Why Did So Many Different Cultures Build Pyramids?
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- Опубликовано: 21 июн 2021
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TLDR: Have you ever tried stacking lots of big rocks into a sphere?
Beat me to it lol
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I'm just gonna say, if we found something like THAT, then I'd believe in aliens ahaha
Well, someone made Earth into a sphere. So...
@@Beryllahawk 🤔 Earth?
Simple: The pyramid is the strongest construction without any mortar.
@Tom Chittum Wasn't it also because no one was allowed to build higher than the churches? That's what I heard here in Germany.
technically a cone is stronger than a pyramid. hence why mountains stabilize into a more conical shape.
You said it much simpler than I was going to. Jajaja
Nope. Dome and arch is.
Evolution of a pile of rocks
Simon: presents a question to answer as the topic of the video
Everyone: BecAuSe sHApeSEs IS StRoNG! I aM SMarT!
something I heard on another video: "a pyramid is the most stable way to pile up bricks"
I always thought this was silly.
mountain: exist
ancient people: so thats how to build tall structure
2:00 - Chapter 1 - Practicality
4:10 - Chapter 2 - Imitation
5:25 - Chapter 3 - Philosophy
no mention of how they actually built them though
They used to build buildings but they would fall down, one genius looked at the shape of the rubble and...Eureka
I suppose that even if they had done "square-er" structures, those obviously would be much less equiped to stand the test of time. I bet there were so many things around those pyramids back in their day. Basically almost only they remain
You're 100% correct.
Back in the day, they taught us that a pile of sand is more structurally sound than a vertical stack of bricks.
I always thought that they studied ants. If you look at the ant hills they all look like pyramids on the outside and inside they have tunnels and tombs. And every single culture has different type of ants and build similar style of pyramids
Ummm, it's the easiest way to build high without the aid of heavy lift cranes?
What did I win?
Or aliens 🤦♂️
It’s all fun and giggles until the local conspiracy guy becomes a presidential candidate
Easiest way to make something HUGE- easy answer
Wrong !! they was competing with each other
no cranes? then how did they get the stones to the top?
It's literally the most efficient way to stack rocks if you don't know what a keyed arch is, and the grand gallery in Khafre's pyramid and the trapezoidal doorways in the Americas shows that they were getting close.
Exactly so!
When you pour sand on the ground what shape does it start to kinda look like? That’s why.
So your saying someone poured rocks on the ground to get the shape lol
@@danielz1666 yea the giants.
It kinda looks like the shape of the fist imprint I'm going to leave on your jaw for pouring sand on my new burbur carpet.
@@danielz1666 I did. I'm stronger than you could ever fathom. I might even be able to lift your mother.
@@JozefLucifugeKorzeniowski ur cool.
You need a channel for failed projects, call it "engi-nearing" or "engi-nears".
This is everything
"engi-nearly"
Engi-tears
The last thing this dude needs is another channel he is bloody everywhere.
I like it. Maybe a Business Blaze script. GET ON IT, DANNY
if you want to build something tall,
with primitive technology and dirt or stone to work with,
you're going to end up with a pyramid shape.
it really is as simple as that.
Seems to have worked out well for mountains.
Also Pyramids are also remarkable stable structures, so they tend to last longer then buildings that use other support methods, which is part of the reason the Pyramids of Giza are the only surviving great wonder of Antiquity. An Earthquake can destroy a tower that isn’t receiving maintenance, but a pyramid takes effort to dismantle.
What about a cone? Or a 3 sided pyramid?
@@billd.iniowa2263 3-sided pyramids are quite common in Ethopia, Sudan and a couple of other places. Harder to design any build, and were usually smaller, though many still remain, many in pretty good condition. Cones had the same design and building issues as triangular pyramids..
@@owenshebbeare2999 Thanx, I didnt know that. Still, the 4 sided ones are much more prevalent.
I imagine Simon filming this then grabbing his jacket and a different script and jumping right in to a megaproject recording.
