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  1. Glad you label him exactly what he was….an evil con man.
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  2. It's quite a long while after the Bronze age, but I've always been fascinated by the Osterby Man, who was uncovered by peat moss cutters in Germany in 1948. Only his head was discovered but he was still rocking his Suebian knot with fire-red hair. He allegedly lived between 75-130 CE
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  3. Nice video! I'm from Crete and live less than a mile away from Knossos. I always thought that the "peaceful Minoans" myth was an exageration because they were being compared to the Myceneans. If anyone of you wants to come visit Crete for its ancient past or its wanderful landscape you are always welcome! 😁
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  4. You'd think this guy would be much better known. This is just the kind of story the English love, and just the way they like to imagine themselves, or it was until recent times.
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  5. Just found this channel and binged everything on it. Top tier history channel. Love how thorough and informative your videos are about sometimes obscure topics, and I can tell you're an author just by how you articulate yourself and infuse the videos with an imaginative aspect.
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  6. Very good video, as always. I’m Italian and i’ve spent many summer holidays in Sardinia, it’s an amazing place with stunning beaches. And everywhere you go you can see nuraghis, some are as big as massive medieval castles. When you think of their age it’s amazing that the nuragic civilization is so little know outside Italy.
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  7. I never believed that minoans were bronze age peaceniks but I always appreciated their fashion sense.
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  8. A brave man in some dark times, this is the best description for Vlad III. I believe that he's a underrated personality(vampire stories aside)compared to others. Achieving so many things with an army so small is truly something, imagine if he had an army the size of his neighbouring states.
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  9. One explanation I've read for this is that dogs are seen as liminal creatures: they are the guardians of the border between life and death because, in the real world, they straddle the border between the human realm and that of animals.
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  10. Real Männerbünde hours - press F for fido
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  11. As a spaniard i only ever learned this last year at the madrid museum of archeology, since then i wholeheartedly believe chalcolythic spain must have literally been the world of conan the barbarian
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  12. This video is like a dream for me. I've been fascinated by Bronze Age trade routes for more than 20 years, and this is the most comprehensive explanation of routes and items traded that I've seen or heard of so far. I guess I have to check out the sources and read a few more books. Thanks for putting this together. Love it.
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  13. Love these videos Dan! Having a professional author like yourself as a presenter of history goes a long way in adding a depth of narrative that truly makes history gripping. Looking forward to the next one!
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  14. some people just don't like heroes, they think that heroes can't exist because they could never be one, and thus they try to tell you why they weren't heroes to make themselves feel better out of jealousy
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  15. I wonder if anyone has tried tracing the centaur myths to their origins. I always imagined they were the result of the first mounted warriors attacking a village or people that hadn’t seen horses before or at least never seen someone ride one. “Man they came out of no where big 4 legged animals with human torsos attached to them and just started killing us!!”
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  16. Dan, you've got some of the most engaging bronze age content on the entire platform. Thanks for all the great videos. Edit: bronze age armor video would be greatly appreciated
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  17. I would be interested to know if there are any fairy tales or old fireside stories from Northern Germany/Scandinavia that might help explain the battle. It could easily be a northern Helen of Troy style event, it would appear men from all over southern Germany gathered together to head north.
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  18. it's a nice day in 1605 BC and the first thing you hear is that BROPEC will cut down production to keep bronze prices up
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  19. Wow! What a great lecture! Very thorough and with lots of great examples. In Ukraine, we learn about Trypillian culture in school. Plus, there is usually at least one school trip to a local museum that usually has some ceramics or at least mentions the culture (if you are from the area, of course). But I was surprised to discover that almost no one knows about it in the west! Later I understood that it was because of the separation of Soviet and Western archeology that you've mentioned. An interesting fact is that Vikentiy Khvoika, an archaeologist who discovered and studied Trypillina culture, actually was a teacher who lived in Kyiv. When he accidentally discovered the remains of an old home at some construction site near his house, he was so impressed that he decided to dedicate his life to studying these remains and eventually became an archeologist.
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  20. i suppose it is surprising to most, but when you consider HOW much the Vikings spent time on hair, and looks, and grooming (including especially care of their hair) to the point that other peoples of the time commented on their constant bathing and combing... i think this is something that comes up over and over in cultures... always interesting to hear/see your videos!
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  21. The possibility that the Przewalski horses are just the long-free ferals of the Botai culture blew my mind when I first heard of it. Shows how few certainties there are even in the ancient past, or at least how we understand that past.
