How to Build a Civilization (Part 1) - Geography 

6. It’s actually funny

7. Even 6-8 year old Children can understand him

8. He reminds me of Brain4Breakfast

10 I don’t know I just wanted to put a number 10

No.11 All the above

tbf for thousands of years that's how it was done.

Hmm.... colonies-

Only small minds thought slavery. The rest of us knew he meant domesticated animals. (But when you think about it it's still slavery.)

I'm surprised people havn't yelled animal abuse yet.

Now call me a Dixie lover But

@Atheist Biologist yeah sorry I mean Ungulates which are hoofed mammals such as cows, pigs, deer, horses, etc.

@Atheist Biologist I do really want to see a llama attempt to inchworm it's way up the andes mountains now tho xD

@@Noam-Bahar yes indeedily, both dromedaries and bactrian camels, and llamas are in the Tylopoda suborder :)

I think if there was a similar culture to that of the East then the Native Americans would’ve been on par if not more advanced than the East if given time. Unfortunately Disease would’ve still been an issue but now on both sides

​@@Virtrialnative brazillians also domesticated wild ducks (chairina moschata), for feathers and meat

Altough USA benefits alot from the Europeans and the stuff they brought

@@no8592 like china ?

@@sotch2271 lol exactly, china's ripped everything off of us 🇺🇸

@@scavulous6336 except they are 3000 years older than us.

@@gaja9092 no, modern China was crested by commies in the 40's to 50'

Yeah, but once you got past that bottleneck, the advantage outweighs the cons.

@@radityapoerwanto7018 It does in a medieval context, but not in a modern one. It allows you to stratify your society effectively but also causes stagnation when others might modernize, as seen in china and many parts of southeast asia.

The Americas has loads of iron deposits. Bronze may have been a bit more difficult due to the comparative rarity of tin.

@@ShnoogleMan actually incas and aztecs used copper in their jewelry and ornaments. Yet no precolombian people could learn to use iron

@@cesar.m.ibarra you also need tin for bronze, not just copper.

@@ShnoogleMan i agree. Thats why I said copper. As a whole, metallurgy was pretty underdeveloped in America compared to eurasiatic civilizations

Mesoamerica and South America actually did have bronze, and used bronze axes as weapons, regularly. I think the real issue was that obsidian blades were just too good to give up, so research into bettering their metallurgy never got too far. They ended up falling down a technological dead end, and without outside context, they couldn't see that. Arguably, something similar happened in the Old World with bronze and iron. Iron was abundant, but iron blades were trash compared to bronze (at least so the time), so it didn't make sense to replace it-until the bronze age collapse, and it suddenly became a whole lot harder to sustain the trading networks that allowed for bronze. Thus, iron was only adopted because there was no other choice. In the Americas, obsidian was rather abundant, and took very little effort to create a weapon, so bronze was only used for axes and other tools that were expected to take quite a beating, and the sharpness of the edge didn't matter as much. Granted, this is all oversimplification, mixed in with my own speculations.

Thank you for carrying on the legacy of Brain4Breakfast, my guy.

There's an old youtuber named Sam O'nella who had audio very similar to yours. He made it work.

That was a nice story, thank you

Do Llamas have good hooves for climbing?

man they drank milk from their mother just like you and I... even rats, most mammals are freaking emotionally inteligent. what they lack in maths, atomic physics and accounting, they have in feels.

Poor Llama

That’s so sweet 😭😭 omg I’m sorry you lost one of your llamas they’re one of my favorite animals

because india in particular is not very well protected, if the himalayas extended to the whole northern frontier they would, but they hav ea big gap in the east around the area of pakistan trough where each adn every invasor has come, and has wrekcked their shit most of the time.

@@cseijifja that area is actually to the west of India and is a mountainous desert. The history of invaders coming from that direction doesnt mean it isnt protective geography, just that it's the weakest. If we're gonna use that argument, then china's northern corridor (also a desert) wouldn't count as protective geography because invaders like the mongols and manchu have historically entered from there and fromed their own governments like the Yuan and Qing

Nope, the western part of India is much easier to invade then, say, any side of china (the north is too cold, the east has a desert and many mountains, the south has thick, impenetrable jungles, and the west has the oceans to protect them

Vegetarianism. It made them weak.

@@lesussie2237 these aren't historic tho India is currently losing territory to China because of their geography

And you weren't wrong

Ottoman Empire 2: Electric Boogaloo

@@prdarlin It would of course have it’s own culture and history, different from the Ottomans.

@KJJ Let the kid use his imagination, damnit.

@@prdarlin If I was a kid that is. But I like that area, great for trade and Anatolia is very defendable.

@KJJ I have other locations I would probably set up civilization, like North America, or France and Iberia, but I prefer what I mentioned before, Anatolia is easily defendable, same with Italy, with the Alps, I know I would not stay at that height, and may lose a province or 2 but they would keep their heartland of Anatolia and the Balkans!

Like what I'm saying on specific country in asia that their culture and society is unsophisticated and uncivilized enough because they don't have a tradition of writing history like China

@@mechanikalbull5626 what?? What country is that??

