I always say Egypt won the Geography lottery, at least in the premodern age. It had a reliable steady water source, a yearly flood that doubled or even tripled harvests, three natural borders, the Mediterranean and the deserts, a heavy concentration of natural resources such as gold in the south, a moderate climate that rarely fluctuated and a mostly flat land(Nile valley Egypt) which eases the unification of people into one group and removes a sense of distinction(which is felt in the modern Egyptian state for example between Ethnic Egyptians in the Nile valley and Arab Egyptians in the Sinai or Amazigh Egyptians in Siwa).
Perhaps, but the floods were unpredictable. If it was too low there was drought there would be famine. If it was too high it would destroy the crop and destroy infrastructure and buildings. As for the triple harvest, this could only be done on land directly next to the Nile itself. Or around deepened Sayfi/Summer canals, which were expensive to build, maintain and required expensive water lifting mechanisms. They also had additional issues such as salination. So throughout most of history rulers of Egypt preferred Basin irrigation. Which some historians have called the least labour intensive form of agriculture ever, since ploughing or fertilizer wasn't needed, just the flood. As well as the most ecologically sustainable. It was only under Muhammad Ali Pasha that Sayfi canals were built extensively, so that he could grow cotton, a summer crop. But the Sayfi canals proved far too expensive to maintain when the British took over, especially when they compared it to their irrigation networks of India which didn't ne to raise the level of the river, without need for the canals. Finally building the Low Aswan Dam to minimize the effects of bad floods. Basin irrigation doesn't seem to have been able to support more than 5-8 million people. It's only in 1880 that Egypt surpassed 8 million, while European countries had surpassed that centuries earlier. (Though part of this is ottoman neglect of the province. Which dropped to a mere 2.5 million on the eve of the French invasion, 300 years prior under the Mamluk Sultanate it was 4-5 million...)
@@Wakobear. The cycle of the Nile flooding was still a hundred times more stable than the more violent Tigris-Euphrates rivers, as well as the even more violent Huang He and Yangtze rivers in China. These probably affected the religious beliefs of these people - the Egyptians believe that after dying, they have a chance to live forever in the paradise of Aaru; while the Babylonians believed that almost all non-nobles and non-priests will end up in the empty Mot-Hadad's realm, and of course, the Chinese probably sacrificed women and children by drowning them in order to appease He Bo (god of the Yellow River), Ao Kuang and other river and water gods.
Ironically for a country that is now highly dependant on imported grain, but in ancient times Egypt was a bread basket for multiple empires, I suspect that one of the reasons that Egypt survived (and possilby what made it a target for the sea peoples) was that it had food- whilst the climate upheavals were going on it was able to at least feed (more or less) its people and soldiers. I suspect that this was the main reason for its success whereas empires like the Hitites and Mycene were more dependent on imported food and systems that relied on access to the sea which was what was mainly disrupted (the records around the collapse of the hitites for example show its social order was falling apart and starvation was widespred. Egypts food supply came along the Nile...Overall it seems likely it was a result of a climate perturbation (large volcanic erruption?) egypt was just about able to feed itself despite this.
they relied on fertile silt to come when the nile floods, then modern egypt built the aswan dam, of which the bottom is now probably SUPER fertile silt
9:00 Greece is an interesting place, in this context in particular. It's one case where the impact the geography has had on the society's history is particularly visible. Since it consists mostly of narrow valleys separated by high, steep mountains, pockets of civilization were isolated from each other, which is why city states prevailed for so long before the land unified as a single country. The natural barriers and narrow passes of the mountains created excellent choke points from which to defend one's territory, but they also made supply logistics challenging, and holding captured territory could be harder than taking it was. They also make Greece very difficult to invade and conquer, because a foreign invader will have an even harder time traversing the narrow valleys and passes than the local Greeks. They'll also have to contend with the fact that each city state has its own culture, traditions, strengths and weaknesses, and ideas about war, invaders, and diplomacy, requiring them to change their tactics and strategy often. But these same features also leave Greece vulnerable to brief raids. The partial isolation of Greek city states made it hard to request and receive aid from allies in a timely manner, and while this would still challenge an invader bent on conquest, it benefits a pirate conducting a brief raid. By the time any message can reach a neighboring city and troops arrive to assist, the raid will be over and the pirates long gone. It would actually make a lot of sense to me if the Greeks were among the hardest hit.
@KingsandGenerals Will you ever do a dedicated video to just the Median Empire? Most of the time I just hear history jump from Assyria to Neo Babylonia to the Persians without any mention of this powerhouse and it's rise to power. I recognize what we know of it is very scarse compared to other empires but still, a 16 minute episode would be greatly appreciated by the community.
