I hate being a farmer. Hunter-gatherers encircle my field and yell, "go wheat boy, go!"

@wfcoaker1398

3 жыл бұрын

Gilgamesh loving wheat boy, trying to take away our spears!

@PurplePalmTreeParadise

3 жыл бұрын

haha the farmer boy is lacking in dietary diversity

@dougthompson5586

3 жыл бұрын

@@PurplePalmTreeParadise and has bad teeth

@davebeecher6579

3 жыл бұрын

But the wives like the fact he's home more nights 😂

@muhamadsayyidabidin3906

3 жыл бұрын

@@davebeecher6579 I think farmers would exhausted more often, so they would get wasted out pretty quickly at night. Farming without metal is a tough job, you know?

Oh man this weekend just got a whole lot better. My grandmother was born in the Mesopotamian marsh’s. Greetings from Mesopotamia Iraq 🇮🇶 to everyone watching ♥️

@as-s9078

3 жыл бұрын

Greetings from Arkansas. Respect

@davidryan0808

3 жыл бұрын

I love utube:) Ireland here ..Repect

@theresawilliams4296

3 жыл бұрын

Down Under is in the house. G'day mates, from an couple of Australians.

@es8559

3 жыл бұрын

✝️🙏🇺🇲

@EnmerkarUnugKi

3 жыл бұрын

𒁲 𒀕𒅕 - greetings from unug

Told my wife I was watching "The Rise of Uruk". She wants to know when Saruman is going to show up.

@conoro774

3 жыл бұрын

Lmao I dont blame her at all😂😂😂

@craigthebrute8658

2 жыл бұрын

The Uruk-Hai?

@JohnBoulden

2 жыл бұрын

Lol hell yeah

@cameron4145

2 жыл бұрын

...

@liberalbias4462

2 жыл бұрын

I don't get it I'm dumb.

I just LOVE history! I don’t see how anyone finds it boring?!! Fascinating stuff.

@patrickbateman4362

Жыл бұрын

A lot of school teachers can make it boring, and puts a bad taste in their mouth, I definitely had my share of bad teachers, but I also had a few that actually made me start to enjoy history, and once I started doing my own research I found out how much there is to learn about our history and how fascinating the evolution of different societies and cultures over the millenia is.

@mjonhouston

Жыл бұрын

@@patrickbateman4362 same here Patrick. a bad teacher can turn a person off to a subject for life.,...I'm just glad I went through my school days prior to the WOKE, pronoun pushing, gender-confused "teachers" who spend more time brainwashing young, pre-pubescent children about perverse sex acts, and their own "here & queer" lifestyles, than the subject they are getting paid, (from our taxes🙄),...to teach.😉👍

@patrickbateman4362

Жыл бұрын

@@mjonhouston Conservative propaganda go brrrr

@JK-ji3kl

Ай бұрын

Woke take on history is more exciting?

I love that we both don’t upload proper videos in months and months and then randomly upload on the same day. People might start to think we are conspiring. Nice vid! Looking forward to delving into it

@LDrosophila

3 жыл бұрын

No way its perfect for binge watching

@danfry9812

3 жыл бұрын

You both 10's

@Amar90

3 жыл бұрын

You both have the greatest history channels

@RBYU001

3 жыл бұрын

Love when you two post new videos! Big fan!

@bobthetroll

3 жыл бұрын

Both channels are great and your brother's as well! 👍👍

The earliest known writing found on pottery: World's Greatest Dad

@tiasara9643

3 жыл бұрын

First scroll finding: “Civilization for Dummies”

@funderbee

3 жыл бұрын

The first writing came out of Portugal. Writing around 7000 bc, and an alphabetical system, about the same time as this civilization here, started pressing shapes

@captain34ca

3 жыл бұрын

@@funderbee ??? ummm no.

@jordaneggerman4734

3 жыл бұрын

@@funderbee are you really trying to say that the Portuguese made an alphabet, almost _twice_ as far back as cuneiform? No, I'm sorry; that just simply isn't true...

@jordaneggerman4734

3 жыл бұрын

Lol I would have said: "Sky's Greatest Dad"...

