The Biggest Cities Over Time Part 1
2019 ж. 14 Қаң.
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Here's a look at the most populated cities through the ages, starting with the first city, all the way to the 1 AD.
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I am from iraq uruk is basically a village right now and the old ruins still exist
Is it hard to do your hobby in Iraq right now?
Also thanks for the info from someone there
@@chipskylark5500 What kind of hobby ? Like football is really popular in Iraq .
@@awsomemodels oh I was just thinking about your model cars cuz it's on your channel
@@chipskylark5500 Oh yes I love collecting model cars but I kinda got lazy and stopped buying them, my videos are really bad but I just kept them for fun but I'd like to return to it sometime.
I just realized something. KZhead channels are analogous to geographical places as hubs of activity for people. For instance, right now this channel has 12,000 subscribers so it's equivalent to a small town with the same population. There are fewer people in the comment section and you're likely to run into the same people in every video. There's a feeling of closeness and belonging, because of the fact that everyone is genuinely interested in the topics presented by the creator. By contrast, we have large-city channels like SciShow and RealLifeLore, where hundreds of thousands of people hang out. People are less friendly, and you're likely to meet trolls, critics and people trying to be popular by posting random comments or memes. Perhaps I'm overthinking but this is how I feel 😂
keksi max it had 12k yesterday? its up at 19k now and was at 17k when I subscribed a couple of hours ago, this channel is blowing up fast.
@Correction Guy Whoa, dude. You're right. When I looked at it, it was just 12K. And in 2 days it's blown to 22K. This channel really is blowing up fast. The town is growing into a city lmao
@@feynstein1004 26k now.
Feynstein 100 That is a great analogy! I will go further and say that KZhead channel viewership and subscriptions can be seen as tribes - people who watch educational content will continue to get smarter, they will realise and understand that there is a huge opportunity cost of watching trash channels like Logan Paul and therefore will direct as much attention as possible to educational content like this channel and will look down on people like Logan Paul viewers. This is also a microcosm of what is going to be happening in the real world, the smart are going to get much smarter and richer while the stupid will watch trash and lag behind. This will mean greater inequality between the rich and poor. Also so pleased that this channel is blowing up!!
@Allama Sadi Wow, I hadn't even thought of that. Nice analysis. :)
I never would have thought Ukraine to be a holder of the world's largest cities.it makes sense though as Ukraine has very fertile land
yeah i wish i knew more about ukrainian history. had no idea they were such a big player on the world stage
@@Emperorerror Back in them days Ukraine just consisted of Steppe Nomads, Up to the 13-1400s I imagine. At first it was the Scythians, Dacians, Getaes, etc. Later on the Mongols came past, and the successor tribes such as the Golden Hordes, Crimea, etc. I'm not sure what was between then, even though it is a large piece of history, I never hear anything about it, which is why I imagine it was a lot of the same. Though Dacia and Getae were in Romania... For a while after the 1400s Lithuania did control most of Ukraine, after that it was conquered by the Ottomans and Russians. Ukraine itself has only existed in recent history... Idk why I'm tryna talk histroy, it's very late and I'm probs not thinking of large pieces of the puzzle, cya.
@@Andrew-fn9oc how about Kievan Rus'? That was the first state that can be called kind of Ukrainian. Also Ukrainians probably are descending from scytians and other more ancient tribes.
ukraine/southern russia was actually the birthplace of the original indo-europeans, who eventually came to create societies such as the greeks, romans, russians, germans, english, french, spanish, persian, afghan and hindi peoples. it is definitely a hub of human civilisation. its just that they were original nomadic people with no writing system, and therefore their homeland in ukraine/southern russia doesnt have many historical sights to go and see or even read about
@Swapn Lok actually Indo-Europeans originated from the middle east
Him: Yinxu was the first city outside of the middle east to be the world’s largest city That City in Ukraine: *Am I a joke to you*
Baked Alaska: That City in Ukraine Dobrovody: Am I a joke to you
The entire indus valley: Am I a joke to you?
Also Mohenjo Daro is in modern day Pakistan and Pakistan is a south asian country not a middle eastern country.
