Building Angkor - Monsoon Metropolis - Extra History - Part 1
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- Опубликовано: 21 сен 2024
- 📜 Building Angkor: Monsoon Metropolis - Let's lay down the foundations for one of the architectural marvels of the ancient world: At its height, the city of Angkor was, by several measures, the largest city of the medieval era. With a million people and a footprint larger than modern-day New York, it was arguably the world’s largest pre-industrial city. And at its center lay the magnificent Angkor Wat.
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#ExtraHistory #AngkorWat #History
Ankor challenges a lot of ideas about medieval cities and we can't wait to dive into such a rich history! What are you most curious about?
First
EVERYTHING
Sambhaji
History... just any history
Can you do a video on ancient Philippine history please?
"The temple is like no other building in the world. It has towers and decoration and all the refinements which the human genius can conceive of."
-Antonio da Magdalena
I don't actually know who this guy is, I just got this quote from Civilization V
No one really important, just a capuchin friar who go to India and was the first european to see Angkor Wat, he later give his impressions to an historian, try to help restore the temple (but this project failed) and die in a shipwreck ^^
I think it is fitting for this amazing structure :D
Civ V!
VI is better
A fitting quote from someone who watches this channel and a fitting source and knowledge of the Sayer for someone with Aqua as their icon.
My technology teachers wife was standing on top of Ankor Wat only a few weeks after Sputnik was launched. I remember her telling me how strange she felt to be there looking up watching something that was then so modern move across the night sky above her, while something so ancient lay beneath her very feet. Such a wild thing to have lived first hand.
That's so cool 😩
Thanks for sharing that amazing 20th century vs 12th century back in time.
@@hengoudom481I love you 😘
As someone used to the Celsius scale I had a brief "wait, what?" moment at 5:40, before realizing it's Fahrenheit.
BTW, a very interesting episode!
it's the dry season.... because all the water in the lakes boils and evaporates
Can relate
ME see and ear 100°...
my brain : stop kidding...
also my brain 3 sec later : ah right... 100°F not 100°C.
Same here. I was all like
"During the dry season [...] temperatures rise over 100° " -> not possibile. The Dascht-e Lut holds the record at 78,2°C. Ground so hot liquid water starts boiling? I guess you mean 100°Fahrenheit ~38°C .
I have read a little about the Fahrenheit-Skala and it has some decent toughts behind it. Truth is: around here it is only briefly mentioned in school.
Yeah the vast majority of the world is used to Celsius.
I’m Cambodian! Angkor Wat is something’s a lot of Cambodians take pride in, you covered everything! Good job!
Cambodia was once a great Hindu Kingdom and later converted to Buddhism.
Tamil king from south India
@@airiarisaka5699 Khmer, not Tamil. Look at the sculptures of king Jayavarman and Hindu apsaras at Angkor Wat temple. They were Eastern Asian.
“Hinduism, not shy on biology”
Greek pantheon: “99% of our problem were because the gods couldn’t keep in their pants”
*Hinduism
@@Master-fi3ci sorry.
@@florians9949 it's ok bro. Peace
Titans and Monsters: Are you sure about that
@@turquoiserecommended811Yeah, prety sure. Most events that happened in the Greek mythology was either because the gods where too damn horny, pridefull or both. Monsters where ussually just colateral damages (cougth coutgh medusa, arachne or minotaur) and the Titans didn’t do much outside of the Titanomachy, and because the gods were assholes.
2:38 - "Modern Archeologists"
That "Indiana Jones" joke was somehow .. hilarious... XD
Yvette Szentesi Archaeologists*
@@lilithserena342 maybe you've missed that little "or archeologist" note in the dictionaries? :-B
100° : wow its technically boiling water tenperature
30 feet : oke its american ==
It’s a little under 40 degrees C
@@kytt2970 So just your average Eastern European July midday. Noted.
Farenheit silly billies
only america can fight a long bloody war for independence then 200 years later stubbornly stick to the weights and measures of its former tyrant
I'll have you know every military organization of the US uses the metric system.
So fascinating how this hugeass advanced civilization was almost forgotten because they built from perishable materials.
Makes you wonder what other secrets are still hidden...
MOST civs that didn't start working stone. Majority of buildings in Middle East like Egypt in Africa or Sumer and Akkad in Asia, were made from mud bricks. They didn't last long. City walls made from beaten earth were sturdy enough for a siege. Only temples and sometimes palaces were made from stone. What's left... well, that reminds me of Ozymandias:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away...