About 10 years ago, the ancient gold treasures of Ur went on a museum tour. I caught it in Houston. I’m here to say, those ancient craftsmen did incredibly intricate work 6000 years ago.

@americanmitch2658

7 ай бұрын

And here I am having never beat super Mario Brothers.

@Jiub_SN

Ай бұрын

Yeah dude, they had a lot of time and were still human after all

I’ve watched the series a couple times now and I must say, well done Charles. You’ve done good on us all

Nothing like watching these to fill in all the gaps from the mind numbing awful history classes I took in various institutions....

@Le_GingerBeardMan

3 жыл бұрын

For real.

@JustinLee-jm5wn

2 жыл бұрын

Almost all of them not even bothering small details and focus much on the broader side of history or the mainstream I suppose.

@davepowell1661

2 жыл бұрын

Could have paid more good tension, but Cheech &Chong weren't on syllabus in history for me either, my attention is always a pharaoh short of a dynasty.

@explicitedd7241

2 жыл бұрын

Kind of same here.

@Jiub_SN

Ай бұрын

Maybe you just have adhd

I am so incredibly grateful for the content you make. I've had trouble sleeping since forever and one of the few things that help me sleep is listening to podcasts and videos like these. Your videos, especially those in this series, not only help me sleep so much better but are of such high quality and are so interesting to listen to that it takes me several nights to get through them. I start watching the first night, fall asleep, and the next night I go back to the last part that I can remember and continue to watch from there. I can't emphasise enough how positive of an effect discovering your channel has had on my sleep, and I'm so happy that the subject of your videos is history - a subject which I can never get enough of. So from someone with lots of love for history, and who's had such difficulty sleeping for so many years, thank you so much. You are the best.

@janobara6337

3 жыл бұрын

Hit the nail on the head here! Educational videos with good narrators tend to ease my sleeping troubles as well and I am NOT good at sleeping lol Glad it's helping other people too :)

@ripwig6682

3 жыл бұрын

Same here, have you found

@ripwig6682

3 жыл бұрын

Fall of civilizations? It's also amazing.

@DarkMoonDroid

3 жыл бұрын

Me toooooooooooo!!

@monadyne

2 жыл бұрын

I'm sorry to hear you have such difficulties with getting to sleep, Anton B. I have a similar problem - -I can't fall asleep until after the sun comes up! Luckily I'm retired, so it's not like I have to get up and go to work, but still, it drives me crazy to miss out on being awake in the daytime. Anyway, I'm glad you've found something that helps you, my friend.

A KZread channel made this?? Wow, I’m impressed. The quality is more sophisticated than the usual style on this platform

@annoyingbstard9407

7 ай бұрын

It’s been hacked together from other documentaries’ videos but still quite interesting.

This is amazing work. I'm discovering and appreciating some extraordinary KZreadrs like you who present a fact-based, unsensational but fascinating, in-depth view of poorly understood parts of history. It's an amazing thing to find videos like this that aren't dryly dull and suitable only for specialists but avoid simplifying uncertainties to draw in viewers.

@kelvinspringer7855

2 жыл бұрын

8

@princeofcupspoc9073

2 жыл бұрын

So you are calling them "lowest common denominator," "dumbed down for the audience." That's quite an insult, actually.

@thecaveofthedead

2 жыл бұрын

@@princeofcupspoc9073 That's an extraordinary interpretation of what I wrote.

Some of the best history content on KZread. 10/10, loved the whole series.

@TheHistocrat

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks man, appreciate it.

@Quu911

3 жыл бұрын

You got to try fall of civilisation!!!

@adriansantiago5045

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheHistocrat .,

@mauigio

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed i LOVE THESE SERIES

@Tayl0r_

3 жыл бұрын

You got good taste dude! Glad to have been a long time sub of yours :)

Reasons why I watch: 80% I Love history 10%Production qauality 10% voice is relaxing AF

@adammessina6182

3 жыл бұрын

Umm 🤔 ditto same

Beautiful! Both the contents, the narrative and the images are fantastic. Great job! Thank you.

