First Achaean Kingdoms - Early Mycenaean Greece (1700-1470 BC)

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  • Опубликовано: 15 янв 2021
  • Animated documentary on the early Achaean settlements and the first royal dynasties of the Mycenaean Greece. We walk you through the early Greek history of the Bronze Age, from c. 1700-1470 BCE.
    Early kings and their reigns are as based on traditional chronology of the ancient historians. Many figures of the Mycenaean Greece are known only from the later writers and poets, who recorded the previously orally-passed tradition.
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  • @thomaszaccone3960
    @thomaszaccone3960 Год назад +14

    These are awesome. Not Greek but I love ancient History, especially Egyptian, Cretan, and Mycenean material. Took a course in Ancient Greek History in the 1960s in College but a good part of this is new to me. I also had 4 years of Ancient Greek. Wanted to read the Iliad in the original. It's awesome. Wish I had kept up with the language.

  • @ramirezventura7295
    @ramirezventura7295 3 года назад +14

    I like how the narrator speaks

    • @WanaxTV
      @WanaxTV  3 года назад +5

      Thank you, really appreciate it man

  • @LuisAldamiz
    @LuisAldamiz 2 года назад +12

    Absolutely underrated channel. You make an amazingly good effort at blending prehistory and legend together into a very good reconstruction of Bronze Age Greece. I wish, I'd find your channel earlier, when my mind was sharper (just 2-5 years ago), because this is the kind of stuff I'd love to do if I could make videos.

    • @WanaxTV
      @WanaxTV  2 года назад +4

      Thank you my friend, I really appreciate it! The channel has started a year ago actually, but new content is put on every weekend! There will be a lot more videos on the Bronze Age Aegean and Asia Minor coming up!

  • @user-ls5pu1xj4n
    @user-ls5pu1xj4n 3 года назад +47

    I'm a Greek with great knowledge of the these stuff and I really appreciate your work! I just want to mension that the Minoans are also Greeks - DNA tests of skeletons from tubes from Mycenians and Minoans people, showed that their DNA was completely matching, approximately 70%.Yet, in Greek mythology the Minoans are also mentioned many times, and not discriminating them from the Mainland Greeks as a different barbarian tribe

    • @WanaxTV
      @WanaxTV  3 года назад +14

      Thank you for stepping by. Appreciate your feedback! There will be more videos on the Minoans in the future!

    • @lianko2000
      @lianko2000 3 года назад

      @@WanaxTV the point is to get what he said and change the video if needed not just thanking people. You are making videos about our country here be more careful and respectful. Minoan civilization is still unknown dont jump to conclusions yourself. Whatever you know about them was described by Greeks and Greeks never mentioned anything like that.

    • @WanaxTV
      @WanaxTV  3 года назад +16

      @@lianko2000 I have not disagreed with anything that Kostas said, his points are valid and always welcome. Due to Linear A still being unknown, I accordingly avoid giving any specific ethnic identity to the Minoans other than Eteocretans which was specifically confirmed by ancient Greek sources. If anything, I personally see them as very related to the mainland Greeks, but clearly different to the Achaeans from Mycenae. Also, this channel does not support degratory sentiments. Greeks are my people too and the content here is authentic and result of a lot of effort. You are always welcome to give your feedback.

    • @lianko2000
      @lianko2000 3 года назад +5

      @@WanaxTV thanks man. You seem reasonable. We Greeks are getting tired with thieves trying to steal our history and identity. There is also an ongoing effort to alter some facts just for the sake of making new conclusions. I dont blame them, we have all the significant history in the world and they cannot stand it. We gave the lights to this world. They should eternally thank us for this.

