Age of Empires II Wonders

[@kwj_nekko_6320]

Senso-ji is located in downtown Tokyo, definitely not a Korean one, and it doesn't really look like the model in the game either. I'm not 100% sure, but the real model of Korean wonder is the 9-story pagoda at the site of Hwangryong-sa Temple, located in Gyeongju. This pagoda was burnt down by Mongols and never rebuilt, and no visual detail is left, so we have to totally imagine it.

[@UMOdegaard]

I've visited Borgund stave church (spelled Borgund stavkirke). And the amazing thing is that it is made entirely out of wood. That is pretty amazing regarding the fact that this church is over 1000 years old.

[@Chickenworm9394]

Great to see that most of the wonders are reserved to this day

[@mindsprings1]

Hun logic: Builds an already decimated Roman Arch, takes about the same amount of time and is as strong as every other wonder. This can apply with the Genghis Khan tent as well. Like, really? An oversized tent?

[@salamdoost7477]

Civilizations are beautiful

[@marceloferreira9]

And that show us how modern art destroy the beauty of the builds, every single build today is a fricking big square with windows.

[@I2dios8]

It's not really modern art, but practicality and utilitarianism. It's much cheaper and faster to create buildings that are uniform and simple. There's nothing artistic about it really, which is the problem.

[@TomorrowWeLive]

@@I2dios8 it is absolutely ideologically motivated

[@sonikkumania6917]

It makes no sense how people with more limited tools and means to build were able to create this architecture and now we make shit.

[@marceloferreira9]

​@@sonikkumania6917 It's not only that, we are not capable anymore to recreat a pyramide or the cities under the amazon forest, we just don't know, we actually lost the knowledge.

[@xofox_studio]

it's so true. Nowadays buildings are uniform in design. They called it 'modern design' but I don't think so. I'd prefer it as extreme simplistic design

[@Kikematamitos]

2016 and i watch again.

[@StarDubsLatamOficial]

Me too :D

[@rezakolahdouzan3440]

Me too.

[@cano3391]

19

[@Luca-vw7fs]

Near 2020

[@tristan.h5099]

@@Luca-vw7fs near 2021

[@herrmajestat]

Nice, now take The Forgotten expansion next! c: Btw, a similar monument of the Great Mosque of Samarra is located in Kamerun, Africa.

[@StarDubsLatamOficial]

This video is amazing! 2016 and I watch again :D

[@kzang386]

Goths beginning song was creepy

[@EagleEye517]

+KZANG3 I feel the same

[@tuanhcao1681]

Yeah

[@Agent1W]

+KZANG3 But badass, especially in a Roman donkey-kicking way.

[@DB-47]

1:45 Frank wonder is anachronistic. St. Vitus cahtedral's Western portal was finished in 1928 as part of celebrations 10 years since first Czechoslovak republic's establishment

[@beatthecrowd001]

why would the british have aechen cathedral? that wonder is german!, on another note fun fact: the mayan and Aztec temples when they were functioning were painted in vibrant colors.

[@beatthecrowd001]

Yea but I mean they really dont have the direct connection to the holy roman empire itself. even the HRE invaded the saxons on there own home(who are the ones you are talking about) which still seems like an odd choice.

[@Mausemannolo]

+Sami Savonjousi That doesnt make a lot of sense to be honest. Like saying the Teutons had Indian war elephants because they both speak indo-germanic languages.

[@electricpaisy6045]

I thought the same thing. Same goes for the Koreans' wonder in Tokyo

[@Wandrative]

Electric paisy You have to understand that the majority of the temples in Japan constructed during the sixth and seventh centuries were built by Korean architects and artisans - which was based on the pagoda styles of Beakje and Goguryeo.

[@jesusramirezcarbajal9270]

In fact, the Aztec temple was painted in bright white, when Spanish conquerors arrived and saw it at the distance, they thought that was covered in silver, the mayan piramyds were painted in a vibrant red...

[@MarcoZacMex]

The stavkirk is one of my favorites architectural styles. I would like to know Norway and Sweden just for the stavkirks and I hope to travel someday. My favorite one: Fantoft in Bergen, Norway. Greetings from Mexico.

[@daddyleon]

Yeah! I've always 'wondered' that, where they got the design from, everytime i placed those... gosh, that's a long time ago.. Maybe you could ask them to know for sure.

[@TheKobasen]

Thirteen years ago.... man... This game is so old but it's still not dying..

[@Friedtunafish77]

The Video was perfect. I really liked the way you showed the AOE2 wonders and the real ones and compared them. Really cool!

[@Synbios89]

@Komnenit You are right! It's situated in Guatemala rather close to the border to Belize. I've actually been there and it's called "The Great Jaguar Temple"

[@Almansur8]

The Spanish one was built by Muslims ! (Almohads)

[@EinFelsbrocken]

good job, i enjoyed it! :D

[@Oleerkilass]

Thanks for making this video =) I liked it.

[@21muhammadikram82]

Recomendation brought me here

[@andradesilva]

Fantastic vdeo. Congrats.

