The free basement dwellers as they were called supposedly were advanced & lived in peace before the mighty simon arrived. All lies for we know our Lord and saviour fact boi would never deceive us like that, those poor primitives believe it though as if they were smart enough to remember & lived through it imagine for we all know there is no recorded times before Simon

@@Ghostvertigo Fact Boi might be immortal, living through several millennia of time and space, and knows better to deceive or not deceive.

The Dananites...

It's like "Indian in the Cupboard", but "Chain-smoking Typewriter Monkeys in Simon's Basement"

WTF Are you babbling on about 😂 😂

Paul Cooper: Regularly does three-hour podcast videos each about the collapse of a single civilization... Simon Whistler: Drops an eleven-minute video about the collapse of several different civilizations... Also Simon Whistler: Just dropped a three-hour video about ONE GUY ("Kaspar Hauser: The Prince Without a Past") 😉😁

Thanks

The best source for meticulously researched past civilizations. Thanks for dropping that knowledge on people

Collapse by Jared Diamond is also an excellent book on the subject…

Hell yeah. Excellent channel

Those things happens

thank you.

Not disappeared or died out, they were murdered, killed, and allowed to die after both biological and then physical warfare. Please be accurate with the indigenous areas of the Amazon because they were part of the intentional genocide and biological warfare via spead of disease. The hypothesis of fruit trees being intentional spread has been gaining more and more evidence. It's fantastic reading, highly recommend looking into the recent findings of the agricultural and arboreal advancements of the Amazon.

Okay, that's just neat to think about.

From what I understand this overrepresentation also extends to Central America's rainforest and is commonly also being attributed to angiosperms (flowering plants, including all fruit-bearing trees) having a much shorter generation time leading to 1) a faster evolution and adaption rate and 2) a faster rate of expansion into vacant geographical areas It is therefore being hypothesized that angiosperms became especially dominant in the aftermath of the Chicxulub Impact event (aka the impact wiping out the non-avian dinosaurs). This event's effect on climate was global, but the closer rainforests in the Americas would likely have been almost completely destroyed, resulting in angiosperms re-colonizing the now vacant areas much quicker and becoming dominant before other plants had a chance to do so. Add to that a quicker diversification into ecological niches and the possibilty of quicker co-evolution with mammals, birds and insects in a rebounding ecosystem and the result is a massive advantage for flowering plants (who make much more use of pollinating animals, for example) So I really like this "Early Civilization Garden Hypothesis" - it could easily be true - but it is very likely only one contributing factor to flowering plant density and some of the factors pre-date humans by tens of millions of years

@@TomH-m6b Eh, the impact was 65 mln years ago. Way too long to be a factor, plenty of time to 'reset' that advantage (if any) thousands of times. It's like attributing the popularity of hamburgers to the diet of early mesopotamia, sure, maybe they liked bread with meat too but it was so long ago before modern hamburger it's basically meaningless...

Read 1491.

Great podcast indeed!!

That’s one of the trips I wanna make someday. It’s on my buckets list

The last free Mayan city didn't actually fall until 1697!!! Yeah, their king got the stupid idea that he could befriend the Spanish and invited a few over to his hidden city. Huge mistake. Those are the same Mayans you are talking about that fled, actually conquering them took a very long time. It certainly wasn't a city as massive as El Mirador but a smaller, still pretty populated city on an island in a lake. It was called "Nojpetén".

The Maya did not disappear into the jungle. In the 16th century, they fought the Spanish, longer and more successfully than any other native people. Did. The so-called Maya collapse happened about 800 years before this and affected mostly only the cities in the southern Maya area. Not so much the countryside in the South, and neither of the cities nor the countryside up North.

@@williamwolf2844 Well, they did disappear into the jungle many times since the Spanish was unwilling to go after them there so I don't think he is totally wrong. They were fighting a guerrilla war after all. But you are certainly right that they were the most successful in fighting back, that didn't end until 1697 (see my earlier post in the thread). And yeah, we seen a few cases of Maya people revolting in modern times too. The Mayas did have a habit to leave their cities and found new ones, the Mayan collapse was more or less the time we know of that most of the cities did this. But we see it earlier too. El Mirador and many cities were also abandoned earlier and we still don't exactly know why. In the collapse, it seems to have been more religious and/or social reasons then anything else. With El Mirador, it might just be that they used up the natural resources since it was such a massive city but that is just speculation and we know that wasn't the case during the later collapse. We are finding out more and more about them though, 30 years ago we thought the pre classic Maya were rather primitive but El Mirador was one of the largest cities in the world 2500 years ago and it wasn't the only one either, just the one we have excavated most so far from the period (and we have barely scratched the surface). It is a very fascinating culture. :)

They disappeared before the Spanish

According the Bro Jogan this has been confirmed to be objective fact

Middle of the day too.

Not saying it's aliens ... but, yah, it's aliens.

