You probably didn’t know about this kingdom that lasted for more than 363 years!
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You probably didn’t know about this Ancient Kingdom that lasted for more than 363 years!(Characene) 141BC - 222 AD (The last Hellenistic state)
I think a series on obscure kingdoms would be a good idea. Do one on Champa
Agreed. Another one i suggest is Khotan, a Scythian Buddhist kingdom in modern day xinjiang that survived till 1066
Even better is to lecture on New Qing Historical narrative on the Jurchin Jin Kingdom The Xia Tanguts and also the Yuan Mongols
South East Asain got many interesting history, but it was overlooked a lot too
Another suggestion:Zengid Kingdom,which started a serious struggle against the Crusades for the first time(see Siege of Edessa)
Champa is obscure? I thought it was one of big players in SE Asia
"kerosene went up in flames"
It was a pleasure to burn
That's a good one😂👍
Ikr?
As it should
Apparently when Trajan reached Charax in 116 (which is the furthest any Roman Emperor ever reached in this direction) and saw the ships heading to and from India, he wept, since unlike Alexander he was likely to old to ever conquer that far east.
@@kesorangutan6170 Might had been more harmful for the romans had they choosen to stay, I think Hadrian wisely withdrew at the right time, conquer a land is very different to actually hold it and a good deal of their success was due the Parthians being in the middle of a civil war but there were revolts in roman territory at the time the war was happening which in part did not allowed them to defeat Parthia in a decisive manner, under those circumstances it was better not to try to hold those conquests so far into hostile territory .
@Basileus Belisarius I do not quite get the meaning of what you said, could you clarify please?
@Basileus Belisarius Yes I agree, that's why I think Hadrian was wise to take that decision, Trajan had just conquered Dacia a some years before and during the war against Parthia a huge bloody revolt called the Kitos War happened, the romans still had some work to do within their own borders before trying to pursue vain dreams to imitate Alexander.
@@kesorangutan6170 I think the thing with Dacia had to be done, they were a powerful kingdom right there in their border and had already achieved some measure of success in a previous war agains the romans so they had to go, dealing with them was something the romans had in their things to do even since the times of Caesar, once Trajan conquered the kingdom he did not completely annexed it, part of it was added to the empire and the rest was abandoned which to me means that even someone as ambitious Trajan was not solely focused in mindless expansion but at least in this case it was a way to strengthening what they already had. To me in a similar manner had they choosen to abandon Britannia to pursue expansion in the East they would had debilitated their border in Gaul which already limited with Germania. As I see things further expansion to the East, either abandoning these provinces or not, would had meant spreading themselves too thinly maybe inviting a war similar to the one Marcus Aurelius had to fight decades later.
You can play as the Romans and conquer Parthia in my realistic map of the Near East and Mediterranean. kzhead.info/sun/lL2yaJSnoaWknWg/bejne.html
Kingdom of the Cimmerian Bosphorus, arguably the longest surviving Hellenised kingdom (c. 438 BC - c. 370 AD)
Did Rome annex them or were they a client kingdom/vassal?
@@HVLLOWS1999 It is united with the Kingdom of Pount of Mithridates VI, before the Roman annexion This is a protectorate in the Roman era
I do not remember if this one was one of them but some of the kingdoms of the region were ruled by descendants of Marcus Antonius and Cleopatra, one of them well into the Late Empire when Augustus' bloodline had long fallen into obscurity, but to be fair to Augustus with only one daughter his own actually actually lasted a decent amount of time.
@Victor Mace absolute bullshit. Look at the statues and the language and the culture of the Greeks. They are not Egyptians. Although of course they have been influenced by the Egyptian culture. But stop saying such a nonsense there is no proof to your claim lol.
Yeah i was thinking the same about this Kingdom
I was literally just reading about Charax Spasinou when I got the notification for this video. Weird.
Must be Illuminati, can't be anything else
perhaps your ancestor was a merchant king
Google is always spying.
*Suspense music*
I’m Iraqi from the south who has a deep interest in my region. I never heard of this before! Thank you for sharing
Prove you're deeply interested by checking out your region in my realistic map of the ancient world for the original Age of Empires. kzhead.info/sun/lL2yaJSnoaWknWg/bejne.html
Is Bassra at the same place is this ceresene?
