History of Ancient Sea Travel: Trade, Burials and Maritime Cultures

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

Why do you think these cultures put the time and effort into burying people of high honour in boats? Let us know what you think!

[@MyRealName148]

As you well know, it’s commonly agreed that boats were to transport the deceased to the new realm or world of the afterlife

[@RrRr2410]

The moors has discovered America before Christopher Columbus . Also African was presence in America before the arrival of Christopher Columbus (not as slaves ).

[@pinchevulpes]

@@RrRr2410 we was kangz

[@stevenbrown9275]

Your content is brilliant. Definitely one of the best KZbin channels and apparently under appreciated. I hope more people find you soon.

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

Thankyou Steven, for your continuous support and kind words. We are so glad that you are enjoying our content!

[@wantsumbread9586]

How can you not have the greatest ancient seafarers in human history. The polynesians in here while everyone was still figuring out if the world was flat, and wood can float. They already conquered the biggest ocean in the world

[@drphosferrous]

I think they were the best in known history but probably not the first

[@Juan-jm7sf]

​@@drphosferrous Polynesians built kofus boats

[@dasuklangrynghang1175]

Very informative content! Thanks for making a video about it.

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

Thanks for watching!

[@phabove7]

The lothal sea port excavated in Gujarat, India was part of Indus Valley civilisation and is one of the oldest known sea port.

[@ronrossi8475]

Traveling the world was the way to see, learn and create the world we now live in. The first travelers were open to seeing the world we live in.

[@Andy_Babb]

Great video! I love how we continue to learn more and more, pushing dates back further than we ever imagined. White Sands footprints could have INCREDIBLE implications for throwing off dates we thought for human migration out of Africa! This is fascinating and I wonder if in the near future we’ll find evidence of a culture using sea travel even earlier. I wish we could know all the answers as to how we started, interbred, migrates, used sea travel and trade and just all of it haha

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

Thank you so much! Who knows what future discoveries will reveal? Exciting to think about!

[@Andy_Babb]

@@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia it IS ask exciting! With modern science, and it’s perpetual improvement, we’re learning things about our past that we never thought we’d know, and rewriting history we thought was set in stone. I read recently that even with all the advances in genome sequencing that scientists have made, with all they understand, they still don’t have any clue what something like 96% of the rest of our DNA does, or if it even does anything. Imagine what we’ll learn as they continue to crack that! And advances in GPR and satellites to find ancient sites. Oh boy the possibilities are endless! Haha sorry I go on sometimes. Thanks for replying!!

[@StevenTorrey]

For those who don't know: @3:46--sailors went up the Levant Coast and descended the Mediterranean southerly from Greece/Crete to catch the appropriate winds for best sailing, in a counter clockwise pattern (Patrick McGovern--ANCIENT WINE, page 344.)

[@wagwanbennydj6003]

Fantastic video ❤

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

We are so glad you enjoyed it! Thankyou for watching!

[@Ikine557]

I'm going to use this video for school! Teacher school specifically lol, I'm going to use it in a unit planning project. It's exactly what I was looking for.

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

We're so happy to hear that. Good luck with your studies! 🙂

[@us3rG]

Teach history from different perspectives like this not just poletics and political figures, art, music, trade, cooking, textile, architecture....

[@Peppermint1]

I am curious what was the risk of death when sea travelling in the past centuries ? What percentage of people were dying at sea from accidents/weather ? Of course, it will depend on the sea, ship type and size, etc

[@drphosferrous]

In most cases of stone-age sea exploration, they would sail upwind and stay within easy reach of known routes so the trip back would be faster if they got into trouble. The earliest we know about were log boats around south east asia but many people were probably building skin-on-frame boats before that. Things like tents and s.o.f. boats tend to decompose fast so there's no good fossil record on that.

[@rehanahmad2004]

Please add subtitles.

[@kaushiksheshnagraj7176]

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[@krishanu-d1k]

Vai ota Knowledgeable hobe. Knowledgeful vul

[@vikaskumar-bf9zc]

Special birds were used to identify land in ancient period...