One other thing I feel the Egyptians had going for them was just how long their history stretched back all the way to Egypt's founding, and how much cultural capital was build up for over the course of three millennia. We are talking about a civilization so ancient that it existed from 3100 BC, all the way to the twilight of the Roman Republic. I think this is because to the Egyptian people, no matter what turmoil they faced, no matter how bad things got for them, and even when they were placed under the occupation of foreign rulers, they still believed in the legitimacy and continuation of their civilization. There was just something special about their people, their religion and their identity that they felt was worth dying for, and living for. This I think more than any other reason was why the Ancient Egyptian state was able to persevere for so long and was able to outlast all of their Bronze Age counterparts.
What do you think then was different about the Islamic Caliphates that were different enough to break this tradition and cause a sharp divide from ancient to medieval Egypt?
This could be a part of it, but for most of our history we were closed off from said foreigners in small towns and villages, you have to remember the vast majority of Egyptians from the ancient period till the Industrial Revolution were farmers and rarely would they mix with foreigners unless it was about trade, taxation, religion or war. That is actually why modern Egypt is so ethnically homogeneous, after the 50s coup most foreign communities like Greeks, Italians, Jews, Turks, etc left, and Egypt was only left with Egyptians(including Egyptianized foreigners who married into Egyptian families) and a few ethnic minorities like the Arabs Nubians and Berbers.
Another angle I read somewhere is that Egypt survived where other Bronze age empires failed, because other empires became too dependent of heavily armored chariots, at the expenses of more conventional foot solider armies. The Hittites were super keen on chariots but these were vulnerable to the military tactics of the sea peoples, who threw light javelins at them. The Egyptians were smart enough to keep a more conventional foot solider army ready, and thus this blunted the tactics of the sea peoples.
The Ancient Egyptians were white and black. They had a mixture but the original ones who came from the southern Nike were dark skinned. Facts over feelings.
@@Jean_Jacques148 They were neither white nor black. They depicted themselves with men having tan skin tone and women have a lighter olive tone. The fact is that applying 21st century definitions of race to 12th century BC civilizations will not lead to anything true or useful.
@@Jean_Jacques148They werent white or light skinned, the ancient egyptians during 3150 bce to 670 bce were mixed. Of what we nowadays call MENA and east african populations. Medium tan in lower egypt, and increasingly darker in upper egypt.
@@lyricofwise6894 genetics has proven the genetic continuity of north africans as most of them still carry the same haplogroups iberomaurusians did 15,100 years ago, ie not mixed or arab.
The Ancient Egyptians were white and black. They had a mixture but the original ones who came from the southern Nike were dark skinned. Facts over feelings.
@@caioaco1493No one really contests whether cleopatra was black or not (only a few amount of people, and if you thought that was alot, then look at the amount claiming the ancients of 3150 bce to 670 bce) the ancient egyptians were not lightskinned, facts over feelings
We, right now in time, are still centuries closer to the life of Julius Caesar than Caesar himself to the construction of the Great Pyramids of Giza almost 2500 years before him, just to give those perspective to how truly ancient the Egyptian civilization has stood. To have also being arguably the only empire that truly survived the apocalyptic bronze age collapse, the tales and history of Egypt has, and always will be, a marvel of civilizational longevity and resilience.
my message to @kings and generals content creator: SO many lies and neomarxism inserted in your videos to alter the truth for a bag of pennies. Aren't you ashamed of what you do ? there are real historians out there who see your content.............. "lgbt egypt feminist and multicultural" Such a weak man you are for lying about history.
or back to Pharaoh Narmer around 3150BCE when lower and upper Egypt was joined, yeah, quite a history. I recall another show making a similar comparison of amount of time between us today to Cleopatra vs Cleopatra and the unifier of Egypt.
I still have issues with the evidence for how old all that stuff is. A geologist pointed out that the Sphinx has clear markings of flowing water erosion. The last time that area was wet enough for that, was about 10,000 years ago. He also pointed out that under desert conditions, the Sphinx gets deeply buried in sand in almost no time.
It is also known, though the Smithsonian likes to lock it away, that Egypt's climate wasn't as it is today. While it is mostly arid desert today, save for the areas closest to the Nile, it used to be much more verdant and tropical at distances farther from the river. This made for a much broader area of favorable conditions for resources and habitation. Deserts consume the areas around them, and Egypt was no exception. Current estimations are that the Sahara, for example, was much smaller 4,000 years ago than it is today. The decline of Egypt was due to a number of factors, as with any great nation or empire, but simple loss of habitable land and a great reduction of resources led to migration and death.
True. The entire Maghreb suffered that fate. There are lots of archaeological records of lakes and rivers with towns and human activity forming around them throughout the modern Sahara.
