Ancient Greece in 18 minutes

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  • Опубліковано 3 тра 2024
  • Homer, The Minotaur, 300 spartans, Greek theatre, Parthenon, democracy - everything that you once knew, but forgot, in a crash course video by Arzamas.
    Narrated by Brian Cox.
    "Ancient Greece in 18 minutes" is an English version of a Russian video by Arzamas. We also have a few other projects in English:
    Russian Art in the 20th Century - arzamas.academy/likbez/russian...
    Who are you in 1917 Russia? - arzamas.academy/materials/1269
    Taunt Like The Bard (a Shakespeare insult generator) - arzamas.academy/materials/1026

КОМЕНТАРІ • 5 тис.

  • @rimkyul6664
    @rimkyul6664 4 роки тому +8418

    Im guessing we all are either preparing for a test
    or
    we're just nerds

    • @heavenlydomain6186
      @heavenlydomain6186 4 роки тому +916

      Just nerds

    • @kajkajan1906
      @kajkajan1906 4 роки тому +241

      Why not both

    • @fallon4992
      @fallon4992 4 роки тому +36

      Test tomorrow and I forgot almost everything

    • @Henrytorybot
      @Henrytorybot 4 роки тому +15

      If you were preparing for a test, you should see other fonts, since this video as a few historical errors

    • @levimata9053
      @levimata9053 4 роки тому +37

      Just a fellow nerd lol

  • @krystianbozsodi3162
    @krystianbozsodi3162 4 роки тому +4289

    so Ancient Rome was just the dlc of the Greeks

    • @TheLacedaemonian
      @TheLacedaemonian 4 роки тому +284

      Not the DLC, Rome was Modern Warfare 3 of Ancient Greeks, Modern Warfare 2.

    • @rizixxx3761
      @rizixxx3761 3 роки тому +159

      Yeah i mean the romans elevatad greek culture. They spread it to places it has not been before and invanted new things while doing so.

    • @thomasj3421
      @thomasj3421 3 роки тому +6

      exactly

    • @kristypapa7444
      @kristypapa7444 3 роки тому +133

      @@rizixxx3761 copied the greek culture

    • @Hugh_Morris
      @Hugh_Morris 3 роки тому +151

      @@kristypapa7444 wee bit more complicated than that; Etruscan kings brought their own culture, inspired by Greeks, to Rome. Then later on, as Roman contact with the Greeks intensified, they adapted more and more elements of the culture while giving it their own flair. To say they copied is not fair, they looked up to the ancient Greeks, but looked down on the Greeks of their own time.

  • @beesonbandit6639
    @beesonbandit6639 2 роки тому +1338

    “The Trojan wars are as distant to Alexander the Great as we are to the Viking age” now that’s crazy to think about

    • @notcreatedfromaribshesjust9173
      @notcreatedfromaribshesjust9173 2 роки тому

      ❤️❤️❤️ua-cam.com/video/WkyLI8UIeXg/v-deo.html❤️❤️❤️Humanity❤️❤️❤️.

    • @Useraghjk14
      @Useraghjk14 Рік тому +23

      Troy was a another greek city state who ruled Bosporus
      Thats why the war happened
      Founded at 1300 bc by aiolian greeks , from thessaly.
      First greek colonization
      The Hellenic history is so vast and detailed that no be explained in a minute video
      Read greek history

    • @aykhanaliyev4720
      @aykhanaliyev4720 Рік тому +13

      @@Useraghjk14 nope, the main theory is that troy was a luwian city. Ancient greece as you think of it did not exist during the bronze age

    • @gotell6079
      @gotell6079 Рік тому

      Yes.

    • @mema8734
      @mema8734 Рік тому

      @@Useraghjk14 Troy was founded much more before the 1300 b.c.e. Probably during the end of the 3rd M b.c.e

  • @johndevries7397
    @johndevries7397 3 роки тому +2032

    Saying that Macedonians are 'distant relatives' of Greeks is like saying that Texans are 'distant relatives' of Americans

    • @member100xy
      @member100xy 3 роки тому +15

      do you the Texans of Ports of entry like Galveston or the original Texans

    • @chris_bagl
      @chris_bagl 3 роки тому +188

      @@medpol Lol learn history first and then talk again. Tito's propaganda worked as it seems.

    • @chris_bagl
      @chris_bagl 3 роки тому +160

      @@medpol Tito wanted an independent state in the region northern of Macedonia for political reasons. And he made you believe that you are a unique nation.

    • @goro2867
      @goro2867 3 роки тому +60

      @@chris_bagl he wanted cuz he was from croatian and didnt want serbia to take this land neither bulgaria cuz they would be more powerfull than croatia

    • @chris_bagl
      @chris_bagl 3 роки тому +84

      @@goro2867 Exactly. So he made them believe that they're macedonians

  • @Arckedian
    @Arckedian 6 років тому +4346

    This guys voice is unreal. I haven’t heard a better voice actor/narrator

    • @amirwarsanah9191
      @amirwarsanah9191 6 років тому +91

      Arckedian Morgan Freeman's worthy rival

    • @DAToft
      @DAToft 6 років тому +286

      It's the guy who plays Agamemnon in Troy!

    • @Arckedian
      @Arckedian 6 років тому +33

      Dexter André Osiander ohhhh yeahhhh!! Lmao thanks bro. Hes also that dickhead from the bourne movies

    • @Thenakedfinisher
      @Thenakedfinisher 6 років тому +70

      David Attenborough

    • @CIMAmotor
      @CIMAmotor 5 років тому +89

      Brian Cox, he was also the first Hannibal Lecter.

  • @kinglycan1179
    @kinglycan1179 5 років тому +5667

    “If an Ancient Greek were to see modern democracy, he would only have one word... oligarchy...”
    Great quote my friend

    • @awildtomappeared5925
      @awildtomappeared5925 4 роки тому +132

      tbf due to the direct democracy of athens, it was very easy to rile up people to vote for radical change, hence the tyrants

    • @TiempoNuevo-ew7ty
      @TiempoNuevo-ew7ty 4 роки тому +9

      Certainly gives reasons as to why America's founding father set our government like they did. A Republic with representatives chosen from among the people democratically. We're already falling. Failing due to the fact that the people let their enemies into government and they have gradually taken control. All that our founding fathers worried about has come. The traitors are many They are the Nazi of Germany, the Zionists of Europe, The Jesuits of the Catholics, The Corporations, the The bankers, the Communists, Socialists. Some are far worse than these.... They have all come together to form the New World Order... A technocratic, global Tyranny

    • @caiawlodarski5339
      @caiawlodarski5339 4 роки тому +66

      @@TiempoNuevo-ew7ty Ah yes, bankers and communists, totally compatiple, it's not like they hate eachother or anything.
      It's very easy to put everyone you think is "bad" on one group of bad guys and pretend you are a paragon of virtue, but that is not the reality.

    • @TiempoNuevo-ew7ty
      @TiempoNuevo-ew7ty 4 роки тому

      @@caiawlodarski5339 How trite: "...you are a paragon of virtue." , whatever, you probably need to do more research. You would know exactly what I meant.

    • @kostaspapas5894
      @kostaspapas5894 4 роки тому +5

      @shut beak the meaning of aristocracy and oligargy is not the same. they change it. aristocracy means the most clever the most good. oligargy is some of them who are more powerfull from the others and take the goverment and that is not so good for democratic people but they can. also when the democrasy became bad and oliigarhy means that only some persons have the more power tyrany is the road to make them leave and when you want the tyrany to leave because press a lot the people to manage make the other leave. then the people make tyrany leave. and make a good democracy again. that happened always. that is that new big men understand and use it having their own in every part. they change the name of democracy to communism and oligarhy to nazism and communism too as crowd who brings back to them the goverment. so the people don't exist to that model. only vote which part of the same oligarhy want. so aristotele speak in his age meaning of that meanings. and also to our age as what they do the big men and make us obey and serve them. aristotele says all that to improve the social life. but wests take ariistotel and use his truth for more bad goverments.

  • @thomaslinssen1426
    @thomaslinssen1426 3 роки тому +1125

    "leaving us the weird Russian alphabet for instance" this man just casually roasted the Russians

    • @bamboozledduck9096
      @bamboozledduck9096 3 роки тому +60

      Russian alphabet made by 2 greeks so blame them

    • @Jason32Bourne
      @Jason32Bourne 3 роки тому +217

      This channel is Russian.

