Hey everyone, First off, thanks so much for stopping by. I’m thrilled that there are so many of you out there who love ancient history as much as I do. I was also pleasantly surprised at how many people tuned into this particular video. Thank you! I’ve been going through the comments and wanted to address a couple of things. One, please be respectful of others’ views and use appropriate language when commenting. I’m all for free speech but I won’t tolerate comments with excess profanity, bullying or bigotry. These things have no place here and will simply be deleted. Please be civil and respectful to all who wish to discuss on this platform. Second, some of you have brought up race and the “European” portrayal of Canaanites in the video. I completely understand. I’m actually from a historically persecuted minority that has often been misrepresented in mainstream culture and history. However, I took another look at the video and didn’t see what the concern was about other than perhaps in two paintings of scenes from the Old Testament. One is by the Hungarian painter József Molnár and the other a 17th century work by the Dutch artist Rembrandt. Those are just two painters I like whose work is also royalty-free. It had nothing to do with portraying Canaanites as European and that most certainly wasn’t my intention. If you know of any relevant and royalty-free images, please let me know and I’ll be more than happy to consider using them. When I put these videos together, I do my best to use as many credible sources as possible (if interested, I’ve listed the ones I referenced in the video description). While I use the Old Testament as a historical source, I also cross-reference it with what scholars have learned from archaeology and modern historical analysis. This is just the approach I use. Then, I do my best to present what is written in these sources and leave it for you to either make up your own mind or dig further by doing your own research. That’s all. I have no agenda or wish to espouse any particular view. You have no idea how great it is to receive a comment from someone who may not have known much about a particular subject and then have them write that they're even more curious and want to learn more. For me, that’s one of the most rewarding experiences. Thanks again for participating in this channel. It means the world to me and I’m really glad each and everyone of you is here. Now, let’s discuss some more history! - Cy

@HistorywithCy

4 жыл бұрын

@UCn0XMDyG6eUuYQkn5g2KrbQ Hi. When I talk about Semitic, I am referring to the language family - Canaanites spoke a western Semitic language. I'm not talking about race or ethnicity. I probably should have made that more clear in the video. Thanks!

@E.J.Crunkleton

4 жыл бұрын

@@HistorywithCy if they share a language tree wouldn't they also be related biologically and culturally? Barring a big migration that led to some geographic isolation I mean.

@HistorywithCy

4 жыл бұрын

@@E.J.Crunkleton Hi! Sure, I believe that's the case most of the time, especially in the ancient world. In my opinion, language is greatest unifier and promoter of culture, I'd argue even more so than ethnicity and religion. Thanks for stopping by the channel!

@E.J.Crunkleton

4 жыл бұрын

@@HistorywithCy thank you for the great content!

@msb8792

4 жыл бұрын

History with Cy The Canaanites were Semitic, both ethnically and linguistically, regardless of what the Biblical opinion is. The biblical narrative is based on making sure the enemies of the Israelites are not of the same “stock” as them, it’s full of this kind of bias. Ironically, historical research is proving that the ancient Hebrews were in fact Canaanites themselves, the whole story of coming from Ur of the Chaldees has no historical and and archeological backing, and Hebrew is in fact a Canaanite language, not an Aramaic based one like the religious narrative suggests. Anyways, if you want to get an estimation of how the Canaanites looked like just take a look at modern Palestinian and Lebanese people, a very Mediterranean look, pretty close to Greeks, Italians and Spaniards... Cheers

The language used at Ugarit is closely related to biblical Hebrew as well as to other ancient languages of the region including Phoenician, Aramaic, and Moabite. Like most documents in those languages, these Ugaritic texts were written almost entirely without vowels, as are modern Hebrew and Arabic. This can complicate translation, since a word with only consonants may, at least theoretically, have several possible meanings. Yet there is a compensating advantage for the translator of Ugaritic: the poetic techniques used by the ancient Canaanite authors have much in common with those employed in the Bible. As in biblical poetry, the chief formal characteristic of Canaanite verse is the use of parallelism, a characteristic not lost in translation. In parallelistic verse, a single idea is expressed in units of two or three lines (a bicolon or a tricolon) by repetition, synonyms, or antonyms, as we see in the following lines: Let me tell you, Prince Baal, let me repeat, Rider on the Clouds: Now, your enemy, Baal, now you will kill your enemy, now you will annihilate your foe. You will take your eternal kingship, your dominion forever and ever. These units consist of a tricolon framed by two bicola; each unit has one thought developed by repetitive and synonymous parallelism. Not only the technique but the lines themselves are familiar from the Bible: Behold, your enemies, Yahweh, behold, your enemies have perished, all evildoers have been scattered. (Psalm 92:9) Your kingdom is an eternal kingdom, your rule is forever and ever. (Psalm 145 :13)

I learned that mixing History and Mythology you would get Mystory.

shout out to the peeps here trying to understand the israeli-palestine conflict, i feel this is a good starting point

Very informative; just subscribed. Thanks for putting this together. 🙂

The most famous Canaanite invention is the alphabet. The dye they made from a type of conch (Murex) was pretty famous too; the Greeks called them Phoenician, meaning 'gory'/'purple' while Canaanite/Kinani are Semitic terms meaning 'purple people'. They abandoned their languages to trade in Aramaic during the Assyrian Period, with only Punic in Carthage (Phoenician qrtḥdšt, "New City") surviving until the second century wars with Rome, and Hebrew surviving as a liturgical language (like Latin).

I am enjoying the research, and I would love to learn about your exploration throughout the middle east, learn about the different artifacts, I look forward to seeing more of your videos!

