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The Economy of Ancient Egypt

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Comment from : @EnigmaSeeker2012UAP

The flooding season was basically the slavery seasonbryou live you learn i guess
Comment from : @timothytumusiime2903

Are there actual records of a grand vizier being sued by a peasant? And "Try suing a sitting US senator" if you had a case you could easily sue a senator The former president and one of the most famous people in the world is currently being sued by several "common" people I think you really underestimate how litigious America is :D
Comment from : @theniftywarlock

Economics of Ancient Egypt was in my opinion actually more complex than todays economy The simple evidence is it supported a 3000 yr dynasty
Comment from : @cls4786

Ancient Egypt is only among the first civilization as far as modern history can go Human societies have existed for millions or billions of years We can only account for 5000 yrs
Comment from : @cls4786

3:10 Israel doesn't have the right to exist?
Comment from : @drabberfrog

In my opinion, this video is quite a lot better than much of your more recent content
Comment from : @howtoappearincompletely9739

It's one of my favourite topics, thanks for sharing valuable information ❤👍
Comment from : @CutiePie-vo7es

So technically speaking, for the Egyptians, money didn't grow on trees but instead grew on grasses! I always love learning new things, thank you
Comment from : @terrylane1492

were the ancient Egyptians technically socialist? they controlled the means of production (which was basically just grain)
Comment from : @leomezza9853

and somehow Ethiopians lived even 120 years while Egyptians died prematurely with all possible modern civilization diseases 😂
Comment from : @szymonbaranowski8184

Egyptians are the mfs who created slavery, yeah great people You speak like this is all facts when it's not It's what science guess happened what things they have found but still don't have the evidence to show
Comment from : @krude-ck3wy

North Korea has an economic system like ancient Egypt
Comment from : @imronroes

2:29 regardless of how many mansions, jets and politicians they own -> nice one ;)
Comment from : @MrSneakyCastro

Egypt of Cleopatra was not the same one of the pyramids
Comment from : @safarit678

Indus Civilisation in Modern day Pakistan 🇵🇰 predate Ancient Egypt plus Ancient Egyptians had their own Ancient Egyptians/Africans!
Comment from : @kennyken4461

Thumbs up just for the "culture" joke 😂😂😂
Comment from : @aliajellu

So what's the EE score?
Comment from : @viktorianas

Business secrets of the Pharaohs
Comment from : @johnsalisbury8630

Were people able to choose their jobs and careers in Ancient Egypt?
Comment from : @Groggle7141

An author called Mark Corrigan wrote a great book on the Egyptian economy Worth checking out, it's called "The Business Secrets of the Pharaohs"
Comment from : @jackphillpotts7064

A follow up would be nice on the Holy Roman Empire Its history was quiet impacted by financial instituions Jakob Fugger is a great example Also the beginnings of modern (italian) bookkeeping and how it brought down the hanse would make a normally dry topic intresting
Comment from : @MyILoveMinecraft

ButI thought the ancient aliens built them 😂
Comment from : @jcarey568

More interesting topic: Economy before politicians
Comment from : @iamyourfan9729

this video is factually wrong eagypt workers were not slaves but skilled workers who were paid handsomely
Comment from : @Q_QQ_Q

Superb edition!
Comment from : @brexistentialism7628

"I'm gonna go get the papers, get the papers"
Comment from : @mazelme

see slavery wasnt so bad! black people got to learn useful new skills! Like picking cotton! And everybody benefited! The problem was that evil private buisnesses had slaves Black people should have been slaves to the state! We would have had cotton AND roads!
Comment from : @olly2515

"Slavery is cool as long as the state benefits!"
Comment from : @olly2515

Interesting thoughts Sounds like Egypt owed it's longevity to how well they organized their economy
Comment from : @supercommie

Finally Mark Corrigan released his «Business Secrets of the Pharaos»!!!brThank you, Mark!!!!!
Comment from : @BanjoSick

Very interesting Not pointed out directly, unlike small farmers do traditionally, they apparently didn't own the product of their labors They had to turn it over to the government I wonder how the government minimized theft, just keeping some for themselves Especially during famine
Comment from : @frequentlycynical642

The mother of all teambuilding exercisesbuilding pyramids XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD lol
Comment from : @gaborszollosy2153

well, lets just say people have always been the same
Comment from : @delanym

NDRonin1401br0 seconds agobr06:48 there is not 1 cradle of civilization but 6brAnd when, incorrectly, talking about THE cradle of civilization it is refering to the 'fertile crescent' in which Egypt is generally not included
Comment from : @NDRonin1401

Maybe civilizations are a mistakebrDoes anyone ever consider that?
Comment from : @chadkline4268

I don't think it is proper or correct to associate Egyptians with the pyramids or sphinx The structures appear vastly more ancient than Egyptians
Comment from : @chadkline4268

Corvee was not slavery,it was labor tax and community service And the British didn't abolish it out of a love of liberty, they did it to break the culture and make them dependent on Britain
Comment from : @armorclasshero2103

Only western propagandized people are famously hard to please Most people for most of history were happy when their needs were met
Comment from : @armorclasshero2103

Invention and new discoveries solve the unlimited demand problem Keep inventing new things, people want new things
Comment from : @stevearchtoe7039

Ancient Egypt is older than they're saying
Comment from : @shawnure6707

2nd time seeing this thumb nail and it just reminds me of Rust from MW2 2009 from a glimpse 😂
Comment from : @TrialzGTAS

If only someone could uncover the business secrets of the Pharoes and put it into book form
Comment from : @DrBoobY2K

