Ancient Apocalypse - The Sea People: Catalysts of Bronze Age Collapse | Full Documentary

[@carlpolen7437]

Excellent. Really enjoyed the content. Truly. Would absolutely recommend. One teeny tiny point of clarification: the Egyptians didn't collapse at this time. Their power did wane. It did retract. But they epmhatically didn't collapse. In fact, they were, essentially, the only power in the mediterranean that continued to be literate. Now, the reasons they Egyptians did better, in my opinion, centers around three big factors which are rarely discussed in videos like this. 1) Egypt was massively LESS dependent on rainfall than any other power. It was somewhat dependent, in that the Nile would have lowered since the upland regions which fed the nile had less rain, but this is very different than depending on rain to fall directly onto your crops. This was a massive advantage that would have made Egypt much more resistant to drought. 2) Egypt was less accessible by sea than other areas. The Nile delta was/is actually a horrible place for ships to dock. (This is why Alexandria was founded well to the side of the Delta) And Egypt was protected on the landwards sides by vast deserts which would have been extremely difficult to attack over (as shown by many other armies in history). This made it easier to defend than most other coastal Mediteranean places, or even places inland from the coastal port areas. 3) Egypt was, by far, the furthest away from the epicenter of the sea-people migration - the Agean. At first this seams counter intuitive, but you have to remember that ships at this time were almost entirely coastal ships, and, when they did venture away from shore, did so ONLY in very specific routes to very specific places. And Egypt was, if you were coming from the Agean/Greece/maybe southern Italy, the LAST place you'll get to if you are following coastal routes. So, in summation, Egypt didn't fall at the end of the bronze age. Its civilization continued, albiet reduced. And the reasons it didn't fall were a mixture of the the same things that created its civilization to begin with (the dependabillity of the Nile to produce food, combined with its absolutely excellent geographic defensive features) and also, the luck of being pretty far from the epicenters of the Sea peoples migrations.

[@caroleminke6116]

Ty

[@worldadventuretravel]

Interesting analysis, those are great points. I'd argue that it did, however, fall as a superpower. It stands out to me that by the time of the last Cleopatra when Egypt was no more than a vassal state of Rome, the pyramids were ancient monuments even to the Egyptians and none of them knew how or why they were built. Much of their own former history was lost and the transitioning civilization, while it had the advantage of natural wealth, never matched what it was during the Bronze age.

[@joannecalafiura9864]

9:18

[@SamRer-bd3io]

Except there was nothing called Isra steal and there never shall be , their end is soooooon😂

[@rodpaget9796]

And the christians burned down the hall of records....or is that just a movie @@worldadventuretravel

[@ΉρινναΜαρίαΠετράκη]

The best I have seen of the people of the sea. When I was 10 years old I visited Pylos for the first time. My question was, how did they get it? Then I thought that the enemies entered the city as friends. So, there were also Greeks among the peoples of the sea. I am now 72. I am glad that the questions I had as a child are being answered.

[@shable1436]

It's funny how timelines intersect

[@donald2665]

I am an American, a Native Floridian, but have lived much of my formative years in the American West - Texas and Arizona. This subject fascinates me as I am into history and Peoples and places. About 46 years ago was able to read two books written by Conquistadores who had accompanied Hernando Cortez and Pizzaro in their conquests of the Aztec and Inca Empires in the Americas, and in general really get into the antient Indian Civilizations - the Maya and previous Civilizations and enjoy time lining those cultures with events in other areas of the Earth at those times. Would have very much enjoyed visiting Crete and Greece and some of the other historical areas in the Med. I am nearly 72 years of age now, and still thirst with curiosity.

[@ΉρινναΜαρίαΠετράκη]

@@donald2665 I am also 72 years old. I'm still taking a university course from the Kapodistrian University of Athens, now lately I'm dealing with the Aegean civilization (3500-1000 BC) Since I was a little girl I was interested in how the Mycenaean palaces were conquered. Now I am inclined to accept that the people of the sea were the cause. Thanks for answering me. I admire Indians. Sorry, my English are bad, I'm using machine translation.

[@gregorynixonAUTHOR]

Great substance for a novel there, Achaeans among the attackers and among the defenders.. I'm working on it now. But if the Peoples of the Sea or others like them took down the great walls of Ilios, Hattusa, Mykenai, and Tiryns, then what makes you think they would have trouble getting into Pylos, which had no walls? I'm 73, and still searching, still creating.

