Bronze swords were pretty effective compared with early iron swords.

Ok boomer

The shift from Bronze to Iron wasn't so much driven by one metal being better than the other, it was the scarcity of Tin deposits and the relatively abundant Iron bearing ores taking up the slack when the Tin supplies got disrupted, or mined out.

If you watch that program on the history channel forged in iron or something like that there is an episode that does a bronze v iron swords and there's not much in it ,it was down to the lack of tin after the bronze age collapse that iron eventually took over

@ I should of read down before replying you had already explained it

lodevijk - it seems immanent, doesn’t it? War, war, war! No cooperation.

There could be many reasons for such a thing. Solar flares are one important possibility. Not a lot of our electronic equipment is shielded against rare events like that. Records from 1859 tell about burning telegraph stations due to sparks springing from telegraph lines. And those were comparatively robust in comparison to the fine instruments we use today. Maybe not total collapse but certainly high damage to a lot of our information industries.

The Great Server Crash of 2039

Most of modern infrastructure is computerized. Such an event could shut down nations indefinitelt.

@@Chrytin I agree. Our age has reached its miserable zenith.

UKposts Premium is great

Shill

​@@EliJahTebbensImagine wanting everything for free while you sit and do nothing. The rest of us work for a living

​@@Stettafireit's UKposts fam shit ain't that deep 😂😂😂

​@@StettafireLot of assumptions there

you were a part of that…

So much Biblical archaeology

Mr. Ryan same here man, funny how things end up.

Watch his history of Britain series. Very well done and to be continued

Matticus Bond even the simplest of animated visual aids help out it seems. Had this just been the narrator standing in front of me speaking I probably would’ve had difficulty sustaining interest. Also I think getting older and having a more complex understanding of how society works makes topics like these more relevant.

The more history you know, the more enjoyable it gets, although the more sad you are from seeing how mankind is so deceived in every generation, and currently getting worse.

Your so right. I did history for 3 years at school so boring. All I remember is Boudicca, and Jethro Tull ( not that folky rock group) Now I trawl the internet for sites like this, I daydream wondering who the sea people were, what happened after410ad in Britain, etc etc

you paid for documentaries when you where a kid ?

@@serenemountain6769 My family did.

@@Phobos_Anomaly i'm impressed, never thought such thing existed ! even as a kid always watched documentaries on national tv ! : ) but you are right, in youtube its the best place to find documentaries

national tv? like state run tv? thats interesting. I didnt know state run tv stations aired documentaries. most places in the world, youd have to buy a cable package including channels such as discovery or history channel that aired documentaries. of course nowadays youtube is a thing, and history channel is about aliens and bigfoot lol

This is what the History channel was like. Long ago. Before the dark times. Before the invasion of the Pawn stars and the Picker peoples.

Same, I got fucking hard...

Civ 3 best civ

I KNEW I knew that music!

It was pretty hard for me to not immediately start installing civ 3 when I heard that.

I subbed and hit the bell icon immediately.

This is an Egyptian melody, modern one though The lyrics can be hardly translated to something like this "This beautiful girl woke up by dawn, to knead the dough, as the rooster is yelling kokokokooo"

I really had to think for a minute where it was I'd heard this. Glad I was able to find someone to confirm my suspicions 👍👍

Up to the 20th century maybe, this century will be laughed about in the future

al gonzález maybe you and your people

Yes, I can see the future lizard people digging up graves and wondering how such an obviously wealthy species could muck up their environment!

Maybe we are just a simulation created by this far future version of us. To see where they came from.

@@decimalexercise7154 lol thats a sick theory... i like it :D

Indeed. And added constant loud grating music.

@@CelticSaint Well this one is using game music that repeats a lot so it cannot be of that sort.

And then after that they just got rid of the interesting stuff altogether and replaced it with pawn stars.

I remember when they showed documentaries like this on the History channel

Speaking of the collapse of civilization.

Civ 3 music was the main background music...lol I'm glad I'm not the only one who caught this.

Couldn't agree more. Modern re-enactment's completely ruin the immersion for me yet History channel feels they need to waste their budget on these

This is very correct. If you wanna learn a thing, you don't need it to be flashy and high budget.

ive been scouring streaming services and youtube for vintage history channel content.