@@aayushchaudhary714 Indeed; Bhirrana is much older (~ 9500 years old ) and Rakhigarhi is largest ( ~ 8500 years old ).
Atlantis: Am I a hoax to you?
I swear to god i'm so used to educational videos being sponsored that i expected you to say something like "cities are one of mankinds most important inventions made possible by squarespace"
Dashlane, audible, and others. Damn, I need a break from KZhead.
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No wonder Strabo recorded Pataliputra(in India), the biggest and largest city in the world in 318 BCE. Never understood which research he is referring to!
Didn't realize you made this point. I made this same point. Thank you.
I was also wondering about it, no wonder Alexander or Sikandar wanted to conquer india of that time . ( however as any westerner he too is ignorant or biased towards his European learning).
@@ravisingh-wp1lc and you over here are stereotyping all westerners. Btw, Alexander never conquered India because of his declining health and there isn’t the evidence nor research the back up the “theory” that Pataliputra was once the largest city in the world, and even if it was, it was only for less than a decennia let aside a year.
Imagine being the worlds biggest city to only having a 7,000th of the population of the modern day biggest city
There was a point in time when there were only around 7000 people on the planet.
@@maythesciencebewithyou the bottleneck
It’s literally a crime to not subscribe to this guy!! He is fantastic!!!!
I agree :P Thanks for watching!
What do you think RIP 7+ billion
Subscribed because of this comment. Few minutes into the video and I agree!!
I subbed after the first video I saw. You can just see that the quality is evident
Atlas Pro Just subscribed to you cuz i like your channel
Utqiagvik, Alaska is thought to be the first "city" by a very small amount of people. It's thought to have been inhabited from anywhere between 10,000 to 17,000 years ago, and was estimated to have 100-200 people. That seems more like a village, but it was permanently inhabited, and had homes.
So someone from the city of Uruk could call themselves the Uruk-hai 😂😂. Love this channel 👍👍👍
LMAO bro uruk is 10km from where I live.
@@fogshadow9112 سلام
Is there a meaning of the word uruk in Semitic languages? In Hungarian "úr" means lord/sir or great one (kinda like æthel- was in saxon and old-english) and "-k" is the plural indicator. I wonder if there is a connection somehow, and Ur and Uruk were in fact "The city of the Lords" or "Urak Városa".
HUNdAntae I don't know, but I am aware of the Ziggurat of Ur in Iraq
Fog Shadow have you been to the Ziggurat of Ur in Iraq bro? 😂😂
I love love love how you contextualize, on macro level, the topic at the beginnings. You're channel will boom, keep it up!
Just an FYI for the next time you pronounce Chinese words, the "x" sound is like the "sh" sound in English 😉
Your videos are pretty cute, you should make more!
@@The_NSeven Oh thanks ^-^ i was planning on making more
@@PixelBytesPixelArtist Good! :D
It's not exactly 'sh' sounding either. Were speaking English I think there's nothing wrong pronouncing it in English. Chinese does not get a privileged status.
zh
"He lived to the age of 90 before dying." :D
Ok?
I don’t understand ?
Egypt a few thousand years before today, people usually lived for like 30 to 40 years, maybe 50
That's a misconception: live expectancy was low because infant mortality was very high, but even back than age 30-40 wasn't "old".
And people literally died out of a fucking cold and there's still anti-vaxxers nowadays..wtf?
your history related geography videos are the best! I NEED MORE
These videos are amazing; clearly explained, great animations and transitions which all leads into a great video with fantastic quality. Especially considering that you do not have many subscribers this is amazing. You deserve a million subscribers 👍
8:49 Egypt looks like some badass axe
Wow! An incredible, and interesting presentation. Thanks, Atlas Pro. I would love to see this on an Info-graphic Time-Line
You just blew up bro, congrats ! Good content !
The point that a city hit a million people before paper existed is mind blowing! Wow!!!
What's more mindblowing is that there were a million people strong cities long before a sewer system was invented.
great content man, just stumbled upon you channel by chanse and i have been binge watching for 2 hrs now!!
I just discovered this channel and I have fell in love😍😘. It encompasses everything I like, Biology, History, Geography, and Geology!!Keep this up you make my week with just one video!