Your researchers,Writers,Artists and the Narrator Musicians and composers need to get Credit.Whould love to hear about your team.Phenominal and enjoyable every minute
In the inscriptions in Madent Habu, Ramesses III proclaims: Those who reached my boundary, their seed is not; their hearts and their souls are finished forever and ever. As for those who had assembled before them on the sea, the full flame was their front before the harbour mouths, and a wall of metal upon the shore surrounded them. They were dragged, overturned, and laid low upon the beach; slain and made heaps from stern to bow of their galleys, while all their things were cast upon the water.
The Ancient Egyptians were white and black. They had a mixture but the original ones who came from the southern Nike were dark skinned. Facts over feelings.
@@Jean_Jacques148they never came from the southern Nile, unless you are referring to Upper Egypt which is north of Sudan. Those people were not dark skinned (black) but instead bronze skinned
There are many cases of interbreeding, however, as to address your claim of the original people prior to the Nubian conquests they were very much not black in the modern sense, but lighter toned. That’s not to say there weren’t actual black people because obviously there were, but that was not the majority.
And gross, given pharaohs regularly practiced incest, also are u aware of the Egyptian myth involving horus and seth(i think) involving eachothers semen🤢
The Nile, Mesopotamia, Indus Valley, and Yangtze have to be the oldest continuous places for advanced civilization. Kinda makes me feel like we haven't unearthed enough from the Mississippi and the Amazon drainages.
@@geordiejones5618 the lost history of what happened in the old Aztec, Mayan, and Incan empires makes me sad. I wonder just how many stories from the Americas have been lost to time.
Is it really tho? There is a region called Egypt, but the people and culture almost completely disappeared. It is like Googling the name of US states and believing Missourians are Native Americans.
I've been discussing around the bronze age collapse in my Bible study class at church for the last few weeks, looking at the Bible from the perspective of the history surrounding many of its events. Videos like these are quite helpful. Thank you. God be with you out there everybody. ✝️ :)
we were discussing Uriah the Hittite yesterday and the connections to things happening right now. The story started probably before the bronze age and it ain't over yet.
Actually the Bronze Age Collapse is found in the Bible and how egypt manage this Crisis but because of the Matter of Fact that there is Space for Interpretation and foremost its a religious Book ,science won´t take it under consideration.
So hey, when do you guys plan to finally start the Justinian series and also it would be nice if you can show us your old play through games from back in 2016 and 15 that you talked about
Episode about the invasion of Egypt by Persians, Macedonians, Romans and Arabs plz How ancient Egyptians tried to defend their homeland against invaders how they resisted revolted and fought back plz
is it possible that when you make your videos can you put the sources in the descriptions? no biggie just a question. i'm just trying to find sources on certain points in history, and you're like my favorite youtube channel when it comes to history.
They didn't in any real sense of the word. Their empire also collapsed into multiple factions which all had regional control, leaving them into their second intermediate period. The real big thing is that they didn't stop writing like most other collapsed civilizations did until resurge of writing in the Iron Age.
I think the argument here is that even if there wasn't political continuity, there was cultural continuity as the writing systems, language, and religion changed, but did not have a complete death and replacement as they later would with the Islamic Caliphate invasions.
@@Steadyaim101Sure, but neither did the Assyrians or Greeks if those were the criteria. Most Greek city states survived and the Assyrians also did and entered their Golden Age afterwards.
@@malchir4036the greek city states formed several centuries after the bronze age collapse. There were two historical process remembered by ancient greeks: -The coming of the Heraclidae/dorians who defeated must of the achaeans/mycenaeans (around 1100 b.c) who either mixed with them or migrated to other parts. -The downfall of the monarchies and rise of the polis (800-600 b.c)
The 25th dynasty was an odd time, Imagine if America suffered a disaster and invaders from Mexico conquer the government and promised to restore our own American values that we had forgotten.
Fantastic video. As always. However, your Sponsor forgot to include the West part of the Hittite empire, all of Greece and all of Mesopotamia. How is it the ultimate Brzone Age game? Oh of course, CA want to charge twice the full price of the game by adding DLC to create the full experience. I love the work CA Sophia are doing, but it’s clear they are being manipulated by people determined to ruin great franchises.
If going into an "intermediate period" is surviving Egypt didn't do any better than the Assarians. That bronze age rival of Egypt's survived the collapse as well.
I want a video about late iron age Egyptian military equipment, I haven't been able to find anything on what their helmets looked like or if they used iron khopesh against the Achaemenids
The multiple successive pharaohs all named Ramses reminds me of those jokes in 80s or early 90s shows about Rocky eventually having ludicrously high numbers of sequels in the future all titled Rocky followed by a number.