@@smitprmr coast lines have been changing arround what used to be Basra so Around the Sumerians time it was the deep sea part of the gulf. So I guess depending on the coast lines at the time you would be right in saying Basra :) (I’m from there btw)
@@TheIraqiforce must be a prosporous city since its the only port city in modern day Iraq. I am from India btw
@@smitprmr You have no idea. In the 60s and 70s it was the richest city in Iraq. Many Indians and south Asians were working and they had nice houses, my mum’s neighbours when she was little were all Indians it was good times but Iraq unfortunately is now a failed state since 2003 and ruled by Iran who have caused nothing but destruction and interference with our country.
Epimetheus: You probably didn't know about this kingdom Me who has played almost 2000 hours with the extended timeline mod: Are you sure about that?
Is that mod THAT replayable?
@@infinitememegod definitly
Well played, eu4
@@bahaigpt Is that the game where you imagine fights and don't actually fight?
@@scintillam_dei What, unlike the game where you either sit and go pew pew with canister for 30 minutes or slam the back of the brain dead AI with cav for 30 minutes?
as an iraqi I'm absolutely sad to see that what was the "Netherlands" of the ancient world is now having 45% of it population under poverty😓.
Hey. I'm Honduran, a Spaniard, and I plan to learn Akkadian and Aramaic. I love Assyria, Babylon and Sumeria. Check out my map of the ancient world for Age of Empires. I made sure to fit Sumeria. kzhead.info/sun/lL2yaJSnoaWknWg/bejne.html
Probably something to do with the start of Islam.
@@omgyeaXD lol Islam had nothing to do with it. Iraq has been Muslim for 1400 years!!! And Baghdad was the centre of the world for 500 years! Please do your homework before spreading hate
@@Amar90 I know islam was founded in 7th century ce. At least 400 years after Characene. I also know their religion holds them back economically. Anti-intellectualism and anti-science being the main factors. Excluding women from education also has economic concequences.
@@omgyeaXD Also they live on borrowed technology from the west.
lol 3:43 so basically they were the masters of strategically surrendering to a greater military power on favorable terms
Haha yup...they mastered the Art of the Strategic surrender. They seemed to think when not too weak and not too powerful is the perfect time to negotiate giving up.
@@EpimetheusHistory To be fair, it clearly worked for them. 363 is above average for survival.
Proto France
@@EpimetheusHistory the population of this kingdom was mainly arab, and Pliny the elder called the ruler/founder of the kingdom, as the king of arabs. Something which you haven’t mentioned in this video…
"scholarly speculation" what a nice phrase for angry nerd yelling XD
Last time I was this early, Assyria wasn't formed yet.
You mean the island, right? Enjoy your ferns, dinosaur...
@@LuisAldamiz Dinosaurs never existed as I prove in my series on the politically-incorrect history of atheism. :-)
@@scintillam_dei - Oh, really? Then it must be dragons, yay! Much better! LOL
Oh, you edited your comment and now I don't recall to what I was replying. Last time I was so late the USA had already collapsed, I guess.
@@LuisAldamiz Snakes when they had legs AKA the dragons are not a contradiction of reality, but my series proves that the Barney myth you promote contradicts reality and itself.
My favourite obscure kingdom are the Shirvanshahs who were a group of Persianised Arabs descendants of the Sassanians who ruled in the Caucasus in the modern country of Azarbijan until the late 16th century Maybe you would like to do a video of the different Sassanian and Parthian descendants of the middle east after the Islamic conquests?
That’s why Azerbaijanis are turkified Persians.
@@ShaheenJc not the other way around?
@@ShaheenJc Shirvanshahids were Persian Speaking Arabs and they ruled small part of azerbaijan not whole azerbaijan
@@pompacitokmakci they ruled almost all of Northern Azarbijan up to darband in daghestan
@@ShaheenJc well not all of them but close enough
The Arabic name of that kingdom is ميسان (maysen),know in Iraq we have a governorate called by that name its located south east near the Iranian borders.
Wow I’m Mesopotamian and I have never heard of this Kingdom. Thank you so much for covering Iraq’s history to the world. 🇮🇶♥️
Akkads were not arabs
Akkad empire
@@benyaminderakhshanzadeh1949this empire was an Arab empire , has nothing to do with the aakkadians
imagine youre a king of a prosperous kingdom strategically using diplomacy and trade to survive in one of the most hotly contested areas of the world and people in 2020 are just like haha cute little obscure footnote kingdom lol
Think of it like the netherlands. In several centuries people may say the same thing about it.
