Marathon: The Battle that Gave Birth to Western Civilization

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Source/Further reading:
The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: from Marathon to Waterloo by Sir Edward Creasy
Herodotus’ Historial
The Defence of Greece 490-479 BC by JF Lazenby
Persian Fire: the First World Empire and the Battle for the West by Tom Holland

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@geographicstravel 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks to Unbounce for sponsoring today's video. Go to thld.co/unbounce_geographics and use the promo code geographics at checkout to get 20% off your first 3 months.

@kaiying74 3 жыл бұрын

Unbouce meet Business Blaze. Serious Business content.

@rustyspurs771 3 жыл бұрын

Seeing as how the Persians were Zoroastrians, and famously let subjugated peoples do whatever the hell they wanted besides "rebel" and "not pay taxes", I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that Greek culture, western civilization, and democracy would have remained more or less "exactly the same".

@dudepool7530 3 жыл бұрын

Hey Simon, Im thinking of starting a business. Which is better, Bounce, or Squarespace to create an internet presence for myself?

@heraldomedrano1417 8 ай бұрын

NIKE

@kostaskanakaris1372 3 жыл бұрын

As a Greek living in Athens (actually in a place close to Marathon), I just wanted to say thank you for this very historically accurate video. If any of you ever find yourselves in Athens, note that in Marathon there is still standing the tomb of the 196 Athenians who died in the battle of Marathon. It's worth visiting, the vibes of the place are unique.

@joeyshofner639 3 жыл бұрын

I wish I could, I really miss traveling.

@ClannCholmain 3 жыл бұрын

Some day. Greetings from Ireland 🇮🇪 🇬🇷

@rc59191 3 жыл бұрын

I can't wait to see Athens love everything Athenian I always liked them over the Spartans to me they're overrated.

@HarvestMoonHowl 3 жыл бұрын

@@rc59191 I know what you mean. Both city states had their merits in ancient times, but these days Sparta is mainly respected for being the most formidable Greek warrior society. Places like Athens, Thebes and Thrace (to name a few) proved that it takes more than that for a culture to thrive and contribute.

@kostaskanakaris1372 3 жыл бұрын

Fun fact: alongside the 10,000 Athenian hoplites there where also 1,000 hoplites from Plataea, a place in Attica (where the battle of Plataea took place in 479 BC which Simon mentions at the end of his video)

@Ozymandius_corn_maze 3 жыл бұрын

I would absolutely watch a channel called "Simon Talks About Places"

@newtoncountry5937 3 жыл бұрын

That channel already exists. It's called Geographics

@ephennell4ever 3 жыл бұрын

Voilá, you are there!

@blessd24 3 жыл бұрын

7:14 for context, repliers.

@turgidbanana 3 жыл бұрын

You're not very sharp, huh? He already does that.

@mitchyboitatum1808 2 жыл бұрын

Geographics

@ddseir1443 3 жыл бұрын

I still remember how the school teacher was telling us kids in Athens, about the battle... most of us had already heard about the battle, but he continued the story and asked us «Does anyone know what happened to Miltiades aferwards? Noboby knew, and the normal thing to expect, was that he lived happily ever after. So the guy says «He died in jail about a year later as a traitor»...That was a big spoiler for the rest of the history of our country ever since...

@trishapellis 2 жыл бұрын

Excuse me, your name looks very Icelandic, but the way you say that sounds like 'our country' is Greece? Whatever the case, I know little about either Greece or Iceland and I'm not sure what you're talking about. Enlighten me?

@ddseir1443 2 жыл бұрын

@@trishapellis Well, I was watching the series «Vikings» when I created the avatar/name... I’m greek. BTW the name’s not even proper icelandic. I just combined stuff.

@trishapellis 2 жыл бұрын

@@ddseir1443 I don't know Icelandic, I just recognized the letters. But what do you mean by the history of your country? How does dying a traitor in jail apply to that?

