I was a commodity broker for about 10 years back in the 1980s. The Romans and Egyptians had a form of banking in that you could deposit grain in say Egypt, and draw out a like amount in Rome using your letter. Our teacher from the Chicago Board of Trade said that there may have been some futures trading based on speculation of prices going up or down. It would not surprise me to find out that the Sumerians did the same thing.
Yeah, actual commodities are where it's at! I just read this book called The Creature From Jekyll Island by G Edward Griffin showing just how perverse fiat currency really is and its true purposes. The powers that be even put the Tower of Babel with the eye of Horus and the words "Novus Ordo Seclorum" or "New Order of the Ages" on fiat currency, openly advertising what it's really for to anyone paying attention!
That's my point. So much of what makes up the modern world would not be strange or unfathomable to an ancient. Maybe the scale of how we do things, but not the bits and pieces. @@DJWESG1
But with better boat dating. Not to complain about niggling over 10 years out of a 500-year range, Neanderthals populated Mediterranean islands (excepting Cyprus) necessarily by boat 200,000 (+/-50K, I guess) years ago. If you confine credit to our own species and cannot see Neanderthal that way, we have ancestors of Australians sailing out of sight of land at least 50,000 ya to get from Sunda to Sulawesi and again to Sahul, which later split up to become New Guinea, Australia, and Tasmania. We of course don't have any of the actual boats, but that wasn't in the description. Cyprus is significant in being, like Sulawesi, out of sight of the mainland even when sea level was at glacial maximum low. Malta was connected to Italy then, but Crete was still an ambitious trip.
Maybe you can answer a question which was asked by my physics teacher about forty years ago and has puzzled me ever since. Who invented the shovel? I know that the romans had shovels and that the Britannic peoples did not before the Romans introduced them and changed the nature of agriculture on the island within a single generation.
to be honest, I'm still sitting here trying to figure out how they decided it was definitely a boat/cannoe rather than part of a building or something? like it is a log of wood that's carved to have a curve. it could be anything. why specifically a boat? of course you can navigate with it. you can navigate with a full log as well. less carving required as well!
@@TGPDrunknHickI'm not an expert, so I could be wrong, but I don't think they were already building full wooden structures in the mesolithic period. Also, while you can use a flat board as a canoe, it is much more difficult to use. It being a canoe is the most logical and probable answer.
Yes, you have a gift for teaching. You have a zealous, charming, exciting, interesting manner that draws one in. You are so genuinely happy to be teaching. You present your videos artfully, intelligently, factually true and interestingly. And you are so obviously a good person. All of which, and more, gives a stellar performance on youtube.
One minor correction: municiple street naming by owners still does happen. It's mostly done by corporate owners, for vanity/branding reasons. Take, for example, "Infinite Loop", the street named by Apple corp, leading up to the headquarters building at the address "1 Infinite Loop". But sometimes individual owners still do it. Take, for example, "Tarzana, California", an ENTIRE SUBURB of San Fernando/Encino so named because its original exclusive owner named it that way. He was Edgar Rice Burroughs. Who named it, of course, after his most famous literary character: Tarzan. Many of the streets in the suburb bear the names of his children, and other characters in his books.
In my hometown, which is a small city, there are a few short streets, even private driveways, that are named after family members of the homeowners or property owners on such streets. They are often named after deceased loved ones, such as children, parents, grandparents and siblings as memorials. Unlike the usual green street signs, these particular streets and driveways are indicated by blue ones.
@@FireflowerDancerI've done that. I get cracks in my heels and definitely have wished I could get Japanese split toe socks to wear with my thong sandals.
5:43 OH MY GOD I KNEW IT!!!!! Holly shit you have no idea I've been trying to find this out for years, I always knew our current monetary system came from Babylon but had no way to prove it so I never said it out loud thank you so much bro! U are now my source for this fact! This is the same system Jesus kicked out of the temple, dude great great work!
I love your work! I definitely knew about the role the Knights Templar played in banking, and to a lesser extent Sumerian and Lydian involvement with banking and the creation of money. I also knew that the University of al-Qarawiyyin is generally not considered an "actual university" because of its primary focus being on religion. But everything else was pretty new to me. I especially loved the segment on socks. Thanks for sharing!!!