Ancient Alien Experts say ‘Yes!’

Lizard people.

I would have more than decimated the population, as decimated technically would refer to one in ten.

@@DenethordeSade.90 That is technically true. Sometimes a Roman emperor or general ordered the death of every tenth soldier as a punishment to send a message. It seems that the Amazonians were nearly centimated.

@@DenethordeSade.90 What's it like being such a complete Bunt Citch all the time?

A lot of people thought that’s what we were gonna face with Covid so I still have nightmares about

@@DenethordeSade.90 Haha sorry English isnt my first language. I've just heard decimate used a lot for apocalyptic scenarios, maybe "annihilate" is a better term?

The Goneforsmokians number is unknown. My dad was of that folk.

lmao

That took my brain a minute to process, but when it did. I nearly choked

@@gregskaggs8521 same as the Pintofmilks, just disappeared in droves, never to be seen again

@@NJTRAF an American tragedy made more ironic by the fact they put missing children on milk cartons but where have our fathers gone?

Brugh this all just made up fantasy. 82nd is a chump division fyi brugh. Most chumped up division in the army son

I lived in the Four Corners area and got to visit a few of the sites. Unfortunately, I never made it to Chaco or Canyon de Chelly.

I visited Mesa Verde as a kid. Spooky place!

​@@jennyanydots2389 sounds like someone didn't make it thru. Probably dishonorable discharge

​@@jennyanydots2389what is brugh and what does that have anything to do with Chaco Canyon?

or, could be, kraken.

iirc, scientists say that, for a culture to continue, mind you, not expand or anything, JUST to continue to exist, you need each couple (1 man and 1 woman) to have 2.3 babies on average. With 2.3 babies on average your culture will continue to exist, but it won't grow. This is the minimum possible. Anything below 2.3 babies = the culture / population slowly dying out. And ofc, if you want growth, you need more than 2.3 babies per family.

​@MonsieurDeVeteran 2.3 babies? Ain't seen no fractional baby in real life 😂

​@@halcyonramirez6469 Get some education, especially regarding "average". 🙄

@dadrising6464 get some education in real life lmao. 2.3 babies? Lol. Yeah on stats and paper but in the real world where do you see that really? Since you're so eDuCAtED did you miss the part in stats where they said you can't have fractional people? explain to your sample people your trying to educate by telling them they should have at least 2.3 babies 🤣. Smart enough to do the job. not smart enough to question it. smh

not saying humanity got to collapse but but we could do whit less humans on the earth but the poor breed like rabbits and the rich dont

Nice, sadly they are still around just no longer in power

@@Ravendarkwytch Kind of like the Pueblans being still around.

Water u talmbout Egland politics fo? This an american show for american's, stick to merican topics or keep a lid on it son. U understan me son?

@@jennyanydots2389civilisation of articulation 😢

@@quinnishrellik9378 Hey brugh that word is spelt with a Z not a stinkin' S brugh. Get it right son! Show some respect for this American language brugh. This ain't tea time son, we use words proper over here unlike them UK peeps just butchering my english language.

Not all too advanced without writing.. 🤷🏻‍♂️

The Maya were one of only 5 civilizations to develop a writing system and they had libraries of books. Of course, Spanish missionaries declared them to be pagan and idolatrous and burned thousands of them. The Mayan glyphs were finally translated in the 1970’s.

Koch's 90% mortality has been questioned seriously by other researchers who contend it was based on hugely inflated pre-contact population estimates.

He’s already done a few videos on it back in the day. On which channel I have absolutely no clue.

Nobody sees it coming 😅

That could have been a case of deliberate copying. Minoan fortifications weren't as robust as the Mycenaen cities, and Minoan rulers copied them, perhaps because of increased internal warfare?

Oh yeah, the evil Western World... I don't think these four chapters cover all vanished civilizations, so why prefer the Indus-Saraswati over others left out of this video? Maybe they keep some for eventual future videos if the topic gets enough views. Sorry your favourite didn't make it into this one.

Is she a vampire that lived for millenniums by chance?

How old are you????

she was more probably minion.

One of two strategies. Either they moved up into the mountains for cooler alpine air or they made shade structures or built into the ground to just chill out during the hottest parts of the day.

It's just Simon dabbling in genocide on the weekends I suppose.

If they were main projects, they wouldn't have disappeared.

No, European civilization has mutated/evolved to meet its challenges, but it has not collapsed.

It's not. Humans just aren't good at civilizing yet. Most of it is just a grift and always has been... eventually we will get it right and stop taking advantage of each other for a living.

@@donaldcarey114 There is only one human civilization and it hasn't collapsed yet despite many peaks and valleys. People who say collapse is inevitable are just doomsday fetishists... likely to help them cope with how mundane most of our lives really are.

@@donaldcarey114 Not yet. But a collaps does not necessarily mean that it will be destroyed.