How to Build a Civilization (Part 1) - Geography
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- Опубліковано 7 лип 2024
- How do you build a civilization with Geography?
Thanks to Taured8 for drawing the section about crops: Taured8?s=09
How did our ancient ancestors choose a location to build their civilizations? What did they need? And which place is the best? Find out in this video.
And if you enjoy the video please make sure to like, share, comment, and subscribe. Don't miss out on Part 2: / h0ser
0:00 Introduction
0:37 Finding good land
3:29 Rivers
5:31 Rice rice baby
7:24 Animal galore
9:23 Conclusion
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“Uhh only if there was a way to outsource labor”
Everyone: wow… slavery
Him: no, domestication!!
tbf for thousands of years that's how it was done.
Hmm.... colonies-
Only small minds thought slavery. The rest of us knew he meant domesticated animals. (But when you think about it it's still slavery.)
I'm surprised people havn't yelled animal abuse yet.
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But
Interesting the video alludes to China and USA being ideal places for a civilisation. Unsurprisingly these two happen to be the top two superpowers today.
Altough USA benefits alot from the Europeans and the stuff they brought
@@no8592 like china ?
@@sotch2271 lol exactly, china's ripped everything off of us 🇺🇸
@@scavulous6336 except they are 3000 years older than us.
@@gaja9092 no, modern China was crested by commies in the 40's to 50'
Llamas were domesticated from undulates in south america, as were alpacas. Both of their ancestors, as well as the ancestral species to horses, evolved in the americas
@Atheist Biologist yeah sorry I mean Ungulates which are hoofed mammals such as cows, pigs, deer, horses, etc.
@Atheist Biologist I do really want to see a llama attempt to inchworm it's way up the andes mountains now tho xD
@@Noam-Bahar yes indeedily, both dromedaries and bactrian camels, and llamas are in the Tylopoda suborder :)
I think if there was a similar culture to that of the East then the Native Americans would’ve been on par if not more advanced than the East if given time. Unfortunately Disease would’ve still been an issue but now on both sides
@@Virtrialnative brazillians also domesticated wild ducks (chairina moschata), for feathers and meat
Just a note here: even though rice has many advantages, it DOES take up a HUGE amount of labour to grow. In fact, it is perhaps the most labour-intensive grain out there, which has had many important effects from making social rules stricter to hindering industrialisation.
Yeah, but once you got past that bottleneck, the advantage outweighs the cons.
@@radityapoerwanto7018 It does in a medieval context, but not in a modern one. It allows you to stratify your society effectively but also causes stagnation when others might modernize, as seen in china and many parts of southeast asia.
I would add a fifth element for a great civilization: A metal that can be forged easily enough but that is strong enough to make weapons. Think about it: In ancient America they could work with silver and gold but they never found their way to work with iron. Centuries later, their weapons were still made of wood and rock
The Americas has loads of iron deposits. Bronze may have been a bit more difficult due to the comparative rarity of tin.
@@ShnoogleMan actually incas and aztecs used copper in their jewelry and ornaments. Yet no precolombian people could learn to use iron
@@cesar.m.ibarra you also need tin for bronze, not just copper.
@@ShnoogleMan i agree. Thats why I said copper. As a whole, metallurgy was pretty underdeveloped in America compared to eurasiatic civilizations
Mesoamerica and South America actually did have bronze, and used bronze axes as weapons, regularly. I think the real issue was that obsidian blades were just too good to give up, so research into bettering their metallurgy never got too far. They ended up falling down a technological dead end, and without outside context, they couldn't see that.
Arguably, something similar happened in the Old World with bronze and iron. Iron was abundant, but iron blades were trash compared to bronze (at least so the time), so it didn't make sense to replace it-until the bronze age collapse, and it suddenly became a whole lot harder to sustain the trading networks that allowed for bronze. Thus, iron was only adopted because there was no other choice.
In the Americas, obsidian was rather abundant, and took very little effort to create a weapon, so bronze was only used for axes and other tools that were expected to take quite a beating, and the sharpness of the edge didn't matter as much.
Granted, this is all oversimplification, mixed in with my own speculations.
