4 Incredible Times History Was Rewritten

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  • @Sideprojects
    @Sideprojects  Před 3 měsíci +23

    Check out Foreo at foreo.se/hfuu and get 30% off UFO 3. For the first 50 people, get a 10% additional discount using the code PROJECTS10. Thank you FOREO for the sponsorship!

    • @megaflux7144
      @megaflux7144 Před 3 měsíci +5

      thank you foreo for removing ALL the wrinkles from my tired old ball sack.

    • @EuroWarsOrg
      @EuroWarsOrg Před 3 měsíci +4

      I would not trust anything Zahi Hawas says about history

    • @charlesjurgus
      @charlesjurgus Před 2 měsíci

      The idea that the servants/slaves who built the pyramids were buried with lavish trinkets, that their health was tended to... even if they had weapons or crowns... regardless of the degree of lash to flesh was required... does not detract from the simple fact that the imperatives of an entire society were shunted to serve the frivolous mortal fears of a potentate. the pyramid is material proof of the societal order.
      You CAN have highly decorated slaves... it is the protestant american version which hinges upon the contempt and brutality as distinguishing features--perhaps fetishized because the taste hasn't left the mouth and thrill is gone.
      Slavery is about the denial of ones own choice to participate... just because that impulse to determine ones own fate has been thwarted, denied or dispelled from ones notion of the possible... does not change the fact... An entire society served the insecurities of a single potentate... and his foreman class, or priestly order.
      It is the same pattern we see in our society... where the slave-owners became trapped by their own institution--and it is that contemptible culture of that foreman class which today persists and strives to recreate that same servile order... through a dispensing with of 2000 years of governmental evolution culminating in modern democracy... in favour of a strong man. As we see Trump promising the end of politics. That is... tearing down of the order which grants some assurance of protected rights... in favour of a carpetbagger's promises. The mere allocation of societal resource and relative importance and lack of political redress... we see in ancient Egypt... is proof of slavery. No matter how little of the good stuff, rape, murder and brutality... we see.
      I wouldn't suggest that the Egyptians were broken into accepting their plight... perhaps they simply didn't know the possibilities. It doesn't change the material reality which is proof enough.
      The Idea that this wasn't a slave order is propaganda... as we still have pyramid builders willing to sacrifice your freedom to allay their insecurities about death... through great wealth and power over others... by buying their way into a somewhat lofty position in an oppressive hierarchical order through their service to such systems.
      Those people weren't free... they couldn't just leave. And their labor was used to support their own oppressive hierarchal order. That is slavery. no matter how resigned to their fate they may have been... no matter how fancy the collars they wore.

    • @NinjaNezumi
      @NinjaNezumi Před 2 měsíci

      Neanderthals didn't go extinct any more than that branch of homo sapiens.
      The two branches bread into each other. So it's not really extinction, now is it? ;) IT'S SEXTINCTION!

    • @NinjaNezumi
      @NinjaNezumi Před 2 měsíci

      He wasn't an idiot. He had to use Dynamite because his digging license was expiring. IF he had not have used that Dynamite we would STILL be without that discovery, today.

  • @backwashjoe7864
    @backwashjoe7864 Před 2 měsíci +408

    Thousands of years in the future, historians will be struggling to accept just how many CZcams channels were hosted by Simon Whistler.

    • @ocircles738
      @ocircles738 Před 2 měsíci +40

      "Surely he must have been using slave labour"
      "Dude it was an alien numbers station for sure"

    • @BigSexyWizard
      @BigSexyWizard Před 2 měsíci +14

      And how he never retained any of the information he ever presented. A true puppet.

    • @jonw1661
      @jonw1661 Před 2 měsíci +1

      That's what I've been saying!

    • @71kimg
      @71kimg Před 2 měsíci +4

      There much have been multiple Simon whistlers

    • @kyleahmed6345
      @kyleahmed6345 Před 2 měsíci +4

      CLONES

  • @primafacie9721
    @primafacie9721 Před 3 měsíci +188

    "...and with entirely too much dynamite...". One of the funniest lines ever uttered by Whistler.

    • @richardcheeseman6330
      @richardcheeseman6330 Před 3 měsíci +13

      lmao....There was a whale washed up in Oregon a number of years ago....The same statement was made after.

    • @primafacie9721
      @primafacie9721 Před 2 měsíci

      Yes. They had a big deal on it in 2020 for the 50th anniversary. Blew chunks all over the beach and many whale explosion watchers. Since 1970 dynamite is the first thing crossed off the list whenever a whale washes up on an Oregon beach.@@richardcheeseman6330

    • @DarkZodiacZZ
      @DarkZodiacZZ Před 2 měsíci +8

      That statement also implies that there is an agreed upon amount of dynamite that is ok to use for archaeological digs. 😁

    • @mortache
      @mortache Před 2 měsíci +5

      Yeah the amount is zero ​@@DarkZodiacZZ

    • @jorgelotr3752
      @jorgelotr3752 Před 2 měsíci +5

      According to Schliemann himself, it was in fact not enough dynamite.

