The Ancient Suez Canal 

-Oh no! Most gracious Pharaoh! My merchant ship full of expensive species and merchandise bound for Greece has become stuck in your canal. Will you please help me, Morning and Evening Star? 😢 -Sure, mate! 😄 Soldiers! Light that thing on fire, destroy it with catapults, and fish the remaining pieces out of the water with fishing nets. -😄 Thank you, my L... 😐 Wait. What!? 😱

I’d imagine a simple trireme ram at full speed could get it unstuck, if not from one ramming, repeated ramming would do the trick

That’s very true. In fact there’s a lot of evidence (not speculation, real evidence) showing that in some regards they had knowledge that we haven’t rediscovered yet.

Just like the Bible says !

You've got in wrong. They were much more intelligent than modern man.

Very well said. I've had the exact same thoughts.

Bro I literally thought the same .. even when it comes to health wise .. I thought that we are more knowledgeable and that we last longer due to hospitals.. little do I know .. that there’s people that live in the mountains in ancient time that lives for about 100 years or more

how? It's "move bunch of dirt then let water in", any state capable of large scale construction is easily capable of doing such, it's all just a matter of resources and labor. Egypt is VERY well known for their willingness to spend both.

@@tylermech66 The difficult is not in digging. It is in controlling the water to block it and free it again.

@@molybdaen11 again, you just make a huge ditch, until you reach both water bodies you want to have connected. At that point you break the dirt barriers, letting the waters flood the ditch, and then have hundreds of men with buckets on ropes to dredge the dirt out until boats can pass through. boom, canal. It's all manpower.

dawg they built the pyramids like 2000 years before this.

@@exileeight8055 Well, this was before the collapse of the bronce age. Humans still had ambitions back then and were ready to use they skills to achieve them. Of course we have amazing buildings today too. But nothing is as mind blowing then heavy stones forming a big builded in a place which lost its significance for more then 1500 jears now.

Same as me until I questioned its existence.

I did si too, but then I look at Google maps and found it.

Fun fact: In -CK3 and I think 4- CK2 and I think CK3, there is a river route from the Baltic to the black sea (north and south of eastern europe). This in too existed in reality (but you had to carry your boat overland a bit to make it). It was often used by people hiring into the varangian guard.

@@christopherg2347 Did you mean CK2 and 3?

@@Menno_3 You are right 2+3. I will fix that.

Never seen my views go up so quickly ahah

@@KnowHistory hahah.. the algorithm is recommending everyone all related to suez canal.

*EverGiven, evergreen is the company

Thank you so much! It is quite an honour to have you here, I always watch your videos! When is the next one coming up?

The ruins were found and explored by Napoleons expedition to Egypt in 1799 with the southern half of current Suez canal following the route of the old one the main difference being the current one does not connect to the Nile. Thus solving the issue of fresh water and salt water mixing without the need for sluice gates

The Nile wasn't the problem, @@jonsouth1545. It was the Great Bitter Lake, and the modern Suez canal _does_ go through the Great Bitter Lake. It was in the news when the Ever Given was finally floated and stayed in the lake for a hull inspection.

@@KenJackson_US You might want to read what I said more carefully I was clearly talking about the ancient canal when I said the Nile was the issue with the ancient Suez canal due to the fears of mixing salt and fresh water and that the modern one bypasses that by not connecting to the Nile not the modern one. Learn to read before you make an ass of yourself in the comments

@@jonsouth1545 I hate to be the one to tell you this mate, but you should try out the magic of punctuation a lot more than you seem to do. My guess is thatif you did, perhaps some of us would find it a lot easier to understand what you are trying to ”say”. 😁

@@Vulturefist : Commas would be nice, but aren't vital, and both of his messages are perfectly readable without them. Yours is actually worse, because you typed "thatif" instead of "that if".

I heard that they've scraped that idea already, public support was at an all-time low and the firm that proposed the canal went bankrupt. Hopefully no one suggests something like that again

Even back in the day they talked without saying anything.

It says a lot. You just don't listen to anyone.

Darius completed the canal, not his current route through the Nile and took Egypt's annual tribute by sea.

Yeah, I read that too.(in a book somewhere in the house). Easier to Google the question than start rakin' about. This is what I thought the video here was going to be about.

I just wish they hadn’t changed so much in Imperator

Lack of maintenence because collapsing goverment. Same thing most Indian and Chinese chanales fell victim to.

At the time of Cleopatra it was still partly existent, but no more entirely navigable (it's belived that the Red Sea coast receded with time, so it required continuous excavation works at that end to not have it covered with sand). The canal had been re-excavated and gone several times until about 1000 AD, when it had been repaired one last time, before being lost forever.

when the French expeditionary army under Napoleon went to Egypt in 1799, they found there were still remnants of the ancient canal, but it was no longer navigable, requiring the Suez canal to be built in the following century.

Most likely because it was only limited to small ships. So large merchant ships still had to offload to smaller barges that would navigate to the other side of the canal and load onto a large merchant ship again.

@@APPLEPIE978 sadly. Ships were divided between East and west. Those ships who got to the mouth of the Ganges couldn’t bask in the warmth of the Mediterranean

No one except that ancients know if this was true, but there are records, let's believe in those! Thank you for enjoying the video!