LOVE THE ENTHUSIASM IN THE VOICEOVER you killed this
Hi, I own Llamas, and you can definitely count them as both work and companion animals. Llamas are pack animals and can be used to transport goods, as well as act emotionally intelligent. When we lost one of our llamas a few years ago, we buried her out in our pasture which is far enough away and has many breaks in sight for the mother to have no idea where her daughter went. After we brought them out to graze in the pasture and let them graze for the day, the mother was found laying on top of her daughters grave when we went to bring them back to the barn. You could claim she was sunning herself on the dirt or something else, but the part that compels me is the fact that we bury our animals on the male side of the pasture, not the female side. We had left the gate open due to keeping the males back at the barn. We do this occasionally to let the grass grow back on the other side, but sometimes we leave the divider gate open between the sides. None of our llamas ever liked to go onto the opposite genders side for pretty much any reason. Don't ask me why, they just never did. So the fact that she was on the males side and directly on top of her daughters grave led me to truly believe they are emotionally intelligent creatures and can form bonds with their human caretakers.
That was a nice story, thank you
Do Llamas have good hooves for climbing?
man they drank milk from their mother just like you and I... even rats, most mammals are freaking emotionally inteligent. what they lack in maths, atomic physics and accounting, they have in feels.
Poor Llama
That’s so sweet 😭😭 omg I’m sorry you lost one of your llamas they’re one of my favorite animals
Hey this reminds me of a book called the accidental superpower.. The only mistake I noticed is that rice is extremely labor intensive. You need to flood and drain the fields, hand plant and hand pick the rice. You can't just have a tractor do it all like wheat and corn
This simplifies a lot of reasons why "civilization" formed where they formed. Anthropologists and archaeologists will tell you various cultures are more complex than they look. Especially in history.
Like what I'm saying on specific country in asia that their culture and society is unsophisticated and uncivilized enough because they don't have a tradition of writing history like China
@@mechanikalbull5626 what?? What country is that??
No shit its more complex in real life
of course... can't cover dozens of hours of nuance in a video of this length, what did you expect
like archaeologists could even make a video like this. Weak.
why doesnt South Asia (India & surounding areas) count as a strong contender?
1.it has fertile land protected by the Indian Ocean to the south, the Himalayan Mountains to the north, jungles to the east, and desert mountians to the west
2. it has lots of rivers. Indus, Ganges, and Brahaputra being the major ones
3. it has rice, millet, and other grains for food crops
4. it has animals such as the Zebu, a domesticated cow species native to the area
because india in particular is not very well protected, if the himalayas extended to the whole northern frontier they would, but they hav ea big gap in the east around the area of pakistan trough where each adn every invasor has come, and has wrekcked their shit most of the time.
@@cseijifja that area is actually to the west of India and is a mountainous desert. The history of invaders coming from that direction doesnt mean it isnt protective geography, just that it's the weakest. If we're gonna use that argument, then china's northern corridor (also a desert) wouldn't count as protective geography because invaders like the mongols and manchu have historically entered from there and fromed their own governments like the Yuan and Qing
Nope, the western part of India is much easier to invade then, say, any side of china (the north is too cold, the east has a desert and many mountains, the south has thick, impenetrable jungles, and the west has the oceans to protect them
Vegetarianism. It made them weak.
@@lesussie2237 these aren't historic tho
India is currently losing territory to China because of their geography
I would choose Anatolia, The Levant, Greece, Egypt, Iraq, and Hungary as lands to conquer to start off with
Ottoman Empire 2: Electric Boogaloo
@@prdarlin It would of course have it’s own culture and history, different from the Ottomans.
@KJJ Let the kid use his imagination, damnit.
@@prdarlin If I was a kid that is. But I like that area, great for trade and Anatolia is very defendable.
@KJJ I have other locations I would probably set up civilization, like North America, or France and Iberia, but I prefer what I mentioned before, Anatolia is easily defendable, same with Italy, with the Alps, I know I would not stay at that height, and may lose a province or 2 but they would keep their heartland of Anatolia and the Balkans!
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There's an old youtuber named Sam O'nella who had audio very similar to yours. He made it work.
1:51 The Polynesians are just going to ignore that they heard that.
how to start a civilization
number 1. live near river
number 2. wait 5000 years
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5:24 Argentina also has that benefit, mountains to the west, jungles and desert to the north, antarctica to the south, and ocean to the east
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I got colonised by the British Empire
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Indigenous complex civilizations did develop in the Americas, with things like cities and specialization of labor. I can think of 5 major groups off the top of my head. Also, llamas and alpacas are indigenous to South America. You also forgot to mention that in North America turkeys were domesticated.
