The Copper Age Explained (The rise of civilization)

2021 ж. 19 Там.
1 166 275 Рет қаралды

The Copper Age Explained (The rise of civilization) Chalcolithic Mesopotamia
Some sources used include:
Mesopotamia and the near east (Roaf, Michael )
Northern Mesopotamia (Potts, Danie)
Archaeologies of the Middle East: Critical Perspectives (Pollock, Susan)
A History of the Ancient Near East(Van De Mieroop, Marc)
On pins and needles: tracing the evolution of copper-based alloying (Thornton, C.P.; Lamberg-Karlovsky, C.C.; Liezers, M.; Young, S.M.M.)
This video is sponsored by my patrons over on Patreon
/ epimetheus1776

Пікірлер
  • The super ancient vids like this are the best ones.

    @allonzehe9135@allonzehe91352 жыл бұрын
    • true

      @TheColombianSpartan@TheColombianSpartan2 жыл бұрын
    • Yes

      @marmer4541@marmer45412 жыл бұрын
    • What are you talking about, this video is 2 days old

      @greenkoopa@greenkoopa2 жыл бұрын
    • Agreeed

      @nrom6786@nrom67862 жыл бұрын
    • @@greenkoopa He's talking about topic, Can you not understand?

      @banimalhalder723@banimalhalder7232 жыл бұрын
  • Somewhere I read that the depiction of Ephestus the forge god as a deformed men was a depiction of ancient blacksmiths using arsenic in their craft to make bronze. Long term exposure to arsenic it's not only mortal also can deform limbs an incapacitate before killing. So for the ancient greek their forge god had the features of the great forge masters of the mythical times.

    @egillskallagrimson5879@egillskallagrimson58792 жыл бұрын
    • That’s badass. Hope it’s true.

      @YaBoiDREX@YaBoiDREX2 жыл бұрын
    • Arsenic can replace Tin in Bronze and Arsenic Bronze was well known on the Iranian plateau by the 5th millennium BC

      @kuvasz5252@kuvasz52522 жыл бұрын
    • There’s a reason they preferred non-arsenic bronzes

      @seanbeadles7421@seanbeadles74212 жыл бұрын
    • I tried to find evidence that arsenic causes deformations but didn't see anything. I did see though that the semitic craftsman god Kothar-wa-Khasis possibly walked with a limp, the Egyptian craftsman god Ptah used to be thought of as a deformed dwarf and the Norse bronzeworking god Weyland the Smith was lame. But there could be other reasons for those similarities (and there are plenty of able bodied craftsmanship gods in other cultures). The idea of a god of craftsmanship being physically imperfect is a very interesting idea itself.

      @br2485@br24852 жыл бұрын
    • @@br2485 Hephaestus's misshapen appearance and lameness are taken by some to represent peripheral neuropathy and skin cancer resulting from arsenicosis caused by arsenic exposure from metalworking.[73] Bronze Age smiths added arsenic to copper to produce harder arsenical bronze, especially during periods of tin scarcity. Many Bronze Age smiths would have suffered from chronic arsenic poisoning as a result of their livelihood. Consequently, the mythic image of the lame smith is widespread. As Hephaestus was an iron-age smith, not a bronze-age smith, the connection is one from ancient folk memory.[74] en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hephaestus#:~:text=Hephaestus%27s%20misshapen%20appearance%20and%20lameness,during%20periods%20of%20tin%20scarcity.

      @egillskallagrimson5879@egillskallagrimson58792 жыл бұрын
  • You know shit is real when Epimetheus stops talking about Bronze age

    @khediveabbashilmiiiofegypt9475@khediveabbashilmiiiofegypt94752 жыл бұрын
    • Every good series needs a prequel ☺️

      @jlupus8804@jlupus88042 жыл бұрын
    • I wish I can go back in time and Industrialized Ancient Sumeria

      @christiandauz3742@christiandauz37422 жыл бұрын
    • Christian Dauz Yeah, but we'd be stuck with a funky wedge shaped alphabet

      @TheSulross@TheSulross2 жыл бұрын
    • @@TheSulross Industrialization and modern technology would simplify the Sumerian language and alphabet or invent a new simpler language similar to English Think of all the tragedies prevented by having the Industrial Revolution occur Five THOUSAND Years Ago!!!

      @christiandauz3742@christiandauz37422 жыл бұрын
    • I know shit is real, every time I wipe... there is empirical evidence.

      @Mohawks_and_Tomahawks@Mohawks_and_Tomahawks2 жыл бұрын
  • I've never seen a youtuber tackle the copper age. Props to you, man.

    @miniondaechir@miniondaechir2 жыл бұрын
    • was before the Bronze Age - done!

      @TheSulross@TheSulross2 жыл бұрын
    • @@TheSulross it's not on age of empires so it doesn't exist

      @noobian3314@noobian33142 жыл бұрын
    • @@noobian3314 ya I started learning history because of that game, and thank god I did.

      @9051team@9051team2 жыл бұрын
    • @@9051team I got interested from Rome and medieval 2 total war, which are both horribly inaccurate, but ah well.

