They had that 20/5 "eagle vision" and peak-human senses of precision, accuracy and coordination. The type of prodigious combat skills you usually expect from legendary figures, folk heroes or superheroes such as Prince Paris of Troy, Achilles, Robin Hood, Green Arrow or Hawkeye. Less from an actual real archer! Archers from Anzicana were equally reputed for such deadly combat skills, based upon accounts reported by the Portugese about about contest fair tournaments organized by the Imbangalas (Bangalas) and other Anzicanãs in the rogue Kingdom of Kongô and other Angolan petty kingdoms, around the 16th mid-18th centuries. It was said that the Zairian archers were so extraordinarily skilled in archery that their best archer could shoot 20 arrows before that the first ever hit its target with neat precision. No wonder why the Europeans and Arabs had to wait until the invention of semi-automatic rifles and later technological improvements made upon war firearms in mid to late 19th century to finally set a lasting destructive foothold further into the heart of Africa, after so many failed attempts at a full-scale military occupation and razzias...
the bow and arrow is probably 30,000 years old at least? "The oldest known evidence of the bow and arrow comes from South African sites such as Sibudu Cave, where likely arrowheads have been found, dating from approximately 72,000-60,000 years ago."
What a lot people don't know is that the bow and arrow first originated in southern Africa. With trading and migration, Africans started taking this new technology with them as they migrated through Africa and then eventually out of Africa into other parts of the world. For all those people who love archery, you now know it's original home/origins lay within Southern Africa.
Fun fact the Kushite archers were so famed and legandary that you see ancient Greek writers making fictional romance novels about them. Like the book Aethiopica, written by Heliodorus of Emesa in the 3rd or 4th century. The story is about the Kushite-Persian war and mentions their precision in especially aiming for the eyes. Funny because this precision is mentioned in actual history like the Battles of Dongola, where Arab warrior had their eyes hit by the Makuria archers.
I'm honestly starting to believe those theories that ancient populations had access to some sort of six sense/hidden energy. How could such feats be possible with out an extremely deep level of intuitive sense with physics?
@@thevisitor1012 maybe because we were left to figure it out..there weren't distractions in the form of so called entertainment and religion to stop us from exploring our abilities..
@@debbiemarquis3231 I won't say Religion was a distraction as all these ancient civilizations all had their own religious pantheons. But entertainment, yes.
Thank you so much for covering this. I myself am a archer and I have been studying on my own about ancient Sudanese Archers. The club I am with are all black archers and outdoors people. I myself are designing t-shirts with people of that time on them. Again, thank you......
This should spread amongst the people. I Purchased archery awhile back but never got around to dwelling into it. Always hoped there was some kind of group out there.
I KNEW IT!!! As a South African, this may sound bias however I've always believed that the Khwe/ Khoi/Abatwa/ Baroa whoever you may call them, are the pioneers of hunting and pastoralism. To such an extent that they're influenced spread across the eastern half of the land mass known as Africa. Camagu❤️
So how did the bow and arrow reach the Baka people of the Congo deep inside thick topical rain forest? For me the bow and arrow was created independently in many parts of Africa. It is found in every corner of the continent. Attempting to attribute its invention to one particular tribe is childish. Besides, there was no such thing as "South Africa" until the white man created it do you have only him to thank for your "pride". Even if say the khoi people did invent the bow and arrow, (and I'm not convinced) they were as hunter gatherers present all over Africa since there was always huge mixing if different ethnic groups, it's absolutely impossible to say where in Africa it originated from.
I would have never guessed this on my own. It just goes to show how little history we actually know. Much happened that will forevermore be beyond our grasp.
I bought a Compound Hunters Bow from a Pawn Shop. It sat for 3 years. I finally dusted it off, opened it up and began learning to use it. I have became very good with it. I hunt with it I can even defend myself with it. It is a nice weapon.
archeologists are starting to realize that the ancient egyptians ( the original ones from what is considered as "the old kingdom") are actually from Nubia. there is a clear connection between the two showing that Nubia came first and are the originators for all the things that egypt is famous for. the egyptians are nubians that migrated to a different location and started a separate kingdom
Thanks, I love your content and as an archer, I'm very interested in this content. I'd love to see what those bows looked like as well as does the Nubian archery method continue today.
I was always curious to see what you look like so today I searched you out. Good work. My mother rip was from Antigua also Seatons, I still have estranged family there. Keep up the good work.
