Top 5 Tallest Buildings Throughout History

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  • @OllieBye
    @OllieBye  5 лет назад +1377

    Just a fun little project I thought I'd try. Hope you like it!

    • @OllieBye
      @OllieBye  5 лет назад +22

      @Legendary Clash It was apparently damaged during the Chola invasion, and fell into a state of disrepair for a long time after that. It has since been renovated, but it is no longer as tall.

    • @OllieBye
      @OllieBye  5 лет назад +8

      @@arolemaprarath6615 The animation was done in MAGIX Movie Edit. It's actually quite easy to do.

    • @muhammadibnuqoyyumkamil5171
      @muhammadibnuqoyyumkamil5171 5 лет назад

      Where Borobudur temple?

    • @Reziac
      @Reziac 5 лет назад +3

      Interesting way to show the data, love seeing them in proportion to one another with the locations. Good job!

    • @UsefulCharts
      @UsefulCharts 5 лет назад +5

      Loved it!

  • @EmperorTigerstar
    @EmperorTigerstar 5 лет назад +7088

    I like the detail of the Great Pyramid slowly shrinking due to erosion.

    • @redcoat4348
      @redcoat4348 5 лет назад +191

      There is no data on when the capstone of the pyramids got out though

    • @jrussianball5033
      @jrussianball5033 5 лет назад +52

      PLEASE SHUT UP EMPEROR BLABBERMOUTH!!!!!

    • @dhruvs8139
      @dhruvs8139 5 лет назад +54

      SAME! I noticed that too. Good work, Ollie!

    • @abbad707
      @abbad707 5 лет назад +51

      Yea and the time it was the tallest building was way too impressive

    • @irontusk341
      @irontusk341 5 лет назад +5

      but J Russian Ball, Dont tigers or cats like batting balls around like toys? just wondering....

  • @ProfessorPotatoPhD
    @ProfessorPotatoPhD 5 лет назад +5281

    Pyramids of Giza casually being the tallest for over 3000 years

    • @Moz31
      @Moz31 5 лет назад +483

      Some church: I'm gonna ruin this man's whole career

    • @ahmedhegazi3917
      @ahmedhegazi3917 5 лет назад +41

      للأسف لم نعرف كيف نحافظ على حضارتنا
      وأصبحنا من دول العالم الثالث

    • @wybo2
      @wybo2 5 лет назад +225

      @@Moz31 Only to burn down 10 years later

    • @sussurus
      @sussurus 5 лет назад +170

      @@wybo2 Lincoln Cathedral was the first building to surpass the Pyramids in height and remained the tallest building in the world for 238 years before its main spire collapsed.

    • @wybo2
      @wybo2 5 лет назад +64

      @@sussurus Welp, turns out i was wrong, kinda.
      Apparently its roofing cought fire 50 years after it was build and another 50 years later it got destroyed by a earthquake. The building was repaired each time afterwards.
      I should have looked it up before commenting.

  • @takshashila2995
    @takshashila2995 5 лет назад +3926

    When you build the tallest standing structure for well over 3000 years and everyone starts giving credit to Aliens.

    • @qwertyuiopzxcvbnm9890
      @qwertyuiopzxcvbnm9890 5 лет назад +43

      aliens? basically it is just a mystery how exactly their perfection could be built

    • @RubySapior
      @RubySapior 5 лет назад +71

      Well, they only had bronze tools and its really difficult to cut granite with bronze. You would go through many blades in order to cut 1 block.
      On top of that, do this day, we have yet to find a big enough cutting tool. The largest bonze saw ever found was only a few feet long at best. You would have expected to find a billion of these if they were really used to make the pyramids.
      As for the chisel method for cutting. Even with today's machine position chiseling, still impossible to separate a block that smooth.
      Lastly, how would you move up these enormous blocks into a pyramid shape? If you were to build a ramp at a slight incline, the slope up the pyramid would dwarf the pyramid its self.
      Not even going to mention how far away these quarries were from the building site.
      1 answer aliens :P
      Not that I believe in aliens, but our current understandings of the ancient civilizations are still quite limited.

    • @ramitouhami4912
      @ramitouhami4912 5 лет назад +48

      @@qwertyuiopzxcvbnm9890 with skilled architects and ramps to build ot they diverted the nile river to transport sandstone there is no mystery about it

    • @ramitouhami4912
      @ramitouhami4912 5 лет назад +39

      @@RubySapior the ramp went spiraling around the pyramid they only used stone to perfect the blocks, so it did taje a long ime also they diverted the nile and used boats to transport sandstone there from the quarries

    • @nikolafeschiev3399
      @nikolafeschiev3399 5 лет назад +35

      @@RubySapior they were build from limestone not granite.

  • @WTFCDFoxy
    @WTFCDFoxy 5 лет назад +1414

    The moment when you realize the first tallest building was 8 meters...

    • @dontpanic9772
      @dontpanic9772 5 лет назад +541

      I mean the first building was the first tallest building.

    • @arpitanie1955
      @arpitanie1955 5 лет назад +200

      Technically the first tallest building was just a tree house...

    • @unanec
      @unanec 5 лет назад +15

      @@arpitanie1955 what is exactly a house actually?

    • @taylorborden2971
      @taylorborden2971 5 лет назад +33

      Had to start somewhere

    • @fredrickthecatfish8661
      @fredrickthecatfish8661 5 лет назад +25

      The first tallest building was probs 4m or less

  • @cyrclack5616
    @cyrclack5616 5 лет назад +941

    Nobody:
    Cathedral Gang: Let us introduce ourselves

    • @twistymcyeet3765
      @twistymcyeet3765 5 лет назад +30

      The pyramids, being built millenia before but still outlasting them:
      "Know your fucking place, T R A S H"

    • @PAINNN666
      @PAINNN666 5 лет назад +30

      Cathedral Gang: Let us introduce ourselves
      American Scyscrapers: You are a joke.

    • @siddarth_vader
      @siddarth_vader 5 лет назад +3

      That's how Introductions are kinda supposed to work

    • @xenotypos
      @xenotypos 5 лет назад +12

      @@twistymcyeet3765 Hmmm Strasbourg cathedral never collapsed, and was still higher than the great pyramid of giza : D.
      On a side note, cathedrals, as many buildings from the old world, are actually quite sturdy compared with modern buildings (which would all collapse in less than 100 years without proper human maintenance). Most of the time when a cathedral disappears in the video, only the spire collapsed, not the building itself. Probably why Strasbourg cathedral remained, since it doesn't have a spire and the height was the actual height of the towers.

