Why did Ancient Egypt Collapse? 

It should be stated, that by time Cleopatra came to power. The pyramids where already consider ancient history.

It's always a fun reminder that Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, etc... all lived CLOSER to the Crusades, Full Plate Armor knights, Discovery of the Americas, The Industrial Revolution, Discovery of Airplanes, Nuclear Power, Landings on the Moon, the Internet... than to the building of the pyramid complex at Giza...

Egypt had a power spike early game but then the other civs developed far enough into their tech trees and Egypt spent most of its production on a wonder

I honestly have no idea why ancient Egypt interests me so much everything is so interesting and fascinating it’s crazy the mysteries everything

When the pyramids were built the skill level was already incredible meaning the culture was already ancient

Ancient Egypt is so mind blowing! It kinda hurts to know that this civilization disappeared. Everything about Ancient Egyptians is so fascinating.

It constantly blows my mind just how ANCIENT Egypt was. We consider Classical Greece to have been so ancient that it's beyond our comprehension, and yet the pyramids were AT LEAST 2000 years old during that time, and were part of a Kingdom which was already about a thousand years old on its own

It might be better to ask how ancient Egypt was able to sustain an Empire for so long. 3000 years is such a long time that it's difficult to even comprehend how they did it. Ancient Greek philosophers (approx. 500 BC) would visit this already ancient land and marvel at their achievements, despite the fact Egypt was already on the decline at this point (the pyramids and other sites were already showing significant signs of decay and neglect). In my amateur historian opinion I would say that it's geographical isolation kept it relatively protected from outside influence and invasion for some time, giving Egypt time to develop a deep and sustained culture (this is difficult to do when you're frequently fending off invaders). However, this couldn't last forever and eventually foreign adversaries evolved the technology and organization to mount effective invasions, and over time this weakened Egypt.

I've always been facinated by the Egyptian empire so this video just made My curiosity grow bigger. Thanks!

Bronze age iron age dark age and we are in plastic age

Egypt: Exists Neighbors: It's free real estate

Assassin Creed: Origins made me like ancient Egypt

The Greek alphabet was introduced with Alexander and the Ptolemaic dynasty, and old practices like Hieroglyphs and mummification were already a lot less popular by the time Christianity had come on the scene many centuries later.

You are actually a wonderful youtuber, never have I seen so many positive feedback from Egyptians (including me) on a foreign history Egypt. Thank you very much, I truly mean it

Thank you for this videos! Excellent work!

What amazes me the most is how the Temples at the Valley of the Kings were completely lost to the Sands of the Sahara Desert, it wasn't until the early 20th century that they were rediscovered,

Youd didnt even mention the bronze age collapse and the sea people

Egypt comes from Greek so "Ancient Egypt" collapsed when its named was changed to Aigyptos by Alexander. The real name for the ancient empire is Kemet. We learn a bastardized history of "Ancient Egypt" in schools. Kinda like calling Incas Ancient Peruvians or referring to Mayans as Ancient Mexicans. It's really historically inaccurate.

Imagine all the people who lived through those times who are no longer with us today. Live everyday as if its your last

Thank you, learnt a lot of new stuff

pretty ironic that a civilization which got such a heavy boost from the riverlands got overrelient on it and crumbled as soon as it became unstable. Though food supply was a major issue for any civilization.

Thanks for the info you help me a lot on our lesson

A wonderful presentation 😊 Thank you.......

It’s impressive how these guys figured out so much detail about events so ancient.

Not sure why I've never heard of this channel before, Grade A stuff you've got here. Keep up the great work! I've got a feeling this channel is about to grow exponentially in the VERY near future.

nobody: every new empire: lets go conquer Egypt

Very good narration in the video. I understand and enjoyed too.

Very informative and touching a relatively unfamous, yet important

On 0:24 turn on auto-captions and you'll find out how mayonnaise unites people

Egyptians: we were ruled by Persians..Alexander the great..Romans..persians second time.. Romans second time.. But at least we're still speeking our language.. Arabs: i dont think so. Not anymore.