  • @TheRattyBiker
    @TheRattyBiker Před 3 měsíci +91

    10:44 Adobe didn't seem happy 😂

    • @joshinya42069
      @joshinya42069 Před 2 měsíci +2

      There does seem to be some sort of grudge 😂

    • @ripn929707
      @ripn929707 Před 2 měsíci +3

      Is that why we keep seeing the "no media" placard on some of these videos? I was wondering. I thought it was an inside joke. 😂

    • @mickipixel
      @mickipixel Před 2 měsíci +5

      I was waiting for other post-production junkies to notice the dreaded media offline screen 😅 deadline versus QC, the fight is real

    • @TheRattyBiker
      @TheRattyBiker Před 2 měsíci +3

      @@mickipixel the perils of quickly re-organising the clips to the project into a folder with a more friendly name than "New Folder (7)"🤣

    • @xiaocatmaster3754
      @xiaocatmaster3754 Před 2 měsíci +1

      I'm glad I'm not the only one who was like, "wait, what the hell?'

  • @MrAdamArce
    @MrAdamArce Před 3 měsíci +150

    An important thing people need to think of when reading history is that humans haven't changed in tens of thousands of years. People wrote letters or left messages on the public city forums to each other rather than send text messages. If a really cool monument was built you can be certain someone wrote "Jenkins was here" and a pennies was drawn on it. The "your mom..." jokes are probably older than Rome and Greece. It's weird, but people were living their lives then as we do now, but with less luxuries. Just as intelligent, dumb, hopeful, depressed, imaginative, calculating, and so on as we are today. They just didn't have electricity

    • @KilledByThatTrain
      @KilledByThatTrain Před 2 měsíci +16

      Or funny cat videos, what a horrible existence

    • @somethinunameit637
      @somethinunameit637 Před 2 měsíci +20

      The oldest joke I know of is a fart joke. The oldest movie joke, "he is behind me, isn't he?" Is older than the odyssey. It was used in the odyssey, and there is some evidence that it was a reference to an older work.
      Pompeii has roof tiles that animal prints (mostly cats) were pressed when making the tile. they used these "flawed" tiles much like how we keep concrete that our pets walk through

    • @MrAdamArce
      @MrAdamArce Před 2 měsíci +7

      @KilledByThatTrain I was thinking about that, and while they didn't have the cat videos, they did have cults and religions dedicated to cats

    • @ricdavid
      @ricdavid Před 2 měsíci +11

      Right? We all know that Halfdan visited the Hagia Sophia. There's also a great episode of Tasting History with Max Miller, I'm not 100% sure which but it might be "Ancient Roman Fast Food" or something like that, where Max reads a bunch of the inscriptions left behind, including one that was essentially "The service here was terrible so we took our money and spent it instead on whoores".

    • @nlwilson4892
      @nlwilson4892 Před 2 měsíci +2

      I think the "your Mom" jokes are pretty new, I've only ever heard them in the past few decades.
      However, there is graffitti in a boarding house in Pompei that references a good place to buy food and where to find more carnal pleasure and what they charge. It is almost like an ancient Trip Advisor. There are phallic carvings on Hadrian's Wall, it is quite common in Roman architecture, when you consider that such work took hours of carving in stone rather than a couple of seconds with a marker pen or spray paint, it is quite impressive.

  • @DannyBoy1985
    @DannyBoy1985 Před 3 měsíci +73

    We will forever be discovering, rediscovering, and re-writing history.

    • @VosperCDN
      @VosperCDN Před 2 měsíci +4

      Essence of science really; if new evidence is discovered, examine and test it - don't just poo-poo it because it goes against what has been established as 'fact'.
      Never stop learning.

    • @MrEnjoivolcom1
      @MrEnjoivolcom1 Před 2 měsíci +3

      Until someone discovers us.

    • @johnhough7738
      @johnhough7738 Před 2 měsíci +1

      I forget who said it ... "History is written by the victors~!"

  • @jeraldbaxter3532
    @jeraldbaxter3532 Před 3 měsíci +63

    The timing of Simon stating that Neandarthals being just as intelligent as we are, then immediately going to a commercial for a questionable beauty product is perfect!

  • @user-rd6ii6mp1t
    @user-rd6ii6mp1t Před 3 měsíci +65

    The Greeks go to all the effort of waging a massive war then building the Trojan Horse to get into Troy. The next guy just blew it all to hell with dynamite. Complex problems require simple solutions?

    • @fredblonder7850
      @fredblonder7850 Před 2 měsíci +14

      If the ancient Greeks had had dynamite, they wouldn’t have bothered with the horse.

    • @KryssLaBryn
      @KryssLaBryn Před 2 měsíci +3

      They recently figured out that the "horse" was a type of warship.
      The attacking Greeks didn't build a giant hollow wooden statue of a horse for some weird reason; they just left one of their big wooden warships "abandoned" on the shore.
      Boy, do we look dumb now, eh? XD

    • @benjaminepstein5856
      @benjaminepstein5856 Před 2 měsíci

      Tropan*

    • @jonathanscott7372
      @jonathanscott7372 Před 2 měsíci +2

      That's what Alexander the Great thought when he used a sword to untie the Gordian knot.

    • @jarrodbright5231
      @jarrodbright5231 Před 2 měsíci +1

      @@fredblonder7850 "If the ancient Greeks had dynamite..."
      Now there's a frightening thought experiment

  • @ArchonToten
    @ArchonToten Před 2 měsíci +32

    5:09 That awkward moment when your third arm merges into the stick you were holding..

    • @KilledByThatTrain
      @KilledByThatTrain Před 2 měsíci

      That's some tough wood

    • @Hyde_Hill
      @Hyde_Hill Před 2 měsíci +4

      Yeah wonder if that is the actual Neanderthal museum or some more AI crap.