    • @taybak8446
      @taybak8446 3 года назад +6

      @@lianko2000 I am not Greek, but I have been in love with Greek myths and history since I was 9. I visited Greece and also Mycenae when I was 13. It was a dream come true. So you can imagine how personally insulted I was when the mentally ill zealots from the BBC made Achillies and Patroculus into Africans on their recent TV series. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09szdtr

  • @viorelpiscanu9425
    @viorelpiscanu9425 3 месяца назад +1

    What is to Say, except for my congratulations... One of the Best ever ( short) video about Ancient "Greece" , or better Say Aheeians... Best regards from Bucarest ROMANIA 🍀🤗🍀

  • @izabellakozicka5449
    @izabellakozicka5449 3 года назад +14

    What wonderful videos you are sharing with us. Love it! The history, dates and visuals, maps gives a sense of progression and development in the region! Historymaking sense! Thank you.

    • @WanaxTV
      @WanaxTV  3 года назад +4

      Thank you, I'm glad you like it. Really appreciate it!

  • @nikolavasilic2972
    @nikolavasilic2972 3 года назад +7

    Wow! This is awesome, can`t wait for the next video.

    • @WanaxTV
      @WanaxTV  3 года назад +5

      Thanks bro. The plan is to have them on every Saturday. Next one will cover the fall of the Minoans.

  • @historywithcy5039
    @historywithcy5039 3 года назад +20

    Love the maps, this is a great video!

    • @WanaxTV
      @WanaxTV  3 года назад +9

      Thanks so much Cy, I really appreciate it! I spent so much time creating and labeling my own map. I actually have just about every ancient Greek city location labeled, just made invisible until I need them.

  • @ilnigromante666
    @ilnigromante666 6 месяцев назад

    It's been awhile since I saw content about early helenic history. Great job!

  • @VickiNikolaidis
    @VickiNikolaidis Год назад

    Amazing detailed history! Very interesting and enjoyable! Thank you.

  • @hikeandphoto2521
    @hikeandphoto2521 3 года назад +3

    Great video, keep up the good work!

  • @mikecavallaro466
    @mikecavallaro466 2 года назад +2

    I really enjoyed this video. Nice work.

  • @Joyride37
    @Joyride37 2 года назад +5

    I'm loving these videos! Could you link your sources in the description also? What books, journal articles, and websites did you use to make these videos? I'd love to dive further into the topic on my own

  • @AloisWeimar
    @AloisWeimar Год назад +3

    Man, Great Video ! I would love to see you tackle The Sea Peoples and the broader Bronze Age Collapse.

    • @WanaxTV
      @WanaxTV  Год назад +1

      Thank you! That’s going to be a big one. Definitely on the radar!

  • @georgianakopoulou6339
    @georgianakopoulou6339 3 года назад +4

    Excellent,fascinating!Thank you!!!

    • @WanaxTV
      @WanaxTV  3 года назад +1

      Thanks for the feedback! Thank you so much for stepping by, really appreciate it 💯

  • @ecurewitz
    @ecurewitz Год назад

    Wicked awesome. Full of interesting information. Thanks

  • @taybak8446
    @taybak8446 3 года назад +1

    I thoroughly enjoyed this informative video.

  • @ABCshake
    @ABCshake 2 года назад +3

    Great stuff! I hope you cover the royal lineage of the Athenians

  • @herculianthegreat
    @herculianthegreat 3 года назад +5

    Discovered this channel now very interesting friend i just subscribed now!

    • @WanaxTV
      @WanaxTV  3 года назад +3

      Thank you very much, appreciate it bro!

  • @OccultKenji
    @OccultKenji 2 года назад +1

    Amazing job

  • @TakisTravel
    @TakisTravel Год назад +1

    Wonderful presentation. 👍
    Friendly greetings from Greece.

  • @Massimo2.0-zj1qy
    @Massimo2.0-zj1qy 4 месяца назад +1

    I like it how you, instead of impulsively claiming that the greeks somehow completely forgot their past as many "scholars" claim, check whether the myths have evidence or not.

  • @RFmath_
    @RFmath_ 2 года назад +5

    Can you do a video about the Heracleidae?

    • @WanaxTV
      @WanaxTV  2 года назад +5

      It’s in the works! There might be a whole series of videos.

