I'm from a metric country (Canada) but when it comes to the height of a individual I and everyone I know prefers feet and inches. Its much more natural to say I'm 6 foot 3 as opposed to 1 point 8something meters.
Thank you north, i truly would not understand the world in the way that i do if it wasnt for you constant keeping up with all the people that comment on your channel, its really awesome my friend.
I served two tours in Afghanistan, in Qalat City, Alexander had a fort built which still stands today, with a stable for 1,000 horses within its walls.
Alexander did not have that fort built....his empire General advised him, that horses need stables, after a few hundred of his horses died due to his stupidity....need to read both sides of Alexander's life, his family told the truth about him and the fools who praised him and how Alexander raged war against peaceful people, he's just as bad as Ghengis, oh you didn't know that Alexander would drink the fat of newborn sacrificed baby's?...yah what a hero.. SMH, how do you people believe the public education systems?
@@fkoti I worked in the Archives in Ottawa, I am an NDT Inspector, I've personally seen what north America is built on top of...this place flooded at least 12 times In the last 2000 years, and all they do, is build on top of the dead...
if you look at all the contemporary paintings you will see he is short compared to anyone else in them. The issue is Europe was still going through the mini-ice age and poverty was widespread. The other thing is poverty is for poor people, not the nobility. So Napoleon was short compared to other nobles. But he was of average height if compared to the average European at the time. Basically, he was probably a bit malnourished growing up in Corsica.
Napoleon was of average height 5' 6", but they used a weird measuring system making him measure 5' 2". Now Alexander being 5' is hard to believe but meh.
Part of his armies advantage was the fact that his father Phillip had modified their spears from 8' to 13' with a counter weight at the opposite end. This gave an enormous reach advantage when the shield walls clashed....
Alexander earned the respect of people with hard work. I am Anatolian(Kurdish/Turkish) whose land was conquered by him many years ago. However, I Respect and Value him Highly as an Anatolian. I don't see him as an Invader. He deserved and Earned our respect. He was different. He was Fearless. He was the man of Value. Although He was from Hellenic Culture. For me, He was someone that I would die willingly. He did not force his man instead He explains why they should fight for him. I am so sad that we have little knowledge about his daily routine and what drove him. I believe many of his life details were recorded by Ptolemy and documented in the great library of Alexandria/Egypt Which was lost to fire... Where I was born Mezepotiamia has seen many Great Leaders and Kings. But None was like Alexander, Iskender the way we call him. My Hometown has Ancient Castles/Graves Ruins from his Era with Greek Writing. Throughout my life, I sometimes did sit next to those ruins and thought about him. I wish I was with him to go through his glorious journey together. He had many wrongdoings However He was special Regardless. Your Name will stay in Anatolia and Mesopotamia for Thousands of years...
Imagine the most disturbing thing possible. Now multiply that by 10x. That's roughly a small example. It is very hard to kill a human being. Ive killed animals hunting. They are also hard to kill. It gets messy. Even fish I catch are hard to kill before I cook em up. Imagine a thousand men tearing away at each other in heaps of flesh clothing and steel. Unimaginable..
@Αλπικος Μισανθρωπος I wanted to stay out of this one since both of you guys are Greek. but chill out on the homophobic stuff ok. before I buy a ticket to Greece and beat the lesson your parents never taught you
i appreciate content like this so very much, it causes a certain level of intrigue inside me. I feel very drawn to learning and understand the vast and complex ways in which humans have inacted with eachother, videos like this push it closer to the point where everyone can appreciate these wonderful tidbits of knowledge
@@carlosnevarez4003 im irish with some jamacian,you would literally have to do a dna test to find someone whos ancestors have been opressed less THan me
Wait…. Did he say 5ft in height? I had to double check! That is so interesting. It’s great to get some new and interesting info and perspective on a well worn story. Super well done, love it 💕
Probably more like 5'4" to 5'7".. Excavations of Greek sites put the average Greek male of the time at around 5'4". ... I'm gonna push this a bit further and suggest that a Greek of noble heritage/diet were probably taller on average than the average Greek we find buried. So I'd suggest 5'7" as the average Greek of noble stature to who Alexander would be compared to and be considered average. Now according to Quora, some evidence does show he was shorter than his peers. So that would put him back down to 5'4" LOL.
