The Mitanni spoke Hurrian (an unrelated language) but there is several names and words they used that were nearly identical to Indian Sanskrit. So it is extremely likely they had some direct contract with Sanskrit speakers at a minimum...and at most part of their ruling class and people were descended from Sanskrit speakers.

Is there a way I could aquire those maps you always use in your videos? I find them very nice to see what kind of landscape and rivers are in the world without those annoying modern borders. I would even buy them if thats required.

You got the part wrong where sargon of akkad is a multinationalistic ruler. Sargon of Akkad frown down on diversity and left leaning views.

I just have to say this mate. You've got to be one of the best KZfaqrs out there.

great vid

YES! Its the first thing that got me genuinely looking into history and it still compels me. I dont know what would be worse...finding out everything about the bronze age and losing that flavour of mystery or never knowing the truth of this heroic and sophisticated age

So many weird names I love it

@@mdstanton1813 if an alien were to Give u two boxes, one which contains only few pictures of bronze age times but of most important events like the first war ever fought, first peace treaty signing etc and the other box contained high quality videos of mundane activities done by bronze age people's of sumer, egypt, elam etc which box would you chose? Btw u can only chose one,.

m D stanton I don’t think it’s possible for us to know that much about the Bronze Age.

@@extratropicalcyclone8567 prolly the second

If the moon landind ever existed

ibnu Jamac Adan Hey, guys, I found an idiot.

İnsan Of course they are🙄

İnsan hey look i found another one

i never thought i'd find someone unironically saying sheeple in a comment section of a video about the bronze age congratulations,have a chocolate medal

temba his arms wide open! tamok! The river tamok! In winterrrrrrr!

Ah, I see that you are a man of culture as well.

Hope he is like Bismark and get a plan for the event

@Vandit enkidu was a Spirit or demon defeated and befriended by gilgamesh

Vandit, Iron the wise's reference was a the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode where the captain of the Enterprise, Jean-Luc Picard tries to overcome a language barrier between himself and an alien species that essentially uses inside jokes and memes to communicate, while stranded on a planet trying to save themselves and get help while working together, and he referenced one of the inside ways the aliens communicate, while Miguel Montenegro referenced a running joke in a segment called Extra History that youtube channel called Extra Credits, specifically in the miniseries called Otto Von Bismark, where Bismark always has a plan.

Gustavo S.Lamarque Guess some things never end.

what a fkn chad he was

lmao I love this 🤣

@Vasian Vasianich But Arabs are Middle Eastern.

Theories that compare ancient "downfalls" and pull connections to our own time annoy me to no end. "There was peace and prosperity and then ... orange king came and it was the sign of the end of times when the whole wold plundered in massive scale nuclear war ... sound familiar??! **wink wink** - Yawn. No.

@@virding232 oh yes but be my guest to tell every random tribe that

I do wonder whether we are living in the last day of "Western Civilization" as we know it

@@roberttauzer7042 History is cyclical and what has happened will happen and shall happen again. Deal with it.

Their main weapon is surprise. And terror.

Atlantis?

@@Andreabay90, was in Andalusia.

They're the exception.

Ramses III expected them - and set a trap in the Nile, the Sea People were shot to pieces by massed archers, and those who came ashore were killed by spear men.

How has your story developed?

@Irish Jester Lol i think you misunderstood

I’m a time traveler. Just came from the Bronze Age. It was pretty chill.

On the timescale, the Romans were farther away from Sumer than we are from the Romans.

@@needfoolthings Yeah, Cleopatra as well. She's closer to the moon landing than the Great Pyramid. Incredible to think about.

This makes me wonder what people will think of our time in 4000 years. “Imagine being stuck on only one planet” they will probably say

and the aftermath would be the original: Fallout

"Between the time when the Oceans drank Atlantis and the Rise of Sons of Hellenica there was an Age Undreamed of, a time when Shining Kingdoms lay spread across the World"

:D Bronze age is the best age!...until...

Epimetheus Until...what? The Bronze Age collapse? Just like the fall of Constantinople I pretend it didn’t happen.

You are my sunshine, my only sunshine.

just wait until they discover ...electricity... then copper mines spells world domination..

Not gonna lie, I want a neolithic video of late stone age weaponry and society

@@Oussama-sab actually no

@@dillonblair6491 you can watch Conan the Barbarian. It's quite historically accurate.

Accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior and you will be saved. John 3:16 (share the good news of the gospel around the world!) Have a wonderful day/night, may the LORD bless you all, and farewell!,.,,,,,,,.,.,.,.,.

Sorta like today

@@noelyanes2455 But without the hipocrisy

Just like today

more than trading what they really did was a complex geopolitical struggle for the domination of the goods, prty much as what happens with the wars of the main powers today for oil or so but less gay

Glad you like them :) I always keep trying to improve them

@@EpimetheusHistory can you post the map somewhere?

What ?

the bron jame

Johnny Basketball

We should start a bronze-age themed dispensary. Gold bongs, ancient pottery holding our plants. That kind of thing.

And one of the most common items made using these PCB’s are called “tablets”.

I agree, Bronze is so pretty. Skallagrim did a video on a bronze sword. Surprisingly sharp and effective. It can bend, but also be bent back into place. But it will yield to iron and steel.

@@shorewall lihk?

@@shorewall adequate and reliable supply of tin was the Achilles's heel of bronze

Just watched a video from Meletron about that. Fellow says bronze is actually more durable, just as strong, and can be sharpened to an edge just like iron. It's also just as good, or better, in the making of armor. The reason, he says, that iron eventually won out, ( they were used side by side for hundreds of years ), was that it required free and open trade routes to ensure supply of both copper and tin. The Roman empire loved to wage bloody campaigns of conquest, which tends to shut down trade. If they couldn't get either metal reliably--no weapons, no armor, no conquest. Iron, on the other hand, only requires iron ore; plentiful on every route the Romans plan to invade. It only requires one metal, (iron ore), and carbon,( burnt wood ), to make iron weapons and armor. Dude says that's the reason iron won. Just sayin.....

it is objectively superior to raw Iron, it's only when Iron becomes stell that it beats bronze. bronze still lasts longer though.

