Ancient Civilizations Arabian Peninsula to the Syrian Desert

From the Arabian Peninsula, we look at an ancient caravan route through the desert to Syria. ; Along the way, several lush oases in the otherwise barren Syrian desert come to our rescue in the form of Marib and Petra, cite of the great tomb of Aaron that is carved out of a rock face, along with the beautiful city of Palmyra in Syria.
Early development
The period from the middle of the 2nd millennium BCE to the beginning of the Common Era saw societies in Western Asia, the Mediterranean, China and the Indian subcontinent develop major transportation networks for trade.
One of the vital instruments which facilitated long distance trade was portage and the domestication of beasts of burden. Organized caravans, visible by the 2nd millennium BCE, could carry goods across a large distance as fodder was mostly available along the way. The domestication of camels allowed Arabian nomads to control the long distance trade in spices and silk from the Far East to the Arabian Peninsula. Caravans were useful in long-distance trade largely for carrying luxury goods, the transportation of cheaper goods across large distances was not profitable for caravan operators. With productive developments in iron and bronze technologies, newer trade routes-dispensing innovations of civilizations-began to rise.
Maritime trade
Evidence of maritime trade between civilizations dates back at least two millennia. Navigation was known in Sumer between the 4th and the 3rd millennium BCE, and was probably known by the Indians and the Chinese people before the Sumerians. The Egyptians had trade routes through the Red Sea, importing spices from the "Land of Punt" (East Africa) and from Arabia.
Evolution of Indian trade networks. The main map shows the routes since Mughal times, Inset A shows the major prehistorical cultural currents, B: pre-Mauryan routes, C: Mauryan routes, D: routes c. 1st century CE, and E: the "Z" shaped region of developed roads.
Maritime trade began with safer coastal trade and evolved with the manipulation of the monsoon winds, soon resulting in trade crossing boundaries such as the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal. South Asia had multiple maritime trade routes which connected it to Southeast Asia, thereby making the control of one route resulting in maritime monopoly difficult. Indian connections to various Southeast Asian states buffered it from blockages on other routes. By making use of the maritime trade routes, bulk commodity trade became possible for the Romans in the 2nd century BCE. A Roman trading vessel could span the Mediterranean in a month at one-sixtieth the cost of over-land routes.
Visible trade routes
The peninsula of Anatolia lay on the commercial land routes to Europe from Asia as well as the sea route from the Mediterranean to the Black Sea. Records from the 19th century BCE attest to the existence of an Assyrian merchant colony at Kanesh in Cappadocia (now in modern Turkey). Trading networks of the Old World included the Grand Trunk Road of India and the Incense Road of Arabia. A transportation network consisting of hard-surfaced highways, using concrete made from volcanic ash and lime, was built by the Romans as early as 312 BCE, during the times of the Censor Appius Claudius Caecus. Parts of the Mediterranean world, Roman Britain, Tigris-Euphrates river system and North Africa fell under the reach of this network at some point of their history.

[@NeatxBullet]

The Arabian peninsula is rich with historical places and cultures

[@retro_mac138]

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[@a_b_nalkeswah7438]

Syria

[@es3259]

islam ruined this

[@creamsicle1678]

@@es3259 islam brought prosperity science and technology

[@es3259]

@@creamsicle1678 negative. They copied from the Greeks and the Romans. Islam brought destruction and oppression and instability. Proof is to look the past and present

[@terriejohnston8801]

Really enjoyed this presentation. Petra, NOTHING like it. Just plain LOVE the vibe of the Arabian desert. Those silk @ incense roads!. Overwhelming, but cool to imagine being there. Or the travelers 1,000's of yrs.ago.

[@ONEDVSDVIT]

Don't understand why more haven't watched this.

[@hamanalshami3971]

Your channel is amazing keep up the good work

[@theimmortalnajdiwarrior9061]

The Arabian Peninsula Cradle of All Civilizations And It's Mother Indeed. 💝💝💝💘💘💘😍😍😍🤩🤩🤩🌹🌷🌸🌼💮🏵️⚔️⚔️⚔️👑👑👑

[@theimmortalnajdiwarrior9061]

Wow It's Awesome Incredible Feeling Indeed, To Know About The Marvelous And Magnificent History of The Great Immortal Caravan Kingdoms And Empires of Southern Arabia That's Once Ruled Much of The Arabian Peninsula In The Ancient World.

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[@thelonewanderer7]

I love this documentary.

[@Kamella772]

What a beautiful monuments tombs until now we can see them from what kind materials building now nothing will stay after 50 years

[@Happy_HIbiscus]

dude, this is cool

[@Re55ur3cT]

I love how Europeans "discover" cities and sites that the locals have already know about for thousands of years!

