Jericho - The First City on Earth? // Ancient History Documentary
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I love your channel so much. But can you please stick to actual recorded history? There is no evidence that the Earth is older than about 6,000 years old. And recorded history only goes back to about 4,000 years ago, so any "history" before that is pure conjecture.
Tyler B I thank you for your admirable trolling efforts in what I can I only assume is an attempt to whip up a frenzy of comments to get the video some views. It is much appreciated.
History Time I'm not trolling. I would just rather you post actual history videos. I do love your channel. I have liked all your videos.
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The video rocks but i hope you do another about like idk, a travel log, not a travel doco. Your video style rocks and hope you had a nice trip! Travel is the best thing; really the only thing. Culture is everything :D all the fuckin food! and the music! oh boi! That is where it's at
When I die I hope I can watch the history of the world at any point and location, knowing thoughts of those I watch and understanding of all languages.
It drives me nuts that I’ll never know what really happened in earth’s past.
I hope for the same - I've wished for it many times :)
just learn how to lucid dream, educate your self and practice. the at night you can travel where ever you want. have fun! i usually go to other planets. i like Pluto. in my dreams its a tiny planet full of grass and smells of perfumes i cant explain.
@Raha Aja but you never will? all youl know is what books and youtube can show you based on interpretation. its all subjective ultimately whether you read about history in a book, or go there in your dreams. forgive me for not being as poetic and descriptive in my recommendation to spawn motivation to start your quest. but come on man, the infinite is literally in your head at night. or you can be lazy and wait for VR. which will be sensationally the same as lucid dreaming , but prb with a costly monthly subscription.
I said the exact same thing
I think people are missing the point here about Jericho being the oldest city, it should be the oldest continuously settled city, whilst not the oldest, it is still settled.
He said 10k BC to now
yes, but there are many periods when it was abandoned.
Thanks for making this post, so I didn’t have to.
But Now the Humans are farming more more trash cities burning sky worldwide concrete jungles more trash daily they are not farming trees 07 be glad wish u knew meh now 07 jesus meh with u all 07
It’s technically not the oldest continuously settled city. There was a couple of times when it was abandoned but then fairly quickly (in the historical context), got repopulated.
When I visited Jericho back in 71, there was an archeologist there with his family. He was explaining the dig to his wife and kids. It was fascinating.
Was it Mr. Ron White?
Been to Jericho twice, pilgrimage tour. I have always loved archeology. Would be cool to take an archeological tour of Jericho and other areas (dreams are free-and the videos are too-awesome)! ❤❤
@@cindirose3390 I never knew his name.
@@cindirose3390was it the wife he talks about on stage?
I visited Jericho back in December of 2018. I enjoyed it for all the normal reasons, but also one I didn't expect: the bananas and oranges I got from a street vendor were some of the best I'd ever had! I bought three kilos of each and brought them back to share with my Airbnb host/roommates in Ramallah.
It's probably the location; the Natural terrain; the Sunlight, Quality of the Water, the lack of Pesticides; etc.
Hotdogs always taste better at a ballpark, popcorn seems to taste better at a movie theater..., I think everything is better enjoyed when you are in an 'Happy Place'. A place where everyday problems can be put aside for a little while.
I guess the only good thing out of this coronavirus lockdown is that we all watched a lot more documentaries which is amazing! 👏👏👏😷😷😷
Lilly Cat lol yes
Exactly im from india Mizoram
Absolute facts
True
@Ben G enlighten me... which was then?
These videos are 1000% better than the stuff which is on my TV right now....
Sandven Explorer I have not watched Tv for over 6 years and I don’t miss any of it
@@adrianmartin6974 😮😮😮😮😮😮
OMG
Yeeeeeeeaaaah so true
WiFi... that's all I need.
It's so refreshing to watch videos like this in that it describes what evidence has been found. Though there are many gaps in the historical record, one thing is clear....people have been here for a very, very long time. I also appreciate the fact that the producers of this video chose not to suggest that "ancient aliens" were partly responsible for man's development and knowledge. I'm so sick of hearing how aliens came here and began all this, then left.
Yes
yeah , the ancient aliens thing is BS !!