I am convinced a functional single-person rowing boat is easiest to make with reed, and must be the oldest method yet the first to rot away. The preservation of this "canoe" found in the Netherlands is purely due to the oxygen-poor clay in which it was found
Yes, when you consider we can only formulate what took place by artifacts and/or written record and then think about how we need perfect conditions for preservation, so much more is lost forever than is known.
Oops!, I guess I should have watched further into the video before making presumptions... you stated just what I was talking about regarding when banking started. Great job! And thank you for doing so much research and providing such great and dependably accurate content. You are quite above the salt in your content. Thank you and you are much appreciated. May you be blessed with a long life of peace and prosperity!
yeah the act of banking at least the lending money is pretty old and the evidence is the bible as it one of the institution that jesus call out. which mean temples had been lending as far back as jesus birth and more likely predated that for a couple of thousand of years. So i was not surprise it went back as far as early babylon. Which would put it at some point in early civilation as they move away from the barter system.
Gunpowder was developed by my father in our garage. I know this is true because he said he's never seen anything blow apart like his M-80s whe we stuck it in the steel handle of my teeter totter. There were shards of 2 inches embedded in the sidecof out house ... the bomb went off 30 foot away, in my back yard. No 4th of July party goers were injured in the destruction of my swingset.
I think it would have been better to clarify that the oldest *surviving* sea-worthy boat is definitely a fraction of the age of the first seaworthy boats. Japan and Australia were both first settled in the Pleistocene, and both would have been unreachable by swimming alone.
@@MarcoCaprini-do3dqThere was never a land bridge connecting Australia to Asia. Australia formed one landmass with New Guinea, and Asia was connected with Borneo and Java. But to cross the area in between one still needed to do some form of island hopping.
@@MarcoCaprini-do3dq That is not correct. Australia never had a land bridge to Asia. That's why the only terrestrial placental mammals ever to reach Australia before humans were bats and rats.
My city seems to have a road or street named after every old person in town…the original founding families are still here. (I don’t know who the Athol was who originally lived on Athol Thtreet.)
A couple of things. In Tehran where I grew up, my grandmother’s street was named after her father because the property that the neighborhood was built on was owned by my great-grandfather who sold off the property except for two homes that my grandmother and great aunt lived in. Also, today in Los Angeles there is a neighborhood called “Mount Olympus.” The streets there are named after the greek gods. There is also a street called “Isis” in the city of Hawthorne in Los Angeles County.
1:57 In Lima there was a "Novoa Street", named after a relative of mine, who owned the entire block during the Spanish times. More recently, the shortest avenue of Peru, the Alfredo Novoa Avenue, is named after another distant relative of mine, who has two streets and a park named after him too.
@@Jordi_Llopis_i_Torregrosa96 I'm European as well but to me, that is far back. I just know a little bit from the last 150-200 years. Europe was riddled with war so many documents were lost to it
In my part of rural Georgia, we still name roads after landowners. For example, the road i live on is named after my neighbors, who have owned almost all the land on the road going back to the 1930s
Respect the content, and appreciate the accurate descriptions of the European peoples of 9k BCE. Imhotep touched on the same subject in his/her most recent video (I'm sure you already know this).
I’m an American and I will not be complaining. I love watching your videos, because I love learning (my father’s fault) and I find the way you present facts very interesting. Please keep on teaching. I will keep watching.
Just a minor nitpick on the matter of shrapnel: according to Wikipedia, Colonel Shrapnel designed in or around 1784 an explosive artillery projectile wherein the gunpowder was intermingled with musket balls inside a metal sphere. Later it was determined that the musket balls were surplus to requirements and the casing fragments were lethal enough, but nobody took the trouble to rename this development. My guess would be that the ancient Chinese projectiles were of the later sort and technically not shrapnel.
Amazing! Just couple days ago I was doing research in banks of medieval period (for my fantasy novel), did find some articles on the internet, but your presentation here is THE best. That's why I love your channel!!
So grateful for a family of historians who taught at home. I grew up learning history, now it's my favorite subject. The 5% of your info that surprises me, I always research and come back for more. Thanks for such great videos.
Actually, as far as the first boats go, it must be assumed that Homo Erectus made the first ones as their remains have been found on islands that they could only have reached by boat, literally a million years ago.
Oh my gosh, thank you for the updated playlists!!! I’ve been wanting to fall asleep to your videoed for awhile and this makes it a LOT easier for me, thank you so much!
