We’re back! We’ve been hard at work on this video, and we really hope you like it! And also see you soon for the second episode on Russian history. By the way, Omar, who was doing the translation and voice-over for the Arabic channel, just started a new channel of short educational videos about history. Please have a look at the channel, and if you like it, don't forget to subscribe! ruclips.net/channel/UCISvlG3-xDBer1WkQugxhTA Thank you!
@@arthurbriand2175 If China makes contact with aliens and builds a silk road to them, the world would just come up with another reason why China is trying to conquer the world by trading with aliens.
Ah the Hanseatic League. The most prosperous time for Estonia. All of our old town date back to that time. All of them built with German architecture, pretty deep inland too. The trade even went through the rivers.
During the Hanseatic League, Estonians were forbidden to visit cities, and the Estonians themselves lived at the level of the tribal system. The Hanseatic League is trade between the main peoples of the then Europe, such as Poles, Germans and Russians. I would not say that it was the best time for Estonia, because no one took into account the opinion of local residents. And even now, however.
0:10 This video completely neglects the *actual* earliest route, that of copper and tin. Copper and tin are not mined any where near each other, but the trade of these two metals is what started the bronze age worldwide. Also, the *end of the trade* of copper and tin marked the end of the bronze age (The Bronze Age Collapse) - and people searching for alternatives to bronze led to the start of the iron age.
@@tonyfriendly4409 The bronze age started in the western asian/eastern european steppes around 3500BC, and the trade of copper and tin stretched from western Europe (Germany and France had tin) down to Cyprus (which had copper) and Egypt. This is also tied to the spread of the Proto-Indo-European language, which the traders would have spoken.
@@tonyfriendly4409 There's pretty hefty evidence that hunter-gatherers also often had trade routes that were "international" (in quotes because there aren't necessarily nation-states involved). Items are found in campsites that had to be created or obtained hundreds of miles from where they're found. So there was likely trade going way further back than agriculture!
@@berkajr3685 Thanks for the response. I wanted to speak more about it. The bronze age starting around 3500BC isn't hearsay or guessing: There's bronze age artifacts that have been discovered all around the Mediterranean that date back to that time, and the nearest place they could have gotten the tin used in that bronze would have been in western Europe. The existence of Proto-Indo-European also is not hearsay or guessing. There's too many cognates among the languages in the area to not all be related to some ancestor. Not everyone agrees on the composition of the PIE language, though. "Kurgan theory" is also not hearsay or guessing. That these steppe people, who spread out and likely spoke PIE, lived between the sources of copper and tin during the start of the bronze age is well established. The tin used in the Mediterranean had to travel through these people in order to get to where it was used to make bronze.
Yes so I never understood why India didn't become the world power since they had everything people wanted, and yet from Alexander to Portugal to England they never can beat European powers and stop them from being exploited.
@@kaceobrwa7039 Seems like a massive over reaction my dude. The guy is pretty much crediting India for having *everything everyone wanted* , but still wonders why it didn't become a unified global power. He's not being disrespectful or anything, at least in my opinion. Obviously, India was the world's biggest economy until well into the 19th century, if you take into account the fact that the British Raj was its own country and its own economy (and also encompassed more land than modern day India has, but that's almost irrelevant to the subject). Nobody is denying that. It's just amazing how much tribalism can blind us to the point that the world's largest economy would actually end up reduced to a colony because of it.
Muziris on the first trade route is 10 miles from my place. It lost its importance in the floods of 1341Now the place is known as Kodungallur Another port formed as a result of the floods and today it is one of the major ports in India called cochin
@@edwardofgreene There are still a handful of places that were named (or renamed) Alexandria that still have cities surviving on those sites. Some still bear the name (Iskenderun in modern-day Turkey for example), others not (Herat and Kandahar in Afghanistan).
Thanks for this. People only focus on single known routes that are stuck in people's consciousness like the Silk road between China and Europe or the Spice Route after Europe founded ways to America and Asia, forgetting that there were other trade routes equally important.
Rahid Hoque Alexander set out to conquer the world, that ends in the east, in India (of course, he couldn't enter India). He (nor his Guru, Aristotle) knew of the existence of China then. A few centuries later the "Yuechi" tribe became the most powerful people in central Asia. China was made to take note of them & contain them if possible. The Yuechi, led by Kanishka founded a big Empire in Central Asia, half of which extended to the banks of Yamuna River (India). Silk route to Europe, "per se", began a millennium after Alexander & was acknowledged of its existence with the great explorer/travellor, Marco Polo (1254-1324).
I imagine the story goes something like this: Turmoil has engulfed the Galactic Republic. The taxation of trade routes to outlying star systems is in dispute. Hoping to resolve the matter with a blockade of deadly battleships, the greedy Trade Federation has stopped all shipping to the small planet of Naboo. While the Congress of the Republic endlessly debates this alarming chain of events, the Supreme Chancellor has secretly dispatched two Jedi Knights, the guardians of peace and justice in the galaxy, to settle the conflict....
Tell me, did you ever inform yourself about the so-called 'Satanic Panic'? If not, how about 'Prism of the Past; Satanic Panic' of 'Illuminatinaughtii' tells you about it real quick?
