Who Were The Sea Peoples? - Kings and Generals Bronze Age DOCUMENTARY

Kings and Generals animated historical documentary series on the ancient civilizations and bronze age continues with a video on the Sea Peoples as we try to summarize what the historians think about their origins and various theories on who they were.

Animation: Artem Krikhtenko
Artwork: Vyacheslav Sheo

#Documentary #SeaPeoples #Egypt

[Drarjunmenon]

What makes Ramses III's victory even more majestic is the fact that he is probably one of the few leaders who have won a two pronged war after being surrounded by different enemies in the opposite direction ( Sea people and Hittites) at the same time.

The guy was simply ahead of his time!

[charlesdeleo]

I would love to see a video on how the late Bronze Age collapse affected Mycenaean Greece. How the great palaces of Tiryns, Pylos and Mycenae were laid to ruin, and how Archaic Greek civilization rose in its stead.

[PilgrimsPass]

Hitites, Myceneans, Babylonia... Egypt. Long ago the four nations lived together in harmony... Then everything changed when the Sea Peoples attacked.

[cengiztaner]

I see anything remotely close to the Late Bronze Age collapse and I instantly smash the like button.

[theconqueringram]

I remember reading about the Sea Peoples when I was in middle school. I was fascinated by them so much so that when I had to write a history report about any Ancient Egyptian pharaoh, I chose Ramesses III just so I could mention them.

[elifriedman]

I absolutely LOVE this video. I look forward to seeing more videos on Ancient Egyptian history especially on this channel.

[elifriedman]

Do you plan on doing a video on the Minoan civilization and earliest parts of proto-Greek history? I know one was done on the Mycenaeans but it would be interesting to see the impact of the Minoans and the so-called "Pelasgians" of prehistoric Greece who preceded the Mycenaeans

[marc-antoinemarcoux]

New Total war = new ways to show some battles ;) Again, a great video

[davidhughes]

A fresh and thorough documentary on a significant part of ancient history. Very well done and presented. Kings & Generals always delivers.
Thank you.

[holyfreak]

Aquaman, Spongebob, Godzuky. Tough guys indeed.

[Mirko]

I can hardly contain my excitement when I see the GO's of Kings and Generals craft yet another amazing video. Curious topic, excellent graphics, and the voice of the narrator make the channel a gift to the fans of history. Hats off!

[rarelife]

13:54 This seems like the best explanation as to why they suddenly started attacking the Bronze age empires. The sea people didn't cause the Bronze Age collapse but were one of its victims and needed somewhere else to go.

[bbbabrock]

Fall of Civilizations guy made a pretty compelling case that it was like Greeks who were displaced by people to the north of them, who were initially displaced by a volcano eruption around Norway or Iceland or so.

It was one of his very first podcasts, and in it, I believe, he provides evidence of the eruption and other assertions of his.

[karthickharish]

Such an amazing video on a massively important topic!

[alicia]

I first heard of the Bronze Age collapse as a kid, and was intrigued by the mystery at the time. I played a lot of Age of Empires I as a kid, and had a strategy guide (it was the 90s, and those were popular for basically every major video game). The guide had synopses on various civilizations. The one on the Minoans spent a bit of time discussing how we didn't know what caused the civilization to collapse, but discussed the Sea Peoples as a potential reason for the collapse of the Minoans and other Bronze Age civilizations. IIRC, it presented their identity as a mystery, but made it sound like they were one group. Then again, a strategy guide wasn't exactly an academic text and was basically meant for teenagers, but it was still fascinating.

[brokenbridge]

How Ramses III handled these people reminds me a little of how King Alfred handled the Vikings. He might've been the King Alfred of his day.

[Ian-yfuf]

Northern Italy was depopulated due to drought during the era of the bronze age collapse. They were already a war like people so them turning to piracy is fairly normal. There is a hint of this in a Homeric poem where a group of tyrsenians act as pirates within the Mediterranean. The Greeks of the dark ages considered piracy a good thing according to Thucydides, so the sea peoples raiding and killing for plunder was not so much them looking for better opportunities but them returning to the piracy that allowed them to claim their homeland in the first place.

[danieln]

Fall of civilizations podcasts has good podcasts on stuff like this. Cool to see a shorter general summary of it

[robbabcock_]

Thanks for a great video! This is one of the great unsolved mysteries of human history. ⚔🔥🙌

[manindark-xmlv]

Thanks for the wonderful video. We want another one about the Hyksos invasion of Egypt