[@jamespoynor9511]

Very cool.

[@fadiadam7887]

Syria 🇸🇾 👍

[@cookieyellow7601]

Ok but who got the answers?

[@iilovqs]

Nah fr

[@chanelku6777]

Nice

[@heehoharu]

I'm glad I'm not the only one watching this boring shit for Global #highschoolgang rise up

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LMFAOOO

[@lobixlia]

FR- 4 years ltr and it seems theyre STILL giving us this shit 💀🤚

[@iilovqs]

REAL

[@Lord_xyz]

Fr

[@safaaharrouni195]

My heart aches knowing the temple of Bel was destroyed in 2015 by ISIS .what else was destroyed by the endless wars thus region went through since beginning if times

[@badgoy534]

It was destroyed by an American air strike

[@bibhuprasadbehera1625]

Yes it is indeed

[@TheFrog767]

Great voice 👏🏻👏🏻👋👍

[@st9g-faiz517]

omg this was for ancient history :(

[@cityboyex0tic556]

LOL

[@docwhiskey996]

Soundtrack sounds like it was robbed from policenauts

[@generalturner9628]

Whats the original name of the documentary?

[@maxxlindley9425]

Great series

[@clementmckenzie7041]

If an Arab guide took Berkheart to Petra, then how was it lost for a thousand years ? I love how Europeans are always "discovering" places everybody knows about

[@supercarnitas]

Isis just destroyed palmyra, fucking sad

[@singrest2006]

Not true The west ruined our country for the past hundred years, isis did not do a fraction of the damage your countries did.

[@Tamir-Barkahan]

You have no country.

[@singrest2006]

+‫מפיץ זעם‬‎ yes your 100# right we do not have a country thats because Allah swt granted the whole planet for us, everywhere we go is our land.

[@Tamir-Barkahan]

By all means, keep believing that.

[@Tamir-Barkahan]

It gets even more irAnic when I look at your name.

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That comment was for you blue lotus.I pray 🙏 someday all will come to know your king and our savior The Lord Jesus Christ. With much love

[@gabrielleangelica1977]

Yay, Christianity is so Pagan! 🏛️

[@mohammedaljinabe1573]

King's and generals and flash point history

[@nicklipkowski7223]

Typo: the Swiss explorer Burckhardt "discovered" Petra in the late 18th, (not 19th) century (he died in 1817)

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[@iilovqs]

ME TOO OMFG

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China wants to build a railroad on the old Silk Road trade route.

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[@ahmedislam2580]

ancient arabs

[@martialkintu2035]

And Aramaeans.

[@ahmedislam2580]

@@martialkintu2035 basically syrians are not real arabs mostly assyrians

[@martialkintu2035]

@@ahmedislam2580 Doesn't matter what they were or are. Palmyra was located in Syria before Arabization. And if we are to speak correctly then they probably were at one point time Aramaeanized as Aramaeans was the Lingua Franca of that time,just like Arabic is today.

[@ahmedislam2580]

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[@martialkintu2035]

@@ahmedislam2580 Why does it matter?

[@thatguy4765]

I have to watch this for my social studies and it was so boring

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Dont be that guy

[@olbradley]

How is this boring?

[@lobixlia]

same here bestie YvY

[@lobixlia]

@@olbradleybc not all of us r dry ass history nerds like u

[@TheBRITSAS]

tablet/laptop was discovered in the ancient time....more advance than today...

[@Husky77]

Yemen good history

[@darlabrewer2334]

Some things are true whether you believe them or not.

[@ApoorwVikramDwivedi]

This is a great video but Western historians have and continue to remain biased towards cultures that later condoned to the Abrahamic religious views. They've done huge injustice to Indian Hindu and pre-Hindu pagan cultures in India which are relatively more ancient than others in the world and were consistently advanced civilizations compared to their contemporaries and even to the foreign civilizations which followed much later in time.

[@asmrnaturecat984]

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[@whateverr2296]

Since we were not there and the history of the world is not all documented, how could you say for certain that there was no other cultures that were more ancient? We are still learning about the past but is it really all reliable? I find it hard to believe every thing we are taught about history in my opinion, I could be wrong i know.

[@ApoorwVikramDwivedi]

@@whateverr2296 I'm not saying that Hindu culture is the most ancient. I'm just saying that Hindu culture and even other pagan cultures predate Abrahamic culture and there are historical as well as architectural proofs of that and that the Western historians have been unfair in giving due credit to them. That's because majority of the times the intention of Abrahamic cultures, in the past, were expansionist and a big part of that strategy was to discard or, at best, underplay other cultures and civilizations. One can see how widespread Hinduphobia has been in recent times.

