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The second I see one of these videos i click really fast this is what I watch after I get home from school and this has helped me so so much in history exams. Thank you so so SOOO much for these videos!
I will never fail to be astounded at the fact that we still have records and stories of figures from this far back in human history. So often we hear of lost knowledge or just outright destroyed historical texts that it is a genuine delight to know that there are some things we've actually managed to hold onto in spite of all the turbulence the world has thrown at them 😊
Not to disagree, but I would argue it’s surprising there aren’t more historical “records” from these periods. Since the days of cave paintings people have been spreading word (and exaggerations) of their accomplishments, not histories. The fact that most boastful legends didn’t last to today is a testament to how ethereal the things we think important truly are.
God, the fact we are able to know, today, the exact words and actions someone uttered and made THOUSANDS of years ago is just...makes you appreciate humanity
It’s interesting to note that, at the Battle of Kadesh, though King Muwatalli II may have been the overall Commander of the Hittite Forces, his “Marshal”, for lack of a better term, was his younger brother Prince Hattusili who would distinguish himself that day as one of the Hittite Empires most brilliant generals and would even make a name for himself among the Egyptians, particularly Ramesses, leading his own chariot into the thick and reportedly slaughtering the chief of the Sherden that were part of Ramesses’ own guard. Both gained respect for each other after the battle and, with the treaty of eternal peace signed between them, the two would maintain a friendly correspondence for the rest of their lives, with Hattu even sending one of his daughters to marry Ramesses and Ramesses sending continuous shipments of grain to feed the Hittite Empire during the famines of the late 13th century BCE. After Muwa’s death, Hattu would succeed his brother as King Hattusili III after a brief civil war with Muwatalli’s son Urhi-Teshub and would create the mutual defense pact with Ramesses.
@@joaoespecial4168 Well, it's not like they came from nowhere, Ramses decided that at one point they had to join the battle 😅 they just came right at the perfect time and that's luck
I have to say, Thank you Total War. Though I might never play your games, your choice many years ago to give a small channel a boost with what you had left in your ad budget for Total War Rome II. To this day, any time I hear the name of one of these games or the name Total War comes up on this channel, I'm excited to learn what part of history you're playing with and giving us the opportunity to learn about. Thank you for sponsering so many videos on this channel and EC, thank you guys for always making these videos interesting and fun to watch! This is one of my favourite channels and I always look forward to seeing what times and places you guys are gonna cover next!
Seriously. The Extra History crew is so dedicated to accuracy and keeping history entertaining that they have one of the best collections of easy-to-digest history videos out there. Not only do they cover their inaccuracies in their "Lies" videos, they reach through such a wide range of times and places that many people completely gloss over. They do a great job of seeking ways to reduce a "western" bias, and make sure we know it when they're telling us that certain events ONLY have a propagandized or limited set of sources.
Great vid! Always love learning some Egyptian history from you folks. Point of notice however: the Ramesses featured in Total War: PHARAOH is Ramesses III, not the Ramesses II that was pharaoh during the Battle of Kadesh. They are actually distantly related, but Ramesses III came quite a bit later, because the game, as mentioned is set during the Bronze Age Collapse.
@@twahatashfia6075 I believe scholars concluded that Merneptah is a son of Ramesses II. Though I wouldn’t be surprised if this is contested - pinning down the lineage of these people are so difficult given the amount of time that has passed and our limited clear archaeological records
It would be really cool to find it one day, but in all likelyhood it was melted down eventually by robbers. The reason we find the clay tablets is that they're worthless aside from their historical value, so wouldn't be plundered by treasure seekers
In the long term, it was the Hittites that gained the most. Ramesses had failed to regain Egyptian land north of Kadesh, was forced to withdraw his forces far to the south, allowing the Hittites to pursue him and conquer all the way upto Aba (near modern Damascus) where Muwattalli's brother and future king Hattusili was placed as ruler. More importantly, rebellious Amurru was back under Hittite vassalage, it was important especially because of its strategic location on the south-western flank of Hittite subject territory in the region, a hostile Amurru would threaten all Hittite enterprises in Northern Syria. And in the two years immediately following Kadesh, local rulers in Canaan openly defied Egyptian authority and revolted (but this was quickly and decisively crushed by Ramesses in a series of rapid military operations).
