Greece had been united by macedonia which was a greek state

the country named india was created after countries got split. Unless you’re talking about the dynasties

Nope, "India" is still an identity in the making. And unlike others, diversity, appreciation and acceptance is truly what makes us different from others.

ah, Indians. always claiming everything in their stale history

I wouldn't go to far with the acceptance and diversity, you have Hindu nationalism running rampant and problems with pakistan/muslims, just like how the Muslims claim they are all peaceful. I do not live there, and the media distorts things to there own agenda so you can enlighten me if you wish.

Glory to Penguinia

I love penguins

Empire of the ants has a lot more.

@@hydrolito there are loads of ant empires, they go to war more often than ancient china

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WHY iranians hate on Sunnis and Greatest Caliph Abu Bakr

Agree persia/faras is one of the oldest countries.

@@kdreamscosmos4279 Persia is just the name of a province in southern Iran, Iran has always been called by it's local name, Persia was given to us by foreigners.

Well, Iran has lost most of it's culture to religion. And it was not multicultural because multiculturalism means existence and growth of multiple cultures together. But Iran was conquered and colonised. The original culture was lost forever with attacks and expulsion of inhabitants who refused to leave their culture amd adapt a different one.

@@aliazarmehralparslan6067 Persia is old name of Iran, not province

It was United in 300 B.C and greece was also not United in atiquety their where sparta, Athens, ......

@@Dev_Singh44 Not exactly. India was not united under single ruler even in 300BC. Even areas under single ruler were not under his control completely. They had autonomous areas. That's why they were called Ganarajya. And looking at culture, geography, size and population of India, it was impossible to control it completely under a single ruler. India was always one of the world's most densely populated areas with most heterogeneous cultures. Greece, China, Arabs, etc were mostly homogeneous on cultural, linguistic or religious lines. And homogeneity was considered by the presenter of this video as most important factor for being a country. So, India obviously fails.

Yes agree with your argument but all indians are under same civilization.

@@tejoramyemineni A very diverse civilization to be precise. People think that if Greeks are mentioned then Indians should be. But Greek civilization is quite a new phenomenon. Only in 18th century, Europeans started to think of Greek as their civilizational ancestors. This was after enlightenment phase of Europe.

@@Vivek-ib9st yeah

Yeah I'm pretty sure it's some sort of fantasy world like Middle-Earth

It was a weird waffle worshiping cult from the 6th century, no country as ridiculous as Belgium could exist now

@@CogitoEdu We ride unicorns here and our maps show 'here be dragons' when referring to Holland

Sounds like a place that would be close to Bielefeld...

It’s pronounced bell,gy,umm

Thank you so much 😀

deserves 5 animated chihuahuas

@@tymon5349 strongly agreed

Also there was no unifying language throughout history (& even today )

@@giiiiiiiiiiii2341 not in the south

@@giiiiiiiiiiii2341 but hardly common people used. They used various types prakrit in ancient times. In case of Greece and Iran there was one language used by most of the people.

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haha no thank you for watching! This was a great comment to receive.

As a Kenyan with some roots in Ethiopia, I agree.

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Probably is a myth don’t mean much. And all those weirdos saying Japanese culture is great was adopted from Chinese ones, albeit with there own takes

Actually even Korea and Vietnam are more ancient than Japan, that is because these peoples were influenced by China, then most powerful state in Asia, much earlier than Japan. Once Japan got influenced by China, It took over 800 years to create an identity, but still influenced by Chinese and Indian cultures. I would go even further, it wasnt until 1980s that Japan consolidated its identity.

japan is too young to even get mentioned. you said "thousands of years ago", when in reality it's more like 1600, at best. no jinnmu does not count.

How old these things in Japan are, is up for debate. The state itself is certainly not thousands of years old. About 1800 years maybe according to some theories.

@@Deepak_Dhakad Indian subcontinent wasnt unified until the Muslim and British invasions, and South Asia has always been a poor region, although that scenario is now changing due to globalization. China in its turn has always been a rich state both economically and culturally and most of the time unified, even when China was invaded by the Mongols, the Mongols ruled as Chinese. China was also the heart of the Silk road, all kinds of peoples would come to China to trade, to buy Chinese goods etc. India was never as rich and unified as China because of its religious backwardness.