Simply stunning, some of the best content on KZread, thank you for all your hard work 👍

All these towns thousands of years ago and still bigger than the town i grew up in.

@KC-fk6oc

3 жыл бұрын

You must live on the outskirts of rapidly-expanding civilization

@artistjoh

3 жыл бұрын

Some things never change. On the other hand other things have changed radically. I live in a city of 5 million, and regard cities with 1 million to be “small” and cities the size of Uruk as smallish country towns. Back then people would have regarded Uruk as bustling, an ancient rat-race where everything happens. Now we regard cities that size as sleepy places with “nothing much” going on. Back then young people would have flocked to Uruk looking for opportunity. Now young people leave cities that size looking for opportunity in bigger cities.

@montagdp

2 жыл бұрын

Some people still live a hunter-gatherer lifestyle, so...

@naughtybear2187

2 жыл бұрын

@@artistjoh all those words and simply saying "damn the world population grew since then" would have sufficed

@artistjoh

2 жыл бұрын

@@naughtybear2187 What you said has very little to do with what I said, so no, it would not have sufficed.

Amazing how these cultures lasted for thousands of years. Goes to show how the cultures of today are just a couple more in the history of humanity

@Searly255

3 жыл бұрын

if you think of "modern" society starting in the 1900's that could mean the next stage in civilisation could be the 3900s. The humans of that era will look at us the same way we look at these ancient cultures.

@alexlarson6123

3 жыл бұрын

I think that we will be looked at a little differently because of our nearly globalized society. This is something (to our knowledge) that has never happened before with global trade and communication. Not to mention massive population.

@karisalonen12

3 жыл бұрын

Part of it might be the surrounding area wasn't that populated and the tribes nearby were too small and were further back in technological advances, maybe assimilated to these civilizations. Over all stagnation in societal hierarchy combined with those factors would mean that there is little happening. People accepted their roles in society. Which in the end is a bad thing for human progress. Think of it this way, Thousands of years and little to no progress from starting point and compare it to the last 2000 years.

@sellerim6847

3 жыл бұрын

@@Searly255That's pretty optimistic

@Crashed131963

3 жыл бұрын

I find they did not advance much in that area today.

Just finished watching this series. Absolutely amazing, i want to say that this is at the same level as the ancient history lectures i attended at college. Well, not quite, your work is even better because it's up to date! (i attended those lectures between 2012 and 2013).

@JaceFincham

Жыл бұрын

Plus his voice is so perfect for this!

@Likexner

Жыл бұрын

Is it? What about Gobekli Tepe?

@mnomadvfx

Жыл бұрын

@@Likexner What about Gobekli Tepe? This is a video about Uruk, did you even read the video title? It's possible that some culutral interaction from the Anatolian/Aegean farmers who built Gobekli Tepe and its sister sites may have influenced the Ubaid culture that later grew into the Sumerians, but it's far from an evidence based hypothesis at this point, let alone a certainty.

At LAST, part 3 - I am going to make myself another coffee and sit down to watch this documentary with my undivided attention. And yes, I am calling this whole series a documentary now because you've gone far beyond just "history video maker" with the depth and production on your Birth Of Civilization videos.

@monkeyman321

3 жыл бұрын

This is better than everything you can watch on History Channel or any TV channel these days.

Not at all what I expected. I thought the Uruks were pure warriors who came mainly from Isengard under the rule of Sauramon the White. I'm very surprised that they had these statues and other artifacts of a real culture. I guess they needed homes and hobbies when not raiding. Thanks for sharing!

@yaleyoon6856

3 жыл бұрын

Lol!

@chamade166

2 жыл бұрын

They were black African actually.

@rogerwood5228

2 жыл бұрын

@@chamade166 we wuz Kangz

@albataalbata1380

2 жыл бұрын

Same here

@JohnnyJacobGO

2 жыл бұрын

@@chamade166 I bet you think that Indians are African too

I can’t begin to tell you how many times I’ve gone to sleep listening to this series. I try to stay awake and listen to it all because it’s so fascinating, but it’s also very soothing.