[@donald2665]

@@gregorynixonAUTHOR - Wish you well with the writing for there is a rich story there. I am not yet a writer of Novels, however that time period and the Peoples involved are of great interest to myself. Also of interest to myself has long been the conquest of the Aztec by Hernan Cortez and the conquest of the Inca by Pizzaro. I read the first hand accounts by separate Conquistadores who accompanied both men, and have also viewed video on the subject which opened my eyes, and although these events were 1,700 or so years apart there are stories there also untold in Novel Form. Apparently the fall of the Aztec Empire and the Spanish conquests and enslavements caused other Indian Peoples near by the Aztec to migrate Northward into the US to become other well known tribes in Texas, Louisiana, Alabama etc., and it seems that an earlier migration out of Mexico Northward resulted in the Mississippian Empire which was it would seem be displaced by a late migration of a large nomadic population out of the Arctic and down into the US over a long period of many decades/ centuries eventually colliding with the established city in Illinois in about 1250 AD which resulted in the survivors of the City moving to Alabama and the Nomad Group of Peoples eventually crossing the Nation to the present site of the State of Delaware where they became "The Delaware". The 1960's Movie "Kings of the Sun" is a very interesting Movie about an Mayan Group fleeing across the Gulf of Mexico to the coast of Texas where another Tribe (Led by Yule Brenner) was. There is so much of a wealth of possibility in these Peoples and History and Place, that it is beyond belief to me that more writers have not ventured into the arena, and that more Movies related to those Peoples and events have not been created.

[@luislucero6920]

The best documentary I have seen on this matter, thank you !!!

[@nima9340]

Agree, and I've seen alot of them

[@amadeusamwater]

According to Egyptian records, Ramses III defeated the invasion of these peoples twice, once each on land and sea. After which one of the groups agreed to become his vassals in exchange for land. They were settled in Lower Canaan and later known as the Philistines. Archeologists seem to believe Philistine culture in the area began about this time, which lends weight to the idea. A previous king in 1208 had raided the area and basically stripped it of people, so the land would have been mostly empty.

[@janettomlin950]

Thank you 😊

[@jozz2248]

Some of the pottery of the time there appear to be Greco in origin, I've heard.

[@amadeusamwater]

Apparently the early stuff they found was a mix of cultures, leading some of them to believe the settlers came in from elsewhere.@@jozz2248

[@jeffglenn7609]

His victory came when the sea people A. K. A. The Phoenicians. The mistake of sailing up the Nile. They were attacked all the way. 😅

[@bobbykiefer4306]

Illyrians/Aryans

[@mrcoutts1211]

I totally recommend all interested in this subject to watch a Dr Eric H Cline lecture or his book 1177 BC. About the bronze age collapse.

[@jeffmead2935]

Respectfully. at 12 minutes and nine seconds they talk of written letters .... of which they have no evidence of .... its all garbage mate ... Do your own research

[@bobbykiefer4306]

@jeffmead2935 There are letters describing that time period like the Battle of Kadesh. Mitanni etc.

[@paulbennett7021]

I endorse your recommendation

[@jeffmead2935]

Cline is making it up as he gos along, his Mrsizz diagram thingies are laughable , inane . could anyone make a diagram .linking up nations within the last year, just like MrsCline ?.... try it .

[@jeffmead2935]

@@bobbykiefer4306 where?

[@js70371]

I cannot get enough of this channel!!! Thank you!!! ☮️🙏🇨🇦🍻

[@get.factual]

❤️🌚

[@ashrafali-sb5zr]

Amazing coverage on the Sea Peoples in 'Ancient Apocalypse'! It felt like an ancient history documentary unraveling one of history's greatest mysteries. Can't wait to see more deep dives like this!

[@get.factual]

we appreciate you so much 😍

[@emsnewssupkis6453]

Not a word about the massive gigantic eruption/tsumami/massive earthquakes when that little island literally blew up leaving a huge hole in the ocean. This destroyed the Minoan empire, for example, battles raged in the fall of that mighty power. Also, the climate changed to an extended cold cycle. Warm weather is great for civilizations, cold cycles are very dangerous times.

[@Bynk333]

In Santhoriny eruption times (1620BC?) there were no invasion Sea people posible, cause the fleets were destroyed and people dead...

[@jordanperez1568]

Yes! I also believe this! I think the Sea People's were a collection of Agean peoples moving lands because of the effects of Thera's eruption on their lands.

[@derekhenson3471]

You can’t forget that the loss of trade and secure trade routes would have definitely contributed as well.

[@seanzibonanzi64]

The bronze age collapse sounds like such a horrifying time to alive, imagine every city you've ever known put to the torch, it must've been pure chaos.

[@MiracleWinchester]

Sounds like our current society

[@RemoGuy0730]

@@MiracleWinchesterlmao, you sound scared homie. It’s getting bad, but it’s not nearly that bad yet. Not in first world countries at least.

[@bobbykiefer4306]

​@@RemoGuy0730The first world countries get hit the hardest.

[@RobMacKendrick]

@@bobbykiefer4306 This. Rich people are soft, and it takes very little to make them miserable.

[@justmenotyou3151]

​@RemoGuy0730 Not yet is the key point.

[@pacalvotan3380]

I get the distinct impression that we're going to see this happen again in our lifetime.

[@rrichards3399]

its under way now.... or so i surmise.

[@imdeaded]

It is. It's called illegal migration or asylum seekers. They are flooding into Europe and the USA. Practically an invasion of sorts.

[@dionysise5008]

One of my favorite series. Great timing also😊

[@get.factual]

Aww thank you!💫

[@paulparkinson7118]

Very interesting,enjoyed watching the video !