Glad you like them!

Metric's days are numbered, the Chihuahua measurement system is superior.

@@CogitoEdu as a slave of the metric dictatorship I welcome my new chihuahua savior.

I wouldn't put religion so high. Different Indian empires have at various points been Hindu, Buddhist, and Muslim, and even then Hinduism considered as a single religion is a bit of a stretch in my opinion. In addition to that, there are also minority religions like Sikhism and Jainism.

But the cultural awareness and the territory has no problem, if so you could drop awareness for most countries. I feel like if cogito could have broadened the reasearch base then it could have shiwn refined results territory is with Maurya, nanda, Maratha, and gupta which the territory and cultural seft awareness respectively should have been 4.5/5 and 5/5

India was never a country. India was always a cultural nation. Not completely united under any single king but stayed together in cultural sense for most part of history. Not under a single culture though but mix of autonomous cultures and mutual respect of each other. There why India still have more languages, cultures, tribes, cuisines and people than most of the world. My polity teacher can salad bowl of cultures instead of melting pot because we were/are still together but we still have our cultures intact. India will never become a single country in terms of language, culture, cuisine, race or even religion.

@@rasmusn.e.m1064 not about how different kingdoms changed their religion, it’s about how much religion was preserved. Indian religion is the best preserved in the world, modern Hindus still follow a religion who’s entire base dates back to the Bronze Age, while ancient philosophy is at least preserved though not accepted or practiced by most

@@descendedofrigvedicclans2216 If you're going to have such strong opinions I'd suggest you at least learn how to put them into coherent words first.

Who cares about buff dudes? Sappho is where it's at with the Greeks

Glad you think so!

@@CogitoEdu where is india indus valley chlovilization started around 3500 bc

@@eliotanderson6554 he dont care lol atop asking make video utself, reality is bharat |/ india is oldest continous nation same relegion followd since sindhu sarasvati sabhyata (indus vally civ) murti proves it and most indian langauge either came from Sanskrit ir are heavy Sanskrit vocab

Thanks that means a lot!

@@CogitoEdu 🤗

true, was hoping to see india in top 3

Agreed was saddened to see India or even Tamils not in the top 3 only in honourable mentions. The Indian civilization in general has a history of nearly 7, 000 years. They were the ones who taught/added onto China and Arabs Number system and the addition of Zero, Astrology and also Astronomy. They have the oldest written languages both Sanskrit and Tamil both of which are still in use today and also written in todays time. They have the longest continuity of cataloging both the known world and their own localized worls. classifying all things including every species of aquatics, birds and animals, all plants and herbs were classed. The longest continuity of both Deity and Ancestor Worship, Medicine-Ayurved, eating, cooking, cleaning, clothing, celebrations. No other culture has such a long continuity of the tradition of self-discipline via. Yoga and Meditation. India's unification is in their love for diversity and the acceptance of anyone who has truth and kindness at their core. This however was an AMAZING VIDEO well animated, just over 20+ mins, and so informative and you never loose your sense of humour Man please keep up the work and knowledge you help spread and make fun for the un-engaged learners out there like I once was 🔥💯

Yess

After Maurya Empire India was never united, that's why when invaders came, Indian state never fought as a single army . Chola empire was great but they were dominant in south only . yes Tamil is the oldest language of India which still in use as fas as Sanskrit is concern there is not a single written document present that can prove that Sanskrit is older than 400-600 CE . All the old scripture were found in Pali and other languages but not in Sanskrit. Aryan came from Iran and they infused indian culture a lot

India was never a country. India was always a cultural nation. Not completely united under any single king but stayed together in cultural sense for most part of history. Not under a single culture though but mix of autonomous cultures and mutual respect of each other. That's why India still have more languages, cultures, tribes, cuisines and people than most of the world. My polity teacher called India salad bowl of cultures instead of melting pot because we were/are still together but we still have our cultures intact. India will never become a single country in terms of language, culture, cuisine, race or even religion.

