History Facts You DID NOT Know

You indeed didn't know this. Yes, you didn't know this. Or did you?

1 - When did they start naming streets?
Depending on where you are from, one thing we now take for granted is the fact that our
streets, roads and avenues have names. But how far back in the past would we have to go to
find the first instance of such a practice? The early modern period? Maybe the Middle Ages?
The first attestations of proper names given to streets are from the Akkadian context, dating
back to the 2nd millennium BC.
In the tablets of the Sippar archive, various documents of a public and private nature report
the names of the city's streets. An account that mentions the taxes owed by an individual
named Sin-Remenni describes him as a resident of Akitum Street, "New Year's Feast Street,"
which, from its name, could have been the processional street that connected the temple of
Shamash with the sanctuary outside the walls.
Some streets in the city were named after gods, perhaps due to the presence of a sacred
building dedicated to the god. In Sippar, a Nimin Street, an Ishtar Street, and a Lamashtu
Street are attested.
Other streets seemed to take their name based on a specific resident, who could be
responsible for the maintenance of the street or simply the most prominent person who owned
properties there. In a property location document, a house building is described as adjacent to
the house of Su-Ninsun, and also to "Su-Ninsun Street."
Who invented the first ship/boat?
Images to use (canoe 1, canoe museum, expert testing the canoe 1, expert testing the canoe 2,
reconstructino of WHG 2, reconstructino of WHG, reconstructino of WHG 3, )
The first archaeologically documented watercraft is the Pesse canoe, a small boat found in the
Netherlands and dated to the Mesolithic period, roughly between 8040 and 7510 BC.
Considering the chronological period and the place of discovery, the creators of the Pesse
canoe must have belonged to the genetic group called WHG (Western Hunter-Gatherer),
which populated Western, Central, and Southern Europe during the Mesolithic era. The
WHG belonged to a phenotype that is no longer present today, characterized by light eyes,
dark hair, and dark complexion (we don't know HOW dark the complexion was, probably it
varied greatly
The Pesse canoe must have been made with horn and flint tools, carved from a single Scots
pine trunk, and for this reason, it is defined as a monoxylon vessel (from the Greek
mono/single + xylon/tree). The dimensions of the boat are 2 meters and 98 centimeters in
length and 44 centimeters in width.
Although doubts have been raised about the actual functionality of the Pesse canoe, a
reproduction made by archaeologist Jaap Beuker and tested by professional canoeist Mark
Jan Dielemans has proven to be capable of navigating in a river environment.
When was the first bank opened?
Images to use (tablet from the temple of Shamash in Sippar, Babylonia at the time of
Hammurabi)
the Knights Templar operated a primitive form of banking in the 12th and 13th centuries.
Some key points about Templar banking:
• The Templars accumulated significant wealth through donations, bequests, and their
own economic activities. This allowed them to develop financial services.
• Pilgrims traveling to the Holy Land could deposit funds at a Templar commandery in
their home country and withdraw the equivalent sum upon arrival in the Levant,
avoiding the need to carry money on the dangerous journey. This was an early form of
traveler's check.
• The Templars made loans, although the Catholic Church's ban on usury meant they
could not openly charge interest. Instead, fees and rent on mortgaged properties
provided a form of disguised interest.
• Templar commanderies operated independently but were linked through messengers
and a primitive system of letters of credit, forming a loose network of financial
institutions across Christendom.
• Templars acted as treasurers for some European monarchs and nobles, administering
royal finances and arranging international transfers of funds.
So while not "banks" in the modern sense, the Templars innovated important early banking
functions like traveler's checks, mortgages, letters of credit, and depository services that
supported economic activity and mobility in medieval Europe up until the order's suppression
in 1312. Their financial legacy was an important step in the evolution of modern banking.
The first structures that combine the activity of deposit and lending, the two characteristic
elements of the banking system, are the temples that emerged in the ancient Near East within
the Sumerian culture.

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[Ammo]

I was a commodity broker for about 10 years back in the 1980s. The Romans and Egyptians had a form of banking in that you could deposit grain in say Egypt, and draw out a like amount in Rome using your letter. Our teacher from the Chicago Board of Trade said that there may have been some futures trading based on speculation of prices going up or down. It would not surprise me to find out that the Sumerians did the same thing.