The Hittites lost the battle they collapsed 70 years after. And even though pharaoh was tricked in the beginning he defeated them militarily not politically.
"This is the Garden of Kadesh. For thirteen generations we have protected it from the unclean. The Turanic Raiders who came before you refused to join and were punished for this trespass. Like theirs, your ship has already defiled this holy place. If you have come to join we welcome you and will spare your ship until all have disembarked. If you have come to consume the garden you will be removed at once. What are your intentions?”
3:57 Maybe this was just a slip, but Nubia is far to the south of ancient Egypt - roughly corresponding to modern southern Egypt and northern Sudan. So...basically the exact opposite direction as Canaan. Ramesses II did campaign against both Nubia and Canaan...but not on the same campaign.
I was really astonished to know that the Sherden or Shardan pirates inhabited lands what are today known as Sardinia... great job EC team! Looking forward to the next video!
Hey I love your Channel and I really loved your cleopatra napolean serieses and the akhenaten video and I am Egyptian Very Happy you make another series on egypt Love you very much😊
Please do the Greek war of independence of 1821 against the ottoman empire next I've been asking for this since the first episodes of the sengoku Jidai
Being heavily documented and regarded as major discoveries in Egyptology did help out. To the point that Yul Brynner’s biblical Pharaoh is based on him even if the true name was vague (or probably symbolic story of Levant independence from Egypt).
You do not understand how excited i got bc i thought this was an Oversimplified upload for the first time in years but its just Extra History😂 (ur still as good as him though)
"This is Ramesses. PRIME. So apparently there's an alternate dimension Ramessess who just uses the word "chariots" for no reason. From now on, I'll say "chariots" twice if it's me. If you hear just one "chariot", that's an alternate Ramesses. Ok. Chariot chariot."
What makes this account somewhat more credible than most is that the king only entered the fight when everything had gone comprehensively pear-shaped and it was a choice between intervening personally or abandoning the battle entirely.
in more than one battle King actually died while leading that charge, and that would include: - Richard III at Bosworth - Vladislav III at Varna - Grand Master von Jungingen (technically not a king but head of state nonetheless) at Grunwald
@@pax6833 because they had to convince their soldiers to throw their lives away for them by example. After it became super easy to kill leaders from afar, suddenly they weren't so keen on leading by example.
Ramesses II's building legacy is overstated. During his reign, he switched the carving style. Before, carvers would remove excess stone leaving a raised image. After, they instead carve into the stone leaving indents. The change allowed Ramesses II to essentially Carve off the names of former Pharaohs and replace it with his own, making it look like the monument was built in his reign when it actually pre-dated him.
To be fair EVERY pharao before and after Ramses did this. It wasnt like Ramses was worse than any other pharao in this regard. But most of the important buildings he actually built. And it is true that a huge part of famous buildings of ancient egypt were actually built by Ramses
Com'on 😂 we egyptologist are able to tell the era or the date of a monument, and believe me Ramses II built A LOT and also very unic monuments. So, it's not overrated
Nitpick: Ramesses was the best-known _native Egyptian_ pharaoh (prior to the discovery of Tut's tomb). But the Ptolemaic rulers also styled themselves as "Pharaoh", and several of them were arguably more globally famous than Ramesses, particularly Cleopatra VII. Granted, I can't think of any ruler of Egypt who was that famous _between_ Ramesses and Alexander, who lived nearly a millennium later. Nebuchadnezzar II for example never directly controlled Egypt, nor did any of the Achaemenid emperors.
I hate to say this, but there's a fairly big inaccuracy in this video. Ramesses I only ruled for about 2 years. Ramesses II's father, Seti I, was the second pharaoh of the 19th dynasty and ruled for either 11 or 15 years, depending on which source you refer to. And if it wasn't for Ramesses II, Seti I would likely be known as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, pharaohs. In fact, Seti I was the one who captured Kadesh first, though the Hittites recaptured it after he returned to Egypt.
One small note on Ramses I - while he was vizier and served in administrative roles, his career began as an army officer, and it was in the military that he spent most of his life. Perhaps his martial education and values were part of why his son and grandson went on to become such militarily active kings.
Jesus, just imagine that absurd amount of chariots clashing (and crashing) during the battle... Funny enough, I've imagine the so called "Toyota War" (1986-1987) between Chad and Libya to be almost like that.
