How The Riches Of The East Spread Across The Ancient World | Alexander's Lost World | Odyssey

Alexander came not just for conquest but for riches, perhaps inspired by the epic quest of Jason and the Argonauts. Adams retraces the route of Alexander and the traders who sought the treasured resources of the East and carried them to every corner of the ancient world.
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[@chasr1843]

The choppiness stops after about 14 or 15 minutes. The content is fascinating. Great video.

[@tkguite]

The video is not smooth

[@dukenukem9770]

It doesn’t play properly on my phone either.

[@stofosaurus]

@@dukenukem9770or my computer

[@courtneyriley185]

Good thing i just need this episode to fall asleep too 😂

[@tkguite]

Though I am the only one, I almost threw my phone.

[@josephcorrell5676]

Quit after 5 1/2 minutes. Unwatchable for me personally

[@beverlyreiner-baillargeon6205]

Thank you for risking everything to bring this to us. Great video, beautiful country and history

[@no-secret-chart]

What an interesting documentary and what a strangely beautiful country. 😍 Thank you for making this one.

[@FutureMythology]

This video is a treasure trove of fascinating myths and legends. Kudos to the creators for their thorough research and engaging presentation!

[@Kiyoone]

Love this series. This narrator is also very good! Watched a similar documentary he did 20 ~25 years ago. He looked very young

[@John.Flower.Productions]

LLSXANDSR's LOST WORLD 1:05 In an attempt to _Greek_ it up, the geniuses in production changed *A* into *Λ* (lambda ~ L) and *E* into *Σ* (sigma ~ S).

[@mariajukejax9649]

As someone who is fluent in Greek, I am laughing my guts out at that. It's so ridiculous.

[@mainstreet3023]

They were trying to hold it togather

[@John.Flower.Productions]

@@mariajukejax9649 Είσαι Ελληνας?

[@ShimmeringIceCrystal626]

19:55 nice job

[@user-or8ls5yu9z]

Thank you for all your efforts and curss the war and the incompetent offficials and the merciless looters of this great homan civilization .

[@antoniomoreira5921]

I strongly recommend Schwerpunkt's "rise and fall of the Hellenic civilization" on the topic, as well as his Hellenistic warfare playlist

[@John.Flower.Productions]

Again, you (Schwerpunkt) do not have the voice for narration. People do not watch your terrible videos because they are full of inaccuracies, boring as watching paint dry and YOUR VOICE. Having dozens of accounts is against the terms of service and if I were a snitch, you would be rightly deplatformed.

[@iwopawowski9326]

Nice!

[@brettmuir5679]

Oh goody...another installment of this series. I haven't watched yet but by judging by the comments, this video has the same problems as the last one; So I assume the choppy nature of the video will end as I begin to watch. I can deal with that so as to get wonderful content as soon as it passes...(I grew up in the 70s with 4 and 2 minute commercial breaks) Now on with the show. Thank you Mr. Adams :)

[@CFS_HOF13]

What the heck is wrong with the video?

[@cordellseitz7741]

I think it’s the film machine needs cleaning to stop the skipping motion of the film

[@ItsDemiMondaine]

this video is nearly unwatchable

[@JLynnBkNy]

Answer to Content Title Knowledge is Power . It is Wealth greater than Gold. Alexander Conquered raided invaded "looted -pillaged robbed stole hid and acquired the contents of the library under Sphyinx of Giza hence the name the Library of Alexandria. Lk 8:17 Eph 5:11-12

[@1968Kenshin]

Damn... Great topic but the vid is unwatchable...

[@sabbyd1832]

How about some correct English in the title ? Edit-Great series even if punctuation is missing 😂

[@mainstreet3023]

Correct English is very expensive

[@b1crusade384]

No. He did it to spread charity and sell bagels.