What does video on the Telugu people have to do with this

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Toilets & Plumbing System : 0 but in all seriousness, the Indus River Valley (what we call ancient india) is just modern day Pakistan. The steep lands were not considered apart of India until the British colonized that subcontinent. The Indian subcontinent was never united like that, as much as European subcontinent wasn't united under Napoleon.

@@hassanalbolkiah127 As per your logic Hagia Sophia was built by Turks since it is in Modern Turkey, Monks Mound was built by White Americans since it is in Modern USA, Alexandria was built by Egyptians since it is in Modern day Egypt. Plus even after all that majority of sites of Indus Valley Civilization are still in Modern India only a few are in Pakistan.

​@@indiafirst3676 Muaryan Never Introduced A Concept of Unified India Infact they had Alot of Internal Conflicts And Didnt Capture South thats All And After them India Was Divided into Several States And Kingdoms

@@Its-darkdead6 Tamil Kingdoms were Vassals of Maurya Empire

because this channel sticks to research and factual checks while constantly reminding us that it's only "his" opinions. While other channels like Wendover and Polymatter preach about their authenticity but are actually just following certain narratives and are mostly made of speculations and buzz..

cuz this channel didnt belive on " 300" movie :D

because Achaemenid came firs

He also forgot about parthians but he did great

I think that what he means about greece is that the language has a writing system since then, not that it has the exact same writing system

India also doesn't believe in Buddhism now.

That is the major lesson of this video

Sreekanth They would not mention any thing about India which is the oldest civilization in the world. India has more writen languages( alphabetical)than the whole world put together.

Hard to say what is the Indian civilisation as it is a combination of ancient Indus valley bronze age people's, from at least 5000 years ago, and then the Vedic people's from the steppe around 3000 (which brought in Sanskrit and the Vedas with very old stories). Then 500 years ago the muguls ran the show and finally the British united the country under the name India, which the Greeks had used. I think he struggled to show a united name, culture, language for India as it's pretty diverse and more of a common psychology. Perhaps in the future there will be new discoveries

​@@ssimba2785sorry Indian civilization (vedic) isn't even in top 8. Top ones are Mesopotamia (birthplace of human civilization) ,then Egyptian and Indus Valley,then Yellow Civilization (ancient Chinese) and same time as Mycenaean and Cyptosium civilization. Vedic civilization about centuries began when Aryans migrated towards Iran, Afghanistan and Subcontinent after fall of the local Indus valley civilization

Hahah actually the maccedonians is the real Hellenic Greeks because they are Indo European both culture and linguistics

Without the CCP, China wouldn't even have gotten a mention. Mao reunified China, Deng modernized China, Xi is making China great again just when the west is in decline

@@brainwashington1332 China was already unified since the Ming dynasty

@@brainwashington1332 the west isn't a thing and making a country "great" is just more crimes against humanity

Thank you so much 😀

@@CogitoEdu love from Bangladesh❤

China is not asia u mean east Asia there too china was under jaoanese colinialisam so china lost its home rule anyway and is a new country after ccp did hanification n mandrinitiation it killed hundreds of chinese language, there is no one langauge calles chinese languages

@@Deepak_Dhakad Is that latin script you seem to be typing in 🤔

@@Deepak_Dhakad I wonder why it is most of the world understands Latin script and not Han Chinese or Mauryan

@@Deepak_Dhakad the British aka the old province of Rome “Britannia” that adopted the official Roman state religion of Christianity even well into the Anglo Saxon age?

@@Deepak_Dhakad i think what you are forgetting is that Britain as well as France, Spain, Portugal and most of Europe is the continuation of Rome’s legacy (Spanish monarch legally bought the title emperor of Roman’s, napoleon claimed emperor of Roman’s, and British monarchs were sworn in Rome until king Henry viii)

Much appreciated!