    • @GeoScorpion
      @GeoScorpion 3 роки тому +54

      Cyrillic was created by the Greek-speaking monk Cyrillus and some other monk (they also employed Hebrew/Aramaic for letters such as shin). Somebody else already pointed out that the channel is Russian, but also it's named for a city founded by Ivan the Terrible. :D

    • @cocobeebe
      @cocobeebe 3 роки тому

      Lol

    • @drumandbass2009
      @drumandbass2009 3 роки тому +42

      @@GeoScorpion the russian alphabet was made by two greek speaking monks hired BY THE BULGARIAN KING which made the Bulgarian alphabet and after that Cyrilluses students made the other slavic alphabets :)

  • @shareem1779
    @shareem1779 2 роки тому +77

    Greeks have a big contribution to the world like:
    Democracy
    The Alphabet
    The Library
    The Olympics
    Science and Mathematics
    Architecture
    Mythology
    The Lighthouse
    Standardized Medicine
    Trial by Jury
    The Theater
    And much more+

    • @wankawanka3053
      @wankawanka3053 2 роки тому +1

      @Kong King democracy was invented by a king 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

    • @wankawanka3053
      @wankawanka3053 2 роки тому

      @Kong King all fake keep crying iranian

    • @lll2282
      @lll2282 2 роки тому +4

      ancient vedic indians as well , yoga,meditation,artitech,shampoo, vedic science and maths, democracy, freedom of relgion buddism,jainism,sikhism and indian within itself had 60+ dharmas or philosophy ....ancient rich dance,music,arts and what not india has still preserved lot of it

    • @DLGemma
      @DLGemma 2 роки тому +4

      You forgot to mention ''Music''. Theater and Music are the only two words that are commonly used in every language. There is no other word in any language to describe theater or music. They are both Hellenic. This pretty much sumps everything up.

    • @anasamrani6086
      @anasamrani6086 Рік тому

      The alphabet was created by the Phoenicians

  • @MrFantocan
    @MrFantocan 5 років тому +3194

    *Rome video ends*
    Me: "Oh this video is so interesting sad it is over"
    Video: "We have another one about Greeks"
    Me "NICE!" *clicks*
    *Greek video ends*
    Me: "Oh this video is so interesting sad it is over"
    Video: "We have another one about Rome"
    Me "NICE!" *clicks*
    .
    .
    .

    • @PresterMike
      @PresterMike 5 років тому +15

      MrFantocan lmaooo

    • @rejvaik00
      @rejvaik00 5 років тому +80

      Help he's in an infinite loop

    • @orbotta
      @orbotta 4 роки тому +23

      I've been in this endless cycle, blissfully I must say, for almost 2 weeks haha

    • @sinoroman
      @sinoroman 4 роки тому +8

      SOS - i need help ending this loop!

    • @orbotta
      @orbotta 4 роки тому +13

      @@sinoroman I've even began translating the Rome video to Spanish hahahaha

  • @Danymok
    @Danymok 4 роки тому +819

    This video is so amazing. Please make a version of this video that is a few hours long. I would watch the whole thing!

    • @Fabbyboy69
      @Fabbyboy69 2 роки тому +23

      you have to pay for brian cox

    • @notcreatedfromaribshesjust9173
      @notcreatedfromaribshesjust9173 2 роки тому

      ❤️❤️❤️ua-cam.com/video/WkyLI8UIeXg/v-deo.html❤️❤️❤️Humanity❤️❤️❤️.

    • @johnirby8847
      @johnirby8847 Рік тому +1

      This guy makes awesome Rome Remastered mods!

    • @yevgenchuk
      @yevgenchuk Місяць тому

      ua-cam.com/video/4NNNm8Fcm8k/v-deo.htmlsi=jls8835TnqqpoQuN

  • @neutralhistory614
    @neutralhistory614 2 роки тому +334

    Ancient Greece always fascinated me. As many historians agreed upon, was the most advanced civilization in history. The names of Greek philosophers such as Aristoteles take a massive place under popular culture. Their influence and legacy are still on everyone's tongue. And will continues from today until forever.

    • @user-en5vd3bg9j
      @user-en5vd3bg9j 2 роки тому +17

      اليونانيين تقدموا لأنهم سرقوا جميع العلوم من الحضارات القديمة مثل حضارة بلاد الرافدين وحضارة مصر وحتى الأبجدية سرقوها من الفينيقيين وحتى الفلسفة سرقوها من الفلسفة البابلية القديمة لولا الشرق الأوسط وحضاراته العريقة والقديمة لما كان هناك وجود لشيء أسمه اليونان.

    • @tedmink7568
      @tedmink7568 2 роки тому +8

      Yes their philosphy has heavily influenced us in the West.

    • @tyrex3559
      @tyrex3559 2 роки тому +19

      @@user-en5vd3bg9j Hérodote a inventé l'Histoire. Strabon à inventé la géographie.
      Ptolémée est le premier à avoir réalisé une carte du monde connu.
      Les grecs sont les premiers à avoir découvert que la terre était ronde et Ils ont calculé sa circonférence.
      Les Egyptiens et les mésopotamiens ne savaient pas que la terre était ronde.

    • @deathsilver1376
      @deathsilver1376 Рік тому +3

      ​@@user-en5vd3bg9j why do u speak arabic though?

    • @vikingwarrior6338
      @vikingwarrior6338 Рік тому

      They just stole everything like colonists

  • @channelforcomment5736
    @channelforcomment5736 2 роки тому +267

    Greeks... One of the most wonderful nations in the world.
    Loves from your neighbor🇹🇷🇬🇷

    • @greekgod8828
      @greekgod8828 2 роки тому +10

      Fam yk us Greeks don’t really like Turks Ye

    • @propper7753
      @propper7753 2 роки тому +33

      We dont like the war politics not the people ,hello neighbor

    • @tiusernamenabalw
      @tiusernamenabalw 2 роки тому +20

      Western Turks, Greeks and South Italians are the same people. Only religion and nationalism creates divisions.

    • @avidfather1864
      @avidfather1864 2 роки тому +7

      @@tiusernamenabalw Even that is debatable. Western turks definitely have more greek blood than central and eastern turks but they are still mainly descended from people that came there during the middle-ages from the east. Greeks and southern italians and to a certain extent even central italians are almost identical. That doesn't mean that we shouldn't get along of course. I'm half italian, half greek btw.

    • @milcolinastours7045
      @milcolinastours7045 2 роки тому +3

      @@avidfather1864 western Turks we are anatolians, we are Hittite, Phrygian, Lydian, Roman, Greek, Ottoman, Turkish, maybe a little bit Egyptian and Phoenician, Armenian and other Mediterranean people

  • @VRichardsn
    @VRichardsn 6 років тому +1251

    Narrated by Agamemnon. Fitting.

  • @konstantimas
    @konstantimas 5 років тому +1529

    The name Alexander is derived from the Greek "Ἀλέξανδρος" (Aléxandros), meaning "Defender of the people" or "Defending men" and also, "Protector of men", a compound of the verb ἀλέξειν aléxein, "to ward off, to avert, to defend" and the noun ἀνήρ anḗr, "man" (GEN ἀνδρός andrós)

    • @techstepman
      @techstepman 5 років тому +64

      @Klaudio Gjeta Are really that stupid? Greek language has existed for over 3000 years. Also how come a pure blooded albania has a roman name?

    • @alessandromorelli5866
      @alessandromorelli5866 5 років тому +147

      And this is how i learned the true origin of my name.
      Thanks buddy.

    • @ilirjantavmepatligjona8591
      @ilirjantavmepatligjona8591 5 років тому +10

      In that time Alexander lived, greece didnt even existed. You can see it on the old maps. How can this be? Makedonia is there and greek isnt

    • @ilirjantavmepatligjona8591
      @ilirjantavmepatligjona8591 5 років тому +5

      @Athan asiosno i say that all was pelasgo illyrian lands in the Ancient.