    • @tondekoddar7837
      @tondekoddar7837 Před 2 měsíci +4

      ​@@Hyde_Hill Absolutely AI, look the next guy's hands flow down and melt. Bet it's Simon's trap for (c) things. I've been wondering if Simon is AI generated already, since similar sounding videos from year or so ago repeat now, but it's just sign of the times (youtube dates change etc I bet). Darn AI hallucinates all over my internets.

    • @themischief420
      @themischief420 Před 2 měsíci +1

      guy next to him has extra legs

    • @jmmahony
      @jmmahony Před 2 měsíci

      and they're all wearing pants, which weren't invented until people in ukraine/russian steppes domesticated horses and started riding them.

  • @anthonycade9034
    @anthonycade9034 Před 3 měsíci +22

    I just can't get over how we figured out how to make bows so early in our history. We still use them for hunting, it's like an Einstein of a person thought of it.

    • @mrsanity
      @mrsanity Před 3 měsíci +12

      If you're travelling through thick undergrowth, you quickly become aware of the relationship between tension and potential energy - even if you don't truly understand the physics involved. Someone absent-mindedly fiddling with branches and vines could also have lucked in on the concept - it could even have been literally child's play....

  • @markedis5902
    @markedis5902 Před 3 měsíci +20

    Good to see Captain Caveman again. I used to enjoy that cartoon

  • @kevinhamer2230
    @kevinhamer2230 Před 3 měsíci +123

    I'm an American and I learned that Leif Erickson beat Columbus to America in elementary school in the 1990s.

    • @dudedabsworth8023
      @dudedabsworth8023 Před 3 měsíci +9

      Same.

    • @alexlail7481
      @alexlail7481 Před 2 měsíci +29

      Yep, it is always interesting the revisionist views of history the general population of Europe has about Americans as a whole.... just because some of us are socially back sliding religions zealots doesn't mean we all are...😊

    • @toddnolastname4485
      @toddnolastname4485 Před 2 měsíci +5

      And then forgot about it. Until Columbus rediscovered it, and everyone wanted a piece of it.

    • @kathycook3024
      @kathycook3024 Před 2 měsíci +16

      American boomer here; I remember learning about Leif Erickson in 5th grade in 1970. They also taught us about Columbus proving the world was round, though, and how everyone else thought he would fall off the edge of the earth and be eaten by sea monsters, but brave Columbus yada yada yada...

    • @Plaprad
      @Plaprad Před 2 měsíci +17

      I was in US public schools through the 80's and 90's. We never once heard anything about anyone other than Columbus. I remember in 1992 they released a movie on it and our whole school went full "Columbus" for a few weeks. We did plays, art shows, essays, you name it.
      When a student saw something about the Norse discovering it on TV and brought it up, we were told it was just made up to make a show.
      Not all schools are equal it seems. But our history books were brand new! And wrong!

  • @dukeon
    @dukeon Před 2 měsíci +5

    I’m in my 50s and my Californian public education taught me about the Vikings inhabiting Lanse-aux-Meadows in North America. It was discovered in the 60s, I believe.

  • @sd-ch2cq
    @sd-ch2cq Před 3 měsíci +18

    'they were short and fat, thus they must have been stupid'. A lot of modern prejudices have been around for centuries.

  • @lugubriousenclave91
    @lugubriousenclave91 Před 2 měsíci +24

    So if Neanderthals blew up Troy to build the pyramids, what did the Vikings do again?
    History can be so confusing.

    • @nanastan9
      @nanastan9 Před 2 měsíci +11

      They discovered Columbus.

    • @joelellis7035
      @joelellis7035 Před měsícem +1

      They made first contact with the Asgardians. This super-advanced space-faring civilization with magic-like technology were so impressed with pre-industrial Viking culture that they adopted its trappings.

    • @Mbappe_fan300
      @Mbappe_fan300 Před 27 dny

      They were first to set foot on the moon

    • @danielhaigler556
      @danielhaigler556 Před 26 dny

      Bro, pay attention. You got everything wrong. The Vikings blew up the pyramids to build troy as a home for the neanderthals who migrated from Columbus Ohio... Jesus

    • @jameshorn270
      @jameshorn270 Před 19 dny

      @@Mbappe_fan300 Actually, this is a mistranslation. There were 6 kings, in Roman numerals VI kings

  • @davefantarrow3774
    @davefantarrow3774 Před 3 měsíci +11

    Well Neanderthal s had animated cave paintings so they were pretty advanced. I am surprised noone spotted that earlier on

  • @fractaljack210
    @fractaljack210 Před 3 měsíci +11

    I've always wanted to visit Trop.

  • @EyesOfByes
    @EyesOfByes Před 3 měsíci +214

    Trop? Now that's what I call a typo.

    • @sa9110
      @sa9110 Před 3 měsíci +32

      Not sure how that got approved. Unless it was strategic for clickbait.

    • @mr.joshua6818
      @mr.joshua6818 Před 3 měsíci

      😂

    • @Nollic15
      @Nollic15 Před 3 měsíci +21

      This thumbnail is the epitome of the quality of this creator.