Of course because The Phoenicians likely constructed it originally, and Venetians are Phoenicians ;)

Thank you! Similar one, this one is the Imperator Rome one, it's like 2 years older

Living is learning!

Thank you so much!

100% agree!

Those people werent cave men lol they already know measurements

They did some surveying. Which also would have been why they only realized partway through: they needed to get close enough that their measurement & numerical errors no longer exceeded the difference.

if you're able level the vast area the foundation needed for pyramids, orientate them too precise astrological coordinates all while keeping them square and plumb, your dilemma sounds like child's play.

I am really happy to read that! Thank you so much!

Not to be a spoiler, but there was no “ancient” Panama Canal. It’s a completely artificial route. It was started by the French in 1881, and finished by the US in 1914. Before the canal was built, it was a long sail around Cape Horn.

This comment is equivilent to: please do a video on the ancient kiel canal

@@KJ-kw7gh the joke *your head*

Thank you! And no, it is Imperator Rome

de nada!

It may have _strengthened_ colonization efforts, but Egypt actually had a series of towns that served a trading post on that coastline anyways, so they presumably would have had some colonization going on regardless. Also, a lot of stuff was focussed on the southern Nile, which I believe has somewhat easier overland access to the coast anyways. And, finally, while Egypt had a lot of river travel going on, they don't seem to ever have attempted big maritime wars, seemingly sticking to the places that they could easily get to by crossing over land and rivers alone. This might have been because of their oceanic ships, which were apparently these big reed constructions with just a bit of strengthening (e.g., some ropes running fore to aft to pull the ends up).

1) Because they spent lots of time in the sun, and thus got tanned- southern europeans (e.g. Italians, Spaniards) get tan for the same reason in the same circumstances; 2) because they mostly weren't Western Europeans, they were a mix of sub-Saharan Africans and Mediterraneans; 3) because they did leave some painted images of themselves, where they depicted themselves as brown, and others as various other colors.

@@absalomdraconis sorry love, DNA results are in. The mummies were not mixed race. There are many paintings of light skin Pharoah.

the map itself is the map from imperator rome, the 3D renders are from that game as well. You can achieve those with a large amount of console comands. It almost looks like a 3D ancient world

@@KnowHistory Indeed it those! Great work!

I use console comands and an xbox one controller to move the camera freely

yes, that is what this entire video is about.

@@acebalistic1358 No, it's not what I'm referring to. It didn't go to the Bitter Lakes. There was a canal that ran from about two thirds of the way down the Red Sea at right angles straight across to the Nile at its closest point in Egypt; this may have been Luxor. I read that the problem bringing freight down the Red Sea to the canal was that at this end of the Red Sea the wind only blew one way for six months of the year. This would not affect military ships with rowers, but the business class with sailing ships... The problem with the canal was the 'Top Banana' whoever it was kept increasing the fee for using it. Also, the silt constantly had to be cleared, which was paid for by the traders who only used it for half of the year. Thus the silt was never properly cleared which meant that all the buyers& sellers had difficulty bringing along boats of the size they'd prefer. The bigger the vessel the less journeys needed. I can't remember if the cargo had to be moved onto small barges or not, then pulled by animals of some kind. I think there was a problem with pirate's too. The merchants in the end preferred to move through the desert finding safety in greater numbers with each other; clubbing together to pay for armed escort. I only read about this in one book. A history of boats. How accurate it is who can say ? It may all have been a dream of The Grand Wazoo.

Water flowed from the Nile to the Red sea. The Mediterranean sea is saline too but it doesn't affect the salinity of the Nile (perhaps with the exception of the delta region)

It's on part two, available at: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_MP9uvw9T6A.html

Thank you! I'm glad to have you aboard! :D

meaning what, exactly? do you take Wikipedia to be a paragon of knowledge or something similar?

@@RK-gv7rc u take a youtube vid for the same?

@@RK-gv7rc Wikipedia is supposedly a collective effort, but what we see (unless we search through the history) is whatever the last contributor chose to leave us. Many people enjoy falsifying it.

I am currently making a video about that part! :)

You would be suprised how much of a potato our earth looks like. The sea follows the gravity of the land under it.

@@molybdaen11 i was thinking the tides would be pulled (about equally) by the Moon

@@leonardhaggstrom8541 To place a _guess,_ the Mediterranean has less water flowing in from rivers than flowing out via evaporation. That results in a constant current from the Atlantic into the Mediterranean, and the volume of the flow gets restricted between Europe & Africa, reducing the volume-per-second, which in turn reduces the height of the water. The Red Sea has some limitations on flow as well, but it's connection to the Indian ocean is much shorter than at least Egypt's connection to the Atlantic.

It has nothing to do with Zeus. Suez comes from Arabic اَلسُّوَيْس‎ (as-suways), which comes from Egyptian suan (“beginning”), in reference to the port at the head of the Red Sea.

Before Common Era, it means before Christ

BC is now politically incorrect; it’s too Christian.

It wasn't properly closed, just abandoned. As government circumstances changed, maintenance became too difficult.

That doesn't make any sense 🙃