As of today I've lasted 23 years, awesome you uploaded this on my birthday 🎂🎉
Happy Birthday! :)
@@EpimetheusHistory Thank you! I enjoyed the video 👍
Pls continue this serie(unknown or underrated empires,kingdoms,dynasties etc.)
Nice, thanks for exposing us to this little gem of a place. Great stuff!
New strategy unlocked: Surrender on favorable terms.
Last time I was this early, Troy was only a legend
My Favorite obscure kingdom is Sealand. The one that existed south of Babylon
+ Sealand is a really cool name
It's so obscure that it doesn't even exist.
@S E most likely not
@S E - A modern one I know, although it's still quite imaginary, a childish game on an abandoned oil platform. But that's not what Garabic is talking about: he's making it up.
@@LuisAldamiz I think he meant the Sealand Dynasty of Babylon?
Characene: "we are masters of surrendering" France: "hold my Champagne"
It's a tactical postponing of control, not a surrender, you noobite.
@@scintillam_dei tactical getting scurred
Could Phrygia be considered an obscure kingdom?
Maybe not obscure, but certainly underappreciated.
@@1perspective286 It deserves a video, though...
@@user-zz8ll5ry7r 100% agreed. The Greeks mention Phrygia a lot, but usually as a footnote.
It would be a great topic. An ancient Europe-Anatolia connection that existed before the age of Greek colonization...
Lydia aswell
6 views, 8 likes. That's how good this is
:D I like that ratio
Great content as always, never heard of that kingdom even as I am a Greek. Could you do perhaps a documentary on the Empire of Trebizond or the Principality of Theodoro (Gothia), the last vestiges of the Roman Empire.
Check out Hellas in my realistic map of the ancient world for the original Age of Empires. kzhead.info/sun/lL2yaJSnoaWknWg/bejne.html I plan to learn classical and biblical Greek. I'm Spanish, and glad that Spanish sounds like Greek to a great degree. Mediterranean glory is extreme.
Im an iraqi and i never heared about it my self 😂 Iraq have a good realations with greeks since the beggining of time 🇮🇶❤🇬🇷
Content like this stimulates my curiosity. I can't get enough history to begin with, but hearing about overlooked places and events has me digging further left and right. You can never tell a nation's story in 6 minutes, but those short minutes are enough to give context and make people want to learn and do some exploration and reading of their own, and that is usually beneficial to anyone for a lifetime. Lots of thanks to you Epimetheus for your work and sharing your passion with all.
Me and the boys out here strategically surrendering in KeRoSeNe, sorry don't know how to spell but like the kingdom not the oil.
as always I have enjoyed your program and all of your efforts are appreciated
Another interesting video! Would be glad and waiting for the next one!
I just know about the existence of this kingdom only a month ago, when I'm studying the history of Kuwait for my coursework on West Asian History class. An interesting kingdom indeed. As for my favorite obscure kingdom, I'd say Tambralinga. It's a Buddhist Malay kingdom centered around today's Nakhon si Thammarat in Southern Thailand, and was a former member of the Srivijayan mandala. For a brief time in the 13th century, Tambralinga under King Chandrabhanu (1230-1263) was one of the most powerful states in Southeast Asia. According to an inscription left by Chandrabhanu, Tambralinga's rule extended to all of the Malay Peninsular kingdoms. But the most interesting is, Tambralinga once launched a naval invasion to Ceylon. Yes, that Ceylon, Sri Lanka. And it's quite successful. A Tambralingan colony led by Chandrabhanu himself thrived for more than 10 years in the northern part of the island, before finally subjugated by the Kingdom of Pandya in a series of invasions in late 13th century. I recommend you to read more about this fascinating, underrated kingdom.
So it's like the Asian version of Normandy, settled by outsiders and then went off to conquer a famous people who influenced the realm prior?
Thank you for more uploads!!❤❤
Do a video on the kingdoms of Commagene, Sophene, Osroene, Atropatene, Gordiene and Araba next please.
All the ene kingdoms
ye forgot Adiabene though
Thanks for bringing awareness to the Kingdom of Kerosene.
I love it when you explore obscure or less known pieces of history. I would love it if this became a mainstream series on this channel. Great work anyway!
I loved the informative video. Thanks!
0:16 I had to check if the kerosene name came from Characene but no, it's from Greek κηρός (keros) meaning "wax".
