I am addicted to this guy’s lecture

Our world need historians like him .

Whilst he is often greeted with silence I'm here geeking with him about the awe of understanding history.

I am so addicted to this brilliant guy. It is so nice to watch his lecture.

His doctor told him to do walking, but he was busy preparing this wonderful lecture...you know the result

I really don't know what It is about Dr Roy, just the way he talks about history, the passion, the history telling, the way he puts out information and much more, it just teleports you from your place to a thousand years before. When he talked about romains being able to talk both greek and latin, I literally saw a 22 yo guy like me living in the Roman empire being able to talk both languages, it was fascinating. I love what you do professor, and I want to tell you that you opened a path for me that I never thought was there. I knew I liked knowledge of history and events, but now I can see myself spending hours reading books or watching lectures about this kind of stuff. My only regret is that I don't think I'll find another professor with the same passion and the same way of teaching to that of Dr Roy Casagranda. If you ever stumble on this comment professor, I just want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for these wonderful lectures, and I hope you'll do a lot more in the future because I will be waiting.

this guy is one of a few that digging for truth in history

This was profound. Look to listening to more from you Dr Roy

Dear Roy Thank you for your generous sharing of your findings and knowledge of history, which is like nothing I have ever heard. I have recently discovered your channel, and I am delighted.

A very gifted and very hardworking and very generous and nice professor; you rarely see sb who has got the 3 parameters.

Can someone please help me find more lectures by this absolute gem of a teacher

Every time I listen to this guy, my mind is completely blown! He knows perfectly how to communicate his thoughts to the audience! It's the 1st time that I see 30+ students in his lecture! Otherwise, the head count is usually 10+!

Such a great lecture. Thank you so much for your time.

Thank you so much for sharing his lectures to us

Dr Roy Casagrande is a marvel , a true historian. Has he written any books? I am truly addicted to his lectures

In 2 days I've watched like 5-6 hours of Dr Roy's lectures

All these lectures are chambulating all I thought I knew about our recent history! I'm in shock!

Great guy.

With due respect to Dr. Casagranda, on the "crescent moon and star" origin discussed in the 1:12:15 minute of the video about when it existed before ottomans, I could say the first appearence of the crescent moon and star happened during the Sasanid Empire in Iran(Persia). The Sasanid kings has crescent moon and star on their crown and also they printed it on the coins.

History department's very own Johnny Depp

15:30 the no impact thing reminds me of Alex Epstein's anti impact framework

Roy Casagranda was a great story teller, but when it came to history of wester civilization, it seems he muddled all together and agriculture from hunter gatherer transition was misunderstood as development was all round. However, his take on the Persians was great, even greater was Vikings were Persians and as a Viking Roy turned the whole European story as Viking and missed out the history that is the tearing the white men, belittling their contributions, just because they fail to see themselves as evolving from black Africans and are in no way superior to the rest.

Could you please clarify where the Persians originally came from? Many thanks.

Roy is awesome the way he explains everything.

Yes indeed. We have now replaced that whit long 🚶‍♀️ 🚶‍♂️ walks. By the way teaching classes like moving from left to right can definitely make you loose wight. In sha Allah.

This professor is so cool!

