You have a very good, clear voice for narration. Not too fast nor too slow in speaking. I don't listen to this channel often enough but that is about to change. I wonder if you own the books your narratives come from? Perhaps antiquarian books?

😊A N.

Video should be called Top 5 best flat earth proofs. Missed an opportunity here.

Let's N0T & Say We DID! ! ! !

Have any idea what the headless men with one eye in their chests could possibly be?

Ahh fascinating, thanks for this

@@planecosy6384 It's the classic kind of "Herodotus Makes an Oopsie" that Herodotus totally admitted he did all the time, which was record stuff exactly as he heard it for lack of ways to verify it.

the winged snakes he speaks of in arabia might be cobras

@@cal2127he actually mentions seeing their bones in Egypt. Probably some fossil bed with pterosaurs/birds

​@@BarondePencierThis is why Herodotus is my favourite historian, much better imo than Thucydides, because he repeatedly clarifies that this only what he has heard. Thucydides just states a lot of points while never expressing any doubt about its veracity.

I wonder if he saw a camel spider

At which point you should be very polite to random kindly old ladies because you are now in a fable of some kind and will get karmically smited if you don't heed their warnings.

​@@Healermain15"You should have tipped the ant!"

That's when you know you've been inhaling earth's gases in a cave for too long 😂

Ants = marmots. A mistranslation.

As one does

He was not messing around 💀

"So anyway I started blasting"

Hanno the Navigator: “wow those people were some mighty savages huh” The interpreters: “those are Gorillas, mate” Hanno: “ah so that is the name of that savage people, interesting!” The interpreters: “……….”

Def didnt eat them either

Grass always greener across the street kind of thing, don't you think?

@@kokoeteantigha389 evolution, makes u explore

Simply laying the groundworks for the justification of future wars.

@@albertfcb6654 🙄🙄

@@albertfcb6654evolution is poo and you know it

Same with thinking they are like people, and trying to kidnap them, just to kill them because it was too much hassle =|

There was a report of men with faces in their chest. And are vicious lol. Sounds like gorillas or other apes

They should establish diplomatic and trade ties with them. Starting off with the banana trade

The mighty tribe of the Gorilli.

@@saudielbamber4227 ignorance is bliss

I found it interesting that apparently the Romans harvested silk at the time they were visited by the Chinese traveler, but apparently no longer did so by the time the Roman traveler went to China, because he thought it came directly from the trees and seemed unfamiliar with the whole idea.

Never mind, I'm reading in the other comments that the Romans did not in fact have any knowledge of silk production, they just got it from places other than China, and the Chinese traveler mistook it as their own product.

The Chinese were listing out the resources they could potentially take that's all.

What's funnier is that the Chinese also believed the Romans to be a lost Chinese kingdom to the far west. Why? Well they're so advanced, only the Chinese could become so advanced, everyone who isn't Chinese are club-dragging morons living in caves. But they're specifically called "Little China", because obviously China is larger, older, and thus superior in every way to these lost Chinese.

​@@saltrocklamp199the Roman's had a silk production industry but it was the byzantines. The silk worms got brought over by Christian monks. Continued at least until the ottoman conquest

Empires typically think other empires do nothing wrong unless they come into conflict with them over who they oppress

@@Morgan_of_the_Maxilla Good point. I wish we could clarify the author's definition of "neighbor" and "troublesome".

Just don’t ask.the Uighurs.

What really got me is some imperialist lad who's empire has invaded the entire world making up lies about China invading people.

@@darko714 the uighur narrative is now thrown into the trash bin by the CIA. get new material

So the Romans were sold inferior silk, and the Chinese kept the best for themselves.

@@merseyviking Yes Rome had no silk. They bought it from Persia and India, which bot got it from China... What might have surprised a Chinese visitor could be the colours and dyes of the Roman textiles and silk products, that could have been very unusual for him, leading him to think they had an indigenous silk industry. The introduction of the first silk worms in Italy dates from the XIVth century, when a Florentine spy managed to get some from Constantinople, alongside the big, big secret : what the worms fed on -> mulberry leaves.

When the chinese author assumes is "roman silk" is most probably coan floss, which was luxury textile produced by another moth. Byzantizes smuggled in silk worms to found a silk instrustry of their own. Coan floss had a small market still an couple hundred years more, coan floss would be mostly similiar ultra-thin textile like musselin.

Didn’t help that time Huan’s account was written the most prosperous dynasty, The Han, had fallen and the country was deep into a fierce civil war known as the Three Kingdoms Era. Definitely wanted to keep all the silk they could for themselves at the time.