No shit its more complex in real life

of course... can't cover dozens of hours of nuance in a video of this length, what did you expect

like archaeologists could even make a video like this. Weak.

😂

lemme know how it goes

guess you'll have to sub to stay tuned ;)

@@h0ser already

If I remember correctly, recent archeological evidence suggests that the Amazon civilizations did use the ecosystem to do their labor for them - they just didn't do it with pack animals. Instead, they domesticated many of the naturally-occurring plants of the Amazon to be highly useful for humans - and then instead of farming, they allowed the rainforest to take over. It's a genius strategy, really. Why waste all that human labor farming brazilnuts, when you can just count on the Amazon to grow a fuckton of them automatically? Then you can just selectively breed them, so the naturally-occurring rainforest ecosystem becomes hospitable to human life! I'm not sure I've seen this decentralized domestication strategy anywhere else, but it seems incredible, and I hope modern Western civilization can learn from it.

More like fatal af

love u too boss

Aside from the desert, it’s a pretty solid place to start. Why do you think the Incas built their empire in the Andes? xD not to mention, those massive deserts have raw lithium in them, worth tons of $

Well the Inca did quite well and they were partially in Chile so yea

I'd say it's because the land is thin and not wide and therefore the river can't get big enough before it met the sea, thought that just one of the many reasons

The issue with the desert is that it doesn't protect from anything, it just blocks you off from the sea, which isn't even that great as the Pacific is far too big to matter beyond coastal transport, which again won't be useful if it's mostly desert. Lamas are ok-tier, basically sheep, not very good for land work and aside from children it's a bad idea to ride one. The main issue with the Andes is obviously it's length and it being mountains making it hard to control, but i do wonder how much the Inca Empire could have expended before a more conventional collapse (had the americas stayed in isolation), maybe it could've had the same effect as others in spreading a shared culture/administrative system between heir states, leading to an iron age &co. The Incas were incredible for a bronze-tech civilisation the terrain mostly prevented authoritarian power from taking over, which is good for progress/ideas but bad for assimilation/centralisation, yet they managed to perform the later quite well. The number one problem by far is still the same however, the moment some old-world explorers disembark on the continent, 90+% of your population is fucked and there's nothing you can do about it. Only way for the civilisation to survive is for the gap between first explorers and military expedition is large enough for it to at least stabilise and have the population recover as much as possible from the apocalypse.

You can go to Peru, where the Inca started.

@@fanniinnanetguy653 I read somewhere you’d need atleast 75 people to prevent inbreeding.

@@aegonii8471 you just need your neighborhood then?

If you want your village to last you would need both men and woman so new people can be born so your village does not run out of people and become empty

Idk that profile pic seems a little sus

@@theducknamednewepicla9507 duh, i got girl friends too

I think he means Civilizations, not local cultrues... Civilization means people speaking eatting wearing using writing in a totally different ways France and the UK are just like 2 provinces of Roma Civilization

Can I join?

Nah Corn gives you the best yield of any crop.

Rice is probably better if you can get the conditions right. But I think potatoes are an interesting substitute.

Potatoes is lacking in nutrients

Ireland cries in the background

If you wanna end up like Ireland, maybe.

winter and forests are good for defence

Making do without beasts of burden led to slavery and tribute and every single neighbor hating them with a passion. Which led to pretty much everyone joining the Spanish and kicking the Aztecs even after they were down.

Nah Japan is way too mountainous

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it seems they died off not only because of this, but because of the fact their size itself hindered them from finding enought food reousrces to sustain themselves. South america did have a civilization, which this channel has forgotten about, Peru contains a craddle of civilization in norte chico, wich stands with mesopotamia, china, the indus valley, and the nile river delta. South american cultivated both corn and potatoes, and domesticied lamas and guinea pigs as both food and transport animals, unfortunately, there were no ox nor burden beasts in south america , wich stiffled growth. The europeans conquered north and south american because EVERYONE died of sicknesses, not other particular reason.

Europeans conquered Central and South America basically out of historical luck - the Incan Empire had just come out of an intensely brutal civil war when the Spanish arrived. Even then, there were multiple very close battles involved where the Inca used tight-quarters combat with spears against cavalry. As for the Aztecs, they were a rapidly-expanding militaristic civilization on the brink of collapse from all their expansion, with many enemies that the Spanish forces could (and did!) play against the Aztecs.

not just any big animal is domesticable. Africa has plenty of megafauna and no native domesticated species. You need social animals.

@@appa609 - The camel?

@Atheist Biologist I think he is talking about european diseases that killed majority of natives not some animal disease

Whos going to tell him

Turkic & Mongols and arabs : hello bozo

@@kalenooc4938 ?

@@kalenooc4938 they never conquered the ibérian peninsula nor the Italian peninsula

@@reinodeforaminia8322 what,bruh the arab control iberian during caliphate time

@@fadhil2831 but no turks

Yeah, the non-desert part of Mexico is pretty sick tbh. You've got good farmland, good wildlife, and the desert and seas to repel invasions.