@HistorywithCy

4 жыл бұрын

Definitely! More to come in the next few days...thanks so much for the support!

@rtrscatteredabroad5097

4 жыл бұрын

Cy! hook me up with the history! I am enjoying the Archaeology!

I'm binging your channel. Im a ww2 history buff, and man. Im loving this ancient history

This video makes me happy thank you my friend

Just discovered your channel. It's by far the most informative series of videos about the ancient Near East on KZread! I mostly do American history, but I'd love to collaborate with you.

@HistorywithCy

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much, I really appreciate it! Sure, we could one day do a future collaboration. Write to my email (in the "About" section) if there's something you'd like to cover. Thanks and appreciate the kind words!

Excellent video on Canaan and the Canaanites. Very well organized and illustrated with maps and artifacts.

Thank you for doing this video!

Very informative video! Many thanks. Keep going.

@HistorywithCy

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you, I appreciate the kind words!

A great service to us Amateurs interested in Ancient ME history. How about more videos about Ancient Indian/Indus Valley civilisations?

Well researched. Good job.

@HistorywithCy

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much, I appreciate the kind words!

Some of the canaanite traditions are still present in palestinian culture, specially in weddings and henna ceremonies and the tejlaya dance

@HistorywithCy

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for stopping by, I really appreciate it!

Like your style, Cy; just subscribed.

@HistorywithCy

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you, comments like that make my day!

Two of the most talked about and best cities of Canaan are Tyre and Sidon. They are mentioned in the bible many times. Then you have Byblos which was named after the bible by the Greeks. All these are located in Lebanon.

Cy, great episode. Love the progression I've watched with the channel from the Sumerians up to this episode. Great to see more and more people are subcribing!

@HistorywithCy

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Yeah, it's becoming more of a steady stream. Glad to know that there are more like you out there who find this stuff interesting. Thanks again for stopping by!

@gandalfthegrey2592

4 жыл бұрын

Christ!

Well done, thank you.

@HistorywithCy

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

How were the Canaanites a group of S(h)emitic peoples if they were descended from Ham?

@HistorywithCy

4 жыл бұрын

Hi! I said in the video that they are mentioned in the Bible as the descendants of Ham, but archaeologists/linguists/historians classify them as a Semitic-speaking people because their language, Canaanite, falls into the Semitic family of languages. I probably should have made these distinctions clearer in the video. Cheers!

@americanparser

4 жыл бұрын

@@HistorywithCy Thank you for the clarification!

@benpeters5851

4 жыл бұрын

@@HistorywithCy makes sense even people like the Greeks and Egyptians who lived along side them had a hard time distinguishing the two groups of people apart from one another.

@marwanabuhasan8979

4 жыл бұрын

That not true .