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Hey this is a great video! I would have loved if you highlighted more about how Indian/Tibetan/Southeast pre colonial politics affected trade in the in the region. Players like the Chola creating a merchant guild in South India and the East Indias, Tibetan Empire wrestling with the Silk road going toe to toe with China and linking overland trade between India and China through the Himalayas, or the Majapahit of the Javanese in modern Indonesia who locked down all east Indies trade and was was a economic juggernaut at it's zenith.
Or the trade with the Makassar and Yolgnu in Sea cucumbers that stretched from Norther Australia to Southern China. I would also have loved to see the trade routes of pre-Columbian America covered and the Micronesian/Filipino/Okinawan trade
And the trade of the Polynesian triangle as well as the long distance networks through to Hawaii and Easter island along with the Austronesian trade that extended through Sri Lanka, the Seychelles and on to Madagascar
Or how the trading kingdoms in the eastern branch of Maritime Silk Road (Philippines and Borneo) rose in prominence during the Yuan Dynasty since the western trunk (mainland southeast asia) suffered disturbances during the Mongol military campaigns in the 1280s to 1300s. -- This is something that is least studied and given focus.
It is funny that the Indian merchant guilds and their trading routes were not mentioned in this video. They dominated the Asian trade by sea from the 4th to the 13th century during the reigns of the Gupta Empire, Pallava Empire and Chola Empire.
Lol it did. They called themselves bharatiya, as they do today in local languages. And anyone outside the subcontinent was called Malechh (foreigner) for over 4000years. Everyone in the subcontinent was conscious that they’re a part of Bharat even though the various dynasties existed.
13:06 oh, hey, they labelled the congo as the property of Leopold II. That's surprising. I mean, it's factual, but it's rare to see attention to such a small detail. Would've been easier to label it as Belgian, if slightly inaccurate.
Because Leopold took Congo as his personal possession, free to do whatever he wants to the place and the people that lives there. Simply to say if you control a land as you then you are free to do whatever you wish to that land... which he did, very brutally and because of him many people died in what is known the Congo genocide
@@Trans_SovietBee Ok that makes sense, thank you for the info! Now I’m going to take a solid 3 seconds in honor of the people who died in the Congo Genocide
Yes it is a good placement in Africa and the Mediterranean sea but for me the best geographic and geopolitical placement is Mesopotamia (Iraq today) because it links both Europe Africa and Asia it is like in the middle of the eastern hemisphere
@@bigchungus6320 egypt is the closest country to being a tricontinental country in the world connecting africa west of the suez canal to asia east of the canal through 5 tunnels and 2 bridges and europe to the northwest of the canal through the mediterranean sea.
Thank you for teaching me lots of new things that I have heard it for the first time, that I had never heard them during my schooling yeara. Wondeeful videos.
Great video, India called as golden bird in ancient times and during the time of gupta empire, India's gdp had shares of 35% in total world gdp, and the fact is no one empire ever achieved this much percentage in global gdp but cuz of rich region, it attracts many invaders and india got looted over time, and now the countries of those invaders like UK, France etc and mostly whole europe calls india as a poor nation and also say that india never got rich in past, so yeah it hurts when people forgets history
it will never happen, politician doesnt allow it (they see china and russia as threats), harsh temperature doesnt allow it(tunnel are expensive, exposed rail will expand/contract frequently). north american doesnt have money for it (american owe huge debt they can not afford anything like this).
@@redhongkong China and Russia ARE threats, and I am saying this as a person in Asia. China, the dictator Xi and his friends--not the Chinese people themselves, have been interfering with Asian politics against the will of our people. Most people in my country loathe Xi Jinping's messing up with our country.
Everyone please look up milk tea alliance hashtag. India, Myanmar, Thailand, Philippines, and many in Indonesia want Xi Jinping to stop messing up with our continent. Please support #MilkTeaAlliance everyone who cares about human rights and world peace should educate themselves on this topic 🙏
@@redhongkong economy triumphs. china, despite being USA's number one rival manufactures most of their goods. if the train route promises profit, the businessmen would find ways to get it working despite ideological and political clashes.
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India in some cases referred to area streching from the horn of africa to the indian subcontinent so yeah an area that big probably has much gold North indian and axumite Ethiopian gold coins had the highest gold quantity in them even when their empires were collapsing and coin minting started to decline their coins still had more gold quantity than any roman,persian or greek coin, they were considered tokens instead of regular coins for outsiders so that assumption is perfectly explainable
gyandeep chauhan Till 1800 every diamond worn by anyone in the world came from India. In medieval times, the kingdom of Golconda (Golconda fort is now part of Hyderabad city) became the supplier & trading center for diamonds, which were surface-mined along the banks of Krishna River (in Kolluru, Paritala villages & a few more).
Feb. 3, 2023 I landed here after studying Shanxi in China and its Horse Tea Road section of the trade routes. This section connected to what is today’s Myanmar, etc. Aside from the actual hostel that’s several hundred years old and still in operation(!) the village and its environs has maintained much of what was created over the dynasties. The village also exists as a reenactment of history, eg, preparing and serving the foods that were being eaten by the traders. A mindblower: The book chain Librairie Avant Garde in Nanjing opened a fabulous modernistic bookstore nearby, with an emphasis on poetry. The flight of stairs leading to “the poetry tower” is awesome. (I’m not particularly into poetry but I was tickled by spotting a photo on the upper staircase of American poet and author Sylvia Plath. (The Bell Jar is a must read.) Had she known that her work was to be revered in today’s China, perhaps she wouldn’t have committed suicide during her failing marriage to UK poet Ted Hughes.)
