- How ominous and prevailing you want that main theme to be? - Yes.

That background music is very ominous: BEWARE THE MAP!!!

They used the STARS . Seriously it would have been fairly straightforward for people who could ,for instance, cross the Sahara. I don’t understand why we are so baffled by their ability to get around. They built Stonehenge. Pyramids. They must have been able to read the stars.

Fascinating

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Excellent documentary, as always. Thank you Odyssey.

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awesome video

This documentary is very good. It reminded me that when I was a child I hated Geography. Grown man I accidentally fell in love and married a geographer. Marriage and marital life made me start to like my wife's science. And the passion for Geography proved to be more lasting than my own marriage.

It's amazing that the first globe...is supposedly dated to 1490...a bit early one might think.

At 1:15:30 "...from all corners of the globe..." 🤣

Glad the sound improved. ❤

Ancient Polynesians navigated by reading the stars, as they still do today. You imply their knowledge was limited to descriptive accounts but it was (and is) mainly knowledge of the stars.

Very well done, thank you very much for this. Is this part of a series, and if so, where can I see the list of episodes so I can follow them in order. I'm learning more here than I did in school!

Did they mix two documentations? One claims noone knows how they found their way, but the other explains how they did it ^^

around 38:00 'birth of slavery' huh, sorry, slavery has been around for thousands and thousands of years. A comment by a roman citizen (100 bc) found recently " my most valued desire is my blue eyed blonde slave". Irish, brits, welsh, & scots were kidnapped put into slavery and sold at the roman slave markets many years before the portuguese landed in africa. That is a fact. Nice documentary. And very interesting, but the narratives that sound definitive "birth of slavery' - I have to add my comments back. Thank you again for this documentary.

Excellent video content on the first navigation maps worldwide. Greetings from Europe BE.

10:00... No mention of taking African Slaves to Arabia and India in exchange for those spices.

The hilarious thing about this 'age of information' is how everyone is a self-appointed expert now on everything cuz of something they heard on Reddit.

I wonder if they ever thought that " in thousands of years our ancestors will be interested in this stuff." with a far superior vocabulary.

If the Vinland map was a forgery, why show it? I cut my teeth on 1/50,000. Reading maps is an art. Super enjoyable

It would be so amazing if someone could capture and integrate the breadth of Eastern knowledge into this account, which is as usual Eurocentric. Chinese cartography began in the 5th century BC during the Warring States period when cartographers started to make maps of the Earth's surface. Bronze Age Indus Valley civilization (c. 2500-1900 BCE) may have known "cartographic activity" based on a number of excavated surveying instruments and measuring rods and that the use of large scale constructional plans, cosmological drawings, and cartographic material was known in India with some regularity since the Vedic period. Sea routes have existed since antiquity all across the Indian Ocean.

The Portuguese recently claimed Columbus as a native son, from Cuba, Portugal.

The music overrides the narrative making it too difficult to understand.

Sure, cool whatever you think professor!! I've got my own version of this history of mapping. And since you forgot so much in your not so accurate version. Here's some additional info. The Roman empire was followed up by the church and obviously they had might through half of Europe and thus maps. The Vikings went around Europe and had Cristian maps of Britain and Mediterranean maps. That's logical. You forgot about the scientific findings of the Muslim world. They were pretty advanced in math and mapping. Even the Egyptians and Romans knew the world was round, mathematician also knew. Since there have been several accounts of measuring shadows at noon in ancient Egypt, Rome etc. The Hanze coastal maps?? James Cook was inspired by the Dutch. Who discovered Australia, Tasmania, new Sealand, Easter Island, mapped the Hudson etc etc. The Dutch inventions like the Mercator's projection on maps and globes. From Gerard Mercator? The first atlases produced by Willem Blaeu, who were used by James Cook?? The Danish Tycho Brahe?? If this professor is still alive can someone teach him this stuff?? Thanks! I'm a gardener so I'm too busy with important things.

It is so intriguing that humans invented maps and globes with the earth's surface modeled thereon. This is an aerial view hundreds of years before humans were actually able to observe from that perspective. It is a remarkable feat of imagination to think of mapping as we know it at all without seeing it.

Gosh maps are interesting.

I absolutely love this, but I find it really disturbing to have the translation going on with the original language in the background. It’s just too much for my brain 😂

"But its wrong to call this the Dark Ages. Scholars know that the Earth is round" Well. they're already doing better than some people on the internet.

Yet people have been navigating 10s of thousands of year's no different to land trade routes the Silk road being a classic example Sea routes often followed the coast line just as the vikings travelled to north America via Iceland and green land and canada

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38:30... Again no mention of the Arabs transporting slaves hundreds of years before the Europeans.

Sextants are useful only for latitude, without chronometers and tables. No mention of the Harrison H4 and other chronometers which solved this issue. Disappointing.

What is missing is that Magellan discovered the Pacific route via South America first in the 1500s?..by accident ..and was killed there.