    • @ilirjantavmepatligjona8591
      @ilirjantavmepatligjona8591 5 років тому +2

      @Athan asios jep there are words we still speak today
      thelosttruth.altervista.org/the-enigma-of-pelasgians-and-etruscans-albanians/

  • @conm87
    @conm87 3 роки тому +156

    This has to be one of the best videos covering the period of Ancient Greece out there. Professional, specific and the timeline at the bottom is a way way to understand the scale of time across the different items!

    • @brucewebb7495
      @brucewebb7495 2 роки тому

      @@allsource1998 what

    • @yevgenchuk
      @yevgenchuk Місяць тому

      ua-cam.com/video/4NNNm8Fcm8k/v-deo.htmlsi=jls8835TnqqpoQuN

    • @Breakfast_of_Champions
      @Breakfast_of_Champions 15 днів тому

      They missed the "classical moment" in art which was another first in our cognitive history, but apart from that it's quite acceptable.

  • @raphaelc.5658
    @raphaelc.5658 3 роки тому +408

    The greatest civilization that has ever existed without even little competition. Love to our friends🇫🇷🇬🇷

    • @nikos7250
      @nikos7250 3 роки тому +38

      LOVE TO FRANCE YOU ARE OUR BROTHERS🇬🇷🇫🇷

    • @raphaelc.5658
      @raphaelc.5658 3 роки тому +17

      @@user-hd6gs1xv5x What?

    • @Omar-df3uk
      @Omar-df3uk 3 роки тому +16

      The greatest civilization of all time is the Ancient Egyptian civilization which is where the greeks got most of their knowledge from

    • @raphaelc.5658
      @raphaelc.5658 3 роки тому +50

      @@Omar-df3uk There's no evidence about the influence of the Egyptians to the Greeks. 0 evidence. Sadly.

    • @Omar-df3uk
      @Omar-df3uk 3 роки тому +31

      @@raphaelc.5658 Egyptian wisdom was highly respected by Greeks. For them, a visit to Egypt and the possibility of studying with the Egyptian priests was the equivalent to a PhD in Oxford for us.
      So, the scholars that could afford a trip there ( the fare was expensive) did not hesitate to fulfil it.
      Thales visited Egypt. It is there that he conceived the Thales theorem ( what’s your relations with Geometry? ) and was deeply affected by Egyptian maths and astronomy.Thales of Miletus
      Plato travelled there also ( among other destinations as Sicily and Cyrene) when he was forced to leave Athens after Socrates’ conviction to death.
      Other Greek philosophers that study in Egypt were: Democritus, who went twice , spending an enormous amound of money .
      Herodotus, who was the first to write a trip advisor about Egypt.Herodotus - Wikipedia
      Archemedes maybe has studied in Egypt too. This is not confirmed but he did have correspondence with his fellow scholars in Alexandria.
      Pythagoras, student of Thales, had not only studied in Egypt but managed to be granted the priviledge in taking part in their whorship.Pythagoras - Wikipedia
      We can easily see, that Greek philosophy and mathematics have their roots in the South!

  • @themach1ne635
    @themach1ne635 6 років тому +344

    Fun fact: the man who carried the message from Marathon to Athens yelled out nike, victory in ancient Greek. The distance of the run is also what our modern marathons are loosely based on. Great video! Thank you for expanding my knowledge on the subject!👍

    • @pelirroja3008
      @pelirroja3008 5 років тому +4

      The Mach1ne the way u write it isn't completely correct . It's more like neke doesn't include an I in pronounciasion.

    • @user-kn9ib9zm4q
      @user-kn9ib9zm4q 4 роки тому +22

      neke is the greek word ...but the logo of Nike it was inspired by the Neke of Samothraki...the wings...some french guys have it in a museum ...a stolen master piece of greek art..

    • @irisan9876
      @irisan9876 4 роки тому +4

      'Νενικήκαμεν' (verb, a' plural in Present Perfect) was the word that yelled out! The spelling is [ne-ni-ki-ka-men]. 'Νίκη', which means 'victory', is the noun of the verb!

    • @jmiquelmb
      @jmiquelmb 4 роки тому +4

      Well that probably did never happen, but it's a nice legend. That's why Nike, the sports brand is called like that. Victory in Greek

    • @zaratustras1000
      @zaratustras1000 2 роки тому +1

      A word we still use today, a word that is used for a sports brand: Nike :))

  • @EmperorTigerstar
    @EmperorTigerstar 7 років тому +2683

    Fantastic video!

    • @FinMertons
      @FinMertons 6 років тому +20

      Fancy meeting you here, Emperor Tigerstar

    • @kekero540
      @kekero540 6 років тому +24

      EmperorTigerstar too bad almost all their other videos are in Russian.

    • @michaelburgarino
      @michaelburgarino 6 років тому +17

      Cicero Yeah, I just watched their videos on Greece and Rome in succession and was sad to find that. Hopefully, they will translate more of their videos in the future

    • @hagrid1123
      @hagrid1123 6 років тому

      EmperorTigerstar commie

    • @hagrid1123
      @hagrid1123 6 років тому

      Marcus Eaton no not at all

  • @pOpCoRn0531
    @pOpCoRn0531 3 роки тому +38

    Imagine subbing right away after one minute of watching and then finding out that you don't understand the rest of the videos in the channel at all.

  • @lauriewilliamson8260
    @lauriewilliamson8260 Рік тому +6

    Really good video. This does a great job of summing up major events over a huge time frame. Amazing you got it down to 18 minutes.

  • @sc18594
    @sc18594 6 років тому +1479

    This is some high quality shit right there.

    • @brooklynsgaming5152
      @brooklynsgaming5152 6 років тому +3

      what do you mean

    • @gregoryyang8988
      @gregoryyang8988 5 років тому +3

      You said high-quality sh*t. But they say you can't polish a turd.

    • @Swadaable
      @Swadaable 5 років тому +1

      Brought to you by Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin ;)

    • @imsmokemth
      @imsmokemth 4 роки тому

      Colonel Dick Faggotson why is this so funny

    • @gragal82
      @gragal82 4 роки тому +1

      @@Swadaable Vladimir name translates as WorldOwner
      Putin - Way man.
      So you can call Putin - Worldowner Worldownerson Wayman.

  • @Alex_FRD
    @Alex_FRD 5 років тому +1639

    A fine British man just said meme.

  • @ValorVisionaries
    @ValorVisionaries 4 роки тому +333

    Greetings from Macedonia, Greece 🇬🇷

    • @florjantrepca
      @florjantrepca 3 роки тому +9

      Not Greek, where is Macedonia the greek haha, Greek fake name fake country

    • @ValorVisionaries
      @ValorVisionaries 3 роки тому +127

      @@florjantrepca ok greetings from Macedonia, Hellas 🇬🇷

    • @bruh3128
      @bruh3128 3 роки тому +63

      @@florjantrepca Hahahahaha macedonia is in Greece since 3.000 bc. Also Greece isn't our name. It's hellas. Fake country? We're literally the first country to ever exist. Ur literally Greek

    • @bruh3128
      @bruh3128 3 роки тому +40

      @@florjantrepca and yeah macedonia is Greek

    • @michaelpark6417
      @michaelpark6417 3 роки тому +7

      @@bruh3128 ancient greece didnt have a national identity and was first athenian or spartan then greek. Sure they shared similar culture but the greece as a country wasnt a thing until 1821. But even then the first country was egypt than china

  • @lGalaxisl
    @lGalaxisl 6 років тому +1382

    I'd subscribe to your channel, but most videos are in russian. I really liked this one and the roman one

    • @charlesbeaudelair8331
      @charlesbeaudelair8331 5 років тому +51

      same with me, but I subscribed nevertheless.

    • @amyhaney4717
      @amyhaney4717 5 років тому +8

      right i was confused

    • @Oliverkor
      @Oliverkor 5 років тому +14

      lol I subscribed cause I actually know Russian, but I was clueless about that and originally thought it was just an English channel

    • @mylovestory6057
      @mylovestory6057 5 років тому +35

      Reyon88 you are trash yourself

    • @chrishansen8201
      @chrishansen8201 5 років тому +2

      @@mylovestory6057 drop the snap

  • @megamaniscoolrightguys2749
    @megamaniscoolrightguys2749 4 роки тому +827

    "The Trojan War was as distant in time to Alexander the Great as the Vikings are to ourselves."
    I'm going to have to stew on this fact for a little while 😵

    • @chrisdim6708
      @chrisdim6708 3 роки тому +167

      I'll give you an other one, that took me a while to grasp.
      The pyramids of Giza were so ancient to Cleopatra, as Cleopatra is to us.