    • @JeeVeeHaych
      @JeeVeeHaych Před 3 měsíci +22

      I was so confused, because in French it means 'too much'. Discovering too much? Being too enthousiastic in discovering?? Then it hit me 😂

    • @raider_reaper_4194
      @raider_reaper_4194 Před 3 měsíci +2

      ​@@JeeVeeHaychhaha 😂

  • @asylumental
    @asylumental Před 3 měsíci +18

    The music was way too loud around the 12 minute mark.

  • @capnstewy55
    @capnstewy55 Před 2 měsíci +4

    I enjoy that there are semi fossilized squares of moss in a hole in the middle of 4 posts in the ground...outhouses for the win. Definitely clicked to find out what torp was.

  • @rhov-anion
    @rhov-anion Před 2 měsíci +3

    That last sentence hits hard, especially since my middle school had science books so old, the teacher had crossed out parts thanks to new research in the 60s up to the 90s.

  • @ignitionfrn2223
    @ignitionfrn2223 Před 3 měsíci +20

    1:05 - Chapter 1 - So easy a caveman can do it
    2:00 - Mid roll ads
    3:25 - Back to the video
    6:05 - Chapter 2 - The lost city of troy
    9:40 - Chapter 3 - Who really built the pyramids
    13:00 - Chapter 4 - The discovery of the new world

  • @harpo345
    @harpo345 Před 2 měsíci +3

    In fact, Atlantis was very probably based on the explosion of the volcanic island of Thera which led to the end of the Minoan civilisation.
    Definitely worth a video!

  • @Jacqueline_Thijsen
    @Jacqueline_Thijsen Před 2 měsíci +4

    Harry Harrison wrote an absolutely hilarious book called The Technicolor Time Machine about the Vikings traveling to Vinland.
    About Columbus: in his time, a conqueror was considered entitled to some looting and having his pick of women from the nation being conquered. His behavior was so egregious, even people who were ok with that basis were appalled. Safe to say that this was not a nice dude. You also left out that Columbus didn't try to convince his sponsors that the earth was round, since they already knew that. The difference of opinion was about the size of the planet. The sponsors knew a number that was close enough to being correct that for their purposes it made no difference and rightfully believed the expedition would run out of food and drinkable water long before reaching land. Columbus was convinced the Earth was a lot smaller than that. The sponsors were right and if there hadn't been this whole continent in the way of the journey to India, Columbus and his crew would indeed have starved.

    • @CipiRipi-in7df
      @CipiRipi-in7df Před 2 měsíci

      Well, by 1492, it was known from Eratosthenes' work that Earth had a circumference of 25.000 miles. But from Marco Polo and other travelers along Silk Road, it was known that China lay 7.000 miles, to the East. This leave 18.000 miles to the West, in order to reach China. And this was the source of concern for his sponsors, as no ship would cross 18.000 miles of endless water.

    • @highendservicesbarrieont8347
      @highendservicesbarrieont8347 Před 2 měsíci +1

      Or sailed off the edge😂😂😂

  • @asaiya705
    @asaiya705 Před 3 měsíci +23

    10:46 you seem to have a media file issue, i am not sure if that was on purpose, but seems like you are missing a clip.

    • @nathanirick7806
      @nathanirick7806 Před 3 měsíci +2

      I have seen the exact same red screen on other videos and channels.
      Most times just a flash to fast too read. This one was there a long time.

    • @asaiya705
      @asaiya705 Před 2 měsíci +1

      ya i wasn't to sure if it was supposed to be there or not, just wanted to let them know

  • @Charles-js3ri
    @Charles-js3ri Před 2 měsíci +2

    Cool, a family member got a reference in the video! Sweet. Great great uncle Rasmus was a interesting dude. We still have quit a bit of his stuff.

  • @LSDeadly
    @LSDeadly Před 2 měsíci +2

    My ears perked up when you said Vinland, after watching Vinland Saga I looked it up and never found anything on it so thank you for that 😊

  • @masamune2984
    @masamune2984 Před 3 měsíci +4

    “Trop”
    Oh man…how do you even…that bad…😆

  • @bonesknowspod
    @bonesknowspod Před 2 měsíci +1

    The comedy of posing the question ‘were Neanderthals our intellectual equals?’ then running a skin care ad is not lost on me. Bravo editor!

  • @LilyGrace95
    @LilyGrace95 Před 22 dny +1

    I had a city builder game in the late 90s called "Pharaoh", and in that the pyramid builders were also the farm labourers - they'd build monuments outside farming season, then go back to planting/harvesting when the season resumed.
    If a game (though admittedly an incredibly accurate one) from the 90s could get that right, it honestly boggles my mind that it was nearly another 20 years before people found empirical proof worth believing...

  • @judyhawkins6584
    @judyhawkins6584 Před 28 dny

    You make such a sobering point about how history is taught in the U.S. One of my favorite history teachers, in my 1976 tenth grade history class, bucked the textbook problem by spending about 10 minutes on the assigned reading in the 1950's era Western Civilizations textbook, and spending the rest of class time on Peace Corps literature from around the world, with reading out loud and discussion lead by her.

  • @shootthatmonkey
    @shootthatmonkey Před 2 měsíci +1

    That was some serious shade thrown at the end

    • @sokar_rostau
      @sokar_rostau Před 2 měsíci

      Right? I know not all school systems in the US are equal (which is the root of the damn problem) but the fact that people were making the same complaints/jokes in the 1990s makes said shade a fair bit darker.

