the conquered Persian Empire, but after his death this policy was largely ignored by his successors. The idea was not to assimilate, but to turn a defeated and potentially rebellious enemy (or their sons) into Roman citizens. Instead of having to wait for the unavoidable revolt of a conquered people (a tribe or a city-state) like Sparta and the conquered Helots, Rome tried to make those under its rule feel that they had a stake in the system.
@@ΓιώργοςΑ-ψ7ψ The legions were far more superior than phalanx who were outdated, Roman Empire conquered almost all the know world and lived for 2.200 years, Greeks conquered Persian Empire for 5 years (Alexander the Great), and after that Greeks just splitted up into small city-states. You can't compare the power and the Empire of Rome with the greek one, of course greeks are important in the history but Romans were just on another level. Rome had a solid Empire who lived for millenia and created the nowadays Western Civilization, the other Empires doesn't.
Actually the name of Greece in Chinese sounds like "Ksi La" or "He La" (希腊), which I can't express it exactly in English letters but sounds like Hellas. China prefers to call countries by the pronunciations of how they refer to themselves.
You make the assumption that the ancient Greek history end at 323 BC, completely ignoring the Hellenistic period which is one of the most important and influential periods in human history. In my humble opinion, even more than the Classical period.
@@jessefisher1809 Yes, Macedonians were Greek tribe. But even if they weren't, this period was the epitome of the Greek civilization in all aspects from art, trade and science to military.
MODERN GREEKS REALLY DO HAVE MYTHICAL ORIGINS. Ever since the days of Homer, Greeks have long idealized their Mycenaean "ancestors" in epic poems and classic tragedies that glorify the exploits of Odysseus, King Agamemnon, and other heroes who went in and out of favor with the Greek gods. Although these Mycenaeans were mythical, scholars have debated whether today's Greeks descend from the actual Mycenaeans, who created a famous civilization that dominated mainland Greece and the Aegean Sea from about 1600 B.C.E. to 1200 B.C.E., or whether the ancient Mycenaeans simply vanished from the region. Now, ancient DNA reveals that living Greeks are indeed the descendants of Mycenaeans, with only a small proportion of DNA from later migrations to Greece. And the Mycenaeans themselves were closely related to the earlier Minoans, the study reveals, another great civilization that flourished on the island of Crete from 2600 B.C.E. to 1400 B.C.E. (named for the mythical King Minos).
In 330 BC Greece unified and changed from a loose confederation of Hellenic city states to unified Imperial Greece with Macedon as the leading Greek state.
Actually they fell victims to the kingdom of pella macedon as much as the persians did it wasn't a peaceful unification.But given the fact what followed was the single greatest cultural,scientific and technological revolution period in all of history I'd say it was a necessary evil.
@@Neat_profile The Unification of Japan by the Tokugawa Shogunate was not a peaceful unification either. What difference would it make ? No unification of Greece would be peaceful whether it was Macedon, Athens or Thebes that became the leading Greek power. In fact all the in-fighting between the Greek states was to make sure that no other Greek state became the Ruling power of Greece.
Our conviction is strengthened that the Macedonians were a Greek race and akin to the Dorians, Having stayed behind in the far north they were unable to participated in the progressive civilisation of the tribes which were further south" [Ulrich Wilcken 'Alexander the Great', p 22]
@@HandsomeStranger1963 I disagree because the Classical Era Greeks often referenced the Bronze Age Greeks in their philosophical teachings. Herodotas, Plato, Socrates and the doctor Hippocrates knew who the Myceneans and Minoans were. They knew the battle of Troy was real even though Achilles was part of mythology. King Minos of Crete was one of the first great Bronze Age Greek kings. The ordinary citizens didn't have that knowledge when they encountered the old ruins. The Spartans, Athenians, Macedonians etc all claimed heritage from the Myceneans and the older Minoans.
read the renaissance as towhy egyptions have 'greek' names. thye may have quoted them but pilfering from the great library is just one more fake accomplishment.
@@HandsomeStranger1963 Actually, they were much more closely related than previously thought. Close enough to be considered the same nation. Recent genetic research has revealed their racial connections. According to the DNA analysis, the Minoans were related to the Mycenaeans, and the latter civilization was already accepted as an early Hellenic culture.
The Greek world did not fell with the end of Athenian or Lacedaemonian hegemony over the rest of Greeks. The way you present it now gives the false impression that Macedon and Alexander's deeds where not a continuation of the Ancient Greek world. It is historically proven that it was. The period which followed the death of Alexander III of the Argead Dynasty, is considered as the peak of Ancient Greek civilisation (hence the name Hellenistic period). The majority of the Hellenic( aka Greek) world was conquered by Rome eventually. That can be a possible time of the fall of Ancient Greece. The Greek civilisation however, survived and in fact kept thriving inside the Roman empire. The cultural fall of ancient Greece (or drastic transformation, depending on the point of view) came with the adoption of Christianity.
One can argue the Roman period cemented Hellenistic culture and preserved its legacy in the ensuing centuries. As an ancient Mediterranean history buff, I never really considered Roman hegemony over the Greek world as a true 'end' to Greek Civilization barring its political impetus abroad. _Græcia capta ferum victorem cepit_ "Captive Greece conquered her savage victor" - Horace
The Greek 'mother city-states' would disagree with you. Hammond summarizes the changes that came with the rise of Macedonia. Philip, he states, offered the Greeks a new type of freedom; the freedom to cooperate with one another. He saw this as a golden opportunity for the Greeks, who had for years been destroying themselves from within. But he also concludes, "But the freedom the Greeks had enjoyed for a thousand years, that had come to an end." (not verbatim) According to many of the stories of Greek heroes, their tragedy rested in the fact that the very thing that made them successful also led to their eventual downfall. Character as fate. So fitting then, that the very thing that made the Greeks in their small states successful, would in time bring them to ruin.