As a guy who’s interested in prehistoric anthropology. I’d like to call your attention to an understandable error you and your team made around the pesse canoe section where your team said that the western hunter gathers had “dark skin” and showed a model of what looked like the revised dark skinned Cheddar man. The theory that ancient Europeans had “dark skin” has been completely debunked in all of literature over the past 10 years. The Out of Africa theory as a whole has been thrown out as we now have more and more genetic information and timelines showing how populations moved around. I recommend looking into the work that’s come out since the discovery of the Misilya Cave jaw in Israel.
Ancient Europeans? Indo-europeans came from Asia. The western hunter gathers had dark skin. deal with it. Modern Europeans are amix of these two plus east hunter gathers and farmers from anatolia and caucasus.
@awm9290 What a load of racist claptrap, name me one study or source from a genuine academic which presents a strong case for humans originating outside of Africa. You may not like that your ancestors were black, but don't try and gaslight people into believing your fairy tale of pale Europeans springing out of nowhere.
I think he was talking about university's still operating today, but if a madrassa counts than your plato example should count to, if it was still in operation.
@@metatronytThank you. I love history and I love facts. And you make it easy for me to learn both. I'm an avid nonfiction reader but there's only so much I can read and so much amount of time. I'm enjoying your take on Shogun. I might have to watch it. I usually don't watch shows that are based on books because they always mess things up. But I will go by your critiques.
I know, right? I want those streets back! Now I want to do world-building and name all the streets after Mesopotamian gods. I'll assign the rough neighborhood all the trickster gods and demons.
This Moroccan learning institution is not a university. University is defined by the academic debate, as the main method of seeking the Truth. Invented solely within the Western Christianity. Islamic madrassas followed an older system of master - apprentice.
The university he Is talking about didn't become a university till 1961.the French built the university part when they coloniesed Morocco.quite a lot of African madrasas were used like this👍
Love these kind of fun facts videos. Another idea for a video would be: "strange historic facts" or "weirdest historic events". Something like that would be great as well.
The only reason that I knew the identity of the oldest university in the world was that I had watched Eamonn Gearon's Lecture Number 10 "Qairouan University - 859" in his The Great Courses series "Turning Points in Middle Eastern History." Other than that, I would never have guessed it. I would have just naturally thought that the oldest university was in one the Hellenistic kingdoms or in the Roman Empire in the East or in India.
Hello Metatron I love your work and I have been subscribed to the channel for years. On the topic of universities, isn't the University of Constantinople, founded in 425ad., the oldest university?
Seems like Europeans invented the gunpowder by themselves, if they'd copied it from the chinese they'd taken the idea of a hand grenade as well. But as it is those came to Europe later than the gunpowder was invented here.
I would love to see a full showcase of your retro collection. I would accept a ten video series on the subject 😅 what a fun video, the boat really fascinated me, we live and work on the water around here and I had never heard of it!
I wish I had RUclips when I was in high school. It's so much easier and fun to learn when it comes from people with passion vs reading about stuff in a book.
This was a great video. As an avid kayaker, I especially liked the part about the first canoe and also socks. Looking forward to seeing more videos like this.
Thanks Metratron I enjoyed this video. Could you please do more Did You Know videos, even if it's one every few weeks? It reminds me of when I was a child and bought chewing gum there would be these "did you know" information about history and other interesting facts in the chewing gum wrappers❤
My hobby is fiber arts. So I knew about the Stocking & the knotted wool or bast fiber socks. And I like the way you stick to the first documented time.
Small towns wind up naming streets after major property owners all the time. Outside of Bedford’s Pennsylvania there is actually a Bence’s Farm Equipment Road
I’m Dutch and hadn’t heard of the Pesse canoe. And my grandfather came from part of the country. So, may be it was one of my fore fathers that left the boat there. 😀 And your pronunciation was spot on. That was amazing,
Great video nice format - interesting. I knew some of the info, but not to as deep a level. You provided lots of nice morsels of info that stimulated my appetite to look for more - thanks
Love these types of videos. Just interesting little bits of knowledge. I had already learned about the Templars and their system, so I assumed it was something they'd brought back from the Crusades. I also had a rough understanding of the history of gunpowder. Guessed about the streets and boat, and wasn't far off. My guess on the university and socks was wrong, so those were full learning. Thank you.