      @neohyberboreantechnosteppe3185@neohyberboreantechnosteppe3185 Жыл бұрын
    • Miniminiuteman youre welcome

      @kylemackinnon5696@kylemackinnon5696 Жыл бұрын
  • Man, how did you manage to secure a copper sponsorship? You hardly see them sponsoring anything nowadays

    @alexandersarchives9615@alexandersarchives96152 жыл бұрын
    • Ikr

      @lordsiomai@lordsiomai2 жыл бұрын
    • Big Copper, always near, always here. Pulling the strings for 10,000 years. Mwa ha ha haa!

      @tpxchallenger@tpxchallenger2 жыл бұрын
    • Ya, and the sales pitch was great, but I can't find the links to copper in the description. Please help,I have many zink pennies to smash.

      @ATFADL@ATFADL2 жыл бұрын
    • He sent an application written in cuneiform, on clay tablet, to Ea-Nasir. That man's a scoundrel but he knows good advertising when he sees it.

      @CRT_sRGB@CRT_sRGB Жыл бұрын
    • Copper is the primary element in the electrical wiring in your home and computer, thus it sponsors communication, sponsors generation and delivery of electric power and is 88.5% of the 2022 Lincoln penny, so it sponsors recycling itself.

      @Jason-hg1pc@Jason-hg1pc10 ай бұрын
  • The real world depiction of the different materials at the beginning were a very satisfactory representations. You have my admiration for this idea.

    @mauricevanderheiden5557@mauricevanderheiden55572 жыл бұрын
    • I was walking by my mom's garden and saw the oxidized hippo, bucket and the green rock and thought "definitely changing the intro to my video" :)

      @EpimetheusHistory@EpimetheusHistory2 жыл бұрын
    • @@EpimetheusHistory Nice vid though, a wee detail... when decribing why copper, lead and gold were utilised first, I struggle with the priorisation of aesthetics there - the primary reason for their discovery has to be their low smelting temperatures - it would not have been possible for them to smelt iron first with their given level of technology in managing their fires i.e. iron requires efficient bellows - therefore, the discovery of metal smelting is bound to occur with these materials first. Lead in particular can be melted on a naturally aspirated, wood burning camp fire (at 375°c) and is therefore the obvious first step as this can happen by accident - smelting both copper and gold on the other hand require temperatures over 1000°c which is only achievable with artificial aspiration (bellows) and a very concerted effort, so this process must be done with foresight and the intention of smelting ore. Melting or smelting iron ore on the other hand requires sustaining a fire at just over 1500°c, which is a very serious undertaking not achievable without a lot of acquired experience and knowledge - there's no chance of that being discovered by accident. So, above and beyond aesthetic appeal, practical limitations force this evolution - point being, we could do away with these titles of "copper-age", "bronze-age" and "iron-age" and instead look at this span of time (running right up to today) as the gradual evolution of our skill in managing fire and raising its temperature ever higher. In terms of the craft behind this progression, that would be a much more sensible way of approaching the matter, rather than creating these false abstractions dividing periods by materials - because the practice behind those materials remains unchanging - this is all unified under the bracket of progressive skill in the management of our fires. [Incidentally, I suspect developments in firing clay pots may have been woven into this evolution and, more interestingly, perhaps fire-setting work in (megalithic) quarrying of stone during the neolithic was actually the first step in this process - wherein the possibility of transforming stone with fire was perhaps first introduced to the neolithic craftsman's mind.... Which eventually led from weakening and breaking the stone they worked by heating to melting ore stones. There's a band of weirdos, including myself, exploring this hypothesis at present.]

      @JesseP.Watson@JesseP.Watson Жыл бұрын
    • @@JesseP.Watson That is, the history of life is the history of energy harnessing and manipulation.

      @NicoAssaf@NicoAssaf Жыл бұрын
    • @@JesseP.Watson Those are all native metals. They can be found in nature, ready to work without smelting. This likely played a part in why man started working with these metals. Compare that to aluminum which was once precious enough that a number of Napoleonic medals were made of it. Lightning strikes in desert sands did the smelting.

      @martinphilip8998@martinphilip899811 ай бұрын
  • WE MISSED YOU EPIMETHEUS !!! WE NEED MORE CONTENT FROM YOU

    @arianghotbi_@arianghotbi_2 жыл бұрын
    • ALL HAIL THE UNREPLACEABLE EPIMETHEUS

      @RodolfoGaming@RodolfoGaming2 жыл бұрын
    • I rate this guy so much I genuinely just became a Patreon for the first time in my life

      @arianghotbi_@arianghotbi_2 жыл бұрын
    • Become a patreon

      @zxera9702@zxera97022 жыл бұрын
    • @@zxera9702 I mean not everyone can afford it. It's not something you should say as lightly as you just did for future references

      @RodolfoGaming@RodolfoGaming2 жыл бұрын
    • @@RodolfoGaming ok..my bad

      @zxera9702@zxera97022 жыл бұрын
  • I find it so interesting when inventions like copper smelting are invented independently of other civilizations. The crossbow is another good example.

    @devinpowers4132@devinpowers41322 жыл бұрын
    • When two students have the same answers to their homework, sometimes they didn't copy each other's work. Maybe the answers were just correct.

      @johntitor1256@johntitor12562 жыл бұрын
    • Trade maybe connected our world way more than we would think. I think our ancestors were way better sea navigators than we give them credit for.