[@KarlAOsorioWooHoo]

Franks is the Cathedral of Chartres

[@coachrenaldo]

This might be late, but the Cathedral used by the Franks was confirmed to be the Saint Vitus Cathedral in Prague. This oversight can be blamed due to time constraints.

[@FrozEnbyWolf150]

I was disappointed that, unlike in newer RTS games, the wonders didn't give you special bonuses. For example, the Aztecs could get Montezuma's Revenge, which gives all enemy units a 20% movement rate penalty until the wonder is destroyed.

[@JohQx3]

Very Nice :D :D :D i had NO idea that those wonders in Aoe2 really exeicts

[@Shipocute]

Awesome video of the historical wonders. I really enjoyed it. =) Congrats.

[@Blyzzarde]

Great video. The Byzantine and Turk wonders look identical. I know the Hagia Sophia was once a basilical church and turned into a mosque, but wow the photos look the same.

[@Zazzauser]

Nice video! Viking wonder is awesome

[@SantyMarconi]

You did it again youtube...

[@millenedhean9929]

The great temple in Tenochtiltan is called Templo mayor, which served as the temples to huitzilapotchi and Tlaloc.

[@MrLeomankorn]

That was awesome,man!! i give 5 stars!!!It was so cool!!

[@berkosez]

Just a note, the wonder for the Turk is not the Suleymaniye Mosque in Istanbul but rather the Selimiye Mosque in Edirne, Turkey which was the masterpiece of the great Ottoman Architect Sinan. Only the Selimiye Mosque has minarets around the structure of the Mosque. The Suleymaniye Mosque's design is quite different.

[@ZeJoshep]

beautifull man, great job... great video

[@AnAmbientGrey]

I've been to the Hagia Sophia. Beautiful building. even more spectacular inside

[@FlakonFraggs]

I remember the Aachen Cathedral because I played as the British so much and the Senso-ji Temple pagoda because it was so freaking huge lol

[@GIMIJAH]

3:06 wow ;)...greeat job man respect nice video

[@terenas1986]

nice.. these really are true wonders of the world, that stood the test of time... :) except for the Ghenghis Khan tent.... :D

[@VeeTpl]

Very, very nice. I've been only in Rock of Cashel (that's in Ireland). But great, though. ;)

[@WiggaMachiavelli]

@Blyzzarde I think the Suleymaniye Mosque's exterior was actually based on the Hagia Sophia... However, I could be getting confused.

[@WiltheLiam768]

Great video!

[@TheCanelaFina]

It is retarded that they used the Torre del Oro for the Spanish civilization. That is a meaningless building. They could have chosen among hundreds of castles and cathedrals

[@yert032]

i love to play all of the age of empires games so i love to see a good video about them good job by the way i like to play as the japanese cause of there samurai

[@MarcoZacMex]

The british wonder is in fact the Aquisgran Cathedral in France, builded by Charlemagne at the end of the VIII century. I don't know why this building is the british wonder if is so obvius that is a French cathedral. In other side, I think that the mayan wonder is not the temple in the video but the temple in front of that one, the jaguar temple in Tikal, you can watch it in the video with this title: " Guatemala, Tikal 5 - Grand Jaguar " here in you tube. Great video anyway, thankyou.

[@ChompsterChomp]

Cool, did you research this all yourself?

[@CROBlackDEvil]

Huns' wonder may be both actually because they wanted to conquer both Rome and Constantinopole

[@Battlefield1600]

Omg...i wish i could see all of these places...they're so pretty Btw...was the Viking one a scale model? 'cause it looked kinda small to me o_0

[@MCBTJ]

The Hun wonder is actually the Arch of Augustus after which the Arch of Septimius Severus was modelled, and the Arch of Septimius Severus served as a model for the Arch of Constantine. The Arch of Augustus is no longer in existance however.

[@Dunkelseele]

@Jamobra Not anymore... it's some hundred years since the mongols raided Europe. The tent was only wood and stuff, and rotted away of course.

[@gagandeep2277]

gr8t video man good work :)

[@Soulkey_sbr]

I can't believe I'm saying this, but some of those buildings look really uninspiring in real life.

[@IceSpoon]

The Goths' wonder is really a "....meh".

[@45calibermedic]

That's why you have to see them in person :)

[@Agent1W]

The true wonder is that they have stood the test of time...

[@IceSpoon]

Agent1W Interesting point of view you bring there, mate.

[@Agent1W]

***** You can build anything great and magnanimous but it doesn't last for hundreds of years, even beyond your own civilization, what's really wondrous about it?

[@Anafandon]

Nice work man!

[@Tursiopstruncatus]

I thought the Mayan's was Tikal temple?

[@NovaTheli]

Wow! Nice video! :D

[@Tigrecon]

Why Aachen cathedral is of the Britons if she is in Germany?

[@jianfongyaw]

Did you travel the whole world to get photos like this? anyways, no matter the means, your video is so awesome (and thanks for explaining who built these wonders and where and what are they now)! :-D

[@daRaginCajun]

The Mayan Wonder is the Jaguar Temple in Tikal, the Huns' wonder is the Arch of Augustus, and the Franks' wonder is Chartres Cathedral.

