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[@HistoryTime]

- Watch my latest full length history documentary here:- kzbin.info/www/bejne/mWSrommLlquEp80 Hey guys. This is part of a collaboration between 11 different channels. Check out the other videos in the playlist here:- kzbin.info/aero/PL4kqG-CL4ToARSQlWqu6jRzeEnbFAQCkB

[@Hefaistosify]

Fine job! Well done! Greetings from Denmark :)

[@Artur_M.]

Best video in this playlist so far!

[@AlexMaximius]

Please make a video about early Slavs, or any Slavic people, tribes. By the way your videos are awesome, keep up the good work!!! Greetings from Serbia!!!

[@bobcharlie2337]

All 11 channels popped up on my subscription feed. I am in Bronze History Heaven!!!!

[@Artur_M.]

@@AlexMaximius There are two videos on this channel about the Kievan Rus' and, according to the author's response to my comment under the "History Time 2018 Review & 2019 Trailer" video, there are videos about the Samo's Empire and the Great Moravia coming. I was asking specifically about the Western Slavs, so maybe there's more, including something specifically about the Southern ones.

[@dinoflame9696]

Whatever has happened throughout the millennia - living in 2019 where historians put hours of video for free on the internet, makes me feel pretty damn fortunate. Thanks for the video.

[@betrayal6231]

@oooodin what did I just read

[@d0d733]

Hey brother. Big fan of what you did for the rap game

[@johnh23z]

@oooodin Angry Brown commie?

[@beersmurff]

@@johnh23z Or a white supremacist troll in disguise. No African is that stupid :-)

[@beersmurff]

@Clark Gable Neither have the US done anything good, but we still tolerate them.

[@madsdahlc]

Here is something that crossed my mind . The British isles were also big time part of bronze age Trade network . A few days ago I was replaying to comment on this video . And I suddenly remembered about Cornwall . Because Cornwall has a long tradition of tin mining . The phonecians and later the romans imported a lot of cornish tin . And Tin are an importent part of bronze making . Bronze is created mixing the metals cobber and tin . So that tradition properbly goes back the bronze age . And a lot of cornish tin must have been exported out of britain during the bronze age . So cornish/ British merchants were also part of huge bronze age Trade networks

[@JohnnyRebKy]

I miss the days when history channel and others had documentaries of this quality. KZbin users make documentary films that blow multi million dollar film makers out of the water! Like this one. Bravo sir ! Top notch work

[@Gamespud94]

Gotta love KZbin's auto-generated captions.. Actual audio - "modern Germanic tongue.." Captions - "modern demonic tongue.."

[@TheCrackbinge]

So it’s accurate then? Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[@RiderOftheNorth1968]

Yeah, german Black Metal.....

[@Outlaw_j84]

Change it to the cheeky bastaud captions

[@ennuiii]

@@Outlaw_j84 "Cheeky Chap captions"

[@VidarrKerr]

@Hansel Franzen Truth.

[@wat8437]

my grandfather discovered two bronze age graves on his property in Höryda, Sweden. he found other evidence of earlier habitation in his field while farming like flint tools and other artifacts. just thought you'd find it intereseting to look in to. his name was Ane Holmqvist in Höryda, Sweden might be hard to find but its a small village in Blekinge

[@snowmoon7385]

Interesting.

[@VidarrKerr]

If I lived anywhere in Europe, I would have an extensive shovel and metal detector collection and would be digging every single day.

[@redtobertshateshandles]

@@VidarrKerr yep, here in Australia the natives still exist who find invaders digging up their ancestors graves offensive.

[@VidarrKerr]

@Van Aser Digging is illegal in Sweden?

[@VidarrKerr]

@Van Aser That is really cool. I wouldn't do it to keep the stuff, just find it and put it in a museum to add to the historical record.

[@paulmryglod4802]

I'd love to see ocean levels, geology and climate of the regions addressed as the history is told. It helps with the complete picture of the era.

[@erikholmlund6927]

Being a resident of northern Sweden, I immediately react to the fact that a mid-scandinavian border is being put as sort of frontier for the scandinavian bronze age. This documentary only covers the southern half of the scandinavian bronze age. Up north, there was a different culture, portrayed in this documentary as a "blank" area. Up here there are findings of the ananino bronze axes, an eastern type of axe, common among the fenno-ugric peoples, indicating an even further northern route of trade and influences, going between Sweden-Finland-Russia.