  • @davidioanhedges
    @davidioanhedges Před 3 měsíci +17

    The modern history of North America is so easily shown to be mostly mythologised, and wildly inaccurate with a core of truth, but is still largely believed to be basically true by so many people despite this, that we should question large parts of world history ....

  • @klaatunecktie7906
    @klaatunecktie7906 Před 3 měsíci +16

    Couldn’t the building of the pyramids be a hybrid workforce of artisans AND slaves? Makes sense to me

    • @KonradvonHotzendorf
      @KonradvonHotzendorf Před 3 měsíci +6

      No. The Egyptian army was small and dispersed. You couldn't control that many people
      Also slavery was unheard of in the 3rd and 4th dynasty when they built them

    • @cals4991
      @cals4991 Před 2 měsíci +8

      They were built by workers not slaves they were paid good

    • @semaj_5022
      @semaj_5022 Před 2 měsíci +8

      Nah, artisans and laborers. The workers were well fed and well cared for, with their own on-site towns and all the beer and grains they could want. Egypt didn't really do the slave thing at this point in their history anyway.

    • @ripn929707
      @ripn929707 Před 2 měsíci +1

      ​@@semaj_5022it makes sense to me, especially after I started watching the TV show "Hell on Wheels", a fictionalized accounting of the traveling tent city that moved along as the train tracks were built across the U.S.. this is how things get done.

  • @saiynoq6745
    @saiynoq6745 Před 3 měsíci +11

    We know so little about history

    • @marticusthe1st
      @marticusthe1st Před 3 měsíci +2

      We only know what they’ve told us.

    • @Ai-dz7ys
      @Ai-dz7ys Před 3 měsíci +2

      And yet everyone around Simon think Graham Hancock is barking mad.

    • @kalrandom7387
      @kalrandom7387 Před 3 měsíci +2

      We know so little that we don't know what we don't know.

    • @RonLong-yj8zj
      @RonLong-yj8zj Před 3 měsíci +1

      One thing we learn from history is we learn nothing from history

    • @StoneInMySandal
      @StoneInMySandal Před 2 měsíci

      @@Ai-dz7ysHancock isn’t mad, he’s just a conman.

  • @theUglyGypsy
    @theUglyGypsy Před 3 měsíci +17

    Ah yes, Trop. From where we get the Tropan goat legend.

  • @Peoplearefood
    @Peoplearefood Před 2 měsíci

    Good vid broski

  • @multiyapples
    @multiyapples Před 3 měsíci

    History is fascinating and amazing.

  • @DarkZodiacZZ
    @DarkZodiacZZ Před 3 měsíci +4

    Neantherdals were primitive by our standards but they weren't stupid. If I remember one document correctly getting the pitch just right took some effort even by modern researchers.

  • @ebubechiibegbula5968
    @ebubechiibegbula5968 Před 2 měsíci +12

    I love the shade thrown at the American Education System.... Well done bro

  • @willbrashear
    @willbrashear Před 2 měsíci +2

    History is written by the Victors. Everyone else just lives through it.

  • @WolfRamAndHart
    @WolfRamAndHart Před 2 měsíci +2

    If Professor Daniel Jackson says it was aliens who built the pyramids, (and even were launch pads for spaceships) I believe him!

  • @grandlotus1
    @grandlotus1 Před 2 měsíci

    Simon, you rock!

  • @mohammedsaysrashid3587
    @mohammedsaysrashid3587 Před 3 měsíci

    It was an incredible introduction video

  • @weedfreer
    @weedfreer Před 3 měsíci +3

    10:43 err...media offline?
    🤔
    You got the work experience guy doing the video for this one?

  • @Vee_of_the_Weald
    @Vee_of_the_Weald Před 2 měsíci +2

    The inhabitants of Trop were The Tropics, right?

  • @anthonycade9034
    @anthonycade9034 Před 3 měsíci +4

    If I could go back to a moment in history, I would like to watch that person figure out the bow and arrow.

    • @nlwilson4892
      @nlwilson4892 Před 2 měsíci +1

      I think it comes from fire making. You can roll a stick between the hands pressed onto some wood to make fire, but it is hard work. If you can make any sort of string (from sinew, strands from plants etc.) wrap it round the stick and tie the ends to a bent stick to provide friction and move that bent one back and forth, you have a bow drill (look up videos of this). It doesn't take much to then realise that the bow can propel a stick then work to make a bigger and better one.
      It is also possible that this method of fire making may have come from trying to make holes in wood for construction.

    • @anthonycade9034
      @anthonycade9034 Před 2 měsíci

      @@nlwilson4892 do you think the bow drill came first or the bow for hunting?

    • @nlwilson4892
      @nlwilson4892 Před 2 měsíci +1

      @@anthonycade9034 The bow drill would make sense, much simpler. A bow for hunting need to be much more refined, you need much better "string" and a stronger bow to get and force or distance and arrows need to be very straight and all the same weight and width to be predictable in where they will hit. Although they probably used them quite close-up at first and refined them over generations to go further.

  • @aristotlespupil136
    @aristotlespupil136 Před 2 měsíci +1

    What surprises me is that we still call Neanderthals a different species given that we know we interbred

  • @megaflux7144
    @megaflux7144 Před 3 měsíci +4

    CAPTAIN CAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAVE MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!

  • @josephsmith1235
    @josephsmith1235 Před 3 měsíci

    Oooooo. That was snarky. Luv it.