It's the ONLY way he does this! Nothing else makes sense 😂
Yup, he just rotates his stool and he has a new background.
I'd prefer to imagine he films Business Blaze immediately after
I imagine Simon finishing filming this, then slumping down, begging to be let out to see his family. It has been so long since he even saw the sky, but his captors shock him with a cattle prod, and throw a new shirt at him.
"You will read!"
@@Commanderziff hahahahaha that one got me
As men starting shaving in various ancient cultures, razors needed to be sharpened. Obvious solution: pyramids! 😅
You, sir, are a gentleman and a scholar
Bloody right 🤩
I kinda want to start a subscription-based razor sharpening service now, with little disposable pyramids covered with different grits of sandpaper on the sides.
I think Simon’s channels are so successful because he is a great presenter (plus great writing - shoutout to the writers!). So many other similar channels are just faceless monotone voices.
I love the fact that he can taper his energy to the channel and subject matter. You've got the Boy with the Blaze pure unbridled Simon, filtered through his other channels, still capturing his personality but being much more accessible to a wider audience; contrast the spectrum of atmospheres in his multiple channels, the tone of Casual Criminalist is completely different from Biographics, but you still feel Simon's genuine passion for facts and learning
A British accent makes someone sound knowledgeable even if they're just reading a script.
Monotone or text-to-speech laziness.
Yes a nice presentation by a very talented presenter. Unfortunately there was no real scientific information provided here. His whole presentation was highly subjective in in presenting his point of view.
@@kyletornow5781 Simon is the “fact Boi” !!! But he also always says skepticism is very important.
Short answer, it's the easiest way to make a big pile of rocks
Isn't it all survivor bias? They're the most durable shape to stack stones or bricks, so they last while all the other shapes get eroded, destroyed, built over.
Another subject I requested.
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Thanks for what?! the guy told you nothing
So many pyramids together must have said that the people loved Toblerone
Taking a break from your paid trolling job? Lol.
V. Funny 👌
The most underrated comment we’ll see this week 😂
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I actually have no idea what this means, I think even grammatically I'm confused on how to read this. Like, am I misreading you or are you saying: pyramids said "the people love Toblerone", as in they spoke? Am I being too literal? Is it a reference? Just a bit confused
The mound Cahokia in Illinois east of St. Louis, Missouri, is a list-topping structure, but fails to qualify for this list in that it is not made of stone and does not have a pointed apex and is modern having been abandoned about 1300AD.
I live in near Saint Louis and have only ever been to the Cahokia Mounds when I was a child. I'm planning on taking another trip there once the weather warms ups. I would have much more appreciation of it as an adult.
I've always wanted to go there, hopefully soon ☺️
1970's 'Pyramid Power' fad, platform shoes, bell bottoms, mood rings, 'Quadraphonic Sound' failure, disaster movies, sharks, leisure suits, velour, disco everything,...
Throw a shovel full of dirt on the ground, it makes a pyramid. People were always going to figure out that's the one shape you can pile rocks in that wont fall over.
Do these piles of dirt automatically align to the cardinal directions?
@@Norcaldaddy they would if you intentionally dropped them that way.
@@invicta1313 think about that… how were all of these cultures aware of true north?
@@Norcaldaddy Probably the same way everyone else is. The North Star, around which the entire sky pivots from east to west every night. Then the sun rises in the east and sets in west. That's three out of four directions. I'm sure you can fill in the last.
Or maybe it was....ALIENS.
@@invicta1313 North Star isn’t true north.. lol
Thank you so much I've been wondering about this for a long time
Look into it then, don't accept this guy's word for it...
Cuz all the pyramids they built upside down haven't survived til today.
Building in stone only doesn't let you build anything really tall except for a pyramid shape. I.e. wide base narrowing to the top
“…with Simon whistler” aka the goat of RUclips
The guy literally has a channel for everything
need pyramids to land all those alien space ships.
It was what our Alien overlords wanted us to!