The civilization around Mediterenian Sea are always interesting. I have been in Knossos of Crete and was so impressed about Art, culture and so on of that time more than 2000 years old civilization. Best wishes from Stockholm - Sweden

@desihistory6252

Жыл бұрын

The sumerians and all great civilization are not Mediterranean nor related to middleeast people of the last 3500 years. eras. Semites killed destroyed 😢 sumerians and stolen Iraq Mesopotamia

I love learning about the bronze/pre-pottery eras. They are so fascinating

@KUR4H

Жыл бұрын

Imagine if human civilization collapsed and humanity was brought to near extinction and thousands of years later humans are in the beginning of an industrial era and they research the ancient ruins of our past. Or maybe all of humanity goes extinct and a new species arises and studies it’s predecessor civilization. Either way both scenarios would be quite interesting.

@twistedsteeltv6130

Жыл бұрын

You should check out the game Sapiens if you like Bronze/Pre-Pottery eras. It spurred my interest. Kind of wonderful how it all evolved into the society we have today.

@mnomadvfx

Жыл бұрын

Bronze and pre pottery are not the same. The continuity would be Pre-Pottery Neolithic -> Neolithic -> Bronze Age. You can also add in Chalcolithic if you want to be pedantic about tools made from copper and early non tin alloys of copper like arsenical bronze - the latter often being much the same thing as chemical impurities in copper ore often contain arsenic.

Thank you guys for taking up the mantle of proper history documentaries! Fantastic production value too, good editing, and the narration was at the proper key for this topic. Also thanks for covering this particular time period as proper info is so hard to find on this.

You are AMAZING brother!!! All your work is just phenomenal! Thank you so much!

Recently subbed: Cracking episode - thoroughly researched and beautifully presented as always! Greetings from Delphi, Greece.

What blows my mind everytime is how long ago this was and how long these periods lasted.

@TheManWhoTypes

3 жыл бұрын

Think thats crazy.. think about how much longer dinosaurs existed compared to humans. We've barely existed at all in comparison

@sandrapicton8961

3 жыл бұрын

Mine too! Today's world is/has been rushing along with inventions and communication at breakneck speed, hard to imagine the slow, slow life in those periods. Which is better, their's or our's?

@falalaufou8559

3 жыл бұрын

Wats yo ig

@riteshyeddu9186

3 жыл бұрын

@@sandrapicton8961 ours, imo

@alissa6

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheManWhoTypes It depends on your beliefs. Atheist say we existed only 120,000 years ago. Some Christian and afrocentric denominations say we only existed 6000 years. Muslim say we existed millions of years and that we were giants that would have made dinosaurs look puny.

I've just prepared my breakfast and the first thing to watch I see is this video, 52 minutes after uploading. Feels damn good, man

This is so amazing. Here I am enjoying learning about people who's efforts made everything around us possible thousands of years later. Thank you

Very impressive production! Great editing with the pictures maps etc.

I love all of this so far. Great visuals, great narration and very informative. Glad I found this channel!

Hell yeah, new episode! Looking forward to this one.

Wasn't expecting a shot of my home city in this video! Great series, I'm definitely going to subscribe

I need more! D: This is whole serise was amazingly presented. I have a hard time trying to put things into a timeline and you helped immensely.

Your series on birth of civilisation is outstanding. As someone said, this channel, history time and fall of civilisation are most informative channels on yt, regarding popular history. You can't find as good content on discovery or other channels like this. You should create four curiosity stream.

It's a great thing to see the notification of a new episode!

Many thanks for the series! I absolutely love that. It would be great if there was a written summary of its key elements with dates. However, I understand that a whole book (to which you link) might be better.

Excellent work . Thanks for making this ...

Absolutely WOWED i WANT to keep learning from this series

Thanks for this. Like the rest of your stuff, it's well done and thoroughly great.

I can't thank you enough for the narration of this valuable opportunity to inlite myself, so proud of gathering knowledge from this videos from the real historic world and human civilisation survival !!!

These videos are polished and presented like something backed by a large media entity. I've been really curious about the gap between early man and ancient civilisation lately and couldn't find anything like this on any streaming services. Awesome work man, I hope they're throwing deals at you.

