The Ascent of Civilization - From Germanic Tribes to Carthage & Arabia | Extra Long Documentary

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The Germanic tribes, rooted in Central and Northern Europe from the 6th century BC, were once dismissed by Romans like Tacitus, who depicted their homeland as a grim realm of forests and swamps. Yet, their impact on civilization is undeniable. Similarly, around 3,000 years ago, settlers from present-day Lebanon established Carthage in modern Tunisia, a grand metropolis with a world-renowned port. Meanwhile, since the 8th century, the Arabs, originally a disparate group bound mainly by language, brought knowledge of the ancient world to Europe in fields like medicine and math. Their unity was realized under Mohammed, who abolished polytheism and unified Arabic tribes in devotion to Allah.
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[@OanhSchlesinger]

Very interesting history lesson. A lot of what I learned gave way to modern vocabulary, writing, warfare, seafaring, and everyday essentials. Thank you for creating this documentary.

[@elenivargis126]

Excellent all the way through! Thank you.

[@rustyreturns9754]

Much more detail than many other series. Thank you very much

[@get.factual]

Our pleasure 🤩

[@jonnylumberjack6223]

I really enjoyed that, from start to finish. Thanks for the upload!

[@get.factual]

Thank you for watching :)

[@itwasagoodideaatthetime7980]

​​@get.factual Can you *PLEASE* add subtitles to your documentary. Not everyone can speak German or French. Thank you.

[@whiteredding5343]

Excellent production. Would have appreciated subtitles but still learned a great deal.

[@jennistone364]

one of the best documentaries on this Ive seen!

[@z_frost00]

@@TheRealJordanSchlanskyNegative Nancy

[@sequillawilliams8809]

😂The way professor Richard Miles give me "let me learn you something youngster" vibes and i love it

[@heavyglow2672]

Great job! I really enjoyed this.

[@get.factual]

Thank Youu 😍

[@TamuniaK]

Extremely interesting, fun to watch and listen. Can't wait to watch your other videos as well!

[@Constantin_C]

Awesome! I was long waiting for this documentary.

[@get.factual]

Amazing! Glad you liked it🥰

[@Constantin_C]

But You somehow forgot to mention who destroyed the library of Alexandria, and tha Syrians had been Christians for 6 centuries before Islam. Not to mention Caucasus and upper Africa 😊

[@MHCE444]

Great video, I thoroughly enjoyed watching it 💜

[@papisnuggs7771]

awesome doc!!!

[@chris.asi_romeo]

Excellent documentary💯💯👏👏. I enjoy watching. Love history

[@Nana-vi4rd]

Awesome, truly well done. Only problem was should have closed captions for those parts were someone spoke in German, Spanish or a language other than English. Other than that, really enjoyed, thank you for uploading.

[@hyperboreanforeskin]

put on the closed captioning

[@Ioan.Anton-r1h1b]

Yeah yeah yeah. If you manage to erase all the Greek words from the western societies you will live in chaos. Civilisation of Carthage 😮😮😮 😂😂😂

[@davidboonzaier4098]

😊😊❤😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

[@yakg7976]

I was reading that thinking it does have that. lol But I have closed captioning on. @@hyperboreanforeskin

[@deborahborlase7100]

​@hyperboreanforeskin how do I do that?

[@stevenbuckner68]

Excellent! 😻 Thank you for your hard work, dedication and education. Very interesting and entertaining. 😻

[@The.Butterfly.Effect.530]

Reminds me of Qarth from Game of Thrones. Imagine if they made shows like that but of actual history. How educated we all would be!

[@ziblot1235]

They did. History has always been interesting, you just weren't paying attention, and your teachers took a great story and made it dull.

[@enki2gold]

​@@TheRealJordanSchlanskyyour a yuppy and that comment smells like liberal.

[@moxymized00]

This was an incredible doc!