[@beersmurff]

Only trolls and evil dwarfs live that far north ;-)

[@leafpratt]

This isn't about Swedish bronze age but Nordic bronze ie not Finnish or Slavic

[@jglammi]

@@leafpratt "Situated on the Gulf of Bothnia, the Bronze Age Burial Site of Sammallahdenmäki ( FINLAND ) forms the largest, most varied and complete burial site from the Scandinavian Bronze Age, 1500-500 B.C. The site includes 33 burial cairns within an area of 36 ha. The cairns are disposed in several distinct clusters along the crests and upper slopes of a long ridge. Out of eight excavated cairns, six can be dated to the Bronze Age and two to the Early Iron Age." UNESCO

[@jglammi]

@卐 Garmannish Wanderer 卐 "Situated on the Gulf of Bothnia, the Bronze Age Burial Site of Sammallahdenmäki ( FINLAND ) forms the largest, most varied and complete burial site from the Scandinavian Bronze Age, 1500-500 B.C. The site includes 33 burial cairns within an area of 36 ha. The cairns are disposed in several distinct clusters along the crests and upper slopes of a long ridge. Out of eight excavated cairns, six can be dated to the Bronze Age and two to the Early Iron Age." UNESCO

[@leafpratt]

@@jglammi the map that show northern Sweden in white was from 5000bc to 3000bc or something like that this is dated to 1500 so still right

[@magnusekenhjarta3436]

Just re-listened this a year or so after first viewing it. As a man who watch about as many historic documentaries as most people eat bananas in a year, I place this into the highest sphere of truly excellent story telling. Broad, deep and utterly fascinating, this is history at its best! THANK YOU!!!

[@AnneDowson-vp8lg]

I eat a banana nearly every day. That's 365 a year.

[@kuzzbillington6392]

I had no idea that Scandinavia has such rich heritage so far back. The weight of this revelation made me very emotional. Thank you for making this!

[@theisheep2676]

It doesn't have a rich heritage. This is all tribal cultures. Not civilisation

[@visaodissidente5560]

@@theisheep2676 But it was more developed than Sub-Saharan Africa until a few centuries ago.

[@theisheep2676]

@@visaodissidente5560 yh

[@camulodunon]

@@theisheep2676 tribal or not, they clearly had a rich and advanced culture at the time.

[@veronicajensen7690]

you clearly don't know anything -all the items shown in the beginning is from Denmark -the horned helmets and the Sun disc it's dated to 1400 BC @@theisheep2676

[@overjee]

Knew near to nothing about Scandinavia from before the viking age. Thanks for making this video! Watched the entire thing in one sitting, I was so hooked.

[@tonymoretti2347]

The whole 36 minute video your hardcore!

[@HYDROCARBON_XD]

Nordic Bronze Age was also in northern Germany,not only Scandinavia

[@daisybrain9423]

This channel is a tin mine!

[@ericcloud1023]

Tin rated comment! Two thumbs up

[@paulet4276]

Can you tell me where tin comes from? My dealer won’t tell me where he gets it.

[@wirehead1000]

@@paulet4276 Tintagel, Cornwall, perhaps, the Casserides of the ancients

[@mcanyildiz1996]

Best comment i!ve seen in months

[@therocketman3131]

I found an old tin mine once , it was full of old tins

[@helenanilsson5666]

12:35 Just going to point out that the way languages works, it doesn't necessarily have to have been a "takeover" in the physically dominating sense of the word. I mean, consider how many languages today are incorporating English words, not because English-speaking people are dominating those cultures but because of a technological spread with English words pre-attached. Earlier in our modern history, similar in vogue-languages have spread widely not because of violence, but because of innovation. Here in Sweden, much of our modern vocabulary is borrowed from English (technology) French (in the arts and architecture) and German (craftsmanship) because those were the cool kids we wanted to emulate.

[@anotherelvis]

That is a good point, but I think that there is a difference between borrowing loan words and basic grammar. Regarding the Yamnayas we are starting to get genetic evidence that there was indeed a migration. eurogenes.blogspot.com/2015/01/a-little-more-teasing-half-of-our.html

[@clanrobertson7200]

Helena Nilsson Swedish People don’t need to emulate anyone! As for the English language, there was a great show in the 1980’s on Public Television called the origin of English. It was fantastic, and showed how every culture has had an influence on it. But the driving factor for it becoming the most used language in the world is due to its accuracy, which has made it responsible for lawyers using it 90% of the time for contracts and legal settlements. The old professor

[@clanrobertson7200]

Jon Goat Not so. See my comment in this discussion.

[@clanrobertson7200]

Faqyur Ma'ama Grow up and get a pair.

[@asjenmensink2740]

@@anotherelvis Indeed: a language can absorb a lot of words from other languages very quickly but grammar is not often changed. The loanword is adapted to fit the grammar and phonology of the borrowing language: take the way Dutch borrows verbs from French: attendre becomes attenderen: the Dutch infinitive suffix is added to the infinitive of the French verb using that as the stem of the Dutch verb. Or the way slavic language decline nouns borrowed from other languages like japanese.