      @bigfenix8272@bigfenix82722 жыл бұрын
    • Great minds think alike, even great minds on the other side of the world

      @maxalaintwo3578@maxalaintwo35782 жыл бұрын
    • Because were all humans with the same brains that think the same way and come up with similar solutions.

      @YaBoiDREX@YaBoiDREX2 жыл бұрын
    • @@YaBoiDREX not that simple, as great civilizations are not evenly dispersed throughout the world nor is avg IQ

      @hzhang1228@hzhang12282 жыл бұрын
  • Every time I watch one of your vids on the pre-iron age, I'm convinced an excellent strategy game could be built from the resource gated situation: do you breed your warhorses, or risk them on expansion? Do you risk losing your copper weapons on an mercenary expedition, sell them as jewelry to neighbours, or increase crop yields with tools? Do you share metallurgy knowledge so you can trade for it later, or keep it secret and limit the total available resource?

    @MrBritishNinja@MrBritishNinja2 жыл бұрын
    • No need for a game...all of the above really happened in different iterations. I won't spoil it for you, but there were some paths that were clearly more successful(?) than others (see video on Sumeria and Assyria)

      @fortusvictus8297@fortusvictus82972 жыл бұрын
    • Pre-dynastic Egypt and Egypt: Old Kingdom (both available on Steam for a few bucks) got you.

      @goo894@goo8942 жыл бұрын
    • @@goo894 Exactly. The mining of copper in the Sinaï is even a 'plot point' in the latter.

      @Sr65536@Sr655362 жыл бұрын
    • check out dawn of men

      @bmak3979@bmak39792 жыл бұрын
    • Through the Ages is a board game that also has a digital version on iOS. This is the best yet complicated game about history I’ve played. But I still would love something focused on this copper age time period.

      @faxanadu13@faxanadu132 жыл бұрын
  • When ever Im sick I enjoy mimicking Epimetheus voice

    @carhose8538@carhose85382 жыл бұрын
    • It is so odd

      @michaelj6392@michaelj63922 жыл бұрын
  • I found the Bronze Age endlessly fascinating, and some independent research taught me about the Copper Age, but this video does such a great job at really illustrating this period of history. I didn't understand why copper became so important, but the context makes it clear. Coming from tools of stone and bone, metal probably turned society on its head! I loved one comment in particular, of how the people in the Bronze Age saw the Copper Age as a time of myths and legends. In the same way, we today look at our past and try to imagine it, so too did the people who came before us.

    @daniell1483@daniell14832 жыл бұрын
    • That last comment was also deeply meaningful to me. I couldn't stop thinking about how the epic of Gilgamesh - one of the oldest songs we have record of - opens up with "in those old days". It really puts into perspective how LONG we actually have come through as species.

      @kevinquiroscanales6240@kevinquiroscanales6240 Жыл бұрын
  • NOBODY TALKS ABOUT THE COPPER AGE OH MY GOD I'M SO HAPPY YOU ARE EPI!!

    @liviavaleria1342@liviavaleria13422 жыл бұрын
    • ALL HAIL THE UNREPLACEABLE EPIMETHEUS

      @RodolfoGaming@RodolfoGaming2 жыл бұрын
    • @@RodolfoGaming Hail Epimetheus all my homies love Epimetheus.

      @liviavaleria1342@liviavaleria13422 жыл бұрын
    • @@liviavaleria1342 this

      @RodolfoGaming@RodolfoGaming2 жыл бұрын
    • damn those Bronze elitists, lol

      @Schmidt54@Schmidt542 жыл бұрын
    • There were other ages too like before the stone age there was the wtf age, and before that was the dum knt age.

      @tubester4567@tubester45672 жыл бұрын
  • The Copper Age must have been quite interesting maybe deadly but certainly not boring.

    @rennor3498@rennor34982 жыл бұрын
    • Yet the bronze age was the titan age of mankind.

      @a.sandrocagliostro2517@a.sandrocagliostro25172 жыл бұрын
    • Watch the story of Otzi the Iceman, who now they know was killed by an arrow to the back oh, it's a fascinating story that they've pieced together from exactly this time. 5300 years ago, the border between the copper and the Stone Age

      @zenolachance1181@zenolachance11812 жыл бұрын
    • @@zenolachance1181 They found him with both stone and copper tools. He had a bow with stoneheaded arrows, a stone knife and copper dagger and a copper axe.

      @genghiskhan6809@genghiskhan68092 жыл бұрын
    • @@genghiskhan6809 Stone knife copper axe

      @zenolachance1181@zenolachance11812 жыл бұрын
    • @@zenolachance1181 woops. Thx for correction

      @genghiskhan6809@genghiskhan68092 жыл бұрын
  • i love the cute little gem trees at the start

    @Shadeem@Shadeem2 жыл бұрын
  • some guy probably: Puts nice green stone in the fire green stone: melts and turns into a shiny redish metal same guy: $$$

    @peter4210@peter42102 жыл бұрын
    • smelting still still seems mysterious as had to figure out how to make fires reach much higher temperatures than an ordinary fire for cooking or warmth - and then discover that some "rocks" melt when subjected to theses much more intense fires

      @TheSulross@TheSulross2 жыл бұрын
    • @@TheSulross you probably never enjoyed the warmth of a proper fire. Here in Canada I've had nights around a camp fire we're the heat was enough to turn a iron poker red to Orange hot. No added charcoal, no special ventilation regular camp fire. A fire is definitely hot enough to melt copper and gold

      @peter4210@peter42102 жыл бұрын
  • The first appearance of a copper culture was in the Great Lakes region of what is now known as Wisconsin. The 'Old Copper Complex' (Wiki) began in 7500BC or 1500 years prior to anywhere else in the world. It lasted until 1000BC.