[@ApoorwVikramDwivedi]

@@asmrnaturecat984 rise above your hate, brother. Om Shanti

[@whateverr2296]

@@ApoorwVikramDwivedi you make a good point! But how was I hateful? I’m just saying that history can’t be 100% truthful in my own opinion buddy.

[@Jjahiuan]

its Jordan not Syria Nabateans is the anscestors of the jordanians

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This is how the United States was formed.

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Who got the awnsers

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fr

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[@xorasanorg]

Oh how this heavily relies on "Roman European historians" instead of Muslim accounts.

[@brettlewis2335]

This was a silly in realistic documentary

[@hsntrkmnturkiye5326]

Petra... I think that Muslims are the first place of worship and the first pilgrimage place

[@المقاتلالشجاع-ك6ش]

No that's just a rumors .

[@LondonPower]

The Arabs of Petra were influenced from the Greek cilvilazation and later on Arabs Muslims took so many things from Greeks special after the annexation of alexandria Egypt and grecoroman syria

[@h.a.3049]

You absolutely know nothing about the Ancient Arabian civilizations. The Arabians were the first humans to build skyscrapers, located in Yemen, no one prior to them had anything like that before.

[@maracohen5930]

Arab Islamic invasions and conquests brought wealth and power to the Arab Muslims. Just as the trade Wars for Mecca and Medina brought wealth and power to Mohammed, the Great Pilgrimage, and the Incense Route tolls....

[@hotsauce153]

All civilizations influence each other, dumbass.

[@hotsauce153]

Plus, bring me another civilization that is as unique as the Nabataeans and their Metropolis, Petra.

[@maracohen5930]

Great Merchants. @@hotsauce153

[@yaruqadishi8326]

That statue is not shem the fictional hebraic character of post antiquity. And queen sheba was not worshipped as a "goddess"? She was a lesser being aka human mortal. Sheba queen did not live in the Yemen area that is too far south and was probably made that way in local tradition when hebraism aka Islam took over which is clear.

[@terriejohnston8801]

I thot the lovely Queen of Sheba was from Ethiopia...where many claim the Arc of the Covenant is hidden. Where she returns eventually aftr King Solomon dies.

[@yaruqadishi8326]

@Gas Enjoyer... Never said otherwise

[@yaruqadishi8326]

@Gas Enjoyer... Ok

[@yaruqadishi8326]

@Gas Enjoyer... Or Saudi area Sheba queen was.

[@Eren-zs7so]

Not Arabian actually Syrian Aramean

[@h.a.3049]

Arabians are descendants of Arameans, Ismael the father of Arabians was an Aramean.

[@hotsauce153]

You're fucking stupid. The Nabataeans are the original Arabs. Aramaeans are of Mesopotamian origin.

[@TeekoNST]

Syrian

[@ahmedislam2580]

@@hotsauce153 jews and arabs are cousins

[@hotsauce153]

@Yousef Ghaneemah are you Aramaic? Just curious.

[@nothinglastsforever0000]

Aladdin

[@alemshaygebremarim4642]

Falsch,

[@davmeck2518]

its all lies

[@alikanduse2266]

Nope

[@jaif7327]

how come?

[@tomriddle4121]

Ancient Israelites were not Arab or African.. they were Caucasian..

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[@User-qz2wz]

Arabs are Caucasian

[@schanninla1973]

In acient time there was no civilization.

[@ArabianStallion]

Yes there was my friend! People was manufacturing and creating things ~ agricultural tools, raising corps, building, political system, organized cities and occupations, market and currency! That a civil was civil way of living compared to animals thus, yes sir our human ancestors achieved a high degree of civilization may more than we are did in recent history (they started from nothing and creating most of thing we kno now all we did in the past 1000 yrar was building on their innovations

[@brucejohnwayne7783]

Arabian_Stalion I think that he means that those times where never as nice the portrayal of them in modern TV an Film.

[@hotsauce153]

@sheyma mysam Yes, but the Sabaeans, Minaeans, Qataban, and Himyarites weren't Arabs, They never referred to themselves as Arabs. They were who they were i.e. Sabaeans, Minaeans, Qataban, and Himyarites. The Nabataeans are the original Arabs.

[@martialkintu2035]

Then what the heck did you just watch?

[@yeshaya24]

Documentary full of malicious predicament , perilous desert, thieves, bandits, goat sacrifice etc... tells more about the psyche of the makers than the region ..... 😔