[@iqbalmaulana2018]

Why this good video don't have high views and subscribe???😭

[@evaliu7181]

Excellent conrent. Some viewers may benefit from subtitles. 👍👍👍👏👏👏💯💯💯

[@stevenwatsham5973]

The boat or ship was the most important means of transportation as the car and white van were many centuries away

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

True, and they still play an important role today. Thanks for watching, Steven!

[@regatta2k]

Wish she uses a Mic on her T-shirt to improve the quality of the audio. Thanks

[@sakondo789]

That explains Phoenicians

[@amamgain753]

India and China were dominant sea traders for thousands of years. They had superior navy and ports then world till 1700.

[@PaulStClair-or3gj]

Boats are very important forms of transport. Remember... LAND WAS CREATED TO SAIL FROM. ⛵⚓

[@martinan22]

The Vikings were just another expression of a Scandinavian sea faring tradition that was thousands of years old. If you go back to the Nordic Bronze age, the most common motif of Scandinavian petroglyphs was the ship. The stone ships you show date back to 1000 BC and earlier, so when the Vikings did something similar it was a practice that was 2000 years old.

[@WorldHistoryEncyclopedia]

Thanks for watching! 🙂

[@timbrickman8716]

Very nice maps, but at 724 should say Newfoundland not Nova Scotia.

[@drphosferrous]

7000 years? we have boats older than that, don't we?

[@chaitanyadandale4569]

There is no asian history for it?

[@dbz_feats7723]

This video is just Eurocentric

[@chaitanyadandale4569]

@@dbz_feats7723 surely. Check out odd compass he gives quite a few videos on maritime history of Asia

[@us3rG]

The problem with the west is they forget east. East learns about east and west

[@dontcrydoomer4787]

"perhaps they were lovers" ... yeah, I doubt it XD

[@aniime6463]

Chola dynasty maritime and architecture they ruled conquered entire south east asia and spread hinduism who build magnificent structures like angkor wat borubudur

[@krishanu-d1k]

Yes!! Jai Chola dynasty

[@krishanu-d1k]

India is first to travel on sea!!

[@odishabandhu]

Kalinga

[@astienperez2369]

History books say Africans origin started as slaves u saying nothing different smh, blacks been in america before Musa mansa the richest man ever from Mali Africa and moors taught most of Europe knowledge when black ppl met white ppl they were sleeping in barns with animals and thought cleaning was dirty, asians aboriginal Australians and Africans traveled by sea 1st, Africans sailed the whole globe and settled in warm weather followed by asians who took up most cold climates in north America. Christopher Columbus got here he said the natives were black and indegenous

[@IrishCinnsealach]

😂😂 oh you poor deluded fool. The Moors taught most of Europe. The Moors were majority Arabs and got no further than northern Spain. They taught us how to clean. Funny that considering the Romans built ancient baths 600 years before the Moors ever arrived. The Moors had all the Greek and Roman literature translated. They built their first mosque on top of a Christian cathedral. Africans sailed the globe. No africans migrated to Eurasia and that's it. Then you say Asians took up cold climates. The Asian far East is hot it's known as the land of the rising sun. The Moors were conquered by Romans before Islam existed and gave the the name Mauri. The Greeks built the great temples in honour of their gods thousands of years before the Moors. The Romans built the great aqueduct and the coliseum a thousand years before the Moors. The holy Roman empire ruled Europe at that time of the Moors. Get an education you simpleton

[@IrishCinnsealach]

And Columbus didn't say the natives were black or indigenous. He described their physical appearance and their Straight black hair he already knew what Africans looked like so why did he call them Indians? Because he thought he was in indiy

[@astienperez2369]

@@IrishCinnsealach Africans got all type of hair and skin color and Christopher Columbus said they were dark. tainos were dark natives to puerto Rico, tainos come from African and indegenous ppl of the amazon.

[@zairatulumierah9436]

This is the most stupid theory i ever heard,African american come here as slaves.Australian oborigines the first people out of africa not by sea.There is only land connected between Sahul Australia,Asia,africa in ancient time

[@dbz_feats7723]

Too Eurocentric

[@dirtbikerman1000]

Is Kuwait in Europe?????

[@akhost3929]

How?

[@PaulStClair-or3gj]

Boats are very important forms of transport. Remember.... LAND WAS CREATED TO SAIL FROM. ⛵⚓