[@LordLuzbelAlexander]

The whole intro had me saying We've come too far To give up who we are So let's raise the bar And our cups to the stars

[@Plug042]

great as usuallllll

[@anfrankogezamartincic1161]

Just great

[@chris.asi_romeo]

"You control the stories, you control the past present future". - Greeks -

[@yensid4294]

It's a little frustrating to watch a documentary presented in English that provides no translations or subtitles when non English speakers are being interviewed as experts. The subject is interesting & I would have liked to know what the German & French ecperts said.

[@airedelbosquegeraldine6918]

really liked it!!!

[@HikerBikerMoter]

From the Yamnaya to the greco-roman to the germanic peoples, to the anglo-saxon brit/ americans, western civilization rocks 🪨 🎸 😎 ||i love youtube hehe

[@Greensanctuary-c4w]

Yup, on youtube you can actually make history😂

[@RoxanneM-]

Now you know who made this doc. Spain was the place the knowledge from the East was reclaimed by translation. But it was not only the Arab knowledge but from the Jews, ancient translation from Greece, India. Arabs, Jews and Christians lived together in peace in Spain before their expulsion in 1492. There is no mention here of this. Always look at who made the documentary, folks. This is an Arab centric documentary. I prefer a more balanced and a less partisan one.

[@trudilm3864]

Most excellent! Thank you.

[@jamesportrais3946]

Fascinating doco; Pr. Jim Al-Khalili always a welcome inclusion wherever he spreads his wisdom & learning.

[@jamesportrais3946]

Just wondering which professors I might include in my ultimate University - Jacob Bronowski? Jim Al-Khalili? Jordan Peterson? David Starkey? Maybe I could recruit a professor who had/has not in fact hitherto been a professor. An author or journalist? What do you guys think? What famous/celebrity profs or others would you like to include in your ultimate University?

[@katehatcher4190]

Great documentary- so difficult to make everyone happy - clearly - is an overview and not your fault viewers don’t know how to turn on and off the caption feature - I learned as lot and thank you

[@maracohen5930]

Turning captions on and off is a common skill, and has nothing to do with the languages the Actors happen to be speaking. As they are speaking other languages than English or German, I requested to know what language the “Phoenician” was purportedly speaking. No brownie points for you Bunky…

[@mannygutierrez7654]

The Ancient Germanic Fashion Show at 59:45 is genuinely amazing 😂

[@Nmethyltransferase]

Is this actually one documentary, or a bunch of them stitched together?

[@scp-00.13]

Civilization moves from one region to another. It moved from Mesopotamia to several peoples and flourished, and then eventually reached Europe, relying on the foundations of those civilizations of the Romans, Arabs, Sumerians, and Pharaohs.

[@BigSchmitt1989]

Why tf are there whole minutes of french/spanish/etc that are untranslated?

[@kirandaredevil815]

I enjoyed from beginning to end.

[@artistforfreedom]

I would suspect you lose half the viewers because they will need to read subtitles about every minute or so. I like to listen while doing other projects or while walking.

[@along9971]

This was very well done and interesting, but the subtitles don't show up

[@AtomicBlonde1]

I really enjoyed that thxyòu

[@elissalabellelabelle4819]

I’ve been to Carthage ❤

[@g.dalfleblanc63]

My Stonehenge era relatives (3100 BC to 1600 BC) three are Balari and one a Pict. They lived in Amesbury and within 30 miles distance of Stonehenge at the time of it's construction. The Balari were a Nuragic civilization from Sardinia, which lasted from the 18th century BC up to the Roman colonization in 238 BC. they worshipped wells as the most holy of places. The Picts also worshipped wells in similar fashion, and were smeared as well demon worshippers by the Catholic Church thousands of years later. The Phoenicians helped found cities in Britain, and helped build Stonehenge. A Carthagian coin minted in Sardinia was found near Bath, UK, it is dated 300-264 BC, an incredibly fortunate find as it is irrefutable evidence. Bath is built around hot springs. Stonehenge is a Gate to the underworld, and spas places of healing. I have dozens of ancestors buried around these mystical places.

