Comments by "Samson Soturian" (@samsonsoturian6013) on "Dan Davis History" channel.

  1. Dude, men haven't exactly stopped sexualizing violence. No further explanation necessary
    19
  2. I'm noting a pattern with these bronze age cultures. They start nomadic with men freely moving to new regions, then by late bronze age they unify into permanent states with immensely wealthy landlord-kings, then it all terminates with cold and dry conditions
    12
  3. The Egyptians thought the Hebrews/Hyksos were the first to have chariots. But more likely they were the first to introduce them to Egypt.
    7
  4. Arguing that women were in charge of society because they owned pretty things is silly. Men in this region even today give their wives nice things including gold rings, pearl necklaces, and gem-studded jewelry. It is far more likely that the men, who had the swords and muscles to use them, simply loved their wives and children.
    5
  5. They burned incense in the temple. IDK if they had pot but they definitely weren't getting intoxicated in the house of God.
    4
  6. The funny thing is this reveals that European men have worn their hair short... From day 1.
    4
  7. You sure they didn't just visit family graves and get stoned thinking about old times?
    3
  8. 12:50 Love the Machiavelli reference.
    3
  9. Longhouses? Yep
    3
  10. Later German cultures used bark as paper so who knows
    3
  11. Men own all the land but their wives get all the shiny things? Some things never change
    3
  12. These guys abandoned Germany during the Bronze Age Collapsed
    3
  13. Not if they're a sea people. The Celts went north after the collapse.
    2
  14. It really says something when the prince you were grooming to be a collaborator governor doesn't just turn on the Turks, but executed all the Turkish soldiers he could find.
    2
  15. Everyone thinks the future decade is more important than all the other ages of the world. It never proves true.
    2
  16. They didn't.
    2
  17.  @symbolsandsystems  I don't have a channel. And I don't recall any record that the Egyptians knew of the Alps' existence, much less owned it. They probably knew it existed due to trade routes though
    2
  18. @symbolsandsystems  you make weird arguments. Why the frick would you think they did settle/conquer that far?
    2
  19.  @symbolsandsystems  what was that about ignorance? The Egyptians fought mostly over the Nile and had few ships, much less the massive logistics needed to conquer inland mountains on a different continent
    2
  20.  @symbolsandsystems  that's archeology. I'm starting to think you're trolling me
    2
  21. Whether we call it European
    2
  22. The reason of his reputation was because he robbed and evicted a number of German businessmen who waged a smear campaign back in Europe
    2
  23. About the feast where Vlad killed all the Boyars: It's said that Vlad was hailed as the rightful successor to his father. Vlad asked "How many masters did they have" during the interim. No one present could give a clear answer, since it dependended how one counted. This kinda highlighted the point that the elites of Wallachia needed... Reformation.
    2
  24. There's a lot more to life than fighting. Except with places this old, often the only thing that survives is some knives.
    1
  25. All part of the bronze age collapse. All over the known world, people abandoned their homes and went south. I believe the collapse to have been caused by THE Ice Age.
    1
  26. They were after bread not gold
    1
  27. It looks as if the whole Po River Valley was as flooded as Venice.
    1
  28. In the legends of the Book of Jasher, it's said Cain invented standardized weights and trades after being exiled. If that is to be believed, you will not find any people at any time on Earth that did not have a concept of money.
    1
  29. Vhut?
    1
  30. Later Norse used kiels, a giant central beam down the center of the ship that bore all the weight. These were a fraction the cost of painstaking making interlocking planks, but was limited by the size of the tallest tree. This is why these giant ships sound impossible, because later technological advances allowed smaller ships to be mass produced.
    1
  31. Except the world was much warmer and wetter in the bronze age. We're talking cattle in the sahara.
    1
  32. 8:20 You got some of the names wrong. Babylon did not exist at the time and the region was under the king of Akkad. The Myceneans and Minaons both called themselves Achaeans.
    1
  33. What is interesting to me is that Scandinavia appears to have had early settlement in the Bronze Age, but remained nearly uninhabited until the Dark Ages
    1
  34. We don't know the bronze age names of any of these places. Terramare is a modern Italian word.
    1
  35. Don't be so sure
    1
  36. @xXxSkyViperxXx  there were no humans in the Americas or the south pacific at that time.
    1
  37. @xXxSkyViperxXx  yes, but it is highly unlikely YOU'RE from them with that username
    1
  38.  @xXxSkyViperxXx  your native language and first world life
    1
  39. I saw another DNA study that said these people were originally from Akkad and according to Moses two brothers Gog and Magog and their families were the first humans to go north of the Caucasus
    1
  40. Of who?
    1
  41. The Hyksos were not driven out of Egypt until AFTER the collapse. Terramare disappeared DURING the collapse.
    1
  42. Vhut?
    1
  43. If a large portion of the town happened to be related and if daughters had to be sent far away for marriage, it is more than likely the overall population of the kingdom was tiny. I.E. The community lived on the hill and went into the valley to farm, no real industrial/trade centers.
    1
  44.  @DanDavisHistory  Most of the Indians were concentrated in villages of 1,000-5,000 for practical reasons, why would these guys be any different? A region of continuous settlement should have been able to support major metropolises rather than fortress-houses for the king and his friends/employees. And you mentioned that early on northerners came in and killed/drove off most of the men and married most of the women, which is virtually impossible in a state of any significant size. And there was a lot of cousin marriages at that time in Greece for the same reasons. As Thucydides said, populations were small enough that sometimes entire states migrated all at once.
    1
  45. Not as silly as that since certain shield types are often distinct to a time period. But this does show how much guessing we're doing with these peoples since there's little to go on.
    1
  46. Men sexualize violence. End of story
    1
  47. Without even looking it up I can plainly see Panonia is a Latin word. Equally anachronistic.
    1
  48. The Hebrews went to Egypt DURING the collapse. They left centuries later.
    1