@@fishing4happiness610 It's the other way around actually. There was a bias to fit Alexander into the image of Napoleon. There was a narrative people wanted to hear back in the 1800s/1900s how the two are similar. Since we knew what Napoleon looked like. The idea was to shape Alexander into the shape of Napoleon. To sell that narrative.
@@fishing4happiness610 Arrian and Curtius both state that Alexander was “less than average height”. ---------- That is the only statement we have on his height. Everything else for a guess is thru fieldwork and ideas. .. But he would mostly be surrounded by the Companions. Who wouldn't be your average Greek. Really no wrong way to spin it, cause we don't have much to go on lol
I agree, history, especially of Alexander and his subsequent empires, is an endlessly fascinating topic. In my experience of history in my schools, Texas history begins with Steven Austin, U.S. history begins with John Smith, and world history begins with Columbus and skips to Hitler. It's a travesty. The year 1492 alone is worth a graduate degree in college.
@@donaldcharles3331 it's only wrong if you're talking about public school go on to higher education and it's a whole different story college history is a whole different beast
As a kid the first(& only) time I learned about the battle of hydaspes was from a textbook of a language subject(instead of history), and that particular chapter was out of syllabus too. I'm glad I read that chapter even though the school didn't touch it. A kid me found it fascinating & so different than all the usual Boring British conquest history they were teaching.
@@celticfox its the thought I have when somebody says the size of the fight in the dog. And as an observer, shorter drunk males are the same as those little dogs with big fight in them. Nothing to do with Alex for I did not observe him.
@@JonahWoods But close enough lol, he single-handedly killed very many enemy commanders, was wounded more than Rambo, and insisted on leading from the front lines. His "forlorn hope" style of "this will be our final hour" actually inspired his men to fight with intensity, bringing them victory countless times. The first battle of the Persian campaign he slew TWO enemy commanders by himself, and narrowly missed being killed TWICE at the same time. Read about his battle sometime, they all would make for excellent action movie scenes. The Siege of Massaga is a personal favorite.
Many modern historians believe Greek historians falsified the account of battle between Alexander and porus The war ended in a draw with losses on both sides A son of porus was killed in battle but Porus didn't surrender nor accepted to be Alexander vassal Only a truce was reached War elephants were given by king ambhi of texila a regional rival of porus who sided with Alexander Due to heavy losses Greek were forced to abandon further expansion and started going back to their conquered Persian territories The Greeks tried to spin this setback with traditional Greek tall tales
yes the battle ended in an exhausting draw between alexander and porus fighting duet till the end. The only diff. was that alex still had a part of his army and porus was left alone by his men. But still porus dared to look into the eyes of alex. Alex was impressed by his valour and to prevent much losses they stopped the war. Later porus sided with alex and gave him war elephants, in return he was given a part of alex's conquered territory. Alex even said king Ambhi that "one who can't be his country's, can't be mine". so later alexander sided with porus.
My high school in Australia did offer ancient history as a subject for year 11 & 12. (You junior and senior year I believe). It wasn't really presented in an interesting way though. I still enjoyed it but I really wanted to know about the everyday lives of the people not just the kings, emperors, generals and wars. I much prefer learning about history via RU-vid and documentaries rather than dry textbooks so thank you for your contribution.
And also that Celtic people of the Danube were 6, to 6'6... Had a quick look on line and most other places state around 5'7 as average for people in that region
@@ERCJournal well, a little bit a north, at modern ukrainian-hungarian border, there were quite huge fellows. I personally had seen few skeletons of celts (whom had lived about BC-AD border) in local museum, those guys had been little higher than me (1.8 m), but one had at least 1.9 m.