    • @henrygustavekrausse7459
      @henrygustavekrausse7459 3 роки тому +76

      And another thing: the the Stegosaurus is as ancient to the T-Rex as the T-Rex is to us.

    • @masterspark9880
      @masterspark9880 3 роки тому +34

      Another good one: The empire that conquered the empire that conquered Ancient Egypt still existed 100 years ago
      Edit: This is no longer true. And it wasn’t fully true even before because Rome wasn’t quite an Empire yet when it conquered Egypt

    • @henrygustavekrausse7459
      @henrygustavekrausse7459 3 роки тому +6

      @@masterspark9880 Ok good point but Egypt was conquered by the Republic, it was not an Empire quiiiiite yet.

    • @masterspark9880
      @masterspark9880 3 роки тому +7

      @@henrygustavekrausse7459 It was conquered as the republic was turning into the empire. Augustus is widely considered to be the first emperor (and when he’s not it’s Julius) and he led the Roman conquest of Egypt

  • @taylorcatalana1783
    @taylorcatalana1783 3 роки тому +16

    The page-turning sound throughout this video is hella soothing.

  • @victorgabrielbuena
    @victorgabrielbuena 4 роки тому +149

    Oh please do another one for other civilizations! I can't get enough of these Greek and Roman videos that's why I keep watching them again and again, coming back to them from time to time. Please make another great video about other civilizations.

    • @giannispets
      @giannispets 3 роки тому

      There is one major problem bro.. that mainly there were 2 major civilizations, the Greek-West and the East, so he can't make lots of videos 🤓 . And I am talking about the godfathers and not individual empires that from time to time appeared

    • @TehhDesiree
      @TehhDesiree 2 роки тому +2

      Do on bout america 🍟🍔

    • @yourstepdad1632
      @yourstepdad1632 2 роки тому

      @@TehhDesiree nop

    • @TehhDesiree
      @TehhDesiree 2 роки тому +1

      @@yourstepdad1632 1 min vid

    • @yourstepdad1632
      @yourstepdad1632 2 роки тому

      @@skrivnosti5499 yea sure Greece fake country sure sure

  • @geesus77
    @geesus77 6 років тому +763

    History of ancient India.
    History of Japan.
    History of Americas (before the European immigration)
    History of Byzantium empire.
    And history of China.
    Also, thank you for making this wonderful video.

    • @lifes40123
      @lifes40123 6 років тому +59

      The history of India and china would be hard to put into a video under 20 minutes

    • @user-gy1ln1zy8z
      @user-gy1ln1zy8z 6 років тому +32

      What?? American history???? Lol

    • @richardsantanna5398
      @richardsantanna5398 6 років тому +1

      lifes40123 then make it an hour or longer

    • @armartin0003
      @armartin0003 6 років тому +58

      Hey, Russian guy, America does not equal the United States. He's asking for a history of the native population, though good luck on that one. I don't think there was much written down.

    • @sublifeprolifehd4589
      @sublifeprolifehd4589 5 років тому

      Richard Santann

  • @thevenator3955
    @thevenator3955 5 років тому +188

    10:04 I think that's the most dramatic way anyone has ever said the word "meme".

    • @yevgenchuk
      @yevgenchuk Місяць тому

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  • @lizblue9756
    @lizblue9756 4 роки тому +12

    LOVE IT SO MUCH, perfect blend of humor, music and key points in history, thank you!

  • @JapanMonAmourTheJapanHouse
    @JapanMonAmourTheJapanHouse 2 роки тому +18

    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]

    • @notcreatedfromaribshesjust9173
      @notcreatedfromaribshesjust9173 2 роки тому +1

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  • @PaulCreeden
    @PaulCreeden 5 років тому +168

    Have studied Greco-Roman history since prep school (over 50 yrs) and this is the best summary of Greek civilization I have ever seen.

  • @konstantimas
    @konstantimas 5 років тому +235

    Origin of the name Philip: Derived from the Latin Philippus, which is from the Greek Philippos (lover of horses). The name is composed of the elements philos (loving) and hippos (horse) in Greek

    • @Basilis21able
      @Basilis21able 5 років тому +25

      It is more like ''friend'' here. Philippos means friend of horses or someone that is taking care of them. In ancient greek love is έρος, eros.

    • @hydrolito
      @hydrolito 4 роки тому +2

      How did hippos go from being horses to hippopotamus in Africa?

    • @scipioprime69
      @scipioprime69 4 роки тому +1

      How about my last name?

    • @stevied3400
      @stevied3400 4 роки тому +8

      Basilis Tselios
      Eros is sexual love. The Greeks had multiple words for love as do many other languages.
      In English, the Greek prefix/suffix “phil-“ means “lover of”. For example:
      Bibliophile: lover of books
      Francophile: lover of things French
      Hellenophile: lover of things Greek
      Philadelphia: brotherly love or love of one’s brother
      Pedophile: lover of children
      Philanderer: a man who has many sexual lovers
      etc.

    • @EvilForgemaster
      @EvilForgemaster 4 роки тому +5

      @@scipioprime69 it comes from "ippos" (horse) and "lito" (untie) so in short it means the one who lets horses go free.

  • @gracesadventures7485
    @gracesadventures7485 2 роки тому +3

    I absolutely love this commentary the guy's voice is so soothing and at the same time impactful like he is dedicated into what he is talking about.
    There is only three videos this dude appears in on this channel which is mainly consisting of Russian based videos and he nailed the two videos of explaining the evolution of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. Big up to Brian Cox(not the famous astrophysicist and astronomer) the actor, who ironically played as the Greek figure Agamemnon (the King of Mycenae who is most well known for leading the Greek armies into war with Troy) in the movie Troy alongside Brad Pitt who played as Achilles.

  • @cuckoo8579
    @cuckoo8579 6 місяців тому +9

    Love the Greek history.

  • @trypovios
    @trypovios 5 років тому +715

    So, if Macedonians were "distant relatives" of the Greeks, why on earth
    1. Was their empire a Hellenistic empire?
    2. Did they spread Greek as the common language of the empire?
    3. Had Greek names for themselves and their cities?
    Weird that.

    • @Juanfroco1298
      @Juanfroco1298 4 роки тому +18

      Macedonias were considered foreigners.

    • @trypovios
      @trypovios 4 роки тому +219

      @@Juanfroco1298 I guess that's why they let them compete in the Olympic games. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

    • @Juanfroco1298
      @Juanfroco1298 4 роки тому +32

      Sanctimon Well actually it wasn’t as simple as that. Historians had discussed this issue for along time, so there is not consensus about Macedonians ethnic identity. For example, in the Battle of Platea they were allies with the Achaemenid Empire, fighting against Greek City States alliance. Also, Macedonians didn’t speak Greek. And according to Herodotus, when they participated in the Olympics some Greeks saw it as an insult because they wouldn’t compete with “Barbarians”. Of course after Alexander all of this changed but it seemed that before the Hellenistic period Macedonia were often seemed as foreigners or not strictly Greeks. History isn’t that simple.

    • @trypovios
      @trypovios 4 роки тому +193

      @@Juanfroco1298 All of these matters have long been settled among Classical scholars and the vast majority does not doubt for a second that Macedonians were a Greek tribe or they spoke a dialect of Greek.
      Macedonia was not the only Greek state that sided with the Persians. So did Aegina and a few others. However, no one doubts the Aeginians were Greek. They only do so regarding the Macedonians on account of contemporary political sensitivities. The whole motivation of Alexander's war against the Persians was to "avenge" the Persian invasions against Greece. His dream was to unite all Greeks under one Kingdom, rather than turn all men into "Macedonians", because that would not make sense, as being Macedonian also meant being Greek. His epigrams, following his victories named "All Greeks except the Spartans".
      Regarding the language: The inscriptions from Macedonia are all written either in Attic (koine) Greek, or a Greek dialect showing affinities both with the north-western ('Doric') dialects of Epirus and with the north-eastern ('Aeolic') dialects of Thessaly. This is the Macedonian dialect of Greek. If the ancient documents preserved today on stone reveal only those two possibilities, there is clearly no basis for a separate language. Note that Plato refers to the Aeolic dialect of Lesbian authors, calling it “barbaric”, by which he meant crude or rough, but Greek all the same. No one doubts that Lesbians authors were Greek. Also note that when the Roman conqueror in 167 B.C., Aemilius Paulus, called together representatives of the defeated Macedonian communities, his Latin pronouncements were translated for the benefit of the assembled Macedonians into Greek (Livy 45.29).
      The claim that although Alexander the Great spread the Greek language and culture, had a Greek name and initiated the Hellenistic (Greecian) period internationally without being Greek himself, is, to say the least, oxymoronic.