  • @OathTaker3
    @OathTaker3 Před 3 měsíci +4

    There's a shock!?
    Hawass was wrong about something in Egypt... 😂

  • @DickLongFlop14
    @DickLongFlop14 Před 3 měsíci +3

    “This was even supported by Herodotus who…totally knew a guy” 10:02

    • @Andrew-vj2ep
      @Andrew-vj2ep Před 22 dny +1

      yeh I almost inhaled a mouthful of coffee at that line, having heard of his sketchy reliability many times

  • @scottbaron121
    @scottbaron121 Před 3 měsíci +7

    To most of us (in the US) the whole "in 1492, Columbus..." thing was non-sense by the time we got out of elementary school. By secondary school, we knew that (this is back in the 80's) that it was most likely that (A) Columbus never actually set foot in North America and (B) the Scandinavians had been here CENTURIES before. Yeah...Americans are ignorant sometimes...but not on this case.

    • @Guy-cb1oh
      @Guy-cb1oh Před 3 měsíci +3

      If the islands off the coast off the Americas don't count as part of the Americas than England is not part of Europe and Japan is not part of Asia. Thus the English aren't European and the Japanese aren't Asian.
      Also, Columbus may have not been the first European to set foot in NA but he did discover Americas in the sense that Europe was made aware of the new world because of his travels. The same cannot be said of the Norse expeditions.

    • @StoneInMySandal
      @StoneInMySandal Před 2 měsíci +1

      I was in school in the same era, and I was not taught about the Scandinavians in the Americas.

    • @jonnor6883
      @jonnor6883 Před 2 měsíci

      @@Guy-cb1oh Neither Leiv Eriksson (norseman) og Columbus did find America. The American continent had already been found by "what is later called" American natives 20000 or 16000 years ago. What Leiv Eriksson and Columbus did find was the sea way between Europe and America. Europeans didn't discover much, we just wrecked the life of others in our so-called discoveries

  • @shaun.christensen
    @shaun.christensen Před 3 měsíci +5

    Discovering Trop?

    • @MrBadavidson9
      @MrBadavidson9 Před 3 měsíci

      When things were already known locally but the west “discover” it

    • @Linuxpunk81
      @Linuxpunk81 Před 3 měsíci +1

      I think it was supposed to be Troy

  • @wiggiag
    @wiggiag Před 3 měsíci +4

    Yo Simon. Can we get a video on where all the money going to Ukraine is winding up? Or how about one that tracks the stock trades of politicians worth 100 millions that only have a salary ~$220k

    • @HikuroMishiro
      @HikuroMishiro Před 2 měsíci +1

      Comrade Simon would be all to happy for 100% of your money to disappear in the Ukraine with no accountability. He's not going to make a video about it. It is possible he'd make a video about politicians making millions off of stock trades, but I'd wager he'd only include certain politicians in the video.

    • @nlwilson4892
      @nlwilson4892 Před 2 měsíci

      The US isn't sending money to Ukraine, it is sending US manufactured arms and ammunition. The US Gov (and others) have satellites that can see where it is ending up along with loads of videos in the public domain.

  • @alimccheyne1320
    @alimccheyne1320 Před 3 měsíci +2

    Now do the 1948 Nakba...I'll wait.

  • @kevinmcqueenie7420
    @kevinmcqueenie7420 Před 2 měsíci

    I see the thumbnail has been corrected! Was very interested in "discovering trop" as I had no clue what 'trop' might have been, but was too busy to click on the video. Slightly disappointed that I now will never know what 'trop' is or might have been, but it was fun to speculate for a day or so!

  • @rh661
    @rh661 Před 2 měsíci +5

    6:20 Simon hides the fact that he's working without shoes.

  • @elfdream2007
    @elfdream2007 Před 2 měsíci +1

    American education leaves a lot of room for improvement in many areas, but they ceased teaching the 'Columbus' myth a long time ago.

  • @bobbylon5
    @bobbylon5 Před 3 měsíci

    Knowledge Evolves!

    • @bobbylon5
      @bobbylon5 Před 3 měsíci

      After my essay yesterday on decoding the unknown. I do like this. Only four minutes in, but i know first hand that the biggest problem with science, is the human factor. When you spend years learning something, you become resistant to change. This is human and can be applied to anything learnt. The problem is when we apply it to science. To assume things learnt 1000 years ago are 100% still correct, is the biggest failing of science. There are countless examples of a good idea, being ignored, because the wrong people were around that person.

  • @chrisneville4265
    @chrisneville4265 Před 2 měsíci +2

    I appreciate at least some of the AI depictions were declared as AI.

  • @studogable
    @studogable Před 26 dny

    Columbus did, in fact, set foot in mainland North America. It wasn't until his fourth voyage, though, which touched base in what is now Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama.

  • @kevinfoster1138
    @kevinfoster1138 Před 2 měsíci

    TROP HAS BEEN FIXED. good job guys.

  • @Breytremore
    @Breytremore Před 2 měsíci

    The Schliemann music got me.

  • @noizeemama3697
    @noizeemama3697 Před 2 měsíci +1

    Egypt. They have known for decades that they did not use slave labor. Slaves don't go on strike. Pyramid builders did. They have found records of this happening I believe, three times. Pretty much everyone worked on the pyramids. They were worked on during the off season. Farming was more important so that was priority. Building monuments was government jobs to keep people busy, employed, and earning a living. Your writer needed to do more research on this one.