Let's be honest if we have a debate about having God's exist or just aliens that have similar stuff that the gods are recorded to have done, I'll go with aliens
@@fernandoqueirozpopovic7024 I’ll go with people. Gods don’t exist and aliens don’t come here on account of The Smell
@@honeysucklecat of all things humans have done you say they aren't coming because of the smell?? That sounds bout right
@Seer-of-things end Except all the evidence directly contradicts the descriptions of all proposed gods. No. Saying there definitely is no god or gods is the sane thing. Saying anything else is just ignorant refusal to accept reality.
In all fairness nobody claims pyramids were made by aliens, they claim the great pyramids were. Most Egyptian pyramids are mediocre in comparison. Not necessarily aliens, but still suspicious. There are a few structures worldwide which are just a bit suspicious to be made by the people in those places at the time.
Goa’uld built them as landing platforms for their space ships when they enslaved earth and posed as ancient gods
And the Meso-American pyramids were built for the Furlings.
*System Lord Ba'al approves of this comment*
Not a lot of people know that.
@@Rosyna And Romans were instructed to build roads by the Alterans on Earth as Alterans were the gate builders known as the Ancients by Romans wich gave them the knowledge to build a road network over the known world mentioned by Jacksson himself, the Ancients were the teacher of roads in Roman history. Rome was the equivalent of the Alteran empire in the Milky way on Earth. As seen when SG1 meets the Tolans and Ancients in Pegasus wich are way more advanced then the Goa’uld they dressed similar to ancient Greeks and Romans so they must have had influence from more advanced beings besides the Goa’uld, their gods were kind and we know that Asgard only posed as Norse gods.
@@Smurfen249 The Romans just built some streets buddy.
You need to make a channel about conspiracy theories and aliens just because you clearly hate them soo much and that’s very entertaining
Because they’re the most simple stable structure you can can build.
I watched the video as well
have you ever tried building a pyramid, its actually extremely difficult to make a pyramid come to a point on top. everything has to be perfect or youll get a two points with a line on top. its much easier to build a square
It's a good way to stack rocks.
tbh, "because they're awesome" is way more plausible reason than that stupid "aLiEnS dId It"
i mean, besides that Cones and Pyramides are really stable shapes
Because when your only building technique at the time is stacking...you gotta go with what has a strong foundation.
You glossed over a common aspect of many ancient people: Astronomy (and it's step-sibling, astrology). In the inky dark of the ancient world, it was easier to attach meaning to the lights in the sky, that, while uncaring of the tiny figures below, returned, season after season to same places in the sky. Many of these structures were aligned to astronomical events. Several, like the complex at Giza, mapped constellations (Giza aligns with the "belt" in Orion).
Please, never put Astronomy and astrology in the same sentence. One is science, the other is clap-trap!
@@TrickyDicky2006 I would hope that we are a little more educated now... But seeing the number of people who believe the earth is flat, I'm not so sure.
Good video 👍
Fun Fact: Sudan has the most pyramids in the world.
Egypt has thousands of them - crudely made, small, for personal use. Due to scientists assuming that everything developing one way from simple to complex those are obviously predecessors of great pyramids. Just like modern several dollar plastic telescopes are predecessors of those flying in space.
More than Mexico and central America?
You are google correct. But the mayans have over 1500 sites and still digging. There are actually probably more than a few hundred pyramidal structures there. But you are right it says Sudan. Which isnt hard to believe. Its crazy that so many structures were built like these.
Thanks
Because they're cool, sturdy and relatively easy to design and build.
Yeah just build them coz they look cool and are "easy to build" 🙄
It's just human nature to get high, some literally, some via other methods... :P
Idea for video: Pleistocene Park! and still wanting one on the never-built Northern River Reversal.
You start stacking rocks as high as you can and see what it ends up looking like
It's the simplest form of building. But how is still a question.
Because there are people who believe the earth is flat. Thus they don't understand gravity. Thus they don't understand how a Pyramid is among the most inherently stable form of construction.