    • @trypovios
      @trypovios 4 роки тому +51

      @xXDJXxLIVE What a load of propagandist, revisionist, nationalistic nonsense.

  • @zombiepenguin697
    @zombiepenguin697 6 років тому +125

    Been playing Assassin's creed Origins and was so surprised to see all the Greek stuff in Egypt, Greek people, Greek culture, Greek architecture, Alexandria, the library! Trying my best to understand it all and this video has really helped, thank you so much, your channel is awesome!

    • @VRichardsn
      @VRichardsn 6 років тому +41

      You brought up a very important point. To the general public, "Egypt" means pyramids, the sphinx, pharaohs and those weird beards and dance moves. But Egypt has been around for milennia. And oh boy how it changed through the years. With the partition of the Alexandrian empire, Ptolomeic Egypt became quite hellenized. We usually think of chariots as inherently Egyptian while the phalanx is inherently Macedonic, for example. But Ptolomeic Egypt had an army centered around Pezhetairoi and Hetairoi, just like Alexander´s. Egypt could be very Greek when it wanted to. And it is quite shocking at first trying to picture Egypt as Greek, but it is one of those little tricks history plays on us (and why history is awesome too)

    • @CoolioXXX52
      @CoolioXXX52 6 років тому +4

      Richardsen it was for a period of time at the ptolemaic empire.

    • @DjolePcom
      @DjolePcom 5 років тому +3

      To help you understand - in Athens you see the items stolen from Egypt! This is what they did.

    • @peterpeet4061
      @peterpeet4061 4 роки тому +5

      @@DjolePcom what? What kind of bullshit is it? There no in Athens items stole from Egypt

    • @nermainmerl3284
      @nermainmerl3284 4 роки тому +7

      Egypt in Greek means , below the eagean. There was always Greek presence in the area, especially after Alexander the great. If I remember correctly , the pharaohs hired mycenean mercenaries very early on, to defeat their eastern enemies, who paid them very well and constructed them several settlements.Thus, making the first step of the hellenization of egypt. Then alexander completed it.

  • @BlackDino468
    @BlackDino468 2 роки тому +1

    this rocked, great job. I hadn't had it encompassed and broken down like that, I knew just some of the individual parts. Thanks

  • @JapanMonAmourTheJapanHouse
    @JapanMonAmourTheJapanHouse 2 роки тому +19

    Curtius - The History of Greece' Vol 2]
    "Alexander the Great was a thorough Greek, and recognised the future of Macedonia as depending on her intimate connection with the other Greek states. The City of Pella began to be not only the greatest city in Macedonia, but the centre of Greek culture"

    • @notcreatedfromaribshesjust9173
      @notcreatedfromaribshesjust9173 2 роки тому

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    • @skylinelover9276
      @skylinelover9276 11 місяців тому

      The ancient maccedonians, Epirus and Sparta are the real Proto Hellenic Greeks/Indo European Dorians they carry DNA haplo group R. While Athenians, Thebes, Corinth and other city states are Hellenized Anatolians they carry J2 DNA Haplo group, while Thessaly and others are Pelasgians they carry DNA haplo group E1b1b/E-V13. This is why they call then selves Hellenestics. All of them has unique contribution in Hellenistic culture. This is why modern Greece today is mixed DNA haplo group J2, E, R. The Anatolians J2 and Pelasgians E is the first people of Greece and the founder of Mycenean civilization, while the Hellenic Indo European/Proto Greeks are the one who Invaded Mycenean civilization. During the classical period of Greece they are all the same in sphere of influence culture they speak Hellenics dialects like Doric, Ionics, and worshiping Hellenic Indo European Gods
      Offcourse not only the Greeks is mixed now, also almost all nations now are mixed people because of migrations and invasions

  • @nikd545
    @nikd545 5 років тому +507

    Macedonians weren't "distant relatives" of the Greeks, they were, are Greeks. You can look at wikipedia and see the table of Macedonian Olympic winners, take notice that in Olypic games only Greeks were allowed. Also Macedonians reffered themselves as Greeks, according to Herodotus (where the King of Macedon warned the Greek army the night before the battle of Platea", where in his own words "I am a Greek also", and they claimed their heritage from Heracles and the Dorians as Spartans did. Spartans never to my knowledge refused or reacted against that statement. So Macedonians were Dorians as the Spartans making them as much Greeks as them.
    By the way the word "Demagogos" in greek Δημαγωγός means "the one who directs people" which in Greek is derogative because they were telling people not the truth but what they liked in order to pursue their personal interests (much like modern politicians).

    • @nikd545
      @nikd545 5 років тому +32

      My dear read history learn to read sources and please cut the crap. Refusing irrefutable sources and history makes you look like an idiot. Also hellenistic period is considered after the death of the Greek King Alexander III, better know as Great, till 31bc which is the landmark of the battle of Actium. Read a lexicon (something that explains words). Also your Prime Minister refused any connection to ancinemt history, and you are Northern Macedon, which in my logic does not stand, but our treacherous communist gave you it's geographical not ethnological. Your bulgarian dialect was given name after pressure from GErmany.

    • @edgarjuarez7441
      @edgarjuarez7441 5 років тому +1

      @paulbsmokin XD nice

    • @sanath8483
      @sanath8483 5 років тому +19

      Wait did you just argue with yourself

    • @eniff2925
      @eniff2925 5 років тому +15

      @@nikd545 Back then, no one called themselves greek. They used the name of cities as heritage. Like athenian, spartan, phaleronian... It can be that people living in the kingdom of Macedon were different ethnicity than Athenians or Spartans, we will never know.

    • @nikd545
      @nikd545 5 років тому +24

      @@eniff2925 Dude read history before even think to write in public. There are a huge amount, tons of written and testified history which prove more than enough that the people living in greek peninsula called themselves Greeks fro the time at lest of Iliad. So please cu the crap.

  • @spairus4492
    @spairus4492 7 років тому +38

    This is a great way to help people organise all the information about ancient greece in a more streamlined, sequential order in their heads. Here in Greece we've been taught so many details about our ancient times, that it gets overwhelming. In fact we're taught and retaught about it 3 times in total until we graduate school. Yet, most of us forget or confuse things. This is a great video to help clear the mess! Also, the voice actor is excellent! Some innacuracies are to be found, regardless, like the reasons behind colonism or the Dorian Invasion, but the ability of the video to organise information effectively is not affected by this.

  • @AK-cr5pe
    @AK-cr5pe 7 місяців тому +1

    It's really great that the channel was able to get Brian Cox to help narrate their videos

  • @innosanto
    @innosanto 2 роки тому +2

    Arzamas has made great work here. 18 minutes and beatiful graphics.

  • @Nonamearisto
    @Nonamearisto 6 років тому +79

    The Macedonians and Epirotes (and other northern Greek kingdoms) were Greek! Sure, they didn't have the same form of organization as the city-states, but apart from that, they were identical. It's like comparing New York City and Appalachia (the region in the US, not a state). Different versions of the same culture.

