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Caesar, The Colosseum, Republic, Nero, geese, plebeians, legions — everything that you once knew, but forgot, in a crash course video by Arzamas. Narrated by Brian Cox. "Ancient Rome in 20 minutes" is an English version of a Russian video by Arzamas. We also have a few other projects in English: Russian Art in the 20th Century — http://arzamas.academy/likbez/russian-art-xx/en Who are you in 1917 Russia? — http://arzamas.academy/materials/1269 Taunt Like The Bard (a Shakespeare insult generator) — http://arzamas.academy/materials/1026

What's that? Blue already did a video on the Athenian empire? Uh... well... um... LOOK, OVER THERE, A DISTRACTION! For more Greek goodness, check out the following: History Summarized: Alcibiades: https://youtu.be/kRLkjBUgB2o History Summarized: Thebes: https://youtu.be/L1x9np5fys8 History Summarized: Athenian Empire: https://youtu.be/cNWDkFkcuP4 This video was produced with assistance from the Boston University Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program. PATREON: www.patreon.com/user?u=4664797 MERCH LINKS: Shirts - https://overlysarcasticproducts.threadless.com/designs All the other stuff - http://www.cafepress.com/OverlySarcasticProducts Find us on Twitter @OSPYouTube!

I for one was shocked to learn the Egyptians actually buried their kings in a giant Millennium Puzzle. We've covered Egypt on this channel in previous videos, but this History Re-Summarized is the Definitive Edition, redone from the ground up to present the best possible account — starting at the beginning for a full chronology of Ancient Egypt, from the very first Pharaohs the Muslim Conquest. (Observant Egyptologists and D&D players might note the Pyramids are actually D-*Fives*, but technically they're D-*Nines* since each face is actually two right triangles at a slight angle to each other and not a single flat isosceles triangle, so shhh, we can pretend it's a D4.) Sources & Further Reading: "The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt" & "Ancient Egypt: A Very Short Introduction" by Ian Shaw, World History Encyclopedia entries on "Ancient Egypt", "Old Kingdom of Egypt", "First Intermediate Period of Egypt", "Middle Kingdom of Egypt", "Second Intermediate Period of Egypt", "New Kingdom of Egypt" https://www.worldhistory.org/egypt/, The Great Courses' lecture series "History of Ancient Egypt" by Bob Brier. Additionally, I have an undergraduate degree in classical studies (re: Persia, Ptolemies and Rome). Extra special thanks to our OSP Discord server moderator & Egyptology connoisseur Billy, for his assistance and guidance for this video! Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up. PATREON: https://www.Patreon.com/OSP PODCAST: https://overlysarcasticpodcast.transistor.fm/subscribe DISCORD: https://discord.gg/osp MERCH: https://overlysarcastic.shop/ OUR WEBSITE: https://www.OverlySarcasticProductions.com/ Find us on Twitter https://www.Twitter.com/OSPYouTube Find us on Reddit https://www.Reddit.com/r/OSP/ Want this video in another language? Check out our guide to contributing translated captions: https://www.overlysarcasticproductions.com/community-captions

Discover history’s first empire: Sumer, located in Mesopotamia, which built the world’s first cities and created the first writing system. -- History’s first empire rose out of a hot, dry landscape, without rainfall to nourish crops, without trees or stones for building. In spite of all this, its inhabitants built the world’s first cities, with monumental architecture and large populations— and they built them entirely out of mud. Soraya Field Fiorio details the rise and fall of the Sumerian empire. Lesson by Soraya Field Fiorio, directed by Tomás Pichardo-Espaillat. Original Title:  The rise and fall of history’s first empire - Soraya Field Fiorio