Simon, try out the videos on youtube called the Code by Cark Munck , he is a math teacher who made films? that he put up on youtube about him counting the number of sides/lengths of all the ancient constructs and found some interesting things when he did, i recommend those videos, i think he made 3 or 4
4:58 what is that the worlds smallest sand dune or something you found at the beach while cruising by in the shallow end in your water wings 😂
I'm always amused by the conspiracy theorists pointing to pyramids as evidence of aliens or ancient intercontinental contact. It's such an intuitive structure that a child left alone with some blocks will build one. If you want to build an artificial mountain, you will eventually settle upon a pyramid as the best way to construct it. Some things are so straightforward that you don't need any wild theories to explain them.
Good bit of truth in that. Still one has to wonder.
but why no tetrahedrons? they seem simpler. plus the pyramids at giza are 8 faceted, so not simple
You know what they say, if walks like a duck, talks like a duck & quacks like a duck... must be aliens!
This is called Occams Razor XD
2 million blocks, averaging 3 tons each, facing north to a degree of accuracy within 0.05%.
So straightforward that we still have no idea how they were built.
Only complete tools use the phrase conspiracy theorist.
You should do a video on Caral in Perú. Also had a pyramid and is one of oldest settlements in the americas.
Easy and stable way to pile up rocks for a long time ... XD
Have you ever noticed how kids like to build sandcastles at the beach? They build them because they are fun.
Well, ancient cultures did basically the same thing = they built piles of rocks, and piles usually end up in a pyramid shape.
Can you do an update video on the Cathedral in France that burned?
They are emulations of The Sky Mountain as the comet approaching produced the ancient symbology of the Triskelion and Swastika which happen to be the be the plan and elevation of a pyramid. It is similar how Johannes Kepler envisioned the planetary orbits to be perfect circles to which the visible space debris is conceptualized as a prefect geometric shape worldwide as such a space spectacle would be visible to all.
You answered it in the opening statement. 😁
It all started with an ancient bet involving a game of Reverse Jenga..
This seems to be more about how it was built than why. The reason I understand is more for marking the solar transitions of the seasons. And using these alignments as a powerful tool to lead the respective civilizations.
he mentioned nothing of how it was built, just banged on about the philosophical significant of a pyramid. I want someone to tell me how they precisely placed a new block every 5 minutes for 10 years or whatever the ridiculous timescale was that they built it in!
Will Cuppy, in his essay on Khufu, observed that the Great Pyramid was the only wonder of the ancient world to survive into modernity.
Why? Because it is not in the nature of pyramids to fall down. In fact, they probably couldn't if they tried.
It’s the most stable structure you could think of
Before I pass 1 second. I always believed it to be difficult to the lack of such things like cement and the triangle knowingly having the greatest rigidity, so it was he mast obvious choice when unable to 'glue' prices together to create square or rectangular buildings: with any safety...
We hardly get a new tallest building every decade. The Sears Tower in Chicago was tallest for 25 years, and the Empire State Building was tallest for 40 years. We didn't get a new tallest building in the 2010s, the 1980s, 1960s, 1950s or 1940s.
Lmao, next we’ll be needing a clip of why bubbles among many other things are spherical. Cmon people, this is grade 3 geometry.
Lol my guess is not everyone gets the same intelligence as one another. And sometimes its interesting to hear things like that explained.
The Seattle space needle is structured like a pyramid and can withstand a 6.8 earthquake for sure and possibly 9.1 with no damage. It's a pretty solid structure but the interesting question is how did ancient architects know this?
SIMON. I hope to God you play D&D!. You would be wonderful fun to have at the table.
Can you do a video on Angkor Wat
Tl;dr: Imhotep liked pyramid schemes
I like how BuissnessBlaze is creeping into everything else Simon does.
OGBB
@@ryanm9566 That’s an obscure reference! 😂 Edit: I think I started watching the channel when it was about a week old.