    • @user-dy4re5tz1g
      @user-dy4re5tz1g 5 років тому +1

      But Ancient Greeks in this era was divided on ionians, dorians and some another ethics - one of them gained them culture from Minoyan Greeks directly, but not all and not equally. Compare them preferly seems like comparsion Appalachia and Sydney, when taking in account ancient communication and very slow culture spread

    • @pop-n-rock
      @pop-n-rock 5 років тому +2

      @@user-dy4re5tz1g today's Greeks are also separated in tribes but they are Greeks ethnically

    • @user-dy4re5tz1g
      @user-dy4re5tz1g 5 років тому +1

      @@pop-n-rock exactly, like all other european nations, but in the age of internet it almost does not affect (only in politics maybe, not culture). In ancient times peoples often has a difficult communication with each other

    • @Nonamearisto
      @Nonamearisto 3 роки тому +3

      @@user-dy4re5tz1g Still Greek, even if Athenians wouldn't have liked to admit it. Macedonian culture was Greek in all the ways Greek culture could be defined as such: language, religion, most customs, traditions, architecture, and yes, the same writing system. Drinking undiluted wine and retaining ancient government practices (Macedon still had powerful monarchs while most of Greece had oligarchy, democracy, or less than absolute kings) hardly disqualifies one as being Greek or not.

    • @skylinelover9276
      @skylinelover9276 11 місяців тому

      The ancient maccedonians, Epirus and Sparta are the real Proto Hellenic Greeks/Indo European Dorians they carry DNA haplo group R. While Athenians, Thebes, Corinth and other city states are Hellenized Anatolians they carry J2 DNA Haplo group, while Thessaly and others are Pelasgians they carry DNA haplo group E1b1b/E-V13. This is why they call then selves Hellenestics. All of them has unique contribution in Hellenistic culture. This is why modern Greece today is mixed DNA haplo group J2, E, R. The Anatolians J2 and Pelasgians E is the first people of Greece and the founder of Mycenean civilization, while the Hellenic Indo European/Proto Greeks are the one who Invaded Mycenean civilization. During the classical period of Greece they are all the same in sphere of influence culture they speak Hellenics dialects like Doric, Ionics, and worshiping Hellenic Indo European Gods
      Offcourse not only the Greeks is mixed now, also almost all nations now are mixed people because of migrations and invasions

  • @eleonoramustafaeva1303
    @eleonoramustafaeva1303 7 років тому +16

    Have been waiting for an English version and there it is! Thank you.

  • @purplemetric22
    @purplemetric22 8 місяців тому +4

    who better to narrate this video than King Agamemnon himself??

  • @stavros8
    @stavros8 4 роки тому +54

    Outstanding presentation of classic Greece 🇬🇷, bravo 👏🏻

  • @tiggergirl1157
    @tiggergirl1157 4 роки тому +5

    this was like a proper documentary thank you for this amazing video!

  • @Ppanos423
    @Ppanos423 4 роки тому +242

    The Ancient Macedonian kingdom was Greek. The modern Republic of Macedonia (now Northern Macedonia) was given its name and its connection with ancient Macedonia for geopolitical reasons.

    • @nikosx6905
      @nikosx6905 3 роки тому +17

      @Anth Graves when a Greek says he is makedonian he means makedonian Greek, im makedonian myself so ik pretty well, don't confuse makedonians with those bulgarians in vardaska

    • @hajrusaoruci8000
      @hajrusaoruci8000 3 роки тому

      What the heck does this have to do with the video?

    • @GreekShopLifter
      @GreekShopLifter 2 роки тому +1

      It's called Skopje and Greek Macedonians

    • @allsource1998
      @allsource1998 2 роки тому

      Really ?
      😂😂😂😂🥸🥸🥸🥸🥸🥸

    • @dimitris_lev.8947
      @dimitris_lev.8947 2 роки тому +1

      @@allsource1998 yep, we all agree, your government agrees, so yeah, this dispute has ended long ago with you losing, get over it, you ain't making any difference, your government has woken up, and soon more people from your country will wake up too.

  • @Useraghjk14
    @Useraghjk14 4 місяці тому +5

    As a historian a lot are missing in this video
    And important about the greek history
    First of all i have doubt about
    the alphabet that comes from phoenicians that was only of consonants and was unusefull and we have almost nothing of it.
    I have strongly doubts that the greeks took it from them
    Or the opposite happened
    In the video is forgotenn
    that
    The greek language and alphabet was the first phonological in the world language ! and was is based in the sounds of the earth
    Ofcoursed it also forgoten that
    The Greeks invented the wowels all and the letters Ξ Φ Χ Ψ Ω in order to express their language.
    (The phoenician had no wowels!)
    It is also forgotten that the greeks writing was with Capitals
    And was like singing.
    the small letters , the tones and the spirits created with the Expansion of hellenism .Hellenistic world
    AND later the chalkis city alphabet adopted by the romans and named latin

  • @EasyArchitecturalTheory
    @EasyArchitecturalTheory 3 роки тому +38

    I can only imagine the time you must have spent creating uniform icons for your map and cropping images to such precision! Truly truly admire the effort. thank you for the resource!

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      @notcreatedfromaribshesjust9173 2 роки тому

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  • @edman2740
    @edman2740 2 роки тому

    More, of everything, the narrative and the voice makes this incredible, thanks!!!

  • @farideddinbazzal5157
    @farideddinbazzal5157 5 років тому +3

    This channel is amazing!!! I watched the video on Roman history and also this one on Ancient Greece, and I have enjoyed a lot! I wish there were more videos in English!!!

  • @IgeNial
    @IgeNial 7 років тому +523

    Please do a video about Byzantine empire

    • @vladyslavyurkevych6849
      @vladyslavyurkevych6849 7 років тому +24

      you mean roman empire?

    • @IgeNial
      @IgeNial 7 років тому +69

      Eastern Roman Empire if you wish

    • @giokun100
      @giokun100 6 років тому +30

      Eastern Romans spoke Greek, had different religion and customs and called Italians "Latins".
      You are just jealous :)

    • @TheAnarchistBeekeeper
      @TheAnarchistBeekeeper 6 років тому +19

      Gio Antony
      When Greece wasn't born yet and the country was under Ottoman occupation the Greeks called themselves "Romans" not "Greeks", we're talking about only 200 years ago.

    • @giokun100
      @giokun100 6 років тому +19

      They called themselves Romioi. We still call ourselves that way. Does it make us Romans? Don't forget the 4th crusade.

  • @ardypangihutan3653
    @ardypangihutan3653 2 роки тому +2

    Arzamas did the best in explaining Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, and Russian Art history. From the VO, video quality, graphics, timeline visualization, and content.

    • @yevgenchuk
      @yevgenchuk Місяць тому

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  • @carlsmith4568
    @carlsmith4568 2 роки тому +2

    This and the Rome video by the same channel are some of the best I’ve ever seen.

  • @Biostasis5x7
    @Biostasis5x7 5 років тому +6

    This video was AMAZING! Great voice work. Fantastic visuals.
    Make more videos like this PLEASE!!

    • @rajvo1
      @rajvo1 5 років тому

      They do them all the time! (Learn Russian :p)

  • @oechsnea
    @oechsnea 5 років тому +3

    Thank you for making these videos. They are, in my opinion, the most concise and engaging concise world history documentaries on the web. The dynamic music and pleasant narration lend an energy that helps the material stick and the animation is beautiful. You gained a suscriber and I can't wait to see more.

  • @sebastiandominguez7282
    @sebastiandominguez7282 3 роки тому +1

    This is by far the best video of ancient greece in all You Tube, it makes me wonder why Arzamas havent upload on english any more videos , theres just these one and the one of the ancient rome, wich is also fabulous!!!!

    • @Maykop12
      @Maykop12 3 роки тому

      Arzamas have got video about Rome Empire

  • @JustanothaGuy
    @JustanothaGuy 2 роки тому +1

    Excellent choice of Narrators, Briax Cox is perfect for the subject matter.

  • @giots9559
    @giots9559 5 років тому +777

    Everything written found in Macedonia was greek...
    Macedonians were greeks

    • @YouTubeYouTube-hy4sl
      @YouTubeYouTube-hy4sl 5 років тому +4

      Correct Macedonians were Greek invaders of Caucasus

    • @chrisanagn.3584
      @chrisanagn.3584 4 роки тому +20

      @@UA-camUA-cam-hy4sl Ok, where did this come from?

    • @YouTubeYouTube-hy4sl
      @YouTubeYouTube-hy4sl 4 роки тому +4

      Chris Anagn. How else did they get to the Caucasus area., was Alexander invited?