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  22. hedgehog with mushrooms on its spines at 4:40 was the surprise hit
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  23. Oh baby I'm gonna get comfy with this one. You are the best history-based channel on youtube right now, Dan! Top content.
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  24. There's something about a hammer. Pick one up and it always occurs to you that you can really impact your environment with it. It makes you think of power!
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  25. I have to say this is one of the best history channels I have ever watched. Dan Davis does a superb job of explaining things clearly, concisely, and chronologically. The use of maps and the icons moving about them really helps understand the movements of the armies and people's of the story. Absolutely, absolutely amazing. I can't wait to watch more of Dan's videos.
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  26. I like the somewhat romanticised notion that the maritime trading/raiding/fishing lifestyle these people probably engaged in was very similar to that of their not too distant ancestors on the steppes. The seas simply replacing the open steppe and the horse and chariot by their ships. Theres a sort of poetry in the perenniality of their way of life.
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  27. I like how you stress the things which we simply don't know.
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  28. With the arrival in Neolithic Britain of the Bell Beaker peoples came the renewed growing of barley in a massive way. Barley at the time was strongly associated with beer brewing. The spread of the Beaker culture in Britain introduced high levels of steppe-related ancestry, resulting in a near-complete transformation of the local gene pool within a few centuries, to the point of replacement of about 90% of the local Neolithic-derived lineages. It clearly demonstrates the power of beer.
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  29. First time I clicked this fast, people hadn't even domesticated horses for riding yet. Thanks again, Dan!
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  30. Those sheilds! As a hobby metal worker, they blow my mind. To think they started with a lump (!) of bronze and worked it to such high precision and so thin. You only get one shot to get it right and any mistake could mean the project would have to begin again from the crucible. Even small elements like the wire are incredible displays of skill and ingenuity. No rollers, braising torch or steel tools that are considered 'must haves' today. Astounding.
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  31. Nordic Bronze Age is honestly the most intriguing time period to me, it is so mysterious and hints at such greatness and complexity, yet so little has remained due to the wet, dynamic and corrosive nature of the region.
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  32. This channel is such a strange gem for someone who is into history, mythology and fantasy.........shits so cool, all of it
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  33. Great Orme certainly delivered up an amazing tonnage for it's time. As a matter of great pride to me as a former miner is the tonnage of copper lifted from just one of our Cornish mines. Before it closed in 1820 Dolcoath had delivered up a staggering 350,000 tons of copper...and 80,000 tons of tin. One mine.
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  34. I also first heard of them in David Anthony's book, its really amazing that at around 4000 BCE their settlements were bigger than those in Mesopotamia and the Levant.
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  35. Smiling Vlad is such a treat to behold
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  36. I feel like these academics have never actually rode on a horse. That should be a requirement in order to fully understand what they are theorizing.
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  37. *Raids a friendly clan Them: What are you doing Steppe-brother?
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  38. Many of the pictured objects were found together due to a Proto-indo-European stone axe buyback program.
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  39. Imagine the internal drama of deciding to start a new clan yet missing home, or realizing you’d be responsible for maintaining your traditions so far from home.
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  40. An unbelievably thorough presentation as always. It's refreshing and impressive how much information you cram into every video without even allowing it to become dull or dense.
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  41. Nice one Dan
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  42. My knowledge of pre history has changed so much in the last 10 to 15 years or so. The bronze age especially I find so interesting. Have just received the three books in the Gods of Bronze series. Looking forward to reading them.
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  43. You got my vote for a weights and measures video of the bronze age. Knowing how they kept everyone as honest as possible back then would be fascinating
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  44. This is the quality of the video we need on this platform
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  45. "Extinguishing the existing male lineages while taking wives from the existing Iberian population" is quite the euphemism
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  46. The fact that many of the Vinca inscriptions are similar to those found in Linear A of Crete should be taken into account before dismissing the possibility of representing writing. It's also worth noting that other writing forms, like cuneiform, started as pictograms for trade items as well.
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  47. I really respect the fact that you make it clear that you're an author of fiction, and not a domain expert. And you base your work on the work of domain experts.
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  48. The time, effort, love, dedication and work you put into this documentary is commendable. Above and beyond. Well done.
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  49. Very good content packed into a storyline that's condensed enough to avoid bogging down in mind numbing academic minutiae, but with the right amount for a decent understanding. The flow or cadence of the narrative is superb which makes Dan's videos so enjoyable to hear and learn.
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  50. I love the vocab used in this one, hope it still makes him money despite the platform's prudishness
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