    • @cyrclack5616
      @cyrclack5616 5 лет назад

      @ÖLÜMLÜHAYATBUGÜNVARSINYARINYOKSUN Nice seeing you here, looks like you are a no-life on top of an idiot too, nice

  • @bapo224
    @bapo224 5 лет назад +4095

    Europe: Look at our beautiful cathedrals symbolizing our devotion to god!
    America: T H I C C S T I C C

    • @Wandrative
      @Wandrative 5 лет назад +131

      America only lasted like 50 years to reign. Good thing for you that the video slowed down for the 20th century

    • @fakestory1753
      @fakestory1753 5 лет назад +22

      @@Wandrative I think he is saying the thick pyramid in America

    • @Wandrative
      @Wandrative 5 лет назад +5

      Fake Story That didn’t happen in the age of Cathedrals tho

    • @fakestory1753
      @fakestory1753 5 лет назад +3

      @@Wandrative but both of them are mean to be praising the god (?

    • @GoofballPaul
      @GoofballPaul 5 лет назад +3

      You win the comment section.

  • @incendiarybullet3516
    @incendiarybullet3516 5 лет назад +2399

    It took 3,000 years for the pyramids to lose the top spot, and they’re still standing to this day.
    Truly an amazing feat of architecture, a great testament of humanity’s capabilities.

    • @Hypermartini
      @Hypermartini 5 лет назад +86

      of paid worker's capabilities

    • @pinnappleman3190
      @pinnappleman3190 5 лет назад +270

      It’s a goddamn stone triangle. I don’t want to face the natural disaster that could topple it.

    • @pinnappleman3190
      @pinnappleman3190 5 лет назад +165

      Hypermartini I think it’s been proven false that the workers were enslaved

    • @MrCameroncee
      @MrCameroncee 5 лет назад +210

      @@Hypermartini most records suggest skilled labourers built the pyramids due to the skill needed, slaves may have been used to transport materials but not likely used in the actual construction

    • @firstaidsack
      @firstaidsack 5 лет назад +24

      It was build by aliens.
      EDIT: Just kidding ;P

  • @W-INTERNATIONAL-SYNDICATION
    @W-INTERNATIONAL-SYNDICATION 5 лет назад +3433

    1870: *steel has joined the chat.*

    • @maddyschad6649
      @maddyschad6649 5 лет назад +62

      And Giza starts plummeting down the list.

    • @rexxy8989
      @rexxy8989 5 лет назад +46

      also, let's not forget the reinvention of opus caementicium -> cement

    • @khenricx
      @khenricx 5 лет назад +32

      Fun fact, the eiffel tower is made out of iron, not steel !

    • @michka841
      @michka841 5 лет назад +28

      2000 *ASIA JOINED THE CHAT*

    • @kaikart123
      @kaikart123 5 лет назад +17

      @@michka841 2009 DUBAI JOINED THE CHAT

  • @SCP-ut3kf
    @SCP-ut3kf 5 лет назад +88

    Think about it:
    The Pyramids of Giza remained the tallest building from 0:35 to 4:46 and remained in the top 5 until 6:00.
    2000 BCE to 1886. Nearly 4,000 years.

    • @Aelfraed26
      @Aelfraed26 2 года назад +16

      The Great Pyramid is believed to have been built around 2500 BC, so it's closer to have been the tallest for 4500 years.

  • @dailybonkers621
    @dailybonkers621 3 года назад +78

    As a sri lankan im extremely proud of my small country once our structures only seconded to great pyramid 🙏🙏

  • @hotwax9376
    @hotwax9376 5 лет назад +592

    Not only did the Great Pyramid hold the top spot for over 3000 years, but it didn't fall out of the top five until about 1885. Amazing to think its streak lasted that long and ended so recently.

    • @dinorami2691
      @dinorami2691 5 лет назад +4

      @עולם פתטי Username checks out

    • @Pastàár
      @Pastàár Месяц назад

      yes hotwax

  • @gardist
    @gardist 5 лет назад +2009

    the tallest buildings started in the middle east and eventually returned to it

    • @diegich3733
      @diegich3733 5 лет назад +339

      It starts with the rivers Tigris and Eufrates, and finishes with oil.

    • @xenotypos
      @xenotypos 5 лет назад +195

      Though since the mid-20th century it's not a testament to a particular civilisation or a particular architecture anymore. Everyone use the same techniques, the same technology, the one with more money has the biggest tower.
      I feel like it's not as significant as in the good old days of civilisations.

    • @PicklePickle7
      @PicklePickle7 5 лет назад +123

      We start the video with 8 meters in the middle east. And we end it with more than 800, also in the middle east.

    • @takshashila2995
      @takshashila2995 5 лет назад +5

      @@xenotypos Maybe, It is a sign for inter-galactic wars and empires*(what form?).

    • @miguelpadeiro762
      @miguelpadeiro762 5 лет назад +15

      @@takshashila2995 Uh, what

  • @jaywilliams9294
    @jaywilliams9294 5 лет назад +853

    3:09 *Yonging Pagda has joined the chat*
    3:12 *Yonging Pagda has left the chat*

    • @attrapehareng
      @attrapehareng 5 лет назад +201

      was made out of wood and apparently caught fire after being stroke by a lightning, 15 years after being built!

    • @Jen-Yueh_Hu
      @Jen-Yueh_Hu 5 лет назад +120

      @@attrapehareng I can imagine people going all superstitious "oh the heavens forbid people from reaching the sky" or something.

    • @Wandrative
      @Wandrative 5 лет назад +8

      Historically not even likely to have been even that tall in the first place.

    • @萧萧-c8q
      @萧萧-c8q 5 лет назад +12

      Yongning Pagoda...

    • @theyoshi202
      @theyoshi202 5 лет назад +43

      When you make a 147m building out of wood...

  • @michka841
    @michka841 5 лет назад +34

    Giza Pyramid : exist
    Lincoln cathedral : *I will end this prism whole career*

    • @raghuls1515
      @raghuls1515 9 месяцев назад +2

      😂 already fallen

  • @atticusshadowmore3263
    @atticusshadowmore3263 5 лет назад +45

    Giza: I am the tall-
    Spires have entered the chat

  • @tomasbulko9418
    @tomasbulko9418 5 лет назад +1272

    "we did it boys, we built the tallest tower in the world. It shall serve as a beacon of our glorious civilization for a thousand years"
    - the chinese, 516 AD -
    "Are you sure about that? "
    - lightning, literally 18 years after -

    • @justinysghost5298
      @justinysghost5298 5 лет назад +30

      Lmao

    • @OfficialSilverMoon
      @OfficialSilverMoon 5 лет назад +65

      Same thing happened with Kanishka Stupa in the beginning. It caught lightning 3 times and was rebuilt but then finally destroyed because of its copper top.

    • @attheratehandle
      @attheratehandle 5 лет назад +31

      If only they understood the concept of lightning rods.