Egypt stayed Egypt by far because of the Nile. Egypt's stability also had nothing to do with the ruling caste, and everything with the ability of people with shared culture and geographical location to continue their way of life.
I'd like to see a video about the rise of the first Persian empire and how they managed to conquer so much in so little time. It is said that at the height of their power they ruled over 46% of the world population, which is either amazing or not true
Not true. That would require owning everything in the world outside of China & India. A powerful empire for sure, but the only people who have close to claiming they rule over that much of the population was the Mongols, and behind them at ~25% at various times were the Qing, Romans, and the British.
The first time I’ve ever felt like you guys were still out. The new total war Pharro is not a legit Bronze Age game because it doesn’t even include the area around Greece.
it insane to think that egypt has been around one way or another for at least 5000 years if not more and that people started settling there around 30,000 years ago
Great video explanation. The Assyrian also survived the collapse, though with their territory largely shrieked to the Nineveh mountain surrounding areas. I guess they also won a lottery
After Troy fall Homer wrote about how the general of achaian army were not welcome to their homeland and relocated across Mediterranean.Maybe it is the case of the sea people raids
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The Assyrians and Elamites survived the Bronze Age collapse.
@@victorsanchez5336 yes everyone survived everything they just changed names
I always say Egypt won the Geography lottery, at least in the premodern age. It had a reliable steady water source, a yearly flood that doubled or even tripled harvests, three natural borders, the Mediterranean and the deserts, a heavy concentration of natural resources such as gold in the south, a moderate climate that rarely fluctuated and a mostly flat land(Nile valley Egypt) which eases the unification of people into one group and removes a sense of distinction(which is felt in the modern Egyptian state for example between Ethnic Egyptians in the Nile valley and Arab Egyptians in the Sinai or Amazigh Egyptians in Siwa).
Perhaps, but the floods were unpredictable. If it was too low there was drought there would be famine. If it was too high it would destroy the crop and destroy infrastructure and buildings.
As for the triple harvest, this could only be done on land directly next to the Nile itself.
Or around deepened Sayfi/Summer canals, which were expensive to build, maintain and required expensive water lifting mechanisms. They also had additional issues such as salination.
So throughout most of history rulers of Egypt preferred Basin irrigation. Which some historians have called the least labour intensive form of agriculture ever, since ploughing or fertilizer wasn't needed, just the flood. As well as the most ecologically sustainable.
It was only under Muhammad Ali Pasha that Sayfi canals were built extensively, so that he could grow cotton, a summer crop.
But the Sayfi canals proved far too expensive to maintain when the British took over, especially when they compared it to their irrigation networks of India which didn't ne to raise the level of the river, without need for the canals.
Finally building the Low Aswan Dam to minimize the effects of bad floods.
Basin irrigation doesn't seem to have been able to support more than 5-8 million people. It's only in 1880 that Egypt surpassed 8 million, while European countries had surpassed that centuries earlier. (Though part of this is ottoman neglect of the province. Which dropped to a mere 2.5 million on the eve of the French invasion, 300 years prior under the Mamluk Sultanate it was 4-5 million...)
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I just posted saying almost the same thing very -- much like USA/Canada in WWI & II
@@Wakobear. The cycle of the Nile flooding was still a hundred times more stable than the more violent Tigris-Euphrates rivers, as well as the even more violent Huang He and Yangtze rivers in China. These probably affected the religious beliefs of these people - the Egyptians believe that after dying, they have a chance to live forever in the paradise of Aaru; while the Babylonians believed that almost all non-nobles and non-priests will end up in the empty Mot-Hadad's realm, and of course, the Chinese probably sacrificed women and children by drowning them in order to appease He Bo (god of the Yellow River), Ao Kuang and other river and water gods.
Ironically for a country that is now highly dependant on imported grain, but in ancient times Egypt was a bread basket for multiple empires, I suspect that one of the reasons that Egypt survived (and possilby what made it a target for the sea peoples) was that it had food- whilst the climate upheavals were going on it was able to at least feed (more or less) its people and soldiers. I suspect that this was the main reason for its success whereas empires like the Hitites and Mycene were more dependent on imported food and systems that relied on access to the sea which was what was mainly disrupted (the records around the collapse of the hitites for example show its social order was falling apart and starvation was widespred. Egypts food supply came along the Nile...Overall it seems likely it was a result of a climate perturbation (large volcanic erruption?) egypt was just about able to feed itself despite this.
Nile river be like: Climate change doesn't bother me anyway.
@@ElBandito But dams do!
untill the asuan dam
they relied on fertile silt to come when the nile floods, then modern egypt built the aswan dam, of which the bottom is now probably SUPER fertile silt
@@Jesse_IDG Just wait until someone comes up with the brilliant idea of drudging that and spreading it around Egypt's fields ^^
9:00 Greece is an interesting place, in this context in particular. It's one case where the impact the geography has had on the society's history is particularly visible.
