8 Ancient Empires You've Never Heard Of | History Countdown

Grab your fedora and bullwhip as we unearth 8 amazing yet obscure ancient empires, in this episode of History Countdown. #HistoryCountdown

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[Nathan_Coley]

Now THIS is the type of stuff History SHOULD be giving us! Not "Lost Dutchman Mine FOUND" when it clearly hasn't been "found". That's not how words work.

[maryannebrown]

People haven’t heard of Teotihuacan?! I didn’t know that! It is right outside Mexico City-super, super easy to get to. Every hotel in Mexico City can arrange a tour for you-that is what I did.

So Mexico City altitude is already 7300 feet above sea level. Then when you go to Teotihuacan you can climb the pyramids. Let me tell you, I was already not used to the altitude, and then climbing those very narrow, steep steps up the huge pyramids?! Literally, there were Mexican school children running like Olympic sprinters up those steps past me while I huffed and puffed and hung on! And I was only 27 years old!

But it was really an amazing day. The place is huge, and so incredibly memorable. I highly recommend going there.

[karionfarms]

Just a regular Igbo viewer... Had no idea my tribe will be mentioned.
I love your channel.
Addition: the kingdom was and still is thriving just a little different now, but it's still a capitalist nation with no kings/ monarchs(except the few the British imposed for the indirect rule to work) The oldest person in your family is the head and represents your family in the council of elders.
We believe in wealth creation and are predominantly Christians now.

[stankahuna]

I don't understand the crapping all over Europe constantly.... these Kingdoms and Empires are forgotten for a reason.... and the Persian Empires are not forgotten ever see the movie 300... this is just nonsense propaganda

[FrEze]

wow, I thought the History channel is only about ancient aliens and annunaki nowadays. Great video! Would love to see more on the more obscure ones, maybe a list of links in the description? Like what is that Nigerian civ, I wanna know more

[kartiknikam]

Thx for knowledge love this channel for this

[WisdomLearner]

Am I weird for knowing at least half and only do not know only Colchis, Nri, and Gordium. Yes the first 3, I think should be 3 empires never heard about, cause everyone else is famous.

[chrisdurham]

This is a very revisionist view of history and skewed.

[markpape]

Well that depends if your looking for the mind of god look to the top of the cross but if your looking for the footstep's of god it the bottom of the cross.

[maurice]

So intresting! Only one dynasty I have known before is Abbasiads, because of my surname=)

[chazethewhiterabbit]

🤣🤣🤣TOP EMPIRES WE HAVE NEVER HEARD OF . Small print reads: so we can make up whatever we want about it. 🤣🤣🤣

So pretty much Europe was the last in everything?

[பெ.மணிகண்டன்]

History channel dosent know about indian & tamils empire

[starfishw]

More ancient discoveries to make us wonder. Would luv some computer generated ancient city reconstructions

[americanhistorygeek]

This is an excellent video, maybe I’ll do some commentary videos on ancient empires too! I typically stick to American History related topics, but this video really inspired me. Thanks History Channel!

[makanansari]

Why you never heard about the most important still exciting civilization on earth? Persia? raise lots of question by today's rulers.

[susancady]

This video is thoroughly enjoyable! Hilarious and interesting!

[KingRastaj]

Man I've heard of all of these maybe give me a job?

[themangix]

History should correct itself. It's AD and BC not BCE and CE. CE and BCE are only for scientific contexts. Historical contexts SHOULD BE AD and BC,

[DailyDoseDocumentary]

It's true. Death and Taxes have been around forever and there's no escape.