@yaruqadishi8326

4 жыл бұрын

@@americanparser There's an Insurmountable Difference between the Biblical/Hebrew-Jewish fiction mythical "canaanites" the Čhanaanim and The non Hebraic Prebiblical aka Gentile by background True Canaanites or Kananians. The first is the Hebrew-Jewish "canaanites" the Čhanaanim. They are descendents of Adam and god Yahweh from noah or noačh through ham or čham as he's rightly called originally. They are cursed and forgot about worshipping yahweh/yahuwah the hebraic god and make up new gods on the spot of yahweh. They have "immoral practices" idol worship, child sacrifice, temple prostitution (bet čhodesh), practice dark magic, and spoke Hebrew (like the example is in genesis/berashit ch 50 where yoshep mourns for yačhob his father with these unrelatable egyptians called mitsrayim and the canaanites say "abel mitsriyim" which is Hebrew language), as well as incorrectly in a land that the Jews/Hebrews in their fantasy land isn't theirs originally somehow clearly randomly, and finally they have all kinds of disgusting sex with everything in site like family to friends to animals to objects. All this to name a few false descriptions about canaanites in general real world view and others, this let alone all their "kings" melečhim are all bad. That's that on the Hebrew fiction mythos with bible/tanak on. Now to the real World Canaanites the True Canaanites aka Kananians. The Canaanites Really are Gentile origin not Jewish/Hebrew they are preadamitic thus again proof as gentile by definition and nature and more. They are Created by the True Gods the Original Real Elohyim (Iluma in their language as will be explained onward here) like El, Asherah, Baal-Hadad the Supreme baal unknown to the ancient hebrew-jews whom created their fiction and then later composed it into the bible books in post antiquity times of late iron age. They the True Canaanites are Semitic like the hebrews (thus should be shem related not čham even they both including japeth/yapet are semitic or Hebrew characters of jewish-hebrew fiction made up in post antiquity) and they instead in correction too and truth shown they birthed the Hebrews instead of the Hebrews birthing them and they helped created their hebraic god yahweh/yahuwah/Allah with their own Gods and the canaanites themselves over some time post bronze and through out low iron age. The True Canaanites never had any cities like "sodom and gomorah" or knew camels in the 1800-1200 bce era which is the earliest time the Hebrews say their Čhanaanim (canaanites) came too be. The True canaanites knew camels in the iron age early on like 900 bce when the first real Hebrew jews ever came too exist their first kings like David and Solomon who in Truth we're half Canaanite and small Jerusalem rulers who were even able to sit on the low throwns of broken down canaanite lands on Jerusalem of the time since 900 bce Jerusalem was small and shrunk from lack of commerical trade and defense from the local Kananians and long past egyptian rulers who helped build up it especially when king abdi hepa ruled his city jerusalem. The canaanites in the real world have many pious virtues and taboo sins they condemned like rape, child sacrifice, misusage of slaves, temple desecration, and corrupt Kingship too name a few. Real Canaanites used idol statues for God Worship not worship of the object itself but the God/s themselves behind it's symbolic representation and it's semi dwelling place for the Deity. True Canaanites spoke their actual language which is the direct and indirect father/mother to both Hebrew and arabic. As stated in the last paragraph the canaanites would've instead say 'Ablu Misrami' or 'Ablu Misru'. Plus also they called themselves Kana'ani or Kinanu or Kana'ana. Those are pure and better along with their word for holy (unlike Hebrew čhodesh) is Kudushu or Qadishti. And lastly kings were to rule Rightly and Godly and not sinfully or corrupt as many kings in the world and others were supposed to conduct themselves with piety and even watched over by a high priest or prophet (Canaanite: Nabu vs Nav :Hebrew). Etc etc Other things to point out with Truth and Light is that magic use was not to be dark magic or occult like related. That was Hatta to the Canaanites/Kananians and the Gods. Magic was used to worship and glorify the Divine Ones (Qadishumi Aliyanu translated Most High Holiness). The Kananian Gods have no chosen people or acclaimed bloodline choice; the covenants made by them with lesser beings like humans is the individual person's choice to follow and worship that God/Goddess/Deity. In true God Given Real world the Levantine lands of Kanania like ancient Israel/Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and tinsy tinny tip of north west Saudi Arabia and Sinai was fought in war in early iron age too bronze age back and into real Hebrew time like late mid to late iron age forward by the True Canaanites the Kananians in fact Hebrew-Jews biblically and non at the same time practiced Canaanite customs and contrary to the tanak/bible it was Godly Tsaddečh (Hebrew for righteous coming from the parent canaanite language word for righteous Tizaddiku). All in all in conclusion it's clear as stated at the start, the Hebrew-jewish (Aka biblical/Hebraic fiction mythos fantasy) "canaanites"? The Čhanaanim (whom are nothing more but the Hebrews themselves) are nothing alike and purely alienated to the True Canaanites the Kinanu or Kana'ani who are real and more than just existed but left endless traces of themselves like the Mesopotamians (Real True Babylonians/Assyrians unlike the Hebrew Jewish fiction of post antiquity also the Ashurim and Babelim among the čhetim the Hebrew fiction "hittites" who like the "Philistines" Hebrew palashetim whom both are semitic hebrew like and in the land that is not Palestine ancient related or even time periods correct. More on another time.) Hebrew Čhanaanim vs True Gentile present Canaanites aka Kananians. The first is all a Lie and godless deception of Devils. The other is the real World God/s (Iluhimu Aliyani) Truth Forever (Ulami). There you go my Kananian friends, and I hope you guys enjoyed this very long post. Shalamu Li Kumu Qadishu Kinaani Ulamu. Shalamu Shalami Salamu Salami Laki Shalam

Good job man. I dug the music too

@HistorywithCy

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you, I appreciate it!

Awesome work Cy

@HistorywithCy

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Thank you for covering this subject. It seems to me that this culture is more important to our own than most ancient cultures I was taught about in school. It would be a crime if all knowledge of this important peoples was forgotten.

This series is excellent! Thanks🌹

@HistorywithCy

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for the kind words, I really appreciate them...stay safe!

Great! Very informative.

@HistorywithCy

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Worthy of a new sub! Loved, loved the video 💚 Thank you!

@HistorywithCy

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you, comments like this make my day!

@blueeyes6852

4 жыл бұрын

@@HistorywithCy I'm happy I could make you happy! Again, your vids are the bomb! 💣

So this means that canaanites are the indigenous people of that land and not the people of judea, right?

Just Subscribed. Not sure why you get so many thumbs down?? Enjoyed your video and research.

@HistorywithCy

4 жыл бұрын

Hi! It appears to be my approach to the subject. I definitely acknowledge and use the Old Testament as mentioning Canaanites, but they are also featured in ancient Egyptian, Syrian (the Mari archives), Mitanni, Hittite and the texts and inscriptions of several other peoples of the ancient Mediterranean. These, along with archaeological findings, must also be taken into account which I think some people do not recognize. There are several who in the comments have made it clear that a literal reading of the Bible is the only way to view the subject and, well, you can see where the disagreement with the material in the video comes from. Anyway, I respect everyone’s opinion, just not the profanity, lack of respect for others and in a couple of cases, threats (hence why for the first time I’ve had to monitor comments to make sure they’re rated PG). On that note, thanks for stopping by and glad you got something out of it!

@violajohn5159

4 жыл бұрын

The like to dislike ratio is overwhelmingly on the side of like. A 100 likes for one dislike. And well deserved!

@HistorywithCy

4 жыл бұрын

@jay Thanks, I appreciate it! I'll still make of these for sure... right now studying the kingdoms of Israel and Judah and their wars with the Assyrians. Really interesting to see how other powers were also involved the conflict. An episode (or two) will be coming on the Phoenicians soon... hopefully in the next month or two. Thanks again for stopping by!

@HistorywithCy

4 жыл бұрын

@@violajohn5159 Thank you! Yeah, that's to be expected... a lot of people with knowledge from different soruces and so there's bound to be some disagreement. Thanks for stopping by the channel, I really appreciate it!

The Israelites themselves (and by extension Jews and Samaritans) were originally of Canaanite stock, the Hebrew language is actually classified as a Canaanite language

@mikeappleget482

4 жыл бұрын

The Phoenician language and Hebrew are about as different from each other as American English and British English. They’re almost exactly the same.