--After the victory battles against Iranians(Persians) we were killing each other(athenians vs spartans) and later Romans defeated us. .--On byzantine wars,we were fighting each other and for this on 1453 we took defeat from Ottomans. --on the greek revolution against Turks on 1821,these years we were killing each other,before and after the wars against Turks. --On 1946 after the battles of WW2 and nazi germans,we were killing each others (From the one side americans and british and the another side Russians) had made half greece on two armies.We were killing each other. The problem is not that we are weak..no this.The problem is that we are so b..ards and we are killing our blood.
MACEDONIANS WERE GREEK TOO THEY MADE AN ALLIANCE WITH ATHENS AND THE TOHER CITY STATES TO FIGHT PERSIA ONLY SPARTA REFUSED BECAUSE OF THEIR PRIDE. GREECE DIDNT FALL BECAUSE OF MACEDONIA BUT BECAUSE OF ROME
@@christostragas8643 have you heard real history and not this fake history created by you and your artificial state? Alexander was not a so called greek. Aristoteles learns him the so called "greek" language. If i speak german, means this i am german? If i speak english, i am English? Alexander was Illyrian and not a so called "Greek"🤦.
@@Illyrian-Legacy do I really need to reply to this..? Who told you that this was my claim?? Aristotle - that's how it's in English (Αριστοτέλης in greek) - was born in Chalkidiki when the region was an Athenian colony! He was welcomed in Athens and studied among the greatest minds of greek intellectuals like Socrates and Plato! He was raised by, and honoured, the Hellenic customs and prepared Alexander the Great to unite all the city states of Hellas under the Macedonian rule. I consider him a greek not by the language that he spoke but by the fact that his actions did so! If that's not enough for you, ok! We agree that we disagree! 😊
I don't know why you said that it was Alexander the Great and the Macedonians that started the killing Greece. As a Greek himself, Alexander the Great was the zenith of Hellenistic civilization in terms of the sheer scope of his empire and its influence of the region. After all, the Greeks would install House Ptolemy on the Egyptian throne as Pharaohs, which would outlast Greece itself. (This video was required viewing for college.)
Are modern Greeks direct descendants of the ancient Greeks ? - Yes according to DNA studies, in fact it has been shown that modern Greeks are direct descendants not just of the classical Greeks, but also of the Bronze age Greeks, the Mycenaeans of Homers Illiad and Odyssey, the Greeks of the Trojan war, Achilles, Odysseus, Agamemnon, Menelaus, Nestor etc.
Bro today's greeks have nothing in common with ancient greeks. It is widely believed that almost all greeks were gone when slavs migrated in balkans. What is even more interesting greeks and albanians seem to share a very similiar dna.
@@altinkamberi4395 That theory goes back to a thesis written by an 18th century Tyrolean traveller called Fallmerayer. Who theorised that Greeks have become slavicised. This theory is of course torn to shreds today by anthropology, autosomal DNA and Y-DNA. This proves that the Greeks are highly differentiated genetically from SLavs and Albanians, and that Greek DNA is the most similar to that of Southern ITalians and Tuscans. Indeed the latest DNA studies confirm that modern Greeks are not only descendants of the classical Greeks but also of the Bronze age Mycenaeans of Homer's Trojan war.
@@altinkamberi4395 I know an Albanian woman who knows history as she has studied and says also that they were part of Greece, the illyrian. An albanian said it. Not a greek. And also greek say so of course. Just saying,so you don't think i just say this because I m greek myself.
Soooo maaaany inaccuracies! A state and a civilisation are not the same. Being conquered by the Romans does not mean that an entire civilisation fell! Ancient Greek civilisation was systematicaly destroyed by the christians during the 4th, 5th and 6th centuries.
Ever since the days of Homer, Greeks have long idealized their Mycenaean "ancestors" in epic poems and classic tragedies that glorify the exploits of Odysseus, King Agamemnon, and other heroes who went in and out of favor with the Greek gods. Although these Mycenaeans were mythical, scholars have debated whether today's Greeks descend from the actual Mycenaeans, who created a famous civilization that dominated mainland Greece and the Aegean Sea from about 1600 B.C.E. to 1200 B.C.E., or whether the ancient Mycenaeans simply vanished from the region. Now, ancient DNA suggests that living Greeks are indeed the descendants of Mycenaeans, with only a small proportion of DNA from later migrations to Greece. And the Mycenaeans themselves were closely related to the earlier Minoans, the study reveals, another great civilization that flourished on the island of Crete from 2600 B.C.E. to 1400 B.C.E. (named for the mythical King Minos).
@@History.Simplified romans just adopted Greek culture and even though it was under the Roman Empire there were to parts of the Roman Empire east and west. The east were Greek speaking and later Greek Orthodox and lasted 1000 years after Rome fell
@@antonioantonio3250 come on bro Roman adopted Greek culture and with Greeks they built that empire and later divided it with west and east Latin and Greek www.history.com/news/where-did-the-word-barbarian-come-from
This video is heavily misleading,Carthage wasn’t a Greek outpost and Egypt and Sumerian civilizations are thousands of years older than the baby Greek.