This is the stuff i love to learn about. I've developed a reputation for being a Trade Whore whenever i play grand strategy games with my friends (Civ VI in particular). My only problem with this video is that it's only 20 minutes. I could listen to this for hours. (If anyone has any suggestions for podcasts please tell me).
So , what ever the country may be , but its main goal was to trade with India , and the most amazing thing is Europe and India were trading goods since 4000 years
Chaitanya Reddy Muthyala There is no world history without India. If India wasn't his target (not China or Japan), Chris Columbus wouldn't have discovered Americas. Till his death he was believing that he landed in India & the people whom he met were "Indians". That name stuck. Indians for a child born in USA, mean those "few" natives with plumed head-gear roaming over plains of America (not anymore now). There was an amusing cartoon I happened to see in an American magazine. It depicts an Indian lady clad in saree & with a bindi on her forehead. The kid in the picture asks her, "Oh ! You're Indian? Where is your bow & arrows?". They created a reservation (land) for them to live & called it "Indiana", which now is one of the fifty states where everyone can live.
@@MrPoornakumar people should respect natives , and European countries became rich by trading with India and Britain became super rich by colonising India, today people think great about Britain, because it once colonised vast number of lands , but Indian blood ( both Asian Indian and native Indian) was the reason for their prosperity , I am happy that our culture is still thriving today but feel sad for those thousands of cultures which perished due to inquisitions and other inhumane things done by those
@@chaitanyareddymuthyala2967 Native (American) Indians yielded to a great nation there by decimating their own race while at the same time original(Asian ) Indians made Britain rich. Same generals & administrators served in both places (Cornwallis fought wars here in India as well as there in America). Both countries ought to be freinds & partners (though the other country has blood on its hands) now. Leave the bitterness behind.
I wish I would've have has a reference like this in my AP World history class, I learn much quicker visually than I do just from text but that does not mean I neglect the text. This would have helped me better understand the sequentially the empires and trade that came and went that way I could have pieced things together faster. It's missing some earlier trade routes but overall very Well done.
This is such an insanely Eurocentric perspective of ancient trade routes. Like the part where it says that the Portuguese "discovered" a massive trade route from Africa to Asia and the middle east. That trade route had been present in recorded history for over 1000 years before then.
I love how on the colonial map of Africa it says "Leopold II" instead of Belgium for the area encompassing the Congo. The colony was his private territory, but it still gave me a good chuckle, because all the other territories are owned by countries.
OF COURSE! Maritime trade has always been existent. I've also prepared something about it, but it focuses more on contemporary trade and its implications. Entertaining and concise :)
I'm a grade 7 History teacher. This video explains it far better than I can. It is not directly required by my curriculum to teach this, but I still tell them about, what is explained in this video, as background information. This video make it so much easier.
Tell me, did you ever inform yourself about the so-called 'Satanic Panic'? If not, how about 'Prism of the Past; Satanic Panic' of 'Illuminatinaughtii' tells you about it real quick?
that's because the others are territories of their respective empires, while the congo was the personal territory of leopold II and not subject to Belgium government laws.
@@mxn1948 that was until 1908, when Belgium forcibly took control over the territory from their king, having been forced to act after the many reports of atrocities that were taking place there.
The Prehistorian trade routes are not discussed. For instance the production of Bronze was only possible by supply from different source far away from each other. The Hansetic network was larger as stated here. In the East Netherlands several cities were part of it, and till at least 1700 it was active. What I noticed that in Europe the hub cities became extremily rich.
The value of the Slavik slave trade to the various medieval empires of Europe is always glossed over .Crimea was developed by slave trading ports supplying Constantinople .It is the origin of the western "untermensch" concept which is still evident in western headlines .
i love that you didnt mention anything about malacca and nusantara. the source of spice and important trade route between arabian peninsula, india and china. portuguese conquering malacca, dutch creating voc. that sounds major to me
LOL It is how humans discovered navigation that evolved to the present precise Science. It is how Geography evolved. Static peope shut in their home-territories (not crossing the seas) can't achieve it. Before Chris Columbus nobody had any idea of an Ocean, much less crossing one. All boats (ships) sailed within the viewing distance from a land, close to the coast. He was the first to cross an Ocean (3600 miles across), charting it & bringing knowledge that none had before. There is no way one can measure a "longitude" except by an accurate clock (Chronometer) which shows the time of the port where the ship sailed from, so as to compare the time the ship is on, from Sun's position (morning, noon or afternoon). Thus, clocks became necessary & vital. It is how modern Sciences developed !
The Treaty applied only to newly discovered land, everything that was already claimed by European countries before the treaty couldn't be claimed by Spain or Portugal, regardless of its location at either side of the line
Wow that was amazing! The history behind all this is so amazing, I specifying like learning about 1990-2021+ parts. I had no idea they were planning on building a train tunnel from china to the USA. The importance of china to the world is kind of scary to think of. Thanks a bunch for making these videos you are really doing a great service to the world by educating so many people.
@@senseishu937 I didn't like my own comment. Maybe you liked your own, weeaboo upset that my people humiliated samurais. And the Metatron, the weeblord, cared, which is why he left a comment attempting to justify his lies.
131alexa A canal was dug from the bitter lakes (through which the present Suez canal passes) to one of the distributaries (Nile delta) of River Nile. That way, boats can reach the Mediterranean from Red Sea. Ingenious !