[@josephphoenix1376]

Excellent Episode 👍 Similar to alot of current episodes on this subject. A lot more mass graves and destruction layers need to be found. A lot more testing needs to be done¡

[@mariomarino3020]

The Bronze age began around 3.300 BC, which was the moment of the highest temperature and humidity in the period from the Ice Age Maximum (16.000 BC) to the end of BCE. But this was immediately followed by mini ice age which began around 1500 BC. The Bronze Age was doomed from the beginning, what created it caused its breakdown. A significant drop in temperature and humidity caused several mass migrations in Europe from north to south, from the Eurasian steppes and Baltic to the northern Mediterranean, and this caused new movements, from the northern Mediterranean to the eastern (Sea People).

[@natemyers4946]

The first tribes of white people

[@Bynk333]

@@natemyers4946 Chetitians, Mitani, Mycenians, Philistines.... and Russian invasion into India cca 1500 BC as Aryans. :D

[@patriciajackson4303]

They were Edomites conquerors took from people. Chinese and Japanese

[@Mossyz.]

Big Love

[@heridfel]

Great video. I am not quite convinced about the "disaffection and rioting" factor being all that significant, because getting an invasion fleet together and storming cities cannot be done by a furious mob of rioters - that absolutely requires organisation and coordination, in other words, leadership. There might be an element of projecting our current sociological fads backwards. I also don't quite get why the climate data concentrate on the eastern mediterranean, when it seems the sea people might have come from Greece and Southern Italy (the Szekeler mentioned by Ramses are sometimes associated with Sicily). Drought conditions would have to be experienced there, not in the area they targetted. Why attack an area ravaged by famine? But maybe the video took a shortcut there and drought was indeed present in the central mediterranean as well - a very likely scenario indeed.

[@Dragonette666]

there is a region of Turkey called Adana and there is an Adana island nearby. They have found bronze age dry docks on the island and there were 270 slipways which makes it larger than the naval yard at Carthage. I would put money on the Sea People having this as a base and their raids probably starting from there.

[@louie97ation]

I imagine if you’re experiencing drought the impulse would be to head towards the richest area you’re aware of.

[@Dragonette666]

@@louie97ation Egypt was always seen as a land that had plenty since they rely on Nile floods instead of rain

[@hUCK-]

@@Dragonette666 Cyprus was invaded by the "Sea Peoples", and that's the only island anywhere near Adana Turkey. I am interested in what you described though, could you link a source? Edit: Found it, it's actually called Dana Island. Definitely will be reading more interesting stuff

[@CarlosTapia-bw2uu]

Sea people come from America.

[@albertenriquecrowleybeastc217]

In my own opinion it was a combination of several different catastrophic events, the eruption of Etna, the droughts, the sea people's, who themselves were probably driven by Etna's 🌋,and the sea people's had iron weapons while everyone else were fighting with bronze. So it was one sided in most battles.

[@askallois]

Iron appeared 200 years later

[@mmtmc2320]

If that were the case iron artifacts would have been found amongst the ruins.

[@rdnkenki]

Archaix channel has some great Chronological history on this very subject

[@Imtheverdant1]

Trust me, a total stranger to probable everybody reading this, This is, by far the most informative and the most entertaining video on "The Sea People."

[@temijinkahn511]

Very interesting presentation. I only had a problem with Dr. Mac Sweeney's section. She basically described the ancient proletariat rising up against their bourgeoisie rulers. I think her Karl Marx and French Revolution perspective is a bit out of place here.😊 The Sea Peoples would need the numbers, organization, logistics, and tactical expertise to defeat several advanced civilizations until they crashed into the Egyptians and were repelled. A horde of starving rable would not have these qualities. My question would be about why the major Phonician city states that were in their path were seamingly spared?

[@Bynk333]

You know that Hatusha, main city of Chetitian empire were not defendable and the people burn it self and flee before Sea people arived? :D

[@89128]

In Cornwall England the study of tree rings has revealed that around 1179 BC, Cornwall was subjected to 20 years of extraordinary rainfall. Perhaps ruined crops and famine drove those people to France and started the migrations which culminated in the Eastern Mediterranean?

[@nicktecky55]

What that supports is an increase in mining activity, particularly tin. The genomics of the people of Cornwall are exceptional in England, they have strong ties with the Bretons. Copper mined in the Cork area of Ireland is being traded through Cornwall, maybe bronze is also being made? Gold is mined in Cornwall and is being traded into workshops all along the South Coast. Artefacts from those workshops are then traded up the Rhine and onwards. The link with Brittany means for at least some of the population on each side of the Channel the people are family.

[@bobpatty2937]

If you ever make another production like this one; please turn the music volume down to the point that people can understand the words that are being used.

[@chrispaquette1204]

They were a product of the Bronze Age not the cause. The transition from bronze to iron leveled every economy based in the tin and copper mining industry of the time. Iron was pretty much everywhere and there was no need to hoard remote mines and keep control on a limited resource. Sort of like oil…….

