How People Traveled in the Ancient World
We've all heard tales of brave explorers sailing to unknown lands, but how did traders and regular civilians travel to different cities within the known world?
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That wheel... such a game changer :) As i watch this i just think of how i would have just died in so many ways traveling in ancient history :)
@racsoleerf124
Ай бұрын
Mark?
The first Drew Binsky in History was the man who first crossed the bering bridge to Canada.
@rtcitizen
3 жыл бұрын
for a second my brain thought you were talking about the travel youtuber
@grahamtotte7133
2 жыл бұрын
They paddled down the coast in canoes long before the land bridge was free of ice.
@harjjw
2 жыл бұрын
@@rtcitizen what were they talking about? I don't know what it means other than the youtuber
@Mr2258502
2 жыл бұрын
Actually it's alaska
Small correction at 1:29: humans are actually very endurant. Pretty much the only mammal that can do better are dogs specifically breeded for the task, by, y'know, humans.
@KhAnubis
3 жыл бұрын
That is true, but we can only carry so much (plus we get lazy sometimes)
@planescaped
3 жыл бұрын
Sweat powers activate! _anime soundtrack across the Savannah_
@user-vo6ec7hk4u
3 жыл бұрын
And CAMELS... Camels are the definition of endurance 😅
@yumyumwhatzohai
3 жыл бұрын
Yes I was going to mention, early Human hunter gatherers where successful hunters because they could out last their prey, they just had to keep following till they got tired.
@tylerbeaumont
3 жыл бұрын
We’re endurance runners, and can outrun the vast majority of animals at speed over a long distance. Humans were built to outrun predators on the plains, where most predators could be seen by our competent eyes and superior brain from a distance, so our slower speed was made up for in our massive stamina. Carrying heavy loads or climbing mountains however, we’re average at best, hence our reliance on horses, camels, donkeys etc for carrying things.
The animations and sound effects are a great improvement!
Love that you did a Drew Binksky reference ;)
@TheShadowGov
3 жыл бұрын
@Created for Edén stfu bot
@vitorremor
2 жыл бұрын
Drew is the best ✌
If you wanted to make Zheng He video, which I think we need many more of from many different channels, why not make a video dedicated to just him? Or even a small series.
Silk Road - a UNESCO heritage site too btw. 😋
Wow. One of your best yet!
Excellent video! Thanks for your effort. Further ones like this would be great!
Awesome video. I always wondered how did travelers actually speak? Was there an established profession of interpreters that you could hire? How did 13th-century Europeans talk with Mongols, Tatars, or Chinese for example?
@viveka2994
3 жыл бұрын
Latin, Chinese, Portuguese, Arabic, all of these were lingua francas back then in different areas and eras, like english is today
@fadhil2831
2 жыл бұрын
@@viveka2994 yup lingua franca always important,language like malay become usefull in the past because of trade in malaca and palembang
@ddwkc
2 жыл бұрын
Not much different from today. If the place isn't too isolated, usually they would work with 2+ languages. For instance, even in the bronze age, capital cities would work with 3+ languages. Lingua francas always existed through time. People just work out and try to find translators. We can even find someone who can communicate with isolate tribes. There is always someone who can link up and work as envoys, diplomats, translators, and so on back then to today. Mongol, Tatars, and Chinese were established and had formal systems to communicate with others. Mindblown is how we did communicate with natives in America. It is mind blowing that conquistadors would eventually have translators as well to communicate with the leaders of Aztec and Inca empires. I think hand sign language was used for North American natives as each tribe would have their own language.
@KennyNGA
2 жыл бұрын
@@ddwkc well in africa are even more languages
@floppyearfriend
2 жыл бұрын
@@ddwkc well, the "coming to understand Native American languages" is just matter of time. Eventually children from the tribes will have enough interaction with both cultures that they will have picked up both languages, and they can act as translators Also, something nobody mentioned yet is that traders might not need to be super proficient in the language in order to do their job. As long as they know how to talk about silk, spices, etcm and have *some* communicational proficiency, they could get away with it
Excellent video. Thank you.
Fantastic video. Really enjoyed it.
When the subtitle at 0:56 read "from the grandest kings to the lowliest Drew Binsky", I felt that
The Minecraft wheat at 0:32 made me smile lol :) Stay well out there everybody, and God bless you friends.😊
@TheRealFiveName
3 жыл бұрын
@Bloomberg Markets and F¡nance. bruh
8:32 I need this Oops All Colonialism! meme.
When you realize Marco Polo was just the first travel vlogger.
Fact:Ibn batuta and zhang he are the two most famous muslim traveller of the ancient world..
@yashagrawal88
2 жыл бұрын
More were there like Al-masudi and Al-biruni.