@MrGuyJacks

4 жыл бұрын

@@mikeappleget482 That's right, the only difference is that Hebrew is written in Aramaic script but that's only been the case since the Babylonian exile, before that the script they used was identical. The Phoenicians themselves were Canaanite as well

Great research. Excellent presentation.

@HistorywithCy

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the kind words, I appreciate it!

Very good information

Tanti complimenti, video e' bellissimo come tutti i Suoi video Non ho mai sentito di questo popolo, molto interessante. Loro arte mi piace tanto. Grazie mille che aricchisce le nostre anime! Lei e' una persona eccezionale e piu' unica che rara!

I enjoyed your short video, but I’d like to let you know that I am a Canaanite from Lebanon. The Greeks changed our name to the Phoenicians because of the purple dye we manufactured for the wealthy kings, made from the giant sea snails. We were the first to write the alphabet, then the Greeks took it and tweeked it. We were the seafaring people of the Mediterranean. No one could duplicate our Phoenician ships until the Punic wars that were fought with Italy. They sunk our ships, retreated them from the ocean and duplicated them. Italy was afraid of us because the Phoenicians started a civilization in Carthage, the top of Africa, opposite Italy. The Carthaginians also are the Phoenicians. We the Lebanese traded with the whole of the Mediterranean. Cypress, Greece,Italy,Spain,Malta, even as far as England and Ireland. The first miracle Jesus performed was in Lebanon at a canannite wedding. King Ahab’s wife was jezabel a Phoenician women. Tyre and Sidon are mentioned in the Bible and still exist today in Lebanon. The first temple that Solomon built was made from the cedar trees from the cedars of Lebanon. Unless you are born and raised in Lebanon and went to school and learnt the history of our great country you would not know these things as well as many other things which would take too long to mention. The Canannites have the biggest megalithics in the world in Baalbek. Most of the foods and vegetables you see in the Mediterranean countries were introduced by the Phoenicians. The Lebanese have migrated to all parts of the world because of the many wars it has endured. There are many in America, Australia and also in Brazil. The Canaanites are the Lebanese people. Salma Hayek’s father is Lebanese. Shakira’s father is Lebanese. The famous super model Gigi hadid’s father is Lebanese. Omar sharif is Lebanese, he’s not Egyptian. I could go on and on. God bless you my brother with the great videos your putting out there

@HistorywithCy

4 жыл бұрын

Hi, and thanks for stopping by the channel! Thanks also for the info! Yes, I tend to call the Phoenicians "coastal Canaanites" and agree with you that it's a Greek term that has been adopted in European languages. I will be doing a video on the "Phoenicians" soon where I'll do my best to explain all of this. It will also focus a lot on the various Phoenician city-states and kingdoms and their interaction with the rest of the Mediterranean and the world. Stay tuned and once again, thanks for stopping by!

Great channel

@HistorywithCy

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you, glad you like it! More to come soon!

When I get the link I will post it!! The research was carried out by some European research center very authentic

@lapislazulii141

4 жыл бұрын

Isidora Johnson The European are the same people as the ancient remains found in Israel. They are covering their people’s past.

I love this stuff

Thank you...!!🙌🙌

@HistorywithCy

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

I can't wait for a video on the Phoenicians.

@HistorywithCy

4 жыл бұрын

And I can't wait to finish it for you all...it's coming soon! Thanks so much for stopping by the channel!

@dorianphilotheates3769

4 жыл бұрын

Stargarden- The Phoenicians and the Canaanites were one and the same. The “Phoenicians” of the Bronze and Iron Age are called “Canaanites”; the Canaanites of the archaic and classical periods are called “Phoenician”. The first ethnonym (Kanaanim) is of west Semitic origin (even though the groups of peoples we now collectively call “Canaanites” had a variety of endonyms for themselves). “Phoenician” is an exonym- the name given to the ancient coastal Levantines by the Greeks (Phoinikes, i.e. the “Red People”) likely because the Greeks associated them with the manufacture and trade of the famous “Tyrian” red-purple cloth (the ‘royal purple’) which was so prized in antiquity. Much more to be said, but essentially that’s it in a nutshell. 🥜

@alejandror.planas9802

4 жыл бұрын

The Phoenicians were the Canaanites. Phoenicia is a greek term referring to the purple tints they traded with. The Phoenicians called themselves Kenaani, or Canaanites.

The Phoenician language was very close to Hebrew. One could argue that the Phoenicians were coastal Canaanites and the Jews were hill-dwelling Canaanites (and I have seen just this argument in a book about the history of Jerusalem).

I love how loud the adds are

If only they had learned to share the lands of earth instead of going to war so one could rule, we wouldn't be so puzzled today or be asking so many questions about the unknown.

Great episode, love your videos, I hope you will make a video one day about Phoenicias .

@HistorywithCy

5 жыл бұрын

Hey, great to see you again and thanks for stopping by! Oh, they're coming up soon... just finishing the script on them!

@ZotyaPotyaZTA

5 жыл бұрын

@@HistorywithCy glad to hear it, you are awesome!

how can I learn more about this civilization? I can't seem to find much info on the web and youtube videos are limited. is there some good websites i don't know about

Can you do a video on the grabblers?

Well researched as always. You might do well to make a follow up video on Ugarit, one of the most famous "Canaanite" city-states.

@HistorywithCy

5 жыл бұрын

Oh definitely... that and about the development of the Ugaritic alphabet! Thanks for the suggestion and your support, it's always greatly appreciated!