    • @Joesolo13
      @Joesolo13 5 лет назад +13

      Pyramids-as-Skinner- "Pathetic"

    • @xenotypos
      @xenotypos 5 лет назад +21

      Being made of fucking wood didn't help. I mean, it had no chance from the start.
      Anyway, the height is speculative, Ollie just put the highest hypothetical height it could have had. It was probably at least a bit smaller.
      Well, that tower was still probably the highest structure made of wood ever (!).

  • @GandalfGreyhame
    @GandalfGreyhame 5 лет назад +776

    Some christian building in the middle of England: Don't mind if I end your 3000 year streak, Mr. Pyramid

    • @godefroydemontmirail2278
      @godefroydemontmirail2278 5 лет назад +65

      That's funny to me that you see a pyramid as something masculine. In french, the pyramid is a feminine word so i see it as an old lady !

    • @GandalfGreyhame
      @GandalfGreyhame 5 лет назад +25

      @@godefroydemontmirail2278 Interesting... Shall definitely think about that next time!

    • @legendmk52
      @legendmk52 5 лет назад +13

      @@godefroydemontmirail2278 to me too. In Macedonian, the word for pyramid is also a feminine noun.

    • @duduchannel6729
      @duduchannel6729 5 лет назад +10

      @@godefroydemontmirail2278 It's a feminine world in italian too

    • @godefroydemontmirail2278
      @godefroydemontmirail2278 5 лет назад +2

      ​@@duduchannel6729 Certo lo so ! I miei nonni sono siciliani
      ; )

  • @K2142F
    @K2142F 5 лет назад +854

    That rapid change from all American to all Asian in the 2010s was something.

    • @Essa5225
      @Essa5225 5 лет назад +84

      And It's going back to middle eastern it's impressive

    • @makky6239
      @makky6239 5 лет назад +40

      09/11/2001

    • @Essa5225
      @Essa5225 5 лет назад +16

      @Zeros DaBast well the video showed India and the Middle East in a different color soo wer not talking about continents

    • @lordcabbage4931
      @lordcabbage4931 5 лет назад +5

      Asia wanted their trophy back

    • @dr.boring7022
      @dr.boring7022 5 лет назад +7

      @Herdan Look it up, man. Europe is a Continent. May not make sense, but tell that to the Greeks.

  • @ericthompson429
    @ericthompson429 5 лет назад +81

    He missed the CN Tower
    *angry canadian noises*

    • @jevinliu4658
      @jevinliu4658 5 лет назад +7

      That's technically a giant radio antenna, isn't it?

    • @andrewlemoing1360
      @andrewlemoing1360 5 лет назад +15

      In theory yes it is. However, there are observation decks built in. The main deck has shops and a restaurant. Then theres another observation deck higher up. This deck at one point was highest observation deck in the world. If monuments qualify for this list, the CN Tower probably should too.

    • @jevinliu4658
      @jevinliu4658 5 лет назад +2

      @@andrewlemoing1360 There's still 102 meters of antenna unaccounted for.

    • @VFChannelArchive
      @VFChannelArchive 5 лет назад +5

      Its a free stading tower

    • @zz7951
      @zz7951 5 лет назад +7

      CN tower is a tower like Tokyo skytree(634m) or Canton tower(600m).

  • @beanburrito4405
    @beanburrito4405 5 лет назад +144

    People are all commending the Pyramids, and that’s all well and good, but I feel like the La Danta Temple needs some credit as well. It was a Native American structure that lasted at least 2000 years in the top five, that’s impressive

    • @octaviogutierrez9158
      @octaviogutierrez9158 3 года назад +23

      Yeah Mesoamerica is underrated, the temple of La Danta was the tallest structure in the Western Hemisphere for at least a thousand years by the Mayans of the Petén jungle who already had a definite writing and knew the number 0 centuries before the Middle East. They did not use the wheel, they did not know metals and they did not settle their cities in the rivers unlike the Egyptians. The Teotihuacans came to create the sixth largest city in the world at its peak with large palaces, a reflection of a sophisticated and commercially prominent society. and the pyramid of the sun was much taller than the constructions of the Roman empire. Not even in medieval Europe they could surpass those constructions in height and massive length.

    • @xenotypos
      @xenotypos 2 года назад +5

      @@octaviogutierrez9158 Afaik the Mayans didn't use the modern zero but a version of it. Several versions of zero existed in Old World too and the oldest versions in the world come from the middle-east. The Babylonians used it as a placeholder (without a symbol), but not as a value. If I remember well, the Egyptians did the opposite.
      The modern version is of course from India a very long time later.
      And regarding medieval Europe you're probably talking about the first half of the middle ages, because in the second half cathedrals were the tallest buildings in the world. Though I admit height isn't everything, and I think the Romans are hard to beat in terms of architecture (even if they sucked at some other things). For me, they win hands down in that department, even compared the late-middle ages Europe which was better in other departements. Roman palaces, cities, monuments etc.. were very complex and subtle, some were without equivalent anywhere like their massive domes (which was a major innovation). Even their roads were cracked (there is far more under the first layer than people imagine, that's why the road who were not intentionally destroyed still exist today).
      Well, just my opinion.

    • @sagamaster124
      @sagamaster124 2 года назад +3

      @@xenotypos es obvio, en su tiempo la arquitectura romana fue la mejor (recibiendo aportes de otras civilizaciones).

    • @Gekumatz
      @Gekumatz 2 года назад +4

      @@octaviogutierrez9158 the crazy thing is that la danta still stands to this very day as the biggest pyramid by volume in the world.

    • @orereo2328
      @orereo2328 2 года назад

      Those are Mayan buildings, not Native American

  • @VinceStrategy
    @VinceStrategy 5 лет назад +745

    Quite amazing that the Eiffel Tower was twice taller than the second for like 50 years...

    • @qzg7857
      @qzg7857 5 лет назад +53

      Piramids "pfff"

    • @generalaccount6531
      @generalaccount6531 5 лет назад +52

      @@qzg7857 The scale of Pyramid Giza was just incomprehensively gigantic for that period of human history. It is 4.2 times taller than the 2nd tallest contemporary counterpart, Ziggurat of Ur for the next 1000 years. To put the insane difference into perspective, imagine if someone was to build a 3.2 km-tall building (4.2 times taller than the 2nd tallest building) around the same time the Burj Khalifa was constructed...

    • @HoveringAboveMyself
      @HoveringAboveMyself 5 лет назад +19

      @@generalaccount6531 It's not quite the same thing though since the pyramids were not meant to be inhabitable, so the need for people to go up and down an increasingly longer staircase was not a consideration, this appears to be a significant constraint since both Ziggurats and mesoamerican pyramids (some of which are bigger by volume than the Khufu pyramid) topped out at roughly the same height and both share the characteristic of having temples and/or residences on top.
      Stupendous feats of engineering yes but probably not the result of leaps and bounds better mastering of the materials than their contemporaries.