Incredibly well thought out video.
The sad thing is that at one point only 10,000 years ago South America including Brazil had so much biodiversity that could have been domesticated such as Ground Sloths, Cuvieroniuses, Notiomastodons, Glyptodons, Toxodons, Macrauchenia, and Hippidions! The potential for civilization was massive, but it was all wasted when the natives unfortunately killed them all off, dooming them to be technologically behind the rest of the world, giving Europeans the perfect advantage that they needed to conquer the entirety of North and South America!
it seems they died off not only because of this, but because of the fact their size itself hindered them from finding enought food reousrces to sustain themselves.
South america did have a civilization, which this channel has forgotten about, Peru contains a craddle of civilization in norte chico, wich stands with mesopotamia, china, the indus valley, and the nile river delta.
South american cultivated both corn and potatoes, and domesticied lamas and guinea pigs as both food and transport animals, unfortunately, there were no ox nor burden beasts in south america , wich stiffled growth.
The europeans conquered north and south american because EVERYONE died of sicknesses, not other particular reason.
Europeans conquered Central and South America basically out of historical luck - the Incan Empire had just come out of an intensely brutal civil war when the Spanish arrived. Even then, there were multiple very close battles involved where the Inca used tight-quarters combat with spears against cavalry. As for the Aztecs, they were a rapidly-expanding militaristic civilization on the brink of collapse from all their expansion, with many enemies that the Spanish forces could (and did!) play against the Aztecs.
not just any big animal is domesticable. Africa has plenty of megafauna and no native domesticated species. You need social animals.
@@appa609 - The camel?
@Atheist Biologist I think he is talking about european diseases that killed majority of natives not some animal disease
Good analysis, keep the great job!
Rice is extremely labor intensive, and takes about as much water to grow as wheat and other common grains, and in a medieval context would have taken far more.
Asia's higher population in pre modern times had more to do with a combination of climate, water abundance, and rich and fertile soils due to the many flood plains and volcano ash rich soils in southeast asia.
Argentina is a solid start too. You get corn and potatoes, Llamas and a river system. With mountains to your west, ocean to the east and a rain forest to your north.
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Nice video
Thanks for the tutorial gonna try it out now
lemme know how it goes
this video is super awesome
Nice video bro
So, this is where one of my fav channels started. Cool.
Thank you, a long time ago I wanted to start my civilization and I didn't know how 😃👍
We were doing a Civilization essay at my school. Teacher put you on for help. Best day ever
Nice work .
I’d probably wanna start off around the Dniester river. It would have pretty good farmland, easy access the the Black and Baltic Sea for trade and freshwater, and European bison and Eurasian horses would be great for domestication.
8:04 this is actually incorrect, Brazil DID in fact have pre-Colombian societies and civilizations that were agricultural and populated. There were “mound” fortified settlements which can be seen across Brazil today. These varied in shapes, and today can still be recognized as either circle mounds or rectangle mounds. There were large road networks between these mound villages which were, in one of the reports by Antonio Pires de Campos, home to a vast population inhabiting the region, with villages connected by straight, wide roads that were constantly kept clean.
However I do agree that there would be a lack of pack animals, but the evidence for large social structures and settlement planning does show that Brazil has the potential for starting civilization. (Though this occurred far after the earliest civilizations formed)
If I remember correctly, recent archeological evidence suggests that the Amazon civilizations did use the ecosystem to do their labor for them - they just didn't do it with pack animals. Instead, they domesticated many of the naturally-occurring plants of the Amazon to be highly useful for humans - and then instead of farming, they allowed the rainforest to take over. It's a genius strategy, really. Why waste all that human labor farming brazilnuts, when you can just count on the Amazon to grow a fuckton of them automatically? Then you can just selectively breed them, so the naturally-occurring rainforest ecosystem becomes hospitable to human life! I'm not sure I've seen this decentralized domestication strategy anywhere else, but it seems incredible, and I hope modern Western civilization can learn from it.
this is great!