Since it consists mostly of narrow valleys separated by high, steep mountains, pockets of civilization were isolated from each other, which is why city states prevailed for so long before the land unified as a single country. The natural barriers and narrow passes of the mountains created excellent choke points from which to defend one's territory, but they also made supply logistics challenging, and holding captured territory could be harder than taking it was.
They also make Greece very difficult to invade and conquer, because a foreign invader will have an even harder time traversing the narrow valleys and passes than the local Greeks. They'll also have to contend with the fact that each city state has its own culture, traditions, strengths and weaknesses, and ideas about war, invaders, and diplomacy, requiring them to change their tactics and strategy often.
But these same features also leave Greece vulnerable to brief raids. The partial isolation of Greek city states made it hard to request and receive aid from allies in a timely manner, and while this would still challenge an invader bent on conquest, it benefits a pirate conducting a brief raid. By the time any message can reach a neighboring city and troops arrive to assist, the raid will be over and the pirates long gone.
It would actually make a lot of sense to me if the Greeks were among the hardest hit.
I hope to see many more Bronze Age videos from this channel. It's a very interesting period deserving of more exposure.
There will be more
@KingsandGenerals Will you ever do a dedicated video to just the Median Empire? Most of the time I just hear history jump from Assyria to Neo Babylonia to the Persians without any mention of this powerhouse and it's rise to power. I recognize what we know of it is very scarse compared to other empires but still, a 16 minute episode would be greatly appreciated by the community.
One other thing I feel the Egyptians had going for them was just how long their history stretched back all the way to Egypt's founding, and how much cultural capital was build up for over the course of three millennia. We are talking about a civilization so ancient that it existed from 3100 BC, all the way to the twilight of the Roman Republic. I think this is because to the Egyptian people, no matter what turmoil they faced, no matter how bad things got for them, and even when they were placed under the occupation of foreign rulers, they still believed in the legitimacy and continuation of their civilization. There was just something special about their people, their religion and their identity that they felt was worth dying for, and living for. This I think more than any other reason was why the Ancient Egyptian state was able to persevere for so long and was able to outlast all of their Bronze Age counterparts.
Their economy must now handle a Gaza collapse with more immigrants being forced unto them by Israel, hopefully not the radical kind
What do you think then was different about the Islamic Caliphates that were different enough to break this tradition and cause a sharp divide from ancient to medieval Egypt?
@@Steadyaim101Islam is very strong culturally and it brought a long a civilization that took over
This could be a part of it, but for most of our history we were closed off from said foreigners in small towns and villages, you have to remember the vast majority of Egyptians from the ancient period till the Industrial Revolution were farmers and rarely would they mix with foreigners unless it was about trade, taxation, religion or war. That is actually why modern Egypt is so ethnically homogeneous, after the 50s coup most foreign communities like Greeks, Italians, Jews, Turks, etc left, and Egypt was only left with Egyptians(including Egyptianized foreigners who married into Egyptian families) and a few ethnic minorities like the Arabs Nubians and Berbers.
"Many kings, most of them called Ramesses due to imitating [Epic Ancestors Syndrome]"
My sides flew into geostationary orbit.
Another angle I read somewhere is that Egypt survived where other Bronze age empires failed, because other empires became too dependent of heavily armored chariots, at the expenses of more conventional foot solider armies.
The Hittites were super keen on chariots but these were vulnerable to the military tactics of the sea peoples, who threw light javelins at them.
The Egyptians were smart enough to keep a more conventional foot solider army ready, and thus this blunted the tactics of the sea peoples.
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The Ancient Egyptians were white and black. They had a mixture but the original ones who came from the southern Nike were dark skinned. Facts over feelings.
@@Jean_Jacques148 They were neither white nor black. They depicted themselves with men having tan skin tone and women have a lighter olive tone. The fact is that applying 21st century definitions of race to 12th century BC civilizations will not lead to anything true or useful.
@@Jean_Jacques148They werent white or light skinned, the ancient egyptians during 3150 bce to 670 bce were mixed. Of what we nowadays call MENA and east african populations. Medium tan in lower egypt, and increasingly darker in upper egypt.
@@lyricofwise6894 genetics has proven the genetic continuity of north africans as most of them still carry the same haplogroups iberomaurusians did 15,100 years ago, ie not mixed or arab.
As an Egyptian, I am happy to see the history of my country
Thanks, Kings and Generals
Are you arab?
The Ancient Egyptians were white and black. They had a mixture but the original ones who came from the southern Nike were dark skinned. Facts over feelings.