I absolutely love your Channel Metatron. Although my favourite history is the Cold War, Ancient and Medieval are a close second. And I wanted to ask, are you able to make a video on Irish Clans, such as the O’Neills. I’m also interested in the Norman involvement in Ireland, Richard Strongbow, claiming Leinster etc.
I knew about the socks, but I’m a history recreationist and isn’t fibre/fashion. The rest were unknown to me. I liked this fun and light interlude! You should do more of these :)
I actually didn't know any of these answers, I had wondered about boats and street names before though. Fascinating stuff as always, thank you for making this.
These were very interesting! I must say, this video was a breath of fresh air as it is light-hearted (I'm not saying your other videos that debunk nonsense are not good, it's just that this was a breather from the craziness out there). :)
Even if I more or less knew about these things, having it confirmed and, above all, having this amount of details is reaaly fantastic! Thanks! The second pronunciation of "papier mâché" is good French!
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I was a commodity broker for about 10 years back in the 1980s. The Romans and Egyptians had a form of banking in that you could deposit grain in say Egypt, and draw out a like amount in Rome using your letter. Our teacher from the Chicago Board of Trade said that there may have been some futures trading based on speculation of prices going up or down. It would not surprise me to find out that the Sumerians did the same thing.
That is so cool
Yeah, actual commodities are where it's at! I just read this book called The Creature From Jekyll Island by G Edward Griffin showing just how perverse fiat currency really is and its true purposes. The powers that be even put the Tower of Babel with the eye of Horus and the words "Novus Ordo Seclorum" or "New Order of the Ages" on fiat currency, openly advertising what it's really for to anyone paying attention!
Your 'letter' is a 'note', a money token, it's value being equal to its value in gold or silver.
And how much forgery /scamming was going on at this time as well? Not like we invented that concept in the 21st century.
That's my point. So much of what makes up the modern world would not be strange or unfathomable to an ancient. Maybe the scale of how we do things, but not the bits and pieces. @@DJWESG1
We need more of these videos, pretty nice and very educating.
More to come
@@metatronyt You've turned into Weird History all of a sudden and address some questions I've wanted to ask him or thought about 🤣 🤣.
But with better boat dating.
Not to complain about niggling over 10 years out of a 500-year range, Neanderthals populated Mediterranean islands (excepting Cyprus) necessarily by boat 200,000 (+/-50K, I guess) years ago. If you confine credit to our own species and cannot see Neanderthal that way, we have ancestors of Australians sailing out of sight of land at least 50,000 ya to get from Sunda to Sulawesi and again to Sahul, which later split up to become New Guinea, Australia, and Tasmania. We of course don't have any of the actual boats, but that wasn't in the description.
Cyprus is significant in being, like Sulawesi, out of sight of the mainland even when sea level was at glacial maximum low. Malta was connected to Italy then, but Crete was still an ambitious trip.
Maybe you can answer a question which was asked by my physics teacher about forty years ago and has puzzled me ever since. Who invented the shovel? I know that the romans had shovels and that the Britannic peoples did not before the Romans introduced them and changed the nature of agriculture on the island within a single generation.
@@metatronyt@metatronyt bro what about the university of Nalanda and taxila. You forgot about them.
Contender for the vaguest thumbnail in existence
You clicked on it
So vague… I had to know what I didn’t know
His next video should be titled "This is a Video...."
Sustained.
Literally so vague I had to click
here in my alpine village we name many streets after mountain peaks they point towards.
i have always found that kinda neat.
That is neat.
"Smart mesolithic bastards" is something i need to find ways to use in day to day conversation.
same here.
That will get attention 😊
to be honest, I'm still sitting here trying to figure out how they decided it was definitely a boat/cannoe rather than part of a building or something? like it is a log of wood that's carved to have a curve. it could be anything. why specifically a boat? of course you can navigate with it. you can navigate with a full log as well. less carving required as well!
It would make a great band name.
@@TGPDrunknHickI'm not an expert, so I could be wrong, but I don't think they were already building full wooden structures in the mesolithic period. Also, while you can use a flat board as a canoe, it is much more difficult to use. It being a canoe is the most logical and probable answer.
Great fun. The questions certainly highlighted my own ignorance. Well done and thank you.
Yes, you have a gift for teaching.