"The Archeology of Crete" by J.D.S. Pendlebury. It is specifically about the Minoans. It is the best book I have ever seen on them and if there is one better, I have yet to hear about it. The book was written and passed on for publication just before Pendlebury's death. He was killed by the German Fallschirmjäger during the airborne attack on Crete in the opening years of WW2. His life story alone is legendary. I love Bronze Age history. My favorite perspective being the Minoans, so I am happy to suggest this book and I hope it helps.

"The epic of Gilgamesh", simply the oldest story known to man, it's an original tale from Uruk

Talk for yourself lol. College is being even harder from home. The teachers think they are kings of the universe or something

@Miguel Montenegro Haha my sister is a teacher...from what she tells me it seems she is working more than when she was showing up to class. But she teaches little kiddos. I can only imagine what some of my former professors would do in a time like this :)

@Marcello SDLT Glad I can help! most of my family and friends are living where there is a "shelter in place" order going on most can work from home, but I also have friends who have been laid off of work. I have had to cancel upcoming plans to go visit family because of current events. Hopefully, this is all over in not too many weeks/months.

I have the coronavirus and I can confirm this helps

Iron + carbon = big upgrade

the todays Turkey had a small tin mine, most tin came from the todays afghanistan. but a big mine in todays england was known too

Right next to Bronzia

The prawn bay

@@IosaJ the Bombay

@@blagoevski336 the long day

@@Lilshinefan101 salon jade

The broom games

Jiroft civilization, The Burned City

All History is interesting when it is told in the right way I personally dont feel much connection to medieval history Or modern history But when lindybeige tells stories about them they are almost always interesting still

I don't know when you studied and where but in the 80s and 90s we studied the Bronze age. Don't you remember the lessons on smelting and metal works, the changes in society, the agriculture changes and the archaeology from the time in Bulgaria? Also we had lessons on the Middle East and Mesopotamia, the writing. There was so much..

The comparison has been drawn by some great minds so I think you're on to something 😊

That's because it is. Like Wilusa = Ilion, Taruisa = Troy, Apasa = Ephesus, Miliwanda/Milawata = Miletus, Lukka = Lycia, Lazpa = Lesbos, Assuwa (probably equals) Asia... a lot of Classical names can be found in Hittite texts, although it's not always easy to make the connection, and "back in the day" some scholars were reluctant to jump on the idea that we had found places named in the Trojan War in Hittite documents, so were hesitant to accept the connections.

Yep, and _Danesh_ sounds like _Dannans._

Because they are the same thing

:D

The bronze age

@@walterhartwellwhitesr.4621 Water weight

yes...... that indeed was the joke........

Thank you

:D Glad you like it!

China too. I'm pretty sure he knows of these places, he just confined the space

Indus should have been included, it traded with everything else in this video. The blue lapis stone from Afghanistan made it's way to Egypt frequently. As for China, it started it's bronze age like a thousand years behind the rest of these places and would not be in contact with the rest of civilization until the very end of the BC era.

Yeah the indus valley was also important, i read some were that they had trade with the sumerians

@@MohammadAli-iz9ld yes and were called meluah.

@@ShubhamMishrabro interesting, i actually thought meluah was never discovered and it's just a legend, cuz some people said that it existed in Egypt and some said in yemen, thnx for the info

Iron was known pretty far back in time, but nobody seemed inclined to use it very much.

To work with iron ore you need much higher smelting temperatures, which was extremely hard to achieve for a long time

We can't know but not necessarly it would change a lot. Look, Subsaharan Africa actually never had a Bronze Age, they jumped directly from Stone to Iron Age.

Without the need to get tin, trade wouldn't have been as important. Without an advantage in weapons, the local kingdoms wouldn't have been conquered by the big empires. We probably would still live in small tribal societies without much research and development.

something happened in bronze age that after it fall. people start using iron. my guess is meteor start to fall in in bronze age. then people start using iron from meteor. egyptian even know that meteor contain iron.

haha...yeah real creative of them. I guess they were just getting started with the whole writing thing and were looking for something simple. Maybe there is the lost city of Uh... next to it

@@EpimetheusHistory A city of Uh and its sisters city, Uhm.

@@siechamontillado Don't forget 'Ah"

Not missing the point, but it was most likely pronounced _Oor._

Isn't that the root for words that mean "Origin/Source" in many languages?

I am so glad i could clear thing up :D

@@EpimetheusHistory what about Oman and uae and India bronze age . Oman and uae was famous shipbuilding and copper in bronze age plus they have same culture

Cornwall is the neglected little brother of Britain. Whales is the middle child that everyone makes fun of. And England Scottland are the two twins that fight all the time.

@@crapwithanopinion2919 Wales*

Historia Civilis mentions it in his video.

I know! I love going back, back, back, but at some point, it gets so murky. It is humbling to reach the shadows of history.

I can't believe the Minoans invented walking!

🙂

It's especially interesting to see what of Mycenean mythology we can cobble together for a Bizzaro version of the more familiar Greek myths, especially with the transition over the Greek Dark Ages largely being lost (for instance, Posiedon, not Zeus, seems to have been the chief god of the Mycenean pantheon, with death god attributes absent in the more familiar later version). It would be great if we could decipher the Linear A script of the Minoans like we can the Linear B script of the Myceneans, learn something of this mysterious culture.

We need a proper bronze age total war game