    • @Shahanshah.Shahin
      @Shahanshah.Shahin 4 года назад

      "Stupa of Kanishka" was 145 m tall Bhuddhist temple it was built in 140 CE by emperor Kanishka of the Kushan empire and destroyed by the Ummayad caliphate's general Mohammad bin Qasim in 704 CE when his army conqured western Pakistan from small Indian kings.

  • @micahistory
    @micahistory 5 лет назад +369

    Up until the 20th century, they were almost all religious buildings

    • @abdoodba2006
      @abdoodba2006 5 лет назад +22

      Not lightning of Alexandria

    • @elijahcs3633
      @elijahcs3633 5 лет назад +93

      @@abdoodba2006 Thats why he said almost

    • @micahistory
      @micahistory 5 лет назад +6

      @@elijahcs3633 yeah lol

    • @beirutmc
      @beirutmc 5 лет назад +14

      My thought when it got to the 20th century: Huh, new religion

    • @clawsoon
      @clawsoon 5 лет назад +40

      Still religious, it's just that money is the new religion...

  • @elsorino
    @elsorino 5 лет назад +315

    I think it would've been better if you used something to indicate a building was destroyed, like how the Yongning Pagoda was

    • @MPHJackson7
      @MPHJackson7 5 лет назад +38

      Yeah, it took me a few seconds to realize that they were being destroyed

    • @elliot7753
      @elliot7753 5 лет назад +37

      elso or the worlds trade centers at the end

    • @stellarktg5149
      @stellarktg5149 5 лет назад +21

      elso +. And Yongning pagoda was destroyed by the lightning strike after 18 years of existence.

    • @JonatasAdoM
      @JonatasAdoM 5 лет назад

      To be fair the pyramid is one of only ones still standing today.

    • @giraffelord94
      @giraffelord94 5 лет назад +8

      I think a smaller building suddenly becoming the next largest would be a good indicator.

  • @mrkslva4231
    @mrkslva4231 3 года назад +12

    I love Sri Lanka! and I have visited both Jethavanaramaya and Ruwanweliseya.

  • @hirumalka3808
    @hirumalka3808 3 года назад +17

    Sinhalese Civilization had 2 entries in here despite being in a very small country. Those monuments are still preserved and Both Ruwanweliseya Stupa and Jetavana Stupa is worshipped to this day by Buddhists throughout the world.

  • @batzal9459
    @batzal9459 5 лет назад +164

    6:55
    Twin towers: That was a good time at the top, but it's a time for a goodbye.

    • @eschelon.videos
      @eschelon.videos 5 лет назад +3

      *2001 entered the chat*

    • @xylven5918
      @xylven5918 5 лет назад +9

      Despite losing the title as the world's tallest building quickly they're still standing as the world's tallest twin towers.

    • @potatoeskimos
      @potatoeskimos 5 лет назад +3

      Don't be sad, the Petronas Tower is WTC reborn. Even the Malaysian flag is almost the same as American :D

    • @onlyfacts8801
      @onlyfacts8801 5 лет назад +4

      @@xylven5918 "they're still standing"... are you sure of that? :')

    • @ayamgorengspicy3x
      @ayamgorengspicy3x 5 лет назад

      @@onlyfacts8801 I wonder what's the other elses.

  • @HouseJawn
    @HouseJawn 5 лет назад +57

    This is the best one yet from a lover of architecture and engineering

  • @o4_
    @o4_ 5 лет назад +291

    Pyramids of Giza: I am the tallest structure ever!
    Cathedrals: *Allow us to introduce ourselves.*

    • @rafanana0077
      @rafanana0077 5 лет назад +43

      Fire: *I'm goin to end this Church whole career*

    • @barackobama1099
      @barackobama1099 5 лет назад

      Perfect reply

    • @callumgraham975
      @callumgraham975 5 лет назад +2

      @@rafanana0077 notre dame is not a church, and it never features in the top 5. Dead joke.

    • @rafanana0077
      @rafanana0077 5 лет назад +9

      @@callumgraham975 Ok boomer

    • @ikeeichenberg9068
      @ikeeichenberg9068 5 лет назад +9

      @@callumgraham975 He wasn't even talking about Notre Dame. Most of the cathedrals that disappeared off the list were as a result of fire

  • @ThundorLord
    @ThundorLord 5 лет назад +18

    During Ancient times:
    Rest of the world, let's build some random temples and stuff
    India: *what if we built a giant carrot? *

    • @мувн-ш4ы
      @мувн-ш4ы 4 года назад

      @Utathya Manna typical hindoo.

    • @Dheeraj-y4f
      @Dheeraj-y4f 3 месяца назад

      I think u dont dont have much knowledge about dravidian, nagari type of architecture

  • @Velkan1396
    @Velkan1396 5 лет назад +21

    Europeans in the XII century: let's raise these bad boys

  • @micahistory
    @micahistory 5 лет назад +352

    4000 B.C.-1313: Middle East
    1313-1909: Europe
    1909-2005: North America
    2005-: East Asia

    • @Pasta_Pirate
      @Pasta_Pirate 5 лет назад +36

      ~2040-Other planets, low gravity has its upsides ;D

    • @augth
      @augth 5 лет назад +15

      1909-1930 was still the Eiffel Tower

    • @pmf440
      @pmf440 5 лет назад +26

      Egypt is in North Africa not middle east

    • @micahistory
      @micahistory 5 лет назад +8

      @@augth yes but everything else was in the Middle East

    • @micahistory
      @micahistory 5 лет назад +29

      @@pmf440 it's right next to it and culturally has always been in the middle east

  • @AdamWebb1982
    @AdamWebb1982 5 лет назад +421

    One way to look at the rise and fall of civilisations.

    • @neyte7313
      @neyte7313 5 лет назад +15

      @CommandoDude St.Paul's Cathedral after London fire in 1666, Twin Towers in 2001, that was painful.

    • @timonheidema6837
      @timonheidema6837 5 лет назад +14

      @Ulti737fs Except for the Colosseum for a few seconds

    • @HoveringAboveMyself
      @HoveringAboveMyself 5 лет назад +26

      ​@Ulti737fs For some reason the Greeks and Romans were not into that kind of thing despite clearly having the knowledge and means, just look at the lighthouse of Alexandria.

    • @randomclouds4404
      @randomclouds4404 5 лет назад +5

      I knew the United Arab Emirates rules us all.

    • @takshashila2995
      @takshashila2995 4 года назад +5

      @@HoveringAboveMyself Yeah Same for the Islamic Caliphate. Maybe, It's sort of a cultural thing.