The Greeks didn't invent inheritance. Inheritance existed before the Greek empire. The Old Testament Bible/Jewish Torah long spoke of inheritance in its literature centuries before Greek Empire emerged. Unless you want to argue that the Torah wasnt written until the Greek Empire emerged which is not true ofc.
John 12:20-50 Why are Greeks being mentioned as listening to Jesus’s teachings if Greece was destroyed and dissolved around 330BCE? Wouldn’t they be Roman’s if Rome absorbed Greece, 300 years prior to Jesus’s birth?
Greece wasn't destroyed, it was just absorbed in the Roman Empire, In 330 BC Greece unified and changed from a loose confederation of Hellenic states to unified Imperial Greece with Macedon as the leading Greek state.
Leave aside the Romans; how exactly Greece fell by Macedonia, when Macedonia was a Greek city state and furthermore how the Greek civilization is divided in TWO periods, when we have a third one, the *HELLENISTIC period,* which is Alexander's cultural heritage that stands tall to this day, indeed as tall as the classical period? Strabo, Geography, Book 7 _"Macedonia, of course, is a part of Greece."_
Greek civilization never faults. Just took changes thru times. Lives till today and is called western civilization and in few years Earth's civilization. Modern Greeks are direct descendants of ancient Greeks as the genetic shows but also almost all the western countries and other nations on the planet are spiritual children and heritage of ancient Greeks. Let's all who we follow the culture, logic, values, values and way of thinking of ancient Greeks, be proud for our ancestors. Direct or spiritual, it doesn't matter, we are all theirs children and their glory is our history. Amen.
Wrong! The "other nations on the planet" you mean only refers to the countries in Europe, North Africa and West Asia. They make up only a fifth to a quarter of the world's population European: To the glory that was Greece and the grandeur that was Rome; Vietnam, South Korea, North Korea, Japan and other countries in East Asia and Southeast Asia: Our "Greece" and "Rome" not only still exist, but is also big and strong. In fact, once China ceases to exist, these countries will all declare themselves the legitimate successors of China, just as the Holy Roman Empire and the Ottoman Empire did in the past.
6:30 In nations using civil law, for example, the right of children to inherit wealth from parents in pre-defined ratios is enshrined in law, as far back as the Code of Hammurabi (ca. 1750 BC).
@@ntf5211 Ancient Greece might be good for it's time but seriously modern life is alot more better than what happened there. Although modern life so sucks so is ancient life
Ok. Let’s face the truth. The Greeks cannot bare their cultural heritage. No people could! So, modern Greeks are let to keep on their shoulders the burden of their history; because no other nation could do it.
You mean history propagandized..The Egyptians NEVER had any form of Democracy or voting rights.Nor did the Sumerians...Not only are you lying about the cultural make up of the Ancient Greeks..You are here trying to dived the Greeks by claiming they were different cultures when in FACT they were ONE culture under numerous city states..OOhh and one more thing..Greece didn't start in 700 BC and end in 480 BC.
Liked the clip. The Romans liked the Greek gathering of knowledge, time was where there would be heavily armed Roman expeditions to steal Greek libraries and encyclopedias --- there was also an apparent strong streak of envy (for the lack of a better word or phrase) with the Romans (they had to be the best), and were not above burning other's libraries, killing of smarter people, and on and on. Look it up, sort of a subtle pattern.
thanks but if you spoke a little slower it would be better for whom isnt native speaker and i preferred that you use picture of Persepolis takht jamshid, when you mention persia intead of mosques, because back then there were NOT Muslims there obviously.
I watched the video and I only have to say that its creator ignores a lot. It limits Greek antiquity only to Greece and to a specific era. We Greeks know about our existence and history much more than what is mentioned. As far as civilization is concerned, it never collapsed, since all barbarians speak the Greek language, unknowingly paraphrased, because these were the brain abilities of their ancestors. Even their way of life is a paraphrased Greek way of life, which they inherited from the barbarian Romans. Greece was a global cultural power which, by shrinking its global diaspora, brought about what the various uneducated cultures now call. The timeless effort of the leaders of the Anglo-Saxons, the Celts and the other euro barbarians, as evidenced in the present era, with the help of backward religious leaders, through assassinations, disasters and betrayals, have managed to lead Greece, but this will soon end. We have over 100,000 years of history that the power in Greece conceals but the blood is not water.
it did not fall, it was demolished by Romans, read Pausanians "Description of Greece", they were conquered by Romans cause they were arrogant enough not ever to get a united state
EUROPEAN PEOPLE, THE PELASGIANS... [PAGE 176]... "Proclamation begins with a celebration of European culture and civilization, that so far all the nations of Europe with the exception of the Albanians have become partakers of the shameful means for all humanity"; "...because the Albanians are the descendants of the oldest European people, the Pelasgians"; "The greatest poet of all time, Homer would have been a Pelasgians, or rather, an Albanian"; "All were solid against Troy heroes, these are Albanians, like Alexander the Great, Aristotle and many other famous men of antiquity, which we falsely call as Greeks." "The latter had been for millennia a cowardly, deceitful and scheming people who took possession of the treasures of the Albanians, the Albanian achieved victories with his hero, which owes its culture and art works only to the diligence and creativity of Albanian hands." Title: Macedonia - The historical development of the Macedonian question in antiquity, the Middle Ages and modern times Author: Dr. Cleanthes Nicolaides - 1899 Editor: Johannes Rade, Library Stuhr, Berlin 1899
theres a big lie Christians say and other people believe it also about ancient Greeks. they called them idol worshipers but the fact is that Greeks didnt pray to their Gods, they honored their Gods with festivals and feasts and gifts to the temples but they didnt drag their self on the floor like Christians and their Muslims cousins do.
