Why You Wouldn't Survive in Ancient Egypt | Chat History | History Teacher Reacts

hey there I'm Mr Terry welcome back to another history teacher reacts video today we're checking out a video that's doing really well by chat history this video is called why you wouldn't survive in ancient Egypt all right this should have a long list of things that are going to kill you I love learning and teaching Egyptian history so I'm looking forward to this one original video link is down below let's get this channel up make sure you're subscribing to them tell them I sent you and let's check this out all right down the Wormhole here we go well now you've done it you fell down a weird witch's Wormhole and landed yourself in ancient Egypt so can you survive which period which period which kingdom are we going all right we old middle new let's find out what's your favorite Kingdom by the way the first thing you might ask is which ancient Egypt cuz the entirety of ancient Egypt spanned across several thousands of years with quite a few different eras let's go with uh ah the iconic New Kingdom the height of Egyptian power and influence and the most documented for research purposes how convenient since you made it to this video I'm going to assume that you're not a literal mouth breathing knuckle dragging fragile infant so you can give yourself a pad and your freshly whipped back cuz you've already survived the hardest part childhood okay so first off New Kingdom like he said okay the three major kingdoms it is the one that had the largest expansion this is when the Egyptian Empire is really an Empire they're going up towards Mesopotamia they're going um into those lands and conquering those peoples and some of the first treaties and and and documentation uh that we have of like with historians really like like uh uh recording Wars and stuff like that comes from that time period may have also heard of Ramsay probably the most famous influential ruler this is his Heyday as well so this is a magnificent time period for that uh if you love big Grand Empires yeah this is it now however most of what you probably think about Egypt came out of the Old Kingdom say like the idea of pharaohs and most importantly the pyramids they weren't really building those in the New Kingdom they were uh in by the New Kingdom they were building you know temples and stuff like St at the pyramids those are actually the oldest time period being a kid wasn't easy since they didn't have any fancy beeping machines to hook moms up to and keep babies alive infant mortality rates were extremely high 20 to 50% of babies didn't make it out the womb if you survived being born next up was surviving the world much harder with things like disease hunger and other environmental factors out to get you H it's not going to be a stroll through easy Ville I mean some of these kids look so frail you could practically see their blinking health bar hang in there guys your main they need stems yeah so you know the modernday mortality rates um that we see today really didn't start until the industral revolution we're talking only within the last 150 years or so and that is um because a lot of the medical procedures of course that we use for child birth uh but also just the the way that people are generally healthier usually because because it's a simple scientific fact if people are healthier especially a woman her baby is going to be healthier and so when you have more food production of course that came out with like industrialization now no knock on the Egyptians they were some of the first agriculturalists we've ever had so comparatively to a lot of other places they're going to have better mortality rates and infant survival rates than other places because they're a bread pasket of civilization so Props to them but yeah it's going to take a long time till we get our modern day statistics for birth Duty as a kid is help out the family that brought you into this world we're talking chores taking care of your siblings protecting the farm learning the family business everything necessary for survival as far as most people were peasants as is also the case until the well I shouldn't say peasants but working in agriculture U all the way until the Industrial Revolution as well all the way till again 1 years whatever Mama and Papa could scrape together which is mainly bread milk fruits and veggies ever have half an onion on dry bread with warm milk it's actually pretty disgusting but it's what keeps you growing because if don't eat I for I mean and hey has high fishing level you could bring home a pretty sweet catfish to tear into get that protein your mother assuming she survived slopping you out of her belly would feed and care for your ungrateful ass but none of that is applicable since you just got orphaned by the SpaceTime Continuum before we take a look at what to do next let's see where you would fit in the grand scheme of society because everyone has their place ancient Egyptian Society Works in a hierarchy with Rich and Powerful guys at the top and everyone else at the not top so really no change from the modern world the head honcho around these parts is the Pharaoh he's the Divine King and whatever he says goes subscribe just under him are subscribe to my channel too there's so many of you watching my stuff that aren't subscribing and you're missing so much I post basically every day I post something every day and I got a lot I want you around in my community so but yeah Pharaoh is uh it's a theocracy meaning religion and state are part of the same thing hey here's uh I tell my students beginning of the year it's like hey this year this whole school year is going to be about you learning how to make your own Empire how do you be one of the most infamous rulers in history we're going to look at all these things from history here's step one all right if you want power I don't know how you're going to do this convince the people you're a God if you do that your power structure will be much stronger his closest Bros and advisers then we have an educated and skilled middle class and then a laboring a lower class okay let's be more specific who are the Bros a lot of them are priests they are priests now remember in ancient times people believed and the Egyptians are part of that that you could intervene with the gods they were polytheistic belied a lot of gods so that means that if you believe that there are people that can't actually interact with the gods and say you know uh uh bring in a better growing season or give you Fortune during war those people are going to get a lot of respect so a lot of those are like priests scribe types they're at the elite but then soldiers now soldiers were not just common folks they were professional soldiers from the noble classes they came from upper classes that usually meant they owned