Yep China's 2nd to none

*Laughs in Japan*

just correct and discuss some parts: 1. people who grow up in PRC have almost no problem reading traditional Chinese characters 2. uneducated people might find it difficult to read 文言文. Still, it wouldn't be hard to understand the major part of poetries and texts for any student who finishes the 9-year mandatory education. 3. I think the religious culture in China (by this I include Taiwan island😌) is quite different from the west. The religious devotees' population is very limited. and it really confuses me when some people claim Daoism and Confucianism are religions, they are more like philosophies to me, instead of religions. And Chinese folk religions are more like superstitions to me🤣 4. I think Manchurian QING changed the way that the Chinese consider what is China. they snatched the throne but gradually abandoned their language, and merged Manchurian culture into this big concept of Chinese culture, which led politicians and historians to reconsider China as a multiethnic country. Now the uprisings of these two dynasties are widely considered as regime change, instead of being conquered by foreigners.

Hey there, just wanted to correct some of your points: 1) People from the PRC have little problem reading traditional Chinese characters, not really sure how you claim that Chinese people somehow cannot read ancient works of poetry and philosophy in their original forms. 2) As you said, the state recognizes the major world religions that have at least a significant minority presence in China, even Christianity, which, historically speaking, it really did not have a fond experience of. Your point that "Daoism, Folk religion, and Confucianism aren't on the list" is kind of meaningless. The state doesn't need to officially "recognize" these as religions, because neither the Chinese people nor the government even consider these to be organized religions in the same vein as the Abrahamic religions or Buddhism. They have always been a central part of Chinese life, and still are. No official recognition is needed because it's just that ingrained, which actually further improves China's score in this regard. 3) Of course. No one is denying that. But what you're saying is exactly key here: the Chinese were *willing* to say that no matter what ethnicity you were, as long as you were strong enough to conquer China, you could claim to be the rightful ruler of China. Han Chinese people have obviously been upset and threw hissy fits when the Mongols or Manchus took over, but they did begrudgingly accept their right to rule China and most importantly, agreed that they have the right to all previous culture from previous dynasties. When other countries are taken over, do they willingly share this same philosophy, as you've called it? My point is that you're using the fact that it's China themselves giving the "right to rule China" to others as a weak point, when in actuality, the (very begrudging) willingness to *let others rule China and continue to call themselves China* is in itself a strong point towards China's cultural continuity. 4) I'm really wondering what sources you have to back this on. China has been multi-ethnic, multi-cultural, multi-linguistic, and multi-religious for the exact same "multiple governments over Chinese history" that you talk about. Even Han people themselves are diverse af. That doesn't mean they are not Chinese. By the way, by your logic in this point, every other nation can be accused of this exact same thing. European nationalism? American exceptionalism? Japanese imperialism? India's efforts to unify its 40 or so linguistic groups to all speak Hindi and English? Every modern country pushes "a single cultural awareness of their specific national identity" because we live in a modern age of nation states. Now, you did say you love Chinese history and culture. I appreciate that, and I can tell that you do actually know a lot more about China than the majority of people outside China. I realize that I did indeed sort of "jumped on you", but I hope my tone has been respectful and informative. The only part of your comment I took real issue with was when you claimed modern China doesn't have any "real relation to the China of the past," which I made an attempt to show otherwise above. If you really read all this, I really appreciate it!

@@MiaMiao0_0 True, I think what you said regarding the 4th point provides some more insight to mine.