@@Jean_Jacques148Cleopatra was not black, fact over feelings.
@@Jean_Jacques148 My friend, you are talking about the Kushites
@@caioaco1493No one really contests whether cleopatra was black or not (only a few amount of people, and if you thought that was alot, then look at the amount claiming the ancients of 3150 bce to 670 bce)
the ancient egyptians were not lightskinned, facts over feelings
I would love an entire epic history of Ancient Egypt.
We, right now in time, are still centuries closer to the life of Julius Caesar than Caesar himself to the construction of the Great Pyramids of Giza almost 2500 years before him, just to give those perspective to how truly ancient the Egyptian civilization has stood. To have also being arguably the only empire that truly survived the apocalyptic bronze age collapse, the tales and history of Egypt has, and always will be, a marvel of civilizational longevity and resilience.
my message to @kings and generals content creator:
SO many lies and neomarxism inserted in your videos to alter the truth for a bag of pennies. Aren't you ashamed of what you do ? there are real historians out there who see your content.............. "lgbt egypt feminist and multicultural"
Such a weak man you are for lying about history.
You also use black figures as in late egypt rulers; more lies for your sick sold out life, disgusting, I hope egiptans will follow you
or back to Pharaoh Narmer around 3150BCE when lower and upper Egypt was joined, yeah, quite a history. I recall another show making a similar comparison of amount of time between us today to Cleopatra vs Cleopatra and the unifier of Egypt.
I still have issues with the evidence for how old all that stuff is.
A geologist pointed out that the Sphinx has clear markings of flowing water erosion.
The last time that area was wet enough for that, was about 10,000 years ago.
He also pointed out that under desert conditions, the Sphinx gets deeply buried in sand in almost no time.
And crazy to think Caesar was alive when Jesus was born
I lost it at "Imitating Epic Ancestors Syndrome" 🤣
I'm going to use this from now on. LOVE IT
The wraparound story of the moon god was a beautiful way to frame this.
It is also known, though the Smithsonian likes to lock it away, that Egypt's climate wasn't as it is today. While it is mostly arid desert today, save for the areas closest to the Nile, it used to be much more verdant and tropical at distances farther from the river. This made for a much broader area of favorable conditions for resources and habitation. Deserts consume the areas around them, and Egypt was no exception. Current estimations are that the Sahara, for example, was much smaller 4,000 years ago than it is today. The decline of Egypt was due to a number of factors, as with any great nation or empire, but simple loss of habitable land and a great reduction of resources led to migration and death.
True. The entire Maghreb suffered that fate. There are lots of archaeological records of lakes and rivers with towns and human activity forming around them throughout the modern Sahara.
Egypt went through what IVC experienced with changes in the course of the river
Thanks!
Bottom line: be flexible and adaptable to change. The more you try to hang on to the old ways, the less likely you are to survive.
Your researchers,Writers,Artists and the Narrator
Musicians and composers need to get Credit.Whould love to hear about your team.Phenominal and enjoyable every minute
Thanks! Every name is in the description
The animation is so good! It beings the video to life, so it feels like experiencing a cool story versus dry historical facts.
"Fragmentation with later unification? You learned that trick with me, boy...". - Ancient China.
In the inscriptions in Madent Habu, Ramesses III proclaims:
Those who reached my boundary, their seed is not; their hearts and their souls are finished forever and ever. As for those who had assembled before them on the sea, the full flame was their front before the harbour mouths, and a wall of metal upon the shore surrounded them. They were dragged, overturned, and laid low upon the beach; slain and made heaps from stern to bow of their galleys, while all their things were cast upon the water.
The Ancient Egyptians were white and black. They had a mixture but the original ones who came from the southern Nike were dark skinned. Facts over feelings.
@@Jean_Jacques148they never came from the southern Nile, unless you are referring to Upper Egypt which is north of Sudan. Those people were not dark skinned (black) but instead bronze skinned
There are many cases of interbreeding, however, as to address your claim of the original people prior to the Nubian conquests they were very much not black in the modern sense, but lighter toned. That’s not to say there weren’t actual black people because obviously there were, but that was not the majority.
@@Jean_Jacques148 They weren’t white, whites aren’t from africa, stop making stuff up because your mixed race or something
The story of Egypt is fascinating and mysterious. From the dawn of civilization, it has survived to this day.
And gross, given pharaohs regularly practiced incest, also are u aware of the Egyptian myth involving horus and seth(i think) involving eachothers semen🤢
@@brandonjade2146That's just history for you. You should look into the crazy things other cultures used to do, or still do.
The Nile, Mesopotamia, Indus Valley, and Yangtze have to be the oldest continuous places for advanced civilization. Kinda makes me feel like we haven't unearthed enough from the Mississippi and the Amazon drainages.
