Tomorrow is my birthday. Having this job is the best gift ever. Thank you for supporting us, we appreciate it so much!

@hkarmy7526

2 жыл бұрын

Happy birthday

@lovernotafighter6444

2 жыл бұрын

Well Happy birthday! 🎂🥳🎉🎈🎁🎊 I'm super glad that you have this job as well!😆Keep up the great work!

@alisomea

2 жыл бұрын

لطفا زیرنویس فارسی

@georgeptolemy7260

2 жыл бұрын

Happy Birthday

@jamestalbert3951

2 жыл бұрын

Happy birthday. May you have a grand royal procession of chariots and gold

Interestingly, the translation on the tablets reads: "Why are we always wearing beards? The wet clay gets stuck in my beard and I hate that! Also, my etching utensil is about to bre-..."

@juliuscornwallis9930

2 жыл бұрын

Wait, is that where it leaves at?

@johngallagher9151

2 жыл бұрын

Hahaha

@bishop6218

2 жыл бұрын

A+ History nerd joke.

@bishop6218

2 жыл бұрын

@@trippiedizzy9243 Excuse me, but wtf are you talking about ?

@Mrkabrat

2 жыл бұрын

@@bishop6218 Ignore him, he's one of many that spam these kind of questions. I belive they are bots

Since the day taxes were invented people were trying to avoid them lol🤣

@johntitor1256

2 жыл бұрын

Taxes are like cooties that way.

@jdyohe04

2 жыл бұрын

Taxes are theft.

@davedurnum6500

2 жыл бұрын

@@jdyohe04 then go live in the woods and be 100% self reliant.

@iamleoooo

2 жыл бұрын

@@jdyohe04 you wouldnt get anything you have right now if not because of the taxes

@illerac84

2 жыл бұрын

@@jdyohe04 tHeFt

I love this side of history, not just about conquerors and their wars. Keep making the videos on subject like this K&G!

@jeffreyestahl

2 жыл бұрын

Trade has built and destroyed more empires than anyone might imagine.

@Josway37

2 жыл бұрын

So ... you don't want to hear about just the Kings and Generals?

@jeffreyestahl

2 жыл бұрын

@@Josway37 Yeah, why not? History wasn't made by just the leaders of society. Indeed, without all the 'little people' usually in the background, those 'leaders' would have ended up being pretty useless - something a lot of people forget. The ideas only only 'great people' can drive society forward is a solidly debunked hypothesis called the "Great Man" theory, which purports that through competition between great people (or geniuses usually) society is moved forward. However, more recently it's understood that society is moved forward by a broad variety of factors, most important of which is the context created by the cooperation of all those people you rarely ever read about. I realized this a long time ago when I came to the conclusion that understanding the prevailing psychology of a culture's people determined what they did, so history is more a reaction to cultural context than singular acts of genius. In the end, it really makes studying history all the more interesting, or as I used to jokingly call it. 'Current Events of the Past'.

@trippiedizzy9243

2 жыл бұрын

@@jeffreyestahl Dude I know it's irrelevant But are there any Non-Ethnic ie mixed nation in Western Europe?

@jeffreyestahl

2 жыл бұрын

@@trippiedizzy9243 I suppose that depends on how you define it. England was invaded by everybody and his dog over roughly a 2000 year period from about 1000 BCE to 1000 CE. It's one reason the English is so messed up as a language. Today's France is a mixture of French, Brittanian, Iberbian, Roman, Provencal, and other cultures. Similarly, Greece, Turkey, Italy, and some others linguistically were a mash-up of cultures resulting in today's nations. E.g. Today's Italy is a mash-up of Roman, Etruscan, Celt, Gaulish, Greek, Byzantine, Visigoth, Goth, Lombard, Norse, Vandal, and Arabic cultures and languages. History shows repeatedly that people move, bring their cultures with them, and merge with the native cultures wherever they're moving; the result being a mixture of all the inputs. The idea of "Melting Pot" isn't a new concept. It's been around (and recorded) since the Bronze Age.

I am but a simple barbarian - I see "Bronze Age", I click and I like.

@SimuLord

2 жыл бұрын

The older the history, the more I like it. The transition from hunter-gathering to farming is my favorite period of all.

@ravensthatflywiththenightm7319

2 жыл бұрын

@@SimuLord Aye, same. What fascinates me the most is the very idea that our ancestors built great cities and established such complex trading relationships long before we even started working iron. It paints an entirely different picture from what a lot of people [especially in the movie industry] imagined the distant past.