  • @awkc63
    @awkc63 Před 2 měsíci

    So much of history has changed... Especially with things during WWII

  • @DavidJones-me7yr
    @DavidJones-me7yr Před 2 měsíci

    The Vikings were indeed in the Midwest as my deceased brother-in-law discovered signs of Vikings on the Viking Trail in North Western Wisconsin and Minnesota! He passed in 98 so it's been known for over 36 years!

  • @yewtoob2007
    @yewtoob2007 Před 3 měsíci +1

    THE TROPAN WAR!

  • @IrishMike22
    @IrishMike22 Před 3 měsíci

    Wow!! New Sunday video!! Who needs football!?!? 😊

  • @qc1okay
    @qc1okay Před 2 měsíci

    SideProjects, how did you not mention that the dismissal (at 14:44) of the Kensington runestone 100 years ago was itself disproved recently by the evidence of unforgeable root growth on it from the tree that grew over it many years before it was dug up?

  • @ianmacdiarmid1249
    @ianmacdiarmid1249 Před 2 měsíci

    Viking presence in North America was taught to me in elementary school in the 80s and 90s.

  • @thetangieman3426
    @thetangieman3426 Před 2 měsíci +1

    I'll need to be highly skeptical any public school in America has history books from the 1960's. You should do a side project on the US Department of Education. Explore it's controversial beginnings and questionable outcomes. Then look at the link between the politicians and paper industry. Then ask yourself if that 1960's books in public schools comment checks out.

  • @comicomment
    @comicomment Před 26 dny

    According to maya legend Palenque was provided with a king by a sailing ship arriving from a north.
    The ship brought a red bearded short man, whose rule as a king made the then town of Palenque into a local superpower.

  • @latetotheparty4785
    @latetotheparty4785 Před měsícem

    More on the pyramids, this is speculation for you to consider. During the Great Depression, the US government created jobs for the unemployed, such as The Tennessee Valley Project. When the Nile flooded before the building of the Aswan Dam, there was a large population in Egypt basically unemployed. There were professional rock masons employed year round, but the stones were moved by this temporary workforce. In a way, this was how Egyptian government created work during the floods. I don’t know why this stopped, perhaps instead of funerary campuses(like the Giza Complex)the temps were used to move stone for east bank temples, granaries, and other infrastructure.

  • @philcannon91
    @philcannon91 Před 2 měsíci

    More like Incredible Times the Title Card Was Rewritten. But joking aside I do appreciate that being fixed as it seemed like a huge oversight.

  • @andessmf
    @andessmf Před 3 měsíci +7

    The idea that most American schools can’t afford history books newer than 1960 is preposterous and simply wrong.

    • @StoneInMySandal
      @StoneInMySandal Před 2 měsíci

      It certainly wasn’t in the 1980s-90s. Considering how the financial situation hasn’t improved in most schools, I doubt the textbook situation is any better.

    • @PhenomRom
      @PhenomRom Před 2 měsíci

      They squander so much money

  • @im_cart8656
    @im_cart8656 Před 3 měsíci +2

    dude, how many channels is this guy apart of?

  • @Lukecash2
    @Lukecash2 Před 2 měsíci

    As someone who worked in producing textbooks for grade schools in the United States, Viking explorerers as the first Europeans have been noted scince 1990s.
    Even when I was a kid of the 70s and 80s were taught that Columbus didn't discover the world was round, did he find North America.
    However discovery of North America goes to those that cross the land bridge and became the first nations.
    (history books get updated every 5 years)

  • @danielgertler5976
    @danielgertler5976 Před 2 měsíci

    From what i've heard the leading theory is that the reason we sapiens out competed neanderthals because sapiens relied in ranged hunting which let sapiens take down prey safely. Meanwhile the Neanderthals were hunting up close which led more often to people dying during hunts as well as Spaiens being able to take down megafauna that the Neaderthals couldn't.

  • @shaundenehy4681
    @shaundenehy4681 Před 3 měsíci +2

    Someone once said history is what we're told happened the past is what you did getting out of bed this morning.

    •  Před 3 měsíci

      Some gimp.

  • @jameshorn270
    @jameshorn270 Před 19 dny

    "Historia" was the title of Herodotus' work and gave the name to the field. Contrary to some feminists, it does not mean His Story, but Inquiries. His inquiry was ultimately about how the small Greek city states beat the huge Persian Empire. In answering it, he dug up a lot of facts and near facts about other lands which were peripheral to his subject.
    Had he chosen to write about women's role in the Persian Empire, he would have used mostly other sets of facts, insofar as they were available.
    History changes in part because we know more, but also because we ask different questions than our predecessors. For instance, there was a school of archaeological thought when I was a grad student which was engrossed in the study of trade, what was traded, how much, trade routes, origins and markets, etc. Economic history. In the course of this, some stray stories of Herodotus were confirmed, a few were discredited, and some were found to be partially true. Herodotus is generally very clear when he knows something personally, and when he is relaying what he was told.

    • @burner555
      @burner555 Před 15 hodinami

      No feminist thinks "history" comes from "his story"

    • @jameshorn270
      @jameshorn270 Před 43 minutami

      I have seen it numerous times in print, and since Herodotus, indeed, the whole field off ancient history, is not exactly a popular field of study, I have no idea how many seriously believe it, but I would not want to bet that there are none.

  • @MrGforce52
    @MrGforce52 Před měsícem +1

    Simon Whistler is inevitable.