@@KasumiRINAsearch about kailasha temple india
You will amaze after knowing what indian civilization was and how it suffered and still going on
After al these years of watching the series I have one point of criticism: please note metric measurements. Non Americans have no idea what your talking about. Thnx
yes, the thing is most papers work with the metric system so it shouldn't be that much work
They absolutely know. If you dont have even a modicum of knowledge of how to convert, then you are beyond stupid
booty_ hunter420 it is never taught in school(most places) and most people don’t ever need it. So most people don’t bother to learn how to convert.
booty_ hunter420 chill
@@booty_hunter4207 Yes they do however the metric system is way better. Our counting system goes in increments of 10. Want proof?
60.00 and 6.00 have different values just due to their positions in the numbers and one change makes it ten times larger or smaller.
So why not use metric with it's easy to conceptualize system of 10?
"Hoh, those things look like penises. Artist is having a laugh."
"Wait, what?"
"together they show the creative life giving-" Bursts out laughing*
Heh, they drank dick water
Literally it's much more complex....
They also represents kinda of VTOL rocket aircraft...
But ifbyou research... You will realise how naive our world is now....
And how advance we were before...
When the RUclips algorithm realizes what is being depicted:
AnGkOr WhAt?
I’m here all day, people
0:12 Haha, that symbol looks like the Twitch logo.
7:27 Nope, it's a uterus.
7:33 Yeah, it's definitely a uterus.
Hey Khmer, I time to share, new kingdoms here and there
"I understood that reference."
*"Hey, we could make a religion out of this!"*
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it the Suljick Turks!
Remember those trading kingdoms there’s more of them
That was my exact though when I heard that name... Watched that too many times...
P.S.: "China's whole again.... Then it broke again"
7:19 Well, that was surprisingly matter of fact.
*Yeeting the PC out of the window*
Jack Pilger yeah.... our religion has a LOT of weird stuff like this. Like a lot
@@nethascotx24 Are you hinduist?
Fred Gamer yep. It's REALLY weird. Oh btw it's Hindu
@@nethascotx24 my bad, i'm from Brazil
The fact that there's still stuff on this scale that's being discovered by archaeology in my lifetime makes me excited.
I'm Khmer and this got released on my birthday! I'm crying 😭😭😭
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday!!!
Happy birthday :D
Happy Birthday!
Happy birthday Khmer!
I was lucky enough to tour Angkor last time we were in Cambodia.
Let’s just say. A 14 year old kid with a knack for history with adhd at Angkor is literally a mother’s worse nightmare
Also I’m born in Vietnam so I look fairly Asian, meaning it’s really hard to see me anywhere else than in Denmark (where we live)
Hii do you wanna be friends?
Me: *sees 100 degrees* So they are at boiling point each dry season?
Also Me: *sees 30 feet* Ah, so they are using that barbaric system.
Thought the same thing... what a stupid system eh.
The system that split the atom and put men on the Moon? In my experience people that call others "barbaric" and "stupid" do so ironically. A wise person might hold that such feats enacted under a ponderously complex system of measure might be all the more genius. What system build Angkor? Was it the Metric system? Or the Pyramids of the globe? Maybe all those before Napoleon were "stupid barbarians." 🙄
Very problematic for educational videos. We don't want another rover slamming into mars do we...
How did you think it was boiling? Celsius is just celsius. It isnt measured in degrees last i checked
Yeah. When its Fahrenheit or Kelvin, it should be mentioned.
I actually believed this for a little while, going, yeah, something like really dark asphalt or something, forgetting they didnt have asphalt. I think i was way too tired. Ive even been there during Tet and seen it was not boiling hot.
"What is a Linga?"
Aaand Demonetized!
Seriously though, excellent start to what promises to be a very interesting series. Never expected to see something like this, but I'm already engrossed.
xD its sad if you tube wont understand!
Demonitized content: creative, funny, socially relevant, factually correct and historically accurate.
@Dark Emperor That symbolism never stopped neopagans making wooden penii and worshiping them after reading too much "aryan" hoaxes like Book of Veles and stuff.
It's like Ying and Yang
Mean while auto generated captions: *_'King Joy Waterman'_*
hail king joy waterman
Akash Bava its kinda fitting actually haha
Now, it’s “jwharam on the second”
And yes, I used 3:52 for this.
I usually don't care, but since you're an educational channel I feel obligated to tell you that Khmer is pronounced "Khmai" like sky. Probably one of the series I've most ever been excited to see, not enough people talk about Cambodia. Much love.
EC: The new video is about building Angkor!
Rando: What?
EC: Exactly!
"To the city of god-kings, to the city of Angkor"
Lonely as I am, together we cry
Well at least Angkor wat has alot of visitor everyday, how about you ? Do u have any ?