...you all forget us, the first nations, we were always over 6ft, Blackfoot, Cree and Ojibwa...we have always been larger than all the humans on this earth, Vikings came to North America first, they were big, but we were bigger and frightened them right off the east coast back, google it...anyways, we, the first Nations, have always been taller and larger than all other humans on this planet, as well, we were here over 1000000 documented years before any other human, that's why we're called First Nations, you all came after us...can look at us today, you ever wonder why our children our 6'5 at 12 years old?
Alexander the manlet. The ‘Indians’ of that period were overwhelmingly comprised of the same Steppe-derived (Proto-Indo European) ancestry the Celts and Germanics were largely descended from. Despite speaking an Indo-European language, the ancient Macedonians and Hellenics were predominantly descended from the Neolithic Agriculturalists (EEF) that came to dominate most of West Eurasia - from Anatolia to Ireland. [Those who settled in the lands along Western Europe’s Atlantic fringe , however, differed from their more easterly counterparts on the basis of height, appearance, and culture - largely because of the significant levels of local hunter-gatherer admixture they had acquired from their neighbors.] This is why South/Southeastern Europeans-in both antiquity and modern times-tend to be shorter than their Northern European counterparts.
Did you consider vitamin D requirements from sun? Skin became lighter in European ice age travellers, and northern Europeans, perhaps taller for more total skin surface area...
- - - > > This is Alexander himself talking about “our life “our language “ “ Macedonians are going to judge your case “There is no need for any explanation. Greeks (Athenians)
I was surprised when I saw his fathers armor and that of the Macedonian officers it was almost child like the proportions . I feel the shorter soldiers have advantages for less available room to hit as a target and they would eat less and have more energy then a taller soldier . Great video as always such a a pleasure to watch these and learn .
@@timpenfield5 There is Armour on display at the Royal Macedonian Tombs in Vergina , Greece that they attribute to King Philip II .The information card states it would fit someone 5,2 they attribute it to him because the injuries of the bones match injuries they know Philip had plus it is from a tomb with other royal artifacts although they could be completely wrong as I don't think it actually has any 100% proof it is him.
@@JonKinchIsLegit Many thanx JKM. I am so damn curious about this, Were these ancient warriors, armies mostly little dudes? Obviously Celts, Germans, English etc.. remains could be 5;10-6;5. Remains around Stonehenge were around 5;10 average on Natgeographic. . but Greece Egypt, Rome it seems were little guys like me. or smaller since I am 5;8. I wish scholars, archaeologists etc... would be more specific about height, size etc... instead of just generally saying, approx 5;5 etc...If you google , LARGEST FULL SKELATON EVER FOUND IN ROME, OR GREECE. . All u get is talk of giants and stuff.
Everytime I hear a story like this. I think of Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot speech. Great video by the way North. You're my absolute favorite history channel on RU-vid. Thank You.
The Indian King was intending to die in combat before being captured alive. 30 seconds later: After growing thirsty he came down off his elephant and demanded water. He was then taken to Alexander. That's an incontinuity brother
In High School, I took a European history class as an elective. It just so happened that my teacher was obsessed with Alexander, so I was fortunate to learn much of this in school.
@@youngpullup6797 Daniel saw a vision about the future which included Alexander's empire. Here's an article. www.gotquestions.org/Alexander-the-Great.html
That's such a gay thing to say. These guys were legends, fictions are instead inspired by legends. He didn't came out of anime, anime came out of his legends.
He went back from India because the Nanda empire was 100 times stronger than Porus' army, he know that if Porus' could give him so many casualties...what would happen to him if he went towards mainland India...
Hard to say for sure how tall he was. It's certain though that he was likely shorter than the average Macedonian as it's mentioned in several sources. They do say he was athletic and possesed great endurance
Alexander's constant teacher was one of the greatest scientists and philosopher's of the age: Aristotle. They remained close friends into Alexander's adulthood. Aristotle influenced Alexander in his approach to conquest, that conquered people should be treated with respect and that their cultures be allowed to continue as before. Alexander sent to Aristotle samples of flora and fauna from the many lands he conquered to build a vast library of knowledge. Alexander was an enlightened man.
I wish Alexander was tutored by a Ionian phylosofer. The prymacy of the Aristoteleian philosophy has kept the development of science back for centuries.
