Ancient Civilizations Arabian Peninsula to the Syrian Desert

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  • čas přidán 11. 09. 2024
  • From the Arabian Peninsula, we look at an ancient caravan route through the desert to Syria. ; Along the way, several lush oases in the otherwise barren Syrian desert come to our rescue in the form of Marib and Petra, cite of the great tomb of Aaron that is carved out of a rock face, along with the beautiful city of Palmyra in Syria.
    Early development
    The period from the middle of the 2nd millennium BCE to the beginning of the Common Era saw societies in Western Asia, the Mediterranean, China and the Indian subcontinent develop major transportation networks for trade.
    One of the vital instruments which facilitated long distance trade was portage and the domestication of beasts of burden. Organized caravans, visible by the 2nd millennium BCE, could carry goods across a large distance as fodder was mostly available along the way. The domestication of camels allowed Arabian nomads to control the long distance trade in spices and silk from the Far East to the Arabian Peninsula. Caravans were useful in long-distance trade largely for carrying luxury goods, the transportation of cheaper goods across large distances was not profitable for caravan operators. With productive developments in iron and bronze technologies, newer trade routes-dispensing innovations of civilizations-began to rise.
    Maritime trade
    Evidence of maritime trade between civilizations dates back at least two millennia. Navigation was known in Sumer between the 4th and the 3rd millennium BCE, and was probably known by the Indians and the Chinese people before the Sumerians. The Egyptians had trade routes through the Red Sea, importing spices from the "Land of Punt" (East Africa) and from Arabia.
    Evolution of Indian trade networks. The main map shows the routes since Mughal times, Inset A shows the major prehistorical cultural currents, B: pre-Mauryan routes, C: Mauryan routes, D: routes c. 1st century CE, and E: the "Z" shaped region of developed roads.
    Maritime trade began with safer coastal trade and evolved with the manipulation of the monsoon winds, soon resulting in trade crossing boundaries such as the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal. South Asia had multiple maritime trade routes which connected it to Southeast Asia, thereby making the control of one route resulting in maritime monopoly difficult. Indian connections to various Southeast Asian states buffered it from blockages on other routes. By making use of the maritime trade routes, bulk commodity trade became possible for the Romans in the 2nd century BCE. A Roman trading vessel could span the Mediterranean in a month at one-sixtieth the cost of over-land routes.
    Visible trade routes
    The peninsula of Anatolia lay on the commercial land routes to Europe from Asia as well as the sea route from the Mediterranean to the Black Sea. Records from the 19th century BCE attest to the existence of an Assyrian merchant colony at Kanesh in Cappadocia (now in modern Turkey). Trading networks of the Old World included the Grand Trunk Road of India and the Incense Road of Arabia. A transportation network consisting of hard-surfaced highways, using concrete made from volcanic ash and lime, was built by the Romans as early as 312 BCE, during the times of the Censor Appius Claudius Caecus. Parts of the Mediterranean world, Roman Britain, Tigris-Euphrates river system and North Africa fell under the reach of this network at some point of their history.

Komentáře • 216

  • @zyaad7417
    @zyaad7417 Před 5 lety +49

    The Arabian peninsula is rich with historical places and cultures

    • @retro_mac138
      @retro_mac138 Před 2 lety +2

      thanks for the answer to my homework

    • @a_b_nalkeswah7438
      @a_b_nalkeswah7438 Před rokem +1

      Syria

    • @es3259
      @es3259 Před 8 měsíci +1

      islam ruined this

    • @creamsicle1678
      @creamsicle1678 Před 5 měsíci +2

      @@es3259 islam brought prosperity science and technology

    • @es3259
      @es3259 Před 5 měsíci

      @@creamsicle1678 negative. They copied from the Greeks and the Romans. Islam brought destruction and oppression and instability. Proof is to look the past and present

  • @terriejohnston8801
    @terriejohnston8801 Před 3 lety +8

    Really enjoyed this presentation. Petra, NOTHING like it. Just plain LOVE the vibe of the Arabian desert. Those silk @ incense roads!. Overwhelming, but cool to imagine being there. Or the travelers 1,000's of yrs.ago.

  • @theimmortalnajdiwarrior9061

    The Arabian Peninsula Cradle of All Civilizations And It's Mother Indeed. 💝💝💝💘💘💘😍😍😍🤩🤩🤩🌹🌷🌸🌼💮🏵️⚔️⚔️⚔️👑👑👑

  • @thelonewanderer7
    @thelonewanderer7 Před 5 lety +11

    I love this documentary.