Would totally listen to a RHCP album about the ancient kingdom of Khmer
"BEEN A LONG TIME GONE"
When Mashup historical accuracy with a song.
Istanbul was ...
@@MARSRAM005 Constantinople
9:40 Correction: These are Apsaras. Apsaras are not goddesses, they are divine women more akin to the Norse Valkyries..
Well, similar to Valkyries as being divine and beautiful. But serving the role like a seductress & terrible mothers, as oppose to maybe like battle angels.
5:40
Americans: wow, 100°, that's a lot
Europeans: *REEEEEEEE*
You mean literally the rest of the world
@@robertli3600 i think you really can say "the rest"
"... after all he had leprosy and was eager to make his mark"
sick
.... T-that... Was that a 3x combo pun?
@@guessmyname1246 like onions have layers
Hey guys.
I love your videos👍
I'm from Germany and I have no problem with converting American units to the metric system, but I think that a lot people would appreciate if you would also put your length measurements and so on in metric.
A fan who loves every episode of your show.
Leon
OMG, Angkor's climate is so extreme! The country boils!
@@nabielw are you sure it's not 1.745rad? There's no way to distinguish what kind of degree that symbol stands for...
Awww yeah. Khmer pride! (Even though I'm born and raised in Sweden) ហូ!
7:38 LMAO THE LENNY FACES IN THE CLOSED CAPTIONS XD
Thanks guys :) Cambodia (and Southeast Asia in general) has a beautiful and rich history that deserves to be seen. Angkor is a breathtaking place, if you ever have the opportunity, please go.
Angkor is so fascinating, it's on my bucket list
"Cant wait to angkor someday"
I almost got kicked out of it lol
You should definitely head out for Wat.
Same.
All I can say is that it is massive, beautiful, and a lot of shops around it. P.s. keep your bags/backpack in front of you at all times
Thank you guys so much for doing this. Cambodia is a small country but it's rich in culture and history that often gets overlooked.
I've been to Angkor Wat. This guy is not kidding--this place is HUGE! My friends and I spent three days exploring the ruins, and even then we couldn't get to all the temples. And this was with someone driving us throughout the area of the site. Even more impressive--there are still areas covered in jungle that have not been cleared yet. I was flabbergasted at how big this thing was. The only other time I spent three days on ONE monument was the Louvre in Paris, which is by far the largest museum in the world, and the largest palace in Europe.
You do realized that the Khmer Empire but thousands of temples and cities all over mainland South East Asia and what you just explored was the tip of the iceberg.
Angkor Wat is the perfect example of Ancient Hindu cities and what Hinduism has contributed in making the world beautiful❤❤❤🇮🇳🇮🇳🚩🚩🚩
Jai Shree Ram 🙏
For the benefit of non-Americans watching this:
100° (it doesn't say, but I'm assuming is Fahrenheit) translates as 38°C
30 feet are 9, 144 metres
30 feet is about 10 meters.
9.144* not 9,144 xD
@@nishilbhartiya Other countries and languages use commas as decimal separators.
@@EditEraseRewrite which is also confusing since comas are used to separate list entries.
9,144 meters seemed a little big
this was really cool and fun to learn about the most interesting bit has to be about harnessing the power of the monsoon through the use of hydraulics and irrigation systems can't wait to hear more about that next time!
Couldn’t hold back that song reference, huh extra history?
Really appreciate your episodes. Hope you can do one about the Philippines. From pre-Spanish period (before 1500s) to today. Very colorful history. :) Keep up the good work and stay safe.
finally! Cambodia has such a rich history and i’m glad u are helping share one of our treasures to the world!
I love these videos on South Asia like the Majapahit series. I love history and between this and African history it's my biggest blank spots, so I LOVE hearing all of this. So much stuff I don't know about so many great civilizations and people.
I am a Cambodian and oh yeah I am thankful that you made an entire series dedicated to our culture thank you
Hey Extra Credits! I really like your videos on history, but I'd love to have small captions with the corresponding SI measurements when you use imperial. Keep up the great videos!
Or they could at least specify the measurement units
Extra credits while trying to be inclusive and not US/Eurocentric with the history covered on their channel, and at the same time being incredibly UScentric with their measurement units *hypocricy 100*
@@macanaeh It's not like we all hate Europeans, it's just that no one wants to go through the extra work making *EVERYONE* understand it.
Been a long time fan, finally an episode about my country🤩
I like that because I’m Khmer and I lived by Angkor
Just came back from an illuminating Siem Reap mission trip. Angkor Thom and Angkor Wat are simply amazing, and our guide showed us and explained so much for us. J-man 7 is the MAN!