    @hwondsel@hwondsel2 жыл бұрын
    • Shhhh....middle east. Civilization started in the middle east. Nowhere else. Worship joos, I mean....the middle east "cradle of civilization". It's just so FERTILE don't ya know? There was no culture in Asia or America til the mighty YahWeh saw it fit to spread his mighty...CIVILIZATION.

      @N8_H8@N8_H85 ай бұрын
  • I did not know that arsenic was in some ore deposits of copper... makes sense that this would give rise to an alchemical mythos. The original name for Egypt was Khemit ~ Origin of the word CHEMISTRY ~ I suspect that gold and silver also had very early origins.

    @markusbroyles1884@markusbroyles18842 жыл бұрын
  • High school history be like: First there was the Stone Age, and that lasted like three generations. Then papyrus, then Rome then the Magna Carta and pretty much nothing in between. With a final that's fifty questions like: 'The Bronze Age was known for the use of ____ in tools and weapons.' (a) bronze (b) rechargeable batteries (c) lasers (d) all of the above

    @vikingshark2634@vikingshark26342 жыл бұрын
    • Neither challenging nor interesting. Amazing our education became worse the more knowledge available to us.

      @byroncard@byroncard2 жыл бұрын
    • Sometimes scrolls down to you shit

      @jasonsantos3037@jasonsantos30372 жыл бұрын
    • These days, I would not be surprised if that was an actual exam question.

      @Wastelandman7000@Wastelandman70002 жыл бұрын
    • *American high school history

      @eduardopupucon@eduardopupucon2 жыл бұрын
    • @@eduardopupucon Not sure where this guy lives but in my history class we learned much more than that. We covered ancient greece, Fuedal Japan, the many Dynasties of China, the rise of Islam, the Ottoman Empire, and many more topics.

      @largestarmsgreatestcharm8231@largestarmsgreatestcharm82312 жыл бұрын
  • Great to hear a rundown of the copper age, always wanted to hear more about it ever since my Chemistry teacher casually mentioned it in one of his off-topic rambles.

    @deludedmarxist@deludedmarxist2 жыл бұрын
    • Off-topic rambles of the smarter teachers are some of the only things I remember from school some 20 years later. poking curiosity was the greatest thing any of my teachers did.

      @fortusvictus8297@fortusvictus82972 жыл бұрын
    • @@fortusvictus8297 I could not agree more!

      @deludedmarxist@deludedmarxist2 жыл бұрын
    • @@fortusvictus8297 saaane thats how my insomnia started thinking about the hitites haha

      @thatonedude6247@thatonedude6247 Жыл бұрын
    • Ur chem teach a ho cuh

      @LobsterCucumber@LobsterCucumber Жыл бұрын
  • 8:06 good to see the Uruk-hai developed their own civilization after the War of the Ring

    @GenScinmore@GenScinmore2 жыл бұрын
    • Their civilization was before the war. During the war of the rings they had steel armour.

      @xzGAB@xzGAB2 жыл бұрын
    • Uruk is just orcish for folk or people

      @georgethompson1460@georgethompson14602 жыл бұрын
    • Why did I have to see this while in the middle of a Shadow of Mordor playthrough of all times possible ?

      @sephikong8323@sephikong83232 жыл бұрын
    • "A new power is rising! Its victory is at hand!"

      @blitzwaffe@blitzwaffe2 жыл бұрын
    • Gilgamesh frowns upon your shenanigans.

      @darthrevan1281@darthrevan12812 жыл бұрын
  • Ah, the last time a penny was worth it’s weight.

    @6thsavage@6thsavage2 жыл бұрын
    • Bruh

      @thecrazymayanthebeststshooting@thecrazymayanthebeststshooting8 ай бұрын
  • You cover litterally everything not main stream. It's awesome because I'm a fan of history and I discovered I didn't even knew the copper and bronze ages existed with your videos. Your bronze age video was beyond great.

    @les_entrepreneurs_emerites@les_entrepreneurs_emerites2 жыл бұрын
    • you... didn't know the bronze age exists? modern western education is truly a crime against humanity.

      @BlackMasterRoshi@BlackMasterRoshi2 жыл бұрын
    • @@BlackMasterRoshi Then imagine the education in the rest of the world... ;_;

      @christianriddler5063@christianriddler50632 жыл бұрын
  • "If you buy some, you can smash a penny with it" :D That is the funniest rant I heard about worthless zinc pennies.

    @brock9475@brock94752 жыл бұрын
  • Appreciate that you put your sources in the description. 🙏🏾👍🏾

    @Saf_Shares@Saf_Shares6 ай бұрын
  • It's baffling to think about how different life must have been all the way back then. And yet we can still experience many of the exact same emotions and sensations they must have felt. So distant yet so close.