You have a zealous, charming, exciting, interesting manner that draws one in. You are so genuinely happy to be teaching. You present your videos artfully, intelligently, factually true and interestingly. And you are so obviously a good person. All of which, and more, gives a stellar performance on youtube.
I don't think I could put this better! And I agree :)
He's also picking up some of his wife's mannerisms!
As an old dog here, I LOVE when you teach me new things. Thank YOU, Most Nobel One!
One minor correction: municiple street naming by owners still does happen. It's mostly done by corporate owners, for vanity/branding reasons. Take, for example, "Infinite Loop", the street named by Apple corp, leading up to the headquarters building at the address "1 Infinite Loop".
But sometimes individual owners still do it. Take, for example, "Tarzana, California", an ENTIRE SUBURB of San Fernando/Encino so named because its original exclusive owner named it that way. He was Edgar Rice Burroughs. Who named it, of course, after his most famous literary character: Tarzan. Many of the streets in the suburb bear the names of his children, and other characters in his books.
They shoot a lot of Adult films there. Or so Im told.
There are also a lot of rural streets which get named after the local farmer. Often the farmer is the one who initially made the road.
Hell, just drive around Anaheim near the Disney parks for dozens of examples hehe.
In my hometown, which is a small city, there are a few short streets, even private driveways, that are named after family members of the homeowners or property owners on such streets. They are often named after deceased loved ones, such as children, parents, grandparents and siblings as memorials. Unlike the usual green street signs, these particular streets and driveways are indicated by blue ones.
In my former neighborhood, streets were named for the counties of New York.
"Socks and sandals": oldest way to wear socks, according to sources 🤣😂🤣
The only way
Sometimes, I wear socks with thong sandals. It's not for the weak 😂
@@FireflowerDancercriminal, just criminal.
@@FireflowerDancerI've done that. I get cracks in my heels and definitely have wished I could get Japanese split toe socks to wear with my thong sandals.
@@scloftin8861Tabi socks, you can get those from the internets. I have hearsay that says they are comfortable
5:43 OH MY GOD I KNEW IT!!!!! Holly shit you have no idea I've been trying to find this out for years, I always knew our current monetary system came from Babylon but had no way to prove it so I never said it out loud thank you so much bro! U are now my source for this fact! This is the same system Jesus kicked out of the temple, dude great great work!
Jesus calling out the criminal banking system before banks.
I love your work! I definitely knew about the role the Knights Templar played in banking, and to a lesser extent Sumerian and Lydian involvement with banking and the creation of money. I also knew that the University of al-Qarawiyyin is generally not considered an "actual university" because of its primary focus being on religion. But everything else was pretty new to me. I especially loved the segment on socks. Thanks for sharing!!!
I am convinced a functional single-person rowing boat is easiest to make with reed, and must be the oldest method yet the first to rot away. The preservation of this "canoe" found in the Netherlands is purely due to the oxygen-poor clay in which it was found
Seems quite plausible. I read that natives of the eastern Canadian coast could navigate the sea thousands of years ago.
Yes, when you consider we can only formulate what took place by artifacts and/or written record and then think about how we need perfect conditions for preservation, so much more is lost forever than is known.
Answering questions I didn/t know I had lol Magnificent content as always! Keep it up, man! Cheers
I love that's there's a vintage PC in the background while he talks about ancient facts.
Well he has shown a bit of Heroes 3 in the back on some vids...
Wow I see the floppy drive! That takes me back to 1986. Apple PC in school! We were learning DOS.
I noticed the old IBM PC too, and had to go back and look at some of his other videos, thinking "wait, that wasn't there before was it?"
@@chrisharshman5838 I've seen retro game systems connected in previous videos.
Oops!, I guess I should have watched further into the video before making presumptions... you stated just what I was talking about regarding when banking started. Great job! And thank you for doing so much research and providing such great and dependably accurate content. You are quite above the salt in your content. Thank you and you are much appreciated. May you be blessed with a long life of peace and prosperity!
yeah the act of banking at least the lending money is pretty old and the evidence is the bible as it one of the institution that jesus call out. which mean temples had been lending as far back as jesus birth and more likely predated that for a couple of thousand of years. So i was not surprise it went back as far as early babylon. Which would put it at some point in early civilation as they move away from the barter system.
This was a fun video to watch. Interesting stuff!
Thanks
@@metatronytbro what about the university of Nalanda and taxila. You forgot about them.