[@surfk9836]

Refreshing information without the "ancient technologies", or aliens gibberish. Thank you!

[@DiamondHedgehog]

In this case the ancient technology was the smelting of bronze.

[@12tanuha21]

@@DiamondHedgehog And the invention of chariots

[@herrakaarme]

But the aliens from the steppe region with their technologies changed everything, culture, way of life, language, you name it.

[@dalegribble5661]

@@DiamondHedgehog right!!

[@scoobydicky9459]

@@herrakaarme You mean the proto Indo europeans?

[@StefanMilo]

Awesome video man. Interesting stuff about the Yamnaya! I've been reading about the decline of the Neanderthals and they did not survive after the emergence of the Gravettian culture who may have originated on the Asian steppe. That geographical region has been SO crucial to European history.

[@adad-ec6ht]

Also crucial for Indian history. The caste system in Hinduism came out when chariot driving Aryans invaded India and brought the caste system.

[@adad-ec6ht]

@arcsaber11 wtf, are you that dumb!!! British came only about 250 years ago. Caste system existed for thousands of years, during Vedic to Puranic age. Read Rig Veda which was written probably 4000 years ago. They define caste clearly. The British abolished caste based discrimination.

[@stephenoleski2688]

You gotta make a video on that now...

[@Valdagast]

It's fun to see how the steppes basically serve as a generator of nomadic conquerors for such a long time.

[@ioakimmakis9288]

This is fake HISTORY. There is no Macedonian language. Macedonians (a tribe of Greeks) have been speaking Greek since ancient times. Please, correct it. You are supposed to talk about history and not doing politics. ΑΥΤΑ ΕΙΝΑΙ ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΚΑ.

[@antivalidisme5669]

Hyper-Borea such an hypnotizing name, I like to think Robert E. Howard would have loved your video. Great storytelling, and thank you so much for the amount work put in this one. Salutations. Oh Kadesh

[@pathogenoxide6917]

Actually Clark Ashton Smith would have loved that, he created that notion before Robert E. Howard started writing Conan. Howard's Hyberborea had more in common with Finland/Russia than Smith's weird mix of Greco-Roman influences though. Sorry for the ramble, just got done reading a couple of Clark Ashton Smith's story collections and it's been sitting in my mind like some specter of a bygone age lost to the mists of time.

[@unacceptableviews1505]

Slavemaster: What is best in life?" Conan: To crush your enemies,to see them driven before you, and to hear de lamentations of de wimmin.I really loved this character.At one time I had the entire conan novel series,as well as tarzan and john carter of mars.Robert E . Howard created probably one of the most iconic characters and worlds ever.His stories always resonated with me.Edgar rice Burroughs was another great author from that era.There again with Tarzan,an epic character that just hits a chord within you somehow.Cheers.

[@neildahlgaard-sigsworth3819]

People's Front of Canada or according to Cohen the Babarian (creator of the phrase wholesale destruction): soft toilet paper.

[@Albukhshi]

I'm not sure why; it's just Greek for "far-north" :P Seriously though: the Classical pronunciation of Hyperborea was quite elegant (I don't know how it's said in Modern Greek).

[@savagecarnivore4699]

oooodin they’d probably still be shitting in the streets just like they do today you donkey.

[@dukeon]

THIS is history. Not Atlantis or Ancient Astronauts, nor endless videos about Greco-Roman conquest and engineering. Real history based on primary sources and the work of experts in diverse academic fields, distilled into an interesting and well-presented narrative. Having just read David Anthony’s seminal “The Horse, the Wheel, and Language,” this dovetails perfectly with that work. It’s so refreshing to see ancient history presented intelligently and without being dumbed down. I only wish it were hours longer! Thank you, I think I’ve found a channel to support 💵.

[@jasper677]

Justin Sias so can you tell me what exactly is meant by this? All indo european languages i know dont share their words for wheel nor horse

[@jonshkreli1985]

​@@jasper677 As for wheel not only indo-european but other languages share similar word which has the root RO. O is often changed into A, but even R may have changed to L. rrot Albanian ruota Italian rotha Irish ruyra Amara kola bjellorusian hjól Icelandic roda Indonesian rodha Javanise kolo Çek furolhu Divehy gulong Filipine pyörä Finish roue French roda galacian ρόδα Greek ચક્ર Cakra Gujarati Wou Haitian Dabaran Hausa Chakr Hindi lub log Hmong kararit Lloko döñgelek Kazak lo Lao roues Lingala ratas Lituaneze cakraṁ Malylam leotwana North Sotho ଚକ Odia goommaa Oromo olwyn Welsh rod Yiddish isondo Zulu As for horse, all indoeuropean except Germanic use kal/kabah/kaval, while germanic use horse.