    @NohrScum@NohrScum2 жыл бұрын
    • And all this time later, life still sucks. I know, it sucks way less than it did back then but it still sucks nonetheless 😅

      @feynstein1004@feynstein10042 жыл бұрын
    • @Nohr Scum beautifully put

      @user-hj3xk1dl9b@user-hj3xk1dl9b Жыл бұрын
    • ​​@@feynstein1004Blame the government, social structure need a upgrade.

      @julianblacksmith8539@julianblacksmith85396 ай бұрын
    • @@julianblacksmith8539 Hmm what do you mean?

      @feynstein1004@feynstein10046 ай бұрын
    • @@julianblacksmith8539Lol why are you so triggered, mate? I just wanted to hear what you had in mind

      @feynstein1004@feynstein10046 ай бұрын
  • Epimetheus:"progressing from stone to Copper to Bronze to Iron" Great Lakes Copper Culture returning to Stone: Am I a joke to you?

    @dragoninthewest1@dragoninthewest12 жыл бұрын
  • Not just for the algorithm: Great and very clear video. Including somehow Norte-Chico/Caral is fortunate. And I love that combination of maps and superimposed images. Thank you :)

    @spaniardecn7841@spaniardecn78412 жыл бұрын
    • Glad you enjoyed it! :D

      @EpimetheusHistory@EpimetheusHistory2 жыл бұрын
    • @@EpimetheusHistory please do one on pre Islamic arabia,gods ,tribes ,warefare

      @ajithsidhu7183@ajithsidhu71832 жыл бұрын
    • @@EpimetheusHistory abs

      @arolemaprarath3248@arolemaprarath32482 жыл бұрын
    • ​@@EpimetheusHistory At 10:12, you refer to "blacksmiths" seeking to improve on arsenic bronze...of course, they didn't speak English, but a "blacksmith" works with iron, and eventually, steel: people who work with cast, forging and forming copper* are coppersmiths, just as Paul Revere was a smith, but not a blacksmith, as he worked with silver and pewter...(although his hands probably got pretty black!), silversmiths, and goldsmiths also specialize, as indicated...

      @TheScandoman@TheScandoman2 ай бұрын
  • "Brought to you by Copper" Me glancing over at my three pounds of the stuff: Neat.

    @hawkticus_history_corner@hawkticus_history_corner2 жыл бұрын
    • Can I have some?

      @k1m6a11@k1m6a112 жыл бұрын
  • Awesome ! 😎👍 Can we get a video about the scythians and the tribes of the Caucasus mountains ? 😇

    @CoolAdam247@CoolAdam2472 жыл бұрын
    • that would be really interesting, caucasus is a clusterheck with different peoples and religions but I love it

      @DesertsOfHighfleet@DesertsOfHighfleet2 жыл бұрын
    • History of Caucasus sounds very good. A small region, small population, but an incredible diversity of languages ​​and ethnicities.

      @thewarriorfrog@thewarriorfrog2 жыл бұрын
    • @@DesertsOfHighfleet Indeed ! One interesting story I heard is the Vainakh Chechens are directed descendants of Scandinavian Vikings and that the Avar and Ingush people are descendants of the Scythians and Gokturks. The Caucasus mountains is truly steeped in history and culture and was the arena of many wars between the Persian, Russian, Mongol, Ottoman, Byzantine and Arab empires.

      @CoolAdam247@CoolAdam2472 жыл бұрын
    • Hail to the green eyed devil Hail Scyth!

      @moritamikamikara3879@moritamikamikara38792 жыл бұрын
    • Proto-Indo-European time babyyyy

      @maxalaintwo3578@maxalaintwo35782 жыл бұрын
  • Day improved, thank you man

    @DvrDvrs0n@DvrDvrs0n2 жыл бұрын
  • Good to see you use the term _Copper Age_ . Too many historistians like to cover it up under the cute Rule of 3: Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age. Everything fits neatly & History is the natural Progression of events.

    @Timberhawk@Timberhawk2 жыл бұрын
    • to be honest tho, stone age is really just a side age because its stone, a rock. nothing much could be done and it should be classified as "the epilogue of hunter gathering" as people started to realize that farming and mining can be done, which brought about civilization which brought about science which did etc

      @Harsh-tf9he@Harsh-tf9he2 жыл бұрын
    • @@Harsh-tf9he “We’ll be saying a big hello to all intelligent lifeforms everywhere and to everyone else out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys.”

      @Timberhawk@Timberhawk2 жыл бұрын
    • @@Timberhawk lol

      @Harsh-tf9he@Harsh-tf9he2 жыл бұрын
    • @@Timberhawk ah yes. Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

      @gamingchamp6728@gamingchamp6728 Жыл бұрын
  • Thanks for creating & sharing this, Epimetheus! I’m glad this was recommended

    @GaiaCarney@GaiaCarney2 жыл бұрын
  • man I have been around from the first couple of videos and its awesome to see the wild leaps you've made on production quality. atta boy!