Absolutely fascinating. You, ah, knocked my socks off!😄
Always entertaining so lets dive into this one
I appreciate
Love this style, keep em coming brother.
You got it thanks!
@@metatronyt@metatronyt bro what about the university of Nalanda and taxila. You forgot about them.
Very interesting indeed. I learned much today. Thanks for sharing. I wan to see more videos from Metatron!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Gunpowder was developed by my father in our garage. I know this is true because he said he's never seen anything blow apart like his M-80s whe we stuck it in the steel handle of my teeter totter. There were shards of 2 inches embedded in the sidecof out house ... the bomb went off 30 foot away, in my back yard. No 4th of July party goers were injured in the destruction of my swingset.
Holy crap, thats a hilarious story.
I think it would have been better to clarify that the oldest *surviving* sea-worthy boat is definitely a fraction of the age of the first seaworthy boats. Japan and Australia were both first settled in the Pleistocene, and both would have been unreachable by swimming alone.
Humans didn't reach Japan and Australia by boat, they used land bridges that were then submerged by water, just like how they reached America.
@@MarcoCaprini-do3dqThere was never a land bridge connecting Australia to Asia. Australia formed one landmass with New Guinea, and Asia was connected with Borneo and Java. But to cross the area in between one still needed to do some form of island hopping.
I believe England had Doggerland which connected it to Europe and has since been covered with the rising sea. Risen sea.
@@MarcoCaprini-do3dq That is not correct. Australia never had a land bridge to Asia. That's why the only terrestrial placental mammals ever to reach Australia before humans were bats and rats.
@@Vo_SiriI think rats were brought to Australia by humans.
When I was a child, back of the back of the house in which I lived, there was a Mrs. Laidlaw. The street she faced was Laidlaw Ave.
My city seems to have a road or street named after every old person in town…the original founding families are still here. (I don’t know who the Athol was who originally lived on Athol Thtreet.)
A couple of things. In Tehran where I grew up, my grandmother’s street was named after her father because the property that the neighborhood was built on was owned by my great-grandfather who sold off the property except for two homes that my grandmother and great aunt lived in. Also, today in Los Angeles there is a neighborhood called “Mount Olympus.” The streets there are named after the greek gods. There is also a street called “Isis” in the city of Hawthorne in Los Angeles County.
There used to be loads of things named "Isis" up until a few years ago. I always thought it was a nice name.
1:57 In Lima there was a "Novoa Street", named after a relative of mine, who owned the entire block during the Spanish times. More recently, the shortest avenue of Peru, the Alfredo Novoa Avenue, is named after another distant relative of mine, who has two streets and a park named after him too.
That is dope actually
It's cool and all but I'm more impressed by the fact some people can trace their ancestors so far back
@@Jordi_Llopis_i_Torregrosa96 I'm European as well but to me, that is far back. I just know a little bit from the last 150-200 years. Europe was riddled with war so many documents were lost to it
In my part of rural Georgia, we still name roads after landowners. For example, the road i live on is named after my neighbors, who have owned almost all the land on the road going back to the 1930s
Respect the content, and appreciate the accurate descriptions of the European peoples of 9k BCE. Imhotep touched on the same subject in his/her most recent video (I'm sure you already know this).
This is a nice format Metratron. I really learned something today.
I’m an American and I will not be complaining. I love watching your videos, because I love learning (my father’s fault) and I find the way you present facts very interesting. Please keep on teaching. I will keep watching.
Just a minor nitpick on the matter of shrapnel: according to Wikipedia, Colonel Shrapnel designed in or around 1784 an explosive artillery projectile wherein the gunpowder was intermingled with musket balls inside a metal sphere. Later it was determined that the musket balls were surplus to requirements and the casing fragments were lethal enough, but nobody took the trouble to rename this development. My guess would be that the ancient Chinese projectiles were of the later sort and technically not shrapnel.
This is a perfect format for your channel. Please continue doing these.
Thanks, Metatron.
This is a great video, and I'm glad you have been able to take a break from strife.
Amazing! Just couple days ago I was doing research in banks of medieval period (for my fantasy novel), did find some articles on the internet, but your presentation here is THE best. That's why I love your channel!!
🎉great video! Thank you❤
Thanks for watching!
GOD bless you sir
Thank you same to you
Banks appeared during Medieval times. Finally something I know😅.
