Who Were the Sea Peoples?

I say we start a movement to change the name from the "Land&Sea Peoples" to the "Surf&Turf Cultures".

On Voltaire's deathbed, a priest urged him to reject the Devil. Voltaire replied, “This is no time to be making new enemies”.

As a linguist, your observation about Duolingo mostly making people good at Duolingo rather than language is indeed one of the biggest criticisms of their program.

Oh my all time favorite mystery, I remember my world history professor glossing over them being like "and the sea people destroyed these empires, destroyed the populations and then disappeared never to be seen or heard from again...now moving on." And I was like "wait, what??"

One of my history professors showed the class a relief of a battle with the Sea Peoples and told us, "we don't know who they were or where they came from or where they went, but thanks to the Egyptians we know what hats they wore."

"They were in a garden and he ate a rib or something" has gotta be one of my favorite retellings of the Garden of Eden ever!!!

Rameses III was totally unrelated to Ramses II (XX Dynasty vs. XIX Dynasty) and was only the second of his line (in your words, a 1st-gen nepo baby). Rameses II was the grandchild of Rameses I, third of his Dynasty and, most likely given that closeness to the start, his parents were not siblings; he reigned for 66 years (quite long) and is remembered as the greatest pharaoh due to the length of his reign, the extent of his conquests and a knack for PR (he never lost a battle because he said so, for example; he was indeed a nepo baby, but a truly skilled one).

We need a scoreboard at the end of every one of Simon's videos displaying how long he spent on tangents in the video.

Everything changed the day the Sea People attacked! 🌊

This is one of those fascinating historical mysteries where theories have gone from the people of Atlantis, to ancestors of the Vikings, to random migratory groups of people around the Mediterranean. Love the topic and enjoyed the video.

04:26 Tangent side rant on Alexander's empire - As far as land area compared to the rest of the world sure, but when the world's population is only 6-7 million (compared to eight billion currently) there was a hell of a lot empty land and he was taking over the most prosperous occupied parts.

Danes and Norwegians raided France by sea in waves, for years. Fighting them was really expensive, even when the King of France won. Eventually he realized it was cheaper and better to buy them off with a little money and a lot of newly emptied land on the coast. In exchange they had to swear loyalty, pay taxes and defend the coastline from their Kinsmen. As you know they became the Normans and conquered England. It would make sense that both Ramsey's the 2nd and 3rd had the same problem, with numerous groups from the Northern Mediterranean. They also bought those groups off in the same way - land and money for , taxes, loyalty, and military service.

3:25 - Chapter 1 - The bronze age collapse 7:55 - Chapter 2 - The mysterious people from the sea 20:50 - Chapter 3 - Where did they come from & where did they go ? 22:05 - Chapter 4 - The sea people & homer 30:10 - Chapter 5 - Were the philistine originally sea peoples ? 34:15 - Chapter 6 - The big question ; why ? 36:35 - Conclusion

There are actually Roman phonetic pronunciation instructions that survive, Classical Latin is a thing

"They were in a garden and then he ate a rib, or something." had me laughing so hard that I accidentally subscribed. Priceless!

Who's doing the visuals for this one? The globe map of Alexander the Great's conquests "give or take" just cracked me up! Brilliant!😂🎉

I've listened to and read stuff about this subject so many damn times, but somehow it never gets old.

"Do we even know what ancient Egyptian sounded like?" Yes! We have the Rosetta Stone.

Come for the unknown stay for the Simon tangent 37 seconds in

Well thanks for the compliment and shout-out, Simon!