@232police

2 жыл бұрын

What about the stone age

@trippiedizzy9243

2 жыл бұрын

@@ravensthatflywiththenightm7319 Dude I know it's irrelevant But are there any Non-Ethnic ie mixed nation in Western Europe?

@trippiedizzy9243

2 жыл бұрын

@@clvrswine Dude I know it's irrelevant But are there any Non-Ethnic ie mixed nation in Western Europe?

"Ea-nasir has wares if you have coin" Ea-nasir, before swindling another costumer

@MrShadowtruth

2 жыл бұрын

A voices of the past reference nice!

@alucard347

2 жыл бұрын

What is the reference?

Fun fact: The Akkadian word Tamkarum, meaning merchant, shares a root the Arabic word Makr, meaning trickery and scamming. They both are derived from the proto-semitic root "M-K-R."

@ericocccams5865

2 жыл бұрын

damgar

@abderrahimbenmoussa4359

Жыл бұрын

Which makes sense lol

@aliqazilbash5231

Жыл бұрын

the modern day word called science, was actually a succession of the word, cunning

@stevenv6463

Жыл бұрын

Is it also related to the Hebrew mucher meaning salesperson?

@alexssander118

5 ай бұрын

Were the Akkadian semitic?

Polybius once stated: "Every political system has a source of corruption growing within it, from which it is inseparable. For kingship it is . . . tyranny, for aristocracy it is oligarchy, and for democracy it is government by brute force"

@hiitsmyname6987

2 жыл бұрын

@GoodGirlKate tyranny and oligarchy

@zerosuitsamus2340

2 жыл бұрын

@GoodGirlKate both tends to totalitarian. So Tyranny/ Dictatorship

@hiitsmyname6987

2 жыл бұрын

Isnt it that republics degrade to democracy

@trippiedizzy9243

2 жыл бұрын

@@juliantheapostate8295 Dude I know this is irrelevant But I have 3 questions 1) Is there a Non-Ethnic ie mixed nation in Western Europe? 2) The Nation, which was the nightmare of Asia in the First Age, and Europe in the Middle Ages. 3) First country to colonize America

@kamranismayilzade3789

Жыл бұрын

This was re-stated in a little bit different form by Machiavelli in his "Prince" as well.

To see the evidence with your own eyes, these tablets are in the Kayseri Arceological Museum. If you are planning to see the Capadocia, that place is very close to there.

The ancient world was much more connected than we give it credit for.

Assyrians today are a small marginalized christian minority that few people know about. thank you for bringing knowledge of our illustrious history to light. This Assyrian thanks you from the bottom of his heart.

Definitely the subject I want to see explored the most! Trade is that buzzword history books throw around but don't always dive deep. Great work as always!

@jonbaxter2254

2 жыл бұрын

Trade rocks

@SimuLord

2 жыл бұрын

Everyone talks about the collapse of trade as part of the greater Bronze Age Collapse, but then they get to the fun part about the Sea Peoples. You have to know how trade rose to understand how it collapsed, right? There might be (...definitely are...) lessons that apply to today to be learned there.

@TheEvertw

2 жыл бұрын

@@SimuLord "lessons that apply to today to be learned there" Which the EU has taken to heart, but some more barbaric states haven't.

@trippiedizzy9243

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheEvertw Dude I know this is irrelevant But I have 3 questions 1) Is there a Non-Ethnic ie mixed nation in Western Europe? 2) The Nation, which was the nightmare of Asia in the First Age, and Europe in the Middle Ages. 3) First country to colonize America

@TheEvertw

2 жыл бұрын

​@@trippiedizzy92431). Yes, plenty. Why do you think Europe has had so many wars? 2). Plenty of nations including Hungary, Morocco, Mongolia and Turkey. You'll have to be more specific. 3). Denmark via Greenland.

Love the economic videos just so fun to watch!

@johntitor1256

2 жыл бұрын

They really bring us closer to the past.

"... the land around Ashur was suitable for grazing Holstein cows, their milk being well suited to lattes and ice cream and their image depicted on album covers." Still a great channel.

@alucard347

2 жыл бұрын

I am confused.

@GrouRocks

2 жыл бұрын

@@alucard347 Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother?

10 years ago I read a book about the Sumerians. One of the most profound things I learnt is how Corporations started from Temples. And how Homosexuals and Transvestites existed in those times as well. They also had a specific law if a Builder or Tradesmen built a house which collapsed and killed his clients, then his own son or child would executed.

@olenickel6013

2 жыл бұрын

It's in the code of Hammurabi. The legal principle laid down was "eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth" and what's often lost in time is the understanding that this was a limitation on revenge, not (just) a harsh legal code. At a time when blood feuds between families were the norm, the law limited the amount of revenge one could exact to no more than the damage that had been suffered.