[CalM]

"Smart mesolithic bastards" is something i need to find ways to use in day to day conversation.

[SSSR]

We need more of these videos, pretty nice and very educating.

[koloblicin]

here in my alpine village we name many streets after mountain peaks they point towards.
i have always found that kinda neat.

[morgangallowglass]

As an old dog here, I LOVE when you teach me new things. Thank YOU, Most Nobel One!

[MaynardMaynardMaynard]

Yes, you have a gift for teaching.
You have a zealous, charming, exciting, interesting manner that draws one in. You are so genuinely happy to be teaching. You present your videos artfully, intelligently, factually true and interestingly. And you are so obviously a good person. All of which, and more, gives a stellar performance on youtube.

[johntipper]

Great fun. The questions certainly highlighted my own ignorance. Well done and thank you.

[donnabrowne]

I’m an American and I will not be complaining. I love watching your videos, because I love learning (my father’s fault) and I find the way you present facts very interesting. Please keep on teaching. I will keep watching.

[appelflapdrol]

I am convinced a functional single-person rowing boat is easiest to make with reed, and must be the oldest method yet the first to rot away. The preservation of this "canoe" found in the Netherlands is purely due to the oxygen-poor clay in which it was found

[Jaxer]

5:43 OH MY GOD I KNEW Holly shit you have no idea I've been trying to find this out for years, I always knew our current monetary system came from Babylon but had no way to prove it so I never said it out loud thank you so much bro! U are now my source for this fact! This is the same system Jesus kicked out of the temple, dude great great work!

[VideoEnjoyer-mz]

One minor correction: municiple street naming by owners still does happen. It's mostly done by corporate owners, for vanity/branding reasons. Take, for example, "Infinite Loop", the street named by Apple corp, leading up to the headquarters building at the address "1 Infinite Loop".

But sometimes individual owners still do it. Take, for example, "Tarzana, California", an ENTIRE SUBURB of San Fernando/Encino so named because its original exclusive owner named it that way. He was Edgar Rice Burroughs. Who named it, of course, after his most famous literary character: Tarzan. Many of the streets in the suburb bear the names of his children, and other characters in his books.

[PleaseNThankYou]

Gunpowder was developed by my father in our garage. I know this is true because he said he's never seen anything blow apart like his M-80s whe we stuck it in the steel handle of my teeter totter. There were shards of 2 inches embedded in the sidecof out house ... the bomb went off 30 foot away, in my back yard. No 4th of July party goers were injured in the destruction of my swingset.

[Vo_Siri]

I think it would have been better to clarify that the oldest *surviving* sea-worthy boat is definitely a fraction of the age of the first seaworthy boats. Japan and Australia were both first settled in the Pleistocene, and both would have been unreachable by swimming alone.

[laioren]

I love your work! I definitely knew about the role the Knights Templar played in banking, and to a lesser extent Sumerian and Lydian involvement with banking and the creation of money. I also knew that the University of al-Qarawiyyin is generally not considered an "actual university" because of its primary focus being on religion. But everything else was pretty new to me. I especially loved the segment on socks. Thanks for sharing!!!

[michaelhuggins]

Oops!, I guess I should have watched further into the video before making presumptions... you stated just what I was talking about regarding when banking started. Great job! And thank you for doing so much research and providing such great and dependably accurate content. You are quite above the salt in your content. Thank you and you are much appreciated. May you be blessed with a long life of peace and prosperity!

[anteerceg]

Contender for the vaguest thumbnail in existence

[MariaAngelaGrow]

When I was a child, back of the back of the house in which I lived, there was a Mrs. Laidlaw. The street she faced was Laidlaw Ave.

[vfranceschini]

Answering questions I didn/t know I had lol Magnificent content as always! Keep it up, man! Cheers

[northernwildrose]

"Socks and sandals": oldest way to wear socks, according to sources 🤣😂🤣

[binglamb]

Absolutely fascinating. You, ah, knocked my socks off!😄