There are some wonderful elements, particularly around the Sparta/Athens relationship and emergence of democracy and the function of the City States. However, I felt a lack of sufficient attention to 1) the Hellenistic period in which Alexander ruled and sought to expand Greek culture and usher in a world of harmony and the role that his death and the lack of effective succession served to speed Greece's downfall. 2) including some of the many philosophical schools that emerged would also seem to be critical - the role of Plato, Pythagoras, the Stoics and Epicureans, for example. 3) The work of Herodotus the "father of history" as well as the Greek invasion of the mysterious civilization of Crete, which some scholars believe is where Homer got his story, the Iliad. Otherwise enjoyed very much.
The concept of inheritance was created by Greeks lol Inheritance is universal and has existed since prehistoric times. Tribal societies had inheritance.
On macedonian language it is not "Greek" but Grk or Grci ( plural ) which means tart people ! Mayority of today's Greeks are Mavro Grekos ( Guptian new comers ) !
What section of this video was your favorite?
if you believe you know everything about history, you are just an ignorant person trying to become famous. if you want to know who the so-called ancient Greeks are, I am sending you a link to learn the history of the Pelasgian Peninsula better.
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The romans conquered the greeks militarily
The greeks meanwhile conquered the romans culturally and linguistically
The Roman's wanted to be like the greeks and that's why they copied everything like the greek gods and other things but the problem with copying it's that you can't copy something you don't understand (the idea)
@@emmanouilachladiotis5272 Romans didn't copy Greeks, Romans were descendants of Greeks, that's why almost everything were like Greece.
But there are also differences:
1. Roman weapons were far more superior than Greek weapons.
2. Rome was an one republic/empire, while Greece had city states.
3. Greece was far more superior to the Rome in terms of science, geography mathematics, art & philosophy.
@@Desertfox18 i agree that the romans were hellenes.we know from irodotos who say exactly that but in the ancinet world the most powerful weapon was the sarisa from macedonian phalanx not the gladius and greek ancient machines from all greek word.
These are the names of the 7( 8 ) kings of Rome.
Romulus,(Titus Tatius), Numa Pompilius, Tullus Hostilius, Ancus Marcius, Tarquinius Priscus, Servius Tullius, Tarquinius Superbus.
Romulus =Troian origin , Titus Tatius = sabine from Lacedemonian origin ,Numa Pompilius =sabine from Lacedemonian origin ,Tarquinius Priscus =Etruscan from paternal corinthian Doric origin ,Tarquinius Superbus granson of Tarquinius Priscus .
Every attempt to dissociate Rome and Roman empire from Greek influence is doomed to failure.
The granting of citizenship to allies and the conquered was a vital step in the process of Romanization. This step was one of the most effective political tools and (at that point in history) original political ideas.
Previously Alexander the Great had tried to "mingle" his Greeks with the Persians, Egyptians, Syrians, etc. in order to assimilate the people of the conquered Persian Empire, but after his death this policy was largely ignored by his successors.
The idea was not to assimilate, but to turn a defeated and potentially rebellious enemy (or their sons) into Roman citizens. Instead of having to wait for the unavoidable revolt of a conquered people (a tribe or a city-state) like Sparta and the conquered Helots, Rome tried to make those under its rule feel that they had a stake in the system.
@@ΓιώργοςΑ-ψ7ψ The legions were far more superior than phalanx who were outdated, Roman Empire conquered almost all the know world and lived for 2.200 years, Greeks conquered Persian Empire for 5 years (Alexander the Great), and after that Greeks just splitted up into small city-states. You can't compare the power and the Empire of Rome with the greek one, of course greeks are important in the history but Romans were just on another level.
Rome had a solid Empire who lived for millenia and created the nowadays Western Civilization, the other Empires doesn't.
As a Greek, it pains me every time I hear the pronunciation of Greek names, but other than that, it's a pretty accurate video
How does it feel to have 6000yrs of history
Actually the name of Greece in Chinese sounds like "Ksi La" or "He La" (希腊), which I can't express it exactly in English letters but sounds like Hellas.
China prefers to call countries by the pronunciations of how they refer to themselves.
PERKalees!!
I think the pronunciation of Aegean grated on me the most grrrr
You make the assumption that the ancient Greek history end at 323 BC, completely ignoring the Hellenistic period which is one of the most important and influential periods in human history. In my humble opinion, even more than the Classical period.
agreed. macedon was greek as far as I'm concerned.
@@jessefisher1809 Yes, Macedonians were Greek tribe. But even if they weren't, this period was the epitome of the Greek civilization in all aspects from art, trade and science to military.
@@archaeaoris900 Well if they weren't a greek tribe then history would not have played out how it did so how could you know that?
@@archaeaoris900 besides I already said I agreed with your statement so I'm really not sure what you're trying to say?
Homer's Odyssesy & Illiad !!😮 No mention there of Virgil 6:15
Where is the Alexandrian/ Hellenistic period; It is a part of the Greek great civilazation too.
Thanks man! This really helped in my History project and I'm sure I'll get full marks because of you.
Enjoyed this video, some pronunciation questions, all the best, Garry
MODERN GREEKS REALLY DO HAVE MYTHICAL ORIGINS.