P.S. oh no I didn't know about Babilonian temples
Great episode learned so much about the ancients. Socks !
Socks my friend
Your videos on weapons are the best
Thanx.
Enjoy learning conversation starters such as these.
My hometown has backroads named for thr first families who lived on them and i live in the American Midwest.
So grateful for a family of historians who taught at home. I grew up learning history, now it's my favorite subject. The 5% of your info that surprises me, I always research and come back for more. Thanks for such great videos.
Actually, as far as the first boats go, it must be assumed that Homo Erectus made the first ones as their remains have been found on islands that they could only have reached by boat, literally a million years ago.
That's an assumption and Metatron tends to deal in facts and evidence.
Oh my gosh, thank you for the updated playlists!!! I’ve been wanting to fall asleep to your videoed for awhile and this makes it a LOT easier for me, thank you so much!
Loved it! Pleaaase moar!
Thanks!
This was fascinating and highly informative. Thank you!
As a guy who’s interested in prehistoric anthropology. I’d like to call your attention to an understandable error you and your team made around the pesse canoe section where your team said that the western hunter gathers had “dark skin” and showed a model of what looked like the revised dark skinned Cheddar man. The theory that ancient Europeans had “dark skin” has been completely debunked in all of literature over the past 10 years. The Out of Africa theory as a whole has been thrown out as we now have more and more genetic information and timelines showing how populations moved around. I recommend looking into the work that’s come out since the discovery of the Misilya Cave jaw in Israel.
Thank you for your comment , the black Chedda Maine picture made me cringe.
Ancient Europeans? Indo-europeans came from Asia. The western hunter gathers had dark skin. deal with it. Modern Europeans are amix of these two plus east hunter gathers and farmers from anatolia and caucasus.
@awm9290 What a load of racist claptrap, name me one study or source from a genuine academic which presents a strong case for humans originating outside of Africa.
You may not like that your ancestors were black, but don't try and gaslight people into believing your fairy tale of pale Europeans springing out of nowhere.
Great video. Really enjoyed this. Many thanks
Nice one
I really enjoyed this one. It was light hearted yet very informative (as usual).
So, Plato's Academy doesn't count as a University?
I think he was talking about university's still operating today, but if a madrassa counts than your plato example should count to, if it was still in operation.
then the university of Istanbul is the oldest one because it's directly linked to the ancient university of Constantinople @@milixer1
Yes! Definitely do more of these. Love them.
You got it
@@metatronytThank you. I love history and I love facts. And you make it easy for me to learn both. I'm an avid nonfiction reader but there's only so much I can read and so much amount of time.
I'm enjoying your take on Shogun. I might have to watch it. I usually don't watch shows that are based on books because they always mess things up. But I will go by your critiques.
@@metatronyt@metatronyt bro what about the university of Nalanda and taxila. You forgot about them.
Yo, shoutout to Mesopotamian gods for naming our first streets!
I know, right? I want those streets back! Now I want to do world-building and name all the streets after Mesopotamian gods. I'll assign the rough neighborhood all the trickster gods and demons.
One of the better newly discovered channels, thanks for the work that goes into the mega details, cheers.
This Moroccan learning institution is not a university. University is defined by the academic debate, as the main method of seeking the Truth. Invented solely within the Western Christianity. Islamic madrassas followed an older system of master - apprentice.
The university he Is talking about didn't become a university till 1961.the French built the university part when they coloniesed Morocco.quite a lot of African madrasas were used like this👍
Super cool video, we need more of this!
First comment baby! What did I win? Laurica Segmentata? A pilae? A pair of sandals?
Good job
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A smiley for outdated Jokes🙄
@@Hanszecruader As in "I hab a flu I can odly do a goodjob or bandjob"🤤
All three 😂
Love these kind of fun facts videos. Another idea for a video would be: "strange historic facts" or "weirdest historic events". Something like that would be great as well.
The only reason that I knew the identity of the oldest university in the world was that I had watched Eamonn Gearon's Lecture Number 10 "Qairouan University - 859" in his The Great Courses series "Turning Points in Middle Eastern History." Other than that, I would never have guessed it. I would have just naturally thought that the oldest university was in one the Hellenistic kingdoms or in the Roman Empire in the East or in India.