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A suggestion I always wanted to make about your videos would be to systematically contextualize geographically and chronologically all the various tribes that you talk about. I hope you won't be offended or just dismiss this suggestion cause I think it would help a lot of viewers understand better where and when the things you're talking about happened. Without this geographical context I find myself forced to pause the video, Google the tribe, come back to the video, several times over and over for the same video. It is doable but kinda ruins the viewing. I like to know if an event happened in a region that would cover one or several countries, possibly my country or not. Thanks in advance if you do it.
@@hometeamhistory806 no problem man. Your channel is amazing and people who have studied Africa all their lives probably don't need a map but I and probably other young learners would definitely appreciate a map saying for example that this event happened in what we know today as Cameroon and Nigeria or Mali and Senegal or whatever countries. I am a French guy from Cameroon and your channel has thought me a lot amongst other research. Also the visuals and old paintings that you choose are always fascinating. Sometimes I pause the video to watch them. I think you gave a link once to the website where we can watch them but I can't remember it. Anyways thanks for doing what you do. What you do is very important, spreading knowledge that the people watching will also spread themselves.
@@Honeybunleader I think that I explained well in my first comment that taking notes or doing the research is not the problem. The creator of this channel understood very well my suggestion. That's all I needed.
In your previous informative video regarding Africans being utilised for military power for foreign civilisations, Nubian archers could also be a prime example. Nubian archers were well-famed in the ancient world due to their accuracy and even the Persian Empire utilised them to defeat the Greeks in many battles.
Interesting point. The only reason it won’t work for “manpower drain” theory is because “manpower drain” wasn’t principally a cause for the fall of the continent but a result of it. The result consolidated the wealth of other nations. The continent was pretty much still intact during the time of Nubian mercenaries or conscripts. I’ll think about your input some more though! Really appreciate that.
They had that 20/5 "eagle vision" and peak-human senses of precision, accuracy and coordination. The type of prodigious combat skills you usually expect from legendary figures, folk heroes or superheroes such as Prince Paris of Troy, Achilles, Robin Hood, Green Arrow or Hawkeye. Less from an actual real archer! Archers from Anzicana were equally reputed for such deadly combat skills, based upon accounts reported by the Portugese about about contest fair tournaments organized by the Imbangalas (Bangalas) and other Anzicanãs in the rogue Kingdom of Kongô and other Angolan petty kingdoms, around the 16th mid-18th centuries. It was said that the Zairian archers were so extraordinarily skilled in archery that their best archer could shoot 20 arrows before that the first ever hit its target with neat precision. No wonder why the Europeans and Arabs had to wait until the invention of semi-automatic rifles and later technological improvements made upon war firearms in mid to late 19th century to finally set a lasting destructive foothold further into the heart of Africa, after so many failed attempts at a full-scale military occupation and razzias...
So does this mean that Khoisan populations which have been primarily in Southern Africa (atleast as far as I know), once occupied an area further north to be able to interact and trade with ancient Nubian populations? And if this is the case, when did they start moving and occupying areas further south?
Awesome question. According to Civilizations of Africa by Christopher Ehret the Khoikhoi speaking populations first met the Afro-San/Afro-Asiatic populations in Ethiopia. This is believed to have taken place around 4000bc or the 4th millennium BC in general. So apparently some Khoikhoi populations did move further up likely introducing bow and arrow technology to Southern Cushitic speaking peoples. This then diffused further north.
@@hometeamhistory806 That's amazing. Was there any suggestion that this information could explain why there are pockets of people that utilize click consonants in east Africa? Languages like Sandawe and Hadza being the only ones I've heard of that use click consonants outside of certain southern African languages.
@@hometeamhistory806 I think consensus now is that KhoiKhoi speakers would’ve met South Cushitic speakers down in the Zambia/Malawi/Mozambique area. Interesting stuff. This is thanks to full genomes we have of South Cushites from around the 4000BCE that would be contemporaneous with this interaction.
This video is so interesting bc it’s common knowledge that the Khoi and the San are the oldest people on earth right now, so it was only inevitable that they came in contact with Cushitic people.
The bow 🏹 and was invented in Africa, so were ships 🚢 and ⛵, The spear, and the sword. Do a video on African Metallurgy and Ancient African Weapons, They Invented the 🗡️⚔️ too.
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Any chance we can get a video describing pre colonial seige tactics for the continent how they delt with walled settlements citadels ,forts, earthworks etc
There where no seige tactics as there was no seige engines built .in Africa u just had to send scouts at night..raid in and open gates or climb over.war was there but not to that level.only maybe in North Africa. Egyptian tried to seige Nubia but failed coz of the obvious in the video but that's the only seige attack in sub Sahara(as Europe calls it) history
I believe that different cultures that never made contact with one another could have invented the same types of tools and weapons. Clothing, jewelry, and art. After all, it is human evolution at work no matter where on the shifting continents they lived.