Keep in mind that the aliens would have been coming here for millions of years, not just thousands. Or never if thats your belief. My thing is that what were humans doing for the last 200,00 or 500,000 years? Why would they have not been building many at least rudimentary structures with stones by 50,000 years ago. Just found out they were building with wood 500,000 years ago. They would have noticed apes communicating and tried to figure out how to talk with sign language at least.
You never heard of The Sumerian Texts have you and that also tells me you only read the bible and it tells me you believe the lies of the catholic church. Did you know the Christians hid the history of religion. Watch THE 5TH KIND VIDEOS in those videos you will find the real creator of humans it's not who you think it is. It's time to stop believing lies now we have the truth!!!
Saying aliens did it is insulting the people who did it.
Pete, I highly encourage you to introduce yourself on your docs and include credits on your films so when they are shown to audiences, they will know right away who is presenting the piece.
@Denis Comeau specifically MacGregor doing an English accent. From a certain point of view...
history channel died at 2007 -2008 along with discovery channel, both followed by national geographic in the early 2010. BUT YOU. you people, the researchers, narrators and editors, your work here is the REAL thing
Thanks very much I am a one man team & appreciate your comment :)
Those channels went with low production costs tv shows. Is ice road truckers that much cheaper to produce ?
@@HistoryTime bro so that is your video on site!?
@@HistoryTime Does the day have 24 h for you and then there's still the night to work? My deepest respect!
@@HistoryTime even more fuckin impressive dude
I would rather watch a video like this one than a big hollywood film any day. Great video. Keep em coming.
while i agree with your comment, my like is for your name ;)
S0oo would I and i suppose would many more Amazing Subject history to know how where we evovled . the nonsense rubbish that the USA call films are so bad who would want to watch them . Well done this is an educational film and yet they do not teach our children such films .particularly in the US where history is now not taught .All the big plan of the wealthy Globalist THE WEF.and rulers of different countries .
Modern movie is all make believe However these documentary enrich the mind and the spirit. Please keep posting these documentary for our educational purpose. Thank you
It's because the writing is better
As a Near Eastern archaeologist, I thank and congratulate you for this excellent succinct history of an important site that sums up human development for millennia. It was your documentary on Doggerland that first attracted my attention; Keep up the great work!
Every school in the world should be playing this in the classrooms . You make outstanding ,breathtaking docs . 🌹
it sucks they dont
But why, we all know it to be untrue.
Wish we could see what exactly happened on earth from the very beginning, maybe once we die we’ll get a post life credits scene lol
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@@miguelchippsinteligente6072 ....really need a road map to get to where you're attempting to get to! lol
@@krzysztofpl5871 I don’t think he even knows what point he’s trying to make
Thank god for science we can piece it all together pretty close, much better than the vast majority of everyone that ever lived, they had no clue!
@@cesarpac3723 i was always taught catholics supposed to be humbled...? people cant tell what your religion affiliation is, etc.... because it doesnt matter...
According to the climate record the Levant would have been premium real estate... land for domesticated livestock, close to the Mediterranean, soft hills for defensive fortifications, land for domesticated plants. It had everything one needed for an ancient city-state.
No Wonder agriculture started there
A few facts from the Bible that might help shed some light; The first battle after the crossing of the Jordan was the Battle of Jericho. Joshua led the destruction of Jericho, then moved on to Ai, a small neighboring city to the west. However, they were defeated with thirty-six Israelite deaths. The defeat was attributed to Achan taking an "accursed thing" from Jericho; and was followed by Achan and his family and animals being stoned to death to restore God's favor. Joshua then went to defeat Ai. The Israelites faced an alliance of five Amorite kings from Jerusalem, Hebron, Jarmuth, Lachish, and Eglon. At Gibeon, Joshua asked the LORD to cause the sun and moon to stand still, so that he could finish the battle in daylight. According to the text, the sun stopped in the middle of the sky and delayed going down about a full day. This event is most notable because "There has been no day like it before or since, when the LORD heeded the voice of a man, for the Lord fought for Israel."[36] The LORD also fought for the Israelites in this battle, for he hurled huge hailstones from the sky which killed more Canaanites than those which the Israelites slaughtered. From there on, Joshua was able to lead the Israelites to several victories, securing much of the land of Canaan. He presided over the Israelite gatherings at Gilgal and Shiloh which allocated land to the tribes of Israel (Joshua 14:1-5 and 18:1-10), and the Israelites rewarded him with the Ephraimite city of Timnath-heres or Timnath-serah, where he settled (Joshua 19:50).