It's so cute when people deny there were civilizations before Egypt and Babylonia
Comment from : @takeoischi4156

Egypt fell around 1000 BC it was ruled by foreigners including cleopatra who was Greek after that
Comment from : @glennabate1708

Absolutely amazing and eye-opening!
Comment from : @edwarddemedeiros3607

I liked bc of the petri dish joke 😂
Comment from : @selimrais9041

There has been proof that pyramid builders were paid and well taken care of
Comment from : @ryanbianchi6582

Already first sentence is nonsence! We have no idea about early civilizations, it is all covered under sand of Sahara There was major disaster 50 000 bc so all we know there is from nothing evolved Mezopotanion civilization
Comment from : @tomsule

Regardless of how many politicians they own Savage
Comment from : @arpangupta76

What happens when you leave a petri dish I the sun for thousands of years It develops a culture 😆
Comment from : @ivilivo

Catholic Church ran Europe till Martin Luther
Comment from : @bluelithium9808

Business Secrets of the pharaohs
Comment from : @slithbackle

it's not really fair to call cleopatra the last Pharaoh She was part of the Greek Ptolemy dynasty They were descendants of one of Alexander the Great's generals who took over Egypt after Alexander's death
Comment from : @nobodygh

Egypt was established in 1875 and quickly destroyed by the British
Comment from : @yourmom361

"People People never change"
Comment from : @markaberer

Nature itself in an economy
Comment from : @halo3odst

All for the Emprah
Comment from : @alexstraz

Cool topic!
Comment from : @MichaelWilliamz

Huh Labor tax vs monetary tax Interesting Let's get tax credits for community work
Comment from : @EMNstar

Read "Debt: The First 5,000 Years" by David Graeber
Comment from : @markwrede8878

There were other major civilisations before Egypt that were wiped out by the flood of the Younger Dryas event about 12,000 years ago Check out the land mass under the ocean in Indonesia (Sundaland) that would have been above sea level and a tropical paradise towards the end of the last ice age brbrAlso check out the theories about the floods over Africa at the same time period and the Richat Structure as a potential site for Atlantis Lots of evidence (eg Gobekli Tepe) of people with knowledge of Astronomy from over 10,000 years ago Also lots of evidence of civilisations in Central / South America, eg the Olmecs who carved huge stone heads we still have today Most religions have in their stories a tale about a great flood that wiped out everything, followed by people coming with knowledge to recivilise their society
Comment from : @georgecharnley2051

People do change thoughthat's what culture, psychology, and sociology are all about
Comment from : @erikbudrow1255

You can definitely sue a US Senator
Comment from : @alexklemens6005

I love this channel and as I suck I'm not going to be hard with the critics but you are no historian and the reality is not even the history themselves agree that the Egyptian culture was the first
Comment from : @stoianandreimircea1509

You: "You wouldn't eat your money"brAncient egyptian: "watch me"
Comment from : @guy_autordie

Well I know most of this because I was that sad person who completed the Assassin's Creed Origins Discovery Tour before playing the actual game
Comment from : @craigstephens93

200 kilos of grain per month! No wonder they invented beer!
Comment from : @letsRegulateSociopaths

Im not an economist by any means but doesn’t every economy, even primitive ones get affected by inflation and deflation, especially if they have a pseudo currency system?
Comment from : @x12danx

Been watching this while I eat for a while now
Comment from : @robertwilliams3527

The pyramids predated ancient Egypt Ancient egyptians repaired and added other structures around these megaliths afterwards
Comment from : @martindarmanie6854

The Catholic Church acting as a central bank and government? How silly, that would never-- wait no, that's the Papal States, that literally happened
Comment from : @Marconius6

I assure you, suing a senator is real, and I don't know why you would assume it is less real than sueing veseer in ancient Egypt I don't think that we have a lot of evidence for that
Comment from : @udavster

You neglect to mention there is absolutely no egyptian writings of them building the pyramids They found the site and built upon it
Comment from : @aurorajones8481

Modern society: "Money doesn't grow on trees"brAncient Egypt: "Let me introduce you to grain"
Comment from : @lordrork5884

British museum is a one stop shop to make a documentary about anybody's history
Comment from : @imsandy1

0:30 why are we having fictional characters on our timeline of non-fictional events?
Comment from : @Thingsyourollup

I wish there was an ancient civilization economics explained leaderboard :(
Comment from : @AckAttack77

I thought the general understanding now is that Pyramid was built at least 8000 BCbrPredates the known ancient Egyptian era
Comment from : @sonykusumasmoro6811

Will be interesting if corvee is implemented in the modern day society as a form of community service, or as a services-for-services system in the case of those unemployed in return for a roof over their heads and food provided for by the state
Comment from : @TheAnimesongster3

Three thousand years is an incredibly long time for a single civilization to last I know one of the reasons other major river civilizations collapsed after only a few hundred years was the inevitable bloating of the aristocracy, bureaucracy and military Eventually the cost of running the civilization simply became more than the resources they had available I wonder exactly how the Egyptians managed to avoid this government bloat? There could be some lessons for our modern civilization here
Comment from : @marcusmoonstein242

0:43 not having the records burned by religious zealots also helps
Comment from : @donwald3436

This was a great talk about this subject
Comment from : @ChadZLumenarcus

I've written about Modern Monetary Theory, and how it relates to the history of Egypt and Rome, including how grain was originally used as money, eventually resulting in money itself I'm not making a direct reference, as YT will c*****r it, but feel welcome to look it up
Comment from : @JohnAugustSydney