  • @thehoneygrabberz
    @thehoneygrabberz 5 лет назад +9

    5:54
    Steel: *exists*
    Every other building: let's yeet the pyramid away

  • @pinacolada_2731
    @pinacolada_2731 5 лет назад +11

    The thing to finally push the Great Pyramid out of the top 5 was an obelisk, and the obelisk is very famously Egyptian

  • @veronikadawson8319
    @veronikadawson8319 5 лет назад +70

    I like how la danta temple just casually comes in and out of the game

    • @dominicguye8058
      @dominicguye8058 4 года назад +3

      It was only relatively recently discovered, too.

  • @micahistory
    @micahistory 5 лет назад +166

    it's insane how long the pyramid of Giza managed to stay in the top 10

  • @mohamedthegamer378
    @mohamedthegamer378 5 лет назад +134

    Pyraminds: you can't defeat me
    Every tall thing that wasn't taller than it:I know but he can
    *The Catholic Church*

  • @FneY1
    @FneY1 5 лет назад +78

    Ich bin hier wegen Florentin.

    • @4Astaroth
      @4Astaroth 5 лет назад +1

      Ja geht mir auch so. Schöne Details in dem Video.

    • @argentum746
      @argentum746 5 лет назад +2

      Hatn gutes Intro, hatn gutes Outro, hatn guten Avatar....was geht ab...

    • @DuesseldorferJung1
      @DuesseldorferJung1 5 лет назад +1

      @Karl Heinz Rudolf Aber mit Timecode, für mich ne Fischkarte 🐟🐟🐟

    • @mcseelmann
      @mcseelmann 5 лет назад

      Schau das MoinMoin schon wird mir dieses Video vorgeschlagen. Danke YT

  • @mew.shroom
    @mew.shroom 5 лет назад +11

    1870: steel has joined the server

  • @khediveabbashilmiiiofegypt9475
    @khediveabbashilmiiiofegypt9475 5 лет назад +81

    6:55 Rip World Trade Center

  • @TheAustralianMapper5378
    @TheAustralianMapper5378 5 лет назад +46

    1888 the point where humanity just decided to go crazy.

    • @jordwxn
      @jordwxn 5 лет назад

      OceaniaMapping steel was invented in 1888 I think

    • @plumebrisee6206
      @plumebrisee6206 5 лет назад +2

      @@jordwxn 1870*

  • @CoqPwner
    @CoqPwner 5 лет назад +174

    Interesting how there is definitely a correlation between a region's relative power and it having one or more of the tallest buildings.

    • @matthewk2175
      @matthewk2175 5 лет назад +20

      CoqPwner and now corporations are our new religions and money is our new god

    • @imperatorcaesardivifiliusa2158
      @imperatorcaesardivifiliusa2158 5 лет назад +44

      CoqPwner it’s more of a “who wants to show off” type of deal. The US has nothing else to prove, and so have stopped building these super-tall structures. Malaysia wanted to be taken more seriously by the world, so they built the Petronas Towers

    • @freddy4603
      @freddy4603 5 лет назад +3

      @@matthewk2175 ?

    • @CoqPwner
      @CoqPwner 5 лет назад +8

      @@imperatorcaesardivifiliusa2158 Time will tell if the more recent development means something or not. But honestly, power moving from NA to Asia in recent years isn't exactly a stretch either.

    • @imperatorcaesardivifiliusa2158
      @imperatorcaesardivifiliusa2158 5 лет назад +3

      CoqPwner The US, nevertheless, is the most lucrative consumer market on Earth, and will stay that way for a bit longer than the time in which China eclipses the US by nominal GDP through the fact that China is an export-oriented economy while the US derives it’s economic power from its consumer market

  • @FloridatedH2O
    @FloridatedH2O 5 лет назад +7

    The La Danta Temple worked so hard, and just refused to get knocked down. I clapped every time it got back onto the top 5. Everyone loves the pyramid, but you only see a hard worker like La Danta every couple millieniums or so.

  • @himbeertabi
    @himbeertabi 5 лет назад +12

    Florentin sent me here 💕

  • @dhruvs8139
    @dhruvs8139 5 лет назад +112

    I love how you included the Stupa of Kanishka. It's one of the forgotten structures of history. Awesome job and attention to detail.

    • @OllieBye
      @OllieBye  5 лет назад +55

      That was actually the building that inspired this video, having read about it a couple of weeks ago.

    • @MrJuggernautishere
      @MrJuggernautishere 5 лет назад +8

      @@OllieBye you are simply awesome..The moment the video started I was praying that the Kanishka Stupa would be included...You are perhaps the most attuned to South Asian history among all the mapping and history channels on youtube

    • @mrkslva4231
      @mrkslva4231 3 года назад +5

      @@MrJuggernautishere Although you have to admit Sri Lanka was the first South Asian country to have the tallest building...

    • @srirampatnaik9164
      @srirampatnaik9164 2 года назад

      @@mrkslva4231 no one denied that

    • @dilipaweeratunga
      @dilipaweeratunga Год назад +1

      ​@@mrkslva4231like 3 pyramids, Sri Lanka also had 3 Great Stupas all 3 of them were among the top 10 tallest structures of ancient world

  • @khediveabbashilmiiiofegypt9475
    @khediveabbashilmiiiofegypt9475 5 лет назад +139

    *Egyptian Kings: We'll just built some tombs to get buried in after our death and be able to continue our second life there*
    *4000 years passes and they are still buried*
    *Egyptian Kings: Am I a joke to you*

    • @Wandrative
      @Wandrative 5 лет назад +13

      But they are all robbed or excavated....

    • @AfroAsiaticLanguages
      @AfroAsiaticLanguages 5 лет назад +15

      @@Wandrative Excavation aka academic robbery.

    • @Yakez42
      @Yakez42 5 лет назад +7

      No evidence of **Great** Egyptian Pyramids being the tombs. There is a couple ancient pyramid tombs in China, Greece as well of some small Egyptian ones. And the modern one that most likely build due to pyramids as a tomb myth. Like Lenin's Mausoleum or Hunt's Tomb.

    • @Myusernamerulez
      @Myusernamerulez 5 лет назад +7

      Except that they weren't tombs.

    • @DK19998
      @DK19998 5 лет назад +2

      The last thing I’d expect from someone with your pfp is playing roblox.

  • @patrickhodson8715
    @patrickhodson8715 5 лет назад +168

    I love how when the Middle Ages come Europe is like “oh, should we build tall things too?” 😂

    • @arro2546
      @arro2546 4 года назад +6

      You mean the late Middle Ages and the early modern era? 476-1453 is the middle ages

    • @patrickhodson8715
      @patrickhodson8715 4 года назад +1

      no_pwease that is much more specific than anything I’ve ever seen. Obviously I meant when Europe suddenly joined the tall building party. What criteria are you using for those specific dates? What events happened?