[@chriscollins3489]

Nailed it. The major civilizations lost their monopoly over bronze with iron. When people discovered that you make better weapons out of iron then it was all over. The oppressed become the oppressors and it’s game over. Not only the Middle East but in India and China as well.

[@mohammedsaysrashid3587]

It was an informative and important historical coverage documentary about the bronze age collapsed and labeled to main reasons include sea 🌊 people raiders ...allot thanks for Get.factual documentary channel for sharing remarkable documentary

[@gregorynixonAUTHOR]

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[@manongtrending]

I hope they make a tv series about the sea people. They can do anything with it in terms of story telling since there are little known history about the subject.

[@debasishchakraborty9834]

The Indus valley civilization of northwest India, was home to a civilization also known as the Harappan Civilization. It was characterized by large, well-planned cities with advanced municipal sanitation systems and a script that has never been deciphered. But the Harappans seemed to slowly lose their urban cohesion, and their cities were gradually abandoned. The cause mostly accepted is 200 years drought around 4000 years ago.

[@matthewdolan5831]

Imagine an Old Testament based upon Harappan culture.. no smiting at all! BAC is the most relevant event to our current terminal dilemma.

[@gregorynixonAUTHOR]

Nonsense.

[@LordDirus007]

No offense but you Indians like to play up a bigger role of yourself in World History.

[@brawndothethirstmutilator9848]

@gregorynixon2945, What a tremendously insightful comment.

[@gregorynixonAUTHOR]

@@brawndothethirstmutilator9848 It's all the statement deserves.

[@sydneecook400]

I'm surprised the Trojian War wasn't brought up at all. Greece was in shambles after it and the famines were probably the final straw for the already suffering Greeks

[@yadusolparterre]

I don't think there was any Greece yet. Troy was a city-state with relations with the Myceneans

[@swingshift.]

I like how the experts each pronounce the city different

[@zedmoe]

Great presentation! Some great perspectives I hadn't heard, before.

[@get.factual]

Thank you for this comment🌻

[@darrencorrigan8505]

Thanks, Get. factual.

[@etiennenobel5028]

great stuff

[@jonnywalker-74]

Awesome video and great narrator 👍👍

[@liamlewis9866]

that was great !

[@joelkurowski7129]

Sea PeopleS. There were many nations, as described by the Egyptians. Not one people, but a phenomenon of the age.

[@CorePathway]

Clearly climate refugees.

[@gregorynixonAUTHOR]

Of course. kzbin.info/www/bejne/eGqZZpludsiBmNk

[@jeffglenn7609]

Yep.

[@sanialmuna]

Loving this so much 💕💕❤

[@lindsayalisonstevens3592]

Another excellent documentary from Get Factual 😎👏🏽 Had no idea a portion of the Philistines attacked these different civilisations, but it makes sense. I kept waiting for the narrator to say ‘the sea people’ were the Vikings though 😂😂😂

[@ashlaunicaalpari4584]

Really interesting events… never knew about this till now. 👍

[@d0ngw4ng]

Amazing. 10/10

[@lindabb621]

Volcano eruption from Mount Vesuvius maybe? Carbon dating around the world could help I understand. ground, undersea, ice, can't wait to hear how it goes! Nice show!

[@dboggs175]

The one event that this video does not address is the incredible eruption of the volcano on Thera, now Santorini. This would explain the cause of all that they mention., Earthquakes, cooling seas and famine caused by the tremendous ash blocking out the sun for several years. Drought and crop failures. I think the eruption is the key to all of this.

[@justmenotyou3151]

Santerini was 1600 BC. The bronze age colapse was around 1180 BC.

[@jadis40]

Makes sense. 1816 is known as "The Year without a Summer" because of the eruption of Tambora in 1815. The year 1816 AD is known as the Year Without a Summer because of severe climate abnormalities that caused average global temperatures to decrease by 0.4-0.7 °C (0.7-1 °F).[1] Summer temperatures in Europe were the coldest of any on record between 1766 and 2000,[2] resulting in crop failures and major food shortages across the Northern Hemisphere.[3]

[@dboggs175]

@@jadis40 yes and the great plague of Justinian in 538 AD was caused by the eruption of Krakatoa. It has erupted dozens of times, all catastrophic. The last was in 1883 I believe. Anak Krakatoa the current formation is bigger than it was then.

[@ezzovonachalm9815]

@dboggs175 You are perfectly right in considering the explosion of thera volcano as the primum agens.Excavation in Mesopotamian Tells confirm the presence of volcanic ashes covering intact palais ( Tel Leylan, Tel Haman..) and the presence of plastic material due to very high temperatures reached during the explosions ,creating a series of Pompeiis all around. The problem is that one of the last erruptions of the Thera volcano has been dated to ~ 1650 BCE !!! The list of the Thera volcano should soon be revised an controlled ! ( Or is it a military secret of the NATO ?)