@JasonJacksonJames

5 жыл бұрын

An article by A. F. Rainey in The Biblical Archaeologist (1965, p. 105) states that on ethnic, political, and, probably, linguistic bases “it is now clearly a misnomer to call Ugarit a ‘Canaanite’ city.” He gives further evidence to show that “Ugarit and the land of Canaan were separate and distinct political entities.”

@HistorywithCy

5 жыл бұрын

@@JasonJacksonJames Yes I believe you're correct about it generally not being considered by many as part of Biblical Canaan, but Ugarit did have a flourishing Canaanite community and culture. From what I've been reading (and my studies are still incomplete), it was quite a cosmopolitan city with many different groups - not just Canaanites but Hurrians, evidence of Luwian-speakers and of course your traders from Egypt, other parts of the Mediterranean and Mesopotamia. Seems like Ugarit was a cool place to be!

May I ask you the exact name of the music used in the video? I searched "epidemic sound" But so many different things appeared.... Could you be so nice to tell me the name of the music used? I realy liked it. 😶

@HistorywithCy

4 жыл бұрын

Sure! The tracks are: Oman Countryside Frequent Traveler Approaching the Middle East On some of them I just used the stems, not the whole song. Anything else, please don't hesitate to ask. Thanks!

@hermescarraro3393

4 жыл бұрын

@@HistorywithCy Thanks man. That was very nice of you. May I ask what your next video is going to be about? Just for curiosity

@HistorywithCy

4 жыл бұрын

No problem! More on ancient Mesopotamia... still have more I want to cover with regard to this subject...thanks!

Thank you for the information! i am trying to study the Armana tablets

@HistorywithCy

4 жыл бұрын

Oh, you'll find them very interesting, especially the correspondence between the Hittite kings and the Egyptians!

@rtrscatteredabroad5097

4 жыл бұрын

@@HistorywithCy the Armana tablets that confirms the time of Solomon

@dorianphilotheates3769

4 жыл бұрын

RTR SCATTEREDABROAD - Amarna.

@rtrscatteredabroad5097

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah they have a lot of information!

@rtrscatteredabroad5097

4 жыл бұрын

i really appreciate the information, this is about the close I will ever get to Egypt

"Ch" in these place names should be pronounced as "kh" (or X), not as "ch" such as in Rachel.

Very interesting overview. Can you tell me where the ancient Israelites and Pharisees came from before they invaded Canaan? Thank you.

@albusai

4 жыл бұрын

From ur the first one , then scaped from Egypt

@bigfel3240

4 жыл бұрын

They came out of Egypt as the Hyksos in two separate waves, the second being Joseph and his people.

Good video

@HistorywithCy

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Interesting. There are an African(nigerian and nigerien) ethnic group called the hausas. Their oral origin story says that they are desendants of Canaan and that they moved from there to egypt. There they mixed with the copts. Then they moved down to sudan then to chad due to the drought. All the way to what is now hausa land. There are so many linguistic and cultural similarities. Whites called them hamites. They have a beautiful architecture and they use alot of geometric designs and knots that sort of seem similar to Celtic art. I think their story corresponds to this. A little.

@HistorywithCy

4 жыл бұрын

Oh that' really interesting...thanks for sharing. I'm also interested in sub-Saharan Africa, especially during the medieval period and kingdoms of Mali, Ghana and Songhai empires. Thanks again!

Proud of being born Jewish also Caanennites dialect to us is like British English to Americans:)

With exception of a couple of minor details and toponymic mispronunciations, excellent presentation!

@HistorywithCy

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you, I know that pronunciation is at times my weak point, something I try to work on...especially names with "ch" like Lachish. Thanks again for stopping by, I appreciate the feedback!

@dorianphilotheates3769

4 жыл бұрын

History with Cy - I only mention it because your historical research and narrative are stellar; the little details, like pronunciation, may unfortunately seem to some pedants (not myself) as detracting from an otherwise flawless presentation - the devil, as they say, is in the details. Keep ‘em comin’!

Think you

I’ve been to Megiddo it is a very interesting place with a very dark story

@HistorywithCy

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah...it's where the word "Armageddon" comes from... it's definitely had a turbulent history... thanks for stopping the channel, I appreciate it!

Another great video. Glad to see you're still around. Also, there is a theory that says the Canaanite are of Mesopotamian origin. They also may have developed a different identity, as in The Phoenicians, due to the Hittites influence on them.

@HistorywithCy

5 жыл бұрын

haha yes, I'm still around... not going anywhere! Glad to see you're still into this stuff as well!

@wayneh1562

4 жыл бұрын

? the Canaanites sude are just the Dravidians who are the original Mediterranean and Sumerian people LOL The only Semites to mix with the Canaanites were the Amorites and Akkadians

@felixii4931

4 жыл бұрын

@@wayneh1562 We Sumerians, Canaanites are not indians

Will you make any videos about Hebrews and ancient Israel?

@HistorywithCy

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, I have one coming up later this month...I'll be a longer one more focused on the political history of the time...thanks for stopping by, I really appreciate it!

Great video. Feel no need to include critics in your work. I am telling content people everywhere to disable comments

Thanks mane

@HistorywithCy

4 жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

It would be awesome if you compressed your audio.everything is very loud by comparison and it wakes up my cat whenever an ad plays. Good video though!

@HistorywithCy

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you! That's interesting... I get some complaints that the sound is too low. I'll take a closer look into it...thanks again!

Canaan: Land of prophets

There's no doubt that the Phoenicians were Canaanites. From Wikipedia: In the 6th century BC, Hecataeus of Miletus affirms that Phoenicia was formerly called χνα, a name that Philo of Byblos subsequently adopted into his mythology as his eponym for the Phoenicians: "Khna who was afterwards called Phoinix".

