Think about it this way: All of us are the children of people who were the sole survivors of deadly wars, famines, and plagues. You come from a long line of ancestors who repeatedly beat the odds- which means you can, too. Remember that.
@P71ScrewHead2 жыл бұрын
Amen..
@mplwy2 жыл бұрын
I've thought along these lines as well. Thank you for pointing it out. It truly is amazing!
@orbitalchild2 жыл бұрын
Or you just come from a long line of people who had stupid good luck
@jackdonovan5542 жыл бұрын
@@orbitalchild Lucky bloodlines, then - regardless, we all inherited survival skills that we don't even know we have. Luck certainly appears to have been a major part of our survival, but memory exists in the blood-line, as instinctual responses, as well. We are all the products of successful survival skills...and luck.🙂
@hdavv2 жыл бұрын
@@mplwy me too
@kateriggall2 жыл бұрын
For 90% of this video I was like "yeah, all pretty standard," but right at the end I realised I had never thought about how gross living in a castle would be even compared to a village or farm. These are the crucial insights that were missing from my kids history books!
@JamesRDavenport2 жыл бұрын
It really depends on a lot of factors though, but in particular when in the Middle Ages, and how wealthy the Lord was. Castles could vary from little more than a single motte and bailey barely furnished, to something very close to a fairytale castle. One thing regardless of period that would be hard for us modern people would be sleeping. In most cases, you'd be expected to share a bed, usually with multiple people. Even a Lord might sleep in his big bed with his Lady, all his kids, and their closest Knights and retainers all in the same chamber. Yes, even while doing THAT activity!
@victorgiddens56122 жыл бұрын
Yeah, like europe wasn't the world.
@tweettweetjones12622 жыл бұрын
@@victorgiddens5612 If you don't like Western Culture then move somewhere in the world where you learn about their history.
@justacrusader31992 жыл бұрын
But still,I wanna live in the middle ages
@harrisonhogan2360 Жыл бұрын
@@victorgiddens5612 wdym just plz be nice
@djsauce44986 ай бұрын
Idk why but im obsessed with these days.
@drebbiesimsdesign35353 ай бұрын
Me too
@theknowledgetv93453 ай бұрын
Me too. I keep imaging the the streets, markets and the castles in this time since I got to know about this type of life. I am Indian and I compare the European cities at this time to Indian cities. I don't know why they obsess me
@Kutomi1Ай бұрын
I know why. I'm a dungeon master and writer...
@susanb2015Ай бұрын
You might like Romeo and Juliet 1968
@mathonamoore1232 жыл бұрын
Another reason they drank beer was because a lot of water was not clean enough to drink. Purple was reserved for royalty because it took hundreds of sea snails, to harvest the dye, it was labour intensive work and they only came from the city of Tyre, in modern day Lebanon. That is why, it was called 'Tyrian or Royal Purple'. Purple was associated with nobility & higher up clergy too. The background music is headache inducing. Even when turned down it is very painful to hear. Your voice is better on its 'own. From Ireland, the 15th of April 2022. 🇮🇪❤️
@LindaMerchant-bq2hp5 ай бұрын
Purple ermine medieval imperial symbols
@acceptyourselfbehappy1443 Жыл бұрын
Videos like this one help me with book research. One of the novels I'm writing is a historical scifi and I wanna make sure I have ALLLL my facts right! lol :)
@dweight78916 ай бұрын
ooh sounds good, let us know your books title when you are finished
@DandreKelly-xp9ib2 ай бұрын
your videos are like a mini-masterclass, love tuning in!
@zacharyhockett62482 жыл бұрын
"food in the middle ages came from farms" As opposed to now where it comes from where exactly?
@k_supreme_33712 жыл бұрын
GMO 😂
@dingusdingus21522 жыл бұрын
Sometimes it is found in the cabbage patch and sometimes the stork brings it
@Watchmerise694202 жыл бұрын
LMAO do you go to the farm to pick up your frozen chicken nuggets
@zacharyhockett62482 жыл бұрын
@@Watchmerise69420 as far as I'm aware those chickens came from a far. Do you think that they didn't have markets in the middle ages?
@coolkid_25542 жыл бұрын
@@zacharyhockett6248 they have markets but its poorly built and made of wood and smelly meats
@ΚωνσταντινοςΚαραλης-ω8ψ2 жыл бұрын
Excellent,could you do life in ancient Persia especially about the magicians?