@@lovre9038 Uopšte nisam primetio šahovnicu =) Pa, rekao bih da je to uticaj Rusije iz 18. i 19. veka, ne sećam se da je u srpskoj istoriji bilo ijednog Aleksandra pre toga, a kod Rusa je to popularno ime.
Its good to see younger people interested in Ancient History. I am in my early 40s now, I will never forget for someone with A.D.D., A.D.H.D. I will never forget this but only once was I given medication, as my father was against anyone trying to drug his son, which in his defense he did not know any better only that I was hyper and I was not going to willing sit down and learn something I didn't like, anyways. The year they gave me medication I did well with all A's and the next year. I was able to chose whether or not I would like to be in an Honors history class, which I chose to be in, because I felt they would teach me things like about Ancient Rome, Alexander, lol, the teacher tired to kick me out for grammar. Not the subject matter, lol. I said I would rather fail in this class than go to a class that even then was leaning towards blaming white people for everything. So its great to see people giving an opportunity to people that other wise would have no choice.
Great job on this one. I have been watching your videos while I do my morning workout. Very interesting. Makes it go by fast. Request: more history like this. For example Vercingetorix, less Cesar and more Vercingetorix perspective. That would be interesting. Anyway I really liked this one you did a great job.
I think that's why America would rather bomb their enemies in that part of the world because ain't no quit in those people from the Middle East all the way to Japan. A pitched battle would be brutal.
Over here this period (as well as a lot of antiquity as a whole) is taught at schools. My middle school history teacher has a tradition of asking students to assemble into a falange and then approach him to show us how it worked. Great guy.
Also yeah the Macedonian conquests of the Near East was always my favorite chapter in my history lessons at school. The amazing achievements of the Greeks and Macedonians left a mark in my mind before I started writing.
Coincidently I just passed up a small museum with an ancient coin of Alexander for 200 bucks today. Universe is telling me I should've fucking bought it I think.
No, likely a forgery. Even if from a museum, you can't trust it. Research exactly how to tell authenticity before a buy in any case at least. Museums buying forgeries is too common, I imagine they'd pass on the luck given the chance.
@@TheBebuchis A simple Google search would show you many examples from sources like The Smithsonian, Forbes, and The New York Times reporting on museums housing forgeries. I was under the impression it was common knowledge really with high profile cases like the forged "Dead Sea Scrolls" fragments popping up in the media a few years back. $200 isn't throw away money to me. If I were considering a purchase I'd know exactly what I'm buying before going in to discuss it. I'm confident with my questions and don't waste anyone's time that way. That's just how I spend money though, different strokes for different folks. You're more than welcome to trust strangers to be altruistic. If you do, I sincerely wish there were more people like you.
@@SirTorcharite by that logic isn't every thing in a museum subject to forgery? If that's the case it seems to just come down to attitude. Also the general public is not aware of that some of the dead sea scrolls are fake, I dont think you've talked to enough people if you think everyone knows that. Thirdly I did do a Google search and nothing came up for me, no need to be condescending. I'll try and see if I can find cases of coin forgeries on those websites, and if I do go back ill ask about how they know its real.
@@TheBebuchis I Googled the following exactly, "museum" buy sell "forgery" "forgeries", you may try that. Also yes, I'd assume everyone is attempting to rip me off until I decide otherwise. That extends to museums if they want to be merchants as well. Asking how they know it's real is asking to hear bs if they're scammers, by accident or otherwise, imo. With proper research you can tell them what you expect to be a real coin to be like and if it doesn't meet expectations then they're under pressure to explain why. That opens up ground for good questions like, "why is this specific coin different than others?" or "who was the original seller of this item?". If they've bought from someone who's been exposed as selling fakes before, accidental or otherwise, I'd take my money elsewhere. That's just me though, you may not care about the cash. Idk you or your position in life. You're free to do as you wish. But I'm not gaining anything by you acting in any way. Just extending knowledge to a fellow human I'd hope someone would offer me in a different situation.