In really glad you mentioned djoser's step pyramid
So many people, time and time again, think that the pyramids at Giza are the only Egyptian pyramids. When there are SO many more!
Ive seen peoplr claim "no bodies have been found in any pyramid"
While thats true for the ones at Giza, a few other pyramids have contained human remains, such as the pyramid of Iput
Sadly most pyramids after the Giza ones are in ruins and look nothing more than a large mound of rubble. But the chambers of many are still intact
There are a little more than 300 pyramids in Africa, Egypt included. There are over 2000 in the Americas. Over 1000 in Brasil alone where the oldest predates djosers by 300 years.
@@glennmonson4034 yeah, pretty sure there's more pyramids on Sudan than Egypt.
But still, when talking about Egypt, most people only ever think of the 3 at Giza
Thank you
Interesting and worthwhile video.
Nope, were you paid to say that or just a fake account??
@@robertinvasion Interesting and worthwhile video.
@@robertschlesinger1342 easily pleased I guess
@@robertinvasion Interesting and worthwhile video.
Yep definitely not a bot 🙄
From an engineering standpoint the stability of the design and lack of roof supports make them outlast any other design
Give a toddler some blocks and see what he builds. Pyramids are a natural result of a kid finding out what works to gain some height.
Maybe because floods were so prevalent they built them as a way for the city to wait out a flood.
This is my thought also. Would explain the mound building in the US too.
Is this video sped up x1.5 or did Simon snort a really fat rail before shooting? I know he's a fast talker but this one was giving me the white-knuckled jitters.
Just have to add their was never a body found in any of the three pyramids in Giza
For those who get confused about the difference between reality and Ancient Aliens no, it wasn't Atlantis
But the people on tv said it was aliens and aliens are aliens
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Michael Scott: "I need to go make a call."
Fun fact: Mexico is the country with the highest number of "pyramids". These structures were build by very different cultures from the Mixtec and Zapotec on the Pacific coast, to the Maya by the Caribbean, spanning a period of over 2000 years. And even several pyramids have been unearthed right in the middle of Mexico City
Sudan has the most pyramids...over 240
Not sure on the country but recently archaeologists found that what was thought to be a natural mountain was actually a buried pyramid.
Dig some of the new ambiance music.
Surprised you made no mention of the number of sides pyramids had. Is that universal? Is it almost always four? I'd have thought three sides would be more stable.
*Imhotep watches this video* "... I just thought it looked cool..."
Funny fact while pyramids are common in many civs the only country to have built them in Europe is Greece with the oldest pyramids dating as old as 3000+ years. I've actually seen the most well preserved one in Argos , hellenikon.
Supposedly there may be one in Bosnia
I thought they all had connections with aliens
With this single video, Simon Whistler has immediately established himself as more intelligent, and sane, than the hilariously crazy conspiracy theorists who masterminded "Ancient Aliens."
Conspiracy? What's the conspiracy? They're searching for answers just like all of the "mainstream science" disciplines.
It’s like an anthill. It’s what humans do to illustrate hierarchical societies. Patriarchal societies value hierarchy, different levels of authority. Anthropological my speaking, tribal cultures are decentralized. Chieftain societies are what we typically refer to as “tribal.” They can be quite absurd with big chief in control. Not that way in tribal societies. One has to take Anthropology 101 to learn this. How many people even take the freshman level course: Anthropology 101.
I think the answer has 2 different reasons depending on which part of the world you are in.
Mountains were considered holy in Mezo and south America and there are no pyramids next to or on mountains so in lack of natural mountains people created artificial mountains.
In the rest of the world: "Pyramids, things that look cool from a distance".
It isn't like the ancients didn't build something similar to sky scrapers, Pharos, the lighthouse of Alexandria is a good example of an ancient skyscraper, sure, it wasn't that impressive by modern standard but it certainly was an impressive work of architecture for it's time.
However, pyramids is the type of building that last longest. There is a saying: "Man fears time and time fears pyramids".