Very informative Thank you

Best historical sharing...thank you..

Thanks and useful info. I finally got my answer. Getting tears listening how they lost their culture. So it started with Nile and ended with Nile. Such a nice history we have. Feel satisfied that i found the reason behind Egyptian culture extinct..!! Love your video..!!

I read somewhere that Egypt was so old that Cleopatra viewed the pyramids of giza as old as we see her.

Feels good to AC origins being used for many of the pictures for reference. Nice video!!

Nicely explained.

Egypt is a fascinating historical country. I am very pleased to be Egyptian, and I am very proud of what our forefathers accomplished at that time and all over the world, and everyone wonders about that wonderful achievement, and no one knows the secret of those three pyramids. Thank you for Egypt; I shall always be proud of my homeland.

The Hyksos were driven out of Egypt over 400 years before Ramesses II’s reign. It was during the second intermediate period as opposed to the New Kingdom period.

This channel is so underappreciated. Where tf are the people. I love your videos

Awesome video and very well presented... thanks looking forward to check out other videos. Subbed

Disease, war, famine...all the things that we’re doing today.

Great Video! In my personal analysis, the decadence of Ancient Egypt began during the so-called Late Period of Egypt ( 664-332 BC). The Late Period represented a clear sign that the once powerful Egypt under the New Kingdom ( 1550-1069 BC) no longer existed. The Late Period ( which included the XXVI, XXVII, XXVIII, XXIX, XXX and the XXXI Dynasties), in turn, was a period of invasions, wars and defeats. Unlike the relative peace of the Third Intermediate Period ( which comprised the XXII, XXIII, XXIV and the XXV Dynasties), the Late Period, on the other hand, was marked with several foreign invasions. In 670, for example, the Assyrians invaded and plundered the powerful Thebes/Waset, once the powerful center of the New Kingdom and the capital of Upper Egypt ( Ta-Shemu). The city of Memphis, once the powerful capital of the Old Kingdom and Lower Egypt ( Ta-Mehu), in turn, was also conquered by the armies of Ashurbanipal and Esarhaddon. Pharaoh Taharqa, the penultimate pharaoh of the XXV Dynasty and also the penultimate Pharaoh of the Third Intermediate Period, on the other hand, was also defeated during the invasions carried out by Esarhaddon and Ashurbanipal. The rule of the XXVI Dynasty, in my personal analysis, was one of the most importants of the entire Egyptian history! Despite Pharaoh Psammetichus' initial victories ( which expelled the Assyrians in 663/662), the rest of the rule of the XXVI Dynasty became marked by invasions, some victories and several defeats. • Pharaoh Necho II's pro-Assyrian policy, for exemple, was a complete failure. Assyria and the once powerful Nineveh would be completely destroyed during his reign. Although victorious at the Battle of Megiddo against Josiah, the last great king of Judah, Necho's victory ended up weakening the Egyptian Army for the decisive battle against Nebuchadnezzar at Carchemish. • After Pharaoh Psamtik II's relative isolation, Pharaoh Apries' attempts to "ressurect" the Egyptian former military and political hegemony, on the other hand, failed considerably. The destruction of the vassal Kingdom of Judah by Nebuchadnezzar in 586 BC, the beginning of the Babylonian hegemony and the ill-fated campaign against the Greek colonies in Cyrenaica, for exemple, were a clear sign of this failure. Nevertheless, Apries was one of the greatest kings of the XXVI Dynasty and a fierce opponent of the Neo-Babylonian Empire. • Pharaoh Ahmose II, in turn, was the last great Pharaoh of Egypt. Following Neduchadnezzar' death and with the evident Babylonian decadence, Ahmose's great concern in his foreign policy became concentrated with the rise of the Persian King Cyrus II ( Korosh Kabir). • Pharaoh Psamtik III ( the last pharaoh of the XXVI Dynasty), on the other hand, inherited a completely isolated Egypt during the political context of Middle East in the VI century BCE. Following Cyrus' conquests and victories in Lydia/Sparda ( 546 BC), Media/Madā( 549 BC) and Babylon/Babirūs ( 539 BC) during the reign of Ahmose II, Egypt became completely isolated and vulnerable to the Persians. Following Psamtik's defeat before Cambyses' at Pelusium ( 525 BC), Egypt became the vital satrapie of Mūdraya ( which started the period of the Persians kings of the XXVII Dynasty). Despite Pharaoh Amyrtaeus' sucess in freeing Egypt from the Persian rule in 404 BC ( whose reign marked the entire XXVIII Dynasty), Egypt would remain within the orbit of the Achaemenid Empire until the definitive conquest carried out by Alexander the Great. The XXX Dynasty, in turn, was the last native Egyptian dynasty before the definitive foreign control of Kemet ( Egypt). Pharaoh Nactanebo II, on the other hand, became the last native Egyptian ruler before the Greek and Roman domination. Although Artaxerxes III managed to recapture Mūdraya in 343 BC ( founding the XXXI Dynasty), the Persian rule would not last long. Following the conquest of Egypt carried out by Alexander in 332 BC, foreign domination would definitely be installed. The Greek domination of Egypt ( the so-called Ptolomaic Egypt), on the other hand, became a strong political organization during the governments of Ptolomy I Soter/Πτολεμαίος Σωτήρ ( who founded the Ptolomaic Egypt as a political organization), Ptolomy II Philadelphus/Πτολεμαίος Φιλάδελφος ( who built and financed the Great Library and the Lighthouse of Alexandria) and Ptolomy III Euergetes/Πτολεμαίος Ευεργέτης ( whose reign marked the maximum territorial expansion of the Ptolomaic Egypt). Nevertheless, during the reign of Ptolomy IV onwards, Greek Egypt began to decay until it became a vassal kingdom of the Romans ( under "Roman protection"). During the reign of Ptolomy XIII, Egypt was practically a new Roman province. In the 40s BC, only Egypt stood between the Romans and their total control of the Mediterranean ( MARE NOSTRVM/MARE INTERNVM). Following the defeat of Cleopatra and Mark Antony at the Battle of Actium ( 31 BC), Egypt officially became the Roman Province of Egypt ( PROVINCIA AEGYPTI).