they owned land uh which means they could be freed up to be able to pursue things like be a professional Soldier or a scribe now if you're one of the few ones that isn't in agriculture you might be one of these merchants or craftsmen that sell that stuff so you got that and the bottom Farmers what we don't have on here is slaves there was a slave class in Egypt class with slaves and servants at the bottom which were usually foreign prisoners of War since there's a 95% chance that you'd stick out like a tur and a punch bowl amongst a well and weird talking population you'd probably be captured and sold into slavery fun fact uh it does not seem the fact that slaves built the pyramids so that's Old Kingdom remember uh we have a lot of evidence that they were compensated beer barley that kind of thing now who was doing this it was Farmers like you know farming people that were in the offseason okay they're in the season during their growing where you don't have to be harvesting or planting that's usually when they provided their services in the labor force for the pyramid was during that off seon tough break Outsider but let's assume you can convince the xenophobic guards that you're one cool dude hey I'm one cool dude it worked time to get a job oh man since you can't speak wingdings 3 you're going to have to prove your worth through manual labor luckily there's plenty of job to choose from like farming and over 90% of all ancient Egyptians were farmers so there's plenty of friends and Rivals to be made you know see who could grow the best onions or whatever it is Farmers did for fun finger each other's cabbages I don't know but your absolute best friend is the Nile river which is your number one source of delicious Brown water for your crops just don't taste test it thankfully the application process to work on a there's some feeding Waters but not a lot those Headwaters come from central Africa there's a few oases and stuff like that that are nearby but yes yeah most people again are farmers um but yeah labor see if you get into this because I have heard and I'm going to I'm going to add a statistic probably later later here actually I actually it fits now because uh something kind of crazy that I remember learning is in the graves that we find around pyramid areas and towns that were built up to build the pyramids again this is Old Kingdom if I remember right um the rate of people that di or they they they looked at the bodies and stuff but it seems to have been an injury like serious injury is taking place it's something like 25% or something that might be a high stat I can't remember exactly what was but I remember when I heard it it was crazy to think about how many serious injuries there were of people um in that time period that likely again working on pyramids and stuff like that farm is no more than moving a rock from here to there and with your Stellar gamer build you can easily get the job done just remember to lift entirely with your back as a bonus you can read and write not in hog glyphics but in cooler things like letters and numbers perfect for taking your own notes you're hired now you can get to work and earn that bread but since the Persians haven't invaded yet and introduced proper currency you'll be working for literal bread so you slave away for months on B here's family Wheat Farm eating your brown bread and Sandy beer dinners while sleeping ony crusty Dusty dirt floor watch out for snakes they bite oh go there's bad day in and day out famous story right of of Cleopatra who's Greek by the way got part of that toic dynasty basically Alexander the Great's uh his his people coming in and and ruling for years yeah died by an asp right like a a pois a suicide with her lover Mark Anthony oh man all the stuff around the Nile is dangerous to uh they got the freaking crocodiles oh my gosh aren't there hippos down there like yeah it's it's like basically the Nile and the area around it is basically the continent of Australia your sickles and your hoes dreaming about the hoes you left behind taking extra caution not to get too distracted well looks like you cut off be's arm be here will remember that it's then you look down and notice some squishing between your toes the ground's getting rather moist ah the Nile's flooding you say to no one after you finish fighting off the invading River Rats using your plus seven strength copper sword it's time to pause the farming grind and try your hand at construction while so the Nile flooded every year at literally the same exact time every year they could predict it within the within a few days and it was awesome because so many rivers in the world the good you know uh the Good rivers that bring in a lot of nutrients which is what like the Nile did a lot of them don't flood very predictably and when they do it's a very Sudden Rush that is very destructive so they just go up to the Egyptians neighbors up in Mesopotamia the Tigers and Euphrates those are unpredictable and violent floods and when those come I mean they have some benefit but like they're cursing the gods cuz they're like gosh cuz they believe the gods control that stuff you guys are cursing us here and it leads to the religious beliefs of the Mesopotamians people like the samarians who thought their gods were angry and like were always punishing you because it looked like natural disasters are always coming down on you but for the Nile since it was a calm flood and it was predictable they loved it to them the gods were awesome you know so they they had that and they could prepare for it and that's why it was so productive all right construction time thing oh look the Pharaoh wants you to help build a new pyramid lucky you didn't do that in New Kingdom now since you have countless hours placing virtual Cobblestone under your belt this sounds like a pretty sweet gig just keep an eye out because sometimes it's not yourself that you need to watch out for what's crazy when you look at the timeline of Egyptian history which again is like 3,000 years is the to to these people that we're looking at now like the New Kingdom people the pyramids were ancient to them like were closer in time to some of those that's crazy like to some of those people that lived during the New Kingdom like us okay especially like the Greek time like they're closer to us than they were the ancient Egypt Egyptians is that nuts is just part of your worry though because you still have the biggest killer of them all diseases like slaves are the hot and trending collectible at the time you could even trade them to your friends if you're feeling generous enough I got troma well I've got first edition small pox check it out yeah and you're dead with 25st Century wrinkle brain you know that you need to keep clean to prevent disease so you take a dip in the Nile to watch your many