Would love to see you cover the iranian oasis kingdom of Khadgar/Shule and its several other neighbouring Iranian oasis kingdoms, in where now is Xinjiang
Awesome video on such an obscure topic!
Enjoyed, thanks!
You should make a video on Lakhmids and Tanukhids, I think it will be interesting to hear how desert dwellers shaped a kingdom in between of the superpowers.
The Ghassanids, long rivals to the Lakhmids, would also be an interesting subject for investigation.
Liked the video as always! Suggestion, periodically flash and overlay of current map of current country boarders, would have made it more easy to track.. perhaps every time the boarders shifted,..I don't know just a thought 🤔
awesome video, do one on Cornwall, it was its own kingdom for a while way back:-)
The very first video I started watching on this channel was the one on the Mitanni, who I had heard almost nothing about. I could see this being a very long lasting series, there are so many obscure countries and cultures that deserve to be studied, particularly in the Bronze and Iron ages.
Nice video as always and very informative. I hope you're doing good, buddy. Keep it up.
Your voice has a relaxing, soothing effect. Can you please make a video about the Roman client state of Commagene on the Upper Euphrates?
This is really interesting, thank you for bringing attention to this lesser known kingdom. I have a video request (or maybe a response if a its not enough for a video): history of Rhodes? I cant find much on any prominent Rhodian figures aside from a few admirals and Memnon, and would love to know more
That’d be cool^^
@@Doberdobax ey im glad its not just me, i was worried id be like the only one who wants this 😅
I plan to learn Irish. You better learn it or be ashamed that a Spaniard will know your language, if you don't already know it, which most don't.
@@scintillam_dei what on earth are you on about? That doesnt relate to my comment at all
@@Number1Irishlad I'm just trying to encourage you to learn Gaelic since I want the Irish to speak Irish. Your username is "Number1Irishlad." That's relevant, and you act like it's not.
love obscure kingdoms, samo's empire and elymais would be good ones next if you make this a series
Ny favorite little kingdom, not many have heard of it, is "Rome". Yeah, I know. Look it up it's pretty cool
i don't know her
I hear it really went downhill once they stopped being a Kingdom.
Poor buggers! They never stood a chance against the Samnites, and the Greeks, and the Gauls.
Really appreciate ur channel it's just awesome keep on like that :) Can you make a video about the history of Malta and Maltese people ? We have a very interesting and complex history
This is actually very interesting to know about as I am working on an alternate history with friends involving an early Roman collapse. Definitely would enjoy more short videos like this about obscure kingdoms, maybe one about Tamil Nadu?
Do you mean the Chola Empire?
@@LuisAldamiz Yes I do, thanks for the correction.
I suggest Adiabene for a video, another Parthian vassal state in north Mesopotamia about the same time as Characene. It was where some of the Lost Tribes of Isreal had been settled by the Assyrians centuries before - and where the ruler converted to Judiaism, crossed border to go to roman Jerusalem for a feast - just in time to die in the roman seige of Jerusalem in the great Jewish revolt of 70 AD.
All the little hellenistic kingdoms after Alexander would be very interesting. Corduene, Sophene, Commagene, Adiabene, Osrohene, Atropatene, Cappadocia, Bithynia and what not..
@Muslim terrisost Well, I mean kingdoms of the hellenistic period... Commagene was very hellenistic, though, as I can say from their art.. Many of these kingdoms were either armenian or aramean..
Hmmm, If it interests you maybe a video on the Odrysians of Thrace or possibly even something about the Pre Carthaginian/Roman ruled iberian peoples? Love the channel man!
Thank you for this brief overview of Characene. I didn't know they were a thing before now. Given how long they lasted I imagine their culture changed a lot over time.
Love these, what I call history shorts, just enough for a break at work!!
Love the content man
Thanks!
So glad to have you. Burma next maybe?
Awesome videos there love them good job 👍🏻
Also I have question for you I have your heard of the war of the heavenly horses well it’s a battle between Nomadic tribes (possibly the Bactrian Greeks) and the Han dynasty if you don’t know research more in Wikipedia where it has some answers there
You're right until now I had never heard of Charosene Thank You.
Yeah 2 videoes in a month will be great. Plz make a continuous series.
Do a video on the obscure khwarezm kingdom the one that Genghis Khan destroyed.