    • @arro2546
      @arro2546 4 года назад +5

      476 - Fall of the Western Roman Empire
      1453 - Fall of the Eastern Roman Empire, Italian Renaissance period also coincides in this span of time

    • @patrickhodson8715
      @patrickhodson8715 4 года назад +1

      no_pwease ah ok

    • @tamaracarter1836
      @tamaracarter1836 4 года назад +8

      Lincoln Cathedral was finished in 1311 so is very much medieval.

  • @adityamanthri9167
    @adityamanthri9167 5 лет назад +13

    The pyramids of Giza will always be the best structure humans have ever built! I love how the Pyramids were the second most tallest structure even in 1874.

  • @TheLeosMind
    @TheLeosMind 5 лет назад +4

    Giza: It's Imposible for you guys to make a higher building than me.
    Steel: Please allow me to introduce myself.

  • @NRooster
    @NRooster 5 лет назад +33

    Burj Khalifa and Shangai Tower: We are the tallest building ever!
    Jeddah Tower: *Hah, ameteurs..*

    • @hhhhh4681
      @hhhhh4681 5 лет назад +11

      Dubai Creek Tower: Um, you were saying??

    • @ALEX_PNG
      @ALEX_PNG 5 лет назад

      Jeddah Tower now placed on hold: *lowers head in defeat, sulks in the corner of the room*

    • @Bacony_Cakes
      @Bacony_Cakes 5 лет назад +9

      Tower of Jericho: **cries in 8m tall**

  • @mobsterduck8315
    @mobsterduck8315 5 лет назад +26

    Pyramids of Giza in the 1800s: I’m still worthy!

  • @efilwv1635
    @efilwv1635 5 лет назад +39

    Shit got real in the 2010s

  • @gnuble
    @gnuble 5 лет назад +4

    That was great! At the beginning, I was nervous at the speed of the year counter, I figured all the tall buildings in the last ~150 years were going to be an indiscernable blur, but then you brought the clock down by like 20x. That was a great video. Thanks very much.

  • @deelanaS
    @deelanaS 2 года назад +11

    I am genuinely shocked at how underrated Ancient Sri Lankan architecture is and was considering the size and scale of the Sinhalese civilization that it spawned out of in relation to much larger societies (China, India, Egypt, the Middle East etc.)

    • @santhoshv3028
      @santhoshv3028 Год назад +1

      Sinhala is indian civilization only. Who said it is different civilization? Even in this video they made similar colour to all indian subcontinent.

    • @deelanaS
      @deelanaS Год назад +1

      @@santhoshv3028 Sinhalese culture and civilization is Indic influenced but at the same time, its completely unique and separate from the rest of South Asia. The Sinhalese people/ethnicity is uniquely Sri Lankan and not Nepali, Indian, Pakistani, or Bengali.

    • @deelanaS
      @deelanaS Год назад

      @@santhoshv3028 Had India being Buddhist, its ancient architecture would have certainly been interesting.

    • @santhoshv3028
      @santhoshv3028 Год назад +1

      @@deelanaS indic influenced? Dude sinhala is a branch of Indic civilization. Civilization and culture is different. You are talking about culture. We from Pakistan, Afghanistan to India, Nepal and all south asia countries are Indic civilization. Sinhala never had separate civilization. Do you who is Indic civilization influenced? Southeast Asia ( Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, laos, Cambodia, Myanmar)is influenced by Indic civilization not srilanka. Srilanka is part of Indic civilization not influenced. Understand the difference.

    • @santhoshv3028
      @santhoshv3028 Год назад

      @@deelanaS we have great ancient architecture still. India is know for its marvelous architecture. Who said we don't have ? And most of ours destroyed by invasion from outsider like Arabs or central Asian.

  • @patapax7033
    @patapax7033 5 лет назад +14

    Even the tip of the pyramid falling off and decreasing its height is noted in the video.
    I love this attention to detail.

    • @OllieBye
      @OllieBye  5 лет назад +2

      @@seanjimin The CN Tower wasn't forgotten, it was deliberately excluded. The explanation can be found at the beginning of the video and in the description.

    • @OllieBye
      @OllieBye  5 лет назад +1

      @@Spearca Just look at the notes at the beginning of the video.

  • @NanoLT
    @NanoLT 5 лет назад +84

    Isn't the colliseum technically called the Flavian Amphitheatre

    • @emmaselmeci966
      @emmaselmeci966 5 лет назад +22

      Amphiteatrum Flavium, to be precise

    • @seneca983
      @seneca983 5 лет назад +20

      But it's better to use the nickname given to it because that's what people recognize.

    • @emmaselmeci966
      @emmaselmeci966 5 лет назад +1

      @Tobie Brown I'm pretty sure, that's originally a sing. nom. ("flavian amphitearte") although a plur. gen. ("amphiteatre of the Flavians") would be grammatically correct :)

    • @TimeToMine830
      @TimeToMine830 5 лет назад +4

      Mátyás Selmeci *AMPHITEATRVMFLAVIVM if you want to get really precise.

    • @adsoyad2607
      @adsoyad2607 5 лет назад +1

      Yeah, these are the type of guys a majority of people hate at high school

  • @cavejohnson982
    @cavejohnson982 5 лет назад +28

    When you first started with these „non-orthodox-mapping“ videos i was sceptical, but now I think they bring more diversity to the community! Keep it on!
    Also looking forward to the third thirty years war Video!

  • @rushilabeykoon3162
    @rushilabeykoon3162 2 года назад +4

    Really proud of the sri lankan sinhalese kimgdom which produced a few of the tallest man made structures of the ancient world which resembles the developed technology we had in construction .

  • @infinitememegod
    @infinitememegod 5 лет назад +7

    China in 2000: so anyways I started building

  • @endrigomaturro6999
    @endrigomaturro6999 5 лет назад +44

    Lincoln Cathedral is wonderful, such a shame the spires collapsed

    • @Isidoros47
      @Isidoros47 5 лет назад +5

      @Herdan hit by a lighting in the later 16th century if I'm not mistaken

    • @richardschlange9629
      @richardschlange9629 5 лет назад

      @@Isidoros47 yeah and they rebuilt the spires and same thing happened I believe. Still massive

    • @user-hh2is9kg9j
      @user-hh2is9kg9j 5 лет назад

      so when was the modern one rebuilt?

    • @Isidoros47
      @Isidoros47 5 лет назад +2

      @@user-hh2is9kg9j Still the same Cathedral standing. "Only" the tall Spire burned down in the later 16th century.

    • @user-hh2is9kg9j
      @user-hh2is9kg9j 5 лет назад

      @@Isidoros47 Great, I will add it to my to-visit list.