crevices just Downstream of the laundry which is Downstream of the town's dumping grounds looks like you picked up a friend check that is that like the Halo ring like the Halo you know they they live on a Halo back there is that what's going on there okay now you're going to get uh diseases craw up your you know stream of the town's dumping grounds uh-oh looks like you picked up a friend a parasitic flatworm went and crawl up your round worm and now you have shis aasis with that comes a fever and aggressive diarrhea and since we're in ancient times you know what that means but little wriggling worms aren't the only threats you face surgery like the infected FAS a minute back found out there were many different diseases sickening up the land the most popular being tuberculosis small poox and malaria these guys malaria with yeah any any place you're going to have wet places like that you're going to have malaria they're showing here like uh some surgeries so I don't know if this is this one specifically that you can see back here let's go back to this one of the the things that the Egyptians were Innovative of was cataract surgery actually now I don't know what they replaced it with if they actually took out your lens so the Cataract is when the lensing of your eye clouds it gets some I don't know if it's calcium or whatever buildup gets in there and it can clouds your vision it can essentially blind you but we have evidence that they performed uh cataract surgeries so I don't know exactly how that did and I think there's like brain surgeries for an ancient people they were some of the best at surgeries that we that we have seen popular being tuberculosis small pox and malaria would make sure that your stay in ancient Egypt would be a quick one so be sure to swat some skers and tell your neighbors to cover their coughs for raw's sake for sorry I thought that there was a mosquito on you yeah you too anyway you get back to chiseling some Sandstone blocks and oh looks like you caught Pharaoh checking out the goods he admires your strong physique attention to hygiene and glistening back sweat he even heard about your conquering of the River Rats and he's impressed those are some good qualities good qualities for a soldier you just got bumped up a few societal ranks look you go oh Pharaoh wants to expand his Empire well now your promotion makes sense well not going to lie it's probably still a much better life than those workers and those uh those those construction workers and the The Peasants especially when uh Egypt was such so dominant so long that they were very successful in Wars but and and yeah like you know injuries and obviously battle wounds you guys understand also before the medical inventions of you know D Revolution you died more from your wounds and and like some kind of disease or ailing ganging something like that you know than actually dying on the battlefields that way because if you got something and it got infected you were done time to go to war okay who we fighting this time being a soldier can't be too hard right you just pick up a shield and a sword and swing it a little after all people are just bigger rats oh sweet they even have the cool curved swords curved swords it's called a copes and boy it hurt but if swinging a sword ain't your style you could opt for something a little less slashy and a little bit more stabby if you want to poke someone further away but still want to be close enough to Revel in their death I recommend a spear or Javelin if you really have the urge to stab someone at least a few thousand scarabs away go for the simple and sweet bow and arrow yeah so the the Chariots and stuff probably came in probably what from the Hittites I believe they're the ones that came in they came in that's like Middle Kingdom stuff um uh the fall of the Middle Kingdom the Hittites came in and they were some of the earliest pioneers of iron working and they had horses and they bringing chariots and then the Chariots and the New Kingdom used chariots too some one of the first mobile type of warfare like this very cool it never fails unless you miss all right time to step on to the Sandy Battlefield and fight for a country you just fell into the enemies of the day are the sea peoples no one really knows who they were they most likely came from somewhere north of the Mediterranean don't give a good gosh dang they've been flaunting their stupid looking time you Egypt oh it's so on now you know they they're the ones who destroyed a whole lot of stuff so everyone in the Eastern Mediterranean had fallen there uh the Myan civilization's going to collapse actually brings it eventually the the it's end of the Bron's Age and and the beginning of the Iron Age and then once the the Greeks by the way that we know of really are going to kind of take that place in that Peninsula but also um over in yeah Mesopotamia um all those different civilizations all collaps and it was Within 50 years we think about a th000 BC to about 1050 BC and we don't know who these people were they invaded from somewhere it seems West we still don't know it's one of the great Mysteries there that led to the uh Devastation and and collapse of multiple civilizations writing like uh it's a kuna form that basically like went away and it was kind of a little mini Dark Age for a while there first thing you're going to want to do is oh damn all right let's try that again if you got Pier you're done okay quick time Dodge the arrow fire your own oh nice shot good Arc stable flight and right on target good job murdering that guy with absolutely no complex backstory or family that he was fighting to protect from Invaders to him you were the bad guy but hey hell he's the you keep popping off shots and taking out numerous Expendable enemy MPCs while you continue to just riddle the battlefield with arrows you notice something in your peripheral not something someone oh hey here didn't know you were a soldier oh thank God it was it was just a dream all right final thoughts all right that was a very fun and clever video that was fun to see all the stuff animated there that was great so hopefully that was super informative hope hopefully I was a good guide for you there and able to add some stuff again I love ancient history I love Egyptian history so it's always fun for me to come around to be able to get a chance to to talk to you guys and teach you guys as well so all right I hope to see you guys around more make sure you're subbing to the channel check out my Community page here on YouTube I'm putting up polls more to put videos up that are getting suggested to me over on the Discord server which is where I take most of my suggestions and getting that to you guys so you guys can have a little bit more say about what gets on here and with that we'll see you all next time bye [Music] oh [Music]