Right, now they have shows about ufo's.

I have no issue with re-enactment. It is certainly more entertaining at times. But 'Murican "documentaries" are jackshit cancerous. Look at BBC, German or French documentaries... oh wait. They don't sell in the States and are never aired because they are not flashy enough. History Channel should change it's name to BSC. All their crap about aliens and conspiracies airs constantly on questionable private news channels here.

i could do with enlarging the maps

It's sad that this is literally what would have happened.

Primitive Vikings maybe...

Maybe, they'd definitely be speculating about the Sea Peoples being the basis for the Atlanteans.

@Matthew Cooper Ya, but I'm an alien watching Earth Channel watching you watching history channel. 😎

@Zhor'i Ambassador thats racist af...

I don't like way the guy speaks, why?

That stuff is cool if it's done right, eg. Climax of giant battle? Yes. While he's explaining wheat cultivation? No.

You said it, so many times I have to switch off what I'm watching because of that, so irritating!!

When we return: Were the sea people really maritime warriors, or were they visitors for another planet? [5 min later] The sea peoples were fierce warriors that came from the sea. But new possibilities suggest otherwise. When we return: Were the sea people really maritime warriors, or were they visitors from another planet? [5 min later] The sea peoples were fierce...

The finding of the Uluburun shipwreck with its huge cargo off the coast of Anatolia put an end to the theory that trade was not part of the bronze age.. The many civilizations represented give credence to the long trade route to Wales ,cornwall and Ireland.. The tin mines were played out in ancient times.

I wonder if you have access to any research regarding where Slavic people were from. They are biologically/haplogroup same as Yamnaya culture people, Scythia, Persia, Aria, India Brahmins, etc., however, culturally they completely distinguished. Slavs seemed to be from Uralic Luna ice age culture with no cultural change until they met Scythians in 5th CE in Central Europe and the rest l’ve listed above were sun culture with all the consecutive development from bronze, iron, and so on. There is no any video yet on UKposts presenting this. Maybe you can make it? Cheers 😆

Thank you for striving for the very best information.

You did great thanks man

Reuploading is the mark of an amature.

Lmao

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F :'(

F That bloodthirsty bastard

@Jeremy Kirkpatrick In the original Civilization Game from 1991, the Gandhi AI had a bug. Late in the game the computer controlled Gandhi usually adopts Democracy once India has researched it. Ordinarily adopting Democracy causes the computer controlled player to drop their Aggression Value. The Aggression Value being the value that governs the AI's diplomatic behavior. But because Gandhi's value was already at "1" and because the value was an 8-bit unsigned integer adopting Democracy would cause an integer underflow error, and Gandhi's Aggression Value would jump to the Maximum of "255," at which point the, up to now peaceful, Gandhi would become warmongering madman. If he had nukes, it could literally end the game.

I really never care about things like that but it was very distracting for me.

Omg? Yes? I thought no one else? Noticed it? It's very distracting?

It could be worse...Chills could have been the narrator.

тоже самое.

David T de Castro indeed! I tried to watch a documentary on the Celts and the music was so loud and jarring it made it impossible to enjoy.

He does a very good job creating his content, I just wish he had more for me to watch. Especially the history of Britain series

Ancient.... wait for it.... ALIENX!

AMEN Add to your comment the ridiculous "background" music so loud you can't think.. Bring back good ole documentaries. Good filming and informative narration. Seems so simple.

It’s the equivalent to jingling keys if front of a baby, but for adults. The documentaries on TV these days are so shitty that without the ridiculous music and sound effects, they would be boring as fuck and they know it.

They would have been exactly what they sounded like, at least: "people who arrived from the sea." Still, translation of Egyptian texts is a can of worms all its own. Even though we can translate their writings into words, we still likely lose a lot of cultural context, nuance and likely even syntax. The phrase "sea peoples" could easily have carried a connotation beyond what those two words alone imply.

​@semaj_5022 kind of like scicario means hitman in modern terms but it's associated it with Mexico and South America.