Sechem (Nablus) my city 🥰

@yaruqadishi8326

4 жыл бұрын

Shekem

@yaruqadishi8326

4 жыл бұрын

Shikmu is the Canaanite way to say it.

I'm christian and this is soo interesting and helpful on my knowledge of the ancient near east Edit: Also do you have one on isreal and if so can you please send the link thank you

10:06 Interesting.

Canaan was at war with Nikoon. But at the end they both lost to Soony.

@henkvandergaast3948

4 жыл бұрын

Sony had better start selling accessible lenses then

Hey Cy! I just discovered you via this video and now im really looking forward to your channel and videos. By any chance you have already discussed the origins of judaism and middle easter religions in general? Im always curious how many claim that judaism is derived from Canaanite religion?

Not just second and third millennium bce but also 1st millennium too and after.

It wasn't necessarily that the groups such as the Iraelites and Philistines replaced the Canaanites, they developed from the Canaanites. They were Canaanites themselves.

@chrishall2594

4 жыл бұрын

Nonsense

I'm palestinian my mom comes from nablus, my dad comes From Jerusalem and I think this is so interesting to watch just subscriberd. I just wanted to say I think you shouldn't consider religious books as a historical reference cause not every one tend to believe them including me.

@yaruqadishi8326

3 жыл бұрын

You are Canaanite we are Palestine before there were any hebrews or they invaded our lands 3000 some years ago.

"The conflict was described in religious terms but it was primarily over land." Isn't it always?

When you first said "24th century" i thought you were making a star trek reference.

@HistorywithCy

4 жыл бұрын

Haha, no I meant in the other direction. Live long and prosper!

Canaanite DNA can be found in modern day Palestinians and some modern day Jews. So based on history both Arabs and Jews came first. We were one. And Palestinians don’t derive from the philistines we just liked the sound of “Palestine “

certain people must hate this channel cause you effortlessly drop truth bomb after truth bomb on a series of stolen identities and false narratives. great work!

Canaanites and jebusites are said to be sons of ham...so why is their language said to be semitic?

The old testament hebrew bible came from babylonian myths found in ancient mesopotamia, sumer - currently Iraq. Who were the jews before they took over cannan and how and when were they enslaved in egypt? Historically isrealites appear to be another canaanite tribe.

Why is your volume exceptionally low?

@HistorywithCy

4 жыл бұрын

Hi, thanks for the comment and letting me know. I tried to make sure that the music wasn't louder than the voice (a problem with some past videos). Thanks for letting me know, I'll take a look into it.

@samray397

4 жыл бұрын

@@HistorywithCy Thank you for your explanation. You are absolutely right in avoiding the common pitfall of a bad background music drowning the Narrator's voice. The music selection is equally important. If you do re-record louder, please notify me. I am from Lebanon & a Canaanite historian. I may have a lot to contribute. Thank you also for your interest in our rich & diversified culture!

@HistorywithCy

4 жыл бұрын

@@samray397 Thanks so much! That's great you're a historian on this and related topics, would love to discuss more with you...the more I learn, the more questions I have! As of now my next major vids on this region will be on the Phoenicians (I guess you could call them coastal Canaanites), Israelites, the city of Ugarit and the regional wars with Assyria. Any advice that you have, please don't hesitate to email me (address in the ABOUT section of the channel). Thanks again!

I have the same study about Phoenicians but it was narrated in filipino language.

4:03 oh this is my village 😂

#NewSubbie great video ❤

@HistorywithCy

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

I am impressed by the research young man. I just have a question as to why the impact of the Arab Muslim religion in the region was not explored more in your study. I feel they were treated like a footnote to the Jewish settler history and their gods El and Baal. Canaan was fought over because of the land and other natural resources like oil and water.

@HistorywithCy

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you! With regard to your question, that will hopefully be covered in future videos when I get to the medieval period and beyond. This video just focused on ancient Canaan before the Persians, Greeks, Romans and others came into the region. I definitely want to go further with the history of this land, but that'll be in other videos...Thanks again for stopping by!

@elmospasco5558

4 жыл бұрын

Islam didn't exist until after Mohamed's birth. The Arab's didn't really have a serious presence in Canaan until after the Romans evicted many of Jews/ Israelites after their rebellion against the empire. In both instances we're talking about events that happened after the area known as Canaan had been known as the kingdoms of Judea, Israel and Phoenicia.

It's a sensitive topic I know, but presenting the battles between Israelites and Phillistines in this context seems tp imply that The modern Israelites and Palestinians are continuing this concflict to this day, while in reality Palestinians don't claim to be direct decendants of the Phillistines, and the ancestry of both the modern Jews and modern Palestinians is being put into qiestion nowadays by many scholars.

Well well well

@Yitzhakhazak

4 жыл бұрын

What.. What... What??

dude, this is cool

@HistorywithCy

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

looking for canaan creative but ended here

Hebrews are also considered a subgroup of Canaanites

@thecreatoristhetruth5623

4 жыл бұрын

Hebrews consist of many different groups of people who are all Abraham's descendants. THE CREATOR BLESS

@yaruqadishi8326

4 жыл бұрын

Correct they are subgroup of Canaanites because the majority of the Canaanites are Gentiles. The True owners of the lands we now call Israel Palestine Lebanon Gaza Jordan Syria and Tabuk region

@adamatlas1113

4 жыл бұрын

Nah, Hebrews are originally Mesopotamians.