    • @RFmath_
      @RFmath_ 2 года назад +2

      @@WanaxTV You're awesome man! Another cool one would be a video about Aeneas! :)

  • @Insectoid_
    @Insectoid_ 6 месяцев назад

    Happy new year. 🥳

  • @Kampfwageneer
    @Kampfwageneer Месяц назад

    incredible that we can trace these kings from 1700BC !~

  • @sprc155
    @sprc155 Год назад +2

    Oh wanax, the original greek word for king of kings

  • @cat_city2009
    @cat_city2009 10 месяцев назад

    What sources do we have for Bronze Age Greece?

  • @strahinjabojovic7797
    @strahinjabojovic7797 3 года назад +4

    ♥️

  • @Jackal263
    @Jackal263 2 года назад +5

    So, lets clear one thing up.
    Achaeans was not their name. Nor Mycenaeans.
    Achaeans is the englification of the greek word Αρχαιοί(Akhae-ee), which is a modern term. Modern day archeologists named them like that because later greeks (of the classical and hellenistic age) called them -ancients- relative to them.
    So Alexander and Pericles are considered ancient greeks relative to us greeks today, but they considered agamemnon and atreas ancient.
    In greek ancients is αρχαίοι(arkhae-ee) and by changing the name by removing the "r", modern ppl named them Achaeans so they can understand each other while communicating..
    This is very important.
    Because by naming them achaeans, one might get confused and think they were not greeks or that they didnt consider themselfs the same breed/kind.
    They called each other by the place they grew up (exp. Thessalian, Cretan) but they knew they were one fraction. So all their wars are civil wars.
    All in all, when modern greeks say Ancient greeks they mean greeks in the era ofthe Minoans, of Agamemnon, of Miltiades to Alexander and to Constantine the great.
    But, Miltiades considered ancient the greeks of Agamemnons era.

    • @delgado.adrian160
      @delgado.adrian160 2 года назад +3

      Yes and no, there are two known exonyms that refer to at least some part of Mycenaean Greece during the Bronze Age. "Tanaju" used in Egypt for Mainland Greece up into the 1340s BC (replacing "Keftiu" used for Minoan Crete), and Ahhiya/Ahhiyawa used in Hittite correspondence starting with the letters about Madduwatta (late 14th or early 13th century BC). There is also Ekwesh, which has been proposed as a reference to the same base Mycenaean word that Ahhiya/Ahhiyawa derives from (although we don't know what that word would be), and used in the 1250s BC for one of the sea peoples, but the link is not proven and it's likely going to stay that way. So we know that at least the Hittites were calling them by something resembling "Achaean" during the last century before the Bronze Age Collapse, what we don't know is what did they call themselves.

    • @LuisAldamiz
      @LuisAldamiz 2 года назад +5

      The word Achaean, along with Danaoi and Argives are used almost interchangeably in the Illiad, meaning "Greeks". The term is also present in Hittite and Egyptian chronicles (Ahhiyawa, Ekwesh), in the latter case however they use more their version of Danaoi: Denesh.
      It's not "modern" in any way, modern is "Mycenaean Greece", which is fair enough but has some people sometimes nit-picking about some other city/realm, like Athens, Sparta, Thebes or Pylos, not being in the name.

  • @TheRealTomahawk
    @TheRealTomahawk Год назад

    Thank you so much for this video you shed light on things I didn’t know before. I knew the Hyksos were in Egypt and the mythological Greek Olympian line of demigods begins with Europa and then Io going to Egypt after leaving Crete Atlantis and Zeus then Apis and Memphis, then like Libya, Belus and Agenor, etc… that’s the most confusing part about Egypt, because it Hass to be the Egyptian Atlantis, when the Minoans were still the dominant country. Did you know that Caphtor of Crete is Hephaestus? Apparently his forge was in Memphis Egypt. Egypt is where the Nereids were born the children of Nereus the old man of the sea, who was even in the Iliad. Aphrodite was supposed to be a Nereid. Thetis mother of Achilles is a Nereid that makes Nereus the grandfather of Achilles.
    I didn’t know Io was a priestess in a princess of Argos

  • @TheRealTomahawk
    @TheRealTomahawk Год назад

    Was Argos the one eyed giant, who protected Io? Or is Argos just a name for the Argives?