@tomasbyrom3954 Below is to clear up some point of view about China, why it is old. It is easy use the Western references to modern China from a lesser-known Chinese cultural viewpoint. That differs from what this video is concerned about - the oldest country. Sure, everyone will have their bias on what should be counted. China has changed a lot in the modern era, but at the same time, only a little changed in 4,000 years. So we don't even know these changes would last. To study China, you must use a different standard than the traditional Western point of view. The Chinese point of view is quite different. The philosophies of Confucius and Taoism are good to start. The same characters' language style can be understood by today's people without much effort after thousands of years. The Book of Change I Ching "易經" was written 3000 years ago, still mod China and her people today and the rest of East Asia. Two of the best-known scholars expand the philosophy from the book to their viewpoint. The famous one was Confucius, Taotse, with the rest. The favorite book, "The Art of War," studied by the Western business school and the military military, was evidence of the steadiness of the Chinese continuous culture. Throughout history, Chinese culture assimilated many countries, including those two "foreign" dynasties - the Mongolian and the Manchurian. On the one hand, you can say China was ended, or it was not by the evidence they got overflown by Han Chinese. In addition, these invaders declared themselves Chinese and followed Chinese traditions like Exams and festivals. It is like today; people come from all over the world and call themselves American in the US. But if the conquerer gives up their identity and adapts the custom of the land. That was an influential culture. Today, I do not know what Mongolian and Manchurian culture means, but I know Chinese culture. There are no religions in China, from how Western Christian culture is defined. But it doesn't mean the Chinese have no belief system. The Chinese belief system is pragmatic. Jews, Christians, Muslims - Heaven and Hell are out. Why? Chinese believe in things that have benefit "reality" in this life. You often hear Chinese did great in school, major in doctor, lawyer or engineer degrees. When the current ruler of China, the Communist party, try to rule out religion, they mean to rule out foreign religion, especially Christianity and Muslim. They don't rule out the Chinese belief system. If you are Chinese, you understnad why. Here, I will spell it out by saying. "How many wars do humans fight because of religion." China likes to avoid wars if she can understand Tao's teachings. They want prosperity as all Asian countries wish because of the influence of China for thousands of years. Why Asian country rises, they has the same fomular from China. Why USSR, Eastern block countries, and African countries did not. People should not say Australia or African countries have the same people qualifying as an old country. It's the continuous culture that counts. Old customs in the land can still be practiced for thousands of years. But are those practices tied to a written culture or a set of books? For the native Indian in America or native in Australia, they obviously do not count as an old country because they don't have the track record, powerful State, or culture to fall back on, as you found in China. It is not a modern invention; students learn Chinese classic books (四書五經). My mother was born in 1914; in her high school, that was all her curriculum. All ancient Chinese students study that every four years, students go to the capital to take exams on these books. You can say, how do you know this written history is accurate. I can give you that to a foreigner. If the 四書五經 reproduced for 2000-3000 years when copying or printing was expensive without today's technologies. That is the evidence Chinese people acquired, used, and studied. Today, we learn Newtonian Physics books for the same reason because it is worthy in a physics class to get it; that book where the earth is flat probably won't withstand the test of time. China culture is old, rich, and powerful, which defines an old country for me. Added the long history and how often she was the world largest GDP, technologies, and population. Additionally, her influenced in East Asia for a long time in language writing and the way life. Only when until the fluentialul young European culture descends on her, she still able to resist for 150 years and successfully emege in the 90s. That speaks the qualifiaction of a cultural empire. I call it the oldest country in my book.

Those are all cool stuff but the video is about continuous countries surviving into the modern day. Not places that were really interesting in the past. We explain what the criteria for the video are at the beginning. Modern Thrace is currently split between 3 countries.

Yeah wtf is that about?

Right? Like, did they plan on building some? Did they build actual skyscapers that miraculously left no trace? History is so cool :D

My ancestors built so much as aksumites now we're called ethiopians

@@davidmorris8319 They did they have archeological digs they have churches literally underground.

@@EthiotendoEdits and eritreans

it's called revival, but not continuous existence

@@johnneymcno it has always continuously existed in iran in cities like yazd and Esfahan, there is even a continuously buring fire from back during the Sassanian era

Doing my best to make these videos look as good as possible for you all!

@@CogitoEdu It's as entertaining as is it good

The kingdom of Saba was in yemen it expanded into Ethiopia around 1000bc but its still not Ethiopian , even inscriptions from diamat which was heavily influenced or even created by southarabians (as the name is clearly southarabian) confjrm this fact by referring to their kingdom as d'mt and referring to their neighbors as saba' , there were some mukraibs (title of the priest rulers,was commonly used in ancient Southernarabia and of course early and middle period of diamat Ethiopia) who claimed to be the high priests of both diamat and saba but they are unfounded claims as Ethiopia never had the upper hand over southern arabia before the axumite empire had emerged.

@@enrico7474 you idiot we are literally decent of south Arabians

​@@enrico7474 true

The script originally had a discussion on the Medes and Safavids but unfortunately when it comes down to making simplified videos things get cut. It kills me to do it. The only way I could do it was by promising myself that I make a video on the Safavids later on 😂

The Safavids contributed the most to modern Iranian identity?? Is the pre-Islamic past others like the Timurids and Ilkhans irrelevant to modern Iranian identity??