I enjoy your programs, a lot! Would like to make a comment for you to consider in your chronology. I Kings 6:1 should read 1,480 years. It was a transcribing error. Plug it in and watch the results. It backs up some of your biblical content up to, as much as 1000 years BUT will help make sense of the a lot things and harmonize the chronologies of Egypt, Persia, Assyria, including the Canaanites and the Philistines with the Bible. The later two had a very long lasting presence. Thus, Noah's flood was in the year 3519 BC, Abraham was Born in 3226 BC, the seven year drought with Joseph was 2879-2872 BC, Gen 45:6 Joseph/Zaphenath-paneah/Imhotep vizier under Djoser, the wealthiest Pharaoh of all Egyptian Pharaoh's of all three kingdom periods. The first stair stepped pyramid was built for Djoser. The Exodus was in 2447 BC. The Royal House of Egypt then floated down the Nile, into the Mediterranean and settled on Crete (Atlantis - Island of Atlas, one of many names for Nimrod and his Royal House) and became the Sea People. It was devastated (not completely destroyed , not much more than 900 years (not 9000 years) before Plato, by the eruption of a volcano in the south-central Aegean Sea that sent a Tsunami on this Island. The Surviving Royal House first attempted to take the Delta Nile (home) and didn't succeed and raided the shore's of the Mediterranean finally returning back to Babel about 1600 years after the fall of the tower and established Babylon, that over powered Assyria and eventually took Judah in 586 BC destroying Solomon's Temple. From reading some of the comments below, I will add: Zeus was Cush, son of Ham, son of Noah. Cush's younger son was Thor, Nimrod. Appreciate your work.

𐤀𐤋 𐤕𐤔𐤕𐤅𐤋𐤋 𐤏𐤋 𐤉𐤃𐤉 𐤀𐤍𐤕𐤅𐤍𐤉 𐤄𐤊𐤉𐤔𐤅𐤐 𐤄𐤆𐤄

@albusai

4 жыл бұрын

Tha Shepard King Ethiopian?

@venus_envy

4 жыл бұрын

@@albusai Phoenician.

Thutmose = Moses? My name is Moses and ive always wondered this

@slappy8941

4 жыл бұрын

The name Moses is derived from an Egyptian word for river.

When I Wikipedia El it says El was Father of many Gods including Yahweh. Interesting. Before the Torah Yahwism was the Religion.

Can't hear low volume

@TheWhiteTrashPanda

4 жыл бұрын

Assuming you're on a mobile device, There are volume booster apps. I work in a factory and listen to KZread all night. The volume booster app i use makes this possible as most videos are too quiet to be heard clearly in my work environment.

I love looking at these history videos. I have always been curious. The bible talks about Abraham coming from Ur of Chaldeans, stopping at Haran before entering caanan. I heard many make claims about a more closer period connected to Abraham, with many claiming UR was near black sea. I have also seen that the True UR was close to Haran which would make more sense. The mention of the people in caanan dont seem to fit the UR Near Iran people groups. If i am not mistaken when Lot was taken captive it was 5 kings from the north who punished a rebellion of tribute from 5 kings in the South. Yet i havent found any documentry of all rulers near Hettites area, upper Harran - Nineveh area, levant area that ruled over the land of caanan. This was well before Israelite History. From Abraham to Jacob it seems the travel through Haran through cannan back to Harran area was common. Damascus was well known and Abraham seem quite familiar with it. Sodom was destroyed. The last big personality that seems to be spoken of in caanan in Abrahams time was Amorites. Yet how did Hettites come to also be mentioned. If it was UR (Edessa/Urfa) near Haran ( also close to Ancient cities) that Abraham came from to harran then onto caanan, and a group of Northern Kings (Antolia region) were ruling over caanan, can we find these Rulers in History. I always get the impression caanan had no one rule it outside caanan until Egypt, so am struggling to work out how 5 egypy kings(south) Fight against 4 kings in caanan. Also wondering out of curiosity does egypt record the Kings of Sodom, Gomorrah etc..

Cool beans 🕵subbed

@HistorywithCy

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for stopping by, glad you benefited from it!

@johnemerick5860

4 жыл бұрын

@@HistorywithCy Do you know the story of Edom?

1457 Egypt won the army of Syrian, Canaanite and other Mitanni forces in the battle of Megiddo. In Hebrew mountain is har, so does Har Megiddo sound familiar? It's a mountain watching over a plain that looks like flattened for a four lane highway, the plain of Jizreel. North of it start the mountains of Galilee, south of Har Megiddo is the rest of the central hill country, the highlands where the Amorites, Jebusites etc. lived. To go north or south if not by the coast, that's the only place to do it, going east or west, especially with wagons, or tanks. And the coast road is tough, because there's the mount Karmel jutting out to the Mediterranean. Tough one to circle around it, if some folks want to be on the mountain throwing rocks on the road. Harmageddon is derived from that Hebrew Har Megiddo; sounds like a Greek derivation. This Egyptian battle is therefore quite prophetic. Many battles have been fought in that valley, plain - and the final one will be fought there too.