  • @theimmortalnajdiwarrior9061

    Wow It's Awesome Incredible Feeling Indeed, To Know About The Marvelous And Magnificent History of The Great Immortal Caravan Kingdoms And Empires of Southern Arabia That's Once Ruled Much of The Arabian Peninsula In The Ancient World.

    • @bodenkeaton4480
      @bodenkeaton4480 Před 3 lety

      I dont mean to be offtopic but does any of you know of a way to get back into an Instagram account..?
      I somehow lost the password. I love any tricks you can offer me

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      @callanalaric9722 Před 3 lety +1

      @Boden Keaton instablaster ;)

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      @bodenkeaton4480 Před 3 lety +1

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    • @apollo268
      @apollo268 Před 2 lety

      fucking bots

    • @السيديزيدالشمراني
      @السيديزيدالشمراني Před rokem

      ​@@bodenkeaton4480 through your email

  • @Kamella772
    @Kamella772 Před 9 lety +13

    What a beautiful monuments tombs until now we can see them from what kind materials building now nothing will stay after 50 years

  • @fadiadam7887
    @fadiadam7887 Před 3 lety +3

    Syria 🇸🇾 👍

  • @hamanalshami3971
    @hamanalshami3971 Před 5 lety +7

    Your channel is amazing keep up the good work

  • @Happy_HIbiscus
    @Happy_HIbiscus Před 2 lety +1

    dude, this is cool

  • @clementmckenzie7041
    @clementmckenzie7041 Před 11 měsíci +2

    If an Arab guide took Berkheart to Petra, then how was it lost for a thousand years ? I love how Europeans are always "discovering" places everybody knows about

  • @heehoharu
    @heehoharu Před 5 lety +12

    I'm glad I'm not the only one watching this boring shit for Global #highschoolgang rise up

  • @chanelku6777
    @chanelku6777 Před 5 lety +2

    Nice

  • @cookieyellow7601
    @cookieyellow7601 Před 3 lety +7

    Ok but who got the answers?

  • @jamespoynor9511
    @jamespoynor9511 Před rokem

    Very cool.

  • @supercarnitas
    @supercarnitas Před 9 lety +25

    Isis just destroyed palmyra, fucking sad

    • @singrest2006
      @singrest2006 Před 8 lety +3

      Not true
      The west ruined our country for the past hundred years, isis did not do a fraction of the damage your countries did.

    • @Tamir-Barkahan
      @Tamir-Barkahan Před 8 lety +2

      You have no country.

    • @singrest2006
      @singrest2006 Před 8 lety +1

      +‫מפיץ זעם‬‎ yes your 100# right we do not have a country thats because Allah swt granted the whole planet for us, everywhere we go is our land.

    • @Tamir-Barkahan
      @Tamir-Barkahan Před 8 lety +1

      By all means, keep believing that.

    • @Tamir-Barkahan
      @Tamir-Barkahan Před 8 lety +1

      It gets even more irAnic when I look at your name.

  • @docwhiskey996
    @docwhiskey996 Před 5 lety +3

    Soundtrack sounds like it was robbed from policenauts

  • @safaaharrouni195
    @safaaharrouni195 Před 2 lety +4

    My heart aches knowing the temple of Bel was destroyed in 2015 by ISIS .what else was destroyed by the endless wars thus region went through since beginning if times

  • @mohammedaljinabe1573
    @mohammedaljinabe1573 Před 5 lety +1

    King's and generals and flash point history

  • @st9g-faiz517
    @st9g-faiz517 Před 4 lety +2

    omg this was for ancient history :(

  • @nicklipkowski7223
    @nicklipkowski7223 Před 5 lety +2

    Typo: the Swiss explorer Burckhardt "discovered" Petra in the late 18th, (not 19th) century (he died in 1817)

  • @TheFrog767
    @TheFrog767 Před 5 lety +2

    Great voice 👏🏻👏🏻👋👍

  • @maxxlindley9425
    @maxxlindley9425 Před 4 lety +1

    Great series

  • @darlabrewer2334
    @darlabrewer2334 Před 3 lety +4

    That comment was for you blue lotus.I pray 🙏 someday all will come to know your king and our savior The Lord Jesus Christ. With much love

  • @Husky77
    @Husky77 Před 5 lety +4

    Yemen good history

  • @craigbigelow8160
    @craigbigelow8160 Před 5 lety +2

    China wants to build a railroad on the old Silk Road trade route.

  • @ahmedislam2580
    @ahmedislam2580 Před 5 lety +21

    ancient arabs

    • @martialkintu2035
      @martialkintu2035 Před 5 lety +4

      And Aramaeans.