It doesn't happen like that, for example Africa. There is no place on the planet that has the most diverse culture but all is still connected. No other race existed 7000 years ago except for black people.
"Nubia" the word didn't exist in ancient times and Ta Seti is the term used by the people of Kemet. We do not know what these people called themselves because they did not have writing in ancient times. As such, this is why Kemet "the black nation/country" is the first state in Africa and given the meaning of the name Kemet, we need not distinguish between them and those further south as far as who is and isn't African. The entire Nile Valley history is African. The fact is that the oldest sites of human activity and evolution towards advanced culture, including hunting, fishing and carving ritual sites is in the region betweeen Upper Egypt and Lower Sudan going back 20,000 years or more. It was during that period that this part of the Nile was more wet, compared to the areas further North. As time went on, the environmental conditions changed populations migrated and with the Sahara going into its dry phase, large populations began to settle along the Nile from the Southern areas and the Sahara. And from that arose the state of dynastic Kemet, with its origins to the South in the regions now submerged under Lake Nasser. And on top of that Africa is the birth place of tools among hominids and humans and that is the most important point. This isn't "Nubian" history. It is African history which is far older than anything outside of Africa.
Black Genesis: The prehistoric origin of ancient Egypt/Kemet presents proof that an advanced black African civilization inhabited the sahara long before pharaonic Egypt/Kemet reveals black Africa to be at the Genesis of ancient civilization and the human story.
when ghana was invaded there was a state in the north i forgot the name of the state in that state there were soninkes fulanis living there it was also part of ghana they pay taxes to ghana were allied with the berbes to invade ghana they were against paying taxes to ghana or be part of ghana
There was never a place called "Nubia" 5,000 years ago. That is a term coined by European Egyptologists and is synonymous with terms like Sudan and Ethiopia as references to "black Africa". The reality is that all of the most advanced cultural centers on the Nile going back 10,000 years or more are in the region between Upper Egypt and Lower Sudan in places like Wadi Halfa and Nabta Playa. Large parts of this same area is now under Lake Nasser and there were many excavations prior to the flooding that confirmed the advanced cultures in the region. As the Nile shifted course over thousands of years and the Sahara expanded and contracted, this region became more hospitable and saw a rise in population density in that time period. And it is from that migration of various populations across the Sahel, Sahara, Eastern Desert and the Horn that caused the evolution of culture in the Southern region of the Nile that was the formative phase of Nile Valley civilization. Ta Seti was incorprorated into the Kingdom of the Nile Valley from the very beginning and became the first Nome or "state" of Upper Egypt.... Famous pharaohs like Senwosret were born from Ta Seti as written in ancient texts like the Prophecy of Neferti. Ta Seti therefore was not considered "foreign" or "Nubian" but part of the Nile Valley Kingdom. But beyond that, bows and arrows are ancient in Africa and tens of thousands of years old as a basic tool for hunter gatherers.
...you know ...I hate the term 'hunter gatherers' ...just say hunters. And another term: 'Sub Saharan Africa' ...say Super Saharan Africa. (...rebuilding the degradation..)
While this is interesting it also makes me sad, as it seems this archery skill has been lost to time. Imagine if these great archers were around for the olympics?
@@wambokodavid7109 lol I like that redacted statement, but the Nuba people like the Nubians are an ethnically diverse as there are only one ethnic group of Nuba people who are Nubian, as the rest are Nilotic I believe.
Basically, what HTH does with some of these videos is just continue to enforce what the academia tried to sytematically enforce upon the world for about one hundred years now, the whiteman's version of black history / world history.
Yea of course, Egypt started out as a confederation of many different African ethnic tribes. But in the time period specifically speaking about the Nubians who traditionally carried the bow which was quite embedded in that culture during that time due to the fact Egyptians said that was their ancestral lands. North Sudan push the darker Africans further south now original Sudan looks different from the Ancient times. Before the Arab invasion the place was rich with many flourishing tribes now mostly Arab.
@@cutime6712 Bloody hell people are simple nowadays. Look at the name on the quotes and the title of the book. These people are literally archeologist and you can buy the books and read for yourself. Its literally that simple. Or is it beyond you to actually read and buy a book?
@WilliamGarrow I can read books but I prefer documents from that time period. Which is real primary sources not a person opinion. I bet they talking in third person and giving you a story
No...but some of their tricks were adopted and spread by the imbangala war mongers.(Spartans of Africa sorta).but given the imbangala were nomadic in nature...I doubt they influenced anything in west africa apart from Angola
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