Ah, so torn! On the one hand you used a faulty reference pic for Muwatalli II (Hittite kings followed a different fashion and it's a slip up over at ospreys, but once a mistake had made it to osprey it's engrained in the community) But unlike Total war your artist has managed to correctly place the wheels on the heavy chariot in the middle of the vehicle (this increaces the support while it makes the vehicle less nible than light chariots which have the axle at the very end).
Is it not possible to put content like this on Nebula without the sponsorship? I almost totally missed that this exsted because I try to watch every channel that has a nebula exclusively there.
"He declared victory, because apparently you can just do that." Well, yeah. That's what we kept doing in Afghanistan. You can declare anything. It's proving it that's hard.
The reason Ramesses and Ramesses II are so well known, is because bible scholars believed that he was the Pharaoh at the time of the Exodus. OF course now basically every historian believes exodus did not happen. I still love Prince of Egypt though
While some biblical scholars do; there's other biblical scholars who disagree. The main criticism of those who disagree deals exactly with this battle destroying numerous Chariots and also that the account of the Exodus includes Charioteers drowning in the Red Sea and the time it would take to construct new Chariots and train new Charioteers. (For those that disagree, while the name they suggest escapes me, it's someone few have heard of as that one did almost nothing - as you might expect if you just lost your most advanced weapons.)
@@jonnunn4196 Extra credits talk about this more and their bronze age collapse series, but in short training charioteers and building chariots took forever back then.
8:08 If I'm not misremembering - both copies of this treaty didn't actually say the same thing, although that was clearly intentional. The Egyptian copy says that the Hittites were the ones who came to them seeking peace, but the Hittite copy says the opposite. This way neither party has to feel any shame from being the one who yielded to the other.
I'm happy to see this, but I'm also laughing that I know most of these names from a manga! (Anatolia Red River) It's great to hear the actual history here.
fun fact, the first Ramses succeded Horemheb, who, in his part, succeded Ay, regent (and grandpa) of Tutankhamón. tldr tutankamons dinasty is 18th, ramses is the 19th
One could liken this battle of chariots to the battle of kursk. Given how this was the largest vehicle battle of its age, much like how kursk was the largest tank battle in human history
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In general this land has been a bitch to Egypt and in general "some northern Empire" (Hittite, Assyrian, Akkadian etc..) for a long time in the Ancient world while the people retained a seperate identity, language, etc. And one can argue it shows in the culture, architecture, and in the bible itself, also in the Tel Amarna letters.
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New Total War Sucks, long live Shogun 2 and Empire.
8 days ago? Tf
The second I see one of these videos i click really fast
this is what I watch after I get home from school and this has helped me so so much in history exams.
Thank you so so SOOO much for these videos!
@@elmanorey The Magic of the Internet!
It is funny that the whole Extra History idea came because of Total War: Rome II sponsed Extra Credit for a similar video several years ago. :D
Let's hope the game has a better release then Rome 2 lol.
@@Hyde_Hillthis tho, Danelaw episodes was also sponsored because of Total War Saga Britannia, and it didnt end well...
And Pharoah might be the last total war after CA’s executives have destroyed their community’s goodwill
Too bad Pharaoh is hot garbage
I will never fail to be astounded at the fact that we still have records and stories of figures from this far back in human history. So often we hear of lost knowledge or just outright destroyed historical texts that it is a genuine delight to know that there are some things we've actually managed to hold onto in spite of all the turbulence the world has thrown at them 😊
If your a christian you need to repent of your sins PLZ
@@petros8478 Who needs Jesus when you can have Cheeses?
Not to disagree, but I would argue it’s surprising there aren’t more historical “records” from these periods. Since the days of cave paintings people have been spreading word (and exaggerations) of their accomplishments, not histories. The fact that most boastful legends didn’t last to today is a testament to how ethereal the things we think important truly are.
Check out Bob Briers Egyptian Lectures, probably the best teaching of this period of history and he really makes it pop.
@@aidenhall8593When you conquered a people back then you destroyed a lot of their cultural records in doing so?