  • @boxscreen8268
    @boxscreen8268 2 года назад +3

    I like you putting cliff from assassin creed odyssey☕

  • @peterroberts7684
    @peterroberts7684 11 месяцев назад +1

    There seems to be two Sparta's ,the expansionist proto Imperial Sparta of Agamemnon,and The Sparta founded Lycurgus, The Law giver,which became More introspective,also I Need to understand who or what were The Dorians, and their links to Hercules???,plus were they of the same origin as the Macedonians?

    • @gregorygogolev5707
      @gregorygogolev5707 4 месяца назад

      It was mentioned somewhere that the Macedonians were in fact distant relatives of the Doric Spartans

  • @mariobillmeier8175
    @mariobillmeier8175 2 года назад

    Hey,whats abaut Tantalos and Pelops.They came from Paphlagonia in Asia,probably fleeing from expanding Hittite Empire and establisht themself as rulers of Mycine.Pelops conqert the whole Penninsula which was called then the Pelopsisland aka Peloponesos.Coming from Ahisia,Asia,they were called Achijava,giving the Names to the Greeks of their Time.from that came the later Names of Achaeens and Yavanna,aka Ionian.I am missing the Connection in your Artikles although I like them a lot.The heritage of importent Dynastys in early Greece from Anatolya can explain their constant fiendship,open or hidden with the Hittes also.please answer me.

  • @viorelpiscanu9425
    @viorelpiscanu9425 3 месяца назад

    Naplion the FIRST capital of Newly independent Greece back into 1829... For just few years ...

  • @kimberlyperrotis8962
    @kimberlyperrotis8962 Год назад

    The name Pelasgian means something like people of the sea, I sometimes wonder if they were called this from a distant memory of The Sea Peoples. Of course, we know that Indo-European migrants or conquerors brought the early Hellenic language to those who lived in Greece, sometime before 3,000 BCE. I think the question is: to what degree did the IE speakers displace or kill the previous population in Greece, particularly the males as they did in other places, probably the Pelasgians? There is remarkable continuity of DNA from Minoan and Mykenean era peoples with the current population of Greece, including on Crete. Except for one small population (The Mani) in the Peloponnese, there is no later Slavic genetic signature in Greece, unlike in most of the Balkan region. The ancient Greeks said others were Greek if they shared the same: “blood, Gods and language”. Ancient Macedonia was Hellenized by its Greek Royal Dynasties, especially under Philip II and Alexander, but its population was almost entirely replaced by later Slavic migrants, there is little Greek DNA there now.

  • @sprc155
    @sprc155 Год назад +4

    Crete has more history than the whole Europe combined

  • @kimberlyperrotis8962
    @kimberlyperrotis8962 Год назад

    Great, as always. But, please pronounce Greek names the Greek way. For one thing, C is always pronounced K (the Romans rewrote Greek names according to their preference, of which one was using C for the K sound). Mykenae is said Mi-KEE-nay, and Mykeneans is Mi-KEE-ne-ans. The shift of using C for S sounds in certain cases didn’t happen in Latin until much later and is something English got from the French. Other common inaccuracies are the Latin endings -um for the Greek -on and the Latin -us for the Greek -os.

  • @magdapetsi6560
    @magdapetsi6560 Год назад +2

    Mycenaeans are oldest people even from Cycladic civilization .. we have 2 writes from 5200 bce who belongs to Mycenaeans and its in Theshaly .. unfortunatly for you Mycenaeans is the GREEKS with Greek and Latin write ..they existed at Theshaly before from 5200 bce .. so we think that in Argos maybe we have ancient Mycenaeans writes before 10000 bce .. we will search in Argos cause Theshaly people and Macedonians was from Argos and was Mycenaeans ,, Mycenaeans had nation before Cycladic civilization

