Comments by "mpetersen6" (@mpetersen6) on "The Historian's Craft" channel.

 @vorynrosethorn903 So the Turks aren't happy about it. Just what relationship do the modern Turks have to the Bronze Age population.
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@thomasdaywalt7735 In my opinion myths have two origins. The first is an attempt to discribe why natural events happen. The second is a garbled retelling of actual events that have an actual kernel of truth. So yes in the distant past there may have been a person who inspired the stories of Hercules
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2250 to 1700 BCE is a long time before Alexander.
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@errolab3872 Illium, Troy, Troad or what ever it was known by could well have grown rich by acting as a gate keeper on a choke point of trade. Similiar to how today the rebels in Yemen are trying to control access to the Red Sea and pirates operating in the Straits of Malacca. Possibly different motives but taking advantage of Geographic choke points all the same.
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And here l thought it was East Anglia.
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I for one have never understood sports teams or a certain birth control item being named for the Trojans. After all. They were losers.
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 @thomasdaywalt7735 House Atredies? Didn't Frank Herbert cover that? 🙄
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@errolab3872 Was it food? Or perhaps the Greeks were trading in Eastern Anatolia to be closer to Tin coming out of what is now Afghanistan. Trying to cut out one of some of the middlemen. The, let's call them Greeks for convienence, had no source cfg lose to hand. The nearest to my knowledge was in what today would be Germany or the Czech Republic. After that its Western Iberia, Britiany or Cornwall. All involving long journeys by sea or overland. The deposits in Britainy or Cornwall either involve by sea into the Atlantic and thru the Bay of Biscay. Or up rivers flowing into either the Mediterranean or Black Seas. Up the Danube overland to the Rhine thence across the North Sea. Or through modern France. Up the Danube either requires running the Dardenelles or overland into the Balkans. Either way long risky journeys (1). And just how much tin did Bronze age kingdoms require? How effective was Bronze and Copper recycling at this time. I would imagine being quite valuable it was recycled pretty effectively. And once you have the alloy remelting and casting is alot easier than processing new ores. 1) l suspect that if one of the "Greek" kingdoms sent an expedition to Liberia or Cornwall it might be expected to take the better part of a year. Possibly laying over for the winter. I some ways their ships may have been better than some think. After all a reproduction of the wreck discovered off of Southest Turkey did manage to sail to North America. And a reproduction of a sowen ship did make a voyage over the monsoon routes of the Indian Ocean. How far back do plank hulled vessels go vs dugout canoes.
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I think he is refering to the people who would listen to this.
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