God, the fact we are able to know, today, the exact words and actions someone uttered and made THOUSANDS of years ago is just...makes you appreciate humanity
The importance of documenting everything 😂
"Exact" is a strong word. I would say more "kinda"
It’s interesting to note that, at the Battle of Kadesh, though King Muwatalli II may have been the overall Commander of the Hittite Forces, his “Marshal”, for lack of a better term, was his younger brother Prince Hattusili who would distinguish himself that day as one of the Hittite Empires most brilliant generals and would even make a name for himself among the Egyptians, particularly Ramesses, leading his own chariot into the thick and reportedly slaughtering the chief of the Sherden that were part of Ramesses’ own guard.
Both gained respect for each other after the battle and, with the treaty of eternal peace signed between them, the two would maintain a friendly correspondence for the rest of their lives, with Hattu even sending one of his daughters to marry Ramesses and Ramesses sending continuous shipments of grain to feed the Hittite Empire during the famines of the late 13th century BCE.
After Muwa’s death, Hattu would succeed his brother as King Hattusili III after a brief civil war with Muwatalli’s son Urhi-Teshub and would create the mutual defense pact with Ramesses.
No idea about the grain thing. Thank you.
They understand that Great Powers, even rivals, can benefits from each other existence as stabilizing forces in their regions.
Hattu was the best!
The Kadesh deception was brilliant.
If not for the timed arrived of the "Nea rin" (whoever they was) Ramses will died there.
@@joaoespecial4168 Well, it's not like they came from nowhere, Ramses decided that at one point they had to join the battle 😅 they just came right at the perfect time and that's luck
We actually have enough fragmented copies of the defense pact that we can read it in its entirety.
I have to say, Thank you Total War. Though I might never play your games, your choice many years ago to give a small channel a boost with what you had left in your ad budget for Total War Rome II. To this day, any time I hear the name of one of these games or the name Total War comes up on this channel, I'm excited to learn what part of history you're playing with and giving us the opportunity to learn about. Thank you for sponsering so many videos on this channel and EC, thank you guys for always making these videos interesting and fun to watch! This is one of my favourite channels and I always look forward to seeing what times and places you guys are gonna cover next!
Seriously. The Extra History crew is so dedicated to accuracy and keeping history entertaining that they have one of the best collections of easy-to-digest history videos out there. Not only do they cover their inaccuracies in their "Lies" videos, they reach through such a wide range of times and places that many people completely gloss over. They do a great job of seeking ways to reduce a "western" bias, and make sure we know it when they're telling us that certain events ONLY have a propagandized or limited set of sources.
As an Egyptian, I am happy you started this series!
"We failed to loose, so therefore we won" Ramesses probably
I mean, he wasn't wrong. 😂😂😂
I didn’t lose I merely failed to win- George B McClellan
Great vid! Always love learning some Egyptian history from you folks. Point of notice however: the Ramesses featured in Total War: PHARAOH is Ramesses III, not the Ramesses II that was pharaoh during the Battle of Kadesh. They are actually distantly related, but Ramesses III came quite a bit later, because the game, as mentioned is set during the Bronze Age Collapse.
Are they related at all? Afaik there's nothing to show that Setnakhte, Ramesses III's father was a relative to Merneptah.
@@twahatashfia6075 I believe scholars concluded that Merneptah is a son of Ramesses II. Though I wouldn’t be surprised if this is contested - pinning down the lineage of these people are so difficult given the amount of time that has passed and our limited clear archaeological records
@@twahatashfia6075 I just checked, and yes, it does appear that Merneptah is indeed a son of Ramesses II with his wife Isetnofret.
@@eliu868 No, I asked about Setnakhte's relation with Merneptah :)
I love the idea of the treaty being inscribed on a silver tablet. Like, that's some pomp and ceremony right there.
It would be really cool to find it one day, but in all likelyhood it was melted down eventually by robbers. The reason we find the clay tablets is that they're worthless aside from their historical value, so wouldn't be plundered by treasure seekers
In the long term, it was the Hittites that gained the most. Ramesses had failed to regain Egyptian land north of Kadesh, was forced to withdraw his forces far to the south, allowing the Hittites to pursue him and conquer all the way upto Aba (near modern Damascus) where Muwattalli's brother and future king Hattusili was placed as ruler.
More importantly, rebellious Amurru was back under Hittite vassalage, it was important especially because of its strategic location on the south-western flank of Hittite subject territory in the region, a hostile Amurru would threaten all Hittite enterprises in Northern Syria.