@Izixster Жыл бұрын

Yep lol, according to Herodotus his reputation improved ever more after Marathon, and he asked the Athenians for funds and an army to siege Paros, promising to pay it all back presumably from plunder (although it was probably motivated by a personal grudge.. herodotus gives a whole back story) and based on his reputation the Athenians were only too happy to fund it without asking too much detail, the siege utterly failed and he injured his leg during the siege. When he came back people wanted him executed, but based on his service he was ordered to pay a fine instead. He died in prison before the fine was paid from his leg wound, probably from gangrene and his son paid the fine.

@stingerkendris 8 ай бұрын

As we Greeks say...No Prophet is beloved on his birth place...We tend to hunt and kill or destroy Great heroes of our history...We not as a whole but mainly political oppositions, who are trying to eliminate by all means the others...numerus examples in our 2000 uears of recent well known history, Miltiades, Komnenos, Kolokotronis, Nikitaras are some of them

@nigelyorkshiremanwadeley6263 3 жыл бұрын

I love Ancient Greek history. My favourite subject at school.

@heraldomedrano851 3 жыл бұрын

I love the Roman Empire.

@GR-bn3xj 9 ай бұрын

I have seen a video trying to make the Greeks to be the bad guys in the battle and the Persians as the good guys. It's a recent trend it seems, to change history and who was "right" and who was "wrong"

@ClareBearBunny 3 жыл бұрын

The worst part of the whole affair was that Pheidippides wouldn't shut up about his run on Facebook.

@YeeSoest 3 жыл бұрын

"At some point you don't even feel like you're running anymore" "It's 99% in your head and 1% preparation" "People forget how important hydration is" "I found myself out there..."

@li6706 3 жыл бұрын

lame ass comment

@keithjackson4985 3 жыл бұрын

Lol 😆 lol 😆 hilarious. No, you didn't just say that! 😆

@JSoftic 3 жыл бұрын

@@YeeSoest p0

@shaundavenport621 3 жыл бұрын

I heard he cheated and took a bus halfway back!

@theautomaticfiend 3 жыл бұрын

Simon you know damn well we'd watch "Simon Talks About Places."

@thegunslinger1363 3 жыл бұрын

Could you do a video on The Kamchatka Peninsula?

@kostasastro 3 жыл бұрын

Let's hope that there will be no Japanese Torpedo boats ;)

@notme2day 3 жыл бұрын

@Mark Martinez we all need our own "personal flying monkey" 😆

@mitchkusek 3 жыл бұрын

I ran in the "Authentic Marathon" race into Athens in 2019. It was my only marathon run. Worth it. Highly recommend. Heads up: the last six miles are all downhill.

@WhydoIsuddenlyhaveahandle 9 ай бұрын

I'm super jealous! As someone who just did his first ironman, I am now hooked on endurance training and I definitely want to do that course!

@fou1312 3 жыл бұрын

i am from Athens and i used to go every Sunday in Marathon and there they have a hill which is a tomb of all the soldiers they died there (the hill is made by the bodies of the soldiers ) its pretty brutal but i found it cool

@fou1312 3 жыл бұрын

@@iamperplexed4695 it's not an urban legend it's literally full of bones . They Found it in an archeological expedition at 1890 they found bones and vases .

@iamperplexed4695 3 жыл бұрын

You know what. I am going to remove my other comments from here. I know nothing for a fact except to disbelieve archaeologists at every turn.

@swirvinbirds1971 3 жыл бұрын

@Seer-of-things end why do you say that? Are you a believer in 'Ancient High Tech Civilization' garbage? Why do you not believe the ancient egyptians built the Pyramids? All evidence says they were and you can find guys making perfect 90 degree angles in granite with nothing but primitive tools right here on youtube. Stone, copper and wood... Check out Scientists against myth. They are Russian but it's all captioned.

@harrymills2770 3 жыл бұрын

@Seer-of-things end When they argue about how long humans have been in North America, it becomes totally political, like reality t.v.