    @desidark1243@desidark12432 жыл бұрын
  • This was really when civilisation began, too bad it's not discussed more often

    @micahistory@micahistory2 жыл бұрын
    • perhaps even earlier at gobekli tepe

      @BlackMasterRoshi@BlackMasterRoshi2 жыл бұрын
    • That we know of. This is far as archeology really can show us, as nearly all settlements everywhere in the world from earlier than this period are now underwater. Sea levels rise hundreds of feet circa 5600bc and as he states nearly all human civilization (then and now) was along coastlines or large rivers which may not exist today.

      @fortusvictus8297@fortusvictus82972 жыл бұрын
    • Well, the first cities and towns appeared in the Neolithic such as Chatalhoyuk and Jericho and all across the northern Levant/Mesopotamia.

      @seanbeadles7421@seanbeadles74212 жыл бұрын
    • @@seanbeadles7421 yes

      @micahistory@micahistory2 жыл бұрын
    • Neolithic is the real when Civilization begin

      @blackshirtsocialist1457@blackshirtsocialist14572 жыл бұрын
  • Great storytelling and love how this video illuminates the context of the Bronze Age, which remains an enduring interest of mine since many years. Thank you for your great work!

    @magnusekenhjarta3436@magnusekenhjarta34362 жыл бұрын
  • Dude, thank you for doing this! I love the most ancient times of civilization, but sometimes it's hard to see how it all connects and the Copper Age really does put the pieces of the puzzle together

    @DemetriosLevi@DemetriosLevi2 жыл бұрын
  • I have been waiting for copper age for so long thank you for making this one!

    @rooslanradidk1764@rooslanradidk17642 жыл бұрын
  • Stone- copper- bronze- iron - gunpowder- coal- oil-nuclear energy Story of humanity

    @jayantkumar2314@jayantkumar23142 жыл бұрын
    • Nuclear can be divide between fission and fusion, which are actually incredibly different processes that interact with different fundamental forces. We are still really in the oil age, fission is not widely enough used and whilst weve know fussion for 70 years we dont know how to generate surplus power with it yet.

      @frenchguitarguy1091@frenchguitarguy10912 жыл бұрын
    • @@frenchguitarguy1091 agree

      @jayantkumar2314@jayantkumar23142 жыл бұрын
    • I'd rather think of our age as the plastic age.

      @LuisAldamiz@LuisAldamiz2 жыл бұрын
    • I think that's wrong because stone/copper/bronze/iron are tool materials. Gunpowder is a weapons technology and coal/oil/nuclear energy is energy production. Stone -> Copper -> Bronze -> Iron -> Steel -> Aluminum -> Silicon (most used material) Sticks -> Dagger -> Phalanx -> Chariot -> Sword -> Cavalry -> Gunpowder -> Artillery -> Tanks -> Air Superiority -> Nukes (Peak weapons technology/war meta) Human labor -> Animal labor -> Wood -> Hydro -> Wind -> Peat -> Coal -> Oil -> Nuclear Fission/Solar -> Nuclear Fusion (Energy generation)

      @joey199412@joey1994122 жыл бұрын
    • @@joey199412 more like signature material of the period Mastery over which guarantees a power status

      @jayantkumar2314@jayantkumar23142 жыл бұрын
  • I'm 61 and learn something from almost all of the videos like this, thank you for your work!

    @allwinds3786@allwinds37862 жыл бұрын
  • Wow you really sold me at the end with the smashing of the penny, guess I’m now an investor of the metal that clapped stone

    @Goldenblitzer@Goldenblitzer2 жыл бұрын
  • Yay!!! I just was looking for a new video, and here it is!!! Thanks, Epimetheus!

    @k.c1126@k.c11262 жыл бұрын
  • Thank you so much for your super informative videos!! You are really helping people. Your videos were shown in my son's 7th grade social studies class last year and are a wonderful guide for my research as well.

    @riverstone100@riverstone1002 жыл бұрын
  • I am at best an amateur historian. I have however read countless histories of the Middle East, but this is an outstanding analysis! Thank you for the time you spent creating it, and even more so for sharing it!

    @ivanthemisunderstood6940@ivanthemisunderstood69402 жыл бұрын
  • Said it before and I'll say it again: the best history channel on KZhead. And there are many good ones. Epimetheus is just that damn good and he keeps improving.

    @Kagemusha08@Kagemusha082 жыл бұрын
  • Oh boy I have been waiting for a video on this subject for a long time. It’s good someone finally made a video about it.

    @ww2expertchannel343@ww2expertchannel3432 жыл бұрын
  • @ Epimetheus this channel is my favorite, because of videos like this one! keep up the grind my man!!!

    @johhnydalton7441@johhnydalton74412 жыл бұрын
  • This has become one of my favorite history channel. Really love all the art and drawings.

    @EvilMaxWar@EvilMaxWar2 жыл бұрын
  • That was fantastic! I love every little detail including the cool gem-trees! Thank you for your efforts!

    @Cherb123456@Cherb1234562 жыл бұрын
  • Videos about Neolithic and Copper ages and how they influence Bronze age are super cool.

    @austincrain8218@austincrain82182 жыл бұрын
  • New Epimetheus! My day is made! Still the best content on KZhead.

    @postmoderncory@postmoderncory2 жыл бұрын
  • Great video, as always. I really appreciate the quality of your productions.