@LeRoyBoxley4342 жыл бұрын
So what you want is a video done on Persian Magicians?
@ΚωνσταντινοςΚαραλης-ω8ψ2 жыл бұрын
@@LeRoyBoxley434 Absolutely.
@pillcosby65692 жыл бұрын
Lmaoo
@babyramses50662 жыл бұрын
@@ΚωνσταντινοςΚαραλης-ω8ψ a video on if you could survive as an ancient persian magician? Idk, I guess that depends on which king is in power at the time lol
@alexanderaguilastratt74972 жыл бұрын
Yes please.
@matovicmmilan2 жыл бұрын
Nobody ever banned soccer in Medieval Europe. Football, on the other hand, was banned multiple times.
@utah1332 жыл бұрын
Back then I'm sure the game could be described as soccer or football.
@Kutomi1Ай бұрын
They're the same fucking thing
@PSDuck2163 ай бұрын
Here’s a surprise: vanilla was known in the medieval days. Also in ancient Egyptian and Roman times! It grew in tropical India and tropical, interior Africa. There were vanilla flavored wines. Thanks for saying that beers of yesteryear were lower in alcoholic content. They varied between two and five percent. Wines also had lesser alcoholic content. You left out weak ale/beer. This had zero or next to it percentage alcohol. Ale had no hops, the staple of Britain and Europe. Until hops were added later for a longer “shelf life”. Hops were usually roasted and used in portages and stews. During the hot summer months when the crops were gathered, one couldn’t drink beer with alcohol, lest they collapse and sometimes die. So, all you can drink weak ale/small beer was had. This was also known as “table” ale or beer. Another thing: beer back then had tetracycline in it, introduced by all those free yeasts in the air. So, it was pretty good for you. Beer/ale did not have to be “soupy”. It could be strained through cheesecloth or linen to produce a finer, lighter brew. There was purple dye, not of murex origin. Various shades of purple, too. True murex purple stank like fish. The smell couldn’t be removed. (So, there’s an example of suffering for fashion.) Without the sulphur that’s added today (hence the astringent taste and finish), wine then was sweet. Average life expectancy included a 60% death rate for children. Cheers!
@yourface2884 Жыл бұрын
Some people are still saying that life would be easier than it is now - me, I did a bunch of reading this morning and I watched this video, and what I'm retaining stronger than anything is that I'd have to drink beer the consistency of porridge in place of water, DEPEND on it for some of my daily nutritional needs, and that even the highest of classes with the "nicest" materials for beds had beds full of lice and bed bugs. Yeah, no thanks. I'm pretty peasant-y by today's standards and I feel pretty certain that I am still better off than someone waking up covered in itchy bed bug bites 😂
@Kutomi1Ай бұрын
Ok, thx for telling me about the bed bugs. I no longer wanna live in medieval times.
@59spadesofalife52 Жыл бұрын
I’m not ashamed these people were my ancient ancestors and i’m proud that I came from people that were so resilient in such a dangerous and absolutely scary world
@ThoughtTorch8 ай бұрын
Maybe someone will be saying the same about us in 500 years from now
@_Super_Hans_8 ай бұрын
Strange comment, why would you be ashamed of them?
@59spadesofalife528 ай бұрын
@@_Super_Hans_ Your right actually I shouldn’t be ashamed I love that old type of festival culture. I see they had a lot of barbarism and that’s what I feel sort of ashamed of but they pioneered incredible things like medicine and prosthetics. I suppose it was just the brutality of the times people were still fighting to survive
@hugovanpayns95572 жыл бұрын
Nice vid, but I see some errors. There were three classes, not two. Those who work (peasants), those who pray (clergy) and those who fight (nobles).
@dda40x12 жыл бұрын
Actually, there were three classes in medieval times, Nobility, Clergy and peasants.
@justinfacer63322 жыл бұрын
My last name "Facer" comes from doing the finish work or face of stone masonry.
@LeRoyBoxley4342 жыл бұрын
I'm not so sure that is correct.
@justinfacer63322 жыл бұрын
@@LeRoyBoxley434 If you know otherwise I'm all ears
@mikemurdoch96532 жыл бұрын
Facer was really mouther so we know what your ancestors did.
