Ancient Egypt: Crash Course World History #4

In which John covers the long, long history of ancient Egypt, including the Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms, and even a couple of intermediate periods. Learn about mummies, pharaohs, pyramids, and the Nile with John Green.

Chapters:
Introduction: Ancient Egypt 00:00
How The Nile Shaped Egypt 1:57
The Old Kingdom of Egypt 4:02
The Middle Kingdom of Egypt 6:29
The New Kingdom of Egypt 7:54
An Open Letter to King Tut 9:18
Credits 11:14

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[drunkonart]

For a few seconds I was so sure that when you combined Ahmen and Rah,
You'd get Ramen.

[noautoaidan]

Most important thing I learned in this episode: the confirmation that fish *do* live in water. Thank you CrashCourse!

[animalscave]

50% of comments: "Is anyone here because they have a test tomorrow?"

Other 50% of comments: "Is anyone here because they find history interesting?"


Can we just take a moment to say how awesome of a history teacher John would make at school?

[nthankm]

Nobody:
AP World kids: 462 minute crash course binge

[jessegarrett]

To put how old ancient Egypt was in perspective, I like to point out that Cleopatra lived closer to present day than when the pyramids were built. I don’t know the exact dates but the pyramids were built 4, 500 years ago and Cleopatra lived just over 2, 000 years ago

[dstinnettmusic]

“Oppression of dates”

The hot new sequel to The Grapes of Wrath.

[pfefferfilm]

"You had to marry your sister, which hopefully you weren't too stoked about"
(laughs in ptolemaic)

[mayafraser]

the crazy thing about Ancient Egypt for me was how long it was?? There were guys in like 1980 BCE studying their own civilisation and thinking hmmm this was so long ago!! My mind is astounded about that.

[GoErikTheRed]

Love the time line context. Cleopatra lived closer to the moon landing than the building of the pyramids. Just like.... wow.

[Harbingerintheflesh]

Fascinating! If we look at Egypt, it seems the key to longevity of a civilization is mainly to do with isolation (not engaging in wars) and also preservation of own culture.

[sciencedude]

I’m an egyptian and learned from you guys more than I learned at school :"""

[zolaliz]

I love that everyone is also here cus the AP World exam is tomorrow so much so that people are pointing it out and making it a meme

[plutarch_]

"Did you know? Fish live in water" Thanks CrashCourse!

[lost]

*Answering* *AP* *Test*
"What happend in the Middle Kingdom?:"
"No Hobbits"

[vertexgaming]

2:48

"Did you know fish live in water"




Noooo, please tell me more....

[johnohara]

John Green: the Egyptians came into conflict with the Assyrians, Persians Greeks and eventually Romans
Hittite Empire: Am I a joke to you?

[astridberwouts]

Anyone else watching this because they find History interesting, and not because "I have a test tomorrow"?

[umenja]

Me: *sees people on here because they're last-minute studying for a history exam*
Me: lmao I just really like history.

[alexgarnett]

The humor makes it so easy to learn 😂😂😂😂 especially when you love history like me

[jeremyholman]

Anybody else bothered that he keeps (e.g. @6:37) saying "down river" to mean "south", which of course is actually up the river, so much so that we talk about the two pre-unification egyptian kingdoms as Upper Egypt (south) and Lower Egypt (north)?