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  1. God bless Romania and it's people!
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  2. I think this guy is a legend partly because he not only had plenty of victories and against-all-odds success, but several moments where he got to personally stick it to people who underestimated or rejected him. Isn’t that the stuff we all fantasize about? Having a jerk boss who fired you show up to a few years later to a job interview you’re running, and you get to go “Well, well, well…”
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  3. "The Cunning Headed Gent who's run amuck in Kent, King Louis best stay close to Mayfair, Ah-hoo William of Cassingham."
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  4. The Yamnaya are derived from the Khvalynsk Culture and earlier Samara Cultures along the Volga River to the lower Ural Mountains. Horse scepters are found in the Khvalynsk Culture as well as rich horse burials. Although the Khvalynsk Culture did not domesticate the horse, it is likely the horse was revered as scepters, or staffs are signs of power. Horses have always been expensive and only the elite could afford to maintain them as well be trained to use them in warfare. Samara Culture has horse burials as well. Obviously, this would be a sign of respect or reverence for the animal versus just using it as a meat source. R1b is typical of Samara, Dneiper-Donets, Late Repin, or Khvalynsk Cultures. Interestingly, R1b is found in proto-Tocharian cultures farther to the east. R1a is predominantly found in Corded Ware Culture as well the back migration of Corded Ware to Arkaim-Sintashta Culture. I find it interesting that Nordic Mythology has a lot of similarities with Rig Veda or Hindu mythologies as well as R1a being more common in India and Iran than in Wales, Ireland, Scotland, Spain, France, and northern Italy. R1b is mostly found today with Bashkirs (near the homeland of R1b between the Volga and Ural Rivers) and Western Europe.
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  5. Explains why all the tombs in Lycia i visited were empty. Think those tombs you showed at the end are at Tlos?
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  6. I wanna say thank you, I had pneumonia over Christmas and into February and in the time I was awake I watched lots of your content it is fascinating. I'm lucky to be based in Dover at the moment and as you know there's many historical sites locally and I can look at it all with a greater knowledge thanks to you. YouTube is something else mate, thanks again.
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  7. I am torn between the time you spend educating us on civilizations of the past and wanting you to continue writing further novels in your Gods of Bronze and Vampire immortal Knight series. Your talent is being spread so far. I love it.
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  8. The last bit about connecting warriors, canoes, social structure and production structure was brilliant.
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  9. If I remember correctly, in Choctaw afterlife myth dogs are buried with out near their owner's burial location and serve as a guide as the spirit travels west. The log that spans the river has guardians on both sides (However they're not dogs) and the guardians would throw rocks and such to knock the spirit off of the log. If the spirit was brave enough and ignored the guardians they would make it across, but if they tried to dodge the objects thrown at them, they would fall into the river and be swept away.
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  10. Although I know I could not survive this kind of life, I can’t help but think that life must have incredibly beautiful. So very few people in the entire world, absolutely no pollution anywhere, very connected small groups of people living together. Of course it was a very hard life, lots of loss through death and illness, not to mention no pain killers.
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  11. I am simple man: I see Vlad, I click "like"
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  12. Fantastic as always. It makes me think about those families and their wagons and the love of vehicles. I’m sure those men loved them as much as I love my truck, I get a little bit of a sense of the experience when I’m camping. And I can imagine that cultural attraction transferring to boats and ships later on. Just a thought…. Keep it up!
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  13. Unbelievable how much history have been lost from the Bronze Age. I'm glad archeology is helping us recover some of that knowledge.
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  14. I am from Romania. I love the documentary! Great work! Thank you!
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  15. There is a saying in Dutch/Flemish "De beste stuurlui staan aan wal", this means that the "best and most insightful" people judge your from afar. Like in the comments, they always know better, yet have 0 knowledge or experience. But you made a great video as a response and i loved watching it ^.^
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  16. Absolutely fascinating. Thanks Dan for your research and exposition of it. What connection do you think may be between the Terramare and Etruscans?
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  17. Start as a bear cub, and work your way up to eagle scout.
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  18. You are a great storyteller, Dan. Not only detailed, but very pleasantly to listen to. 👍
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  19. I think a good piece of evidence for the early riding hypothesis is the high value placed on horses by Yamnaya (and descendant peoples) who were mainly eating sheep and cows. They were burying people with horse skulls and hides, had horse head shaped maces, and horse inscribed stones. Also the horse was very important ritually to the indo european peoples, with a common ritual significance shared by peoples whose ancestry split before the late horse riding hypothesis is dated to.
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  20. How have I not found this channel before? History is my favorite subject and this is by far one of the better history channels I've come across.
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  21. Love your channel, sir. You present information in a coherent and scholarly way while still being entertaining, but without all the silly gimmicks that another channel might employ for shock value. Thank you and please don't stop! Cheers from Florida.
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  22. This is one of my favourite short quotes about chariot fighters:  "... by daily training and practice they attain such proficiency that even on a steep incline they are able to control the horses at full gallop, and to check and turn them in a moment. They can run along the chariot pole, stand on the yoke, and get back into the chariot as quick as lightning" (Gallic War, IV.33). It must have been a sight to see
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  23. Bronze just got melted again for other use thats why we just dont find enough weapon or amour pieces, Iron was less expensive and more common, they just made new iron weapons or armour. In the bronze age a father would give his copper stash to his sons to they coule use it time and again. Fantastic video. Congrats.