Thanks for tutorial
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Waiting for part 2
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@@h0ser already
How to Build a Civilization (Part I):
1. Be in a FLAT LAND.
2. Have a GOOD DEFENSE.
3. Be close to a RIVER.
4. Grow grains like CORN and RICE.
5. Domesticate animals that are:
1) Docile;
2) Weak;
3) Predominant;
4) Easy to manipulate.
This is a good video for writing and world building.
Great video 👍
Cool af good video
More like fatal af
Time to build my own civilization now, thx h0ser
Fantastic channel
1:21 that tigers face is hilarious
the 'control the river, you control the empire' reminds me of that one line in rango that is ''basically'' the same
Are you sure corn is the best in terms of ease of growing and nutrition? Potatoes are easier to grow in poor soil, contain all 9 amino acids, and are very calorie dense.
I think the real reason corn is so popular is a mix of excessive American corn subsidies and the fact that grains like corn, wheat, and rice with fairly consistent sized grains is just easier to tax.
Nah Corn gives you the best yield of any crop.
Rice is probably better if you can get the conditions right. But I think potatoes are an interesting substitute.
Potatoes is lacking in nutrients
Ireland cries in the background
If you wanna end up like Ireland, maybe.
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Finally the tutorial i needed
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will update
Just what I was looking for, good video
Btw, I live in Chile, how good is it for to build a civilization?
1. We are surrounded by the Pacific ocean, the Andes Mountains and the most arid desert on the planet:
2. We have plenty of rivers and a lakes
3. We don't have jungles or many dangerous creatures
4. We can grow corn and potatoes
5. We have copper and saltpeter in the north (saltpeter can be used as fertilizer and for nitric acid)
6. We have llamas on the north (although it might be a stretch)
The only downsides are that it can be a bit small and we don't have many "useful" animals
Aside from the desert, it’s a pretty solid place to start. Why do you think the Incas built their empire in the Andes? xD not to mention, those massive deserts have raw lithium in them, worth tons of $
Well the Inca did quite well and they were partially in Chile so yea
I'd say it's because the land is thin and not wide and therefore the river can't get big enough before it met the sea, thought that just one of the many reasons
The issue with the desert is that it doesn't protect from anything, it just blocks you off from the sea, which isn't even that great as the Pacific is far too big to matter beyond coastal transport, which again won't be useful if it's mostly desert.
Lamas are ok-tier, basically sheep, not very good for land work and aside from children it's a bad idea to ride one.
The main issue with the Andes is obviously it's length and it being mountains making it hard to control, but i do wonder how much the Inca Empire could have expended before a more conventional collapse (had the americas stayed in isolation), maybe it could've had the same effect as others in spreading a shared culture/administrative system between heir states, leading to an iron age &co.
The Incas were incredible for a bronze-tech civilisation the terrain mostly prevented authoritarian power from taking over, which is good for progress/ideas but bad for assimilation/centralisation, yet they managed to perform the later quite well.
The number one problem by far is still the same however, the moment some old-world explorers disembark on the continent, 90+% of your population is fucked and there's nothing you can do about it.
Only way for the civilisation to survive is for the gap between first explorers and military expedition is large enough for it to at least stabilise and have the population recover as much as possible from the apocalypse.
You can go to Peru, where the Inca started.
Great video, but I think France and the UK are also great locations as if your starting from scrach you won't be able to take advantage of those teritories
and defences as it so vast where as France and the UK have exelent medium scale nations (Just move France's border the the Rine and your good)
I think he means Civilizations, not local cultrues...
Civilization means people speaking eatting wearing using writing in a totally different ways
France and the UK are just like 2 provinces of Roma Civilization
Thanks very helpful
The history of humans: if the environment is nice enough to be desirable by humans, there's thousands of other animals that feel the same way
This is lovely
Wow cool video
Great video but u need to work on some voice like a little bit slow and claiming and some humour is also good things to add love u❤️
love u too boss
Nice, now i can make my own country!
Thanks bro!
Can I join?
is it actually crazy that i want to go back in time with a couple of my friends and build a village?
@@fanniinnanetguy653 I read somewhere you’d need atleast 75 people to prevent inbreeding.
@@aegonii8471 you just need your neighborhood then?