China has been calling Europeans "Ocean people" "洋人" for centuries now, they haven't been all mere pirates.

Not for nothing , we should question the veracity of the claims made by many a civilization’s historian. There’s just no way they didn’t embellish to put themselves in the best possible light, with what we know about human nature in general.

Cypriot Persian and Cretan Aegean pirates specifically, according to genetic analysis and archeological studies in objects from that time

A tv license? Now that is a tyrannical government.

I sold my TV

@@HoxtonLive Id never do that - I like my 55 inch computer display

@@DQTanya I have a different reason why i sold my brain washing satanic propaganda machine 💜 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret. But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light. Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. Ephesians 5:11-14 KJV 💜

@@donnyhelmuth5112 it is advert free though. i hate fucking adverts! not sure the BBC deserve the fee they charge these days, they are not what they used to be. They do still do a limited amount of quality output but the fee has risen while the amount of quality has fallen. and, like i said, no adverts. it's almost worth paying for that alone. the joy of advert free TV and radio should not be underestimated!

Ask Japan...

Dovar dude when the Mongolians tried to invade japan their whole fleet sank... twice

Will Forrest I never said sailors! It was a sperm joke. Sorry.

Will Forrest they were the only other “Anti civilization” like the Mongols. But yes the Mongols failed miserably against Japan.

@@anasty_arisaka754 against nature not japan

@@lorenbergstrom8199 Likewise!!

Civ 2 as well!

bring back some fond memories of the mid 90's for me.

Iconically awful

I member!!!!!!

Underrated comment😂

HEY. It wasn't us. We went to North Africa, Wales and the Basque region of Spain.

@@tibetloga Oi us folk in wales got ylu to bugger off after a while

@Scheffelmeier and make Poseidon pay for it

Sztallone lmfao that made me full deep belly laugh😷 thank you for this

I feel the same. The theory of "Sea Peoples" has somewhat conditioned us to think these people had themselves some kind of centralised organisation but we are probably talking of people fleeing their unfortunate circumstances, possibly including famine, carrying some weaponry and engaging in occasional piracy, if the possibility presented itself.

immigrants ruining everything for thousands of years smh

@@algonzalez6853 cant tell if you are trying and failing to be ironic or just an asshole. either way i hope you get the attention you think you deserve and find the peace you deny others. SHalom

Build the wall!

@@algonzalez6853 "inmigrants ruining everything for thousands of years"... GONZÁLEZ doesn't sounds very Anglo Saxon to me...

the people of the sea were neither pirates nor any strangers. they were Minoans who colonized almost all the Mediterranean and had the most powerful navy and no one could face them. in Egypt let's say if you read the history of the Minoans they had built an entire harbor of their own the interests to facilitate them in the trade they did.

@@user-qm8gh3eo1u there is more and more evidence of a long drought happening then, that can easily destabilise an empire. it would be easier to invade ..so i say it is probably a few causes together.

So far Assyrians still exist, although now speaking Aramean and praising Jesus Christ. Look em up.

@drobertbaker: wait, why did you put television in quotation marks? Are you saying that it’s not actually television and people are only calling it that? Is it some other technology going incognito?

@@nathansolbach5592 This was made by one person as "part of a fun hobby project". Professional "television" people with budgets and experienced staff regularly produce much more amateurish and less sophisticated presentations than this.

Wish there were more on them - they have a very interesting history. They seem to be part of a small group of cultures that have the B phenotype

The Kaskas did ruin the Hittites careers beforehand.

Imagine what if the Bronze Age civilizations did not Collapse but underwent an Industrial Revolution Chariots and Bronze replaced with Riflemen and Steel Religion and Slavery replaced by Rationality and Machinery

Idiot. The bronze age collapse was atlanteans.

@@tetragrade twat. The collapse was due to globalist free mason nasa shills

@@tetragrade The Atlanteans where long dead, they died off during Noah's flood

the whole vídeo is CIV 3 soundtrack and i love it

Brillant i first heard it 32min mark and its civ2 Edit 32.42

But... but... but... In 30 or 100 years "American Pickers" and "Ice Road Truckers" will be history (of how a once fascinating cable channel deteriorated and ultimately failed.)