And in the two years immediately following Kadesh, local rulers in Canaan openly defied Egyptian authority and revolted (but this was quickly and decisively crushed by Ramesses in a series of rapid military operations).
They basically said that
But the Hittites would collapse and Egypt would still be active. The last native pharaoh of Egypt was fighting the Achaemenid Persians.
The Hittites lost the battle they collapsed 70 years after.
And even though pharaoh was tricked in the beginning he defeated them militarily not politically.
YES! YES!! YES!!! Finally an Extra History about Ramesses. Your videos are always so amazing, thank you for the amazing content!
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According to Ramses II anyway. 😊
If your a christian you need to repent of your sins PLZ
@@petros8478 Who needs Jesus when you can have Cheeses?
That would be Thutmosis III
@@FlaviusBelisarius-ck6uv We're bigger than cheeses
I love ancient history. Very interesting episode and series!
3 videos in a week? This is great!
We got you!
Love this show and all its' various series. Extremely educational.
"This is the Garden of Kadesh. For thirteen generations we have protected it from the unclean. The Turanic Raiders who came before you refused to join and were punished for this trespass. Like theirs, your ship has already defiled this holy place. If you have come to join we welcome you and will spare your ship until all have disembarked. If you have come to consume the garden you will be removed at once. What are your intentions?”
My first introduction to the Bronze Age collapse was from extra history so it’s great to see more
I was watching Extra History Bronze Age Collapse. That art is gorgeus. Congratulations
Here before they remember it's not spelt "Egyption"
Same
Omg I just checked I MADE IT!!!
LETS GO
Walk like a egyption
Here to
While I always enjoy Egyptian history, a series on the Hittites would be class(ical)!
3:57 Maybe this was just a slip, but Nubia is far to the south of ancient Egypt - roughly corresponding to modern southern Egypt and northern Sudan. So...basically the exact opposite direction as Canaan. Ramesses II did campaign against both Nubia and Canaan...but not on the same campaign.
I was hella confused at first on what you were talking about, I understand now. Yeah hopefully they acknowledged that funny mistake.
Getting me stoked for total war pharaoh, love the content!
It’s crazy that during that timeframe there was still people living in caves and hunting mammoths in Northern Europe and Siberia
I seen documentaries about this battle many time’s awesome
I’ve been rewatching your videos all week they are my favourite
The hittites had a smart name. You could only hit your enemy. Therefore you couldn’t lose a battle
They had a tonne of success in their campaigns against the Surrenderites
I was really astonished to know that the Sherden or Shardan pirates inhabited lands what are today known as Sardinia... great job EC team! Looking forward to the next video!
I’m glad I found this channel
This was a great video and I loved how they did a call back to earlier videos, all of which I have seen and are very entertaining.
You know, for all I've heard about how vast and great the Egyptian empire was, I'm not sure I ever heard much about their military campaigns. Neat!
Hey I love your Channel and I really loved your cleopatra napolean serieses and the akhenaten video and I am Egyptian Very Happy you make another series on egypt Love you very much😊
It’s a while since you did ancient history, so this was nice
Please do the Greek war of independence of 1821 against the ottoman empire next
I've been asking for this since the first episodes of the sengoku Jidai
One minor and trivial but cool fact about Ramesses - he was a natural redhead
and very tall
Which probably made him quite the striking figure
Look upon my works ye mighty and despair.
Nothing remains around this collosal wreck.
ooooo video on a Thursday and not Saturday.
Egyptian history? Like all of Egyptian history? Oh boy oh boy, can't wait for the Gamal Abdel Nasser arc
Thank you for the video.
God this makes me want to play Pharaoh again... Best city builder game ever.
Loved the video!
0:44 not a throat...
Ramesses: I have 50 sons
Genghis Khan: HA
Regardless of what the poem ozymandias says, are his achievements really forgotten if we still speak of him today?
The point of the poem is that all we know about him is his name, nothing else.
Being heavily documented and regarded as major discoveries in Egyptology did help out.
To the point that Yul Brynner’s biblical Pharaoh is based on him even if the true name was vague (or probably symbolic story of Levant independence from Egypt).
My favorite of Ozymandias' accomplishments was how someone found his name out in the middle of the desert. What's yours?
@@zed739 Do I need one?