    • @ahmedislam2580
      @ahmedislam2580 Před 5 lety +3

      @@martialkintu2035 basically syrians are not real arabs mostly assyrians

    • @martialkintu2035
      @martialkintu2035 Před 5 lety +6

      @@ahmedislam2580 Doesn't matter what they were or are. Palmyra was located in Syria before Arabization. And if we are to speak correctly then they probably were at one point time Aramaeanized as Aramaeans was the Lingua Franca of that time,just like Arabic is today.

    • @ahmedislam2580
      @ahmedislam2580 Před 5 lety +1

      @@martialkintu2035 where are u from LoL

    • @martialkintu2035
      @martialkintu2035 Před 5 lety +1

      @@ahmedislam2580 Why does it matter?

  • @generalturner9628
    @generalturner9628 Před 7 lety +1

    Whats the original name of the documentary?

  • @thatguy4765
    @thatguy4765 Před 4 lety +6

    I have to watch this for my social studies and it was so boring

    • @likeicare300
      @likeicare300 Před 4 lety +3

      Dont be that guy

    • @olbradley
      @olbradley Před 3 lety

      How is this boring?

    • @lobixlia
      @lobixlia Před 9 měsíci

      same here bestie YvY

    • @lobixlia
      @lobixlia Před 9 měsíci

      @@olbradleybc not all of us r dry ass history nerds like u

  • @TheBRITSAS
    @TheBRITSAS Před 8 lety +3

    tablet/laptop was discovered in the ancient time....more advance than today...

  • @oumousow7033
    @oumousow7033 Před 3 lety +1

    Global Homework making me very sleepy right about now...

  • @نغومةالعباس
    @نغومةالعباس Před 2 lety +2

    لقد دمرتم بلدي

  • @yofavdilf5225
    @yofavdilf5225 Před 3 lety +1

    Anyone got the answers, i need them asap

  • @Jjahiuan
    @Jjahiuan Před rokem

    its Jordan not Syria
    Nabateans is the anscestors of the jordanians

  • @darlabrewer2334
    @darlabrewer2334 Před 3 lety

    Some things are true whether you believe them or not.

  • @ApoorwVikramDwivedi
    @ApoorwVikramDwivedi Před 3 lety +5

    This is a great video but Western historians have and continue to remain biased towards cultures that later condoned to the Abrahamic religious views. They've done huge injustice to Indian Hindu and pre-Hindu pagan cultures in India which are relatively more ancient than others in the world and were consistently advanced civilizations compared to their contemporaries and even to the foreign civilizations which followed much later in time.

    • @asmrnaturecat984
      @asmrnaturecat984 Před 3 lety +3

      cry more

    • @whateverr2296
      @whateverr2296 Před 3 lety +2

      Since we were not there and the history of the world is not all documented, how could you say for certain that there was no other cultures that were more ancient? We are still learning about the past but is it really all reliable? I find it hard to believe every thing we are taught about history in my opinion, I could be wrong i know.

    • @ApoorwVikramDwivedi
      @ApoorwVikramDwivedi Před 2 lety +1

      @@whateverr2296 I'm not saying that Hindu culture is the most ancient. I'm just saying that Hindu culture and even other pagan cultures predate Abrahamic culture and there are historical as well as architectural proofs of that and that the Western historians have been unfair in giving due credit to them. That's because majority of the times the intention of Abrahamic cultures, in the past, were expansionist and a big part of that strategy was to discard or, at best, underplay other cultures and civilizations. One can see how widespread Hinduphobia has been in recent times.

    • @ApoorwVikramDwivedi
      @ApoorwVikramDwivedi Před 2 lety

      @@asmrnaturecat984 rise above your hate, brother. Om Shanti

    • @whateverr2296
      @whateverr2296 Před 2 lety +1

      @@ApoorwVikramDwivedi you make a good point! But how was I hateful? I’m just saying that history can’t be 100% truthful in my own opinion buddy.

  • @xorasanorg
    @xorasanorg Před 5 lety +1

    Oh how this heavily relies on "Roman European historians" instead of Muslim accounts.

  • @SYNC-fd3nb
    @SYNC-fd3nb Před 6 lety

    This is how the United States was formed.

  • @tunes3992
    @tunes3992 Před 4 lety +2

    Who got the awnsers

  • @brettlewis2335
    @brettlewis2335 Před 4 lety

    This was a silly in realistic documentary

  • @yaruqadishi8326
    @yaruqadishi8326 Před 6 lety

    That statue is not shem the fictional hebraic character of post antiquity. And queen sheba was not worshipped as a "goddess"?
    She was a lesser being aka human mortal. Sheba queen did not live in the Yemen area that is too far south and was probably made that way in local tradition when hebraism aka Islam took over which is clear.