That would mean giving credit to africa, I don't think that will fit in nicely to his Agenda. The neglect of Africa which is the oldest continent is just shocking. To think that Africa had no trade Route but built the pyramid.
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do usa cvil war
you should make a video on the Chinese civil war and Russian civil war
Can you do rise and fall of teh ottomans
When Geo history posted, my day got 1 million times better.
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Damn, you must have either had the worst day ever or his videos are what you live for
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Agreed
I’m literally learning about trade routes and connections in my AP World History class, this was perfectly timed.
Same
Imagine not taking ap euro 😎
AP world moment
Not taking AP Euro, cringe
@@half-hazard8903 who asked u
Sad you didn't spend any time on bronze age tin trading routes.
Otherwise amazing video!
maybe just not thorough enough information, but i dont recall it even being mentioned
Same for Scandinavia-Byzantium and amber trade from Baltics to Rome.
@@danzoom that was not a major trade route in the world it was just a major European trade route
Kernow bys vyken!
Same with Native American trade routes
China 2000 years ago: I'll build a silk road
China today: I'll build a silk road
China in the future: I'll build a silk road
But in space this time
@@arthurbriand2175
*Since Ancient Times*
The world belongs to the Silk road
@@arthurbriand2175 If China makes contact with aliens and builds a silk road to them, the world would just come up with another reason why China is trying to conquer the world by trading with aliens.
Lol!
Ah the Hanseatic League. The most prosperous time for Estonia. All of our old town date back to that time. All of them built with German architecture, pretty deep inland too. The trade even went through the rivers.
During the Hanseatic League, Estonians were forbidden to visit cities, and the Estonians themselves lived at the level of the tribal system. The Hanseatic League is trade between the main peoples of the then Europe, such as Poles, Germans and Russians. I would not say that it was the best time for Estonia, because no one took into account the opinion of local residents. And even now, however.
@@Saiga-saiga Guess we're gonna have to backdate our golden era of trade back 5000 years to trading amber to the pharaohs
Excellent video! Really demonstrates how important the factor of trade has been throughout world history.
Literally what I’m learning in College Right now!
Almost like college is obsolete.
I learnt this in the 8th grade wtf
which nation??????
What program
@@miguelpimentel5623 everything is different though. I was in high school when I learn about sex ed and now in 6 th grade they learn about sex ed
0:10 This video completely neglects the *actual* earliest route, that of copper and tin. Copper and tin are not mined any where near each other, but the trade of these two metals is what started the bronze age worldwide.
Also, the *end of the trade* of copper and tin marked the end of the bronze age (The Bronze Age Collapse) - and people searching for alternatives to bronze led to the start of the iron age.
It's weird to think that you had international trade on that scale in 1600 BC.
@@tonyfriendly4409 The bronze age started in the western asian/eastern european steppes around 3500BC, and the trade of copper and tin stretched from western Europe (Germany and France had tin) down to Cyprus (which had copper) and Egypt. This is also tied to the spread of the Proto-Indo-European language, which the traders would have spoken.
@@alexjgilpin My friend at the supermarket told me that this is just hearsay and guessing.
@@tonyfriendly4409 There's pretty hefty evidence that hunter-gatherers also often had trade routes that were "international" (in quotes because there aren't necessarily nation-states involved). Items are found in campsites that had to be created or obtained hundreds of miles from where they're found. So there was likely trade going way further back than agriculture!
@@berkajr3685 Thanks for the response. I wanted to speak more about it.
The bronze age starting around 3500BC isn't hearsay or guessing: There's bronze age artifacts that have been discovered all around the Mediterranean that date back to that time, and the nearest place they could have gotten the tin used in that bronze would have been in western Europe.
The existence of Proto-Indo-European also is not hearsay or guessing. There's too many cognates among the languages in the area to not all be related to some ancestor. Not everyone agrees on the composition of the PIE language, though.
"Kurgan theory" is also not hearsay or guessing. That these steppe people, who spread out and likely spoke PIE, lived between the sources of copper and tin during the start of the bronze age is well established. The tin used in the Mediterranean had to travel through these people in order to get to where it was used to make bronze.
Literally a “follow the money trail” informational video, which gives great insight.
It's nice to see that this video ends in the present, 2021, it makes me feel like we are actually living the history and we're part of it!
You are living in the beginning of the end of 'The Medical Tyranny'.
I have this feeling too. Imho present days are more interesting than history.
Mate we are indeed living in the history.
Because we are
Thanks so much, this helped me a lot to study for my exams. Continue the hard work
Then o child ?
So India and Europe are trading since more than 4000 years... Damn!
Yes so I never understood why India didn't become the world power since they had everything people wanted, and yet from Alexander to Portugal to England they never can beat European powers and stop them from being exploited.
@TERRY KWAY the mughals were the closest (until modern times) to unite india though?
@@Byronic19134 Compare 1930s Nazi Germany Vs 2020s Communist Chinazi IN YOUR NEXT VIDEO Project. Before it's too late!
@@kaceobrwa7039 yea bhai, not to mention navigation, medicine, surgery, etc.. these people especially Europeans are living in their own bubble.
@@kaceobrwa7039 Seems like a massive over reaction my dude. The guy is pretty much crediting India for having *everything everyone wanted* , but still wonders why it didn't become a unified global power. He's not being disrespectful or anything, at least in my opinion.