Hello Metatron I love your work and I have been subscribed to the channel for years. On the topic of universities, isn't the University of Constantinople, founded in 425ad., the oldest university?
@metatronyt bro what about the university of Nalanda and taxila. You forgot about them.
Seems like Europeans invented the gunpowder by themselves, if they'd copied it from the chinese they'd taken the idea of a hand grenade as well. But as it is those came to Europe later than the gunpowder was invented here.
Exciting, educational, precise, short video that makes one curious and hungry for more knowledge.
Thank you Metatron and greetings from Denmark ❤️
I didnt watch the video but i can safely say i know all this.
as i know
Ok which was the first account of a street name?
Or where was the first bank?
I like this type of video, nicely done, by a tuber I trust. This is the perfect kind of video to see while in lunch break.
now i know
a long time ago
I would love to see a full showcase of your retro collection. I would accept a ten video series on the subject 😅 what a fun video, the boat really fascinated me, we live and work on the water around here and I had never heard of it!
I've never been this early. Hello from Canada!
if you know what i know... omg.
Interesting to know. Always nice to learn something.
4 minutes ago is crazy
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Thank you for keeping me informed sir !!!!!😊 More please..
Love videos that talk about random not very well known information or not very common knowledge. Great work!
I wish I had RUclips when I was in high school. It's so much easier and fun to learn when it comes from people with passion vs reading about stuff in a book.
Great fun! I do recall hearing (in the far distant past) about the Templars' "banks".
Always facinating stuff from you Mate. Thanks
This was a great video. As an avid kayaker, I especially liked the part about the first canoe and also socks. Looking forward to seeing more videos like this.
Learned something new today, thanks. The pronunciation of the Dutch names was quite good.
Thanks Metratron I enjoyed this video. Could you please do more Did You Know videos, even if it's one every few weeks? It reminds me of when I was a child and bought chewing gum there would be these "did you know" information about history and other interesting facts in the chewing gum wrappers❤
My hobby is fiber arts. So I knew about the Stocking & the knotted wool or bast fiber socks. And I like the way you stick to the first documented time.
Small towns wind up naming streets after major property owners all the time. Outside of Bedford’s Pennsylvania there is actually a Bence’s Farm Equipment Road
I like your presentation style, to be clear.
I’m Dutch and hadn’t heard of the Pesse canoe. And my grandfather came from part of the country. So, may be it was one of my fore fathers that left the boat there. 😀
And your pronunciation was spot on. That was amazing,
Great video nice format - interesting. I knew some of the info, but not to as deep a level. You provided lots of nice morsels of info that stimulated my appetite to look for more - thanks
Love these types of videos. Just interesting little bits of knowledge.
I had already learned about the Templars and their system, so I assumed it was something they'd brought back from the Crusades. I also had a rough understanding of the history of gunpowder.
Guessed about the streets and boat, and wasn't far off. My guess on the university and socks was wrong, so those were full learning. Thank you.
Fun video! Great content for kids!
I absolutely love your Channel Metatron. Although my favourite history is the Cold War, Ancient and Medieval are a close second. And I wanted to ask, are you able to make a video on Irish Clans, such as the O’Neills. I’m also interested in the Norman involvement in Ireland, Richard Strongbow, claiming Leinster etc.
I knew about the socks, but I’m a history recreationist and isn’t fibre/fashion. The rest were unknown to me. I liked this fun and light interlude! You should do more of these :)
I quite enjoyed this. Thank you.
Very interesting information thank you
Great video, love hearing about new historical things.
The video glitched out twice, but overall it was really good.
Thank you sir!
i learned so much from this. thank you!
God bless!
MINUNAT MATERIAL-GRAZIE!
I actually didn't know any of these answers, I had wondered about boats and street names before though. Fascinating stuff as always, thank you for making this.
Had no idea what to expect from this video, but this was genuinely fun.
These were very interesting! I must say, this video was a breath of fresh air as it is light-hearted (I'm not saying your other videos that debunk nonsense are not good, it's just that this was a breather from the craziness out there). :)
This was a nice surprise. Great video, thank you. ❤
I was here for the socks. I thought you would show the one from ancient Egypt. Beautiful example of colourwork.
Even if I more or less knew about these things, having it confirmed and, above all, having this amount of details is reaaly fantastic! Thanks!
The second pronunciation of "papier mâché" is good French!
Very interesting. Thank you!