[@jasper677]

@@jonshkreli1985 ok thanks for the answer. Interesting. In German horse is Pferd (fert) btw but as you said germanic don't fit. I can also add that a different german word for wheel/roll is Rolle, which would fit the "ro" wheels

[@elainealibrandi6364]

Thanks so much! This is wonderful. I love your videos. Recent archeologists have discovered, upon more careful examination, that some graves containing swords and other weapons are actually women's graves; scientists had assumed that the presence of weapons meant that the buried person had been a man.

[@weltvonalex]

wow this is a1 content, this has a quality i havent seen in years, reminds me on old tv documentaries before they went full history channel,

[@IETCHX69]

Hey ... " History " ...

[@lakrids-pibe]

07:50 "In Scandinavia however, the population was simply never high enough to develop the same megalith traditions..." That's simply incorrect. There are plenty of megalithic tombs in Scandinavia. And flint mines too.

[@davedailygtaxxx5966]

Correct

[@miguelsuarez-solis5027]

I don't think it was meant that they didn't have traditions. I think he meant that the traditions were not to the same scale

[@righteousviking]

At least, not that we have found...yet.

[@noneofyourbusiness7600]

Hunnebedden..

[@shekelgeyr4285]

Yeah hunnebedden

[@azzlaird5541]

Probably the most interesting documentary I’ve ever seen, and about my own history for once

[@Malentar]

Hi, just wanted to add to the discussion, the Egtved girl recently was found to have been contaminated from agricultural lime and that she most likely lived in the same area, interesting stuff!

[@dalegribble5661]

Thank u

[@hermanhemlig]

This is one of the best videos I've seen on the Nordic Bronze Age

[@donrobertson4611]

Excellent research, writing & narration.

[@drmahlek9321]

This is incredible. A great summary of this period, really enjoyed listening to this. I’ll be watching the other videos in this series because of this one.

[@Oscuros]

Excellent talk that elucidates a lot of issues mentioned in passing in other introductions. I particularly appreciated the clear explanation of Indo-European languages using maps and references including to the original linguists that did that work, this was very useful, thank you.

[@iahelcathartesaura3887]

One of the foremost enjoyable, superb, excellent things I have ever watched. Info with no drama or hype, no passing off of repetitive & meaningless foolishness as worthy info. Just pure info & wonder. Well explained, insightful, conversational as well as scholarly. Extremely peaceful, enjoyable, relaxing, informative, mentally fulfilling & stimulating to watch & listen to. I will gladly support this wonderful channel & your work. (Yes, as one commenter says here, you are doing what the History Channel should be doing.) A thousand thanks!! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

[@stefanlinzmaier8702]

I was hoping for this one. Very good work and including many recent findings on this rather nebulous period in Northern Europe.

[@theangryaustralian7624]

Love discovering new quality channels keep up this good work

[@Nozylatten]

Wow this is fantastic so far still watching.

[@ioakimmakis9288]

This is fake HISTORY. There is no Macedonian language. Macedonians (a tribe of Greeks) have been speaking Greek since ancient times. Please, correct it. You are supposed to talk about history and not doing politics. ΑΥΤΑ ΕΙΝΑΙ ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΚΑ.

[@footballmylife9244]

Ioakim makis no macdon was Illyrians the have the closet genes.O and you stole are gods word like Zeus’s:Zoti hades:hadeti and Poseidon:posikoni.

[@LeoTheI]

@@footballmylife9244Illyrians arent the same as macedonians. macedonians were Greek. theres no writings of them in illyrian or any other language different from Greek. And besides, who cares if they “stole” the “gods”? they’re made up anyway. The True God is Christ.

[@Lorwildrose]

It's nice to see picture of the areas you talk about thanks.

[@turnleffe7586]

Thank you as I have been enjoying learning more about history with your channel. Cheers!

[@grishnackh194]

This is one of the greatest videos i ever seen. Simple, very informative, very pleasant to watch and with a good flow of words. Absolutely amazing. Liked and subscribed.

[@OneironauticalOne]

I watched and listened to ONE of your videos and instantly subscribed. Awesome information and with easy listening. Please continue.

[@residentialsparky5127]

I love this collaboration and your channel. So glad creators are working together! Thank you from a humble history buff

[@ioakimmakis9288]

This is fake HISTORY. There is no Macedonian language. Macedonians (a tribe of Greeks) have been speaking Greek since ancient times. Please, correct it. You are supposed to talk about history and not doing politics. ΑΥΤΑ ΕΙΝΑΙ ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΚΑ.