Obviously, India was the world's biggest economy until well into the 19th century, if you take into account the fact that the British Raj was its own country and its own economy (and also encompassed more land than modern day India has, but that's almost irrelevant to the subject). Nobody is denying that. It's just amazing how much tribalism can blind us to the point that the world's largest economy would actually end up reduced to a colony because of it.
Muziris on the first trade route is 10 miles from my place. It lost its importance in the floods of 1341Now the place is known as Kodungallur Another port formed as a result of the floods and today it is one of the major ports in India called cochin
Malayali?
@@ajarofmayonnaise3250 yes✌️
Hi..Iam from Trivandrum
Interesting history 👍
"Alexander the Great founded the city of Alexandria..."
Which one ?
Yes
@@llamingo696 ... except the ones in Canada, Australia, Brazil, Jamaica, the US, South Africa, Scotland, Poland, Bulgaria, and Ukraine.
The one that survived. Name enough cities after yourself, and maybe one is bound to make it.
@@edwardofgreene There are still a handful of places that were named (or renamed) Alexandria that still have cities surviving on those sites. Some still bear the name (Iskenderun in modern-day Turkey for example), others not (Herat and Kandahar in Afghanistan).
good question
I never got such a perfect rundown of how trade became what it is now, great video! If I was a teacher I would be showing these to my classes
Thanks for this. People only focus on single known routes that are stuck in people's consciousness like the Silk road between China and Europe or the Spice Route after Europe founded ways to America and Asia, forgetting that there were other trade routes equally important.
Rahid Hoque
Alexander set out to conquer the world, that ends in the east, in India (of course, he couldn't enter India). He (nor his Guru, Aristotle) knew of the existence of China then. A few centuries later the "Yuechi" tribe became the most powerful people in central Asia. China was made to take note of them & contain them if possible. The Yuechi, led by Kanishka founded a big Empire in Central Asia, half of which extended to the banks of Yamuna River (India). Silk route to Europe, "per se", began a millennium after Alexander & was acknowledged of its existence with the great explorer/travellor, Marco Polo (1254-1324).
He did not even talk about a lot of trade routes and the video has a lot of misinformation
@@MrPoornakumar Greeks knew chinaese as sericites
@@BrazilianImperialist
since when?
@@MrPoornakumar search sericites
I imagine the story goes something like this:
Turmoil has engulfed the Galactic Republic. The taxation of trade routes to outlying star systems is in dispute. Hoping to resolve the matter with a blockade of deadly battleships, the greedy Trade Federation has stopped all shipping to the small planet of Naboo. While the Congress of the Republic endlessly debates this alarming chain of events, the Supreme Chancellor has secretly dispatched two Jedi Knights, the guardians of peace and justice in the galaxy, to settle the conflict....
Tell me, did you ever inform yourself about the so-called 'Satanic Panic'?
If not, how about 'Prism of the Past; Satanic Panic' of 'Illuminatinaughtii' tells you about it real quick?
@@slevinchannel7589 what was that
You call this a diplomatic solution?
Now there's two of them.
This is getting out of hand!
@@slevinchannel7589 wtf?
This RUclips channel is top notch, really well done videos!
One of the most informative videos I've seen in a long time. So many things in history make much more sense when thought of in these terms.
The quality of the videos on this channel is impressive. I've watched some of these more than once.
This is amazing. So much info, simply presented, ties a lot of things together.
Why this video is so good is not just for infographics but also telling world-scale history. It is hard to teach world history in 20min like this.
Hey there, I would just like to let you know that your content has aided me greatly in explaining the history of the world to my peers in University, I often show your videos (with credit to you of course cited) and it gets people who would not be interested in comprehending or learning about history involved with it. Your illustrated maps have proven great maps in terms of understanding the history of regions
This is the best channel ever, it’s like you read my thoughts, knew exactly what I wanted to know, and then made a video about it
I'm stunned from your video. WOW!
You have done a really good work. Facts, animations and the overall script is amazing. Thank you!!!
This explains so much about human history and it's conflicts.
@Complex CR War breaks out whenever trade collapses.
Hey this is a great video! I would have loved if you highlighted more about how Indian/Tibetan/Southeast pre colonial politics affected trade in the in the region. Players like the Chola creating a merchant guild in South India and the East Indias, Tibetan Empire wrestling with the Silk road going toe to toe with China and linking overland trade between India and China through the Himalayas, or the Majapahit of the Javanese in modern Indonesia who locked down all east Indies trade and was was a economic juggernaut at it's zenith.
Or the trade with the Makassar and Yolgnu in Sea cucumbers that stretched from Norther Australia to Southern China. I would also have loved to see the trade routes of pre-Columbian America covered and the Micronesian/Filipino/Okinawan trade
And the trade of the Polynesian triangle as well as the long distance networks through to Hawaii and Easter island along with the Austronesian trade that extended through Sri Lanka, the Seychelles and on to Madagascar
Or how the trading kingdoms in the eastern branch of Maritime Silk Road (Philippines and Borneo) rose in prominence during the Yuan Dynasty since the western trunk (mainland southeast asia) suffered disturbances during the Mongol military campaigns in the 1280s to 1300s.
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This is something that is least studied and given focus.