@@SeanHiruki Most would give away an entire storage of sacks of coins and bolts of silks for themselves. Liu Bei, the supposedly surviving Han prince and the First Lord Sovereign of Shu-Han, gave such plunder away to his newly acquired resident subjects.

Good details and explanations. Thanks.

Stop degrading yourself to flatter white people Da Qin given to Rome meant that despite Rome’s greatness they still saw it as beneath them. After all, saying “oh hey you’re just like me” to a competitor is more of an insult.

Honestly still can't prove it exists and I just got out of the tin mine

Wait Britain is real !?

@@rainvast8982 6 out of 10 experts agree

@@rainvast8982 hey man, you put those words in my mouth, I said tin mine

Britain museum:, good if they doubt we exist they cant ask for their things back

great way to get funding / support for the next expodition i guess

😂..yep..😎

Tin is needed to make bronze, so the Greeks had likely been in distant contact with the Isles for a long time in a tangential way. Trade with the Etruscans, who themselves ventured deeply into central and northern Europe might have brought them some knowledge of it too, as well as the Phoenicians who had somewhat of a monopoly on Celtic trade in ores. Though we can never really be sure.

And it’s fucking wild that the British did the same damn thing with the Spice Islands and other colonies, like father like son ig

​@@yakobi8434That's how ALL people were back then. Especially the Islamic Caliphate.

@@KingNoTail Lmao, I know, don’t really need to use that defence, was just pointing out those little synchronicities in history

I mean what would you have preferred he called it, "the island of pale people"??

On the other hand, I'm certain there were plenty of accounts written, where the writer wanted to accurately document what they were seeing and experiencing. Not saying liars didn't exist, I think it's more abundant these days, and more of a modern sickness, than ever before. Lying is spiraling out of control.

⁠@@elgoog7830Lying? I don’t completely disagree, but I would’ve used the word Hysteria is more out of control these days.

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Sailors and merchants probably lying alot for shits and giggles loll. Or to make it seen like their products were very hard to get

@@elgoog7830 agreed. We must at least consider that some of these ancient accounts may be actually what these people were seeing After all. their are plenty of species that we know went extinct... whose to say their are not species that went extinct that we just havent found or heard of

Likely a lot from hearsay too 🤔

he must've gone to the edges of the eastern roman empire and i read somewhere that he was stopped by the iranians

To be fair to him he was told it would take months by sea to get to Italy and China was in the middle of a decades long civil war so he had to get back soon

Some say Marco Polo did the same when he wrote about China. That he only made it to the middle east or India and just wrote down stories he heard.

@@mbern4530the Chinese writer didn’t say he went there tho, Marco Polo writes of a meeting with the Khan

born too late to explore the earth, born too early to explore the galaxy

​​​@@rattled1557born just in time to explore Skyrim 3000+ times

How did they make silk if not worm

i was looking at the comments to see if someone already said that the "tin islands" is Britain

Are you one eyed by chance? 😅

Northern Europe was beyond the Alps mountains. The average early Greek would have familiarity with Turkey, Egypt, Italy or Armenia, with stronger trade and cultural ties. To them, northern europe was an exotic foreign land far away and yet unexplored. Just how British, French, Spanish etc. spoke of other parts of the world in later colonial era, and people often doubted the existence of places in Africa, Oceania, India or Americas or considered the people exotic. And many merchants created hoaxes or spoke lies about countries teeming with gold and diamonds and no one knew things for certain.

@@greatexpectations6577 not to my knowledge. 😉 But then Herodotus didn't believe it either.

The bit that I find it strange is how that's contrasted with his awareness of other far away places. History unfurls is surprising ways

Full of mysteries and hardships .yet mu h more exciting.

I think it's an exaggerated account of fat tailed sheep

Out of all the things in this video, I wish this one was true.

Yet the "fox sized ants that brought gold" is more believable?!?😆

YO. Do your research; this is referring to fat-tailed sheep, which are exactly as depicted and would have been treated as described. They're real.

@@omnomnom11122 I fully admit my ignorance that fat-tailed sheep were even a thing (apparently they even make up 25% of the global sheep population). The context of the video (containing fantastical and false things), combined with my ignorance on sheep (I have several weird interests, but sheep isn't one of them), and how ridiculous the idea of a tail-trailer is to my brain, made me assume it to be bullshit. Is there any evidence at all that it's ever been a cultural practice to make tail-trailers for them lol? I read that, in the middle east, the tails may have been able to grown longer than most modern examples of fat-tailed sheep (who seem to almost always have very stumpy tails) apparently because modern tails are interfered with because the sheep are typically used for wool production and the long tail gets covered in sh*t, but even then, it seems like such a ridiculous proposition that someone was making trailers for sheep so they can carry their own tails lol. It might be real, but my god it does not sound real ^^ Edit: I should say that I just closed google images after ending this comment and realised that I look like a total freak now. Just a long page of dumb-truck sheep butts. That'd be a weird one to explain to someone.