[@VascoZaharra]

Kaixo! That's magnificent friend! What a wonderful feeling to know one's ancestry to go so deep!

[@g.dalfleblanc63]

@@VascoZaharra I must say I've really enjoyed finding these things out. Happy christmas!

[@arelendil7]

02:05:50 Windmills are not the symbol of Andalusia (it is not Andalusia in the image), they are the symbol of Castilla-La-Mancha, but for another reason in a far later day: Cervantes and Don Quixote.

[@vax_gax_lax_bax_max_vax2578]

Right, I love this kind of documentaries and can watch them non stop 24/7 (specially if they are doing reenactments and actors), but interviews being in foreign language is driving me off, driving me off because I usually have this kind of Documentaries running in the background while I do other things and can't constantly read the subtitles. I know you won't head my plea, but please next time do proper voice over translation of interviews or actors.

[@garystevenson5560]

The Punic Wars were a series of three conflicts that took place between the Roman Republic and the city-state of Carthage from 264 BC to 146 BC. These wars were directly related to your question and not related to your user profile.

[@Reina.Nijinsky]

Subbed 👍🏼

[@globalhawk5328]

I wish you would have provided translations for the non-English dialogue.

[@elcid9581]

CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF HISTORY ESPECIALLY THIS AREA AND AGE I THOUGHT I KNEW A LOT WELL LIVE FOR CENTURY, and LEARN FOR CENTURY

[@mrblack5554]

Ovid spread the story of the child sacrifice .. after Rome stole the Carthaginian empire’s mercantile process .. the Roman’s even went so far as to forge Greek texts. The latest archeological study of the sites show a rich culture in Carthage that remembered their children in cemeteries in a world where death for mother and child during childbirth was very high. Rome destroyed Carthage and prevented its rise and competition with information warfare - no one wanted to do trade with the child sacrificing Carthaginians. Rome did the same to the Jews after stealing their religion.

[@ckck5923]

Adorable

[@bulldwang1931]

Very interesting, though way to long. Would be better broken down into 3 or 4 episodes instead of 1.

[@gussampson5029]

I'm guessing it's 3 or 4 episodes they stuck together and are pretending it's a new video.

[@gokhansayram1778]

I don’t know if the Carthagena really practiced child sacrifice. It is also likely that it was Roman propaganda that stuck. After all history is written by the victors.

[@mariusmitrea1309]

Interesting documentary but with a huge omission of the contributions of the Eastern Roman Empire (renamed Byzantine after it's disappear ). They were also contributors to preservation to modern times of ancient knowledge. From the "West", regarding "East" is often a cursory glance...

[@maracohen5930]

What languages are the Phoenicians and the Egyptians speaking in this vid?

[@ziyanehaddou8898]

They're speaking modern Arabic. 😜

[@maracohen5930]

@@ziyanehaddou8898 LOL!!!

[@stevehobbs9015]

You need to re-do this with captions. Great program, just too much lost with the foriegn languages.

[@jonnylumberjack6223]

There are captions, genius. Turn them on. I can't wrap my head round the number of people commenting this. When you were typing it out, did it not cross your mind you should check if they were there already??

[@gussampson5029]

​@@jonnylumberjack6223haha I was just thinking the same thing.

[@cattymajiv]

There are English subtitles for the German parts, if you turn them on, but they're huge, + block the whole bottom half of the picture! We just can't win with this show. That's such a shame, because in some ways it's really well done. It's just sad. Either you can't understand all the foreign dialogue, or the subtitles prevent you from seeing it, both ways you miss half the show. Now if the size of the subtitles could be reduced from MASSIVE to normal, maybe then they'd have a show worth watching.

[@oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164]

They can, see the gear? That's where YOU can adjust your settings. READ the F'ing instructions.