The more I learn about history of our civilization, anthropology, and the religions of the world the more I am inspired to be a human being, and very proud of everything we have done since the beginning of history. Recently we discovered a Venus sculpture in morocco dated 500,000 years old probably made by homo erectus. This is tremendous find to show that symbolic thinking was within those species for the past 2 million years, including sacrificial, rituals and language.
What a splendid documentary, wonderfully put together, and not an alien in sight.
Lol perfect comment! You mean, not an alien theory in site? 🤣🤣🤣
Or storage wars.
Mexicans or space aliens?
Unfortunately no aliens :/
Their ancient writings do state that the “gods” came from the sky and seeded the planet. But what do they know
When I see that graphic describing Jericho as dating to BC 10000, I struggle to get my mind around that. It's just hard to comprehend. History is one hell of a ride.
Yea I try to fathom how old the universe is, but I just can’t
You could continue by asking how was this age established, just for the laugh of it.
@Nathan Miller no it isn't.
@Nathan Miller are you immortal? I feel that hundred years is more than one can take.. 💖 🙈🙉🙊 nor do 👹
@@heidiholmberg3504 Nah... Not at all❗If I had the mind of a 40 year old and the body and strength of a 23 year in the body of 200 year old, with experience then I would for sure surpass Floyd's... Father of psychology as "The Mother of Psychology" without any academic studies, just by bare experience of human behavior. And yet again, maybe 200 years wouldn't be enough❗😉
Somehow this documentary is the final destination of every sleep playlist
Radiocarbon dating a way to accurately identify the date, translates to we test it over and over again until it fits which era we believe it’s from.
Wonder "old style" documentary = NO LOUD OBNOXIOUS MUSIC, Great narration, dates and maps posted when informative and keeping us older forgetful guys on track, bringing the whole geographic area together while centered on a particular topic, JUST A GREAT PRESENTATION !!! THANK YOU for a job WELL DONE !!!
I totally agree, it's very sober and coherent. I can create the image when information is delivered like this.
Hard facts presented in a relaxed way, no drama.
Gay
Who else is a great Narrator is Gary Sinise!
@@chirelle.alanalooney8609 Leonard Nimoy is very good.. in my opinion
It may be one of the oldest cities of modern times but we have been on this Earth far longer than most people suspect. Hundreds of past cultures have risen, fallen, and been forgotten.
That's it, the untold truth !
Yeah, check out graham hancocks book “fingerprints of the gods” he talks about a lot of that. Good read
@@PackRat01 amazing book indeed, Hancock's the man! I'm reading America Before right now, makes you think alot.
@@PackRat01 Graham Hancock is a scam artist.
@@LeMAD22 You clearly have no idea what you are talking about, stop regurgitating something you heard. His theories have been getting more and more validation, if you think he is a scam artist then you are not paying attention to actual archaeology and you damn sure have not read his work and checked up on it.
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The tower suggests that there were hostile attacks from other tribes and to build a tower like that means to me that these attacks were large in numbers of people. There must be other sights were these people came from and it would be great if they were found. Thanks for a fantastic video.
It seems that many sites built 'fortresses' of stone strong enough to withstand major catastrophes.. like bomb shelters.. Stories of the tragedy of 11,800 must have been common conversation for hundreds of years.. Absolutely LOVE your videos.. boundless gratitude.. aka thank you ;)
History that is past on orally from the outset, should be more accurate than from books written well after the events, like the bible for example.
That's an interesting thought, I am so fascinated by the 12,800 castrophy
@@psysprouts I think you have a to be a little careful with a statement like that. History that is passed on orally has almost certainly "evolved". I would think contemporaneously written history would be more likely to be "accurate", but context/bias still matters. The bible on the other hand is more a message or a guide to a way of living than a "history". Whether or not it is the "literal" word of God depends a lot on what you mean by that, which books/versions/translations you are referring to and who "interprets" the translation.
@Kareen Curry Interesting you say that - been thinking much the same. Just makes it clear that you can't trust the "history". Many of today's corrupt leaders are cut out of the same cloth as LBJ and J Edgar Hoover. Fauci, Biden, the Clinton's, Gates and Obama's will join them. That's just a cost of doing business for the..