[@PaulThePandaren]

Excellently made and research. I really enjoyed it! Great companion to what I've been reading about the ancient world

[@Sarke2]

This is one of the best documentaries i have watched about Bronze age, such a nice work, thank you !!!

[@arkyandy9612]

This is certainly your best work! Thanks for all the hard work

[@ioakimmakis9288]

This is fake HISTORY. There is no Macedonian language. Macedonians (a tribe of Greeks) have been speaking Greek since ancient times. Please, correct it. You are supposed to talk about history and not doing politics. ΑΥΤΑ ΕΙΝΑΙ ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΚΑ.

[@burntimeUK]

This is a brilliant collaboration. everyone involved should be proud of themselves.

[@ioakimmakis9288]

This is fake HISTORY. There is no Macedonian language. Macedonians (a tribe of Greeks) have been speaking Greek since ancient times. Please, correct it. You are supposed to talk about history and not doing politics. ΑΥΤΑ ΕΙΝΑΙ ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΚΑ.

[@UpcycleElectronics]

Very interesting stuff Pete. Thanks for the upload.

[@GnarledStaff]

This playlist was a great idea. I now have access to a bunch of youtubers I really should of already been following.

[@grizla1895]

Holy shit this was an interesting video

[@clanrobertson7200]

Greg Resetar Very articulate of you. You will go far in life with your pubic, er public speaking skills. The old professor

[@ioakimmakis9288]

This is fake HISTORY. There is no Macedonian language. Macedonians (a tribe of Greeks) have been speaking Greek since ancient times. Please, correct it. You are supposed to talk about history and not doing politics. ΑΥΤΑ ΕΙΝΑΙ ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΚΑ.

[@ioakimmakis9288]

@Never Unprepared in democracy we have the right to freely speak. Only communists and fascists do not believe in the freedom of speech. Communists and fascists are the creators of the macedonian propaganda. Study history not according to communist and george soros' propaganda. Study the facts. Become a professional historian, not a propagandist. There has never been a macedonian nation, only macedonian tribe of Greeks...a 3000-year history. Study history. take care...i would never call a person to stop expressing their opinions. Only communists amd fascists do so.

[@LeoTheI]

@@ioakimmakis9288While i do agree, These videos are amazing and have much good information within them.

[@andrewthompson6192]

Excellent historical video. Learned a lot I didn't know, which I am always eager to learn more, esp of the Bronze Age, and as always fascinating.

[@matteofumagalli3918]

great great great work like always and this time you hook me up with a topic almost totally obscure for me very nice job

[@tsjoencinema]

I would like to comment on your "The Indo-European Language Family" tree chart at 10:27. After North Germanic, you get Norse, from Norse you then get West Norse and East Norse. Swedish and Danish belong in the branch of East Norse, while West Norse includes Norwegian, Norn, Faroese, Icelandic and Greenlandic(Dialect of the Viking settlers after centuries of living in Greenland).

[@alucarddracula7]

Looking for history documentaries on KZbin is a precarious task. I hate getting a minute and having to hang my head in exasperation as what appeared to be a history documentary takes a deep plunge into conspiratorial fantasies and delusions. Thanks for all of the work that went into making and publishing this.

[@gregvang5164]

Excellent production. Thank you collaborators

[@karenhanania9014]

Fascinating. I learned a lot, and my curiosity about these ancient cultures is certainly aroused. Thanks!

[@lawilder2059]

I love this video. You took a lot of information and yet seamlessly combined all of it into such an engaging 36min. You are putting good out into the world. Thank you for all your hard work. And I’m sure it was A LOT OF HARD WORK. This is all the more interesting now that DNA tracing possible

[@ioakimmakis9288]

This is fake HISTORY. There is no Macedonian language. Macedonians (a tribe of Greeks) have been speaking Greek since ancient times. Please, correct it. You are supposed to talk about history and not doing politics. ΑΥΤΑ ΕΙΝΑΙ ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΚΑ.

[@TheSWolfe]

@ 9:10 = Grave Creek Mound, Moundsville, WV US, an Adena burial mound created ca 250-150 b.c.

[@oriffel]

fascinating. glad to see another big collaboration. really enjoy those

[@ioakimmakis9288]

This is fake HISTORY. There is no Macedonian language. Macedonians (a tribe of Greeks) have been speaking Greek since ancient times. Please, correct it. You are supposed to talk about history and not doing politics. ΑΥΤΑ ΕΙΝΑΙ ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΚΑ.

[@coffee5981]

Fascinating stuff! great to see someone cover this largely-forgotten topic too. Thanks for this.