Ever since the days of Homer, Greeks have long idealized their Mycenaean "ancestors" in epic poems and classic tragedies that glorify the exploits of Odysseus, King Agamemnon, and other heroes who went in and out of favor with the Greek gods. Although these Mycenaeans were mythical, scholars have debated whether today's Greeks descend from the actual Mycenaeans, who created a famous civilization that dominated mainland Greece and the Aegean Sea from about 1600 B.C.E. to 1200 B.C.E., or whether the ancient Mycenaeans simply vanished from the region.
Now, ancient DNA reveals that living Greeks are indeed the descendants of Mycenaeans, with only a small proportion of DNA from later migrations to Greece. And the Mycenaeans themselves were closely related to the earlier Minoans, the study reveals, another great civilization that flourished on the island of Crete from 2600 B.C.E. to 1400 B.C.E. (named for the mythical King Minos).
No way
@@daladoc No way what???
@@daladoc if you don't believe us then Google it and you don't have to read the hole site and it's also 1 of the first sites that pops you immediately
In 330 BC Greece unified and changed from a loose confederation of Hellenic city states to unified Imperial Greece with Macedon as the leading Greek state.
Actually they fell victims to the kingdom of pella macedon as much as the persians did it wasn't a peaceful unification.But given the fact what followed was the single greatest cultural,scientific and technological revolution period in all of history I'd say it was a necessary evil.
@@Neat_profile The Unification of Japan by the Tokugawa Shogunate was not a peaceful unification either. What difference would it make ? No unification of Greece would be peaceful whether it was Macedon, Athens or Thebes that became the leading Greek power. In fact all the in-fighting between the Greek states was to make sure that no other Greek state became the Ruling power of Greece.
Our conviction is strengthened that the Macedonians were a Greek race and akin to the Dorians, Having stayed behind in the far north they were unable to participated in the progressive civilisation of the tribes which were further south" [Ulrich Wilcken 'Alexander the Great', p 22]
There's some inaccuracies in this video but will let it pass given the sheer difficulty in condensing a 4000+-year history in 12 short minutes.
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Would like to see videos on the Greek ancestors, the Myceneans and the Minoans.
they died around 2000bc. the bronze age and ancient greeks were not related.
the modern greeks are not related to either of them.
@@HandsomeStranger1963 I disagree because the Classical Era Greeks often referenced the Bronze Age Greeks in their philosophical teachings. Herodotas, Plato, Socrates and the doctor Hippocrates knew who the Myceneans and Minoans were. They knew the battle of Troy was real even though Achilles was part of mythology. King Minos of Crete was one of the first great Bronze Age Greek kings. The ordinary citizens didn't have that knowledge when they encountered the old ruins. The Spartans, Athenians, Macedonians etc all claimed heritage from the Myceneans and the older Minoans.
read the renaissance as towhy egyptions have 'greek' names.
thye may have quoted them but pilfering from the great library is just one more fake accomplishment.
and here you are quoting people you have never met.
tell me in what way they referenced the Egyptian greeks?
yes the great library....
@@HandsomeStranger1963 Actually, they were much more closely related than previously thought. Close enough to be considered the same nation. Recent genetic research has revealed their racial connections. According to the DNA analysis, the Minoans were related to the Mycenaeans, and the latter civilization was already accepted as an early Hellenic culture.
Thank you, this helped me a lot in broadening my understanding of the Greek Civilization :>.
The Greek world did not fell with the end of Athenian or Lacedaemonian hegemony over the rest of Greeks.
The way you present it now gives the false impression that Macedon and Alexander's deeds where not a continuation of the Ancient Greek world. It is historically proven that it was. The period which followed the death of Alexander III of the Argead Dynasty, is considered as the peak of Ancient Greek civilisation (hence the name Hellenistic period).
The majority of the Hellenic( aka Greek) world was conquered by Rome eventually. That can be a possible time of the fall of Ancient Greece. The Greek civilisation however, survived and in fact kept thriving inside the Roman empire. The cultural fall of ancient Greece (or drastic transformation, depending on the point of view) came with the adoption of Christianity.
Thanks for the input!
...from which we are still the unwitting victims.
One can argue the Roman period cemented Hellenistic culture and preserved its legacy in the ensuing centuries. As an ancient Mediterranean history buff, I never really considered Roman hegemony over the Greek world as a true 'end' to Greek Civilization barring its political impetus abroad.
_Græcia capta ferum victorem cepit_ "Captive Greece conquered her savage victor" - Horace
nah dude, it fell when it stopped being top dog in the world, dont act like you know everything
The Greek 'mother city-states' would disagree with you. Hammond summarizes the changes that came with the rise of Macedonia. Philip, he states, offered the Greeks a new type of freedom; the freedom to cooperate with one another. He saw this as a golden opportunity for the Greeks, who had for years been destroying themselves from within. But he also concludes, "But the freedom the Greeks had enjoyed for a thousand years, that had come to an end." (not verbatim) According to many of the stories of Greek heroes, their tragedy rested in the fact that the very thing that made them successful also led to their eventual downfall. Character as fate. So fitting then, that the very thing that made the Greeks in their small states successful, would in time bring them to ruin.
You approach just a little bit of what means Greece. And the Greek civilization never fall as long as the Parthenon stands still.
--After the victory battles against Iranians(Persians) we were killing each other(athenians vs spartans) and later Romans defeated us.
.--On byzantine wars,we were fighting each other and for this on 1453 we took defeat from Ottomans.
--on the greek revolution against Turks on 1821,these years we were killing each other,before and after the wars against Turks.
--On 1946 after the battles of WW2 and nazi germans,we were killing each others (From the one side americans and british and the another side Russians) had made half greece on two armies.We were killing each other.