[@cattymajiv]

@@oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164 There are no instructions assh*le. That's precisely why I provided some. Do you go around talking like that to everyone? I bet you're not the most popular guy in town. Get may dates that way? And to top it all off you're wrong! There is no adjustment for that! So your use of that kind of derision looks even more assinine and abusive.

[@jlaxgang7233]

I appreciate the upload extremely thank goodness I know 6 languages!?!!!!

[@gussampson5029]

Hit the closed captioning button.

[@historyotd9094]

I enjoyed every second of this doumentary. Thank you.

[@user-McGiver]

I don't know who paid this production to say that the Carthaginians invented/designed the trireme ships because it's wrong... the triple rowed [that's what the word means in ancient Greek] trireme ships was ancient Greek and indeed Athenian design, copied by other civilizations

[@jankopandza1072]

All you speak of here.. math.. language .. culture.. Danube valley civilization gave all of this to the world. 8000 B.C. high end civ that smelted ores of different kinds .. First written known language very similar to hieroglyph writings but much much older. His story aka history will not recognize it because it would shatter the "known" past...Even in Vedas you have writings about these people bringing technological knowledge to India . The oldest ying - yang or swastika are found in Balkans .. well know to people in south Europe.

[@prospektarty1513]

There was never a Danubian valley civilisation at that time, non-Mediterranean Europeans were still evolving from their post ice-age Afro-Neanderthal cavemen ancestors from the Caucasus mountains that they couldn’t have invented all those things you mention. The Greeks who told many fables did so out of fantasy not always based on truth but a mix of truth and fiction and not reality, so please don’t bring any pan-Slavic or Aryan superiority ideology to discredit this wonderful video. Give credit to our ancestors. They are the ancestors of everyone

[@scp-00.13]

These are real sick people who have the disease of hatred and malice towards other peoples, and their hearts are distorted​@@prospektarty1513

[@glamgalve6742]

I enjoyed this,very informative but why have an English narration and the German speaking experts without subtitles? I’m sure they are saying sit of wonderfully informative and thoughtful things. But my German is non existent

[@conniemaddox7046]

Not having subtitles is beyond annoying

[@BlueBonnie764]

Try 'close captions', for the hearing impaired, like me. 🪄🎩

[@deborahborlase7100]

Just wish there were subtitles, for those of us who aren't multi-lingual

[@daedaemano1051]

Hi Deborah, there are subtitles. You just need to turn them on in the settings at the bottom of the screen and it will translate the foreign dialogue into English.

[@maighaleb786]

At about 5:15-5:22 are the even speaking the same language or two separate languages and hoping no one noticed? Cuz I understood the guy with the short hair but not a word of homeboy with the long hair.

[@KhaoticDeterminism]

🙏🏻 4 a 🌽 blight u guys best case scenario #2Spirit

[@2coryman]

The Carthaginians inherited purple dyes from the Lebanese who inherited it from the Cretans, their origins are from Minoan colonies in the eastern Mediterranean The first seafaring nation in recorded history is for sure Crete, aster them the Phoenician

[@Andy_Babb]

Suuuper impressive how German permeated all three of these civilizations! 😂

[@Nmethyltransferase]

They really had "ancient tribes" speaking modern Arabic and German, and they really thought no one would notice! 😭

[@herbyhunter4817]

I think u will find all your claims about these people being the first sea going people is completely wrong. I ask u what were the pacific people? They have been navigators and sea going people for 40,000 years that we know of

[@aiyadwolf]

Could you put in English speaking voice over where the non-english is being spoken? It would be most excellent if you did.

[@mwolkove]

It would be super interesting to know what the people who aren't speaking English are going on about. I bet they even have information that they're trying to tell us.

[@timmychang1791]

In the end we r a collective of the human experiences, in the mean time, let’s see who can be the best .

[@rama_lama_ding_dong]

arabic is anachronistic to egypt during this time period

[@emmilypalmer9269]

38:44 thank goodness. Poor animals.