[@ioakimmakis9288]

This is fake HISTORY. There is no Macedonian language. Macedonians (a tribe of Greeks) have been speaking Greek since ancient times. Please, correct it. You are supposed to talk about history and not doing politics. ΑΥΤΑ ΕΙΝΑΙ ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΚΑ.

[@tejjensen9402]

Fantastic! History Time teaches us something about our own culture that we did not know. I didn't know all of it. It should be used as teaching material in schools. I love good documentar programs like this one. Thanks

[@adad-ec6ht]

Same with Indus people of India. After these people attacked India, Hinduism was born. Aryans mixed with Dravidians turned into Brown Indians and the caste system.

[@tejjensen9402]

@@adad-ec6ht That sounds interesting. Do you have a link?

[@LarsPallesen]

Excellent stuff! This is professional level quality. A tip of the bronze helmet from Denmark.

[@ioakimmakis9288]

This is fake HISTORY. There is no Macedonian language. Macedonians (a tribe of Greeks) have been speaking Greek since ancient times. Please, correct it. You are supposed to talk about history and not doing politics. ΑΥΤΑ ΕΙΝΑΙ ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΚΑ.

[@apotato6278]

@@ioakimmakis9288 Are you drunk?

[@ioakimmakis9288]

@@apotato6278 are you drunk or you take drugs? They say in this video that there is a macedonian language...All professional historians know that Greek is the language of the Macedonians...

[@apotato6278]

@@ioakimmakis9288 Well there is without any doubt a Macedonian language or rather there are 2: Modern Macedonian and Ancient Macedonian. Ancient Macedonian was a dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in the northern parts of what is now Greece or depending on definition a separate language closely resembling Greek (like how Norwegian, Swedish and Danish are separate but mutually intelligible). Modern Macedonian is spoken in Macedonia and is more closely related to Serbo-Croatian and Bulgarian than Greek. Like for example: I'm Swedish yet i can read and understand Norwegian and Danish. You could argue they are separate languages or a bigger trans-scandinavian language. It all depends on definition.

[@ioakimmakis9288]

@@apotato6278 wrong...Macedonians have been speaking (not spoke) Greek for more than 3000 years, because Macedonians is not ethnicity, but a Greek tribe. Wht you refer to are Bulgarians who became victims of communist propaganda. It is not a historical issue this, it is clearly a political issue. Communists are the best in propaganda and communists are very patient. Greek history has a continuity. You have also been a victim of this communist propaganda. The propaganda is called Macedonian of Aegean. Never existed a Macedonian nation. Communists, Hitler and George Soros only have supported it. take care...be careful of communists' and supranationalist's dangerous propaganda.

[@drethekiller]

Great content! Thank you for the video

[@meanderingbird286]

Absorbing, informative and high quality. Thank you.

[@dobypilgrim6160]

You always come up with the most interesting topics!!! Thanks!

[@ioakimmakis9288]

This is fake HISTORY. There is no Macedonian language. Macedonians (a tribe of Greeks) have been speaking Greek since ancient times. Please, correct it. You are supposed to talk about history and not doing politics. ΑΥΤΑ ΕΙΝΑΙ ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΚΑ.

[@bredmond812]

Wow, Pete! You must have been reading my mind! I was wondering where all my Bronze Age videos went. This is a great day because a news article came out talking about the 20,000 year old obsidian trade in Poland. By the way, a relatively recent book called "Who We Are and How We Got Here" by David Reich has asserted using data from his lab at Harvard that the Indo-European language was from the Anatolian HIghland and the Anatolian branch split before the ancestors of the Yamnaya north across the Caucasus Mountains to form the later (i.e. non-Anatolian) IE languages.

[@bredmond812]

@Fidus Achates Yeah. I guess that is why we call him SIR Colin Renfrew?

[@tessjuel]

I think it's worth mentioning here that Snorri Sturluson claimed that the Ynglings (also mentioned in Beowulf where they are called Scylfings), said to be the ancestors of the viking age and earlu medieval Swedish and Norwegian kings, came from the land south of the Caucasian Mountains. That's not strictly speaking Anatolia of course, it's even further south. But it is right next door. Unfortunately SNorri lived in the ealry 13th century and the oldest direct source he was able to find was 8th or 9th century. That means there is no way of knowing when the Ynglings moved north to Scandinavia, it may well have been much later than the Yamnaya culture, and besides details may well have been seriously distorted after centuries, maybe even millenia of retelling.

[@Nieri93]

Thank you so much for this video! Amazing work!

[@becalee33]

This video is amazing, a real treat to watch! Thank you. 😊

[@BeyondEcstasy]

I wish I had money to support you but I don't, so here a verbal appreciation of your work. Great documentary, keep going.

