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Cultural-General4537 t1_j0djmjf wrote

So many cool and interesting cultures we don't learn about on the peripheral of empires. This is neat!

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wkmioh t1_j0dzfvs wrote

Agreed - saw this one for the first time just the other day. Oxus civilization: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRBwWZs3W0Q

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clovis_227 t1_j0e8nvl wrote

The Historian's Craft also recently made a video about the Oxus civilization.

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Hot_Squash_9225 t1_j0eyfzl wrote

Have you listened to the tides of history podcast? There is a whole section about prehistory and the oxus civilization is featured in it. It's amazing to see how connected the world was during the bronze age.

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balkanobeasti t1_j0e7q9b wrote

I knew about these people, you can find out about quite a few by playing historical games. There is one that shows them in it as a regional unit type, Europa Barbarorum I for Rome Total War. There's also II as well but it isn't finished so it may be missing some or actually have more idk. The game has lengthy texts from the historians of the era/archaeologists/modern historians for many landmarks, wonders, buildings, trade routes, peoples, classes of society, etc. While there is a max # of factions, they basically made all the rebel cities that are on the map inhabited by the tribes that lived there. So they are all like their own factions just unplayable but typically their units can be recruited as mercenaries or regional levies. They also patrol their territories, so they just aren't too aggressive. The most they will basically do is raid/attack inside borders. Tbh its probably the best researched mod I've seen.

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OneofMany t1_j0et0ux wrote

I came here EXACTLY to say Europa Barbarorum is how I know of them.

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balkanobeasti t1_j0fl0xs wrote

I loved the way they did it on there too. Since everything is neatly organized in provinces its easy to read through in a coherent way.

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GuglielmoTheWalrus t1_j0gxxrg wrote

Video games are a majorly underrated way of teaching people about history and related fields. One of the single most important things that got me to major in history was Age of Empires III, because every civ and every unit had little essays that contextualized them. No, those essays weren't always accurate, but it offered quite the window into further research. There were many things I had no point of reference for prior to playing the game, which I subsequently researched on my own time and learned a whole lot about.

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