@seanpiersonjr8964 3 жыл бұрын

That's awesome

@MrJonLott 3 жыл бұрын

I love the topic, Simon, but this video would benefit tremendously from adding several maps. You've got to situate viewers in the battle formation and geography of the area. Understanding the beachhead, the battlefield, and the spheres of influence of Greece/Persia brings Marathon into sharper focus.

@sea_triscuit7980 3 жыл бұрын

That's more "Kings and Generals" speed. (Kings and Generals is a youtube channel that covers historic warfare down to the tactics. I feel like it would make alot of his viewers lost. Not myself but I know alot of geographically challenged people haha 😂

@MrJonLott 3 жыл бұрын

I love Kings and Generals too. But this channel is called Geographics and there's not one map in the entire video.

@ephennell4ever 3 жыл бұрын

A few maps that give a feel for the larger strategic picture, down to something that gives a feel for how 'The 10,000' dealt with their situation ... would have been helpful to folks who have never really looked into this before. I personally liked it, but I'm probably a lot more familiar with this topic than many are/were, from my interests in history and alt-history. "Geographics" ... meaning, essentially, 'earth-picturing' should have adequate cartographic representations, Simon!

@nqgamer 9 ай бұрын

@@MrJonLottit’s called Geographics, not cartographics.

@Indy_Bendy 9 ай бұрын

@@nqgamer why be against improving the educational value of the video?

@Julthor 3 жыл бұрын

We owe so much to the Greeks. Thank you.

@chriskonstandinos4996 2 жыл бұрын

most welcome!!

@IStevenSeagal 9 ай бұрын

What do you owe exactly?

@panstantzos3013 8 ай бұрын

if you live in the western world ,pretty much whatever you are today is because of the Greeks and the romans , good or bud @@IStevenSeagal

@ryanjamesr_ 3 жыл бұрын

I’ve been to marathon, and its a beautiful place in Greece

@SRW_ 3 жыл бұрын

Simon talks about places: first episode: middle earth

@thedethrocker8858 3 жыл бұрын

High fantasy simon........unlimitless shit to talk about .

@sollosi 3 жыл бұрын

Channel about fictional people and places, call it Mythographics.

@SRW_ 3 жыл бұрын

@@sollosi First episode: high lord Siroth

@williambarraclough8712 3 жыл бұрын

@@sollosi brilliant idea. I would watch that.

@1Outis1 2 жыл бұрын

@@sollosi great idea, but needs a different name. I like the myth part, but maybe Mythologics would be better.

@sdusb1243 3 жыл бұрын

I see Simon's professionalism here, but I see reality on Business Blaze.

@DC8091 3 жыл бұрын

A 26 mile long script Dahnny? Its 26 (bleep)in miles Dahnny!

@Prime2112 3 жыл бұрын

@@DC8091 and to think.... That's just the intro....

@DC8091 3 жыл бұрын

@@Prime2112 🤣🤣🍻

@stevejester5658 3 жыл бұрын

...alledgedly

@jacksone5856 3 жыл бұрын

CultusBlazusOptima!

@creece6904 3 жыл бұрын

This was like reading Tom Holland's Persian fire all over again, I especially loved the little details like the strategoi and the hoplite run! Have you considered covering Themistocles over on biographics? He was commanding the Athenean Centre here at Marathon

@thomasdarby6084 3 жыл бұрын

One of the most interesting videos you've done. Thanks, Simon.

@keryeeastin4022 3 жыл бұрын

Love getting new material every morning 💜

@bluerocker3338 3 жыл бұрын

Hey man keep up the great work 💙💙💙 love being able to learn something new everyday!!!

@StephanieElizabethMann 3 жыл бұрын

Brilliant. Very well presented. I studied ancient history at university and Greek history was my favorite. Thank you for bringing back a bountiful harvest of good memories.

@littlerisa3 3 жыл бұрын

So interesting! We studied ancient Greece in school but it's always nice to have your memory freshened up on history! 😊

@keithjackson4985 3 жыл бұрын

Well done. I've heard and read it many times, but I always appreciate well done retellings.