The problem is not that we are weak..no this.The problem is that we are so b..ards and we are killing our blood.
Bro who is killing who
Thank you very much this helped me alot🤗
I'm glad I could help!
Do the rise and fall of the US next
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Nah, that ones still going on
USA is a few liberal elections from falling
I legit didn't realize this was a joke for a second...
And it starts by the US trans their kids 🇨🇳
Wow wow wow very interesting video😊
MACEDONIANS WERE GREEK TOO THEY MADE AN ALLIANCE WITH ATHENS AND THE TOHER CITY STATES TO FIGHT PERSIA ONLY SPARTA REFUSED BECAUSE OF THEIR PRIDE. GREECE DIDNT FALL BECAUSE OF MACEDONIA BUT BECAUSE OF ROME
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@@gamer_boiii3528 get your facts straight
@@gamer_boiii3528 Have you ever opened a history book?
@@christostragas8643 have you heard real history and not this fake history created by you and your artificial state? Alexander was not a so called greek. Aristoteles learns him the so called "greek" language. If i speak german, means this i am german? If i speak english, i am English? Alexander was Illyrian and not a so called "Greek"🤦.
@@Illyrian-Legacy do I really need to reply to this..? Who told you that this was my claim??
Aristotle - that's how it's in English (Αριστοτέλης in greek) - was born in Chalkidiki when the region was an Athenian colony! He was welcomed in Athens and studied among the greatest minds of greek intellectuals like Socrates and Plato! He was raised by, and honoured, the Hellenic customs and prepared Alexander the Great to unite all the city states of Hellas under the Macedonian rule. I consider him a greek not by the language that he spoke but by the fact that his actions did so!
If that's not enough for you, ok!
We agree that we disagree! 😊
simple words uttered by simple minds for the consumption by the simple minded. My commizerations to your history teacher.
amazing
Thank you! It means a lot! :)
im sad i didnt find this chanel earlier
Greek civilisation is the roots of modern civilisation
What is a "modern civilization"?
And indian vedic civilization is root of Greek civilization
Mesopotamian civilization has left the chat
@@aktheking9841 that’s completely false. It’s off topic to a laughable stage. Indian and Greek civilizations are day and night. Lol
@@dbetaki8846 that's not false and that truth at large extent
I don't know why you said that it was Alexander the Great and the Macedonians that started the killing Greece. As a Greek himself, Alexander the Great was the zenith of Hellenistic civilization in terms of the sheer scope of his empire and its influence of the region. After all, the Greeks would install House Ptolemy on the Egyptian throne as Pharaohs, which would outlast Greece itself.
(This video was required viewing for college.)
These facts are so much important.
Thank you for this. It is perfect.
Are modern Greeks direct descendants of the ancient Greeks ? - Yes according to DNA studies, in fact it has been shown that modern Greeks are direct descendants not just of the classical Greeks, but also of the Bronze age Greeks, the Mycenaeans of Homers Illiad and Odyssey, the Greeks of the Trojan war, Achilles, Odysseus, Agamemnon, Menelaus, Nestor etc.
Bro today's greeks have nothing in common with ancient greeks.
It is widely believed that almost all greeks were gone when slavs migrated in balkans.
What is even more interesting greeks and albanians seem to share a very similiar dna.
@@altinkamberi4395 That theory goes back to a thesis written by an 18th century Tyrolean traveller called Fallmerayer. Who theorised that Greeks have become slavicised. This theory is of course torn to shreds today by anthropology, autosomal DNA and Y-DNA. This proves that the Greeks are highly differentiated genetically from SLavs and Albanians, and that Greek DNA is the most similar to that of Southern ITalians and Tuscans. Indeed the latest DNA studies confirm that modern Greeks are not only descendants of the classical Greeks but also of the Bronze age Mycenaeans of Homer's Trojan war.
@@altinkamberi4395 Hope this helps.
@@altinkamberi4395 I know an Albanian woman who knows history as she has studied and says also that they were part of Greece, the illyrian. An albanian said it. Not a greek. And also greek say so of course. Just saying,so you don't think i just say this because I m greek myself.
Anticent greek no exist.
Are just ilirians or albania people
The only reason ancient greece fell is because they couldn't stop fighting eachother
Tbh every civilisation fought each other until their destined doomed. For example central asians like Turks
What is the summary?
Fall? The Empire of Mind still exist everywhere.
Soooo maaaany inaccuracies!
A state and a civilisation are not the same. Being conquered by the Romans does not mean that an entire civilisation fell! Ancient Greek civilisation was systematicaly destroyed by the christians during the 4th, 5th and 6th centuries.
I challenge you to read Byzantine texts.
@@wodzisaww.5500 Me too. Read Julian (emperor), Zosimus, Libanius, "Codex Justinianus" and you'll get a taste.
Highly highly disagree with the Hellenic civilization to have ended during The rise of the Roman era.
Tnx dude u just thought me the whole lesson of Greek civilization it was in my cilabus
So what brought them down?
The rapidity of narration seems the subject is boring.
I feel like the point of this video was to make a quick brief description of Greece and how Greece became Rome. I thought he did a pretty good job.
Ever since the days of Homer, Greeks have long idealized their Mycenaean "ancestors" in epic poems and classic tragedies that glorify the exploits of Odysseus, King Agamemnon, and other heroes who went in and out of favor with the Greek gods. Although these Mycenaeans were mythical, scholars have debated whether today's Greeks descend from the actual Mycenaeans, who created a famous civilization that dominated mainland Greece and the Aegean Sea from about 1600 B.C.E. to 1200 B.C.E., or whether the ancient Mycenaeans simply vanished from the region.