7:30 ah. I understand now why my history teacher grazed this topic.
Grazed lingas? gigity.
Guys, you always make a huge point out of being as inclusive as possible, which is great!
That's why it really surprises me that you would not give metric values for the measures that you quote. The vast majority in the world uses metric and imperial values mean nothing to them.
EH: “Khmer Empire, around 1150”
Me: “Actually it’s 5:03”
This is way better than a lecture about history than my Khmer school. I applaud you
at 2:11 , you forgot to add Vijayanagara , in Hampi , capital of Vijayanagara empire.
Theres a great doco on Angor Wat called Jungle Atlantis for anyone interested in learning more.
Its a fascinating topic, well done on the video guys!
Wow, I always thought Angkor Wat was way older!
This is such a timely video!! I just visited the Angkor complex last week. The atmosphere is practically shimmering with history and religion! It’s a stunning and mesmerizing place to explore. It’s wonderful to learn even more about it now.
Happy 1000th Video Extra Credits :)
@2:09
As a lifelong They Might Be Giants fan, I appreciate this greatly.
would it be too much to ask to use the metric system at least alongside the imperial stuff?
Listened to the song "Nokor Thom", and I cried, a lot! Heck of a job, Tiffany, heck of a job!
🥰🥰🥰 Thank you for making a video abt my country
"Constantinople (been a long time gone)"
I LOVE IT
Whenever I hear Angkor Wat I have to think of Illusion of Gaia. Good to know what the actual inspiration for that dungeon is.
Yo I'm super happy you guys are branching into historic architecture, keep up the wonderful work
2:09 been a long time ago... Ok you can pass now
I am Cambodian. Thank you for doing this video.
Like if you’re proud to be a cambodian
Yeah...then i was. For now not exactly :)
I swear to die for my country
Imsuperproudowo
Thanks "Extra History" for uploading and history of Angkor Wat. 🌏🔆Ancient Khmer civilizations have done an excellent job and Engineering very much. Great presentations!
I'm fine with you talking in imperial but at the very least write it down in both metric and imperial.
Danny cul If you are gonna say imperial you really don’t have a excuse for anything about that as it’s called customary and idek how you got imperial as the Europeans crated the metric system and they were imperial not the US
I’ve been waiting for this series for so long!!!! THANK YOU
So... Did they boil each summer? 100 degrees and all...
100 degrees F. That is only like 38C.
Only XD
Glad you decided to change (Square miles, Fahrenheit....) to units everyone else can understand as well in the following seasons.
wow, you could boil water at 100 degrees, they should set up an open hydrothermal generator if the air is so hot
100°F, that makes 33°C. At 100°C, water boils, but human skin burned :p
@@krankarvolund7771 100° in angkor is in C, EC just thinks in F tho. its no wonder why no one wants to go there with that temp, it only gets to 40° here during the summer. I cant imagine 100°
Matthew Carrell
Hey what day is it on metric time
@@krankarvolund7771 37.7°C mate, at least do the conversion properly.
@@eleSDSU Well, mea culpa, I used a site for the conversion, but my brain change the number between the time where I look at it and the time where I wrote it XD
Captions make this much more better
2:10 I saw that reference to They Might be Giants
Fun Fact: Istanbul (Not Constantinople) was NOT written by They Might Be Giants. It was written in 1953 by two guys named Jimmy Kennedy and Nat Simon, and performed by a quartet called The Four Lads. The TMBG cover is better though.
You're not joking about this impressive city being less discussed than its peers, it's the only one I've never heard of from that list.
It's typical in agrarian societies to tax farmers by having them work on public projects when they're idle, i.e. between plantings and harvests.
Well, you don't want to have idle farmers, I mean imagine they could start to think :p
Also warfare was mainly conducted in that window, because come harvest peasant levies would be needed on the fields.
@@Oxtocoatl13 Come to think of it, Roman troops were put on public works when they weren't fighting, too.
@@525Lines I mean in that period, practically every country employs the same system. Peasant, serf, nobles, etc. Different name but the practice is more or less the same.
I watched an incredible documentary about Ankor Wat last year. Stunning is an understatement!
Khmer is actually pronounced “Koo-mai” weird, i know
i think it’s more of khe- mare
@@oli3096 its khmae
It actually depends on what region you're from. I've talked to Khmer friends about this. Some areas still use older Khmer language and the pronunciation differs from Central Khmer. In Northeast Thailand there are Khmer communities that have been isolated from Cambodia for centuries and their language retained old words and pronunciations so that its a dialect unintelligible to Central Khmer.