@@geordiejones5618 the lost history of what happened in the old Aztec, Mayan, and Incan empires makes me sad. I wonder just how many stories from the Americas have been lost to time.
Is it really tho? There is a region called Egypt, but the people and culture almost completely disappeared.
It is like Googling the name of US states and believing Missourians are Native Americans.
Seriously though my friends.
A very good documentary video.
Very well done.
Thank you!!
Love it. I hope to see more on the Near East during the Iron Age.
A perfect topic to start the week ... well detailed as always !! Got my full support
Its wholesome to imagine Khonsu looking down on Egypt now, after 1400 years of foreign rule, she is finally independent again
I appreciate your efforts to address historic ethnicity in Egypt, given the recent activity in Hollywood.
I've been discussing around the bronze age collapse in my Bible study class at church for the last few weeks, looking at the Bible from the perspective of the history surrounding many of its events. Videos like these are quite helpful. Thank you.
God be with you out there everybody. ✝️ :)
we were discussing Uriah the Hittite yesterday and the connections to things happening right now. The story started probably before the bronze age and it ain't over yet.
Actually the Bronze Age Collapse is found in the Bible and how egypt manage this Crisis but because of the Matter of Fact that there is Space for Interpretation and foremost its a religious Book ,science won´t take it under consideration.
Great video. I learned a lot about the Bronze Age Collapse that I did not know before.
So hey, when do you guys plan to finally start the Justinian series and also it would be nice if you can show us your old play through games from back in 2016 and 15 that you talked about
Not sure about Justinian, other series take precedence, but it will happen. Will think about making old videos available to the members.
@@KingsandGenerals excellent I hope you guys do the Scottish war of independence as well reading all the way up to Bannockburn
I love your videos on Ancient Egypt!
The amount of bronze age videos after the release of Total War: Pharaoh 😂😂❤
The biggest pity is that more game developers don't use funding channels like this to advertise their games.
Feels like a win win.
Love that you’re covering some ancient history ✌️💕🌻
because of the sponsor
Episode about the invasion of Egypt by Persians, Macedonians, Romans and Arabs plz
How ancient Egyptians tried to defend their homeland against invaders how they resisted revolted and fought back plz
Loving these vids on ancient egypt, thank you KG as ever
is it possible that when you make your videos can you put the sources in the descriptions? no biggie just a question. i'm just trying to find sources on certain points in history, and you're like my favorite youtube channel when it comes to history.
“Imitation of Epic Ancestors Syndrome”
🤣🤣🤣
superb episode guys :D
My best moment of the day, as always 👍🏽
Thanks, happy to hear that!
Excellent video
Lots of knowledge
They didn't in any real sense of the word. Their empire also collapsed into multiple factions which all had regional control, leaving them into their second intermediate period. The real big thing is that they didn't stop writing like most other collapsed civilizations did until resurge of writing in the Iron Age.
I think the argument here is that even if there wasn't political continuity, there was cultural continuity as the writing systems, language, and religion changed, but did not have a complete death and replacement as they later would with the Islamic Caliphate invasions.
@@Steadyaim101Sure, but neither did the Assyrians or Greeks if those were the criteria. Most Greek city states survived and the Assyrians also did and entered their Golden Age afterwards.
@@Steadyaim101 >death and replacement
who did the tax then? arabs were not farmers in egypt. the egyptians were.
@@malchir4036the greek city states formed several centuries after the bronze age collapse.
There were two historical process remembered by ancient greeks:
-The coming of the Heraclidae/dorians who defeated must of the achaeans/mycenaeans (around 1100 b.c) who either mixed with them or migrated to other parts.
-The downfall of the monarchies and rise of the polis (800-600 b.c)
As an Egyptian , I can confidently confirm that I walk like an Egyptian :)))))
By definition!
awesome video
Excellent work !
New Moon ( Not the Vampire One) 🤣🤣🤣 Nice Touch
Man judging by your thumbnail, ancient Egyptians must have had some seriously good juice!
The various history videos talking about Egypt and the late Bronze age is the one good thing coming out of Total War: Pharaoh. What a disaster.
great work!
great video again and great depiction of khonsu thank you 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Very interesting video.
One of the well known part of history keep up the good content my g🎉
Clearly they survived because every single person in ancient egypt was supremely ripped like Conan
4:37 "JUDO-CHOPPING APOPHIS UNDER THE FULL MOON" - Great title 😂
Thank you for the information
Great video keep it up you're doing amazing things 😁👍
The 25th dynasty was an odd time, Imagine if America suffered a disaster and invaders from Mexico conquer the government and promised to restore our own American values that we had forgotten.
A greater question: what came first, the sponsor spot or the video content ?