  • @joanapira365
    @joanapira365 11 месяцев назад

    Agenor= He who knew his time or fate or future

    • @chrisg.k487
      @chrisg.k487 3 месяца назад

      Where did you find these nonsenses 😂😂😂

  • @joanapira365
    @joanapira365 11 месяцев назад

    Achaean=The ones at the borderline or aside ones

  • @joanapira365
    @joanapira365 11 месяцев назад

    Lakoni= the tricky ones

  • @viorelpiscanu9425
    @viorelpiscanu9425 3 месяца назад

    "Timeo Danaos" ...refering to that legendara horse gave as a gift to Trojans by " Danaos" or Aheeians... They said term Danaos came from Egypt... Anyway Greek is the name gave by Romans...

  • @joanapira365
    @joanapira365 11 месяцев назад

    Triopas=the rider

  • @joanapira365
    @joanapira365 11 месяцев назад

    Inachos= The tall one

  • @joanapira365
    @joanapira365 11 месяцев назад

    Heraion= our windy one

  • @joanapira365
    @joanapira365 11 месяцев назад

    Apis= the giver

  • @joanapira365
    @joanapira365 11 месяцев назад

    Mycenae= we are from stars

  • @johnbooth1110
    @johnbooth1110 Год назад

    You can still see the Pelasgian face on the streets of Athens they are petite long face and long narrow heads,

  • @joanapira365
    @joanapira365 11 месяцев назад

    Criasos= head of or the leading one

  • @joanapira365
    @joanapira365 11 месяцев назад

    Agamemnon/Hakamenon=he thinks of revenge or moral or brainy one

  • @Jerina369
    @Jerina369 Месяц назад

    Vinca is the oldest

  • @joanapira365
    @joanapira365 11 месяцев назад

    Schyon= the torn one

  • @joanapira365
    @joanapira365 11 месяцев назад

    Midea= the great one

  • @user-po7xn8ri7r
    @user-po7xn8ri7r Месяц назад

    Today Malta greece israel turkey Albania Macedonia and surely Italy corsica all those countries have mycenean antiquity

  • @joanapira365
    @joanapira365 11 месяцев назад

    Pelasgos= the gigant

  • @russianbot8423
    @russianbot8423 2 года назад

    That archway you always show with the lions is from hittite capital.

    • @SpartanLeonidas1821
      @SpartanLeonidas1821 Год назад +2

      Thats from Mycenae! They had a similar Archway. This is the Lions Gate in Greece, unless you are referring to something else! If that’s the case, then please forgive me 😃

  • @matiascarvalho9424
    @matiascarvalho9424 Месяц назад

    Hi wanax. I have a recomendation as a spanish speaker (i'm from Uruguay).
    I see your video titles are suggested to me in spanish. Idont think that works. No one from a spanish speaking country would watch a video in English based on their generated subtitles. Either You understand English or not. The spanish title may bring some people to the videos that Will clic but then leave as soon as they SEE it's in English. Most of native speakers that watch your videos just know English and consume content in english and prefer to have titles in English for the videos they consume un English.
    Love your content

  • @joanapira365
    @joanapira365 11 месяцев назад

    Dendra= fallen on the ground

  • @joanapira365
    @joanapira365 11 месяцев назад

    Telchis= The wired one

  • @lextube78
    @lextube78 8 месяцев назад

    Achaia or Achaea weren't the Mycenaean's,,, the Achaeans used iron swords round sheilds long before the Mycenaean did,,, but they were alias!

  • @joanapira365
    @joanapira365 11 месяцев назад

    Argoi=Golden mouth

  • @viorelpiscanu9425
    @viorelpiscanu9425 3 месяца назад

    These Polises are both bless & curse of Greece...

  • @miguelserrano1398
    @miguelserrano1398 2 года назад

    😮👍mira así soll como las portada que sale ferte de este narasion peso que partispar en una película así es fasinte queno le gustaría llo de lo que sea Gratis selos doll por firmado 😀👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍Miguel Anguel Serrano Qirrino mensajes 🙂

  • @joanapira365
    @joanapira365 11 месяцев назад

    Tiryns=the protected

  • @joanapira365
    @joanapira365 11 месяцев назад

    Lerna= Us born

  • @goodwinter6017
    @goodwinter6017 3 года назад

    voice over needs working on.