Great video!

Interesting video thanks

Cleopatra is closer to our era than to the building of the pyramids (1:30).

It was brought down by a drought caused by carbon emissions from all their chariots.

I became obsessed with Your videos

Great video

I love the assumption that culture and technology is always "getting better" when in real life we constantly face a collapse of society that it's basically a restart button, which in theory could mean that past civilization could be a lot more advanced than we are now, there's just no trace of them left for us to know.

It was my son Cambyses who conquered Egypt for the first time in their history. Well done by the way. 👍🏻

Awesome knowledge 😍😍😍😍😍

Omg This really made me tear up.

Nas said In his song "I know I can" Egyptians taught the Greeks and Romans with ancient history and books/scriptures and then were over threw eventually being this video I guess

How powerful was Austrian Empire and how it managed to hold on so many languages together as one state? Make an video from that.

loved the vid please make more this content helps me a lot in school work thanks for taking your time to make this video👍

1:25 the way you simplified it. Thanks

It's interesting to see how a civilisation can be conquered so many times throughout history. What made other civilisations want to conquer Egypt exactly ? Was it a strategic location ?

From time of Assyrian empire it was just fought over as a bread basket supply region.

The animation or edit is awesome im also learning all edits soon ill be a pro editor ill be soon editing hard af people gonna love it

An interesting take!

I don't think the question is why did they fall, but how they managed to be so stable for so long to begin with

And when we lost knowledge of the Hyroglyps so did many spells with it.