[@johnlord8337]

There is a strong and hidden historical genealogical connection of Alexander the Great that remains to be admitted by western historians. Alexander's "Macedonian" Greek empire ... and the attempted conquest of India. With Persia sitting between the western Grecian Empire and the eastern Indian/Chinese Empires, it is known that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, ... and political/military marriages were constantly made with the outlying nations (Greece and India versus Persia, Greece and China versus Persia). It is then strongly suggested that in Alexander the Great's ancestry was some maternal Indian (and Chinese >) royal bloodline political marriage ... and with some Indian civil war, unrest, disruption, etc ... Alexander could have taken on Persia (conquesting the land and installing his Seleucid cousins as the rulers), then go on to attempt the expansion of his empire over India (which he was repulsed, and shot with a poisoned weapon) - by his claim of having Indian royal blood and right to the throne, based upon "might makes right of conquest." The same applies to the fall of the Roman Empire and Persia. It is now known that Rome was being economically devastated by falling gold reserves, as the Chinese/Asians on the other side of Persia made their political/economic/military alliance, at the expanse of draining the Roman Empire of its precious metals currency leading to hyperinflation, its economic disruption, and eventual demise. Some of the same Chinese tactics (that backfired) when the Chinese Mandarins told the British Empire that only gold or silver was the currency of exchange for Chinese products ... which led the British to make and sell black market opium (for Chinese silver and gold) into the Chinese economy, and pulling out such gold and silver completing the British-Chinese trades ... leading to the Opium wars etc, establishment of British Hong Kong etc. Some of these same tactics even used by the Chinese today, with shenanigan trade policies, payoffs, bribes, installing high-ranking government officials into such European and American corporations expense charts - show all the same draining of corporate profits back into the Chinese government and military structures. It is assuredly part of the conquest mechanism over the greater Indian Empire, then also including that same Afghanistan area of VAST (!) mineral wealth, that this also provided a conquest benefit for the Grecian Empire. Afghanistan has (like Ukraine) has been constantly warred over since Alexander the Great, up to modern times of the British Empire of India versus the Russian Empire, British Empire leaving in the 1950s, then Russia moving into the land in the 1970s, ousted by the Americans, then the Chinese moving into the land (and the Afghanis telling me personally - they wiped out those evil people, and gladly accepted the Americans versus the communist Russians and Chinese, then the Americans, and now back to Afghanistan to the Talibam et al Islamic controls.

[@brettmuir5679]

5 sentences in and I needed to scroll to the end to acknowledge my suspicion that this comment was going to be an essay. Everybody skips these longform comments. Bloviating is no the place in YT comments :)

[@johnlord8337]

@@brettmuir5679 Your loss; their loss. Sorry for your stoopidity ... and lack of educational awareness. True students of history, genealogy, etc understand higher, longer, and complex topics. Such people are Masters in knowledge, not kindergarten children. Sorry to hear that you haven't put off your diapers, and start wearing boy pants ... GROW UP ! ... listen ... and learn. The topic is NOT a comic book or kindergarten Reader's Digest version ....

[@roberthayes4912]

For the shits and giggles

[@mainstreet3023]

Girls are clicking on it to see - did Alexander have a girlfriend?

[@di3727]

Yes, if by gf you mean his "bro".

[@teamshaboobalu2887]

"Roxanne, don't you put on the red light!"

[@mainstreet3023]

@@di3727 Nice. You shall live 👍

[@mainstreet3023]

@@teamshaboobalu2887 girls are allowed to feed on the crumbs from the table of knowledge too, you know

[@teamshaboobalu2887]

@@mainstreet3023 - I gave you the answer lol. Alexander the Great married Roxanna of Bactria ;)

[@user-McGiver]

there was never a "'Greek Empire''... and the reason is that there wasn't a country, or kingdom of Greece... not before the 18th century... there were Greek city-states [kingdoms] fighting each other, and Alexanders' empire dissolved into several kingdoms that... fought each other... So please stop referring to a non-existent ''Greek Empire''... we were NEVER IMPERIAL!... we were never Romans or Brits! and ''trading posts'' are not colonies!...

[@shaolindreams]

It was an Hellenic empire with the Macedonians in charge, I don't think the Greeks of Macedonia really care which is used. Modern day Greece wasn't founded obviously but what culture did they all share and what culture was being spread in their empire? Alexander was our Emperor once man and so was Caesar. And what are you even talking about not Romans.. We're very tied with the Romans. Are you even Έλληνας?

[@GenuinelyCurious120]

AGAIN? I'm gonna ditch this channel if you don't improve the upload quality. This is unwatchable for the first 15-20 minutes, just like the last one