[@jordanperez1568]

FINALLY! Someone who believes what I have been saying! Even the movement of the Sea People could be attributed to widespread famine. Where did the famine come from? The Thera eruption. I mean Thera is smack dab in the middle of the Agean sea and the middle of all of these kingdoms and trade routes!

[@emsnewssupkis6453]

The fall of all the empires also coincided with the beginning of the Iron Age. Iron needs hot fires to forge and in a cold climate during the post-Minoan warm cycle was quite cold and making big fires to make steel weapons was natural and comfortable.

Archaeology is such an act of love towards the human race. Like a love letter to the entire population of this sacred planet. And one of the great things about it is that it is all so factual. 💙

[@HamCubes]

The best info I have seen on the Sea Peoples remains Nancy Sandars' The Sea Peoples: warriors of the ancient Mediterranean 1250-1150 B. C. (1978)

[@stevechase7568]

Who else here studying the history of the Bronze Age collapse recognized the similarity to the events unfolding now as climate changes reduce crop production leading to millions attempting to escape to places of greater wealth?

[@yadusolparterre]

Only you

[@stevechase7568]

Opportunity. Not Wealth lol

[@matthewmckever2312]

😮😢its like the Dwarfish letter under the mountain in Tolkien " They are coming. They are here" Except this is real, everyone really died, nobody was alive to return for the buried treasures. 😢😮

[@mencken8]

“-They are mysteries. And I am both terrified and reassured that there are things in the universe beyond our explaining.” - G’Kar, on the phenomena associated with Sigma 957

[@missyyy-]

Love the narration in this doc but need to work on the volume of it vs the guest speakers, as they come through much louder than the voiceover. Makes it hard to listen to on headphones.

[@BrianChamberlin-e1n]

Experts have been attempting to decode the Glaswegian language for over 30 years. There hoping one day to crack the code. They deep fry mars bars in batter and are absolutely fearless of diabetes, true warriors.

[@John.Flower.Productions]

37:12 People cannot just decide to build ships and become seafarers.

[@SacredDreamer]

Probably fishermen first.

[@John.Flower.Productions]

@@SacredDreamer The Sea People began arriving, en masse, aboard ships and this person's postulation is that _"a couple of years of bad harvest"_ and/or _taxation_ somehow _pushed them into statelessness._ That is, quite literally, more of an absurd claim than anyone on _Ancient Aliens_ would make.

[@ethanniedorowski116]

Had to start somewhere so I disagree based on principle alone but I understand what you mean

[@Bynk333]

They muss seafaring 100-200 years before they exoded i thing. So people around Black and Egyptian sea as Italian coast as well.

[@floathouse2]

I have come to the startling conclusion that about 3,462 years ago, a global catastrophe occurred that included a partial tilt of the Earth’s axis. The event, while devastating, was not nearly as cataclysmic as the earlier event 7,000 years ago. The Tilt Event caused a change in the Earth’s perpendicular axis of spin to an axial tilt of 23.5 degrees. The most well-known description of the Event comes from Biblical records, particularly Joshua, which describe in some detail the fall of the Walls of Jericho, (a sizeable earthquake) enemy troop being killed by a ‘rain’ of large stones, (showing the event to be associated with some celestial event), and the Sun “standing still in its path” (a tilting of the Earth Axis of rotation). In addition, I have used many other historical references including Egyptian Hieroglyph translation to support the dating and narrative of events defined in this paper. The other major effect of the event is the ‘regression dated” breach of the Strait of Gibraltar. This is the most compelling evidence for the scope of the event. I also think the dating of the eruption of Santorini, or Thera (estimated to have occurred 3,600 years ago) is too close to the date of -3,462 to be more than coincidence. I predict that further testing will establish a date for the Thera eruption to be nearly identical to the regression date of the breach of Gibraltar Strait. The Axis Tilt, a catastrophe of serious magnitude, is not nearly as lethal or devastating as the 7,000 YBP Mega Cataclysm. That earlier event was a serious near extinction level event, and will be covered in detail in another chapter of this book called The Last Great Cataclysm, 7,000 Years Ago. The Axis Tilt is a catastrophe, (not a cataclysm) that occurred while there were growing remnant-survivor-derivative populations from the 7,000 YBP Mega Cataclysm event. The 7K super cataclysm stopped progress for nearly a thousand years, which seems to be the length of time necessary before a surviving culture can start rebuilding their civilization in any meaningful way. Some of those survivor groups had already started to rebuild their cultures from the 7K event, and had established several advanced technologies including early forms of writing, leaving us fairly reliable reports of the Axis Tilt event. Making the case that Gibraltar Strait was breeches as a result of the catastrophe that included the eruption of Santorini, means that it would likely be a couple hundred years before the strait was navigable. Or around 3,250 YBP. Almost exactly when the Sea People showed up and devastated the Mediterranean. They were likely Aryan, probably Celtic and from what is now the Western British Isles.

[@chuckleezodiac24]

so that's what happened to Atlantis!

[@svennielsen633]

It is a misunderstanding, that 1180 or something is the "end of the Bronze Age". That is true only for a small area in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. The Bronze Age continued in Northern Europa without any setback of any kind.