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20 years later and i still fall asleep to someone teaching me history
You need a strong caffeine kick for this. But as someone whose very interested in history, I love immersing myself to facts such as this.
History is more interesting than physics,chemistry,math,biology etc. It gives me thrill everytime i read or see this type of videos.
Old habits die hard
I used to hate history but when you trying find the truth out you gotta go back, let’s not call it history but research
Me too. Thats why im here. 💤💤💤💤💤💤💤👍😎🐶
Your videos are always great for a study aid and they have given me the passion to study history further and apply the lessons into how I see the world, Incredible video.
👍Thanks for going through chronologically and providing maps -- making a potentially complex subject much more understandable. 👍
What a wonderfully refreshing documentary! Thank you! I am a lifelong history student, it started in very early grade school and now I’m 73 and still going strong. I now live in Texas but was born and raised in Wels, Austria, formerly known as Ovilaba in the Roman province of Noricum, and it was there where I started sniffing around old ruins and checking out museums. Thank you again and keep up the good work!
hello gertraut, that's funny. i graduated in ovilaba ;-) regards to texas!
Gunther Altenberg Ja, Günther, Deine Zuschrift hat mich sehr gefreut! Bin schon lange in der US, aber habe noch immersions schweres Heimweh.
Wo in Texas?
Nice! I have never been to Europe. But intend to travel there to do the same thing you enjoyed in your youth. I once traveled to Chitzen Itsa. I walked up to tge pyramid and touched the stones. I was inspired and in awe at how beautifully the Mayans built that entire complex.
If we was given knowledge about all that has happened on this earth through the ages, we would be blown away. We know very little surely.
@vachief bahahahahahahahahahaaa.. um yeah sure.
@vachief would you really? ok.... go enroll in your local junior college. start with basic biology and history... see how it goes.... and expand from there. wallah…..
@vachief um what? that is ridiculous... absurd.. and any md or dentist that said that (which I absolutely don't believe you) should have their md taken away. but what is really funny is that you think the bible is not speculating.... comical.
@vachief riiiiiigggghhhhhhttttttt…. so, basically you are a time traveler from the antebellum south... gotcha. no, you can get your md without believing in the fundamentals of modern medicine... you just have to memorize the information to pass the tests and to prescribe the right medication throughout your career.... have a good one Adolph.
@vachiefanyway.... “Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.” ― Mark Twain have a good one... Show less
Pete... your In-Depth episodes are always a delight. Having been to Jericho twice, under very different circumstances, this deep dive gives me a clearer view. ❤ 🎉 😊
The scope of work on this is amazing. Thank you.
Man I wish the coolest historical places weren't the most dangerous to visit. Though my trip to Samarkand to see the Amirs tomb was the single greatest experience of my life and that felt safe the whole trip.
Dude Incognito This is definitely not a dangerous place to visit. Not by a long shot. Im saying this as an American also. Im living in the West Bank. I go to Jericho all the time to go swimming in the Dead Sea and exploring ruins. Just go dude. Don’t listen to your bullshit media. If you would like you can contact me and ill get you from Ben Gurion Airport to Ramallah where I have an apartment that you can crash at. I love showing people how much better the world is than their governments want them to think.
@@universalcitizen9429 ehm... Black Sea is northern turkey and southern russia, whilst you're talking about being in Israel.......
Israel, parts of the west bank and tourist parts of Egypt and Turkey tend to be safe from what I understand, if you go to an archaeological site you should be OK, a a long as you're not doing some sort of road trip and stick to archaeological or tourist sites you're unlikely to be harmed from my understanding. Basically, you're fine if you don't go too far/directly into a warzone
@Canadian Villain How many tourists are being murdered in the USA every year? More then a few. Just google it. Does that mean that north america is sketchy? Or that you have to be extremely careful to visit that continent? Just like everywhere, use common sense and do a little bit of research first when planning a trip.
McOinky Dead Sea sorry
Maybe the oldest post-Younger-Dryas city. But the oldest ever? Difficult to know when so much of our past is under water now.
agree
Agreed :)
@@dffndjdjd exactly
Just the oldest there is evidence for; that’s the only claim made in the video.
Well before that was an ice age with no agriculture to support a city possible so no.