Would you like to play a game?

I even remember the scenario for this 'map'

I had to check and make sure I hadn't left my Civ game running in another window when I kept hearing it.

hearing the music made me want to turn mine on lol

I was just playing this very game today! :)

Neroke5 Well, on my obsolete pc running Win XP, it's about the only good game that runs fine... So I keep trying to come up with new, fresh scenarios that I haven't played yet... :)

Or better yet (in addition to this excellent summary) also watch Professor Clines lecture on ‘1177, the year civilisation collapsed’ right here on UKposts . He is a really great lecturer! BTW , loved this histocrat! Thanks for making it.

Climates Change then the the Hords fall on the civilizations like a pack of wolves.

Constantin Weiler earthquakes

It’s refreshing to find signs of literacy in UKposts comments. And I followed your selection and got the book. Thank you.

Constantin - I am actually reading that book now. It's incredible. At first I admittedly skipped around to the parts relating to Minoan and Mycenaean collapses, but then started it from the beginning. He offers a compelling amount of theory and evidence that it wasn't a single factor, but rather a combined clusterfuck of disasters - Sea Peoples, internal rebellion, natural disasters, famine, collapse of trade and literacy, etc - that were each a factor.

"A spear tipped with flint cuts pokes holes in people just as good as one tipped with bronze." Add a shield and re-assess.

OneVoiceMore - I don’t have to, neither Bronze, nor iron swords will penetrate most shields. In fact, early iron swords the tended to be brittle, and their edges shattered on contact with other iron swords or with fittings on shields... whereas bronze, being ductile, would simply curl at the edge, and could be hammered out razor sharp with a stone in the field. Iron weapons did not need to be sharpened as often...and that’s about it. I am not suggesting that iron weapons are not better in some regards- it’s just that they are not a winning edge over bronze. An army of bronze equipped soldiers who outnumber you are going to win, regardless. What Iron did was make weapons CHEAPER- because iron ores are plentiful, whereas tin is scarce. But again, iron being cheaper was not a ‘superior weapons ‘ effect, it was an ECONOMIC effect, because you could equip more men for the same amount of money. People who think weapons win wars fail to understand that Economies win wars. Iron Age cultures did NOT win out on the battlefield. They won out in sheer economic success.

@@christopherpardell4418 Adding your comments to the video added to the understanding of the expansion and contraction of empires of the era Thank you.

devildog1982z actually- my supposition IS recognized by those scholars who are not suffering some romantic fixation on warfare. You are simply wrong. I cast and work with Bronze. Bronze swords are in many respects superior to early iron swords ( not steel ). And if you imagine an awful lot of iron Against iron or bronze clashing in battle- you have a Hollywood idea of what battle with edged weapons is like. Your iron sword is not going thru my oak and bronze shield no matter what you pretend... Guys like you have zero comprehension of the infrastructure required to supply iron or bronze weaponry. Mining was the single most important money making venture in the ancient world. Without mining, there IS NO IRON. Nor Bronze. Nor marble. Without cutting tools there is no timber to build a navy, or the roof of a temple- nor fuel to melt iron ore. This is not to suggest Rome’s legions were not crucial to their taking over the Mediterranean world... it is to point out that those legions would never have existed without an economy built on resource extraction. And the iron had a far Larger effect on efficiency of resource extraction than it did on the results of warfare. Try and think about it. If you are a soldier, on campaign, you will likely USE your iron sword perhaps twice or three times PER YEAR. If you are a miner, you will use your iron pick, hammer and chisel, 10 hours per day, 300 day per years. THAT is the circumstance in which a noticable harder ,arterial is going to make have the most effect, because it is USED the most. That the iron was more plentiful and affordable than bronze, and the resource extraction with iron tools far more productive per man hour is what enabled larger, more well equipped armies... and sure- those larger, better equipped armies conquered lands- But the MONEY to create those army and those navies came first. Sorry.. it stands... it was Economies that first bronze and then iron impacted most. The bigger and better equipped armies were artifacts of the economic success. Not the other way around.

Agree, are you aware of the Breakdown of The Bicameral Mind Hypothesis, it's very interesting