@seansloth 3 жыл бұрын

Great video! I'm definitely a fan of most of your content but this one stood out as being fantastic for some reason, thanks.

@northener_van6971 2 жыл бұрын

That closing statement gave me chills 🙌 Great video

@nalulenert9001 3 жыл бұрын

one of your best Geographics, Simon!

@952651869 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent content Simon!

@g0bst0p3r 3 жыл бұрын

Hey Simon and co, great vid, It would be nice to hear a geographic on the Battle of Tours.

@astrladam4392 3 жыл бұрын

Great Episode!!! Best one on this channel so far 😎

@eldesthistorian 7 ай бұрын

Thank you for your great effort 🙏

@claysecora8734 3 жыл бұрын

Great video, do more on battles that were pivotal to history

@konstanstinostzavaras1983 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing it was very informative

@michaelvaughn1496 3 жыл бұрын

I subscribe to a lot of channels. Two kind dominate my subscriptions: paranormal and history. I view all of the paranormal channels at x1.5 speed, stopping and slowing down the most interesting and hard to see segments of those vids to "normal" speed or x.5 speed. However, I watch Geographics at normal speed to absorb the info clearly. And because I love this channel. A great show well worth watching at normal speed to comprehend every bit of history, truth, and imagination. Keep 'em coming!!

@vulpes7079 3 жыл бұрын

I shall always recognise you By the dreadful sword you hold As the land with searching vision You survey with spirit bold From Hellenes of old, whose dying Brought to life and spirit free Now with ancient valour rising Let us hail you, o Liberty! -Dionysios Solomos, _Hymn to Liberty_

@user-dm5kv9gz8h 3 жыл бұрын

Best comment my friend may you always be well cheers from Athens!!!

@vulpes7079 3 жыл бұрын

@@user-dm5kv9gz8h thank you! Much love from Brazil, God bless you!

@pakde8002 3 жыл бұрын

Great nap. Thanks so much.

@natecuster2164 3 жыл бұрын

Please make more historic battle videos, these are great!

@EM-tx7qm 3 жыл бұрын

Hey Simon awesome video! Perhaps one day you could do the Battle of Tours or the Battle of Cannae! A series of pivotal battles throughout history would be great.

@Mulambdaline1 3 жыл бұрын

Loved it!!!

@MOK433 3 жыл бұрын

Great summary on the battle and it's subsequent impact on Greece and the world

@coreya151 2 жыл бұрын

This is the first video on this channel I’ve watched! And I’m like “Hey, it’s Mega Projects guy!”

@TheEvilCommenter 3 жыл бұрын

Good video 👍

@jameslindauer6968 3 жыл бұрын

A many great battles took place on the Nurburgring, the largest racetrack in the world. Would be a cool video!

@jayaline 6 ай бұрын

Fantastic !! Deserves 10 million views. Amazing level of research coupled with very engaging storytelling style. Bravo !! Hope you don't mind a little pronunciation guide: "Miltiades" is pronounced Mil-ti-U-this. U as in "up" Capitalised syllable signifies the accented syllable ... "Strategoi" pronounced Stru-ti-YI. ("stru" as in strut) (ti as in tip) ("YI" as in YING).

@masamune2984 3 жыл бұрын

The Spartans threw the Persian ambassadors down a well, signifying their intentions to fight as well.” Even the Spartans loved a good “declaration of war” pun.

@JipJac 9 ай бұрын

Hella good video.

@mainstreet3023 9 ай бұрын

Great video Simon. Who needs maps.

@pman185 3 жыл бұрын

i wish you'd do a part about the ski race in kitzbuehel

@anthonyhope5234 3 жыл бұрын

Fascinating.

@tropicbliss1198 3 жыл бұрын

Nice!

@raywhitehead730 9 ай бұрын

The Marathon battlefield is easy to get to and walk around.

@Kevin-zv1cx 3 жыл бұрын

Why so long between Geogrqphics videos when this is clearly your best channel!