Pete... your In-Depth episodes are always a delight. Having been to Jericho twice, under very different circumstances, this deep dive gives me a clearer view.
the fact that guys like you can produce such quality documentories changes the game i watch these over and over somtimes just as bacround noise when i play a historicle game
Alot of people sort of misunderstand. Jericho is the oldest continous settlement that we know of. As in they may have been older cities, but because there is little archaeological evidence, we therefore cannot conclusively state otherwise.
It was not continuously settled though. There were gaps in occupation after the city was razed about 3500 bc, until about 900-600 bc.
Honestly, such a great documentary. Really well done. I have listened to this a couple of times and will do again. Fantastic.
As a long time documentary junkie, yours are appreciated for research, organization, applicable photography, and a pleasant speaking voice and cadence which is not overtaken by the volume of the music. Keep going kind sir! 💕🐝🇺🇸☃️
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The Mitanni had Hindic mercenaries who later took over judging by royal names. These were the introducers of chariots to the region. Anatolia knew horses, but they hadn't been domesticated and their vehicles were from Sumeria. Oxen and donkeys were domesticated in the fertile crescent long before horses, and wagons/carts spread from there to Anatolia and the steppes seperately.
That's sad about Jerf el-Ahmar. Within the next decade, I think we will have significant data from dozens of Gobekli Tepe type sites.
PERHAPS! 😂
If they find anything of value we will not get any part of it, The significant data is classified.
@@donnaslevin2969 No it isn't.
RIP Terry Jones, a nice shoutout there back in 2019 when we still had the legend.
I just wanted to point out that the Fertile Crescent also included all the land between the two great rivers Tigris and Euphrates as well as a strip if land along the south side of Euphrates river.
If anyone deserves their own history tv channel it is this man truly amazing that these are free
watching history and ancient documentaries,so i can prepare my travel bucketlist
That you so much for making ACTUAL documentaries instead of what passes for documentaries on traditional sources. Very informative, well researched, and very nice quality video editing and overlays.
I agree, well done and we'll said. I especially liked the use of maps that were recognizable as the area being discussed. It was nice to have a real sense of time and place rather than some far away 'middle east' . I subscribed👍
In your making of this documentary you conveniently left out mini crucial facts , facts concerning the brutality of China’s leaders...your bias is evident... evident At least to an open mind ... Then let’s talk about the advertisement running with this film that is praising China and its cultural history... all well and good but without adding the truth about this communist ruled extremely brutal Brutal dictator ship ruling over it’s people your painting a deceptive Image.... Truth is!!! in modern day China if you disagree with the CCP you will be eliminated one way or another. That’s undeniable
By traditional you mean christian. Which is in itself the point. They are dispprove the bible. Beware of wolf's in sheep clothing that tell you it safe alone outside in the dark. Jericho was not 10000 BC lol
But Now the Humans are farming more more trash cities burning sky worldwide concrete jungles more trash daily they are not farming trees 07 be glad wish u knew meh now 07 jesus meh with u all 07
@@benzandmoney420 Really? I've never understood that if you believe the 6000 years Bible story what the motivation of trying to make conflicting stories full of consistent evidence would be. Why would anyone do that? Besides that I see no contradiction in believing in the Bible and still believing that the earth is older than a few thousand years. In fact I see no reason to believe there aren't gaps in the Bible story, just as it doesn't contain any events of most of the last 2000 years
how old this is is just astounding. Imagine that it's still milennia to come before we figure out how to make pottery, or cast metal
Gives goosebumps when you remember some long time ago people were actually there and moving 😲😲
Great videos man. I like this channel. No obvious bias towards a particular civilization, accurately researched and presented in an entertaining and captivating way. Thanks for doing this. You are making the world a better place and educating people.
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My absolute favourite YT channel. Thank you for all the time, effort, passion, and energy into these projects!
You have the very best history documentaries!!! I get so excited when you describe things.
The Sumerians named several cities that existed before the Great Flood, and yes, the Sumerians had a great flood myth.
and a virgin who gave birth to a so called son of gods
Can be found on KZhead: Epic of Atrahasis (Extremely Wise One), Atrahasis does a supporting role in the Epic of Gilgamesh, he’s Utnapishtim (Faraway), an old man with an old wife, both granted immortality
Every civilization from the beginning seems to have had a great flood myth
The great flood in the Bible was stolen/plagiarized from Gilgamesh
Christianity is nothing but a copy and paste of ancient beliefs.