Had no idea about this, going to look further into it! Interesting how they were attested to in Roman times, just with a different name.

Theodorus the Great wrote back to the Aesti once (around 500AD). _ It is gratifying to us to know that you have heard of our fame, and have sent ambassadors who have passed through so many strange nations to seek our friendship. We have received the amber which you have sent us. You say that you gather this lightest of all substances from the shores of ocean, but how it comes thither you know not. But as an author named Cornelius (Tacitus) informs us, it is gathered in the innermost islands of the ocean, being formed originally of the juice of a tree (whence its name succinum), and gradually hardened by the heat of the sun. Thus it becomes an exuded metal, a transparent softness, sometimes blushing with the color of saffron, sometimes glowing with flame-like clearness. Then, gliding down to the margin of sea, and further purified by the rolling of the tides, it is at length transported to your shores to be cast upon them. We have thought it better to point this out to you, lest you should imagine that your supposed secrets have escaped our knowledge. We sent you some presents by our ambassadors, and shall be glad to receive further visits from you by the road which you have thus opened up, and to show you future favors. _

​@@tylerdurden3722haha I love how he spends most of the message giving a science lesson. Slightly wholesome and slightly patronizing. But also always cool hearing how the ancients viewed stuff like that

YES, THANK YOU

Who knows maybe someone rewrote and is lying aboit the actual history spoke all around the world

Except they could only gain much as far as the Lothian lowlands, but had settled behind the sparsely colonized area behind the Antonine and colonized what is kept behind the Hadrian Walls. They would turn out to be poorly economical provinces for the Roman Empire, with a lot of treacherous and opportune emperors born and made to the ranks from serving in the British Roman Legions

No greed and no religion to f*ck things up. Only working until you have enough to eat and taking the rest of the day off.

Interesting

Doubt that very much only thing that was made out of tin was/is Biscuit tins. And bourbons are now made in plastic wrapping so you look a bit daft there.

​@@frusciantesplectrum7980ah yes. because now stuff is made out of plastic, that place just cant have produced tin five thousand years ago.

@@frusciantesplectrum7980 know, there’s this really interesting thing called ‘Bronze’. It’s an alloy of Copper, and that oh so special ‘Tin’. But there’s noooo way they would import Tin to other parts of the world to make Bronze, right? Especially during the ‘Bronze Age’. 💀

Spain also had tin mines. But the travel to England was necessary because the tin miners in the Taurus mountains were had a monopoly.

Go look at people who go into caves & explore. It's literally going back in time in more ways than 1. The caves were there before humanity existed & those same caves were ones that early mankind entered. Imagine walking into the same "home" that cavemen lived in all those centuries ago. The caves themselves look like other planets. You can see how the myths about caves going to hell etc came about. No 2 caves are alike & they can really look crazy AF! Channel "Adventure Twins" is a good start. Then there's underwater caves which is a whole other thing.

Except you can actually breath there and then potentially go home safely unlike Mars.

More interesting than mars tbh there's nothing much there

Thinks they're people Kills and flays the women, brings their skin home WTF?!

@@WorthlessWinnerit’s not so strange for his time

They used to call baboons "dog headed people".

One eye men were the blacksmiths ? They would wear eye patch over one eye to keep one eye adjusted to dark. They stepped outside the forge and would look nasty black and with one eye. Lol

Uncle Ted warned us. Vote by mail(?)

Surprise, surprise, people are always the same from everywhere.

Hardly any UNcontacted people remain worldwide. The very few remaining are of Andaman Islands group (of India) & a few Amazon Jungle tribes of Brazil. 😐

Just put on a pair of shoes and start walking around the world, from city to city to city, talk to every beggar, every bum at a bus stop, every kid at a skate park, every cop thats bored and patient enough. Get yourself put in jail or a mental hospital, talk to all the patients, all the inmates, all the guards and doctors ... Ask all these people about their lives, deeply, find out if they were teased as a kid, when they first saw something die, what their power animal is ... After a while, you will have explored and know more about the world than any geographer, anthropologist, and historians combined ... There is still lots to explore, much to share, much to learn and we need pioneers more than ever.

@@jimmyohara2601 Their are also tribes on some Indonesian islands of interior region because they hunt men.

The oceans.

@@jimmyohara2601 however, the wonders of the univerese and phsics are just as entertaining, not?