I have just started watching this guy. Without commenting on the bias of his politics, his romanticizing of the hunter-gather lifestyle tells me he has probably gone camping a dozen times (drive-in campsite, tent, fire pit, Marshmallows etc); and also makes a point of staying in 2 or 3-star hotels when traveling - and insists on eating at the "local restaurants". And although his friends in academia likely praise him for his sense of adventure and say things like, "oh well, I don't know how you do it - I could never!" - something tells me, he subsists on a pretty high-carbohydrate diet himself and doesn't have much experience living off the land hand to mouth. In terms of this wonderful "hunter-gatherer lifestyle" he nostalgically sermons in his lecture - I'd like to offer a day in the life account of what I think he could expect: Sleep briefly during the noon-day sun; prepare for your hunt in the evening - take another nap - and then walk all night (3am - sunrise), avoiding predation and injury, follow and stalk your 4000 BC African game until they pause to rest; and then shiver in the early-morning grass as you approach your pray, hope the wind doesn't change so you can get close enough to get a spear off. Jump out from the grass and throw your spear with your hunter partners. Watch it takes off with the herd. Run after it for 10 miles and hope you've injured it and that it might slow down. Yes! You notice birds overhead and see your pray on the horizon. You speed up. As you approach, lions are flanking the animal. You sprint ahead and you and your party are met by two Male lions. You manage to spear the first through the mouth as it lunges, and it dies on top of you. The other backs off and you're able to force the pride off of your kill. The rest of the hunting party catches up and they stand guard against the lions while you get a fire built - eating as much raw organ meat as you can in the meantime. Your party drives off the rest of the lions to a safe distance and you wait for the rest of your family to catch up to the fire. You hope your brother won't noticed your limp from the injury you sustained from the lion, and won't take your place as chief, as well as possession of your wife. All and all though - a pretty successful day. By late morning you will have your group fed, and the hides out to dry as part of your shade and shelter, ready for your noon-day nap; and provided you can still walk come nightfall, you should be able to catch up to the herd by about the same time tomorrow morning and do it all over again. Oh the freedom. Yeah, I can't imagine who would trade that exciting lifestyle of organic meat and wild berries for bread and beer and the security of the city. If you want to, there's still lots of Wilderness out there: Grab a spear and a sling, and go for it! Anyone can, to this very day, see how long they last before they run back to the safety of the city - with all its shitty food and beer. I agree, harvesting your own meat, gives you a sense of unparalleled freedom and accomplishment. You feel like the master of your domain and a deep sense of connection with the natural world all at once. But when the game moves off, or the fish aren't biting, and the weather changes, and you're digging for grubs and are quickly dehydrating and cramping up because you're between camps and water-sources, and you're out of rations, you feel a sense of frustration and powerlessness that is soul crushing. And that's only after a few days of going hungry. It's fun to talk about "the good old days", and how we'd all be better off if we lived like the Nomads of the Kilimanjaro; but let's try and keep things real. Living like that is hard. People trade freedom for security every day. That's what we've always done. There was nothing sinister about the agricultural movement in Egypt or Mesopotamia. There was a water source. It was year-round. People figured out how to use it to grow food. As a result, they could stay in one place and didn't have to leave Grandma to die alone in the dirt because she couldn't keep up with the family as they followed the Wildebeest migration. There are pros and cons to both lifestyles. In the former, we are as free as our health and nature permits us to be. In the latter, we are sedentary, but some of us can get away with being fat windbags that do nothing but talk all day - as the village will keep us around for entertainment purposes, despite our physical uselessness. So hooray for Agriculture, I'd say!

What a guy you are

The constant flow of crap out of this man's mouth is unbelievable. The Nile is NOT replenished by 'snowfall'. Both the Blue Nile and the White Nile are fed by rainfall. The only place it snows in Africa at or near the equator is on the very top of mount Kilimanjaro. Which is nowhere near the source of the Nile.

how could anyone watch any of this guy's lectures and stop before watching all the rest?!

This man is greatly skilled in the art of bullshit. As a fellow bullshit artist, I salute him.

History taught by Steve Lukather

...rewiring...reloading...rethinking...wow!

Thanks!

This guy reminds me of the dude from the big Lebowski

Thanks

Why is the colume so low?

Ibn-eSina (Avecina / Bu Ali Sina) was Iranian...

Egyptian grew grains to brew beer.

1:33:00 they considered themselves real romans? without speaking latin language so there WAS the Byzantine empire and more reason to distinguish themselves from the western roman empire don't you think prof? when you consider your OTHER CITIZENS as ethnic ?

Eventually! the history teacher, i ever dreamt of, but never had!

Origin of the Nile river is? 7:20 Central Africa? Ewe.... Just a factual error.

he is leftist populist

1:47:10 A sweeping generalization of a comment. Spoilt what was an otherwise fairly measured and very interesting talk ☹️.