If you want your village to last you would need both men and woman so new people can be born so your village does not run out of people and become empty
Idk that profile pic seems a little sus
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Thanks ,it worked
Thanks, I'll try this in some random river in the middle of a desert at north-east africa, hope it works!!
A legend born
This video will be really useful for when we all snap within 5 years and need to make a new society after ours goes past the point of no return
What about Europe?
Europe also has huge amounts of power, it even has the capital of one of the other superpowers, Moscow, Russia.
There's the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the entire Mediterranean and Black seas, rivers, an ocean to the west, and mountains in the south.
Turkic & Mongols and arabs : hello bozo
@@kalenooc4938 ?
@@kalenooc4938 they never conquered the ibérian peninsula nor the Italian peninsula
@@reinodeforaminia8322 what,bruh the arab control iberian during caliphate time
@@fadhil2831 but no turks
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I’m so impressed by this niche of knowledge and it’s rarity, how would one come across such learning? I’d like to educate myself in like matters and means.
you are forgetting about norte chico in south america, and the olmecs, wich ar craddles of cvilizations too, the mexicans made do withotu beasts of burdens, and the native peruvians made do with llamas, Cuys, and their prefred crops.
Making do without beasts of burden led to slavery and tribute and every single neighbor hating them with a passion.
Which led to pretty much everyone joining the Spanish and kicking the Aztecs even after they were down.
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Even his begginings are bangers
This some good shit
That part where you almost transitioned to talking about slavery but stopped yourself was the funniest part of the video
If I was to pick, I would choose islands like Ireland, UK and I suppose Japan as they have good farmland inland, plenty of rivers and defended by the sea.
Nah Japan is way too mountainous
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This video would be very helpful to some guys a few thousand years ago
as a civ6 gamer i find this tutorial very helpful
Finland would be pretty easy to defend but it will get really cold during Winter so it wouldn't Be The best Place to pick it
winter and forests are good for defence
the calusa would like to have a word with you around 1:53- specifically how "building an empire based on fishing" is impossible
thanks for the tip im gonna make my own country now
2:00 always love a good Monty Python reference
Here in Mexico you can eat pretty much everything and it's all so delicious. This location freakin' rocks and you all know it!
Yeah, the non-desert part of Mexico is pretty sick tbh. You've got good farmland, good wildlife, and the desert and seas to repel invasions.
Ok ty man for the turtorial i kept getting stuck
Mayans and amazonians managed to build civilizations in the rainforest. Amazonians collapsed for unknown reasons but left extensive channels and agricultural patforms
2:11
"I'll pretend I didn't hear that"
- Switzerland
(At least they did some pretty epic stuff to avoid the problems)
7:24 I thought this was a sponsorship ad lol
We need a part two
Whos going to tell him
Just a side note, couscous and a west african rice known as carolina gold in the US were also staple crops for west african societies
Thanks my clash of clan village will really appreciate it
I'd say a modern say modern-day France, would be pretty good, maybe extend the northeastern border all the way to the Rhine, should be pretty defensible, temperature is livable, lots of rivers, and huge plus, horses and cattle are plentiful
There wasn't any complex civilisation in France until the romans conquered it, before that there were the Gaul tribes
@@mrtrollnator123 the gauls and the Germanic barbarians actually did have complex tribes and ways of life though
@@willevensen7130 they did, but no complex Kingdom or state, they were rich, yes, however they were still tribal
Fun facts. Back then there were 2 dog breeds in Mexico: the Chihuahua and the Xolo. But these dogs are not very useful for hunting, training or protection. They both are hard to train. One of them is super small to protect you or to hunt with you, and although the other has a good size, it lacks hair but also has bad and weak teeth, because for some reason hair genes are related to teeth genes in dogs. So they only really used those dogs as company or directly as food. Every detail matters.
You should still keep a multitude of crops as they are important, many of them are used in medicines, and are needed, they can help health
tbh just watching to use this in A Township Tale
This just turned to a country recipe
I googled for CIV 6 guides, but i aint dissapointed
I’d argue that the Netherlands with a small bit of belgium and Germany also qualifies. A flat river delta with a sea to the west, mountains to the south and cold tundras in the north.
What about the east?
The north european plain isnt half bad, but the Netherlands specifically aint all that great.
Theres a reason dutch costal defense infrastructure is one of the seven wonders of zhe world