  • @michaelsargeant5923
    @michaelsargeant5923 Před 3 měsíci

    Love your videos 👍🇬🇧

  • @boudicaastorm4540
    @boudicaastorm4540 Před měsícem

    I don't have the specific resource names handy, but the Norse discovery of America is a special interest of mine, and there's actually evidence to suggest Norse settlement and/or travel to North America throughout the few centuries leading up to Columbus, rather than just one short stint around 1000 AD. I think it's somewhere in the financial records of the Norwegian church at the time, because they would receive tithes from Greenland (and I think Iceland) periodically, which is where the Norse settlers to America had originally come from. There've also been alleged claims of other Europeans who supposedly reached or at least sighted North America before Columbus, but they're hard to prove or disprove one way or another, such as the Italian brothers Nicolo and Antonio Zeno. Also, it's widely theorized that Columbus had visited Iceland in 1477, well before the Americas, and I have a feeling that he could've easily found out that North America existed already from speaking to the locals (or having a translator speak to the locals).

  • @JonMartinYXD
    @JonMartinYXD Před měsícem

    A big contributor to the endurance of the Columbus myth is that Americans dedicate a day to celebrating the guy.

  • @chrisyoung8301
    @chrisyoung8301 Před 2 měsíci +1

    I thought it went "fourteen hundred and ninety two Columbus got us a day off school".

  • @disassemblyrequired3438
    @disassemblyrequired3438 Před 2 měsíci

    Who picked the music at 6:52? Heinrich Schliemann has music that sounds like he's on a SitCom.

  • @jmmahony
    @jmmahony Před 2 měsíci

    I'm surprised you mentioned Atlantis as an example of something that was purely fictional, since it was quite possibly inspired by a massive volcanic eruption that nearly destroyed the large island of Santorini (Thera) in the Aegean sea around 1600 BC.

  • @facepalmization2841
    @facepalmization2841 Před měsícem

    1:59 - No Simon, literally not one single time in my entire life :P

  • @culturebreath369
    @culturebreath369 Před 2 měsíci

    The ending was painful 😢😂
    Its sad but true.

  • @lobehold2263
    @lobehold2263 Před 2 měsíci

    In my average school in this average city. They taught us about Erik discovering America first. That was 10 years ago

  • @danielriley7380
    @danielriley7380 Před 2 měsíci

    “But not Atlantis”. Me and Fact Boi are so on the same page 😂.

  • @andrewbrown6522
    @andrewbrown6522 Před 3 měsíci +3

    The workers village was probably the managers. Always need yes men on site and gotta keep them happy for logistics to hold.

    • @weedfreer
      @weedfreer Před 3 měsíci +2

      Thing is, the size of these settlements, there would've 50+ managers per worker.
      Some may say that this is the situation we're in in many workplaces today, but, all jokes aside these settlements he's talking about are more like towns/small cities in and of themselves.

  • @jayjones9125
    @jayjones9125 Před 2 měsíci

    I want to see Simon do ads for Lucky Strikes

  • @2neetoon
    @2neetoon Před 2 měsíci +3

    The "interbreeding music" is weird for me. History shows that when that type of thing occurs on a mass level it's not a love story at all. It's brutal to say the least but I guess they're keeping it family friendly.

    • @nlwilson4892
      @nlwilson4892 Před 2 měsíci

      They're talking about interbreeding over many generations not lots of people all at once so there is no need to think that it was forced with one side oppressing the other. Their existence in Europe overlapped by at least 10,000 years.

    • @2neetoon
      @2neetoon Před 2 měsíci +1

      @@nlwilson4892 there are none left, so the interbreeding was thorough. It doesn't work the way you want to think. Read about the Conquistadors, Rome, Alexander, Vikings, Mongols, Barbs and many more. It's not nice but don't blame it on me.

    • @nlwilson4892
      @nlwilson4892 Před 2 měsíci +1

      @@2neetoon Of course the interbreeding was thorough, they had 10,000 years of it with a tiny population compared to anything in written history. Estimates of world population in 10,000 BCE are around 2 million and you're going back another 40,000 years to the time they estimate Neanderthals finally ceased to exist.
      The much much later societies that you're talking about were organized societies with structures, hierarchies etc. You're talking about 40,000 years later for the first of those.

  • @toodlepop
    @toodlepop Před 2 měsíci

    if we are still aware of the original version before the "rewrite" then that means that history has not been rewritten in these cases. if history had truly been rewritten, then we wouldn't know it. the fact that we talk about rewrites and what was changed disproves the premise.

  • @Dr.BryanG
    @Dr.BryanG Před měsícem

    Derp “The oldest known evidence for anatomically modern humans (as of 2017) are fossils found at Jebel Irhoud, Morocco, dated about 360,000 years old”

  • @Peetizzle
    @Peetizzle Před měsícem

    If you think you can trust Zahi Hawas for telling you not only that he discovered something himself, but that he proved anything about ancient Egypt, I have no words for you😂

  • @amberkeene7574
    @amberkeene7574 Před 2 měsíci

    As an American, I have never heard that rhyme before in my life...

  • @wavydavy9816
    @wavydavy9816 Před 2 měsíci

    I was at school witha really big lad who couldn't pronounce the word properly and called them Nan-derfal, which became his nickname, but you had to be a fair distance away if you were gonna yell it at him because he's smush you like a mammoth! 🦖