@@Thought_Processing_ I was being a snarky butthole to OP, not you. Das my bad.
You do not understand how excited i got bc i thought this was an Oversimplified upload for the first time in years but its just Extra History😂 (ur still as good as him though)
Amenhotep III, Thutmose III and Ptolemy II were also known as the great
Alexander the Great was also officially Pharaoh of Egypt (along with his titles of king of Macedon, King of Persia and Hegemon of the Hellenic League)
Love me some EgyptiOn history!
"This is Ramesses. PRIME. So apparently there's an alternate dimension Ramessess who just uses the word "chariots" for no reason. From now on, I'll say "chariots" twice if it's me. If you hear just one "chariot", that's an alternate Ramesses. Ok. Chariot chariot."
PANR has tuned in.
I know all about the Battle of Kadesh. That was part of the Hittite campaign for the demo version of Age of Empires.
When a story begins with "king leads the charge into battle," it makes you wonder how much embellishments were involved in the historical record.
What makes this account somewhat more credible than most is that the king only entered the fight when everything had gone comprehensively pear-shaped and it was a choice between intervening personally or abandoning the battle entirely.
in more than one battle King actually died while leading that charge, and that would include:
- Richard III at Bosworth
- Vladislav III at Varna
- Grand Master von Jungingen (technically not a king but head of state nonetheless) at Grunwald
Trust me, you have NO idea how much he embellished himself. What's shown here ain't the half of it.
Until the era of gunpowder it was quite common for kings to be at the forefront of a battle.
@@pax6833 because they had to convince their soldiers to throw their lives away for them by example.
After it became super easy to kill leaders from afar, suddenly they weren't so keen on leading by example.
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Rameses II built the most amazingly arrogant and immensely beautiful tombs!
Ramesses II's building legacy is overstated. During his reign, he switched the carving style. Before, carvers would remove excess stone leaving a raised image. After, they instead carve into the stone leaving indents. The change allowed Ramesses II to essentially Carve off the names of former Pharaohs and replace it with his own, making it look like the monument was built in his reign when it actually pre-dated him.
And Cleopatra's needles show an incomplete version of that. He added on and failed to delete another Pharoahs account.
To be fair EVERY pharao before and after Ramses did this. It wasnt like Ramses was worse than any other pharao in this regard. But most of the important buildings he actually built. And it is true that a huge part of famous buildings of ancient egypt were actually built by Ramses
Com'on 😂 we egyptologist are able to tell the era or the date of a monument, and believe me Ramses II built A LOT and also very unic monuments. So, it's not overrated
Nitpick: Ramesses was the best-known _native Egyptian_ pharaoh (prior to the discovery of Tut's tomb). But the Ptolemaic rulers also styled themselves as "Pharaoh", and several of them were arguably more globally famous than Ramesses, particularly Cleopatra VII. Granted, I can't think of any ruler of Egypt who was that famous _between_ Ramesses and Alexander, who lived nearly a millennium later. Nebuchadnezzar II for example never directly controlled Egypt, nor did any of the Achaemenid emperors.
I knew it you guys would do a episode like this. The people that make the Total Wars games likes to do episode on Extra History
As someone well versed in ancient warfare, it’s legit mind boggling how many battles abruptly turned because soldiers stopped to loot the enemy camp.
Speak my name and i shall be remembered forever.
- Ramses the Great.
this video made me feel nostalgic about age of empires 1.
I hate to say this, but there's a fairly big inaccuracy in this video. Ramesses I only ruled for about 2 years. Ramesses II's father, Seti I, was the second pharaoh of the 19th dynasty and ruled for either 11 or 15 years, depending on which source you refer to. And if it wasn't for Ramesses II, Seti I would likely be known as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, pharaohs. In fact, Seti I was the one who captured Kadesh first, though the Hittites recaptured it after he returned to Egypt.
Love this one. Great choice by the Patreons!
One small note on Ramses I - while he was vizier and served in administrative roles, his career began as an army officer, and it was in the military that he spent most of his life. Perhaps his martial education and values were part of why his son and grandson went on to become such militarily active kings.
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THIS IS WHAT IVE BEEN WANTING
I love all things ancient Egyptian 👍
Lessgooo new series
Can we make sure to get a Lies episode for this. Ramses is notorious for embelishing and rewriting history.
Yes!