Not only do you produce great videos but your pronunciation of these foreign words are amazing. Props to you!
Amazing videos! This channel deserves so much more recognition.
Loved the video Atlas Pro, I can't begin to imagine how much research you must have done before making this. Thank You Dear! Also if its alright could you please make a video about the biggest civilization, country, marvels, structures. Please🤗❤
The amount of research needed to create this video blows my mind. Amazing work!!
7:46 I see that Assassin's Creed Screenshot
I think they used one for Alexandria too
I just found your channel and I really enjoy your videos. Please keep it up!
Dang this channel is exactly what i wanted. Thx dude. Subbed
It would be interesting to know why certain cities attracted so many people. My bet is that it was usually a combination of fertile land, a favorable climate, trade routes, access to fresh water, and politics.
Comment section be like “How has this channel only got x subs?” and now it’s deservingly on 308k. Good things come through
420k now.
664k on July 6th 2020
664k on July 6th 2020
720k subs n November 2020
700k then meme number 69 For 25th of january 2021
This channel blew up because of this series. I hope you’re proud of this channel, it’s amazing. Just you wait, by the end of 2019 you’ll have a million subscribers.
So glad KZhead recommended this channel to me! You just got a new subscriber!!!
I have a sudden urge to play Sid Meyer's Civilization II after watching this video.
William Fang Have you tried Sid Meyer's Civilization XI
Why specifically Civ 2? Lol
@@MerkhVision Civ because I and the AI can replay the human history and watch cities grow (or die). Civ 2 because that's the last version I played. Yes I'm old.
@@ronansuperfrog8425 we're still on the VI not the XI, but man amni excited for XI
"In Jericho." Me: Oh shit he's about to make some people upset, isn't he? "In the modern-day *West Bank*" Me: LOL
Only idiots would be upset about such stupid things
@@levspivak8759 Some idiots' entire lives are affected by these "stupid things", show some respect
@@Mazzawak Who gives a fuck about some bunch of terrorists...
@@levspivak8759 sure nobody gives a shit about Israel but still they should be stopped
@@Mazzawak lol, that tells why you are so stupid, I see now
This video was really cool! Definitely subscribing
It's actually kind of sad when I came back to my roots in a rural village jist this past December. Only a handful of families stayed there, back then we had 200+ families, now it is only about 50 and all of them have at least one member living in the city.
Your work is absolutely fantastic. I love this channel. Tiny tiny nitpick. But there is no year zero in our calendar system. It goes straight from 1 BCE to 1 CE. But that's just a nitpick. Your work is awesome
Your channel deserves much much more subs! I hope you get there.
Thanks for the support and thanks for watching!
Good video, it is informative and fast paced. Good narration as well.
Very interesting! congrats on 7.5K subs, I hope your channel continues to grow at this rate!
Glad to hear it, it's been great growing lately!
I from iraq and went to babylon it was beautiful, and we have so much ancient cities in there but sadly isis and throughout history Occupiers destroyed amount of them :(
Amazing work as always
Thanks!
These videos are really great..production wise and content wise
This channel is really accurate! I enjoy it a lot!
Gotta wonder though, since we homo sapiens have been wandering the earth for about 200k years, how many cities came and went where no records, foundations, nor artifacts survived to be found. We only ever speak of up to a few thousand years ago.
before the first cities there were only small settlements. Before the first cities, which first needed the invention of agriculture, there weren't that many humans on earth. if you want to allude to Atlantis, that's as real as Hogwarts.
@@maythesciencebewithyou gobekli tepe is a city that dates back further any other city in this video and that's a recent discovery. Truth is its possible there are other "cities", we don't know, and unfortunately, might never know
Wow, that was really interesting. Can't wait for part 2!
Glad you enjoyed! Coming soon!
@@AtlasPro1 So, will the majority of the global population really be living in major cities or cities and towns in general?
Gem of a channel, just discovered it today! subbed and belled!
How do you only have 15K subs!?!?! Your work is on par with Real Life Lore, Wendover, & AHH
8:56 That pronunciation was so off 😂😂😂😂 But we forgive you.