    • @chrisanagn.3584
      @chrisanagn.3584 4 роки тому +21

      @@UA-camUA-cam-hy4sl Look, there are more information on Alexander's invasion being a civilized cultural expansion than a Mongol-like destructive expansion. So yeah Alexander reached Caucasus, but not through destroying

    • @grarglejobber7941
      @grarglejobber7941 4 роки тому +7

      lmao cope harder brown people generally made nothing great in the annals of history and so you honestly think you can steal history from peoples better than you hahaha it's like when black people say they made the pyramids

  • @dorianphilotheates3769
    @dorianphilotheates3769 6 років тому +160

    Ancient Macedonia has as much in common with the Former Yugoslav Republic which currently aspires to THAT NAME, as original Coca Cola
    (the cocaine-and-caffeine-laced medicine patented in 1886) has to the modern carbonated soft drink - only the name.
    The ancient Macedonians were Greek in name, ethnic origin, heritage, language, culture, religion, history, identity, and in every other conceivable way.
    They were as Greek as the Spartans, Athenians, Corinthians, Thebans, or any of the other classical Hellenic city-states or tribes, in Greece and far beyond. To claim otherwise is, at best, an ignorant distortion of history, at worst, a devious scheme bent to nefarious political ends.
    If the ancient Macedonians had any connection to the south Slavs and Bulgars that began to settle in the geographical region of Macedon almost a millennium after Alexander’s death, then King Hammurabi of Babylon and President Trump are identical twins!
    Macedonians always were, and always will be, Greek-FULL STOP. Beyond this incontrovertible historical fact, anyone can claim what they wish.

    • @trouts4
      @trouts4 5 років тому +3

      Let me guess, you are Macedonian?

    • @Zett76
      @Zett76 5 років тому +2

      ...over 2000 years. Still a thing. 🙂
      Get your own life. 😉

    • @limnmark
      @limnmark 4 роки тому +10

      Could not agree more with Dorian

    • @witherftw5788
      @witherftw5788 4 роки тому +9

      @Jovan Spasovski No one can deny possible mixes between people from different origins. However, I do not understand how some random balkan people who own a far shorter and more recent tradition can claim that the culture of ancient Macedonians is linked to their ancestors (like FYROM citizens) and is not associated with the culture that comes from the rest of the ancient Greek cities reaching up to modern Greece. According to my research and the one everyone else should do and as this video states; Macedonians were indeed Greeks in many different ways and had accepted it centuries ago. Also, Hephaestus is not an ancient Macedonian name but is far older. Hephaestus was the ancient Greek god of blacksmiths, metalworking etc (search it on wikipedia). And Alexander is a way older Greek name too than the date you believe written as "Ἀλέξανδρος" (Aléxandros), meaning "Defender of the people". The rest of the names are not Macedonian either but even if they were your statement does not prove anything simply because all nations borrow names from one another.

    • @limnmark
      @limnmark 4 роки тому +6

      @Jovan Spasovski Wtf.. He said they are relative to the Greeks and that Alexander spread the Greek culture and language all over the world. Don't try to change the statement

  • @Yasmin-hb1bd
    @Yasmin-hb1bd Рік тому +60

    Macedonias were also Ancient Greeks. Then every city was an autonomous state, Macedonia was "city-state" like Athens, Sparta etc.

    • @costasmegas
      @costasmegas Рік тому +12

      Yes, the term distant relative to the Greeks is not accurate. They were cousins of the Athenians and Spartans would be more accurate.

    • @Yasmin-hb1bd
      @Yasmin-hb1bd Рік тому +1

      @@costasmegas Exactly!!

    • @arta.xshaca
      @arta.xshaca Рік тому +1

      @@costasmegas wow so many "Costas Me--as". The -- refers to me seeing a channel called Costas Melas and you are Costas Megas! I am amazed by your culture, Greeks!

    • @fotisk-sg2sh
      @fotisk-sg2sh Рік тому

      They were in the Olympics, where ONLY greeks where allowed to take part

    • @heroduelist9242
      @heroduelist9242 Рік тому

      Macedonia was a greek kingdom,not city state

  • @moonsnooze.
    @moonsnooze. 2 роки тому +1

    This video is really amazing it has a lot of information about ancient Greece that I've never knew about before!

  • @bkr1895
    @bkr1895 6 років тому +55

    Bit inaccurate to say that Sparta was jealous of Athens’ prosperity, most Spartan citizens were actually rich Y’know due to all the slavery. They went to war with Athens because Athens had decided to ally with one of Sparta’s oldest enemies Argos and this absolutely royally pissed off the Spartans so they and the Peloponnesian League(named after the Peloponnese the peninsula that Sparta resides upon) went to war with the Delian league.

    • @Zamolxes77
      @Zamolxes77 5 років тому +2

      Not to mention Argos was famed for best soldiers in the land. That's right, Argos, not Sparta was known for their soldiers. Well Sparta too, but were not Elite.

    • @user-yf1mh2sp5g
      @user-yf1mh2sp5g 5 років тому +1

      They went to war with Athens because they saw that their influence over the Greek world had started to become extremely dangerous. When the construction of the Athens city walls began, right after the end of the greco-persian wars , Sparta understood that they needed to stop somehow their neighbours's plans. The alliance with Argos was a factor too but not the main cause. Sparta went to war out of fear for the future.

  • @noahgolden6258
    @noahgolden6258 Рік тому +4

    philip II "almost" conqured and united all of Greece except for a certain city state lol

  • @chrislink73
    @chrislink73 7 місяців тому +2

    Logan Roy was an amazing narrator, RIP.

  • @goodkaja8330
    @goodkaja8330 2 роки тому +10

    When growing up we learned of Greece (and Rome) from Hollywood movies. I wish we had these videos and not thought Hercules and Cyclops were real.

    • @papertoyss
      @papertoyss Рік тому

      Well, the ancient Greeks thought so too, and this in a way is kinda cool

  • @MsChiqui13
    @MsChiqui13 4 роки тому +4

    I have a test on Monday and this helped me a lot! Made me understand everything in simple terms! Thank You!!

  • @Rvj.12
    @Rvj.12 2 роки тому +4

    I have been roaming around ancient greece since last week and its more colourful than i thought it would be. Nice place to visit in this timeline.

  • @ogKrisht
    @ogKrisht 4 роки тому +3

    This is amazing! Also, please make another video that gives us information about the Pelasgians and Minoans.

  • @KodeHz
    @KodeHz 3 роки тому

    That was a fantastic video!! 25 minutes flew by!

  • @aloknarain139
    @aloknarain139 5 років тому +6

    Very good narration and research . Got to know so much of Greek history. Some more of such videos on ancient world history are welcome

  • @DimoB8
    @DimoB8 4 роки тому +341

    Someone: mentions Macedonia
    Greeks and Skopians: it's show time

    • @Kowaidesuka
      @Kowaidesuka 4 роки тому +95

      Even half the Slavs living today in fyrom agree they have no relation to Ancient Greeks/Macedonians, they can't read the inscriptions beneath all the Alexander statues they built, you know why? Cause it's Greek and not Slavic.
      Just another politic propaganda so NATO can build bases in fyrom. USA will do anything for power/control.

    • @pringuslover6798
      @pringuslover6798 4 роки тому +3

      And what a show it is

    • @ILLYRIANPost
      @ILLYRIANPost 4 роки тому +1

      But not slavic macedonians 🤣🤣

    • @Lion-rs2qy
      @Lion-rs2qy 4 роки тому +15

      What , are you serious ,
      Re malaka , Skopje hasn't even
      Developed an army yet, and personally, that's as far as they will get .
      Greece would blow Skopje off the map in a days battle , true fact

    • @Lion-rs2qy
      @Lion-rs2qy 4 роки тому +27

      @Rob Gorman your saying that Phillip ll of Macedon wasn't Greek
      But a barbarian
      Where do you get this information
      From , Phillip was of pure Hellenic blood , and the same, I mean , the same as the Spartans, and Corinthians .