Mountains tend to become somewhat pyramid shape if enough sand or ice blow onto it, like the pyramid shaped mountain in Antarctica or several on Mars. If the great pyramid were a square it would just be a ruin today.
I think it's largely because pyramids are one of most stable shapes known. When you're building a giant monument of heavy stone blocks without metal tools, it makes sense to have the majority of the structures weight at the base, making it bottom heavy. Another reason is that some ancient cultures viewed the pyramid shape as divine, in a lot of cases because the triangular profile resembles rays of sunlight beaming down upon Earth.
"before pyramids Pharaohs were buried in... '
No mummy has ever been found in a pyramid...
Well now I want to know about some of these other pyramids! Spain, you say? Really??
I did know about the Mesoamerican ziggurats and the mustabas; and I think I recall you discussing a pyramid like structure in your Geographics on Angkor Wat, too. (I may be thinking of a different location but I feel certain it was Geographics at least.)
To go in the entirely opposite direction size wise - a cairn is often a simple stack of stones in a vaguely pyramid shape. (I might have the wrong word here - I don't mean necessarily a grave site but a kind of way marker, if someone else knows the right word I'd love to know!)
Plenty of folks are already pointing out the physics side - that the shape is absolutely the simplest and most stable of shapes for a really, really tall structure. And if you ever watch kids with blocks, they tend to have lots of pyramid-ish shapes, too, because if you've got six blocks (or six of just about anything!) then a pyramid shape just seems to naturally happen without even really needing to think about it. There's a strangely satisfying feeling to the organization of things into neat, triangular piles, I guess!
There are pyramids all over the us too. Oregon specifically. Also rumors that the mounds of Tennessee could be hiding structures
Tetris. That's how it looks when you finalize a game.
One could argue the Sudan/Nubia/Cush/Land of Kush predates Egypt/Kemet they have twice as many Pyramids.
Manchester shipping chanel, hand dug in the late 1800s, seems like a potential idea
They are ancient version of nikiola Tesla tower. He fully designed the tower off of them
Wasn’t the Tower of Babel supposed to have been so large that there were small towns like resting points on the way to the top? I find it hard to believe the ziggurat was the basis.
Where did you hear that? Even the bible doesn't mention the actual size of it, it just says it reaches towards the heavens. My dick "reaches towards the heavens" when I wake up. It doesn't get very far but it is pointing up.
trivia: all the egyptian pyramid video/photographers are standing in front of a gigantic squalid slum. and it stinks like a camel barn.
4:56 the beetles few seconds of fame.
Why is there not an option on RUclips to stop the background music.
After reading some of the comments Im stunned at how many people dont think past one thought. Most saying something like because a pyramid is the most stable platform to pile up rocks. LMAO.
Thats actually not true for starters, the triangle is, the triangle is the only polygon that will not shift under pressure. But thats not even the real question here.
Within a span of 300 years every civilization on the planet decided to start building massive pyramidal structures. No trial and error shapes, no circular like Stonehenge, no rectagonal or square or triangular which is the strongest. They all went straight to a 4 sided pyramid, and they all decided to start building massive ones, and aligning them with constellations.
Mind you they also suddenly knew how to prep foundations (more important than shape) they knew which rocks to use Granite, Andasite, Limestone and they did all this with copper chisels, yet not one copper chisel has ever been found at giza and they transported 2.5 tonne blocks from 200 to 500 miles away on planks tied with rope, with 20,000 slaves in 20 years . Come on people the odds of all civilizations just virtually simultaneously building anything is absurd, let alone all building the same structures.
I'm disappointed. Not a single The Mummy joke with Imhotep
I've had this conversation waaaaayyyyy too often.
But nope, they always dig in their heels and keep screeching about Atlantis and aliens teaching everyone how to pyramid.
Yeah, we all know it was The Lemurians who did done do it y’all.
Fuk Atlantis. Bunch of pretentious trolls with delusions of grandeur.
Gimme some sweet Lemuria.
still waiting on the sideproject of Simon taking over youtube...