[@omglollmao123]

Here's a quote from the Gesta Francorum,: "[Our leaders] also ordered all the Saracen dead to be cast outside because of the great stench, since the whole city was filled with their corpses; and so the living Saracens dragged the dead before the exits of the gates and arranged them in heaps, as if they were houses. No one ever saw or heard of such slaughter of pagan people, for funeral pyres were formed from them like pyramids, and no one knows their number except God alone."

[@Hellforsa]

I love the vikings! I live in sweden and i love the history of the skandinavian vikings. Good clipshow!

[@88erSILAS]

Hm to tell us the Places where these wonders are would be nice.

[@ReInvestir]

great video, man

[@nunoraimundo]

Very nice video!

[@JustLemonz]

nice video, this was interesting

[@muratsever23]

very nice video thanks

[@sprezzaturaguy]

@gustano123 well, even if the in-game structure looks very similar to Prague's Cathedral, there's indeed no association between this building and the franks, except of course that these people perfected Gothic architecture (and I might be wrong here; after all, countries and kingdoms had changed a lot, and what it is today's Prague may had been under french rule at some point in history, but they certainly didn't construct this Cathedral) . In my opinion, the french wonder is Chartres Cathedral

[@DragonScion]

Great vid! although you forgot the Persian one... i laughed when it got to the Mongols :P Personal favourite is the Vikings'!

[@rochelimit55555]

thanks for the awesome research!

[@dragonmcmx]

0:18 is that thing in the right up corner of the wonder a televison?

[@daniel8a35]

Thanks for the effort!

[@nativegerry335]

question, when were these structures built, around what time/s?

[@wedge0005]

The French wonder is Notre Dame in Reims where the french dauphin were usually crowned. Not the Notre Dame in paris or prague cathedral. Although it bears more of a resemblence to the later.

[@ericpromusician]

the Torre de Oro in the Spanish home city in Age of Empires 3. pretty cool

[@ritsnyc11416]

Great job

[@y318]

In the Temple of Kuk'ulkan in Chichen Itza. The shadow of one side of the pyramid that projects on the stairs railway forms the image of a descending snake on March 21, the beginning of spring.

[@IgNaceus]

Great job!

[@ddile]

The mayan wonder is a reinterpretation of the Jaguar Temple in Tikal, Guatemala.

[@JackA117]

Hey good work very good video.

[@skateray100]

ola ola soy rayomen911 no se y te acuerdas xP buena paso a tu chanel y me suscribo al terminar de ver el video jej bueno chao xD

[@lafther210]

weird thing is that aachen cathedral is located in Aachen (aix-la-chapelle) Germany. It was the captial of the Frankish Empire during the reign of Charlemagne. So i am scratching my head trying to wonder why would the britons have aachen cathedral when it is in fact a frankish "wonder"

[@godnone1206]

@Mo1903 It was actually built by byzantine as a cathedral.

[@GameTechReviews]

Because of the Moore's that lived in Spain back in that time period.

[@fatnanny84]

great video

[@Alchemisterius]

@Alagremm I wonder the same thing. There should also be Polish, Hungarians, Indians, Khmer, Vietnamese, and Incans... Maybe because of the limitations?

[@Dagsschiller]

your research is very good and very informative, but I think the Mayan wonder was suposed to be THE GREAT JAGUAR TEMPLE because the MASK TEMPLE is a little more squat

[@EPsuperFan]

the biggest mystery still goes to the enormous tent of the great Khan... if they can build a tent that big they might as well build a castle - w -

[@grandkenshin]

amazing...love it!!!!!!

[@lilis2501761]

good video, i liked

[@SmashCZ]

AoE2, not only a game - that is a funny lesson of history at your PC! Oh yeah, I miss that times ...

[@iani950601]

@WiggaMachiavelli did you even see the persion one it had like a law and the ark from which you enter :)

[@kozagong]

its the pity that poland wasnt in AoE2 :( i have already 2 unique unist for poland in my mind :D is there some kind of program that would allow me to make new or edit existing countries in AoE2? pls answer, thanks :)

[@beardedgecko987]

i like the music the best, thats the main reason why i watched this vid

[@CJAnonymous]

@MrMarkus1590: I think it's the Strasbourg one, though. Not the Paris one.

[@mnstr10]

nossa esse video é muito bom gostei muito dele parabens

[@REPHIA]

Aachen and Borgund stave church were only I knew xD Thanks, nice vid

[@sindrimarsmarason53]

Amazing, thank you

[@Westanbul]

nice pics:)

[@Jungletraveler00_12]

Franks wonder is Notre Dame, I've seen it and it's truly remarkable. Shame it almost got destroyed completely by a fire.

[@daRaginCajun]

The Mongol thing is a cloth tent, so t would probably have rotted within a few years, so no pics probably exist

[@icabaripto]

@Harri2006 Actually it's not the Cathedral of Praha but the Cathedral of Chartres =)

[@Penguinz13989]

best video ever: guy falling on masks temple stairs

[@wazaa2008]

Great job! ;)