Now, ancient DNA suggests that living Greeks are indeed the descendants of Mycenaeans, with only a small proportion of DNA from later migrations to Greece. And the Mycenaeans themselves were closely related to the earlier Minoans, the study reveals, another great civilization that flourished on the island of Crete from 2600 B.C.E. to 1400 B.C.E. (named for the mythical King Minos).
Superb
Great story, thanks
A typical misconception is that most GReeks lived in city-states. That is patently wrong! Most Greeks lived in small communities and villages.
When was greece civilization starts?
Thousand of years ago
Thank you for this well executed video
The insights provided in this ancient history documentary are invaluable. Truly a must-watch.
Greece never fell
Greece fell after ancient Rome conquered the various city-states and demolished the city of Corinth.
@@History.Simplified Ys, but Greece is always alive in the hearts and minds of every real Hellene.
@@History.Simplified romans just adopted Greek culture and even though it was under the Roman Empire there were to parts of the Roman Empire east and west. The east were Greek speaking and later Greek Orthodox and lasted 1000 years after Rome fell
Lol...never fell..
After they fell.. no more Greece even till this day ..unless you live Olive's
@@antonioantonio3250 come on bro Roman adopted Greek culture and with Greeks they built that empire and later divided it with west and east Latin and Greek
www.history.com/news/where-did-the-word-barbarian-come-from
This video is heavily misleading,Carthage wasn’t a Greek outpost and Egypt and Sumerian civilizations are thousands of years older than the baby Greek.
Your pronunciation of ancient Greek names is very off. Try paying more attention to the spelling.
Let's talk about the comeback of Greek civilization after the fall of the church.
The Greeks didn't invent inheritance. Inheritance existed before the Greek empire. The Old Testament Bible/Jewish Torah long spoke of inheritance in its literature centuries before Greek Empire emerged. Unless you want to argue that the Torah wasnt written until the Greek Empire emerged which is not true ofc.
in your dreams maybe you dont even know history
Hellas...."H" is silent there sir
Excellent video, I’ve just uploaded a deep-dive presentation on Plato vs Aristotle on my channel!
I cant believe that account is so underrated, literary, YT doesn't know how much effort it took to create such informational videos. So sad YT.....
Thank you
Why does it feel like a parallel to modern day America's trajectory.
John 12:20-50 Why are Greeks being mentioned as listening to Jesus’s teachings if Greece was destroyed and dissolved around 330BCE? Wouldn’t they be Roman’s if Rome absorbed Greece, 300 years prior to Jesus’s birth?
Greece wasn't destroyed, it was just absorbed in the Roman Empire, In 330 BC Greece unified and changed from a loose confederation of Hellenic states to unified Imperial Greece with Macedon as the leading Greek state.
Do you contend that the Bible ... any version ... is accurate history ?
Leave aside the Romans; how exactly Greece fell by Macedonia, when Macedonia was a Greek city state and furthermore how the Greek civilization is divided in TWO periods, when we have a third one, the *HELLENISTIC period,* which is Alexander's cultural heritage that stands tall to this day, indeed as tall as the classical period?
Strabo, Geography, Book 7
_"Macedonia, of course, is a part of Greece."_
BGM?
Greek civilization never faults. Just took changes thru times. Lives till today and is called western civilization and in few years Earth's civilization.
Modern Greeks are direct descendants of ancient Greeks as the genetic shows but also almost all the western countries and other nations on the planet are spiritual children and heritage of ancient Greeks.
Let's all who we follow the culture, logic, values, values and way of thinking of ancient Greeks, be proud for our ancestors. Direct or spiritual, it doesn't matter, we are all theirs children and their glory is our history. Amen.
Wrong!
The "other nations on the planet" you mean only refers to the countries in Europe, North Africa and West Asia. They make up only a fifth to a quarter of the world's population
European: To the glory that was Greece and the grandeur that was Rome;
Vietnam, South Korea, North Korea, Japan and other countries in East Asia and Southeast Asia: Our "Greece" and "Rome" not only still exist, but is also big and strong.
In fact, once China ceases to exist, these countries will all declare themselves the legitimate successors of China, just as the Holy Roman Empire and the Ottoman Empire did in the past.
My students thought the video was boring
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6:30 In nations using civil law, for example, the right of children to inherit wealth from parents in pre-defined ratios is enshrined in law, as far back as the Code of Hammurabi (ca. 1750 BC).
History is constantly repeating, I wish the current superpower would learn from this.
ahh, yes. the worst kind of natural disaster: invasion.
The Ancient Greece goes back thousands of years,takes time for humans to become at the level those people were.
We are already levels above that level
@@ntf5211 Ancient Greece might be good for it's time but seriously modern life is alot more better than what happened there. Although modern life so sucks so is ancient life
Ok. Let’s face the truth. The Greeks cannot bare their cultural heritage. No people could!
So, modern Greeks are let to keep on their shoulders the burden of their history; because no other nation could do it.
Greek is a very ancient civilization that taught all of humanity! It has been a wonder where the descendants of the Greeks have been since then!
Make a video on indus empire
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This video has more errors than truth.
You mean history propagandized..The Egyptians NEVER had any form of Democracy or voting rights.Nor did the Sumerians...Not only are you lying about the cultural make up of the Ancient Greeks..You are here trying to dived the Greeks by claiming they were different cultures when in FACT they were ONE culture under numerous city states..OOhh and one more thing..Greece didn't start in 700 BC and end in 480 BC.