[@josephhebert1785]

Translation would have been nice, couldn't make it past 10 minutes

[@danessaviolette]

Too many ads

[@yamkelagambino]

I love that they all spoke modern day German language

[@oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164]

I was hoping for 8th Century German, they really knew their Umlauts!

[@noma5050]

​@@oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164😂👍

[@akramkarim3780]

and the Phoenicians spoke modern Arabic

[@bethbartlett5692]

​@@akramkarim3780 Basque, the Phoenicians DNA reflects Basque Orgin, as do Irish, Welsh, N American Indigenous White Berbers, and People's of the Canary Islands. DNA, lab based facts, rather than Archaeologists stories. DNA will rewrite the History Story far more accurately.

[@akramkarim3780]

@@bethbartlett5692 modern Lebanese are th closest people to Phoenicians , not Basque or Irish or Welsh

[@timboslyce1290]

Africa is home to the world's earliest known use of measuring and calculation, The Lemomba bone is between 44,200 and 43,000 years old, confirming the continent as the birthplace of both basic and advanced mathematics. Thousands of years ago, Africans were using numerals, algebra and geometry in daily life. The African moors took this information into Europe! Nothing from Europe nor what is now called the Middle East had anything to do with creating Math nor writing; the alphabet derived from Medunetja and btw 7,000 years ago India was part of Ethiopia. I studied in China! and I understand why the Chinese have passed the West because I learned this information from them! the west is still stuck in an imperial mindset and that is the downfall! i don't see the west lasting past 5 to 10 years! Hitler had a Just World Hypothesis!

[@josephbouchayben6091]

carthagian didnt speak arabic at all but phonecian thank you

[@Amadeu.Macedo]

While I am one of your channel's subscribers who enjoy most of your productions, I must say that this one is highly disappointing... Indeed, civilization emerged in Southern Mesopotamia (modern Iraq & Kwait), where the civilizations of SUMER and AKKAD created the first cities (Eridu, Ur, Uruk, Akkad followed by Babylon and Nineveh-Assyria's capital). The vast majority of scholars and enthusiasts of antiquity agree that CIVILIZATION STARTED AT SUMER - circa 3200 BCE. Hence, Sumer and Akkad (briefly followed by Ancient Egypt) constituted the most significant pillars that contributed to the "Ascend of Civilization," which emerged way before the Carthagenians, Germanic Barbarians, and Arabs ever existed. By comparison, the latter civilizations emerged millennia after Sumer! In fact, the Death of Julius Ceasar is closer to us than to the time when Sumeria vanished under the sand of time... ⏳

[@Thuggle_Bus]

Pretty neat how innovative and advanced the Islamic world was before Islam 🫥

[@farazsk1]

Why are the Phoenician n Carthaginian speaking arabic

[@Stopcolonizinglebanon]

Maybe I missed something but I didn't hear you mention the Greeks the Romans or the Hebrews. Surely no ascent story can be told that excludes them.

[@Duffyyy94]

0:50 Spelt Civilization with Z in KZbin title and S with on screen title.

[@Jemma785]

This had the potential to be a great documentary if there were subtitles. Everytime someone that doesn't speak English talks you have no idea what they're saying which is quite annoying.

[@joelshockley8361]

Where is the English translation!?

[@13g95]

❤

[@ThomasBarsegian-co3du]

HAN dynasty was 11/2 the size of Rome,more people too From 206B.C.E - 220 C.E. TANG Dynasty was double the size of Rome 618-907... But Rome was really effectively gone by that time....! Song dynasty, MING dynasty were on their way...💪🇨🇳👍🇨🇳👏

[@r3conwoo]

2:02:01 I wish this guy was my mathematics teacher growing up

[@djkelleher3557]

Pity there isn't a translation of the German contributor!

[@kalaysia77]

Go to the transcript to read the translation.