@kennithunderwood1086 3 жыл бұрын

How in the hell don't you have way more subs ur videos r amazing been following for a long time

@gouravduttaroy5238 2 жыл бұрын

I think I watched this video but forgot to like. Thanks for the post.

@deejayimm 3 жыл бұрын

I love the sample web page in the advertisement for unbounce. " turbocharged car rentals" Shows a vehicle with a normally-aspirated engine. Whoops lol

@xSPAZNSPARTANx 3 жыл бұрын

I know you did a video on the battle of the somme for the TopTenz channel but it would be really cool if you talk about the somme in this video format style and you can title it "The Somme: The Bloodiest Battle in Human History".

@gordonlawrence1448 3 жыл бұрын

The only issue is that it may not have been. If you look at it in percentage terms there were some battles in the English civil war that killed 25%+ of all troops present in a single day. There were battles in the wars with the Khan empire where in a single day the Khan Empire lost about 15% but the city they were attacking was raised to the ground with every last man woman and child killed. That's a 57.5% loss. If you want the most dead in one day Salamis saw at least 40,000 killed. Cannae saw 90,000 killed. Borodino? At least 95,000 dead and more died later as a direct result. Waterloo 47,000 plus in a single day. So though the death toll for The Somme was the highest it was not the highest for percentage of troops killed or total in one day. The some lasted nearly 5 months and that's about 135 days.

@MaegnasMw 3 жыл бұрын

So, Winston Churchill's famous quip, "never was so much owed by so many to so few" has another moment in history that can be attributed to!

@aliencat8556 3 жыл бұрын

I love simon's stories. However, he should do the occasional long in depth story

@gaztroan131 3 жыл бұрын

So 19 minutes isn't in depth enough lol

@aliencat8556 3 жыл бұрын

@@gaztroan131 I like the short ones but I like a good 1 1/2 hours to fall asleep to.

@benjammin9471 3 жыл бұрын

@@aliencat8556 there's plenty of in depth videos around. These are more like overviews

@brostelio 3 жыл бұрын

This is the best analysis of the battle and aftermath I've ever come across. Fantastic work, well done!

@tigar007 3 жыл бұрын

Great content as always..

@victorvonvoid1938 3 жыл бұрын

Your glasses are great, where do you buy them?

@danielleweber9730 3 жыл бұрын

I went to the Montpelier, Vermont school system growing up and I never knew until years later why the MHS mascot is the Solon and the wise owl is holding down the Capital city high school. As it is a Solon is a Greek statesman and the owl being the all wise being of the forest is rather fitting after all!!

@smithfinland214 3 жыл бұрын

owl is a sacred animal of goddess athena

@memorandom7484 3 жыл бұрын

Eventually to be renamed _The Battle of Snickers._

@blueberrypirate3601 3 жыл бұрын

The Greeks ate olive stones and gristle not chocolate with nuts😂

@twocvbloke 3 жыл бұрын

Badabumbum-Tish!!! (Also a joke that only brits of a certain age would get!!)

@mandalor45 3 жыл бұрын

Please do a video on L'Anse aux meadows

@sarcasmo57 9 ай бұрын

Quite a run.

@MrTexasDan 3 жыл бұрын

This one is well done. Writing and delivery are spot on. Good job guys.

@finlaysharpe844 9 ай бұрын

This video could benefit so much from a few more maps

@paulcunningham2859 9 ай бұрын

Nice

@ktjayner320 3 жыл бұрын

I'd love to see your take on the disaster that befell Aberfan. Seen it on The Crown and thought it might be a good fit for a video?

@2thetoaster 3 жыл бұрын

I would love to see a Geographics video about K2

@nicholascorbett1256 3 жыл бұрын

Least it's 5 minutes. I literally just got a notification the video was up. An I get to it, an it had been posted over 45 minutes? Oh well least I got my fix of Professor Whistler 🙃!

@petersclafani4370 9 ай бұрын

I saw the battle field in person. I was station at a navy base several miles away.