Thoroughness
Debts?Hard to imagine Greece without debts.
Carthage was Greek?
No it was Phoenician
Liked the clip. The Romans liked the Greek gathering of knowledge, time was where there would be heavily armed Roman expeditions to steal Greek libraries and encyclopedias --- there was also an apparent strong streak of envy (for the lack of a better word or phrase) with the Romans (they had to be the best), and were not above burning other's libraries, killing of smarter people, and on and on. Look it up, sort of a subtle pattern.
macedonian gathering of informaion.
history is history.
the greek myth is not.
the ancients did not have encylopaedias
@@HandsomeStranger1963 Go and troll somewhere else
they did not need heavily armed expeditions . all was rome you little pratt.
@@HandsomeStranger1963 xd in your dreams you slav kiddo
Macedonians were the peak of ultimate glory for Greek Civilization before the union with Rome which gave birth to Graeco Roman civilization.
And Roman or “Graeco-Roman” isn’t Greek???... the last peak of Greek civilization was Rome not Macedon
@@DivineHellas I suppose we say the same thing. Let me change my statement
thanks but if you spoke a little slower it would be better for whom isnt native speaker and i preferred that you use picture of Persepolis takht jamshid, when you mention persia intead of mosques, because back then there were NOT Muslims there obviously.
I watched the video and I only have to say that its creator ignores a lot.
It limits Greek antiquity only to Greece and to a specific era. We Greeks know about our existence and history much more than what is mentioned.
As far as civilization is concerned, it never collapsed, since all barbarians speak the Greek language, unknowingly paraphrased, because these were the brain abilities of their ancestors.
Even their way of life is a paraphrased Greek way of life, which they inherited from the barbarian Romans. Greece was a global cultural power which, by shrinking its global diaspora, brought about what the various uneducated cultures now call.
The timeless effort of the leaders of the Anglo-Saxons, the Celts and the other euro barbarians, as evidenced in the present era, with the help of backward religious leaders, through assassinations, disasters and betrayals, have managed to lead Greece, but this will soon end.
We have over 100,000 years of history that the power in Greece conceals but the blood is not water.
it did not fall, it was demolished by Romans, read Pausanians "Description of Greece", they were conquered by Romans cause they were arrogant enough not ever to get a united state
EUROPEAN PEOPLE, THE PELASGIANS...
[PAGE 176]...
"Proclamation begins with a celebration of European culture and civilization, that so far all the nations of Europe with the exception of the Albanians have become partakers of the shameful means for all humanity";
"...because the Albanians are the descendants of the oldest European people, the Pelasgians";
"The greatest poet of all time, Homer would have been a Pelasgians, or rather, an Albanian";
"All were solid against Troy heroes, these are Albanians, like Alexander the Great, Aristotle and many other famous men of antiquity, which we falsely call as Greeks."
"The latter had been for millennia a cowardly, deceitful and scheming people who took possession of the treasures of the Albanians, the Albanian achieved victories with his hero, which owes its culture and art works only to the diligence and creativity of Albanian hands."
Title: Macedonia - The historical development of the Macedonian question in antiquity, the Middle Ages and modern times
Author: Dr. Cleanthes Nicolaides - 1899
Editor: Johannes Rade, Library Stuhr, Berlin 1899
theres a big lie Christians say and other people believe it also about ancient Greeks. they called them idol worshipers but the fact is that Greeks didnt pray to their Gods, they honored their Gods with festivals and feasts and gifts to the temples but they didnt drag their self on the floor like Christians and their Muslims cousins do.
Like there is no idol worship in christianity 😂
Farming community - fedualism- social inequality - taxation - army- city state- nation state - autocracy -fall
In the what Sea?! Ajyeon?! Bruh it's "Ey-jian."
Aegean Sea.
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civil eye zations
There are some wonderful elements, particularly around the Sparta/Athens relationship and emergence of democracy and the function of the City States. However, I felt a lack of sufficient attention to 1) the Hellenistic period in which Alexander ruled and sought to expand Greek culture and usher in a world of harmony and the role that his death and the lack of effective succession served to speed Greece's downfall. 2) including some of the many philosophical schools that emerged would also seem to be critical - the role of Plato, Pythagoras, the Stoics and Epicureans, for example. 3) The work of Herodotus the "father of history" as well as the Greek invasion of the mysterious civilization of Crete, which some scholars believe is where Homer got his story, the Iliad. Otherwise enjoyed very much.
You pronounced Aegean completely wrong 😑 it’s pronounced Uh-Jee-Uhn not aggy-on 😂
2:45 the silly states 😂
The concept of inheritance was created by Greeks lol
Inheritance is universal and has existed since prehistoric times. Tribal societies had inheritance.
Source :the rock's hair
Zeus and posiden
Kratos destroyed it
The video was nice, but the pronunciation of their names was pretty bad, but nice video though.
the greek city states were not one civilization
On macedonian language it is not "Greek" but Grk or Grci ( plural )
which means tart people !
Mayority of today's Greeks are Mavro Grekos ( Guptian new comers ) !
@@voskreglavincevska3651 Macedonian language
is only Greek not slav like your country
God was not impressed with Greek cuz God created Greek Alhamdulillah ☝🏽
Is there any evidence of a "Christ" ?
we're here cuz our teachers are making us watch this, right?
AGEE-AHN
A lot of this is factually wrong.
04:45 - “…and despite being assaulted by several natural disasters, like earthquakes and invasions… “ LOL, wut?