The very reason we know it, because it used clay. If some civilization used bamboo or others, we will never know it.
Exactly I feel like nobody ever points that out
Like in Brazille, Percy Faucett's golden city was never found by him but with satellites, we are seeing there might have been something to the myth. The lost city of Z is a great book.
Our steel buildings will be completely eroded and gone by a few thousand years from now
We find loads of archaeology without much evidence but firepits and graves tell us a lot still.
@@waituntil I feel like that is extremely commonly pointed out and understood by everyone. It says "very first *known* examples of static communal living." And I think you better reconsider what day you are waiting for.
This is a wonderful video. The quality is outstanding. Thank you for putting in the time. It shows!
Hey man! You're content is perfect, unique in its approach and renders me porous to the information 👍 I've just downloaded Magellan TV thanks to your advice, I was looking for something like this and it's perfect! Thankyou for your work
Perfect? @João Sampaio 2000 years, did your great grandfather swim in sewage, eat veges grown in contaminated soil, drink polluted spring and rain water ? Did he choke in fresh air, Thats in less than 200 years, 2000 you must be an optimist He is actually into fairytales, Jericho b4 Sumeria, the cradle of civilization writing building irrigation everything Are you guys not hearing the dates. How can anyone be so confused?
This video tels the story of LEVANT in a very simple and convincing way . Thanks a lot .
The History Channel probably: DiD aLiEnS bUiLd It ???
still interesting thou XD
History Channel went to shit
Not aliens, but the briefly mentioned Younger Dryas catastrophe (1200 years of unbelievable climatic turmoil) seems to have destroyed a or some rather advanced civilization who then restarted civilization. Gobekli Tepe could have been built by the labor force of hunter gatherers but the technology the architects used must be much more advanced.
They didn't build it, they influenced it.
yeah i can also never turn on history channel without seeing that bloated con man Von Daniken or that overly exited guy with the psychopath haircut trying to convince us that aliens build the pyramids.. the other half of air time of course they devote to WWII as usually. I dont even know what i am most sick off. Aliens or Hitler...
Well done! I enjoyed this very much and learned a lot. Your research is very thorough and I like how you segway between time periods. Please keep them coming. 👍🏻👍🏻
I love your work so much! It's so knowledgeable and interesting that I can watch again and again. I also love your voice and clear enunciation. I'm an old lady , 70 , and I've always been interested in history. Your wonderful films are so well done and endlessly fascinating.😁
In a lecture about pre poterry neolithic A we studied Jericho and I remembered that professor said that viewed from the tower, the sun setts execlly behind the peak of a mountain Jabal al Quruntul on a summer solstice
Incredible detail so well presented! Thank you, History Time! Love and appreciate your effort 👍💯
Did really love this video. Please consider raising the volume levels on your videos. I mow yards for a living and love to listen to this content while doing it. Unfortunately this is one of a very few videos I cannot hear while working.
Try ear pods..
Same here
Cranking up the volume hurts sound quality tho. I think there's ways to get the volume beyond 100 %, which is essentially what you want
@@joeabad5908 I doubt that he doesn't already do that. Lawn mowers are just so loud that you can still hear them, especially if you're the one operating them
Im happy to be alive during a time when they find all of these places.
I often find the comments as educational as the video’s. Very true about whats on TV being boring.
Beer! The beginning of civilization. You had to stay in one place to brew beer.
@Jeremy Kirkpatrick But to produce large Quantities you needed to tend the grain fields, Have a decent water supply, etc.
ah, of course, civilization began because early humans wanted to get lit. fully understandable, ngl /j
Oh yeah, Beer. The pyramid builders lived on it. Grain is good only for bread and beer.
@@ellsworth1956 actually the beginning of civilization would have started with water management in order to make agriculture possible. The most recent example would be the Inca empire.
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Gilgamesh aint happy bout his "Semi-Legendary" status you gave him mate
I am very unhappy with this
@@gilgameschvonuruk4982 Gilga, my Champ how ya doin bud?
Definitely filthy mongrels for disrespecting the King of heros
Khabib Nurmagomedov could kick Gilgamesh's ass 😛😂🤣
@@gilgameschvonuruk4982 Enkidu gang
If you pick up a bible it will tell you about all of these peoples and the settlements you are featuring in this program. The bible is a history book that tells you about so much but most people think it is just a fairy tale. It talks about everything you are. It is a fascinating book.