Agree
It is funny that the Indian merchant guilds and their trading routes were not mentioned in this video. They dominated the Asian trade by sea from the 4th to the 13th century during the reigns of the Gupta Empire, Pallava Empire and Chola Empire.
Just to correct. They weren't indian, India didn't really exist at that point.
Lol it did. They called themselves bharatiya, as they do today in local languages. And anyone outside the subcontinent was called Malechh (foreigner) for over 4000years. Everyone in the subcontinent was conscious that they’re a part of Bharat even though the various dynasties existed.
We are doing a unit on trade routes for my world history class right now, so this is very helpful.
That's the best video on this topic that I've ever see!! This topic of ancient trade and finance is really fascinating...
This video is useful in understanding war and geopolitics. thanks
13:06 oh, hey, they labelled the congo as the property of Leopold II. That's surprising. I mean, it's factual, but it's rare to see attention to such a small detail. Would've been easier to label it as Belgian, if slightly inaccurate.
I’m kind of slow, but why is is that way? Was the land gifted/given to just him instead of the country of Belgium?
Because Leopold took Congo as his personal possession, free to do whatever he wants to the place and the people that lives there. Simply to say if you control a land as you then you are free to do whatever you wish to that land... which he did, very brutally and because of him many people died in what is known the Congo genocide
@@Trans_SovietBee Ok that makes sense, thank you for the info! Now I’m going to take a solid 3 seconds in honor of the people who died in the Congo Genocide
@@yoshi_ninja0533 the times that disgusting person cut off 5 mil congo's people hands
And he did horrible things to the native people there and they all ready had a kingdom there but then Belgium took it over
Thanks for pronouncing route as root. Make this video much more enjoyable to watch :)
I hear it pronounced more often as 'root' than 'rawt' tbh.
this is cool, thanks for sharing! trade is a really ancient practice going way back to the origin of civilizations..
RUclips has become the best learning academy ever
I’m always fascinated by the trade throughout history! This helped greatly!
Now I truly know why they say Egypt has an amazing geographic place
Too bad they can't make it "Green". Right Libya, Libya?
@@thisismacom3723 Gaddafi do you mean?
Yes it is a good placement in Africa and the Mediterranean sea but for me the best geographic and geopolitical placement is Mesopotamia (Iraq today) because it links both Europe Africa and Asia it is like in the middle of the eastern hemisphere
@@bigchungus6320 egypt is the closest country to being a tricontinental country in the world connecting africa west of the suez canal to asia east of the canal through 5 tunnels and 2 bridges and europe to the northwest of the canal through the mediterranean sea.
Well not really, as it has lead to them being conquered by some empire or other for the past 2000 years
Brilliantly concise yet very informative. Nice Job :D
The voice is very comforting and the visuals are very simple yet satisfying
I love the channel
Great topic
Fantastic presentation. Ties up many development driving forces into an one clear picture
Thank you for teaching me lots of new things that I have heard it for the first time, that I had never heard them during my schooling yeara. Wondeeful videos.
Great video, India called as golden bird in ancient times and during the time of gupta empire, India's gdp had shares of 35% in total world gdp, and the fact is no one empire ever achieved this much percentage in global gdp but cuz of rich region, it attracts many invaders and india got looted over time, and now the countries of those invaders like UK, France etc and mostly whole europe calls india as a poor nation and also say that india never got rich in past, so yeah it hurts when people forgets history
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Whenever Geo History posts its like a praise from the above to this world
a train route between China and North America is something i’ve never considered; but now I am very interested in the idea.
it will never happen, politician doesnt allow it (they see china and russia as threats), harsh temperature doesnt allow it(tunnel are expensive, exposed rail will expand/contract frequently). north american doesnt have money for it (american owe huge debt they can not afford anything like this).
@@redhongkong China and Russia ARE threats, and I am saying this as a person in Asia. China, the dictator Xi and his friends--not the Chinese people themselves, have been interfering with Asian politics against the will of our people. Most people in my country loathe Xi Jinping's messing up with our country.
Everyone please look up milk tea alliance hashtag. India, Myanmar, Thailand, Philippines, and many in Indonesia want Xi Jinping to stop messing up with our continent. Please support #MilkTeaAlliance everyone who cares about human rights and world peace should educate themselves on this topic 🙏
@@redhongkong economy triumphs. china, despite being USA's number one rival manufactures most of their goods. if the train route promises profit, the businessmen would find ways to get it working despite ideological and political clashes.
Just a wild dream. Ocean shipment is much cheaper.
I'm glad you mention the Manila Galleons
When geo history uploads, it's like the world is saved again from death by screaming youtubers
When you stop spamming copied comments, it will be like the world is saved again from death
@@immigrantgaming420epic i didnt actuallycopy it :l
@@immigrantgaming420epic go away to your mom, this wasn't cringey elitist reddit that no one have to copied comment, that wasn't ilegal thing to copied comment so shut UP!
@@afdalridwan3813 it's annoying
@@immigrantgaming420epic only for you
Thank you for including Adulis and the Aksumite Empire. Eritrean history often gets overlooked despite its strategic importance in economic history.
I don't know if anyone reads these comments. Anyway I just found your channel and this is an excellent video. Thank you.
Excellent video. Really enjoyed it.👍
Bonus piece of information: most of the colombian cocaine enters Europe through Galicia, Spain. Great video!
Instant like as soon as Geo History posts a video, love your content.
Pliny the Elder, in 77 CE, called India “the sink of the world's gold!”