    • @terriejohnston8801
      @terriejohnston8801 Před 3 lety

      I thot the lovely Queen of Sheba was from Ethiopia...where many claim the Arc of the Covenant is hidden. Where she returns eventually aftr King Solomon dies.

    • @yaruqadishi8326
      @yaruqadishi8326 Před 2 lety

      @Gas Enjoyer... Never said otherwise

    • @yaruqadishi8326
      @yaruqadishi8326 Před 2 lety

      @Gas Enjoyer... Ok

    • @yaruqadishi8326
      @yaruqadishi8326 Před 2 lety

      @Gas Enjoyer... Or Saudi area Sheba queen was.

  • @hsntrkmnturkiye5326
    @hsntrkmnturkiye5326 Před 6 lety +3

    Petra... I think that Muslims are the first place of worship and the first pilgrimage place

  • @LondonPower
    @LondonPower Před 5 lety +2

    The Arabs of Petra were influenced from the Greek cilvilazation and later on Arabs Muslims took so many things from Greeks special after the annexation of alexandria Egypt and grecoroman syria

    • @h.a.3049
      @h.a.3049 Před 5 lety +13

      You absolutely know nothing about the Ancient Arabian civilizations. The Arabians were the first humans to build skyscrapers, located in Yemen, no one prior to them had anything like that before.

    • @maracohen5930
      @maracohen5930 Před 5 lety +2

      Arab Islamic invasions and conquests brought wealth and power to the Arab Muslims. Just as the trade Wars for Mecca and Medina brought wealth and power to Mohammed, the Great Pilgrimage, and the Incense Route tolls....

    • @hotsauce153
      @hotsauce153 Před 5 lety +8

      All civilizations influence each other, dumbass.

    • @hotsauce153
      @hotsauce153 Před 5 lety +5

      Plus, bring me another civilization that is as unique as the Nabataeans and their Metropolis, Petra.

    • @maracohen5930
      @maracohen5930 Před 5 lety

      Great Merchants. @@hotsauce153

  • @nothinglastsforever0000
    @nothinglastsforever0000 Před 5 lety +1

    Aladdin

  • @Eren-zs7so
    @Eren-zs7so Před 5 lety +3

    Not Arabian actually Syrian Aramean

    • @h.a.3049
      @h.a.3049 Před 5 lety +11

      Arabians are descendants of Arameans, Ismael the father of Arabians was an Aramean.

    • @hotsauce153
      @hotsauce153 Před 5 lety +9

      You're fucking stupid. The Nabataeans are the original Arabs. Aramaeans are of Mesopotamian origin.

    • @TeekoNST
      @TeekoNST Před 5 lety +2

      Syrian

    • @ahmedislam2580
      @ahmedislam2580 Před 5 lety +2

      @@hotsauce153 jews and arabs are cousins

    • @hotsauce153
      @hotsauce153 Před 5 lety +3

      @Yousef Ghaneemah are you Aramaic? Just curious.

  • @davmeck2518
    @davmeck2518 Před 2 lety

    its all lies

  • @tomriddle4121
    @tomriddle4121 Před 3 lety +1

    Ancient Israelites were not Arab or African.. they were Caucasian..

  • @alemshaygebremarim4642

    Falsch,

  • @schanninla1973
    @schanninla1973 Před 9 lety +5

    In acient time there was no civilization.

    • @ArabianStallion
      @ArabianStallion Před 9 lety +26

      Yes there was my friend! People was manufacturing and creating things ~ agricultural tools, raising corps, building, political system, organized cities and occupations, market and currency! That a civil was civil way of living compared to animals thus, yes sir our human ancestors achieved a high degree of civilization may more than we are did in recent history (they started from nothing and creating most of thing we kno now all we did in the past 1000 yrar was building on their innovations

    • @brucejohnwayne7783
      @brucejohnwayne7783 Před 9 lety +2

      Arabian_Stalion I think that he means that those times where never as nice the portrayal of them in modern TV an Film.

    • @hotsauce153
      @hotsauce153 Před 5 lety +2

      @sheyma mysam Yes, but the Sabaeans, Minaeans, Qataban, and Himyarites weren't Arabs, They never referred to themselves as Arabs. They were who they were i.e. Sabaeans, Minaeans, Qataban, and Himyarites. The Nabataeans are the original Arabs.

    • @martialkintu2035
      @martialkintu2035 Před 5 lety +2

      Then what the heck did you just watch?

  • @yeshaya24
    @yeshaya24 Před rokem

    Documentary full of malicious predicament , perilous desert, thieves, bandits, goat sacrifice etc... tells more about the psyche of the makers than the region ..... 😔