This channel is a phenomenon. Thank you for everything.

This is one of the best series I've ever seen! Do you plan on doing something similar with other early civilizations, like Egypt, Indus Valley Civilization, China or Norte Chico?

@stars-and-clouds

9 ай бұрын

I'm so interested in the Indus Valley Civilisation and Egypt as well!

@davidcwitkin6729

3 ай бұрын

I'd love to know more about the Indus Valley Civilization and what happened to them as well

I loved this series. Thank you

Real, sourced history, more scholarly than popular (this is a compliment). Absolutely splendid. Subbed, obviously.

@antpat

10 ай бұрын

What sources?

@classiclife7204

10 ай бұрын

@@antpat I'm pretty sure they used to be here, at least a year ago when I commented. I see sources on other Histocrat videos. KZread is sucky now; he probably can't fit his sources into the description sometimes.

omg im so excited ive been waiting for this to come out 🙈

These are incredibly well-made and well-narrated videos.

Oh goodness, I have successfully found a new history channel, what an effort. Will start watching now, thanks

I think being near the sea or ocean gave Ur and Uruk a viable source of protein to add to their agricultural efforts. Boats and fishing don't seem to feature much in archeology, but it is a year-round resource.

I was seriously looking forward to this one!

Literally my favorite way to spend an hour

Considering the fact there's little or no financial incentive to create these videos, they are pretty amazing!

@ChrisPBacon-jl7oc

Жыл бұрын

2.2 million views is a chunk of change

Thank you so much for this. Loved the video

Keep up the amazing work and art along with the channel good sir. We love the education and narrators.

Charles - these videos are absolutely superb. Well done. Well produced, narrated and illustrated. I'd also like to say that Ettore Mazza's art is excellent and extremely helpful in trying to visualise the place and time.

I never get to watch your videos but they are a fantastic listen. Thanks for all the work

Anyone else unable to get enough of ancient civilizations and cultures. No matter how much I learn I just wanna learn more. Theyre all unbelievably fascinating to say the very least.

This was an awesome series! Please make a detailed video on the Indus Valley civilisation too, if possible

I've loved this series, really cleared up some misconceptions I had, and strung together a lot of what I knew with a lot if what I didn't in a cohesive way. Your Cult of the Skull video especially filled in a lot of gaps, and really left one with an idea of just how 'human' we still behave, despite massive changes in how we live our lives. Any inspiration on your next project

More than I say , thank you in sharing your. history review .. Details during past seven millenium .. and more.. so. exciting and educational. So good to me. I. keep. myself dedicated to learning civilizations before our current era.

Thank you Free Documentary in sharing your video. A lot I learned added since I did my high school studies in 1965-67 WORLD HISTORY. I JUST LIKE IT. THANK YOU.

breakfast, coffe and some history. this sunday is starting strong

Been waiting for this! Love listening about these alien long-gone cultures when falling asleep or on walks. This whole series is very neatly written and well-researched.

@2LMproductions

2 жыл бұрын

Which series? Fallen civilizations?

@princeofcupspoc9073

2 жыл бұрын

Alien? How is the middle east "alien?" I think you need to get out of your basement more.

@janobara6337

2 жыл бұрын

@@princeofcupspoc9073 Eight thousand years ago and over a thousand kilometres away seems pretty alien to me, I'm sure I wouldn't find myself in ancient Uruk if I stepped foot out of the basement. Even so, modern day Mesopotamia is still pretty alien to a European, if not for the internet, some of us wouldn't even know it exists. I think you need to work on your condescending attitude, my dear anime profile pic lad

@highadmiraljt5853

2 жыл бұрын

@@princeofcupspoc9073 Chief I don’t think that ancient Mesopotamian structures are outside of his house

@ineedtostopwatchingyoutube5211

Жыл бұрын

@@princeofcupspoc9073 Next you’ll say he’s racist, right?

Excellent, descriptive and cogent.