They are a very funny dynasty. After they beat the Seljuks they literally lost against all their neighbors but somehow beat them all (ghurids, kara khanids) but the mongols put them in the dirt however remnants of their army travelled from Iran to Gugurat and Punjab and later to Mesopotamia and later Egypt where they took Jerusalem from the crusaders
Khwarezm was not obscure...it was a big relevant kingdom but bad diplomacy vs the Mongols.
That was awesome! Thank you! My favourite obscure kingdom is Brittany!
The Pre-Mongol and Pre-Arab Middle Eastern and Central Asian histories are some of the most fascinating.
I’ve never heard of them before. Thanks!
Do you have videos on the Greco Bactrian Empire? I think it'd be an interesting topic
Just sending a comment out into the ether but I love this channel I love the maps and the brief histories of societies often overlooked or only passingly mentioned
Would love for you to do one on the Mossi kingdoms :)
Every time epimethius posts, I always get excited
What about all the forgotten kingdoms in the Gobi desert before it became Xinjiang 新疆
The Gobi was in northern China and Mongolia; I think you meant the oasis city-state kingdoms of the Tarim Basin in the Taklamakan desert.
@@GilangRabbani Realistic Far East Map with the Gobi and Taklamakan for the Mongols, Chinese, Turks and others to fight for. Age of Empires 2. kzhead.info/sun/dtGmpqiQq3VpjY0/bejne.html
Could you do a video on the Saka, Sogdian or Tocharians?
It's 11 pm here (in my country) and I'm also about to sleep...but it's okay I can wait to watch your video
I didn't know know about this. Thanks
Never heard of this kingdom before. Great video
My favorite obscure kingdom is Tlaxcala, the close to home rival of the Aztec Empire.
please do one on ancient sri lanka/sri lankan history. it offers a unique relief from the neighboring indian history
You should do a video on the Khazars they are criminally underrated and also very interesting
@Omry G indeed
@@RandyStrader i have watched it but it would be interesting to see a different perspective on it
History nerds unite !!! Love your work always Epimethius
Can you pls do a video on the Ghassanids? Not much informative videos on them exist.
Some lesser-known history idea : Himalayan Region (Tibet, Phutan) Sri Lanka Caucasian (Georgia, Armenia) West African (Malian, Songhai, Ghana) Post-Genghis Khan Mongolian Empire
I like the idea of Tibet and Caucasia
his armenia video might be titled urartu, but it already exists
West African (Malian, Songhai, Ghana) - have you seen this video? kzhead.info/sun/hLOeqLmnh5VsjI0/bejne.html it is by "From Nothing" who specialized in African History.
The SAGVNTVM city-state thing of the ancient Iberians (my ancestors) is worth investigating.
@@tommy-er6hh Thanks for the suggestion. I am interested in Africa a lot. I want to learn Swahili, Zulu and Amharic, and I want to make a realistic map of Africa for Age of Empires 2.
Kings of Persis are also interesting. Ancient sources show a revolt in the Seleucid empire by Greeks and Thracian settled in Persia and the Seleucid kings used Persians to put it down
Under which King did this take place? Lol
@@timurthelamest5630 I believe Seleukos 1 or Antiochus 1 Polyaenus describes122 the Seleucid military settlement in Persia as inclusive of Thracians, an assertion corroborated by Polybius’ description of the Persian archers at Raphia as serving under the same commander as a Thracian contingent, as discussed above.
you are a legend
yo what video editing software do you use?
Thank you 🙏
Obscure kingdoms, principalities, and more, would be a good series!
Love your work bro can you talk about arab nabatens the people who built petra in modern day jordan
I would love to see a video about Roman crimea
I like Your maps! Indeed I did not know the Kingdom of Kerosene - what a coincidence in THAT area =)
Can you do a video on the Chola empire, which was India's greatest maritime power. That would be amazing.
Maybe do a video on the Tangut and their kingdom Western Xia?
Do one on Galatian Celts!
Please do a video on the Gullah-Geechee, Seminoles, Seminole Wars and Black Seminoles!
Nice one
Fascinating 🖖🏼
Thank you for mentioning the history of the country of Iraq ❤❤❤
Do one Video on Chola Empire.
the ppl who lived in kingdom of mishan still exist as the mandayan and the city itself still hold the same name as misan , thank you very much for this video
Could you do one about the republic of St Malo ?
Can you do Albania ( Illyria ) also Skanderbeg
Nice poetry in the last Hellenistic kingdom falling to the Persians.
please keep making videos