[@donnievance1942]

I thought that calling it the "end of the Bronze Age" was stupid, as well. Obviously, the alloying of tin and copper to make bronze did not disappear. The end of the bronze age was simply the technological advance of learning to smelt iron. The proper term is the "Bronze Age collapse," meaning a civilizational collapse that occurred during the Bronze Age, not a collapse that ended the Bronze Age.

[@smashakarah5102]

My favourite narrator: Alisdair Simpson. Wonderful series on ancient apocalypse.

[@Constantin_C]

Great topic. Philistines were considered sea people, but there were also Phoenicians with so many smaller nations or tribes united under this federation (including the miceans). Were the Philistines part of them, or rivals?

[@bobbykiefer4306]

Very probable.

[@Sikader]

Palaestinus (Ancient Greek: Παλαιστῖνος) was in Greek mythology a son of Poseidon and father of Haliacmon. From grief at the death of his son, Palaestinus threw himself into the river, which was called after him Palaestinus, and subsequently Strymon.[1]

[@LordDirus007]

You know what's interesting is Carthage was founded by the Philistines

[@charlesfenwick6554]

@ahmedrivera-pr9qg keep it in the Aegean area

[@Bynk333]

@@LordDirus007 Phoenicians not Philistines! :D

[@bdoubleu6]

Robert sepher covers this in great detail he is a anthropologist and explains this in great length

[@keirfarnum6811]

In great detail or in great length; which is it? 😁

[@bdoubleu6]

@@keirfarnum6811 both smart ass

[@cecileroy557]

@@keirfarnum6811 You can have great detail in something of "great length". One is not mutually exclusive of the other...

[@charlesfenwick6554]

Sephor the charleton.

[@bdoubleu6]

@@charlesfenwick6554 ok now I know your brainwashed

[@marleenneil7542]

Amazing film I somehow happened upon it🙏

[@janettomlin950]

Please tell me ANYTHING about the Library??? So amazing

[@GalactusOG]

fascinating.

[@kilpatrickkirksimmons5016]

To be fair, the Egyptians survived, just in nothing like the form they once were. Everyone else got snuffed out. Great doc though. I think it's pretty clear it was a perfect storm, even if there's a modern tendency to overemphasize climate and underrate invasion. For things to go dark like that, you're looking at foreign mercenaries and disgruntled locals annihilating the upper classes (and plenty of others) everywhere. You don't see new occupants in the palaces, you see them destroyed. You don't see new writing or old writing in new languages, you see none at all. That's a *serious* socio-political change, and a lot of killing, even if it was partially helped along by environmental factors. Egypt (probably) simply had the most cohesive society, and the most time to prepare.

[@sablevo]

Also possibly the least affected farmlands. Being closest to the Equator and with the Nile remaining a viable water source.

[@vinnie9458]

Their language :now known as Coptic; is still spoken by some to this day

[@josephscarpaci3688]

Any relationship with the Mount Thera eruptions 1650bce - 1450bce & the 100foot tidal wave sweeping over the north shore of Crete?

[@Bynk333]

sure. Thera destroyed Minoan naval civilization, so the Sea people 200 years later have finaly chance rulle the ocean. D:

[@co.bae.]

Finally a comment about the minoans whom I have always believed were the sea people I have not finished this video yet tho but I love Crete I'm Italian and like to think of them as fallen ancestors the inspiration to the Greek and Roman before they were a civilization or empire

[@Hallands.]

The Sea People were sort of the Bronze Age Proto-Vikings.

[@fahlici1801]

To me this Story is better then Genesis, Tribulation,.. the best!!!

[@tonnywildweasel8138]

Great docu, very intresting 👍 Greets from the Netherlands, T.

[@ottobihrer732]

Great documentation answering not a single question about the collapse of the Bronze Age around 1200 BC. Drought, Marauders, Earthquakes, Angry People, or was it a disease, like the Black Death in 1348 AD, which killed half of Europe's population? Maybe the people cut all the forests down, producing arid deserts and climate change on a grand scale around the big cities. Earlier, Mesopotamia had a problem with oversalting fields by irrigation for centuries until the salt killed crops. Did they hunt prey animals to distinction? Big cities at that time were hard to maintain, with lots of mouths to feed and feces to move away. Not all had sewer systems and even as late as the 1870s AD, big cities had frequent problems with diseases spreading and killing big parts of the population. Was there even such a thing as sea people or just greedy neighbors? We know nothing.

[@Missmori]

Ive always felt that the bronze age colapse was the first doccumented case of "eat the rich" And the sea people were all the people disenfranchised by the famines earthquakes etc watching the wealthy rebuild and leaving the poor to starve.

[@friendofvinnie]

Sounds like time travelers with a little force of men could do so much damage 😮

[@cvoudaskc1852]

The sea people were a group of dispersed Greeks around the Mediterranean

[@tumblebugspace]

Their world came to an end quite literally. ⚡️

[@johntakolander8613]

I went into a museum in the island of theCanary Islands and was surprised by the pictures of "feathered head" pictures. They looked like the "Sea Peoples".