@amaan730
2 жыл бұрын
@@yashagrawal88 al biruni wasn't a traveller, he was with mahmud ghazni in his court.. When he was in hind he write his famous book about indian culture..
Nice, thank you!’
commenting for the algorithm. interesting video!
Excellent video! Your graphics and animation are really stepping up. And, I learned a lot this Sunday.
Zheng He is awesome! Definitely do a video on him!
Wow the artwork and animation in this video is great!! 👍🏽
Actually humans dominated meta game because of our endurance. Most animals can only run for a few miles, sure they might be faster, but they get tired. We keep tracking and eventually they're too tired to run, and then dinner.
@winkpoke1576
3 ай бұрын
Yup! You ever seen another animal sweat? Most of em cant.
Very interesting
The video and animations are awesome. I don't make videos but I'm always curious what people use to make cool vids like this?
@KhAnubis
2 жыл бұрын
I primarily use Final Cut Pro (now I use it alongside After Effects, but this one was made entirely with FCP). In the old days though I just used iMovie HD.
@bmoneybby
2 жыл бұрын
@@KhAnubis that's sweet. Final Cut seems to be the way to go. Someone stole my Mac not too long ago. I'm bummed I want to learn how to make videos but don't have anything now. Apple so damn expensive too!
"You cannot fast travel when enemies are nearby"
I can’t help but notice you used the old wheat texture.
Watching, because you plugged
0:58 drew binsky shout out
@chimpazoo1143
3 жыл бұрын
@KhaNubís lol this scam bot doesn't even try to be legit
Hugging the coadtline, as in from port to port, to replenish the ship's water supply Bosnaseray or Sarajevo. Enclosure, not "palace"
8:00 that's the post year 2000 Ural sea coast line, I suppose people would use trucks from the Soviet era in these parts of the world at this time lol
nice
Mohammed said (traveling is a peace of torture). I still consider waiting for trips and worrying about papers and procedures as a peace of torture.
@ADeeSHUPA
2 жыл бұрын
Are You A Jew or Zoroastrian
@iamsheel
2 жыл бұрын
@@ADeeSHUPA ex-muslim
whos coming from the Egypt video ?
Tha k you
man I really want to know how ancient people traveled like how did they carry their own food? Tents? Weaponry? Did they hunt along the way? Like the Greeks that went north - how did they do it?
Hi, I'm Drewius Binskius and I'm going to take you on a journey to every kingdom in the world!
The background music is from Caesar III, the PC game. This brings back some memmories:)
10:22, Combat pilots have been doing this since 1986 :)
It would be cool to travel back then
Human endurance is very high...running and walking...we don't sprint very far, but we are a pursuit predator...and walking...we can really walk a long distances without tiring...
@rasmusn.e.m1064
3 жыл бұрын
Yes, humans can run for a very long time without tiring, but the problem is that we need a lot of water to survive and our metabolisms are also quite high, and we can't really digest most plant matter that well, so travel is quite a risky affair, seeing as travel usually implies going to unknown places through unknown routes and unknown areas means that we don't know where the specific high caloric sources of food we need are. Compare that to a camel that can go for months without drinking and can eat practically anywhere where there's vegetation.
@marksmadhousemetaphysicalm2938
3 жыл бұрын
@@rasmusn.e.m1064 let's face it, if we didn't make clothes and couldn't tame fire, we'd be restricted to the Mediterranean climate as well as the tropics...that's it...we are not adapted to most climate regions on this planet...we need lots of water even if not walking and can't digest cellulose...at all...we are physically weak and have shit night vision...but in our evolved range, we do have excellent endurance...and I didn't say we had great digestion or there weren't better critters out there...but by no means are we worst...we're near the top...for endurance. We have the smarts though, to use faster and more durable animals and build machines that beat all animals...
@belstar1128
3 жыл бұрын
@@marksmadhousemetaphysicalm2938 if we didn't make clothes and couldn't tame fire we would probably be a different species by now modern humans can't really survive without this.
@marksmadhousemetaphysicalm2938
3 жыл бұрын
@@belstar1128 my point is, that the warmer climates are the only ones we are adapted to survive in, and for which our endurance is at its peak. Mother nature did not optimize us for all conditions. Nature is parsimonious with its gifts...Without clothes and fire, even ancient humans would have been stuck...and yes we would have evolved in a different way by now without them...
This is not accurate. You missed travel methods of the Targaryens, the dragon
@daddyleon
3 жыл бұрын
And the seahorses of the Atlanteans.
Oh! I've got this one! Was it with feet?
Where is this second channel? I can’t find celestium...0.0
Nice to know I am like ancient humans. Most of my transportation methods these days is “walking.” Running I am definitely not good at.