  • @ThatOneAwkwardGuy
    @ThatOneAwkwardGuy 5 лет назад +39

    I may be missing something but shouldn’t the CN Tower have been on here at some point?

    • @CaledonianCoins
      @CaledonianCoins 5 лет назад +3

      Agreed. Also is the Tokyo Skytree not meant to be 2nd tallest currently

    • @CanuckPlay
      @CanuckPlay 5 лет назад +3

      Yes, it’s missing.

    • @ThatOneAwkwardGuy
      @ThatOneAwkwardGuy 5 лет назад

      I am wondering if it has something to do with how they classify what buildings count and which ones don’t.

    • @CanuckPlay
      @CanuckPlay 5 лет назад +9

      That One Awkward Guy the Washington monument was listed. That’s absolutely not a building.

    • @HoveringAboveMyself
      @HoveringAboveMyself 5 лет назад +14

      @@ThatOneAwkwardGuy The explanation at the beginning pretty much says this is a list of free-standing structures not buildings, that includes the CN tower, specially since the Eiffel tower was included, not to mention the Washington monument.

  • @Tilofus
    @Tilofus 5 лет назад +12

    #MoinMoin. Florentin hat mich mal wieder nicht enttäuscht. Interessantes Video :D

  • @MrGunsnrosesfan100
    @MrGunsnrosesfan100 5 лет назад +33

    Tallest buildings: Are in Asia/Egypt
    Europe: hold my cathedrals.

    • @wandamaximoff7495
      @wandamaximoff7495 4 года назад +2

      Egypt is in Africa

    • @MrGunsnrosesfan100
      @MrGunsnrosesfan100 4 года назад +2

      @@wandamaximoff7495 that's why I said Egypt seperately.

    • @zombieat
      @zombieat 3 года назад

      @@wandamaximoff7495 and asia.

    • @raghuls1515
      @raghuls1515 9 месяцев назад +1

      All fallen

    • @mudra5114
      @mudra5114 8 месяцев назад

      ​@@raghuls1515What fallen and sheit???

  • @Gunslingerwashere
    @Gunslingerwashere 5 лет назад +2

    Pyramids of Giza: "You can't defeat me."
    Malmesbury Abbey: "I know, but he can."
    Lincoln Cathedral: 4:44

  • @And-lj5gb
    @And-lj5gb 5 лет назад +38

    This doesn't seem to tell the whole story?
    For example Sneferu's bent pyramid at Dahshur was built around 2600 BC and is over 104 meters tall. Should make the top5 of its times as well as some other pyramids outside of Giza.

    • @nan0221
      @nan0221 5 лет назад +15

      Exactly, this list is pretty inaccurate. I guess he excluded all Egyptian pyramids except "pyramids of Giza" (which clearly are also not just one pyramid), because otherwise they would have dominated the top 5 for too long, but it should have at least been mentioned. I mean During Snefuru's reign alone 3 giant pyramids were build, the smallest being the meidum pyramid of about 91 meters (edit:this was the historical size, I believe the current day size is a lot smaller), followed by the bent pyramid you mentioned and the largest being the first true pyramid ever build, the red pyramid, which is about 105 meters.

  • @helios4.257
    @helios4.257 5 лет назад +8

    4:06
    Pyramids of Giza: Ouch

  • @hellodan2166
    @hellodan2166 5 лет назад +10

    6:43 hello canadian here I would like to point out the lack of CN Tower

    • @Cnut_the_grape
      @Cnut_the_grape 4 года назад +1

      Most of it is just a thick spire filled with elevators.

  • @089roblox1
    @089roblox1 3 года назад +5

    It's interesting to see that the Pyramid of Giza was in the top 5 until the late 1800s. It lasted all those years as one of the tallest.

  • @gaevlebocken
    @gaevlebocken 4 года назад +3

    When Cleopatra was born it was closer to the moon landing than the construction of the pyramids. Insane.

  • @luisan776
    @luisan776 5 лет назад +30

    From this we discover Americans love building tall pointy things

  • @regnumreq3617
    @regnumreq3617 5 лет назад +5

    Pyramids of Giza: I'm the tallest building ever!
    Lincoln Cathedral: I'm about to end this building's whole career

    • @dilipaweeratunga
      @dilipaweeratunga 4 месяца назад

      More like cheating with a wooden spike which crashed down soon😂

  • @mouse5520
    @mouse5520 5 лет назад +27

    Pyramid of Giza be like:
    I use to role the world

    • @popplio_owo3855
      @popplio_owo3855 5 лет назад

      Chunks would load when I gave the word

    • @darukan
      @darukan 5 лет назад

      As everything dies the pyramid of giza will remain

  • @q8gyj26s
    @q8gyj26s 5 лет назад +2

    Love how the tallest building began in the middle east and thousands of years later they are now back on top

  • @mariophreak
    @mariophreak 5 лет назад +3

    Pyramids of Giza:exits
    Lincoln Cathedral: I'm about to end this mans whole career.

  • @NM-wd4ug
    @NM-wd4ug 5 лет назад +5

    Respect on that the pyramids of Giza held the record for 5 millennia

  • @clutchspells2804
    @clutchspells2804 5 лет назад +7

    You missed the CN tower in Toronto. It is currently 9th tallest but it was the tallest structure for 30 years after completion in 1976. When I visited in 1999 it was the tallest building in the world.

    • @sarfcowst
      @sarfcowst 4 года назад

      Why do so few people read the blurb introducing the video at the top?

    • @clutchspells2804
      @clutchspells2804 4 года назад

      @@sarfcowst I did, if you can go inside of a building it shouldn't be considered an antenna.

    • @wakakabravo7998
      @wakakabravo7998 2 года назад

      Not all structure can be consider as building.

    • @clutchspells2804
      @clutchspells2804 2 года назад

      @@wakakabravo7998 I am not sure what differentients in this situation. There are retail stores inside of that building/structure.

    • @wakakabravo7998
      @wakakabravo7998 2 года назад

      @@clutchspells2804 Although the CN Tower contains a restaurant, a gift shop and multiple observation levels, it does not have floors continuously from the ground, and therefore it is not considered a building by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) or Emporis.

  • @Taylor-ou7xp
    @Taylor-ou7xp 5 лет назад +14

    Awesome project... One thing I would like to point out is that between the XI and the the XIII century (so before the great gothic cathedrals period) in central Italy (cities like Bologna and province) there was a "war" between noble households over who had the tallest tower. The tallest one, "la torre degli Asinelli" was built around 1109 and measures 97m, so I think it could squeeze somewhere in your list for like a century, before the rise of gothic architecture.