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  24. shared! i always debate, whenever we have a "sudden" collapse or disappearance, whether it was as sudden as we think. the archeological record can get rather compressed, and the difference between Pompeii (actually sudden) and , say, the wells getting unreliable and people leaving (maybe 20 years) can be hard to see after only a few hundred years. after a few thousand?
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  25. Thank you for a excellent biography of William Marshal a figure who has been sadly overlooked by many historians.
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  26. I love this one! Hair and clothing is something I'm always curious about, because it helps me form a vision of these people's daily lives
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  27. As a kid I watched the Stephen King's "The Stand". (The 1994 TV miniseries). I was way too young for it. Man, that story terrified me. It looks like this discovery could easily be turned into a ancient version of that story.
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  28. Excellent video, very interesting and informative! I can't help but associate the Nuragic towers with Medieval castles and watchtowers, at least visually. It's almost as if the Middle Ages got dragged back into the Bronze Age. When you mentioned the sacred swords in stones I immediately thought of King Arthur! The Nuragic civilisation was ahead of their time it would seem.
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  29. It would be interesting to see more content on the Sintashta culture, very fascinating stuff.
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  30. Fascinating, thank you! I think it's essential to involve anthropological studies in this (as you did) not because they can directly tell us what people in the past did, but because they can illustrate different mindsets. It can be hard to even imagine what it would be like to eat someone dead out of love and respect, but it might be equally strange for someone who did to imagine our practices - "You put them in a hole in the ground? With the worms? You monster!". Through the study of human nature and the past we learn more about our species than we ever could by ignoring it.
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  31. It's like an epic fantasy quest. A small band setting out to stop the enemy, the people they meet on the way giving them their blessing and help...
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  32. Excellently researched and thoroughly engaging Content. Everything that a History channel should be!
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  33.  @DanDavisHistory  That's the one, I'm given to believe it is easily accessible by boat which was the most efficient form of travel then so could have been used by multiple north European countries. Gets the old grey matter in motion!
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  34. Your channel has become one of my absolute favourites for historical content. Your descriptions of historical figures getting carried along by the momentum of forces outside of their control is so compelling to me, and that tension between the will of individuals and the will of societies is so fascinating. Thanks for doing what you do!
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  35. When times are rough because of corruption and lawlessness, we Romanians say: Cum nu vii tu Țepeș Doamne… Meaning: why don’t you come, Lord Țepeș
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  36. “Bronze Age Kings of the Caucasus”...that’s gonna be the name of my rock band.
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  37. Not being a show off by saying that I have a PhD In medieval history but I can honestly say that your video was one of the clearest and most concise I have seen on this period of history. Loved every minute and wished it ran for much much longer. Get some more done, soon. Please cover the guerrilla war in Kent, the siege of Dover and the Battle of Lincoln. A brilliant gold star production.
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  38. Great job, your channel has quickly become one of my favorites and has given me lots of questions to ask while I’m pursuing my degrees in Archaeology and History.
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  39. Reminds me of the young Spartans tasked with harassing the Helots. Explains why car ins costs our young males the most money also! These younger warriors might also be merely Cannon fodder.
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  40. I recall reading an article in an archaeology magazine many years ago about this topic. It's really surprising how widespread, both geographically and temporally, these practices are. The Aztecs and Maori practiced ritualised consumption of human flesh, but other examples come from starvation. I remember a discussion on the subject of Herxheim in a Stefan Milo video from a while back. I'm sure he was of the opinion that it was an example of mass cannibalisation of an enemy tribe, so it was interesting to hear another perspective on it.
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  41.  @DanDavisHistory  I have often said that antibiotic resistance in microbes proves the theory of evolution or the malevolence of the Supreme Being. Not really a third alternative.
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  42. The origin and expansion of equestrianism! One of my favourite topics! BTW, Dan, I'm a recent Patreon supporter who asked recently for a recommendation of one of your books. Thanks again for the amazing content!
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  43. Love these prehistoric videos. Always feels like peeking behind a usually-impassable veil
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  44. Greetings from Únětice, Dan :-) great work as always. Keep it coming.
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  45. Reminds me a lot of traditional trick-or-treating on Halloween here in America (not sure if it's the same in the UK): Bands of masked children demanding offerings and threatening minor vandalism if none is given. Also in Louisiana, where I grew up, the Cajun people have their own version carnival or Mardi Gras where mostly men dress in costumes, act wild, and seek "charity" from their neighbors. It's interesting learning about different versions from commenters here from other cultures. I hope these fun traditions never die out!
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  46. I believe in Caesar's Gallic Conquest he wrote about the charioteers causing quite a bit of panic for the Romans in Britain. Great content.
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  47. Mr. Davis, the podcast of the Lotuseaters recently did a 'contemplations' segment on Romulus, his historicity and the mythology of Rome's founding. I referenced you in a comment and there are many fans of yours there. A collaboration or guest appearance by you would be great for both parties and much appreciated by many. You're both Brits, so travel shouldn't be an issue. Food for thought.
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  48. Gosh! This sounds even worse than high school!
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  49. So glad we have someone covering these incredibly important but much less well known periods. These very early civilizations are endlessly fascinating.
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  50. I was just thinking of using cannibalism in my current novel. I want to avoid making it an act of evil but I do want it to be a source of conflict among various belief groups. The idea is very fresh so, who knows what will come up when I read more on it. Great content, sir.
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