Really well done and fascinating, thank you!
The first terminologies I learned at uni were "perhaps" and "however". Greatly used in this very informative and interesting video. Uncovering the past is totally amazing and says soo much about humankind's evolution. One cannot begin to imagine what these ancient peoples would think of the world today?
Probably: "See, kids, I told you towers would catch on!"
The exact same thing you would think what the world will be in 2000 years
No such thing. Their world was not controlled by science, advanced technology and law courts that had a jury system. That's just for starters. @@joaosampaio4039
@@joaosampaio4039 til about 150-50 years ago depending on where you were in the world, people didn't have any concept of the future being different from the past.
@@Freshbott2 how do u know?
30 and a half years to build a tower, but now there is still parts of that tower almost 12000 years later, amazing
Good job security back then for the builders
@@sebastianspecter8843 new age Chinese should be the obvious statement, ancient Chinese dudes just worked like slaves for the emperors
I am pretty much housebound from a broken back while arresting a burglar. Your work keeps my mind interested and alive, and keeps the darkness at bay for me.
Thank you for protecting your community. Sending healing prayers and may you have sunshine in your heart.
@@Spiritwaterhenna thank you, it was my honor. God bless you and yours.
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Thank you, Pete! This is another very informative episode👏👏
Love the footage from the area! Feels much more like a "proper" documentary
God has heard our prayers and has delivered us an ACTUAL history channel
Which god ?
@@spicyroads does it matter?
Neither Jesus nor God has endorsed this masterpiece of 10,000 year-ago speculation. This documentary is well-produced b.s.
Minus the errors in this documentary
Mr. Nobody God told the jews to slaughter everyone in Jericho just because. So...
Those who have a spark of curiosity for learning.
We absolutely have to have this discussion with our loved ones. I’ve been discussing MK for 3 years and have convinced some to believe. It seems so easy just to believe His Word is true. He said quickly and He came quickly. I don’t understand what is so hard to understand. Quickly- at a fast speed, rapidly.
It’s crazy that the area seems to have developed so little despite such a head start.
The most advanced cities are the ones that have been built last
This area died out with improvements in shipping. Being at the end of the silk road is no longer profitable.
No, it's not crazy. It is simply worthy of note. This then prompts the question, "How did it come about?" There can then be possible explanations which can be supported or contradicted by evidence. Saying "It's crazy!" adds nothing useful to the discussion or the quest for knowledge. Hyperbole militates against learning, and I urge you not to engage in it.
The mongold destroyed the region and it also declined with time
@@philipwagner9169you literally said nothing and are a bigger idiot
I love learning about these ancient, pre-roman societies :D Keep it up History Time...
I'm a fan of Rome myself, even going so far as to learn Latin on my own time (Duolingo), but I still have a soft spot for early rise-of-agriculture sites and archaeology in general. That was in fact my first introduction to archaeology.
MaztaPan - help me out here please. Where do I find pre-Sumarian? Just search it on YT? Sorry to act like a dope, but you peaked my interest.
MaztaPan - great! Thank you so much.
effawefweafawefwefwfqwWQEWEFEYHTYKJYUKUT Dude Roman are considered a new phenomenon in historical terms.
I don't know what my obsession with early agricultural societies is, but I'm just binging anything I can read and watch about them.
Thanks immensely for this beautiful documentary just come my way by divine arrangements . The Jericho I remember vividly is the one that Joshua led the Israelites and through the guidance if St Michael brought down the it's wall in the centripetal spiral over it . This documentary with the visual capture of the historical site of Tell es - Sutton ( Hill of the Sutton ) is quite revealing . My passion is to one day reconcile these various great nations of antiquity from the first creation to date .
its a Palestinians city built by the Canaanites, the Palestinians ancestor's, and yes, Palestinians mentioned in old testament, being named filishtim and then Palestinians, sounds same tho, and in same region, Palestinians sadly are the real deal who didnt get thier rights.
An amazing informative presentation!!!! Most impressive!!!!
The quality of this material is amazing.