  • @IKNOWWHEREULIVEPOKEMONBOI
    @IKNOWWHEREULIVEPOKEMONBOI 8 месяцев назад +1

    Koreans : lets build something cool, Mongols, Chinese, Japanese : burn it

  • @bishyaler
    @bishyaler 5 лет назад +1

    >yongning
    Casually building a tall structure out of wood in an area that gets lightning. Big brain moves.

  • @yungbenzo5
    @yungbenzo5 5 лет назад +4

    What about the cn tower?

  • @LobsterRoast
    @LobsterRoast 5 лет назад +9

    Correction, technically the CN Tower in toronto is taller than Taipei 101

    • @AAM724
      @AAM724 4 года назад

      Technically the top is spire and NOT the architectural height

    • @andrewsucksatvideos4482
      @andrewsucksatvideos4482 2 года назад

      @@AAM724 but the Lincoln cathedral had a spire at the top and it was counted.

  • @famouscryp4130
    @famouscryp4130 4 года назад +4

    0:29 they really finna build a 8 meter tall structure and have the world record 😂

  • @metametodo
    @metametodo 5 лет назад +2

    It took about 4000 years to take the pyramids out of the top 5, only in 1885. This is really impressive. No wonder people discuss a lot wondering how they did it back then. Amazing.

    • @بهايموحميرقردوغانابوشخة
      @بهايموحميرقردوغانابوشخة Год назад

      Wait for the Obelisk Tower in the New Administrative Capital to be built now, and it will reach a length of more than a kilometer, and it will become the tallest building on the planet. However, the Egyptians have always been able to quickly regain their leadership in this world. ..

  • @bloxxerhunt1566
    @bloxxerhunt1566 4 года назад

    6:12
    France: *Builds Eiffel Tower*
    US: *Builds Woolworth*
    US: Heeey I'm gonna catch uuup
    France: Bitch please, you're still like 100 metres aw--- oh

  • @wakame9209
    @wakame9209 5 лет назад +4

    Actually, the 2nd tallest structure ever made is “Tokyo Sky Tree” which was built in 2012 but I don’t know why it’s not mentioned in the video

    • @wakakabravo7998
      @wakakabravo7998 2 года назад +2

      Because it is tallest structure not building.

  • @withercreeper4625
    @withercreeper4625 5 лет назад +3

    The dude that built Tower Of Jericho be like: Yeah, nobody is gonna beat this for sure lol

  • @norrenee
    @norrenee 5 лет назад +7

    You failed to add Tokyo Tower (333m, 1958) and Tokyo Skytree (634m, 2012)

  • @Backup_of_Hajins_videos
    @Backup_of_Hajins_videos Год назад +1

    A number of buildings are missing
    1. Bank of China Tower (367m) completed in 1990 Hong Kong should rank 5th
    2. Central Plaza (374m) completed in 1992 Hong Kong should rank 5th
    3. CITIC Plaza (390m) completed in 1996 Guangzhou should rank 4th
    4. Shun Hing Square (384m) completed in 1996 Shenzhen should rank 5th
    5. Two International Finance Centre (412m) completed in 2003 Hong Kong should rank 4th
    6. Trump International Hotel & Tower (423m) completed in 2009 Chicago should rank 5th
    7. International Commerce Centre (484m) completed in 2010 Hong Kong should rank 4th
    8. new One World Trade Center (541m) completed in 2014 New York should rank 3rd
    9. Guangzhou CTF Finance Centre (530m) completed in 2016 Guangzhou should rank 5th
    10. Lotte World Tower (555m) completed in 2017 Seoul should rank 5th
    The above mentioned heights are architectural heights which meet the video's description.

  • @jayw8726
    @jayw8726 5 лет назад +1

    When Ruwanweliseya and Jethawanaramaya featured in the list, my Sri Lankan heart was super happy! 🇱🇰 😍

    • @jayw8726
      @jayw8726 4 года назад +2

      @DatNiggaDaz Kurupt Ruwanweliseya and Jethawanaramaya mentioned here are Sri Lankan shrines. Jethawanaramaya in India doesnt have a Stupa. And India doesnt have a Ruwanweliseya.

  • @TheDarkever
    @TheDarkever 5 лет назад +5

    It's majestic to think that the Pyramid of Giza has been the tallest man-made building for 3500 years straight. How much power must Cheops have had to achieve something like that?!

    • @eslamesawy79
      @eslamesawy79 2 года назад

      In fact it's older than that

  • @dipinhummus9620
    @dipinhummus9620 3 года назад +3

    The fact the pyramids still stand truly shows the power that humans and aliens can achieve together

    • @octaviogutierrez9158
      @octaviogutierrez9158 3 года назад +2

      The pyramids are witnesses of history. It doesn't matter how many millennia pass. They will always be there. The ziggurats were stable until the middle of history and the bases are still intact now. In Egypt and Nubia they remained evident for 3000 years. In Mesoamerica, neither the weeds, nor the humidity, nor the conquest could destroy its stones.

  • @bluepotato7
    @bluepotato7 5 лет назад +36

    "Why are you crying?"
    Me: 5:58

    • @r6mzy
      @r6mzy 5 лет назад +3

      Me too :c

    • @AfroAsiaticLanguages
      @AfroAsiaticLanguages 5 лет назад

      @@r6mzy Agreed! 😭

    • @bilalthefighter829
      @bilalthefighter829 5 лет назад +1

      Wtf is washington monument

    • @theyoshi202
      @theyoshi202 5 лет назад +6

      @Bilal thefighter You must not live in the west if you haven’t heard of that

    • @makky6239
      @makky6239 5 лет назад +7

      @@bilalthefighter829 it's a monument in Washington

  • @SCuttherapper
    @SCuttherapper 5 лет назад +2

    You forgot Lotte World Tower (555m) in South Kore, built in 2017
    (edit: except it's not 555m architectural height)
    But great video!

  • @Aelfraed26
    @Aelfraed26 2 года назад +2

    Amazing visualization. Quite interesting that the southern hemisphere never had a building in the top 5.

  • @Soldier0021
    @Soldier0021 5 лет назад +4

    Can you do top 5 biggest buildings by area throughout history?

    • @OllieBye
      @OllieBye  5 лет назад +6

      That's a possible video idea for the future, yes.

  • @Slackmana
    @Slackmana 5 лет назад +9

    You forgot the CN tower in Toronto On, Canada.

  • @elgiank2914
    @elgiank2914 7 месяцев назад +1

    5:27 its so unsatisfactory that the great piramid doesn't get back the first place, but it would have get it if its tip had not been crushed

  • @WynnofThule
    @WynnofThule 5 лет назад +1

    If the Giza hadn't got a haircut it would have been the tallest since 5:29 until 5:54

  • @jonescardoso9000
    @jonescardoso9000 5 лет назад +5

    You forgot the CN tower, built in 1976 standing at 553 meters