The Barbarian West

Civilization arose in Asia, but it was the West which would create the first world culture. This final episode traces the origins of western culture through Greece and Rome prevailing by borrowing from the legacies of the original five old world civilizations.

[@Neldidellavittoria]

I've seen many, many documentary series, but never one with a whole roundup episode like this. Nicely done. Thanks for uploading these vids, LanXang.

[@williamcampagna9851]

Thanks for posting. Michael Wood is always great.

[@elizabethpengson8244]

LOVE Michael Wood. his story of India & recently Story of |China.. both are must watch.

[@pyewackett5]

No man is an island. Michael Wood is one of the best historians

[@MeAbroad2004]

Thank you for the upload

[@Ben1159a]

A wonderful series. I've watched it 30 years after release and some of the historical data has changed, but still a most worthwhile production. Thank you.

[@FwendlyMushwoom]

Here's the thing: Throughout history, Egypt is one of the most consistently densely populated areas in the entire world. Even over thousands of years, a population shift so major that it changed the race of everyone who lives there, considering almost all "black African" traits are genetically dominant, DOES NOT HAPPEN without being recorded by SOMEONE. Since Egyptian civilization began, there has never been a point where they were not literate. Something like that would have been recorded.

[@alphawizard9719]

Thanks !

[@FwendlyMushwoom]

If you need citations, go to the Wikipedia article "Ancient Egyptian Race Controversy". Read the section "position of modern scholarship". Archaeologists, anthropologists, historians, and Egyptologists (with the exception of fringe Afrocentrists) overwhelmingly agree that all credible evidence points to modern Egyptians being the same people ethnically as ancient Egyptians.

[@PaulvonOberstein]

Next you will be saying Beethoven was German.

[@discount8508]

the oldest temples we know are in what is now turkey at Gobekli Tepe (12,000 yrs ) and Bonculu Tarla (13,000 yrs) .......how it was built without metal tools is incredible

[@maxyakov273]

I believe this is one of the 6-part TV Mini Series "Legacy: The Origins of Civilization" (1991). IMDb: www.imdb.com/title/tt0395062/?ref_=ttpl_pl_tt

[@fuferito]

That's correct. Part 1. Iraq: The Cradle of Civilization Part 2. India: Empire of the Spirit Part 3. China: The Mandate of Heaven Part 4. Egypt: The Habit of Civilization Part 5. Central America: The Burden of Time Part 6. Europe: The Barbarian West

[@boblee991]

The dialogue with other civilizations, other peoples, MWoods mentioned could have started here. It could still happen in 2023 with LanXang and others support.

[@rogerbajaj]

Awesome series, but, # 6 is not playing !

[@ds9forever805]

DVD please!

[@elirien4264]

Amazon has the series.

[@navpreetsingh954]

How Does the narrator defines humanism? any one knows it?

[@tomstieve]

Dude's got a mullet.

[@18daisydoll65]

Insightful🤔

[@Flags.crosses.trailerparks]

This doesn’t begin to cover it.

[@allanfairbairnquoi]

alt lang syn how fitting

[@giuseppelogiurato5718]

Lol, indeed appropriate... I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed "Auld Lang Syne" around 3:00 ... I wonder what Bobbie Burns would say? (He'd probably say something charming in French, right?)

[@allanfairbairnquoi]

don't forget your debt to the north,

[@alana295]

The presenter forgets to mention that the Barbarian West was pulled out of the Dark Ages with the cultural interaction caused by the Mongolian influence on Europe by transmitting technological advancement developed from the East!

[@TipsiFred]

Alan The Dark Ages coincided with the closing of the Mediterranean trade with the East.

[@joseornelas1718]

Eh. Europe needed to develop its internal communications, like the grand canal in China

[@lasonn4127]

Behaviorally, the "West" is 75% Germanic barbarian turned Christian, and only 5% Greek, 20% Roman, and many borrowings from European Islam. While Rome was 20% Greek and 80% Etruscan. Greece was 75% Phoenician (Asian), 15% Egyptian (African) and 10% Mycenean. Europe is geographically really far western Asia. And is part of the diversity of the Asian or Eurasian continent.

[@petehoward6143]

Intriguing

[@YouhavetoBelieve3347]

*Lol huh Europe borrowed nothing from “Islam” more like the other way around.* *Once nomad arabs got their hands on Greco Roman knowledge it sparked there Golden Age*

[@birdjaguar2]

L Sonn--please name your sources for your statistics. Your observations are interesting and I would like to know more.

[@aBRUSHforCONFUCIUS]

What a crock. Many of these things have been proven to be historically different. In Carnac, France standing stones use of mathematics from 6500 years ago, to the Ness of Brodgar and its two stone circles imbedded in a landscape to make extremely precise calculations and observations. The European Aryan people moved into India and laying down much of its spiritual and social culture. I can't stand these academics who feel the need to sh t on Western culture and its people. Especially when they give the Mongols, Arabs, Aztecs, Mayans, Bantu, Chinese, etc. all a pass for their terrible and violent ways. It is now estimated, the Mongol invasions led to the deaths of 1 of 6 people in the lands they conquered.