India in some cases referred to area streching from the horn of africa to the indian subcontinent so yeah an area that big probably has much gold
North indian and axumite Ethiopian gold coins had the highest gold quantity in them even when their empires were collapsing and coin minting started to decline their coins still had more gold quantity than any roman,persian or greek coin, they were considered tokens instead of regular coins for outsiders so that assumption is perfectly explainable
gyandeep chauhan
Till 1800 every diamond worn by anyone in the world came from India. In medieval times, the kingdom of Golconda (Golconda fort is now part of Hyderabad city) became the supplier & trading center for diamonds, which were surface-mined along the banks of Krishna River (in Kolluru, Paritala villages & a few more).
Diamonds were not nearly as popular as jewellery in the ancient and medieval period of Europe as they are now.
You know its a good day when Geo History posts
Yep
You really saved my "History of globalisation" presentation assignement for school thank you so much
Is it only me or this tone of voice is wonderful!! Love the video
Feb. 3, 2023
I landed here after studying Shanxi in China and its Horse Tea Road section of the trade routes. This section connected to what is today’s Myanmar, etc.
Aside from the actual hostel that’s several hundred years old and still in operation(!) the village and its environs has maintained much of what was created over the dynasties.
The village also exists as a reenactment of history, eg, preparing and serving the foods that were being eaten by the traders.
A mindblower: The book chain Librairie Avant Garde in Nanjing opened a fabulous modernistic bookstore nearby, with an emphasis on poetry. The flight of stairs leading to “the poetry tower” is awesome. (I’m not particularly into poetry but I was tickled by spotting a photo on the upper staircase of American poet and author Sylvia Plath. (The Bell Jar is a must read.) Had she known that her work was to be revered in today’s China, perhaps she wouldn’t have committed suicide during her failing marriage to UK poet Ted Hughes.)
This is the stuff i love to learn about. I've developed a reputation for being a Trade Whore whenever i play grand strategy games with my friends (Civ VI in particular). My only problem with this video is that it's only 20 minutes. I could listen to this for hours. (If anyone has any suggestions for podcasts please tell me).
I just learned so much. Thank you!
Really good video showing the importance of trade in history., Kudos
Amazing. Congratulations for this whole history class
So , what ever the country may be , but its main goal was to trade with India , and the most amazing thing is Europe and India were trading goods since 4000 years
Chaitanya Reddy Muthyala
There is no world history without India. If India wasn't his target (not China or Japan), Chris Columbus wouldn't have discovered Americas. Till his death he was believing that he landed in India & the people whom he met were "Indians". That name stuck. Indians for a child born in USA, mean those "few" natives with plumed head-gear roaming over plains of America (not anymore now). There was an amusing cartoon I happened to see in an American magazine. It depicts an Indian lady clad in saree & with a bindi on her forehead. The kid in the picture asks her, "Oh ! You're Indian? Where is your bow & arrows?". They created a reservation (land) for them to live & called it "Indiana", which now is one of the fifty states where everyone can live.
@@MrPoornakumar people should respect natives , and European countries became rich by trading with India and Britain became super rich by colonising India, today people think great about Britain, because it once colonised vast number of lands , but Indian blood ( both Asian Indian and native Indian) was the reason for their prosperity , I am happy that our culture is still thriving today but feel sad for those thousands of cultures which perished due to inquisitions and other inhumane things done by those
@@chaitanyareddymuthyala2967
Native (American) Indians yielded to a great nation there by decimating their own race while at the same time original(Asian ) Indians made Britain rich. Same generals & administrators served in both places (Cornwallis fought wars here in India as well as there in America). Both countries ought to be freinds & partners (though the other country has blood on its hands) now. Leave the bitterness behind.
I just learned an entire semester in 19 mins! Amazing video, sad that Carthage and the Phoenicians weren’t mentioned, still amazing!
I wish I would've have has a reference like this in my AP World history class, I learn much quicker visually than I do just from text but that does not mean I neglect the text. This would have helped me better understand the sequentially the empires and trade that came and went that way I could have pieced things together faster. It's missing some earlier trade routes but overall very Well done.
This timeline connected a lot of dots for me. Well done.
This is such an insanely Eurocentric perspective of ancient trade routes. Like the part where it says that the Portuguese "discovered" a massive trade route from Africa to Asia and the middle east. That trade route had been present in recorded history for over 1000 years before then.
I love how on the colonial map of Africa it says "Leopold II" instead of Belgium for the area encompassing the Congo. The colony was his private territory, but it still gave me a good chuckle, because all the other territories are owned by countries.
How's that funny
One can only laugh to keep from crying
Not all, Ethiopia was never owned by anyother but by Ethiopian. 🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹 independent country for more than 3000 years
@@yonas2828 Italy conquered for a time though
@@yonas2828 With Russian aid it gets easy
That was such a good summary!
I love your videos. Well done once again!!!
OF COURSE! Maritime trade has always been existent. I've also prepared something about it, but it focuses more on contemporary trade and its implications. Entertaining and concise :)
Happy that you are back ..
I'm a grade 7 History teacher. This video explains it far better than I can. It is not directly required by my curriculum to teach this, but I still tell them about, what is explained in this video, as background information. This video make it so much easier.
Tell me, did you ever inform yourself about the so-called 'Satanic Panic'?