Good job

Really interesting

Sounds like us right now. Who knows what's actually going on behind the curtains

This sounds scarily similar to the current divide in the US...

We wants to thank you too for showing us the video

Wish this learning was around in the 90's so I would have understood better the fundamentals of a complex civilization in a short time rather slow learning summarized over an extended period of weeks . I have no hw im 29, I just wanted to learn this morning.

I’m Egyptian I visit the pyramids a lot to see those amazing stuff

So Egypt fell because of the lack of iron, yet their kings were buried with gold

I will watch it some other day again. 0150, 02/06/2020.

What is the song around at 10:17? It's not any of the ones in the description. I really like this march while studying history.

Can you make a video about Southern Caucasus? Would be nice to see an objective view on their history, great vid as always !!

The Pyramids are way older than that

Ancient egypt really inspires me a lot

Its a really goooeud vid

It’s interesting to think that most major cradles of civilizations (I emphasize “major” here) have modern descendants in some way; China, India, GrecoRome, Aztecs have descendants today, I believe Mesopotamia eventually became the Middle East as we know it today, but ancient Egypt, one of the earliest cradles of civilization, totally disappeared, culture, people, everything.

Wounder what the future world will see us as in the same time as we see ancient Egyptians ... if it still exists 👀

I am surprised that there was no mention of the Sea People and the Bronze age collapse here, which I am confident was a far bigger factor than religion, considering that Egypt has always been religious. But a very well edited and told video, about a fascinating and very interesting mysterious civilization which may be one of the most important ones in history, which may in its mystery hold the secret to where we as a human race really came from.

This is so sad the way they went out,imagine what it would be like if the civilization was still active to this day!

Why does your accent sound like an Englishman trying to sound American?

U didn't mention how sick Pharaohs were due to inter family marriages

Egypts Collapse was a reoccurring event, that went through several phases.

Please can you make a video apout the wars of ancient Egypt

This is a great channel... I always wanted to know what happened about the fall of Egypt. Hmmm... Now I wanna see why The Roman Empire fell 🤷🏻‍♂️

Pyramids and sphinx have water erosion. So these structures must be thousands of years older than originally thought

The Pyramids served many functions. First it was the final resting spot for the Pharaohs. Second, they showed the power and strength of the Pharaohs. Third, they revealed the military power of Egypt, so that potential invaders and conquerors might think twice before attempting an attack on Egypt. And lastly, there were many more smaller pyramids and memorials to other important people. And you can see see all these other structures surrounding the major Pyramids today, but nearly all pictures, photos, and books ONLY cover the three major pyramids.

There is a handsome new book titled "Sacred Deities of Ancient Egypt" that illustrates in illuminating color photographs and detailed text the lives and beliefs of the gods and goddesses of ancient Egypt. Many of the photos of the actual tombs and hieroglyphics have never been reproduced before. The book ia available through Fine Arts Press.

Al Gore would have made a lot of money with that temperamental river.

The way this dude pronounced “nubians” really grated on me.

6:09 the situation in Bangladesh now it gives me the the thought that may be this country is near to collapse like Egypt

Egypt is so cool!

Hey, the map of the Ptolemaic dynasty included all of the Sinai peninsula yet in real life they only had the north section of it. Just pointing it out.

First.. and im Egyptian haha

Learning about this via my supercomputer technology in August 2020 while drunk and high..... woah dude....

11:11 Is this a heavily distorted AC Origins screenshot?

Ancient Egypt: *exists* Other empires: it's free real estate

6:22 - “...citizens grew more displeased...” - There were no citizens in pre-Ptolemaic Egypt; citizenship was a concept and institution invented by the Greeks. There were inhabitants, subjects, ‘free-born’ people - a populace - in Pharaonic Egypt, but definitely no citizens in the Graeco-Roman or modern sense.

I really enjoy the maps in your videos

Imagine an alternate universe that this civilization was still around