@grimgoreironhide9985

2 жыл бұрын

@@MbisonBalrog No. A transvestite is someone who wears clothes of the opposite gender. Such as a man wearing women's clothing and makeup to look like a woman.

@grimgoreironhide9985

2 жыл бұрын

@@serviusm9523 Becuase you don't hear any mention of it pre Classic Greek history. Especially not in the Middle East.

@grimgoreironhide9985

2 жыл бұрын

@@serviusm9523 Huh. Didn't know that.

@podemosurss8316

2 жыл бұрын

Calatrava must be relieved, if he was born in Sumer, he would have had his own children executed several times.

20:51 I like how two of the archers look pretty determined and then there's this dude on the left who is just dead on the inside.

I absolutely love videos about trade. Its so fascinating to me how interconnected the ancient world was. How goods and ideas moved around. Thank you for your amazing videos.

You guys should do a video on the difference in technological development between bronze and iron age civilisations

Thanks for this video, greetings from ASHUR 🇮🇶🌹

Literelly this channel brings out history in such a fashion and with so much detail that it seems they have a time machine to go and see the past.....My fav history channel...Love from India

I love learning about the bronze age because it is so shrouded in mystery. Thank you for making this.

One of the most eye-opening videos you've ever made. Knowing that before ancient Romans and Greeks there already existed an interconnected world is a thing, watching this video fleshing it out in such detail is another. Thank you for all your great work.

You guys rock history so hard. I just wished you guys included a bibliography so I could do further reading on the subjects.

@kogaryu5558

7 ай бұрын

Agreed. From the Babylonians, I could see absence of continuity.

@Kings and Generals: can you please increase the size of the fonts? City names on maps are not legible when viewed on a smartphone. Thanks.

@vinuzo9548

2 жыл бұрын

^^^This

At the end of a stressful and tiriding day, it is priceless to enjoy time traveling by Kings and Generals. Thank you so much.

In had the privilege of having to research on Kültepe/Kanesh during my Archaeology studies at uni on a few occasions. Thank you for bringing this astonishing site and the Old Assyrian trade to your channel. Great video. The karum (literally translating to "port" in Akkadian) was a kind of freeport secured by a contract between the local ruler and the Assyrian king. It was explicitly not subject to local legislation and cult practice. The Assyrian traders were the only ones to be writing and to use standardized measures (as their local trading partners all had own weights and such). This lead to the Assyrians becoming the record keeping institution and place for making contracts in the region beyond trade as well (like marriages). Interestingly the locals would abandon writing and abstract written contracts once more when the Assyrians left for good. (The Hittites would again import writing a century later but using Babylonian, completely ignoring Assyrian.) So don't expect techniques of cultural exchange to outlast the system they are used within.

Please do a video on the Tibetan Empire they aren’t ever talked about that much

@ironheart5830

2 жыл бұрын

I love to see that too :)

@adenmelton8264

2 жыл бұрын

@@garrysekelli6776 probably

How did the Uruks greet each other? In the black speech of Mordor...

@glizerblade3065

2 жыл бұрын

Fax

@Likexner

2 жыл бұрын

The black speech sounds badass. Its a shame that it is not a complete language. It would be cooler to speak that than some kind of elvish.

@XMeK

2 жыл бұрын

@@Likexner Barad-dur miburr durbatuluk, baby!

@danielconde13

2 жыл бұрын

Easy: _Hai!_

@trippiedizzy9243

2 жыл бұрын

@@danielconde13 Dude I know this is irrelevant But I have 3 questions 1) Is there a Non-Ethnic ie mixed nation in Western Europe? 2) The Nation, which was the nightmare of Asia in the First Age, and Europe in the Middle Ages. 3) First country to colonize America

Ancient trade is something very exciting to study

I’m confused. Is it the king’s birthday or the general’s?

@scoutobrien3406

2 жыл бұрын

I love the idea that the Channel has a storefront style possessive name.

No mention of Ea Nasir and his quality copper by Kings and Generals? He must have treated them with contempt...

@nunyabiznes33

2 жыл бұрын

Ugh, just the mere mention makes my blood boil!

@burner27

2 жыл бұрын

I came here to see if Ea Nasir would be mentioned.

@jlvfr

2 жыл бұрын

Was thinking of him too... that guy as reached a kind of immortality...

@Solon1581

2 жыл бұрын

"If you like the video, watch share if with friends; if you don't like the video, go away!" -Ea Nasir

@AzureDragon100

2 жыл бұрын

Him and his shitty copper is now immortal.