[@roiq5263]

That's interesting. They also apparently had connections with Egypt, so maybe they frequently sailed to Eastern Mediterranean.

[@leesenger3094]

History Time go's much more in depth on this subject

[@brianswelding]

Definitely

[@ΉρινναΜαρίαΠετράκη]

Think how the sea people appeared after the destruction of Troy.

[@roiq5263]

38:10 what do Vikings have to do with the Bronze Age?

[@soderlund3610]

Nothing much, but the scandinavians lived the same way thousands of years before the "vikings"

[@roiq5263]

@@soderlund3610 then are they implying that the Vikings might have been among the Sea Peoples?

[@GH-oi2jf]

The Vikings did use bronze.

[@brettmercer8727]

I think the Sea peoples will of been the Cargo ships/Merchant Navy's that due to loss of trade, no longer had work or Orders and so became Pirates. They would of known the trade routes and where the money/food was. Similar to the more recent British Pirates we know ,maybe.

[@shelleymcafee8197]

Although the Sea Peoples seem to be a mixed lot, I have a sneaking suspicion that they were - in part at least - coming from Europe. There are too-many similarities between the depictions and descriptions of them, and the Vikings, for example. (Religious beliefs, dress/helmets, ship design, dragon theme,…) The fact that the recent discovery of European DNA in the oldest Philistine Kings, supports this thinking - in My opinion. (As I remember it, that study showed that the European DNA had originated in Italy… after which the peoples had interbred with Others in the Greek Isles; may want to check that.) I suspect that there was probably a large (and diverse) number of Peoples who had knowledge of ship-building, sailing, navigation and warfare that were operating at-large in European (and then Mediterranean) waters - who’d discovered the ready-wealth available to a waterborne strike-force; fast-moving marauders that were threats to all settled Civilizations, who eventually found their way to the ‘jackpot’ of the Medeteranian and surrounding Nations. This is such a fascinating subject, and DNA is bringing a lot of new-data to the subject. It’ll be interesting to see what further ‘puzzle-pieces’ other emerging technologies (like Archeo-Magnetism) will add to the Big-Picture! Thank-You for this!!

[@goombah226]

Them sea people were badass!

[@janekahn8562]

Sounds so logical,makes sense.......moving from place to place up the coast looking for food, a homeland...yes i agree perfect storm

[@fritzs1207]

3:57 "Syria was governed by France" 😄 it like saying Poland in 1942 was governed by Germany🤣

[@tribequest9]

It drives me crazy that in all docs, tv and movies all ancient peoples wore dull looking brown rags and robes when we know from both art and excavations that they wore fitted and colorful clothing unless it was stark white like the Roman togas. Can we get back real representation please?

[@TheAnarchitek]

They were survivors of the "Triple Whammy" that brought about the Fall of Empires, in the 12th Century BC.

[@DavidFMayerPhD]

You have omitted ENTIRELY a factor inherent in the title: the REPLACEMENT of BRONZE by IRON. The Sea Peoples came with IRON WEAPONS that chopped bronze weapons to pieces.

[@Petroglyph1]

That would be a game changer.

[@askallois]

No, iron came two centuries after the fact. And the difference is not much between iron and bronze, some Roman Centurions preferred bronze to iron. Iron appeared in the Middle East and took centuries to spread to the rest of the world.

[@DavidFMayerPhD]

@@askallois IS CORRECT. I was confusing STEEL with wrought iron. Evidently, lack of availability of tin for bronze made iron the lower-cost solution.

[@askallois]

@DavidFMayerPhD Yes, the iron was very plentiful and did not need tin, plus you only had to red-hot it to work it, then cool it in water and it became hard.

[@Oldkekistani]

That's the mystery isn't it? We don't know. What I don't like I don't like the term "bronze age collapse" or "Dark ages".

[@mmtmc2320]

The lesson is share and take care of each other, no matter how different you see them or you will be destroyed. Something humans seem to refuse to acknowledge even in modern times.

[@rdnkenki]

Dan, Danan, Tribe of Dan. The tribe that rejected the handout and took to the sea ⛵🌊

[@JM-nm3bg]

Oh, right, the Danes were there too. Damn pirates! Where did they used to live before?

[@burns2899]

I'd agree with this comment also

[@bobbykiefer4306]

Illyrians horseman of the same stock as Aryans.

[@ronalddunne3413]

@@elizabethtd1006 At least some of the "Danaoi" known as Danaans made it thru Egypt, across N Afrika to Spain, and across to Eire, according to Irish myth and legend. Like the later Irish, they got around, it seems.

[@ronalddunne3413]

@@JM-nm3bg Nobody said the Danes were Danaans.