Shortness is an amazing tactical advantage when you use it right.You must aggressive as wolverine,quick moving as a leopard when attacking your enemy,but cautious of your opponents tricks
I’m the barbarian to the North. The way he crossed the Danube was awesome ! We hobbled his father when he tried. But Alexander made it. I’m 6’1. I guess he would’ve considered me a giant.
Biggest factor always left out was the induction and effect that the energy and hermetic had with the tactics. Like how chainmail can deflect plasma .consider these factors when quote history
Hello pal your right about what we have been thought in school and yes we should learn a hell of a lot more. Looking forward to watching more of your work as I’ve just signed up to your channel
@@roncantrell5789 The original Greek Y chromosomes were of Javan (T) and Tiras (L). Alexander took them all the way to India where they remain to this day.
Sweet… You ever read a lot about General Winfield Scott? He’s been overshadowed by Andrew Jackson and the Civil War. He’s the one who offered Lee Control of the Unions Army… I just know his nickname was old fuss and feathers
Bro you just said Alexander was 5ft and the Barbarians AVERAGED 6'3".... Broooooooooo cmon. While I agree with the Histories that the Northern populations were taller than the Mediterranean ones... this is a HUGE discrepancy and would only come about if populations were cut off from one another for long periods of time. 5ft tall for a man is a literal midget. I'd accept he was 5'6" and the barbarians averaged 6' from all the readings and research I have done. And Napolean wasnt as short as people claim if you read into it. It was a slightly different metric used, which in our current measurements would have been around 5'8".
Alexander was the same height as his ancestor Achilles and Alexander wore Achilles armor proving they were the same size Alexander was 5 feet 5 1/2 inches tall, the same height as myself, Napoleon, and Pernell Whitaker. It wouldn’t make sense for the greatest fighter to ever live to be 5 feet tall.
I'm 5'3 and wrestled in highschool, everyone was so amazed that a guy my size could have so much power I used to wrestle everyone on the team from my weight class (106) all the way up to our heavys (285) never sleep on someone because of small stature we might just surprise u😂😂
Loved this, thanks. When I saw a Greek helmet at the BODY BEAUTIFUL exhibit, from Britain containing the diskus thrower statue & that little statue of sokrates, I was stunned at how small the helmet was! It's worth considering the role of vitamin D synthesis from the sun as peoples moved further north & into European ice age, skin became lighter, and perhaps people became taller for more skin surface area to capture more vitamin D... Also, Alexander's conquest of Persia definitely came from the earlier Persian attempts at conquest of Greece. But that Hellenistic culture spread & was so influential, in the middle East, in the later Roman empire, all aspects of medicine, science, philosophy, drama, sports competitions, democracy, culture, and mythology, still influence our world today, one of the most extraordinary cultures of all time!
As I've seen with at least one comment already, Alexander the Great's military adventures would be frowned upon. One thing to understand thought, is that he was retaliating for the death of his father, and that he was trying to spread Greek culture. Once gain, today, we'd say, "you don't spread truth by military means." Which I agree; but, it is a little disappointing that Alexander the Great didn't push all the way to the end of China. Of course, he could not make it 1) through all of India and 2) all of China. But, it would have been glorious!
@@Karditsa1 He might have been able to conquer more of north India but don't think he could have invaded China. Not necessarily because the Chinese were so formidable but more because his army were already weary and spent. Besides, he pushed his luck several times and don't think he would have lived through another major campaign. Once the army lost its leader the soldiers would have likely turned back, just my opinion.
"Not one" He is the Greatest by far. No army captured so much territory in a span period of just 10 years and annihilated the supposed overwhelming mighty Persia in only 3.
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I was born and survived 30 years in Cornwall. In my history class we were told the Celts were dead and gone- apart from 3 or 4 RAF brats the other 20ish kids were those dead and gone Celts(by 1970s standards). I quit history for geography. On my 31st year I move to the US eventually going back to school and getting a BA in history. I had my DNA checked….3 times- Cornish, Welsh, and Irish; Western Celt- which might not be actually Celtic having snuck in Britannia from the opposite direction those blonde haired people did. I’ve also been told one really knows where the Cornish etc. came from. Mediterranean…. that’s a little vague.