That they would not only smuggle tin in their underwear but that doing so was effective enough that they organized the process and repeated it among themselves is the greatest thing I’ve ever heard.

@madwellmusic8995

Жыл бұрын

Hmmm maybe that's where the term balls of steel comes from. Back then, it'd be balls of tin

It is striking to think that the activities of merchants not only tell us much about Bronze Age life, but played their part in shaping not one, but two, great kingdoms!

Terrific stuff, and it's great seeing you guys really expanding how you approach history as well. Scholarly as well as fun. Continued success!

No mention of the Bronze Age's greatest merchant, Ea-Nasir...

The tablets archaeologists will find 2000 years later are going to be very exquisite and rich details, from food fo f***ing.

@SimuLord

2 жыл бұрын

I read somewhere that there were plenty of pornographic cave paintings on the walls of the caves in France. Rule 34 was invented the same day paint was.

Sigh looks like I'm playing Age of Empires: Definitive Edition today then ;)

I have been on a Bronze age kick as on late. A video on trade during that era is just what I needed😊

The Great Courses series "Ancient Empires before Alexander" is one of my favourites that I can listen to over and over. It's neat to see that history presented in a different way.

@jonathanwilliams1065

2 жыл бұрын

The Persians built a massive empire and so did the Arabs but now too many people underestimate them and think they are just poor “sand people” while saying they can’t be beaten at the same time Such foolishness will end with a mushroom cloud

I appreciate this channel. Great visuals and content!

Love all the Bronze Age information! Thanks Kings & Generals

Then ext video about the Bronze Age: Competition for domination between the Hittites, the Assyrians and the Egyptians.

Trade during Bronze Age, and especially during Late Bronze, is one of the most prolific period due to its interconnected routes and the complexity of its trade systems that were able to share the different cultural features across the region. Congrats for your work K&G, as a historian and keen on ancient history I can say that is sometimes difficult to find such a comparative analysis and well portrayed aspects of these amazing period through such a dynamic way of teaching. Keep going 💪💪💪

I would love to play a game based on making trade routes during the Bronze age.

Trade in ancient times such as during what we call bronze age is always so tacitly implied. Much needed video. Thanks alot k&g and a v happy birthday to devin

How I love K&G channel ☺️ another fabulous video, thank you so much

Great video, very interesting to see the similarities between economic activity then and now, also, happy birthday!

Hey do a video on the bronze silk road; trade between harappans, sumerian, Egyptians and minoans as far back as 2000-3000bc. They've been translating harappan lately, and found minoan based linear A in Norway, suggesting colonies that far north with civilizations in Spain, italy and even the nuraghe potentially also being minoan colonies. On top of that the harappans even had trade guilds. Minoans may have been a trade empire with merchant princes. There's a whole world we've lost the memory of, but were slowly unlocking it again.

This comment is solely to improve your interaction stats. Cheers for the sick content!

Love this channel, this is how history should be taught in schools. To everyone involved in the channel total respect to you guys 🙏

It amazes me that 3500 years ago there was an international trade network that spanned from England to Afghanistan, and that it wasnt matched again until the Silk Road.

Your videos are great this is just what I was looking for

Ancient history of middle east is quite interesting

@uniuni8855

2 жыл бұрын

It's just USA history decolorized. Actually USA is bigger in surface area

@joshuapilling3641

2 жыл бұрын

@@uniuni8855 What?

@maxanderson9293

2 жыл бұрын

@@uniuni8855 history of USA is not even a footnote in world history.

@PrimusGladius

2 жыл бұрын

@@maxanderson9293 In terms of length and age? Agreed. In terms of effects and impact? It's a pretty big footnote.

@maxanderson9293

2 жыл бұрын

@@PrimusGladius that impact is in the last 100 yrs, less than 1% of human history.

Great presentation thank you

Great content!

Great content and videos, guys! It would be great if you could cover the rise of the Sikh Misls and then the formation of the Sikh Empire in India! Amazing part of history to touch upon

Love of historical videos from this excellent historic channel...its provides how much commercially movement increasing powerful of nations progressing them to another upgrades in politics ( umpires status)

Amazing video 📹 thanks 😊

more Bronze Age please!

Great stuff. Really enjoyed. Thank you! Also, please say, "klaatu barada nikto" (from The Day the Earth Stood Still).

Great video

Video: How Bronze Age Trade Was Conducted. Me: "Would you be interested in a trade agreement with England?"

@tonisuihkonen8890

2 жыл бұрын

good one, are you a remainer?

Absolutely LOVING the channels expansion into general topics about history. The videos of battles are still great but I really appreciate a more diverse collection of videos. Keep up the great work!