  • @joanapira365
    @joanapira365 11 месяцев назад

    Asine= cant enter

  • @dominicjohnson310
    @dominicjohnson310 Год назад +1

    It’s interesting that the Greeks referred to Macedonians as barbarians, isn’t that only reserved for non Hellenic’s? So maybe the original Macedonians were Hellenized Slavs??

    • @iwannalavassa5501
      @iwannalavassa5501 Год назад +1

      Not exactly ... Macedonians had civilization and wealth!!!!look at the filip's tumb elements..for other reasons they called them barbarians

    • @dominicjohnson310
      @dominicjohnson310 Год назад

      @@iwannalavassa5501 well the Greeks called anyone who was non Greek Barbarian

    • @iwannalavassa5501
      @iwannalavassa5501 Год назад +2

      @@dominicjohnson310 I know that but there are more details about that...

    • @dominicjohnson310
      @dominicjohnson310 Год назад +1

      @@iwannalavassa5501 also the Macedonians weren’t allowed to compete in the Olympic Games that was specifically only for Hellenics. Most likely Macedonians were Hellenized Thracians and Illyrian’s, which explains why true Greeks didn’t like them

    • @iwannalavassa5501
      @iwannalavassa5501 Год назад +5

      @@dominicjohnson310 the Father of Alexander the great compete to the Olympic games...

  • @Matamumi
    @Matamumi 5 месяцев назад

    New genetic study done by Dr. Iosif Lazaridis from Harvard Medical School in Massachusetts showed that the Achaeans were present only 4-16% of Mycenaean population while Early European Farmers who originate in Asia Minor dominated 62-86% of the people who created Mycenaean civilization!!! They were not the Achaeans from the Steppe they came from Asia Minor and the Fertile Crescent HUGE DIFFERENCE they were not Indo-Europeans, which was clear before if you checked their artworks and symblogy they have used.

  • @charlessturge4911
    @charlessturge4911 2 года назад +1

    It is very disingenuous to present as history, myth, and to gloss over the huge debates about this period to present a single narrative.

    • @carlosalegria4776
      @carlosalegria4776 2 года назад

      Have historians unanimously agreed on anything? This is literally a civilization that collapsed, 600 years passed after its collapse with no history whatsoever, and you're bickering because the man tries to fill in the gaps a little bit?

    • @charlessturge4911
      @charlessturge4911 2 года назад

      @@carlosalegria4776 there is a reason why archaeologists don't invent narratives like the above, precisely because the evidence is lacking.

    • @carlosalegria4776
      @carlosalegria4776 2 года назад

      @@charlessturge4911 Archaelogists are a bunch of corrupt people anyway. They literally cannot explain geological fact on the erosion of the sphinx. They continue to claim a megalithic structure like gobleki tepe was built by hunter gatherers. The pyramids being tombs of pharaohs is also a made up theory that just gained traction among those circles and they began propagating them as fact. I'm sorry but an appeal to authority to that community means nothing to me.

    • @charlessturge4911
      @charlessturge4911 2 года назад

      @@carlosalegria4776 Ok sweetie, you believe whatever kooky theories you like and go on believing your google knowledge outweighs expertise. Bless.

    • @carlosalegria4776
      @carlosalegria4776 2 года назад

      @@charlessturge4911 seething little archaelogist detected. Iif you're such an expert, go make videos to spread knowledge. You won't, because you're an elitist snob who shills for hacks in academic positions.

  • @user-po7xn8ri7r
    @user-po7xn8ri7r Месяц назад

    Pelasgians where not greeks?

  • @jamesbellegarde2893
    @jamesbellegarde2893 Год назад

    Love the video, but the culture of Malta might actually pre-date Mycenaean Greece….might😎

  • @joanapira365
    @joanapira365 11 месяцев назад

    Trochylas=The protector