The Safavids weren't the ones who contributed the most to Iranian culture identity they were at no. 3 or 4 but definitely not on top 2. The first Shahanshah *Ismael I* of *Safavid Empire* claimed his descent from *Khosrow Anushirwan* of the *Sasanian Empire* and even admired his administration policies.

What exactly did the Safavids contribute to Iranian culture? I can't think of anything particularly notable, except maybe Mullahs and Shia fanaticism. They actually did a lot of harm to Iranian culture. They banned music and poetry, so entirely new forms of music and poetry had to be created in the Qajar period based on pre-Safavid works. I'd say the dynasty that contributed the most to Iranian culture was either the Sassanian or the Samanid dynasty. Sassanians were the first to define what it really means to be Iranian. They were the ones who Persianized the Iranian plateau. If not for them, about half of Iranistans would still be speaking Parthian today. On the other hand, Samanids synthesized the old Iranian culture with Islam, the new religion of Iranians, changing the direction of Iranian (or perhaps more precisely Persian) civilization and culture, setting it in a path that is still followed to this day. All the subsequent Persianate Turkic states that emerged in the Greater Iran and the wider Persianate world (thinking of Ottomas and Mughals), were Persianate in the way of the way set by the Samanids. Such was the cultural impact they left in the two centuries of their reign.

@ lambert As a Persian I would say: 1. Achaemenids (hakhamaneshian). 2. Sassanids (sasssanian). 3 Pahlavi Iran/Persia modern culture ther changed a lot of Arabic things back to Persian all from words, names of the days, month, festivals, cultures, Reza Shah invented something called “kashve hejab” which means you take off your hijab and niqab who girls were forced to wear during Qajar period (even during a period of Safavid I think) Pahlavi defended the country a lot when it came to dangers and world war 1 and 2z 4&5 Tahirids (Persians who took back Iran/Persia from Arabs but they were still influenced from the Arabs and the Arabs created fear in them in a way that if they would turn their back in Islam and it’s culture I guess they would burn in hell and all that - Taherians/tahirids gave the Arabic inspired Persian alphabet we have today) and 5 I would say to the Safavid who made Iran Shia Islam. I would literally put Safavid at the bottom. Iranian Turks like to believe they reinvented the culture but that’s actually false, they adopted the Persian culture, the Persians already were speaking and practicing their own faith actually. Many Safavid kings killed and harassed (not only the kings the society as general influence by the government) Zoroastrians which made them to over time convert to Islam. This does not mean that the Safavids were a bad dynasty, they were good and as a persian I liked it just not as much as Achaemenid, Sassanid and Pahlavi. ❤️❤️ (btw I ranked these as cultural point of view not how big or how many wars they won etc…)

I think it's because the largest ethnic group in modern Ethiopia (oromo) is unrelated to the Habesha who consider themselves the heirs to axum. China on the other hand, even with its current ethnic diversity is still overwhelmingly han-dominated.

It would still be interesting

South Asia use English to communicate Continuation of Britsh -English

it's debated

@@ash3972bhrami is related to Aramaic not Greek

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Some new evidences suggest that Minoans were Mycenaeans

Minoans haven't existed since the bronze age, Mycenaeans (Greeks) still exist

@@Ibogaman No, they had a different language and culture, they were assimilated by Mycenaeans settlers later on.

There are many peoples that share the same or similar cultures, take India's neighbors as an example, they share a similar culture but they don't identify themselves as Hindus, it's also like the Japanese, Koreans and Vietnamese towards the Chinese. In India things get even more complex because there are so many different ethnicities, different cultures, different languages, different beliefs and only occasionally all these peoples were reunited and governed by a Hindu Emperor or King. Take China as an example, when China wasn't unified and governed by a Han Chinese, it was unified and governed by a Mongol or a Manchu emperor, but they governed as Chinese not as Mongol or Manchu. You can see that China's reunification after a downfall was always the next Emperor's top priority, this mindset hasn't changed to this day as China still seeks Taiwan's reunification, so statehood was always crucial to the Han Chinese while to the Hindus was not.