@shaundavenport621 3 жыл бұрын

"So what have the Romans ever done for us? Roads! Persians--"I think not" 😆

@randallsmith3986 3 жыл бұрын

Last time I was this early, I ran a marathon....

@andrewvachon1943 3 жыл бұрын

I would watch Simon Talks About Places.

@seanc6128 3 жыл бұрын

Before you said "these are the words of" I was thinking "what the hell even is this intro".

@johnthick2298 3 жыл бұрын

Simon, can you make a video of Frank Slide in Alberta Canada.

@danlast4726 3 жыл бұрын

I second this!

@Captofthisship 3 жыл бұрын

A very profound video, thank you again!

@averagealice8877 3 жыл бұрын

FINALLY - The whole of modern civilization explained in one KZfaq video! We loved it. Instead of losing brain cells watching the nightly news, we feel like we gained a few watching this (although had to play it at .75 speed). It was fascinating - thanks!

@menelikpendragon2040 3 жыл бұрын

Could you guys do a video on Aarhus? Pretty please.

@Vanished_Mostly 3 жыл бұрын

0:05 Thought my external drive disconnected.

@james7088 3 жыл бұрын

Can you do an episode on the battle of totenburg forest?

@SisterWomen 2 жыл бұрын

Simon has become such a rock holster

@roobscoob47 3 жыл бұрын

A 'whistle-out' to Whistler

@beachboy0505 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent 👍 video When I was young, a snack chocolate 🍫 😋 bar was called 'Marathon' and inexplicably it changed it's name to snickers

@borismuller86 3 жыл бұрын

Direct democracy is still alive and strong in Switzerland. You can basically call for a referendum on anything, provided you can collect enough signatures. It does tend to slow everything down a lot, however.

@RedaGio 3 жыл бұрын

Ideas for new videos: Venice Genova Naples Palmanova Italian lakes: Lake Como, Lake Garda, Lake Maggiore Catania Trieste The Alps Great Ocean Road in Australia

@harrisonmiller6475 3 жыл бұрын

Can you do videos on the Chinese special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau?

@Julie-gx8ju 3 жыл бұрын

LIKE YOUR EYE GLASSES. COOL COLOR.

@ignitionfrn2223 3 жыл бұрын

1:35 - Chapter 1 - The persians 3:05 - Chapter 2 - Athens 4:25 - Chapter 3 - Conflict with the aegean 6:15 - Mid roll ads 7:50 - Chapter 4 - Invasion 9:45 - Chapter 5 - Meeting at marathon 14:05 - Chapter 6 - Aftermath 16:50 - Chapter 7 - A giant shadow - Chapter 8 -

@DETHofMAN 8 ай бұрын

How is this not used as a plot for a national treasure movie, where they could finally introduce time travel?!

@Jaman1232 3 жыл бұрын

Love these videos but I have to play on 0.75x Speed because there is so much information in a short window :')

@blueberrypirate3601 3 жыл бұрын

Booted down the bottomless pit by King Leonidas 😃

@owenshebbeare2999 3 жыл бұрын

Stop getting your history from movies.

@MuffinTastic 3 жыл бұрын

@@owenshebbeare2999 why are you going at him full force man, i'm pretty sure it's just a reference

@merafirewing6591 Жыл бұрын

@@owenshebbeare2999 It's just a reference, man.

@AnaleenAelwyn 3 жыл бұрын

You should do a video on the US AF base in Comiso, Italy. It was implemented to show the Soviet regime that the US/NATO had the ability to place ICBMs and nuclear weapons within range of the USSR and back up Reagan's "tear down this wall" speech. My father-in-law was stationed there at the time, if you need a first-hand source. :-)

@robertharper3754 3 жыл бұрын

Do the Battle of Tours, that's another one that saved Western Civilization!

@resileaf9501 3 жыл бұрын

Always love hearing the truth behind the myth. Always wondered if that thing about the messenger was real or not, so it's very neat to hear what actually was up with that story. Loved the video, you should get into the 'battles of history' business too, Simon! Bet you'd do well at those.