[@immortal2534]

Well since they said about sea people and numerous ships etc. The first thought was for people who knew and had the shipping technology advanced and obviously living near the sea, who else is better than the Greeks? Especially in ancient times! Greece has a naval history and one of the greatest for thousands and thousands of years! I think it's more than obvious that Greeks had a huge portion of these people

[@SacredDreamer]

Yes. I agree

[@mauroalagna8510]

ok ma anche le loro città furono saccheggiate @@SacredDreamer

[@Lalakis]

You do realise that greek cities were destroyed as well leading to the dark era of greek civilisation? You do not make any sense

[@SacredDreamer]

@@Lalakis if you care to look, you will find Greek Architecture in every country in the world - especially America , and even Beijing China. The Architecture looks similar to "The White House" . It's obvious that what we call "The Greeks" were once a World Wide Authority.

[@brunopadovani7347]

​​@@SacredDreamerWhat does that have to do with the Greeks being, or not being, the Sea People?

[@Triggernlfrl]

A world of experiments to experience by love in all facets.

[@williambenner701]

Irish myths also have their own virgin of the "Sea people" as well. This was in the bronze age as well.

[@oleviolin]

Iron age starts around that time. Could the fact of abundance of new types of weapons, be an explanation too?

[@Mike-ye8qv]

Sea people= sea men Let that sink in

[@gregmiller9238]

I think we are overlooking the volcanic eruption of Santorini and the impact it had on climate and the destructive impact on the civilizations all around that area. A devastating catastrophe such as that would have long lasting effects on climate and peoples for many many years

[@grnt25]

Unless the Sea People invented IRON, they did not cause the end of the Bronze age...

[@cadderley100]

So, what we have then, is an entire sequence of event's, by the look of it, where the Israelites of the exodus kick the Philistines off their land after the Philistines were defeated in battle. The Philistines then had no where to go, so they took to the sea, forming the "Sea People", and, eventually, they do so much raiding that they bring about the collapse of the Bronze Age. If that's right, it kind of makes sense, because they don't have land to farm anymore, so they are going to have to survive some other way, probably through fishing and raiding the coastal cities, otherwise their own culture would have collapsed and vanished. I wonder if the Israelites realised that their actions against the Philistines potentially bought about the end of the Bronze Age? This turn of event's also means that we can date the Exodus to the reign of Ay, during the 18th Dynasty, after King Tut's death. Horumheb tries to erase Ay's memory in Egypt following his death, and I think that is because Ay spectacularly failed to recapture the Israelites. Seti I would have been ruler by the time that the Israelites ended their 40 years wandering in the desert. Seti II would have been ruler by the time that the Bronze Age finally collapsed. There's your time line of event's.

[@rupertmiller9690]

The Sea People are who I think about when I am not engaged in thinking about the Romans.

[@WeTheLittlePeople]

40:00 I have a boat and forgot I hunt for fish, but I cannot eat because of the droughts? Really?

[@garrettholtz8379]

Giorgio Tsoukalos has entered the chat.

[@gonzalonavarro7920]

are you going to post the final chapter: the maya civilization??

[@aleksandarnikolic2743]

Peleset could be Pelasgians. People from Balkan peninsula.

[@JM-nm3bg]

Yup

[@Lalakis]

Ofc not. Just because a word sounds like another ( peleshtim in Hebrew) does not mean anything. Not to mention that pelasgians ( sons of Pelasgus) were residing in Thessaly Greece being one of the components of the Greeks of that era

[@dkoz8321]

So the city of Ugurit , a Cannanite city, was destroyed at about same time as Jericho was razed by Hebrews and Troy was likewise razed and burned by Mycenean Greeks.

[@bitter_truth8646]

I don't know who the sea people were, but certainly the Greeks were one of them because of the geography of the Aegean and the Ionian Sea. I very much doubt if there were peoples from the Middle East living in the deserts had acquired such a technology and know-how in the sea and ships.

[@RosaGlez-ls1oz]

15:12 Reminds Pompeya. My theory is natural catastrophe.

[@rayjasmantas9609]

Or could it be said, with the sea people interrupting the trade between Nations for vital supplies, would be the soul cause of the drought like state. A curse of the ancient times imposed on civilization (??), since this was how to interrupting shared improving factors.

[@rayjasmantas9609]

The torpedo logic.

[@rayjasmantas9609]

And the after mat of a even, as for a earthquake causing to quickly getting everyone to rebuild their homes was a concern, since it appears their ruins were intentionally made, leaving the question of when is is going to become safe to say the word, lets rebuild.

[@rayjasmantas9609]

Or the migration effort found.

[@rayjasmantas9609]

So the logic of the Palatines becoming the local threat to the surrounding area, might not be to realistic if the sea people were mining the Great Lakes region of its copper 1000s of years before America was documentarily said found - Youttube Historical Documentary leads to this research.

[@rayjasmantas9609]

Or is it the search for evidence of the City of Atlantis logic in history's timely research for its accountability.

[@claudiogiaquinto7361]

In my opinion the abandoned city of ugrit was not due to the invasion of the sea people ,if that would be the case , all the treasures discovered by the archeologist wood no to be found ,simply because the Sea people would have taken

[@tjohanne]

I identify as a Sea Person.