😂 🐢

Of course women focusing on the delivery rather than the actual topic lol

@@KD400_oh look, an edgy MMA fan whose mommy did not give him enough attention growing up…live and let live, son. :)

@@Meuracas what's mma got to do with this lol

@@KD400_ Nothing, just like the original post had nothing to do with the delivery and just like the frustration behind your comment has nothing to do with the original post ;)

Possibly the inhabitants around the Baltic Sea knew it too, but a Roman can’t admit to “savages” being (almost) as advanced as them.

That's actually a good possible theory on that particular description, as I was confused, and like the "1 eyed race", or " fox sized ANTS that brought gold up" were just fairytales! 🤔🙃

Their account is based on facts

@@JMB_focus not saying it wasnt?

At 2nd place, the Oceans.

The complete modern world is NOT mapped completely, Admiral Byrd said that there's land past Antarctica, large as America, never touched by humans.

We need to go to space

What? Speaking from an American perspective their are many peaks and rugged places no human has ever made it too. Even in our most populous state. Many many places in the world no one has bothered to venture into. Just cause you can't sail into the void and find new continents and islands doesn't mean you can't explore the unknown

Bro there's still a lot to explore

physics, universe ... the world is more interesting thAn ever

You wanna go to Afghanistan? I'll blow your mind dude.

true, because like rationalists he lied constantly and called it logical deduction

Wait until you read how rational their myths are...

Hanno's account seems to me the most open minded. Herodotus' was full of fairy tales

I like how much he admired the civilizations he came across

It's called Chinese whispers... or I guess 'Median whispers'

Gigantism goes bigger the further you go back

@@AwakenedAvocadomuch further back than a couple of millennia though. More like tens of thousands of years. Before literacy.

I like how the only thing he had to say about the non swedes were that they were ruled by a woman.

@@More_Row And that it made them lower than slaves. The times have changed

​@@gsejapanVikings: What women are less than men is nonsense

@@JL3Wind You mean southern Ukraine, Russia, Iran and Central Asia

@@user-cg2tw8pw7jIt says a lot about a man’s insecurities that they see women as lesser. Men who are comfortable in their own skin make no distinction between men and women’s intelligence and abilities, because there is none.

Flat-earthers don't believe in an "edge". They believe there is a dome (firmamament) that encloses the flat earth

@@SanctusPaulus-ic5gl What? I'm just stating the general flat earth theory. 90% of the time people strawmen their arguments

Jeez I hope he wasn’t the pilot.... ☮️🍁🍂

Was he in Special Forces or anything???

Carthago delenda est, chad Cato

yeh that bothered me too - not a good look

Tbf their body shapes from a distance do resemble us a bit and it's the first recorded encounter with apes so...

I don’t think they were gorillas? Female gorillas would beat the shit out of anyone trying to carry them back to the ship. Also aren’t females like 300-400 pounds? Maybe they were chimpanzees

morality is not consistent through history

@@bun197 exactly

Traditional Chinese maps used south as the "up" direction, so saying you were going left meant going east and vice versa.

Isn’t snuffleopaugus a mammoth ? Lol

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I wouldve wished that someone in that time wouldve ventured further, and perhaps circumnavigated Africa. Imagine how the world would react to know that Africa is in fact not an endless landmass

@@hwak6501I would imagine somewhere off the coast of east Africa there to be a lone shipwreck or more from those that did but never returned to tell the tale. Always been the adventurous types that go to far. The story of Icarus was a warning story for a reason I’m sure

The amount of times Hannibal had the chance to put the final nail in Rome's coffin, but each time either underestimated them, or totally screwed it up. Then unfortunately for him he met his nemesis, and equal by the name of Scipio Africanus.

Carthago delenda est

@@PortmanRd He didn't have siege engines and thus, could not crack Roman walls. Italians mostly stayed loyal to the Romans.

@@jge123 lol yeah, “the good ole days” 🤤

They were talking about gorillas you mong

Haha I was shocked the way he said it like it was completely normal, it must have been weird even for his time.

OR he heard it from those Baltic people, but he just wanted to keep pretending they were no more than savages, because that’s what “civilized” people do.

Carthago delenda est, chad Cato

Corn is a generic word for grain. What we call corn in America is more specifically "maize"

It holds different meaning

Your cute!!!!!☺️

An ancient opinion is still an opinion

@@SiriusSphynx ???

@@rudiruttger He's probably from the post Trump alternative truth generation where opinion means the same thing as fact.

That less a generation thing than it is post-modernism.

@@vorynrosethorn903 Post-modernism has some wacky shit in it, but at least it advocates for critical thinking. Trumpism and those savage lunatics on the far-right, on the other hand... Well, suffice it to say they are basically adults who believe in fairy tales.