  • @danielwebber4953
    @danielwebber4953 Рік тому +3

    Great touch having Brian Cox as narrator after his performance as Agamemnon in Troy (2004)

  • @mitchclark1532
    @mitchclark1532 4 роки тому +22

    I wish this channel produced more content like this

  • @PindusWrath
    @PindusWrath 5 років тому +1156

    Macedonians are not distinct relatives of Greeks cause they are simply Greeks lol

    • @pop-n-rock
      @pop-n-rock 5 років тому +174

      of course, they were a greek tribe the same way as Peloponnesians were a greek tribe
      all the greek tribes used to be hostile to each other because of geostrategics
      that does not in any way mean that they were different ethnically
      but newly formed state FYROM and also now Albania(!) tries to make the rest of the world believe that they are Macedonians (!!), it is starting to be irritating and insulting

    • @SirAroace
      @SirAroace 5 років тому +43

      false, Macedonians where never part of the core greek ethnicity. Now to be fair the people FYROM have almost nothing common with Macedonian, but that does not automatically make the Macedonians greek.

    • @astridwib7340
      @astridwib7340 5 років тому +13

      Macedonians have more slavic blood I think.. based on dna results that i have seen on youtube

    • @maxthomas-bland4842
      @maxthomas-bland4842 5 років тому +106

      @@astridwib7340 You might be talking about moder macedonia which is actually is a different location to ancient macedonia, ancient macedonia sits within modern greece

    • @astridwib7340
      @astridwib7340 5 років тому +4

      @@maxthomas-bland4842 so why the former Yugoslav country rename their territory with Macedonia then?

  • @mr.c4376
    @mr.c4376 5 років тому +4

    Your English language videos are absolutely terrific! Hope you'll make more of them.

  • @tommorrowfriday1383
    @tommorrowfriday1383 6 місяців тому +5

    18 minutes is not enough time for such a great history.

  • @ire1323
    @ire1323 2 роки тому +2

    Man I wish they had my English content. I don't mind the subtitles for the rest of their videos, but love the work they've done so far.

  • @giannissklavos6057
    @giannissklavos6057 5 років тому +123

    Excellent work I 'd say.. Your mention about Macedonians as relatives to the Greek is wrong though. They were Greeks. The term "barbarian" was used for them only by orators such as Demosthenes, when Athens had inner conflict with Macedonia, like they previously did with Sparta.

    • @grarglejobber7941
      @grarglejobber7941 4 роки тому +1

      lmao cope harder barbarian

    • @sweeterman8927
      @sweeterman8927 4 роки тому +15

      @@grarglejobber7941 i hope you find some pride in your country eventually. Stealing another's history won't get you anywhere

    • @sweeterman8927
      @sweeterman8927 4 роки тому +6

      @@grarglejobber7941 i dont know what your talking about but that has nothing to do with the issue at hand.
      all the information you need is here:
      Ancient Macedonia - A Greek Kingdom
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedonia_(ancient_kingdom)
      League of Corinth - the league of greek city states including macedon
      en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Corinth
      Vergina Sun - A Greek symbol
      en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vergina_Sun
      Early Slavs - slavic migration in the 5th century
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Slavs
      Modern Slavic North Macedonian Language - a dialect of Bulgarian
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedonian_language

    • @TylerDurden-cy5cs
      @TylerDurden-cy5cs 3 роки тому

      When Rome conquered Greece, the Romans wanted to participate in the Olympic Games but the Greeks did not let them and created other games for foreigners because only Greeks could participate. The Macedonians could participate in the Olympic Games. This is the best evidence that the Macedonians were Greeks. Of course there are many more like for example when the Macedonian king Alexander (not the famous one) named himself as Greek in his speech to Athenians and Spartans and the other Greeks when they were fighting against Persia. Nobody interacted to say that they weren’t Greek. Whoever reads history will understand all these unless if that person doesn’t want to. Makedonians are Greek like athenians Spartans korithians and all the other Greeks

    • @TylerDurden-cy5cs
      @TylerDurden-cy5cs 3 роки тому

      Πολυ σωστός φιλε. Μόνο ο Δημοσθένης τους ελεγε βαρβάρους για σκοπούς προπαγάνδας για να κινήσει τους Αθηναίους σε πολεμο με τους Μακεδόνες. Ντροπή να τίθεται το θεμα αν οι Μακεδόνες ηταν Έλληνες όταν δυο από τους μεγαλύτερους Έλληνες ηταν ο μεγάλος νους Φίλιππος και ο μοναδικός γιος του

  • @xPDimitraxGaming
    @xPDimitraxGaming 4 роки тому +3

    BEST EDUCATIONAL VIDEO I HAVE SEEN EVER!!!

  • @ryanmonte5105
    @ryanmonte5105 10 місяців тому

    These videos are so good. Wow thank you!

  • @brindade2004
    @brindade2004 2 роки тому +1

    Thank you. Great video. Great explanation.

  • @te5233
    @te5233 5 місяців тому +6

    Greek history very rich.

  • @anudarib
    @anudarib Рік тому +3

    Brian Cox's voice just adds more dimension to this excellent video, really admire Russian academics great script and presentation
    Wish it was available when I was just starting to study history but it is not too late to start learning right

  • @khoakdoan
    @khoakdoan 2 роки тому +1

    This is such a well structured video

  • @vonunterberg4313
    @vonunterberg4313 Рік тому +1

    These Videos are timeless

  • @louisborget9400
    @louisborget9400 5 років тому +20

    The Minoan civilization was apparently not destroyed by the volcanic eruption on Thera, according to an article in the New York Times, published November 28, 1989, which cites excavations in 1967 on the island of Santorini and at Mochlos that showed Minoan construction continued for some 150 years after the volcanic eruption. The date of the eruption was also pushed back to no later than 1600 B.C., based on radio carbon dating at Santorini and ash preserved in ice cores from Greenland. The Minoan civilization lasted until about 1450 B.C. The reason for it's collapse is unclear and the speculation is that invasion by the Mycenaens was the cause.

    • @stuckupcurlyguy
      @stuckupcurlyguy 4 роки тому +1

      Very interesting. Recent history I have read about the fall of the Roman empire also indicates that foreign invasion was the key cause of the decline (i.e. the empire's economic and political health were relatively good otherwise). Perhaps we have overrated socioeconomic factors and underrated military ones when it comes to ancient civiliations' collapse.

    • @philburnell5148
      @philburnell5148 3 роки тому

      The remnant mixed in with migrants while the rest fled to the Middle East.The High Priests of Anu in Mesopotamia thought they were atlanteans.

  • @fm-gamer5617
    @fm-gamer5617 2 роки тому +11

    one of the greatest civilizations of all time, the Greeks (Hellenes) 🙏🏼

  • @giannism6875
    @giannism6875 2 роки тому +11

    Είμαι από Αλβανία 🇦🇱🤜🏽🤛🏽🇬🇷. η μεγαλύτερη επιθυμία μου είναι να ζήσω στην αρχαία Ελλάδα

  • @druglord6000
    @druglord6000 3 роки тому

    svaka cast brate mili samo nastavi odlicno pripovedas i lepo se izrazavas imas dubok glas koji te navodi da slusas, spoken from serbian
    all the best, dear brother, just keep going, you tell a great story and express yourself nicely, you have a deep voice that makes you listen, translated

  • @1JOE4U
    @1JOE4U 5 років тому +5

    This and the Rome video are top quality.

  • @yonathanasefaw9001
    @yonathanasefaw9001 4 роки тому +59

    Interesting, this was insightful as I love Greek poetry and it's history is beautiful, thanks for posting.

    • @notcreatedfromaribshesjust9173
      @notcreatedfromaribshesjust9173 2 роки тому

      ❤️❤️❤️ua-cam.com/video/WkyLI8UIeXg/v-deo.html❤️❤️❤️Humanity❤️❤️❤️.

  • @sanjitpaul2953
    @sanjitpaul2953 2 роки тому +1

    Learned a lot. Nice video. Thanks a lot Sir.

  • @soulofwarriorssow5765
    @soulofwarriorssow5765 Рік тому

    I am so proud!!! Thank you for this video

  • @ATTJ7628
    @ATTJ7628 Рік тому +3

    Cox nailed the narration here

  • @donazaykova2029
    @donazaykova2029 6 років тому +7

    That video was the best

  • @cirrusdesaigles1526
    @cirrusdesaigles1526 6 місяців тому +6

    Greek history is great, the gretest of the world.

  • @giansideros
    @giansideros 2 роки тому +4

    16:38 the last independent Greek Kingdom that fell was the Indo-Greek Kingdom in 10 AD.