Bros gonna give them the Pharaoh's Curse if the Hittites don't return the slab.
Jesus, just imagine that absurd amount of chariots clashing (and crashing) during the battle...
Funny enough, I've imagine the so called "Toyota War" (1986-1987) between Chad and Libya to be almost like that.
Now this is what a sponsorship should look like!
You should do a series on the Nubian invasion of upper Egypt
Ah, so torn!
On the one hand you used a faulty reference pic for Muwatalli II (Hittite kings followed a different fashion and it's a slip up over at ospreys, but once a mistake had made it to osprey it's engrained in the community) But unlike Total war your artist has managed to correctly place the wheels on the heavy chariot in the middle of the vehicle (this increaces the support while it makes the vehicle less nible than light chariots which have the axle at the very end).
I would like too see one on Queen Hatshepsut
very good yes
love this, but you might want to spell check the title ^^; EgyptiOn
Within 21h when 94k views. I can only say dude, very cool
You guys should read Anatolia sorry (aka red river) it's a manga about this general time frame and its really cool
Is it not possible to put content like this on Nebula without the sponsorship? I almost totally missed that this exsted because I try to watch every channel that has a nebula exclusively there.
"He declared victory, because apparently you can just do that."
Well, yeah. That's what we kept doing in Afghanistan. You can declare anything. It's proving it that's hard.
Far gone are the days when leaders fought their own battles instead of sitting in palaces and offices sending young men to die for unknown interests
Ah, going home and just declaring victory.
It's good to know this tactic has such a long and storied petigree
A massive vehicle battle with a cast of thousands? Sounds like a Mad Max movie!
The horses 😍😍
1:15 This statement is patently wrong. Thutmose III is also called “the great.”
Love this "Egyption" Edition... ;)
The reason Ramesses and Ramesses II are so well known, is because bible scholars believed that he was the Pharaoh at the time of the Exodus. OF course now basically every historian believes exodus did not happen.
I still love Prince of Egypt though
While some biblical scholars do; there's other biblical scholars who disagree. The main criticism of those who disagree deals exactly with this battle destroying numerous Chariots and also that the account of the Exodus includes Charioteers drowning in the Red Sea and the time it would take to construct new Chariots and train new Charioteers. (For those that disagree, while the name they suggest escapes me, it's someone few have heard of as that one did almost nothing - as you might expect if you just lost your most advanced weapons.)
@@jonnunn4196 Extra credits talk about this more and their bronze age collapse series, but in short training charioteers and building chariots took forever back then.
Can you do a history of the Taino / Arawak people of the Caribbean up to the period of colonization as a series
Yup wasn't expecting Egyption instead of Egyptian. Plus this vid on a Thursday.
XD they fixed it.
Will you ever make a extra mythology channel
8:08 If I'm not misremembering - both copies of this treaty didn't actually say the same thing, although that was clearly intentional.
The Egyptian copy says that the Hittites were the ones who came to them seeking peace, but the Hittite copy says the opposite.
This way neither party has to feel any shame from being the one who yielded to the other.
I'm happy to see this, but I'm also laughing that I know most of these names from a manga! (Anatolia Red River) It's great to hear the actual history here.
fun fact, the first Ramses succeded Horemheb, who, in his part, succeded Ay, regent (and grandpa) of Tutankhamón.
tldr tutankamons dinasty is 18th, ramses is the 19th
One could liken this battle of chariots to the battle of kursk. Given how this was the largest vehicle battle of its age, much like how kursk was the largest tank battle in human history
Wait,
Wasn’t the Battle of Megiddo (1457 BC) the first recorded battle in history.
Extra History i am one of your subscribers from Turkiye and i have a request for you. Could you please do episode about Mutfafa Kemal Ataturk the founder of the Turkish Republic.i would really appreciate if you could do it. Have a nice day.
In general this land has been a bitch to Egypt and in general "some northern Empire" (Hittite, Assyrian, Akkadian etc..) for a long time in the Ancient world while the people retained a seperate identity, language, etc.
And one can argue it shows in the culture, architecture, and in the bible itself, also in the Tel Amarna letters.
The garden of leadership and maybe glory.
Why don't you have a series about alexander the great. A lot of people misunderstand his rule
There's a spelling mistake in the title, it's "Egyptian History" not "Egyption History".