[@blaustein_autor]

Alright I like the depth of the information, but let me say this: You should make the structure of your video more transparent, because at times it is not quite clear whether you're talking about general phenomena or the Nordic Bronze Age (which is, after all, this videos main subject). So, maybe in the beginning in the end of a sequence a little remark on how the up-coming pieces of informations is relevant to the subjekt! Thanks for the effort of uploading such great videos! :)

[@ulfara123]

A brilliant story! Huge respect to the author of the channel! 🔥🔥🔥

[@10Doomhawk]

I love the channels I'm finding in this list. I wish the other 10 were this in depth. Subscribed.

[@Hefaistosify]

Excellent! The first Northern Golden Age! ;)

[@gaslitworldf.melissab2897]

For me, the Golden Ages are largely egalitarian, with low level leadership based on shamanic wisdom and the ability to defend tribes from predators.

[@normannormiemates4844]

You mean slavery came along later?

[@Alias_Anybody]

It was most likely patriachal, with a strict hirarchy and lots of slavery.

[@gladstanegonder4970]

"Excellent! The first Northern Golden Age! ;) " came most likely with the mining/collecting of the abundant excellent flint here in the culturally dominating south and we were allready sorta rich before the beginning of the golden early bronze age....earliest discovered gold object (necklace) of my region found together with some neolithic beakers....taken from a former burial mound located in Schwesing and not that far away from Flensburg

[@icecoldchilipreppers6496]

The scandinavian cultures during the viking age were fairly egalitarian, I dont see why they wouldn't have been so before hand. It seems pretty clear to me what we call a "patriarchy" was introduced to Europe via christianity from the east. Scandinavia being an egalitarian society based around sexual selection by females is evident in their average height and symmetrical features as compared to other parts of Europe even though they have had the least access to nutrition. Females had rights and chose their mates based on sexual preferences(which in the classical age was obv. Tall strong good looking warrior type that women still fetishise today) Where as cultures hit by christianity first, the women did not choose their mates as often(patriarchy) and so a bunch of rich/powerful short ugly dudes got to procreate for thousands of years, leading to society that (on average) is shorter with less symmetrical features. IE. England Italy, ect. Its why people from Scotland and Ireland are usually taller and more attractive than their english counterparts. Makes sense anyways.

[@GhostHuntsman]

I absolutely loved this video, thank you! We never hear enough about the Bronze Age.

[@ioakimmakis9288]

This is fake HISTORY. There is no Macedonian language. Macedonians (a tribe of Greeks) have been speaking Greek since ancient times. Please, correct it. You are supposed to talk about history and not doing politics. ΑΥΤΑ ΕΙΝΑΙ ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΚΑ.

[@churrosconamor6696]

bless those channels that collabed for this

[@owlieo.3432]

What a magnificent RP accent! My ESL ears are really grateful for your job, sir. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿💯

[@teresabaker-carl9668]

I'm very fascinated by history, and used to read a great deal of it until I developed a neurodegenerative disorder which causes, among other things, blurred vision and extreme sleepiness. You mentioned the Minotaur. Now I remember this creature from my studies, but I have never known whether it was a myth, a reality, or perhaps a mixture of the 2. Can you talk more about it and the story of the people who lived at that time, and what happened to them? I have heard they were destroyed by a huge volcano which sent a massive tidal wave toward them. But now I don't know if I've confused two different historical events.

[@daddypoil]

Awesome work, it really helped me clarifying this mysterious period. Thanks !

[@silviosaecios5187]

What a fantastic channel! Thank you for the video.

[@rowshonnabi5158]

So nicely presented! As a critic, I greatly appreciate your video. It's simple but the presentation is excellent! One like and one subscription

[@croatianwarmaster7872]

You make the most amazing history documentaries,please do more Germanic history,Indo European invasion and early slavic texts and litteracy.

[@ioakimmakis9288]

This is fake HISTORY. There is no Macedonian language. Macedonians (a tribe of Greeks) have been speaking Greek since ancient times. Please, correct it. You are supposed to talk about history and not doing politics. ΑΥΤΑ ΕΙΝΑΙ ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΚΑ.

[@adragoor]

Nice video on a subject that is often neglected! Just a little correction: The boat-axe and battle-axe cultures are not distinct but one and the same. Boat-axe culture is simply an older name for it, and it has nothing to do with boats but boat shaped axes.

[@leesenger3094]

Awesome as always! Keep it up please!

[@ms9404]

Great video! Wish history shows would present history the way you do!

[@doddoliver]

Just a thought: could these people's have been the Sea Peoples who decimated the middle East kingdoms and brought about the Bronze Age Collapse? It's interesting to think that if trading between Baltic and Black Sea was so prevalent and the Bronze Age lasted longer in the north there could be a possibility.