    @Joisey11@Joisey112 жыл бұрын
  • Truly a great video. Well researched, great animation and perfect voice over work!! 👍🥰

    @RSLpunk@RSLpunk2 жыл бұрын
  • That's an interesting topic. Thanks for covering it, and good work, as usual.

    @GaryDeeks@GaryDeeks2 жыл бұрын
  • me and the boys patiently waiting for the next Epimetheus video.

    @carhose8538@carhose85382 жыл бұрын
  • Really cool video, exactly what I have wanted to see for so many years. So grateful for this great presentation of information. ❤️

    @ImaplanetJupiteeeerr@ImaplanetJupiteeeerr3 ай бұрын
  • Your videos are worth to be put on physical disk. Thank you!

    @cmbcmb7584@cmbcmb75842 жыл бұрын
  • Love watching these videos over a meal, they're the perfect length.

    @omeadmusa6791@omeadmusa67912 жыл бұрын
  • I love it when history channels do niche/semi-niche topics like this. Not enough Copper Age videos out there. Would love to see something like the history of farming and agriculture too. Might also be an excuse to talk about population growth/population centers or even population decline.

    @terenceaaron1999@terenceaaron19992 жыл бұрын
    • I wish there were more videos about it. It's super interesting and covered over 2000 years depending on the area but it's almost never brought up in history classes or major documentaries

      @arthas640@arthas640 Жыл бұрын
  • "...They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks...." - Isaiah 2:4

    @username65585@username655852 жыл бұрын
    • Beat your plowshares into swords And your pruning hooks into spears; Let the weak say, “I am a mighty man.” - Joel 3:10

      @justanotherbaptistjew5659@justanotherbaptistjew56592 жыл бұрын
  • Astoundingly good, dear Epi... Love your integreative intel mind, analysis & presentation styles. This is one of the key transition points in civilization, wonderfully elucidated. Jus sayin... ; D

    @davidkuder4356@davidkuder43562 жыл бұрын
  • Excellent video, thank you for producing this.

    @empizzle8@empizzle82 жыл бұрын
  • There is something about your videos that help me remember more of the information I have learned before but commonly forget. Like dates , locations and names. Not sure if it’s your script details or just your voice.

    @Jonnybravo589@Jonnybravo5892 жыл бұрын
  • I'm happy this video up here to my recommendations. A good introduction to your channel for me

    @Sly88Frye@Sly88Frye2 жыл бұрын
  • Great wide angle video. Really helped me to peace together a more coherent mental image of pre ancient history. Thanks!

    @Ingeb91@Ingeb91 Жыл бұрын
  • your videos are so creative, i really enjoy the unique visuals.

    @otherpeople8903@otherpeople89032 жыл бұрын
  • I love your videos - all this long sweep of history with civilisational collapse shows that we still, even after COVID, take our civilisation for granted far more than we should and that lots of ancestors went through unimagineable horrors and kept persevering and as a result we are here.

    @dewittbourchier7169@dewittbourchier71692 жыл бұрын
  • I just stumbled upon your channel and immediately subscribed. Fascinating videos.

    @zhugeliang3905@zhugeliang3905 Жыл бұрын
  • i LOVE what you did for the ages graph at the beginning of the video

    @premonsa@premonsa2 жыл бұрын
  • Stone age, copper age, bronze age, iron age, steam age and the electric age. What will be the next age?

    @g3heathen209@g3heathen2092 жыл бұрын
    • Digital Age, Space Age, etc.

      @shorewall@shorewall2 жыл бұрын
    • Depopulation st/age

      @captainmurphy4720@captainmurphy47202 жыл бұрын
    • Gamer Age 😎

      @maxalaintwo3578@maxalaintwo35782 жыл бұрын
    • AI

      @qus.9617@qus.96172 жыл бұрын
    • I am for the current epoch being called the silicon age.

      @deepsoftime@deepsoftime2 жыл бұрын
  • This video brought me so many memories of an old French historical animated series called "Il etait une fois l'homme".

    @marcello7781@marcello77812 жыл бұрын
    • Man, I loved that series when I was a child, it sparked my interest in history.

      @MaylocBrittinorum@MaylocBrittinorum2 жыл бұрын
  • The illustrations in this really helped my adhd process the information. Thanks!

    @jessieduncan1461@jessieduncan14612 жыл бұрын
  • That was both 1 of the quickest n 1 of the best sponsorships I've ever heard.

    @T4N7@T4N7 Жыл бұрын
  • I enjoy this ancient history ASMR.

    @ajrobbins368@ajrobbins3682 жыл бұрын
  • The last mammoths went extinct at the end of the Copper age. Any mammoths on mainland had already gone extinct at least two thousand years prior. These mammoths survived on an arid island, off the coast of Siberia. And could not make it back when the ice sheets melted. Due to warmer climates. These mammoths also eventually perished but not directly due to climate change, but rather because of their extensive isolation for many many generations. Their genetic structure became not sterile, but damaged because the gene pool was simply too small.

    @CraigPremium@CraigPremium2 жыл бұрын
    • Stupid global warming 😤

      @monehget@monehget2 жыл бұрын
  • Great content as always Epimetheus!!!