[@michaelboylan5308]

Superb lucidity as always with Michael Wood but one quibble, He says Bedes History was ,,,,the first great history of the West, Surely that title belongs to Augustines The City of God, Both are ecclesiastical of course, MW is no Anglocentrist of course,,,he is the least centrist of historians

[@fuferito]

I see your point, but Augustine (the way I understand him) sees Christianity and the history of the Church as the logical replacement of Graeco-Roman pagan beliefs and the history of Rome. The Vandals that were besieging Hippo while he wrote _City of God_ never figured into Augustine's New Order, while Bede, rightfully, makes the Anglo Saxons protagonists yet also inheritors of Judeo-Christian faith and Graeco-Roman culture.

[@robertmitchell8630]

15.00 world economy roman trade imbalance with India

[@gajananphadte3440]

Pythagorus theorem is already found in Indian manuscript 100 years before Pythagorus found it.

[@gajananphadte3440]

Tamil idiot confirmed.

[@FwendlyMushwoom]

I literally can't tell what you're trying to say.

[@taooflovepassionandcomedy8722]

It all depends on the individuals ability to read and understand human history as a whole story that is a combination of the story of variable cultural evolutions this commentator has his own limited view on the world and it is from that perspective he is telling the story the cross Diaspora of technical and cultural as well as philosophical influences as well as the natural coincidence of practical reasoning allows variable cultures to gradually come to terms with each other

[@LuisSierra42]

Lets abandon the city life and create an alternative way of life in the forest, YEIIII!

[@FwendlyMushwoom]

DNA evidence shows that modern Egyptians are largely the same people that lived there in ancient times. "Black" Africans, as you call them, had many great civilizations like Axum and Ghana and more, but Egypt was not one of them.

[@iamnotpablo]

So, Greek? Roman? Assyrian? Libyan? Mesopotamian? Nubian? Napatan? Badarian? Turkish? Which "ancient times?" Your statement makes no sense...and you have clearly not seen this "DNA evidence" for yourself.

[@gajananphadte3440]

Humanistic values, HAHAHHAA

[@pete2219]

Westerners often bemoan the apparent decline of the U.S.A and the rise of China as something we should be deeply concerned about. They present it as " If you have to have a world policeman who would you rather have - The U.S or China?". I'm not not convinced that this is the right question to be asking. Would China as the world's superpower be a bad thing and would they act as the policeman as the U.S does? We've experienced the U.S as the world's superpower and policeman acting unilaterally and is the world really a better place for it? One would have thought that after the fall of the USSR there would be very little to fight over but the U.S's military industrial complex always finds something.

[@rachelrust]

I think it's fair to question any rising power that doesn't give its citizens basic human/civil rights. The U.S. hasn't always done everything right of course, but those were specific actions of greedy, corrupt people. It seems no one in China, even over decades is taking any steps to give their people what we consider basic, god-given, nature-given rights. Again, the U.S. is no saint but when you have money and power, you automatically become the leader everyone looks too. I don't want China to become the new influencer outright.

[@30seven4]

The West was never barbarian. It just didn't have enough people. A wooden hut in Scotland, considering the climate, is as impressive as an entire temple in India.

[@aceofswords1725]

He seems to be quite keen on dissing the west almost exclusively... As if other civilizations were any better in regards to violence and oppression. There is an undercurrent of "noble savage" crypto-racism in there that I do not care for at all. The episode on china is particularly egregious in that regard - the chinese search for harmony with nature unlike that of the vile, nature conquering west... what what? It's a very parochial and myopic way of looking at things, considering for example the massive chinese landscape changing projects thousands of years back and, say, greek and etruscan attitude towards nature at the same time. It could be even called bigoted in a way... Of course, he is selling it very lightly, but the underlying assumptions are there, the assumed western arrogance has to be whittled down... 7:05 "The greeks had to borrow from africa and asia to create their civilization..." What what?! Ok, I stop watching right now.

[@SnakeBush]

Socialism

[@FwendlyMushwoom]

Is English not your first language? Because your comments are getting harder and harder to understand. Also, you're horrible at staying on-topic.

[@auxiliadoragarcia8855]

Mr. Wood, the Spanish conquerors didn't commit genocide but they married locals, which you didn't with people of your colonies and you DID enslaved people. Spanish didn't.

[@bradleywilliams9896]

Auxiliadora García The Spanish enslaved both Indigenous populations and Africans. A far as genocide, the Spanish annihilated the local peoples of virtually all the Caribbean Islands they colonized. Check out Bartolome de las Casas' "A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies." Also the encomienda system forced Indians to work for the Spanish in mines and in other horrible conditions. Forced conversion occurred in every Spanish New World colony as well.

[@bradleywilliams9896]

Auxiliadora García The Spanish enslaved both Indigenous populations and Africans. A far as genocide, the Spanish annihilated the local peoples of virtually all the Caribbean Islands they colonized. Check out Bartolome de las Casas' "A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies." Also the encomienda system forced Indians to work for the Spanish in mines and in other horrible conditions. Forced conversion occurred in every Spanish New World colony as well.

[@bradleywilliams9896]

1greenMitsi an out of context response to a KZbin comment? Say it ain't so! If you read the original post and my response to it you will find that I was merely pointing out the error in the assertion that Spanish colonists did not participate in any slavery or genocide. No contrast or comparison between North and South American colonies was offered, nor did I make any moral judgements. I simply corrected a factual error on the part of the original post. I await your poorly reasoned, histrionic response.

[@robertmitchell8630]

i concur not they celebrate " thanksgiving" which is really a celebration of europeans over the native indians

[@rtorresfernandez]

what do u think encomiendas were...