[@mr.nelsontheog3615]

They mention the finno-ugric groups only a handful of times if not once. It is good to keep in mind that the best evidence as to what the finno-ugric religion was (mostly drum covers/top) points to one based primarily on a sun goddess with lots of spiritual focus on reindeer to put it simply. This is more skewed towards the Sami traditions as I am ethnically Sami (having an interest in my heritage) and Sápmi is geographically the nearest of these finno-ugric cultures to further south on the peninsula. I understand that there isn’t a lot of history known about the Sami, though it is a hiccup in history that we have almost no answer and certainly no background for that is still somewhat alive and in my opinion, worth noting.

[@abbeykielinen4551]

Finnish Saami here, hello to you brother. yes, I was a little disappointed to not see that group/the group of our ancestors. I do hope history will begin to better include that.

[@MrAxeofcapitalism]

I really enjoyed this Video ! Keep the good work up man . Goes real good in the Background with Dawn of Man btw

[@Benskite4]

You are awesome. Brilliant, well spoken, I could listen to your docs all day. Often I do.

[@mariovallanzasca9454]

This is one of the most interesting mini documentary I have seen so far

[@k8eekatt]

Thanks! This is a very neat video, mentioning things I had not learned before!

[@dieuwkevanderheide9411]

This is fantastic! Thanks so much!

[@mss1171]

Very good and interesting. Well read and professionally Done vid. Keep it up !

[@angryboner]

Y 'amnaya, emphasis on Y. It came from russian word "яма" - "Yama", means "pit". Great video btw)

[@angryboner]

@Shaxx It got it's name in 20 century, when it was discovered and described. You dumb, lol

[@Dijkiestars4]

Could you perhaps dedicate an episode to the Frisians?

[@anotherelvis]

Or the Saxons. (war with Charlemagne and migration to England).

[@richardmullins2534]

Frisians. Mother language of modern english weather terminology

[@Keksdich]

Frisian 😁 yes ! My people ♥️ still speaking frisian today

[@billmiller4972]

Awesome work! It gives a sense of wonder and awe about the millenia gone past that most modern docs do not. Thanks!

[@thedescriptor410]

Very professional! Great job guys!

[@telpekwar]

Dude your chose of music is sublime, love your video. Keep the good work

[@TheDonkeyJote]

Reminds me of the Mass Effect theme.

[@mdivmapperandgamer1138]

During one of his last walks before the quarantine in Montenegro began in earnest nearly a month ago, my older brother saw some peculiarly shaped small elavations near the Tološi woods. Though he knows there's a good chance these are naturally occurring irregularities in the otherwise flat terrain of that particular suburb of our hometown, Podgorica, or that they came to be due to humans of more recent centuries dumping soil, wood, cement and sand, with grass growing-over in the meantime, he nevertheless suspects those may be ancient Indo-European burial mounds, as he knows from books, articles and websites that one of the earliest Proto-Indo-European settlements to the west of traditional Yamnaya territory was located in and around what is now Podgorica.

[@FryNOR]

This is amazing videos, the quality is up there with the good old documentaries from BBC.

[@ianpetty419]

Most informative and enjoyable to watch...a big thank You!

[@ioakimmakis9288]

This is fake HISTORY. There is no Macedonian language. Macedonians (a tribe of Greeks) have been speaking Greek since ancient times. Please, correct it. You are supposed to talk about history and not doing politics. ΑΥΤΑ ΕΙΝΑΙ ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΚΑ.

[@Jason-bg7jc]

Oh man I love this. Thank you

[@ioakimmakis9288]

This is fake HISTORY. There is no Macedonian language. Macedonians (a tribe of Greeks) have been speaking Greek since ancient times. Please, correct it. You are supposed to talk about history and not doing politics. ΑΥΤΑ ΕΙΝΑΙ ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΚΑ.

[@CKM7VQ6W8A]

This is a shockingly good documentary. Thank you for posting

[@RonaldJDarby]

Your channel is fantastic thank you so much ❤️

[@stephenjones9481]

Thank you, really enjoyed.

[@altareggo]

This is EPIC!!! The amount of raw research and scholarship which went into this documentary are incredible. Thank you, and color me impressed.

[@ibbi30]

Note, in Norse mythology Fenrir is not the wolf following the sun (unless you are referring to the poetic Edda which I am less familiar with, things could be different there). Fenrir remains bound until Ragnarok. The wolf that follows the Sun is a lesser known wolf called Skollr. Another one follows the moon, called Hati Hróðvitnisson.

[@lynnthomason6589]

Love your videos. Great info on my deep ancestry with the Yamnaya. My references were Danish, Dutch,

[@sharonmcqueentorres2459]

So cool. Thank you love Ancient History of every sort