Is actually not weird for us khmer just for you Americans
Its actually spelled Kha-me
Omg finally finally thanks you!! I need to be a patreon member!! Also his Khmer pronunciation is very good to be honest.
WATER you doing guys
I'm out *leaves building*
You should SEA a professional and get help.
Larry Lewinsohn yeah that was his Pun-ishment
@Cross Van Dust COOL pun
Sea water I did there ?
@@thynara8500 embarrass yourself ?,yeah I did
For the roughly 7.3 billion people not using Imperial measurements:
37 degrees Celsius odd
9.14 metres or so
Thanks the MESSIAH!!!!!
Please make vids about Byzantine history and Bulgaria
not interesting at all, and if Byzantine wasn't fighting wars on many fronts, Bulgaria would have been crushed easily early on... And IDK about greeks, be here in Bulgaria many make it seem like it was a great history, when it wasn't.
They did a series on Justinian, and the Early Christian Schisms had a lot of focus on Constantine. They could always do more, of course. 1000 years is a long time. But they haven't exactly been ignored
@@badass6300 Then don't watch the video, some of us find it interesting.
All though they're adults and angry, they still look pretty cute!!!!!!!! I mean your animation of people are so cute!!!!!!!!! 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
48 seconds in, already has a dislike somehow.
*someone* got pissed at EC at some point
k lol
There's a bot that autonomously dislikes videos by popular channels
it's the pronounciation.
This video has barley even been out long enough for someone to watch it all
@@biohazard724 oh thanks
You should have covered the Khmer Empire massive port cities. One of them is in central Vietnam now modern day Thi Nai port. When the Khmer shook over Champa they built this huge de-watered port which became one of the biggest before the industrial Revolution used for trading with Song Dynasty China during the 12th-13th century A.D.
Can you please do one on the Ethiopian empire and the Ethiopian-Italian war
The City of Angkor Wat, built by the predecessor of my country. Thank you for covering it, my country is not well known to the world.
2:39 Poor Indy.🤣🤣🤣🤣
Have you heard of Angkor Wat?
Angkor what?
Angkor WAT!!
Fine. Keep your secrets.
Not to be a jerk, but it would be better if you folks could use metric system. It's hard to understand all the feet and miles. Yes, I could use a calculator, but then it spoils the story as one is distracted by stopping the video every so often to calculate measures.
Silvia Sánchez
Maybe if the world was 100% metric sure. Have fun with metric time.
One of my favourite things about medieval and “Dark age” history is that the dark age was only really in Europe because other places from Tenochtitlan to Angkor were flourishing
I also really love that this channel talks about history that most western public education programs don’t normally talk about (where I am we only learned about Japan and Tenochtitlan when we talked about America and Europe)
And even in Europe the notion of Dark Age needs to be seriously diminished, it was a pretty mess after (and mostly during ^^) the fall of the Western Roman Empire, but after that, things start to get smoother ^^
Hey khmer, time to share. New kingdoms here and there.
7:37
OMG YOU NEED TO TURN ON CLOSED CAPTIONS HERE ITS SO FUNNY 🤣😂
Right Brain: "Why would you mine such a world-famous archaeological site?"
Left Brain: "So the other guys don't attack you through it."
Right Brain: "...Oh, right."
Love the smirk faces on english subtitles from 7.10 to 7.40😅 cracked me up.
this is really cool their should be more creative writing about this place
If at all possible all should save to visit the Siem Reap, Cambodia area. I have visited twice each over a period of two weeks to take in all the culture, history and architecture there and it is always increasing in what is being presented.
100°C Temperatur? Wait a minute... Oh, THOSE kind of 100°...
Seeing how your videos are watched the world over, can't you stop using fake units like Fahrenheit - or at least add the iso units, so non-US people can follow?
Jochen Brinkmann
If you don’t use metric time your comment is invalid
These videos seriously should use the metric system. Even i got confused for a while after seeing 100 degrees. I swear, americans should simply discard their Miles and Fahrenheit bullshit.
"using fake units like Fahrenheit" or they can use both
It's ok, there are conversion rates out there. How do you think I feel? I prefer Kelvin!
@@isaacschmitt4803 Well, °Kelvin and °C are basically the same scale - just add or substract 273°, so no pobs there. At least mentioning the unit used would have spared me (and others in this comment section) a major WTF moment!
100 degrees? Water evaporates at hundred degrees. That must be really hot.
its cuz they use Fahrenheit (even tho Celsius is better )
"Sees dislike"
who hurt you?
Imperial system probably
i would love to see you guys do a series on either Napoleon and the Napolenic Wars or Cromwell and the English Civil War.
Cromwell especially, as none on RUclips are giving it a proper video or 10.