Fascinating stuff

Looking forward to more

Great video as always. thank you. Anyone know where i could find the music from the video?

You guys are amazing.

your videos are very inspiring! Thanks for another Bronze Age film❤

@ancientsitesgirl6952

2 жыл бұрын

👍

Always nice when a video I don't at all remember recording appears, feels so original, tell me more devin!

I would love to see an episode on the Mississippian culture. Not enough New World stuff.

@SimuLord

2 жыл бұрын

I'd like to see an episode about the Salish peoples of the Pacific Northwest (where I live now.) Although I'm cringing in advance at Devin's attempts to pronounce their names.

I love this video! Is there any well written book on this subject, close to the way is narated here?

Would be awesome if you would make videos about the ancient kingdoms in the Levant please!

This is really an interesting topic 😃

Amazing stuff, so sad the era ended like that.

Happy Birthday Kings and Generals!

For me the Bronze age is the most interesting period. We don`t learn anything about it at school. Thanks a lot for the information! :)

Absolutely great!!! I just ask can I please please please find out the name of the song playing in the background at 3.54. I went to Epic Media Sound but can't find it 😭😭😭

Yesss, the four things I love in one video, Bronze Age, trade ,your amazing art and Commentary

We could be living in space right now but Uhna of Zelpa had to get greedy.

Happy birthday K&G!!!

Can you also do a video on the Nordic Bronze Age please?

I hit like immediately upon beginning a Kings and Generals video. These boys never disappoint

Can you do more Bronze Age-related videos? Particularly stuff regarding the Bronze Age collapse and the Sea Peoples.

2:34 Im playing Rimworld while watching this, and the fire sound made me franticly check for fires around my base

Trade may not be as sexy as battles, but it helped every empire grow big and strong. I love videos like this

@diarradunlap9337

2 жыл бұрын

Trade was often Rome's underlying reason for many of its early wars.

@jonbaxter2254

2 жыл бұрын

@@diarradunlap9337 Gotta get that Etruscan Iron

@chakir348

2 жыл бұрын

Trade was big in ancient times it stayed very important in the middle east to the caliphate empire with the silk route .

Amazing

Great channel, i hope you make a video about battle of qarqar

Great video man. Happy birthday to you

well done

All human civilisation started in Mesopotania (Iraq): Soap 🧼, textile : 7 days a week, calander, hour, 24 hours, banking, writing ✍, 64 based numbers, mathematics, beer 🍺, baking, governance, laws, 360 geometry monotheism, trade, taxation and many other human inventions. (Pre- Colombian Americans did it all by themselves)

@oncewasnot9824

2 жыл бұрын

NO!!!

@DragonwolfoftheSands

2 жыл бұрын

The Nile Valley, the Yangtze plain, the Indus Valley, and Mesoamérica?

@beachboy0505

2 жыл бұрын

@@DragonwolfoftheSands much later

@UsmanSiddiq1

2 жыл бұрын

@@beachboy0505 Lol native Americans are Asian people, who did all that shit after 1AD and in that time China was the most technologically advance country and they learned everything from Chinese before immigrating into American continent.

@alissa6

2 жыл бұрын

*Top 10 oldest civilizations:* 4300 BC - Sumer 3500 BC - Ebla and Canaan 3200 BC - Kemet 3000 BC - Elam and Išuwa 2900 BC - Marhaši and Mari 2700 BC - Hatti, Harappa and Minoa 2600 BC - Dilmun 2500 BC - Nubia, Mohenjo Daro, Phoenicia, Assyria, Ugarit 2400 BC - Punt, Akkad, Ganhar and Namar

More on Assyria please, Or Ashur will be mad

Please make a video about shapur II (sassanid) or about adud al-dawla (buyid) 🙏

Thank you for a great vid, bronze age is really where the essence of today's politics had begun.

Zero dislikes and almost 150k views, this channel deserves this

Can you tell me the background theme you used in 5:04 ?

hoy much i have to pay to watch a video of the end of the Hyborian Age and the Hyborian Civilization from the famous epilogue of Robert E. Howard? Excellent video of the Bronze Age!

I'd love for you to do a larger series about the iron age and pre-viking era in Scandinavia.

@SimuLord

2 жыл бұрын

I read that as a "lager series" and there's an idea-the history of beer from Babylon to Budweiser.

@draenesteron

2 жыл бұрын

@@SimuLord 😂😂😂👍🏻

We almost share a birthday. Happy early birthday again. I’m on the 30th. I love your work, thanks for all your efforts.

Good video 👍🏻& Happy Birthday for tomorrow 🥃

Absolutely remarkable that life back then was so complex