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Genre: Education
Date of upload: Apr 8, 2020 ^^
Rating : 4.838 (2,975/70,580 LTDR)
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Top Comments of this video!! :3
In his novel "The Sun Also Rises" Hemingway describes how the end comes about when you lose everything. One character asks "How did it happen". The other responds "Gradually then Suddenly".
It never fails to surprise me how most people think the most complex civilisation ever in history is immune to collapse.
In reality we're in the 'Gradual' phase.
The late great Albert Bartlett famously said "One of the greatest shortcomings of the human race is our inability to truly understand the exponential function".
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This channel/podcast is what happens when highly intelligent, passionate, talented, and creative people get to do what they want to do.. without anyone telling them how or what to actually do. I've watched episodes many times and each time the creator invites you into an emotional and thought-provoking journey- not only into the fascinating past but, a deep and piercing introspective look into us as humans living the human condition. Outstanding.
I will donate when I find work again! Thank you for these gifts of wonder.
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Time Stamps
Please feel free to add other important moments below if I've missed anything! Thank you Paul for such beautiful work!
0:00 Ruins of Hattusa
2:30 The Mysterious Wave of Destruction
3:37 Introduction and Welcome
5:53 The Iliad, Odyssey, and The City of Troy/Mycenea
11:38 Mediterranean Civilizations
13:05 Trade between City States
15:00 Bronze
18:16 The two main sources of information from this era
20:02 First Theory of Decline: The Sea Peoples
21:50 Ugarit
30:51 Egypt and Ramses III
42:00 The Decline of Mycenae, Hattusa, Elam, Babylon
44:35 Babylon
48:08 Second Theory: The Growth of Iron Use
50:30 Final Theory: Climate Change
53:15 Eruption of Hekla 3
56:35 An Alternative View of the Sea Peoples
1:00:21 Closing Thoughts
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I keep watching these over and over
Partly because they're so interesting and partly because I fall asleep within 10 to 30 minutes every time
Only ever finished the Sumerian one, but it's so relaxing to just chuck them on and lie there with my eyes closed
I can't wait to see what comes in the future
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7:30 ... "Its a second century version of the history channel's ancient aliens conspiracy theories today"
Me: Is there such a thing as a Mic-Drop-Slow-Clap? That was great.
Your channel is what the History Channel should be.
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You are the man! I donât know how you do this but these are epic. I lived in Turkey for 5 years when I was a boy into young teen. In the 70âs the ruins were not a tourist attraction. My brother and I spent hours in Ephesus and many other ruin sites in Turkey. We spent a lot of time snorkeling the Aegean. Going back this fall after 46 years. Love this content and the way you make it come alive!
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When he said the classical Greeks couldn't believe that the bronze age Greeks built the megalithic sites that they did and so they attributed it to mythological figures and then he compares that to modern-day people who can't believe the ancients built the pyramids and so they attributed to aliens. This literally maybe just became my favorite channel on YouTube. It was already one of my favorites for putting an actual history documentaries instead of conspiracy theory junk but that was positively delicious
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@timsullivan4566
2 years ago
After watching/listening to 14 episodes I have developed a much broader understanding of the evolution of human social structures. Nothing else in my 67 years - no other books, films, documentaries, courses, or lectures - NONE have come close to igniting the passionate interest in history for which I credit this series. I cannot thank you enough and hope to soon be bn a position to put a bit of money where my mouth is.
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