Deserts aur Sea mein sabse jayada dikat hogi nahin?.😊

That's easy to answer. Our Ancient Alien teachers took primitive humans up in their UFOs so they could see Earth's geography. However, the drawing skills of primitive humans were really bad, so their maps looked really distorted. 🛸🌍😮

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All the excavated historical and archeological places that is fit for human settlement, should be rebuilt as close to the original structures. Then the chosen inhabitants that can give life to that settlements, could provide an even more intertaining experience to tourists coming to see the places. It would help in job creation world wide. Most importantly, the chosen habitants should be willing to live of gridd, with solar. There are many archeological places across the planet, thus it's important to also learn people how to live self sustainable in all conditions.

How did the Ancients understand about stars existing inside a cube.

27:28 "He never goes to sea himself." That's a odd thing to say about a Portuguese, and nobody ever claimed this about Henry the Navigator. In fact as a young prince he famously takes part in the conquest of Ceuta, which could only be reached by sea. What's meant is he stays in Portugal when he sends his captains out to explore the coast of Africa and the Atlantic Islands. Sloppy research or sloppy writing, like much of the video.

How did the best navy ever not know what lied directly “west” of them?

2:23 trade routes

And add two minutes and 30 seconds in. Moving on.

Drives me bonkers how this channel automatically plays after watching Michelle Gibson, FEB, and other alternative history channels.

Yes. Very good. But raises more questions than it answers. If people like the Vikings and Polynesians had some sort of verbal knowledge there must have been explorers before them ! I imagine the Romans and Greeks must have depended somewhat on maybe Persian cartography and road systems

Only 4 min passed of this video, and there is an error. They say "the Sumerians new the geography of their empire 5000 years ago" - all good so far . Then, " The map is scratched on clay. It was made 600 years before Christ". Well, the Sumerians lasted until arund 1700 BC. And then in the next phrase they take us back in time to 2300 BC in Babylon. Did they mean to say the clay map was made "6000 years before Crist?" Overall interesting to watch.

Willem Janszoon discovered australia from a european perspective. Later van Diemen. And probably even the portuguese before that. Before that probably the chinese. Not Cook.

Sonehow a map of anta tic land WAS CREATED SHOWING THE LAND ENEATH THE ICE FYI

A lot was said that had to be said. As far as the worldwide exploitation of non-Europeans goes, it's a ghastly legacy.

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this was a GET FACTUAL documentary, ODYSSEY reposted as their own, SUPPER CHEESY.

The Pacific Islanders are what amaze me. Who the fuck would get in a boat and just go?

The ancient Phoenicians were seafarers that mapped the world, they were descendants of Ham via the Canaanites, what the Europeans learned about the world, they learned from the Phoenicians.

Amazing to think that in "1492" ships could carry men with such heavy plums sacks😏

❤della África costantinopoli diventa il centro Dell cristianización del balcani Goti ,e slavi,

Even worse, they completely ignored the chart of Juan de la Cosa, showing the he east coast of the American continent which was made before Balboa had found the pacific crossing the panama istmos. Juan de la cosa was the owner of the sSanta Maria and sailed with Colon on his first voyage and several other times.

Many 1000's would have perished just setting sail and preying for good luck The charts would have come 1000s year after all the guessing and deaths.

I'm under the impression the vikings were raiding the British Isles soon after the Romans left, so the 4th and 5th century.

(1523) conflitti dé religiones -1621) la formación di stati aristocratici tra Polonia e svezia 😮gustavo(ll) il último re danese (1534) guerra per il patrimonio económico😊

Telescopes are eons older than " historians" report.

🔺 The Vikings were preceded to America by the Phoenicians, Basque, Irish - as clarified through DNA Studies and Linguistic Influence on at least 2 Native peoples languages. Beth Bartlett Sociologist/Behavioralist and Historian

To this day I prefer driving and finding my destination by Atlas than "GPS". I don't like being led by a computer on a screen instead of the road and what is in front of me. It's really not that hard. With GPS it takes away any possibility of "adventure" . lol I like adventure, it certainly can make life more like "Living" and not just existing. Ya know, like a lump on a log. Nobody likes that.

Ummm,ink?

The land of Thule. If you live there the stars turn like a wheel. Sounds cognate.

Very eurocentric. Almost centuries of ancient world, from Assyria to Medes and Persians, who built roads connecting far east to west fully overlooked. But apparently even Homo erectes traveled far without maps but they sure had some geographical knowledge. The Egyptian and Phoenician deserve more detailed investigation. The Ming dynasty had the potential to map the world but they stopped at Africa. Not mention the use of compas. South Indians built empires as far as Bali and Java. Arabs had the most advanced cartography of their times. But most of the what Europeans "discovered" were settled by other people, who had discovered them centuries or even thousands of years before the Europeans, such as Tasmania. All "Unknown" to Europeans. Think only of Easter Islands. Even Antartic is depicted in an middle east copy of an very ancient map. It would have been more interesting, if they had stuck to a more chronological narrative intead of jumping dramatically haphazardly through cultural or historical periods.