Although the Bible record clearly shows the Canaanites to be Hamitic, the majority of reference works speak of them as of Semitic origin. This classification is based on the evidence of a Semitic language spoken by the Canaanites. The evidence most frequently appealed to is the large number of texts found at Ras Shamra (Ugarit) written in a Semitic language or dialect and considered to date from as far back as the 14th century B.C.E. However, Ugarit apparently did not come within the Biblical boundaries of Canaan. An article by A. F. Rainey in The Biblical Archaeologist (1965, p. 105) states that on ethnic, political, and, probably, linguistic bases “it is now clearly a misnomer to call Ugarit a ‘Canaanite’ city.” He gives further evidence to show that “Ugarit and the land of Canaan were separate and distinct political entities.” Hence, these tablets provide no clear rule by which to determine the language of the Canaanites. Many of the Amarna Tablets found in Egypt do proceed from cities in Canaan proper, and these tablets, predating the Israelite conquest, are written mainly in cuneiform Babylonian, a Semitic language. This, however, was the diplomatic language of the entire Middle East at that time, so that it was used even when writing to the Egyptian court. Thus, it is of considerable interest to note the statement in The Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible (edited by G. A. Buttrick, 1962, Vol. 1, p. 495) that “the Amarna Letters contain evidence for the opinion that non-Semitic ethnic elements settled in Palestine and Syria at a rather early date, for a number of these letters show a remarkable influence of non-Semitic tongues.” The facts are that there is still uncertainty as to the original language spoken by the first inhabitants of Canaan. It is true, however, that the Bible account itself appears to show that Abraham and his descendants were able to converse with the people of Canaan without the need of an interpreter, and it may also be noted that, while some place-names of a non-Semitic type were used, most of the towns and cities captured by the Israelites already bore Semitic names. Still, Philistine kings in Abraham’s time and also, evidently, David’s time, were called “Abimelech” (Ge 20:2; 21:32; Ps 34:Sup), a thoroughly Semitic name (or title), whereas it is nowhere contended that the Philistines were a Semitic race. So, it would appear that the Canaanite tribes, over a period of some centuries from the time of the confusion of tongues at Babel (Ge 11:8, 9), apparently changed over to a Semitic tongue from their original Hamitic language. This may have been because of their close association with the Aramaic-speaking peoples of Syria, as a result of Mesopotamian domination for a period of time, or for other reasons not now apparent. Such a change would be no greater than that of other ancient nations, such as the ancient Persians, who, though of Indo-European (Japhetic) stock, later adopted the Semitic Aramaean language and writing.

@HistorywithCy

5 жыл бұрын

Hi, thanks for stopping by and for the thought provoking comments. It's interesting that you mention the Amarna letters...I'll be doing a quick program on them sometime soon...they're really interesting and at times humorous, especially in letters where various kings complain to each other. I'm also researching Ugarit. Though you're right, it's generally not considered part of Biblical Canaan (it was so far up north), it had a flourishing Canaanite culture - probably a lot of sea traders for the southern coasts of Canaan. Ugarit though was a pretty cosmopolitan city so there were a lot of other groups residing there, especially Hurrians and peoples from southwestern Anatolia. Should be interesting to read up on! Thanks again for stopping by, I really appreciate it!

@kennethmcneil202

4 жыл бұрын

Man you really know your stuff great information thank you

@druss6387

4 жыл бұрын

It's in the Book of Jasher. Canaan stole away the inheritences of both Shem and Japheth. That's why you'll see and hear about Canaanite artifacts in the places like the lands of Shem and land of Japeth.

@druss6387

4 жыл бұрын

@@kennethmcneil202 No he doesn't. He's completely full of it! The Book of Jasher clearly shows how Canaan came to be in the land of Shem and of Japheth.

@JasonJacksonJames

4 жыл бұрын

@@HistorywithCy no problem, I love to study bible history, I find a lot of information here: wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1200000874

Well I agree with your statement that Ammorites meant Westerners or people residing west of Euphrates or across beyond that river i.e. Eber Nahri as called by Sumerians and Akkadians and by themselves as worshippers of God Ammurru . But I disagree them being a different nation from Canaanites . Infact people of the Levant i.e. Near East or Sham as descendants of Sam n not Ham ( other than his son Arphaxad the forefather of both Arabs n Israelites) , that comprises Syria Lebanon Palestine and Jordan . They all are Ammorites n called 'Lowlanders' dwelling along the whole coast from Gaza to Cilicia as Kinnanu or Canaanites or by Greeks as Phoenicians and 'Highlanders' of plateaus hills and mountains as Arameans n not Syriacs as misnamed by both Greeks n Romans in reference to that land being under control and part of Assyria of Mesopotamia , whereas those who dwelt the desert of Syria kept the name of Ammorites . They also are the proto- Babylonians that built the city of Babel n formed part of Babylonian monarchy including last era where they were named the Chaldeans having believed in astronomy n worshipped the Sun n Moon . And yes they too are the Hyksos who ruled Egypt from the time of Abraham to Joseph.

My guy thanks for the breakdown I love the history for forefront and the knowledge of the black people not secluding others but just saying like where they descend from #subscribed

@HistorywithCy

4 жыл бұрын

Hi, thanks for stopping by, I really appreciate it! More to come for sure and I'll see what I can do in future videos to talk about the ancestry of certain groups. The only issue with that is often it starts bitter debates in the comments where people start insulting others and getting really nasty and offensive, so I've often not gone too deep into that. But thanks for the suggestion, I appreciate it. Stay safe!

Great video. I will mention you in my prayers when I sacrifice 5 newborns to Baal.

@HistorywithCy

5 жыл бұрын

Haha thanks!

@bigfel3240

4 жыл бұрын

Guaranga Picante Ba’al just means Lord, you mean Moloch or passed through the fire as they say.

How are they Semitic if they’re descendants of Ham? Would they be Hamitic?

@HistorywithCy

4 жыл бұрын

Hi! I said in the video that they are mentioned in the Bible as the descendants of Ham, but archaeologists/linguists/historians classify them as a Semitic people because their language, Canaanite, falls into the Semitic family of languages. That's where the confusion is coming from... I probably should have made these distinctions clearer in the video. Thanks!