How to Build a Civilization (Part 1) - Geography

How do you build a civilization with Geography?

How did our ancient ancestors choose a location to build their civilizations? What did they need? And which place is the best? Find out in this video.

0:00 Introduction
0:37 Finding good land
3:29 Rivers
5:31 Rice rice baby
7:24 Animal galore
9:23 Conclusion

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[sal]

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[TheWizardGamez]

“Uhh only if there was a way to outsource labor”
Everyone: wow… slavery
Him: no, domestication!!

[Sara-qbnv]

LOVE THE ENTHUSIASM IN THE VOICEOVER you killed this

[Virtrial]

Llamas were domesticated from undulates in south america, as were alpacas. Both of their ancestors, as well as the ancestral species to horses, evolved in the americas

[rohanindra]

Interesting the video alludes to China and USA being ideal places for a civilisation. Unsurprisingly these two happen to be the top two superpowers today.

[ftjqvil]

Just a note here: even though rice has many advantages, it DOES take up a HUGE amount of labour to grow. In fact, it is perhaps the most labour-intensive grain out there, which has had many important effects from making social rules stricter to hindering industrialisation.

[jarehelt]

Hey this reminds me of a book called the accidental superpower.. The only mistake I noticed is that rice is extremely labor intensive. You need to flood and drain the fields, hand plant and hand pick the rice. You can't just have a tractor do it all like wheat and corn

[johnathantestimonial]

Hi, I own Llamas, and you can definitely count them as both work and companion animals. Llamas are pack animals and can be used to transport goods, as well as act emotionally intelligent. When we lost one of our llamas a few years ago, we buried her out in our pasture which is far enough away and has many breaks in sight for the mother to have no idea where her daughter went. After we brought them out to graze in the pasture and let them graze for the day, the mother was found laying on top of her daughters grave when we went to bring them back to the barn. You could claim she was sunning herself on the dirt or something else, but the part that compels me is the fact that we bury our animals on the male side of the pasture, not the female side. We had left the gate open due to keeping the males back at the barn. We do this occasionally to let the grass grow back on the other side, but sometimes we leave the divider gate open between the sides. None of our llamas ever liked to go onto the opposite genders side for pretty much any reason. Don't ask me why, they just never did. So the fact that she was on the males side and directly on top of her daughters grave led me to truly believe they are emotionally intelligent creatures and can form bonds with their human caretakers.

[cesar.m.ibarra]

I would add a fifth element for a great civilization: A metal that can be forged easily enough but that is strong enough to make weapons. Think about it: In ancient America they could work with silver and gold but they never found their way to work with iron. Centuries later, their weapons were still made of wood and rock

[justsaying]

This simplifies a lot of reasons why "civilization" formed where they formed. Anthropologists and archaeologists will tell you various cultures are more complex than they look. Especially in history.

[lesussie]

why doesnt South Asia (India & surounding areas) count as a strong contender?
1.it has fertile land protected by the Indian Ocean to the south, the Himalayan Mountains to the north, jungles to the east, and desert mountians to the west
2. it has lots of rivers. Indus, Ganges, and Brahaputra being the major ones
3. it has rice, millet, and other grains for food crops
4. it has animals such as the Zebu, a domesticated cow species native to the area

[Kratoz]

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[Kingofportals]

I would choose Anatolia, The Levant, Greece, Egypt, Iraq, and Hungary as lands to conquer to start off with

[breadman]

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[SbasChan]

Bruh, as an argentinian, the drawing with the phrase "people won't send an army thro the ocean" hit me hard

[PotatoBoy]

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I got colonised by the British Empire

[seandewell]

1:51 The Polynesians are just going to ignore that they heard that.

[pancakegaming]

how to start a civilization
number 1. live near river
number 2. wait 5000 years

[francogiobbimontesanti]

Argentina is a solid start too. You get corn and potatoes, Llamas and a river system. With mountains to your west, ocean to the east and a rain forest to your north.

[hser]

Still figuring out how to make the best audio, the next video should be better

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