How the fuck did people get to Easter island?

We, Portuguese, gave new worlds to the World.

This is third grade level, but prbly too advanced for average youtuber who users this anemic farr to fall asleep

Can't hear the narrator.

I find that failing to name the most important and influential map in medieval Europe, the Catalan atlas, is a mistake that says volumes about the quality of this documentary. Be ashamed.

The belief of all ancient civilizations (Hindu, Mayan, Inca, Hebrew, Egyptian...) is not about a globe.

Adorable

The repetition is horrendous… same information, over, and over, and over again....its interesting but impossible to watch.

People to this day walk into those Spanish churches and feel "the spirit". They neglect the fact that God's houses there are covered in innocent blood. But, hey! Jesus loves ya!

No is true Spain in the 15 century no is a poor country ( black legend today?) is a country with very Mediterranean comerce with Aragonese territories in Italy and other European countries the fact the 15 century named the golden age economic in comerce in the Aragonese part of Spain and Castille indudtrious in silk and wool emporio and others materies.

The background music takes away so much from the documentary.

It's quite disappointing to see how you keep insisting in this ridiculous idea of people not knowing the sphericity of Earth in the renaissance. It was known from Eratosthenes in 2nd century BC and the Catholic Church had no trouble with it during the Middle Ages, not to talk during Renaissance. It's also quite ridiculous how you insist in the black legend about Spanish conquest of America, while you have not complained about Greek, Romans or Arabians doing the same before. To make it worse, you insinuate that Spaniards kept not knowing that America wasn't India in the 18th century, when it was Spaniards who circumnavigated the globe for the first time and started the systematic transpacific trade with Asia with the Galeon of Manila already in the 16th century. Since you, Germans, did not play any significant role in this age of discovery and exploration, you mention a couple of "cartographers" when Portuguese, Italians and Spaniards had already been making much better maps of the New World and the rest of the World decades before. Just check facts a little bit, please.

At 32:32 - the Portuguese king Henry the Navigator.....!! Sorry, but Henry never became king.

...before u even got into water with a boat n sail the seas (yes rivers are way harder, like try to sail trough Djerdap gorge, xD also u don't even used that unit, "Knots" for speed, hah u don't do knots with compas hah also u woud prob. be dead xD keep in mind that stars were and still are not same as down in polinesia or africa, since peoples could not see em from there, and it was newer fhe only thing em used to nav. yeah all of em were first astro observatories too, there were no Egipt down there, while em were mapping stuff like sirius b n the rest, but hey lets not forger Aleksandar n his sailng skills way before em "empires n idiots", or thats not "europe also"? xD

"European discovering the world" is crazy

EARTH is FLAT

People still think the earth is flat!!

I wonder about the "Pierre Reice"(a Turkish admiral fom the 1500s)map,these people do not go far enough,back. My opinion. Someone riddle me "polygonal stonework" worldwide?

discovered?, how crude.

Age of exploration- How to find China from Jerusalem - go East til they find you. The reason guides didn’t write anything down … might be literacy or the fact that if everyone knew … no need for a guide and he’s out of a job and money.

(Henry was never king.)

there is no way to know what might have been in the Alexandria library

People really hate if you point out the cruelty of slavery. “They did it too” is a weak argument, but I don’t argue with swine.

Attending "school" in 20th century America were we were LIED to... "1776 & blah blah bah... Whilst many of us had family bibles attesting our ancestors living in New Foundland 1500's

Ancient Civilizations Begin Mapping The Terrain, the had no concept of a Globe that far back in time.

Ancient?

Bugs ahead b

The Azores Islands in the middle of the Atlantic is known to be inhabited by 2000 bc, undisputable evidence ancient peoples were much more knowledgable and capable at long distance sea travel than most "scholars" today imagine. The era of discovery and colonialism has turned out to be nothing but a travesty leading to modern day all consuming greed and destruction. Slavery btw existed long before white man industrializing it. Romans, Arabs and Vikings took slaves everywhere they went. It's time humans begin viewing themselves as Custodians not Owners with a right to exploit.

This version of history is pithy, a jigsaw puzzle missing half the pieces.

Europeans "discover the world" wtf?

A lot of misinformation and inaccuracies here.

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Pure Heliocentric Globe Propaganda. Did anyone count how many times he says 'globe' or 'global' ?

I personally dont like to disrespect any religions. However, hearing time and time again about the christians doing things that clearly go against god and the bible throughout history. Such as conquering the americas and enslaving, murdering, and robbing people and teaching the remaining about their religion is just so horrible and is the keading reason why i cant get behind religions. Even hearing about the church just declaring what god did after creating the "old world" even though, not a single christian had a clue about the americas, but now that its descovered, they have to create an explanation? Seems hard to believe in that.