Connecting and clarifying, even correcting many previously taught bits of history and anthroplogy feels like a mental accomplishment ⚖
*Çatalhöyük* - "Çatalhöyük is the first known city in the world - the first place where surrounding villages came together and formed a central location and began the sort of urban civilization that dominates the modern world." Uncle Google knows it all... but Jerico's cool too.
it's crazy that as soon as the glaciers start to retreat, humans jump right into monumental structures, even before inventing agriculture. wild wheat must've been growing like crazy in the Near East
Thank you so much for your videos man!
Thanks for sharing and posting your Labour of Love.Be Bless. from Canada
Thanks for this video. I was struck by the idea that the americas were inhabited by people, thousands of years before this city was built. Humans can at times do amazing things when organized. I visited Jerico in the 1980s and was really impressed with the place.
But Now the Humans are farming more more trash cities burning sky worldwide concrete jungles more trash daily they are not farming trees 07 be glad wish u knew meh now 07 jesus meh with u all 07
What a great channel! Thank you for the work you do. Well done indeed.
But Now the Humans are farming more more trash cities burning sky worldwide concrete jungles more trash daily they are not farming trees 07 be glad wish u knew meh now 07 jesus meh with u all 07
@@jovenaldomingo1123 go take your meds
Did you know that Vinkovci is the oldest town in Europe and the birthplace of Roman emperors? Vinkovci has been continuously inhabited from the Neolithic to the present day. That’s a total of more than 8 thousand years. Most of the prehistoric settlements are located on the left bank of the river Bosut.
Jericho old
What about Plovdiv then...? :)
The watchtower looks a lot like a broch to me. Betcha there were a whole lot more, but most of those old-old-old one got robbed of stone because they had no mortar. That thick-wall tower configuration, simply by the practicality of design, was much more well developed and sophisticated than we yet perceive, but we have few references due to the unfortunate fact that they have all disappeared because they were easy to disassemble.
I think the assumption that the Jericho tower MUST be for religious/ceremonial purposes by the commentary is very narrow-minded and is what makes archaeologists look unscientific. Those which when unsure of an object or structure's purpose reach only into ritual are a problem for the whole profession.
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Ancient farming requires a lot of labour, and perhaps part of handing the seeds to other clans was also a way of binding everyone together and working as a group - and finally the farming group becomes large enough to be called a city.
It's fun to imagine, a small but growing "tribe"/family, begining to unlock agriculture with very small gardens but large enough to supplement and create a situation where humans finally found themselves in a state of "plenty". Nomadic hunters coming across these families and their land, tilting their head in curiosity, crinkling their eyebrows at rows of vegetables and even a couple of caged egg producing birds would approach the huts. And the matriarch or patriarch would greet them and share their food and wisdom with them, teaching them how much easier it can be to farm instead of hunt. And on and on that went until large areas had a sort of sprawl across the lands. Until... drought, which led to famine. Famine would bring with it desperation and warfare as people spent more time farming and less time hunting, the ways of hunting seeming too difficult anymore, maybe even hunting techniques, weaponry, and ideas lost through only a few generations, and the local wildlife unable to feed the population that grew via farming. This all leading to the need for higher walls.
@@NOMAD-qp3dd I find it interesting that people can catagorise other cultures as primitive. It brings to mind that it was the Native Americans that taught the pilgrims how to cultivate corn, and other lessons necessary for survival in America.
@@richardivonen3564 absolutely.
Hunter gatherers are known to have had the most leisure lives. Might as well keep your neighbors busy.
Well research documentaries and Commentaries like this is an excellent source of new knowledge.
With todays events in the area, I can understand why there is still so much conflict in that area. Multiple generations for several millennia, from that area, carry the history of their peoples, stories passed down. When one tribe slaughters another, the resentment is eternal.
a long time ago in a far distant land there was a fig tree and a callused hand.
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Of course Uruk dominated. They had Sauron on their side.
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It occurs to me that Tower of Jericho could well have been a Watch Tower and a Beacon Tower. Due to the panoramic view from its summit, the approach of hostile forces would be observed, and a big fire would have been lit to warn the local population of impending danger. Additionally, the approaching hostile force would , upon seeing the beacon, realise that their approach was expected and, possibly give them occasion to pause, reflect upon their intended plan and, perhaps, revise their plans. It's also possible that the tower could give warning of a natural disaster, such as a flood, and warn the populace to take shelter within the walls of the "city". It's a thought anyway.
the Skull plastering thing was cool to learn about.