    @romanmengoni8758@romanmengoni87582 жыл бұрын
  • First time the KZhead algorithm has put one of your videos in front of me. Really enjoyable video essay!

    @monk071@monk0715 ай бұрын
  • It's an interesting time period. Great content

    @parsonk4041@parsonk40412 жыл бұрын
  • I really enjoyed this video. Thank you for making it

    @ajmaloleary3553@ajmaloleary35532 жыл бұрын
  • Underrated channel, love your vids!

    @TheCesso3@TheCesso3 Жыл бұрын
  • Excellent breakdown of the who what and why. Looking forward to more of your content.

    @nathanieljackson4021@nathanieljackson40212 жыл бұрын
  • So the fact that arsenic naturally hardens copper could be the reason that we discovered bronze? I was always wondering about that connection.

    @marfa233@marfa2332 жыл бұрын
  • This is awesome. Thank you for the post.

    @88amona@88amona2 жыл бұрын
  • Man I love your channel. Always listening to before going to sleep. Cheers

    @giuliomattioli2886@giuliomattioli28862 жыл бұрын
  • Thank You. Your channel is truly a gem

    @iggyswag4997@iggyswag49972 жыл бұрын
  • Bro yessssss thanks for the upload

    @shogun9450@shogun94502 жыл бұрын
  • All those gold and silver ads I've seen have never worked but I am going to buy some copper right now! Im gonna smash so many pennies.

    @captainmurphy4720@captainmurphy47202 жыл бұрын
    • ...make sure they are newer than1982...those old pennies don't bend so easy. :)

      @EpimetheusHistory@EpimetheusHistory2 жыл бұрын
    • @@EpimetheusHistory All the pennies born after that got participation ribbons for everything is why.

      @captainmurphy4720@captainmurphy47202 жыл бұрын
  • My new favorite morning coffee video stream. Love your voice.

    @ztgglis@ztgglis2 жыл бұрын
  • great video, i cannot get enough of ancient prehistory. thank you very much

    @code4chaosmobile@code4chaosmobile2 жыл бұрын
  • Ubaid & Bantu 2 of the nicest mindsets mankind ever experienced.. Blessing us to this very day. 🤐 Super cool vid. 👍

    @HAYAOLEONE@HAYAOLEONE2 жыл бұрын
    • Ubaidis what later became sumerian

      @MohammadAli-iz9ld@MohammadAli-iz9ld2 жыл бұрын
  • I never even knew there was a distinct copper age! This video is very well made!

    @TheColombianSpartan@TheColombianSpartan2 жыл бұрын
  • thanks for your work and dedication, good video as always

    @berserk046@berserk0462 жыл бұрын
  • You have a really serious/sober approach when summarizing this stuff that I really appreciate. No history channel vibes (which is good).

    @TheTel@TheTel2 жыл бұрын
  • Excellent Video!!

    @leulberhanu9746@leulberhanu97462 жыл бұрын
  • I find it fascinating and also very telling that in pretty much all cases I'm aware of, writing developed for the purposes of business transactions, and it was only very much later that writing was used for purposes of artistic expression. I think this is because the spoken/sung word was considered a much more organic and human way of expressing oneself. I have heard about research done on tribes who didn't have writing, and it is very fascinating to hear about how much oral tradition they had passed on through stories, poems, proverbs, songs, and even humorous anecdotes. In Europe and other cultures which had a developed writing system, this oral tradition for poetry, singing songs, and story telling still continued alongside the writing tradition until somewhat recently. It's sad we've lost so much of that oral tradition in our local cultures, especially with the advent of the 20th and 21st century mass communication methods.

    @romanslav827@romanslav827 Жыл бұрын
    • That's a big reason why some of the oldest stories are poetic epics like the Odyssey or Eddas, often in alliterative verse. The rhyming helps people to remember things, which is also why Stan Lee and other comic creators made so many names rhyme like "Peter Parker" and "Bruce Banner". That rhyming can also turn stories into songs which further helps spread the stories. It's crazy how long some of those stories stuck around, we've still got some vague stories that date back to copper age; I've heard theories that many flood myths and "Atlantis" style sunken city stories are based off actual events during the stone age since the melting glaciers caused both areas like Doggerland to flood slowly but also caused cataclysmic floods like the ice dam across the Columbia river that created the scablands in eastern Washington and extend as far as Montana. Some Inuit and other native American stories are beleived to describe similarly ancient events.

      @arthas640@arthas640 Жыл бұрын
  • Thank you so much for uploading this video. It is helping me get through the pandemic!

    @rogersledz6793@rogersledz67932 жыл бұрын
  • Another banger video, love your channel!

    @nicholasg3250@nicholasg32502 жыл бұрын
  • Magnificent Video, I hope a Copper Age total war game is made one day and a Stone Age total war game too.

    @shzarmai@shzarmai2 жыл бұрын
  • I loved your new animation style ❤️

    @thewarriorfrog@thewarriorfrog2 жыл бұрын
  • Earned a sub like and comment. Nice short and to the point. I enjoyed it.

    @tylorchaffey9990@tylorchaffey99905 ай бұрын
  • Amazing work mate. Great stuff.

    @BenState@BenState2 жыл бұрын
KZhead