Fantastic video. As always. However, your Sponsor forgot to include the West part of the Hittite empire, all of Greece and all of Mesopotamia. How is it the ultimate Brzone Age game? Oh of course, CA want to charge twice the full price of the game by adding DLC to create the full experience. I love the work CA Sophia are doing, but it’s clear they are being manipulated by people determined to ruin great franchises.
100%
Early asf, also K&G,are you planning on making more full history vids?
Yes
BRONZE AGE VIDS LETS FUVKIN GOOOOOO
If going into an "intermediate period" is surviving Egypt didn't do any better than the Assarians. That bronze age rival of Egypt's survived the collapse as well.
They even expanded for a time,the assyrian kings even fought some remnants of the Hittite Empire (the royal branch in Carchemish)
I want a video about late iron age Egyptian military equipment, I haven't been able to find anything on what their helmets looked like or if they used iron khopesh against the Achaemenids
I didn’t even have to watch the video to know this was sponsored by total war love the video
This was a nice look into ancient Egypt
0:12 Is that a Moon Knight reference😏?
No, just a standard deity reference :-)
The multiple successive pharaohs all named Ramses reminds me of those jokes in 80s or early 90s shows about Rocky eventually having ludicrously high numbers of sequels in the future all titled Rocky followed by a number.
Egypt stayed Egypt by far because of the Nile. Egypt's stability also had nothing to do with the ruling caste, and everything with the ability of people with shared culture and geographical location to continue their way of life.
Maravilhoso episódio. Parabéns.
I was already expecting your sponsor's name. Good job.
Love seeing more video on bronze age and hope you make more on bronz age and its war and after bronze age collapse the dark age uptill 800 bce 😊😊
Egypt came and then came history 🇪🇬
It's A Magnificent Vídeo.
So the ancient Egypt became descentralized with local rulers giving leap services to the Pharaohs.
Damn, why are all your people so buffed? Please keep this on!
Appreciate this video. Im planning on writing a report on the bronze age collapse and the sea peoples for my pyramids and prophets class.
I knew IT! I knew there was a sponsor when I saw Egypt and bronze age!
Food. They have food. Food is what drives civilisations.
The animations are unmatched 😎 🛡️ 🗡️ 🏰
Thanks!
Based on the animation of this video, Ancient Egypt was able to resist the Sea Peoples because all Ancient Egyptians were RIPPED 💪
I'd like to see a video about the rise of the first Persian empire and how they managed to conquer so much in so little time. It is said that at the height of their power they ruled over 46% of the world population, which is either amazing or not true
Ohhh definitely and about the Medes also
I struggle to believe that when China existed
Not true. That would require owning everything in the world outside of China & India. A powerful empire for sure, but the only people who have close to claiming they rule over that much of the population was the Mongols, and behind them at ~25% at various times were the Qing, Romans, and the British.
@@Steadyaim101 the british for sure. the mongols ruled mostly desolate lands.
@@irmaeeva4254 The Mongols ruled nearly all of China..... Plus the Middle east up to Sinia and almost to the sea of Mamara
My early ancient history is pretty hazy. This will be good to watch.
The first time I’ve ever felt like you guys were still out. The new total war Pharro is not a legit Bronze Age game because it doesn’t even include the area around Greece.
The title got it right. The intro makes me wonder how many people are left who know the difference between why & how.
Fantastic. Bronze Age is the best era
“Imitating epic ancestor syndrome.” I’m dead!
Another amazing video, thanks!
it insane to think that egypt has been around one way or another for at least 5000 years if not more and that people started settling there around 30,000 years ago
"Imitating epic ancestors syndrome"
That's a good one, I'm using that.
The shift in trade to the western Mediterranean would become significant in the rise of Greeks, Carthaginians, and Romans.
I like how every depiction of the Egyptian men has them as RIPPED dudes flexing their abs while standing around.
They do be like that
Fascinant 👏👏👏👏👏🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🦅🦅🦅🦅
This video makes me want to play Total war Pharaoh!
Great video explanation. The Assyrian also survived the collapse, though with their territory largely shrieked to the Nineveh mountain surrounding areas. I guess they also won a lottery
The consolation prize, if nothing else.
After Troy fall Homer wrote about how the general of achaian army were not welcome to their homeland and relocated across Mediterranean.Maybe it is the case of the sea people raids
Dang...were all people in the late Bronze Age on steroids?
Don't buy the game, 60 dollars and it's about as fun as putting on a pair of wet socks.
With all the historical accuracy of history channel's ancient aliens.
Not a fan of pharoh total war but I'm glad they sponsored you!
This video is so much more better than the game it sponsors.
Fascinating
David Rohl has a good explanation of this.
which is?