@jonathanwilliams1065
3 жыл бұрын
Keep walking and you’ll get better Stop walking and you’ll get super fat I learned the hard way
@ADeeSHUPA
2 жыл бұрын
@@jonathanwilliams1065 uP
4:39 It is believed they would say, "Raeda Die" as they went.
Three minutes into the video and I already have a couple of disagreements: (1) sailing was a thing since at least the Neolithic settlement of Cyprus and the somewhat related first European Neolithic, whose maritime branch (Cardium Pottery culture) was certainly doing at least some open seas travel, judging on fish remains and settlement of many distant islands like Corsica, Sardinia or the Balears. Those people were surely the earliest serious sailors in this part of the world, long before dynastic Egyptians. (2) Oxen or at least bovine cattle was certainly also a thing in Egypt and elsewhere after the Anatolian Neolithic (precursor of that first European Neolithic), whether they had oxen (castrated bulls) or not is less clear but my bet is that they did and that explains stuff like Stonehenge (even if they maybe were not used in Egypt, I'm almost certain they were used in European megalithic constructions).
@BrazilianImperialist
2 жыл бұрын
No
@johnpauljonesisabadass8134
2 жыл бұрын
Lol
Damn I love how you show footage from Imperator: Rome. It's a shame Paradox stopped developing it.
3:40 why doesn't Greece have any roads??
@Georgios1821
3 жыл бұрын
It's a mistake
Interesting content, thank you. But why, why have maps where land and sea are almost the same colour? What happened to the good old blue colour for the sea? This is a trend I spot that is emerging in many places. It makes no sense, never mind difficult to understand.
@KhAnubis
2 жыл бұрын
I try to make them different shades, but yeah I was trying to go for an old, parchment-style map
Sarai is Inn not palace. Second thing is that humans are actually most endurant of all mammals.
Is the Nile also draining to the red sea historicaly accurate?
@KhAnubis
2 жыл бұрын
There reportedly was a canal dug from the Nile to the Red Sea around 4,000 years ago (although I didn‘t make that map)
back then travelling long distances by ship or boats was much cheaper than travelling on land.
Hello
Did he just say the lowliest Drew Binsky's of the ancient world lol
@KhAnubis
3 жыл бұрын
Yep
I missed one option for traveling back then. sitting in a chair and let others carry your chair while they are walking. it's still someone who is walking. But not the person in the chair.
@BonaparteBardithion
2 жыл бұрын
I don't think litters were used much for long distance travel. That was more a rich person or parade float type deal.
2:50 isnt that from Imperator Rome
I know merchants might have travelled from Rome to London. But was this common? Would legionaries every taking such a route?
@lukasdutli3473
3 жыл бұрын
There was indeed a surprisingly high rate of exchange within the empire. Especially the soldiers were taken from all over the empire. You could have a black southern egyptian serving at the scottish border.
@kthemaster1999
3 жыл бұрын
@@lukasdutli3473 black people were in Britain before Anglos
@lukasdutli3473
3 жыл бұрын
@@kthemaster1999 yes. Kind of. It could also be that some Anglo immigrants already lived in Britain though.
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@KhAnubis
3 жыл бұрын
Huh, that would explain a lot then I guess
Omg I’m early. Also..ALL ROADS LEAD TO KHANUBIA Btw, Zheng He...afaik at least, was castrated (ouch).
@watercressfabrique3333
3 жыл бұрын
hello ryan
@ryeryeryerye
3 жыл бұрын
@@watercressfabrique3333 hello madam
@watercressfabrique3333
3 жыл бұрын
@@ryeryeryerye why am i being called a madam, everyone's thinking I'm a boomer now 😭😭😭
@jonathanwilliams1065
3 жыл бұрын
You are correct He got snipped
@ryeryeryerye
3 жыл бұрын
@@jonathanwilliams1065 OUCH OOF F
Hey Drew Binsky reference
Humans can walk farther than any other animal. A human can walk a horse to death. The horses will stop Walking first and just stand there
Just a comment to stimulate the algorithm here
I'm going back to travelling with a donkey.
Actually humans have a lot of stamina we used to be persistent hunters because sweeting allowed us to regenerate stamina well moving see tier zoos videos “how humans broke the game” and “are humans op” to see this
Back then I was merly some atoms, I cant tell where my atoms were and how traveled but I suppose some were pushed by ocean currents, some were flying inside birds etc.
@jonathanwilliams1065
3 жыл бұрын
Your atoms aren’t you And you likely cycle though them every 7 years
@bigfan2452
3 жыл бұрын
You just did not exist at all. I did not exist before September 1994.
@ezekielbrown2837
3 жыл бұрын
Technically Hinduism is kinda right because some of your atoms might have been another person
@jonathanwilliams1065
3 жыл бұрын
@@ezekielbrown2837 your atoms are not you
@ezekielbrown2837
3 жыл бұрын
@@jonathanwilliams1065 I mean the atoms you were born with I know you’re cells are constantly dying and being replaced, plus it’s not really supposed to be super serious
quick say something
Is this before or after the fire nation attacked?