Ooh, a two part episode. Great video as always! Looks like your audience is starting to find this channel, bring on the exponential growth! :D
Glad you enjoyed! I just want to hit 10k :P
I just subscribed. Wow Googles algorithm is very weird. I can’t believe I haven’t found this channel sooner! Also, great observation Feynstein 100. Bye going learn about Korean mythology, Can’t wait!!
Great vid! Very interesting. Subbed!
It wasn't Ramesses II who created the Egyptian empire but multiple pharaohs throughout the new kingdom, most notable Thutmose III. But you got it correct that Ramesses II saw Egypt through a golden age.
Recently research pushed back Indus valley civilization back to 7000 BC
If you count Mehrgarh
@@sanjanajha5357 no, just based on pottery and other things found in haryana
@@avinashzoom yes they also left out pataliputra
yes indus valley is very old but they r only telling the time at which moenjo daro had highest population
@@somerandumguy8281 well rakhigiri was older and bigger than mohenjo daro
Can you show where ancient Rome, and all the other ancient cities got the stone for there massive stone buildings? How far away were the ancient quarries?
I really enjoy your videos about old civilizations
Hi Atlas!! Love The Video
Great to hear :) Thanks for watching
I sometimes think how amazing it is that just 150 years ago the notion of cars was nothing more then a dream. 50 years ago computers were as big as a room and now we literally have the all the knowledge of the world in a small, compact, handheld device! 500 years ago no one but native American lived in America and now we have millions of people here! I am astonished and astounded by how fast our civilization has grown in a Meer 100 years and I can't wait to see what the world will be like in another 50.
Stumbled upon, impressed by and dully subscribed!
Great narration, plus simple and informative
Awesome video as always. However, just a couple of nit picks: First, there was no year 0. 1 BCE was immediately followed by 1 CE. (Weird and kind of dumb, but that's what happened.) Second, your pronunciations could use some work, especially of Chinese cities (a hint: x = sh).
I thought my Chinese pronunciations were pretty good this time around (though I botched Hyksos on my first try).
I'll say it was okay. X is actually showing your teeth instead of through your lips like sh.
@@AtlasPro1 Sorry, but they weren't really good at all XD, I'm Chinese. But if you need any help, feel free to ask!
Do you also think it's weird and kind of dumb that the year doesn't begin on January 0? Or that Sunday isn't called the 0th day of the week? Year 1 indicates the first year following a date-altering turning point in history (in this case, the assumed date of Christ's birth--though later studies place His birth between 6 and 2 BC). There is no year 0 because that would imply that history stopped altogether. History never stops. When something new enters the world, its first 365 days are its year 1.
@@AtarahDerek yeah, but if you ask a mother the age of an 8 month old baby what would she say? not 1 year old. She would say its 8 months.
I’ve gone through Jericho a couple of times and now I regret not staying there a bit longer
Wow this was a great video, surprised you don't have more subs
Awesome video. One suggestion though..you could've included their present pictures..just a suggestion..amazing job.. loved it.
I was so blown away by Dobrovody that went googling and well it's half a country away from where your map point says it is :P
I'm not sure if you're familiar with the topic, but I'd love to see a follow-up video which describes how the cities were able to support such large populations, what limited those and which developments allowed to overcome such limits. As a somewhat unrelated example a ships length was limited until bronze hinges came along. So maybe the history of agricultural techniques or logistics/transportation or climatic reasons corresponds with overcoming various population limits.
Nice. I learned a lot of this stuff through art history!
Amazing work my friend!
I remember there's a poem called Ozymandias.
I had this poem in my book
I read a poem about Ozymandias's ruins last year. It was about no matter how big and powerful you get, everything you know will eventually turn to dust.
Ikr, it was in the CBSE 10th English book..
A really famous poem by Shelley
Would love to see a biggest countries over time video! Or most powerful counter per century video?
While land area is less subjective, "most powerful country" is pretty hard to quantify accurately. Also, very early on there would be a lot of guess-work, as before more complicated civilizations emerged, most cities were simply city-states.
@2:50 is the real reason you are the most valuable teacher on KZhead! So few are able to be objective!
Thank you for the nice video 👍
Can you do a video on the different times empires controlled other nations and actually helped them grow before giving them up?