[@Bhatmann]

Turn on close caption

[@nortonshaw2100]

What happened to your translation from non English speakers?

[@cattymajiv]

Dumb as it seems, you have to turn on the subtitles to get the translation. It's much too large, blocking half the picture, but better than nothing. You would think they would tell us that up front, so we wouldn't miss a ton of info, like I did. I'm a bit annoyed!

[@oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164]

There is Closed Caption.

[@aiyadwolf]

If I wanted to read, I’d pick up a book.

[@harryfallius7470]

Politically correct bullsh*t.

[@ZefOrath]

And if you want to watch the descent of society, just turn off your phone and look around.

[@pokuzhermes4566]

Lovely❤

[@burnvoth]

I just turned off my phone, looked around, and saw my friends and family loving one another, loving themselves, and loving life. If that’s not what you see, maybe you should do something about it.

[@ZefOrath]

@@burnvoth I see a liar in denial. Why don't you come do something about it buddy? Look past your own nose and backyard. If you are doing well while others are suffering, then you are the problem. Are you a banker, politician or pharmacist? Or just a lacky?

[@ZefOrath]

@@burnvoth how much do blinders cost for the whole family? Wait a year and get back to me. It'll catch up to you.

[@sonnylambert4893]

@@burnvothyou made IT, about YOU, and not US!!!

[@rustyreturns9754]

CAPTIONS!!

[@scipio1010]

No, thank you. No sale. The foundation of old and modern day Europe was laid by the Greeks and the Romans with contributions from outside (eg. the Carthaginians, etc ...). And the Romans are not to be blamed, but praised for consigning Carthage to the dustbin of history.

[@marziehv4296]

Great video, thanks. But I've got a question; Why Egyptians and Phoenician are speaking in Arabic in this video? It's before muslims invasion so they should speak their own ancient languages

[@husseinhaddad3515]

Those languages are sadly extinct

[@messoussiahmed9910]

ancient egyptian and phoenician are in the same family and bedouine were here before islamisation

[@robwalker4548]

Sure let’s accept someone with their hand up as proof of child sacrifice. Seems like a lot of faith is being but into that image with no proof.

[@BlueBonnie764]

This triggered me too, sounds like the story of Isaac's 'near death experience. Was it Isaac?

[@donnamarielandry1649]

How frustrating…listening to German & French without subtitles!!! 😵‍💫

[@dmr4450]

Where is the English translation in closed captions for the non-English speaker parts of this documentary?

[@jonnylumberjack6223]

In the closed captions. I mean, you answered your own damn question!

[@zacsayer1818]

Very interesting, however subtitles were needed for the academics when speaking in languages other than English!

[@Hooibeest2D]

Why do the English use a French name for a German king? Charles the main Charlemagne is a bit silly. Everyone else uses a name in their own language, Karl der große, Karel de grote etc. Charles the main had nothing to do with France so I don't get it.

[@mugiwara7347]

Charlamagne was not a german king, he was the king of the franks which was all of modern france territory and most of germany and part of italy. And the british was colonized by the french (in 1066) with william the conquerer and the aristocracy spoke only french in the royal court.

[@NANAB1950]

Needed subtitles or voice over for non English dialouge

[@boutainabrhmgsma4393]

The Phoenicians didn't speak arabic😂😂😂

[@ziyanehaddou8898]

Arabized old-Phoenicians.😜

[@dietrichdietrich7763]

the interesting thing about these history skits is more-so reenactment jobs. some of it is from passed down knowledge on "how this might of been?" it's not meant to be "ACCURATE" but a portrayal for the screen-play. It also serves as the entertainment bits for documentaries so you're not just Listening to random professors and archeologists and book readers guys bore you they're just using Arabic to set the scene mood, not meant for accuracy. It's probably chosen as the understood place holder language to craft scenes

[@gustavohernandez7604]

So carthage that was afraricans them selves had Africans as slaves well that aged well 😂😂