If not, how about 'Prism of the Past; Satanic Panic' of 'Illuminatinaughtii' tells you about it real quick?
I love how in the scramble for Africa area it lists every nation, and then just lists leopold II.
that's because the others are territories of their respective empires, while the congo was the personal territory of leopold II and not subject to Belgium government laws.
@@mxn1948 that was until 1908, when Belgium forcibly took control over the territory from their king, having been forced to act after the many reports of atrocities that were taking place there.
The Prehistorian trade routes are not discussed. For instance the production of Bronze was only possible by supply from different source far away from each other.
The Hansetic network was larger as stated here. In the East Netherlands several cities were part of it, and till at least 1700 it was active.
What I noticed that in Europe the hub cities became extremily rich.
What an excellent synopsis 👍🏼
Love the history, having a clearer perspective of what really happened that lead up to the time we currently live 🧐
Cool video. Points deducted for totally omitting the Dutch East India Company.
Interesting to see india and arabia were the first people to ever trade and have modernized economy.
The value of the Slavik slave trade to the various medieval empires of Europe is always glossed over .Crimea was developed by slave trading ports supplying Constantinople .It is the origin of the western "untermensch" concept which is still evident in western headlines .
When Geo uploaded video, my knowlegde about history is wider every time.
this was a lot more interesting than anticipated
i love that you didnt mention anything about malacca and nusantara. the source of spice and important trade route between arabian peninsula, india and china. portuguese conquering malacca, dutch creating voc. that sounds major to me
Me: huh geohistorory hasn't uploaded in a real long time
Geohistory: uploads the very next day
Me: ...
nice
Pls Make a Video Of The Full History Of China Pls
This was literally the most interesting this I’ve seen in years
Absolutely brilliant. Thank you for these videos
It’s really interesting that trade that time took time and need precision.
LOL
It is how humans discovered navigation that evolved to the present precise Science. It is how Geography evolved. Static peope shut in their home-territories (not crossing the seas) can't achieve it. Before Chris Columbus nobody had any idea of an Ocean, much less crossing one. All boats (ships) sailed within the viewing distance from a land, close to the coast. He was the first to cross an Ocean (3600 miles across), charting it & bringing knowledge that none had before. There is no way one can measure a "longitude" except by an accurate clock (Chronometer) which shows the time of the port where the ship sailed from, so as to compare the time the ship is on, from Sun's position (morning, noon or afternoon). Thus, clocks became necessary & vital. It is how modern Sciences developed !
IT HAS BEEN MONTHS... How dare you keep us up at all hours, wondering if you were ok... Anything could have happened to you!
So by the Treaty of Tordesillas, The whole Iberian Peninsula should have been portugese anyway
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The Treaty applied only to newly discovered land, everything that was already claimed by European countries before the treaty couldn't be claimed by Spain or Portugal, regardless of its location at either side of the line
@@untitledjuan If i recall correctly they also couldnt claim land that had a Christian population
@@TheGreatCooLite well the treaty was certified by the pope. Those Iberians better convert them to Christianity
that treaty lasted less than a century lol
These videos are so satisfying
Amazing content and is very well presented..Thanks
You guys are amazing, keep posting and sometimes give us a brief history or detailed one about India as well, much love for Karachi, Sindh
Very simplified, but still well done!!
Thx for posting this, it’s going to help me through ap class
AP Class?
@@auglazeallday5335 idk but in Philippines, AP is an abbreviation for 'Araling Panlipunan' which is 'Social Studies' so maybe that..
@@awesome_barabado Good to know.... here in the States it means anatomy and physiology in school terms.
@@auglazeallday5335 high school ap world history
Amazingly well done!
amazing video, very informative & has made me fully understand my own personal history...
Wow that was amazing! The history behind all this is so amazing, I specifying like learning about 1990-2021+ parts. I had no idea they were planning on building a train tunnel from china to the USA. The importance of china to the world is kind of scary to think of.
Thanks a bunch for making these videos you are really doing a great service to the world by educating so many people.
The fact that China's population is going to plummet is also interesting.
Martin Williams
If you get scared of them, they have succeeded in their mission - to scare the world.
Damn I didn't know the Spanish and Portuguese made another treaty
Thanks for the video! Top notch!
See my video "A conquistador refutes the Metatron on Samurais VS Spaniards."
Spaniards beat samurais.
Me neither!
@@scintillam_dei no one cares, especially when someone likes their own comment.
@@senseishu937 I didn't like my own comment. Maybe you liked your own, weeaboo upset that my people humiliated samurais. And the Metatron, the weeblord, cared, which is why he left a comment attempting to justify his lies.
@@senseishu937 Actually, since you say I liked my own comment, I will now so it is two instead of one, and you can see it wasn't me to begin with.
12:30 The ancient Suez canal = Canal of the Pharaohs.
That's fascinating! You could have mentioned it earlier in the video as an ancient trade route.
131alexa
A canal was dug from the bitter lakes (through which the present Suez canal passes) to one of the distributaries (Nile delta) of River Nile. That way, boats can reach the Mediterranean from Red Sea. Ingenious !
The current Suez canal is at least the third one. There was also one during the late stone age.
That would mean giving credit to africa, I don't think that will fit in nicely to his Agenda. The neglect of Africa which is the oldest continent is just shocking. To think that Africa had no trade Route but built the pyramid.
First time I ever understood the trade routes thank you Sooooooo much