@Joshua Jung I was thinking what Britain did for Hong Kong. I kinda knew about India but I haven't looked into it.
Thoughts on Göbekli Tepe???
This channel is amazing!!!
Subbed cant wait for more vids!
It is still quite shocking how little attention rural areas get compared to cities. While city dwellers are the majority, they it is only by about 5% and city dwellers only became the majority very recently.
Part of it is that it is hard to get to rural inhabitants and another part is that rural people are poor vs the rich and middle class that live in cities and suburbs
As we continue exploring and expanding our knowledge and awareness it is going to be very fun (for me atleast😂) to look back at videos like this and see how much/little we really knew. and On & on it goes 🌀🌱
Dude I’d have really appreciated it if you mentioned the current day names of these old cities! Thanks for your great content.
You are a Rockstar. Great videos.
Wonderful! Please make a part 2!
Hopefully coming later this week :)
@@AtlasPro1 Great! Just became a patron! :)
Thank you! It's really appreciated :)
Yeah Long life for Alexandria. My home city. I love it so much.
which Alexandria?
@@arjungoli6434 Alexandria, Egypt
@@modyusa1 Wow man, must be really cool to live there
@@arjungoli6434 the others are irrelevant
We need to make Alexandria great again, balash tbno abrag 3ashwa2ya, Love from Cairo :D
i love this guy videos! you should have more subs.
Super video! Love your stuff. What population defines a city? Or, other criteria? X number of non-related inhabitants? Just curious about the distinction between "city" and "rural" area.
I heard you say “Ozymadius” and I instantly thought of “Ye mighty, and despair!”
Actually, after Mohenjodaro, many more Indus valley civilization cities were discovered. Today the largest known city is Rakhigarhi, not Mohenjodaro. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rakhigarhi Similarly, the only known port city of Indus valley civilization is Lothal which is in Gujarat. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lothal Similarly, the only known proto IVC civilization (Kalibangan) was found recently in Rajasthan en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalibangan
Assassin Creed Origins single handedly made me interested in ancient civilizations
Very informative. Thanks.
8:20 Yinxu literally means the corpse of Yin, and Yin was (and still is) an alternative name to Shang dynasty. So Shang rulers would not have called their capital by this name. Instead, it was called Chaoge back then.
Can you please lists sources in description on your videos?
Source, he used one single source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_cities_throughout_history The middle thing, honestly those estimations are very weak.
@@g-rexsaurus794 XD
I live in a town of about 35,000 people and I’m from a town 2,000 people. It’s weird how both of these would have held major city status at some point in the past, but both are considered rural now.
Nice work mate.
I have found some excellent 4k city fly overs (mov files)
Do share :)
Yes please do
Varanasi of India is the oldest city on earth. It dates back to 7000 BCE. Dwarka is also another city of India which is also about 3000 BCE old.
Wrong
Your all videos are amazing
This is why i want to travel. The middle east. So much history there,even more than Europe
@Caitlyn yes it is so sad that this garden of knowledge and beauty is destroyed in so many places
You have forgotten mehrgarh which existed in Indian subcontinent prior to indus valley.
@vijaya varma euro centric? are you stupid? Most of those cities are middle eastern and chinese. How is that euro centric???? Even in part 2 of the video, apart from rome and london there is no european city in the list!!! I guess you're a indian nationalist who dreams all the time about your ""great""" past of the hindus valley civilization. I've met a lot of indian people exactly like you. You live in a bubble my friend.
also forgot north and south american cities
@vijaya varma Hows that superpower thing coming along bud?
@vijaya varma damn bruh so maybe you ain't dumb, apologies
@@Luis-mq5ey there is a reason why you have met "a lot of Indian people exactly like him"
2:20 "...have remained Center to prosperity for 100s or even 1000s of years" * shows US city * Me: **_laughs in European_**
Michelangelo Buonarroti can’t be in the states, cars are on the left side hehe
That's in Europe lol
doggo this is obviously japan
@@dd-nz8ry True, could be
**cries in European**
Awesome video bro
Dang this is like wendover and real life lore quality (etc.) I can see you be pretty big with this quality