-gentle bongo drumming begins- every tap on the drum symbolizes each of the succinct facts and crystallized analyses thanks

Whoo hoo! Just as I’m cycling back through my Bronze Age (and Neolithic) podcasts, new Bronze Age content!

Love these videos, the research and objectivity in them is refreshing in a world full of biases and sensationalism.

Calm speech and rich histroy content, THANK YOU for your great work!

Wow, that was really well done.

Loving this one thanks for sharing very information blessed love to all knowledge is power hopefully everyone pays attention keep up the good work 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲

For your views of a modern city, you showed Melbourne, Australia. They included Princes Bridge, Federation Square and The Bourke Street Mall. Nice.

Thank you! Really good written manuscript. Engaging and informative.👍🙏🏼

Really History has so many interpretations, I read in my book that writing had begun to keep a record of various activities happening in Urban cities like in Uruk (southern Mesopotamia), from where 5000 lists( clay tablets) have been found that contained info. about stuffs imported, distributed, orders, etc

Great video! This period of history is so interesting

Wooo! I’m going to enjoy this with my coffee 🥰🥰.. like a brain gift for the morning!! Thanks again for all the work you put into these, I watch and rewatch all the time!!

I really enjoyed this video. Super interesting and informative 😁

Very informative with a lot to consider with early civilizations.

Can't wait to see this!

I'm going to do some work around the house. 'The Histocrat has uploaded a new video.' I guess the work can be done 1:16:46 from now.

@readmycomment4696

3 жыл бұрын

It is 2 hr now, did you start the work :)

@DarkMoonDroid

3 жыл бұрын

I love doing housework to stuff like this.

Heya histocrat!! History time sent me here. Loved this video! I’ll be staying for more. Btw, your voice reminds me of Sir Christopher Lee’s.

Outstanding! Thank you.

I learned a lot. Early human history is fascinating.

@abotaweela1

2 жыл бұрын

Said like a true extra-terrestial!

This is excellent and masterfully researched and presented. One question I have is the map choice used throughout. The chosen map shows the current Persian Gulf shoreline and present river courses. Was that map used instead of one featuring the ancient shoreline(s) and river routes for a specific purpose, i.e. you wished to only convey the locations as archeological sites and not in their historical contexts?

I can surely say that this Is the best history channel that I've discovered so far

Brilliant, thank you!

I love your work. Can't wait for the episode on Irish druids, as was promised at the end of your Druids video a while ago!

I love these, I'm dying for one about the Indus Valley civ (Mohejo-daro/Harrapa) but I realize that's a tall order. I'm going to try to become a patron so maybe that'll help! I also know some people for original music and animation, nothing fancy but food for thought...

@BSIII

3 жыл бұрын

The plumbing in Mohenjo Daro is fascinating. Awesome stuff

Fascinating and well done.

Thank you. Excellent on all levels.

Engagement for based algorithm; But Im going to save the actual listen for when Im at work monday. Been waiting on this one~

@gone41214

2 жыл бұрын

buahahahaha save the long documentaries for company time

@cavramau

2 жыл бұрын

Remind me never to buy objects manufactured on a Monday.

Currently I'm reading "Work" by James Suzman, and looking up some more information on the earliest city culture got me into binge whatching this triple piece. It is my first experience whith your channel. Thanks a lot, this helps me well through my COVID related self isolation.

This video is more informative and has higher production quality than most of the documentaries on TV.

I will admit there's a lot to absorb here. Nevertheless, I've watched this video twice now, and have tried to pay attention. You learn from vids like this, and gain knowledge. Always waiting for the next one, so keep them coming!

I enjoy learning about very early civilizations.

Nice, I know what I'll be falling asleep to tonight.

Thank you for not having loud distracting music

Wonderful documentary! Congratulations 👏

You are fantastic. Such respect and diligence, luminary voiceover work as well. Just great. I politely request some lessons on the pre columbian Americas! The olmecs, the giant interconnected amazon rainforest civilization, the Mississippians, the Hopewell, the Anasazi, Maya, Inca, Nazca. SOOO MUCH HISTORY

@judithjinn6765

3 жыл бұрын

+1

@riversnake6548

3 жыл бұрын

+1