@zyanego3170
3 жыл бұрын
Before
Tldr, exactly how you think
They walked unless they can afford a horse
What did the Arabs and Europeans have that the Chinese were interested in? I'm wandering because later on under the Qing dynasty it seems the only wanted silver from official side at least.
@user-vo6ec7hk4u
3 жыл бұрын
GOOOOLD!!! plus copper, silver, books, some textiles, damascian sowrds, animals, and some rare types of plants
@fadhil2831
2 жыл бұрын
They love teripang(sea cucumber) also Elephant tusk and gold from africa
They should've just used portals and travel in the nether.
Didn't people get lost on the way during the ancient times, as there were no GPS technology or advanced cartography back then?
@otsokivivuori7726
3 жыл бұрын
I would guess the cartography wasn't as bad as it could have been, for specific uses. Think of an underground network map: Not at all geographically accurate but very helpful for getting from place a to place b. Road maps could have been like that.
@belstar1128
3 жыл бұрын
Yea they did but they where smart they could use a lot of tricks to navigate like using the stars recognizing landmarks and the environment this was not a big problem.
Generally they just didnt travel, but i quess when they did this video applies to that.
Your font bugs me. I keep thinking the 't's are ł
8:50 something important you forget to mention about Zheng he... That he was a MUSLIM Chinese which helped a loooot in communicating with the known world
@hx5525
3 жыл бұрын
You know what else would help in communicating at the time? A massive navy w thousands of soldiers.
@user-vo6ec7hk4u
3 жыл бұрын
@lewangoalski my point is to prove that Islam is sooo old in China among the han ethnicity, because currently Chinese Muslims are really in a bad situation... The ruling party is a communist party and they fight religions in general and most fiercely against Islam
@krio1267
3 жыл бұрын
@@user-vo6ec7hk4u man, the han also these days enslave the turkestani people
khunabis : it might be significantly easier to travel to other places visa planes these days me a temporary visa holder of Australia : 😭😭
Their own two feet would be my guess 😁
Just so you know, I am the 100,000th viewer
They walked like they did in lord of the rings
and if you have a good passport
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@krio1267
3 жыл бұрын
@📌 pinned by Bloomberg Markets and Finance. stfu bot
It'd be so fun to travel the entirety of the Roman empire using the sane roads they used as a road trip. Might take forever even if you traveled by car though.
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Why are you wearing a muzzle?
Finally a video about travel I've been searching for in so long
Higher class video than normal. Nice.
Endurance is actually one of our attributes. It might not seem like it if you look at the average westerner, by humans can walk/pursue for tens of miles a day, often without pause and we can do this under extreme heat so long as we have a water bag. All of this is thanks to smelly and pungent special ability: sweating
Bruh, þey just used fast travel.
the fact you don't mention Zheng He was a eunuch is disappointing
"It wasn't until the invention of agriculture when humans first started staying still" *Look at this. I control the food now. Now, everyone will want to be my friend and live near me. Let's all build houses, except mine is bigger because I own the food. This is great, I wonder if anyone else is doing this*
@Zeyede_Seyum
3 жыл бұрын
*You're everywhere* 🙂
everyone love to travel
Huh neat I’m the twentieth comment
hello there i am 4th.
@Alex-bf3re
3 жыл бұрын
*6th
@bruhz_089
3 жыл бұрын
*No one cares
@erei5659
3 жыл бұрын
@@bruhz_089 care enough to comment 😎.
"The lowliest Drew Binskys of the ancient world" caught me off guard whenever I travel somewhere, I either transform into a train or a Mercedes
yikes
On foot, camel, horse.. the whole video in 4 words
@KhAnubis
2 жыл бұрын
Now actually watch the video
People tend to forget that ancient China was so much more complex than Rome. While Rome boasted its great road system, China boasted not only a robust road network but as well as grand canals that stretched throughout the country. The postal system in China, Id argue is even better than the one in Rome but I digress, I just think that ancient China is just so much less discussed than the other great empires of the west. China was built with trade in mind, no wonder the Chinese are often taunted with their business making skills
Just to make the video better I thought you were ginna talk how people travel for example what they do when they had a 2 days journey by foot where they sleep and how and how they carry food etc Very disappointed with your video
@KhAnubis
2 жыл бұрын
Honestly that would’ve been a good inclusion
10:20 speak about yourself!!!! My passport only allow me to enter 6 countries... All other nations make it really hard for me to reach thier land 🙄🙄🙄🙄, even that i have not committed any crime and the badest thing i did was telling lies to my brother about where his candy went 😝😝😅😅