@theoztreecrasher2647 Жыл бұрын
@@justinfacer6332 You can't be all ears if you're a Facer! 😜😁
@justinfacer6332 Жыл бұрын
@@theoztreecrasher2647 oh but I am lol
@martinschulz93812 жыл бұрын
Good video...well done. Medieval fuedal farming was very backwards and localized. Bad weather events in gowning seasons like heat waves, drought, cold, hailstorms, hard rain as well as pests and blights etc. would often cause food shortages, famine and hardship. The high renaissance and the industrial revolution brought about scientific mechanized farming methods as well as food transport. Food could be brought in from more prosperous regions in bad years. In today's world the Middle ages are often glorified, romanticized, and idealized. Absolutely nothing could be farther from the truth. They were times of severe hardship and oppression.
@KristinkaAranova2 жыл бұрын
I mean it’s like every period in human history, some had it hard , some had it comfortable
@martinschulz93812 жыл бұрын
@@KristinkaAranova The people who had it comfortable in the medieval times were the nobility and the clergy. For the majority of population, they were times of hardship and oppression. In modern times the middle ages have been glorified by fairy tales, romance novels, and movies. Nothing is farther from the truth. In antiquity, even in the grandest empires, most people were poor and by today's standards.
@goyonman96552 жыл бұрын
Hardship? - Yes Oppression? - No
@martinschulz93812 жыл бұрын
@@goyonman9655 In the Medieval times people were oppressed by the church, the ruling class, the class/lineage system, and they were bound by the laws of tradition. When they came to the new world the shackles were loose.
@goyonman96552 жыл бұрын
@@martinschulz9381 to be "bound by tradition" is a contradiction in terms a tradition is by definition what you do and feel to be right to do without needing legislation the modern world by comparison is the domain of all law and no tradition. Which makes it by definition more oppressive concerning the church, they were defended by the church against the oppression of secular powers
@ethansims97622 жыл бұрын
After shorty w the absolute dumptruck @ 7:13 I stopped focusing
@MajorHomeless Жыл бұрын
yea haha i knew i wasnt alone
@priscillawatson7049 Жыл бұрын
I would love to learn about the paleolithic, neolithic etc...with dates and s brief narrative describing them thanks!
@july95662 жыл бұрын
4:58 meanwhile the Aztecs across the world had mandatory public education .
@seraphimdunn2 жыл бұрын
Dont feel bad about not being able to survive the Middle Ages. None of the people who lived in the Middle Ages have survived either.
@orvilleclisby67483 ай бұрын
The key during that time is the water quality which kept the numbers down.
@jamesthue99742 жыл бұрын
Do your books include pictures and maps? Nice job on the video.
@CaptivatingHistory2 жыл бұрын
Many of them do!
@Nerathul12 жыл бұрын
Whoever edited the video messed up and showed chili peppers (native to the Americas) when they meant black pepper.
@Kutomi1Ай бұрын
Wow! Epic fail!
@woodysagan4242 жыл бұрын
King N-word the 2nd 6:16
@keelijudge507410 ай бұрын
Literacy was actually very high in the middle ages amongst the present class. It's just that they read and wrote old English not Latin or French. English was the present language, and written formed were very common in way of laws and notices posted in the town squares and church porches. Many poems and short stories where written down as well as ledgers, and letters. But there were no books because books where so expensive and only available to the nobility who spoke Latin and French.
@augustuslxiiiАй бұрын
Literacy was quite high? That's absolutely untrue. If you're a peasant, your life is centered entirely around things that require no literacy. (Even among the elite, not everyone could read and write because some simply didn't have reason to have to learn.) Books would have been prohibitively expensive, anyway, pre-printing press. The clergy were the ones who had to be literate - why would they teach random serfs and subsistence farmers? Things only really began to change after Gutenberg.
@HovitosDerErste2 жыл бұрын
It's football, not soccer.
@AviViljoen2 жыл бұрын
To you it's football, to me it's soccer.
@american1702 Жыл бұрын
@@AviViljoen ye
@chrisnorton4382 Жыл бұрын
@@AviViljoen - medieval football was nothing like what gets called 'soccer', which is a 19th century development with rules based on a non-handling game. Medieval football was basically a riot with few rules. Handling was allowed, the object just being to get an object or 'ball' from one location to another, e.g. a struggle between two villages with dozens of men playing on each side.
@AviViljoen Жыл бұрын
@@chrisnorton4382 My comment stands.
@LindaMerchant-bq2hp5 ай бұрын
Fascinating medieval times
@Terron352 жыл бұрын
Concluded that I'd rather spend this time period with my Native ancestors in the plains and not my European ancestors
@adelinagrecu4962 жыл бұрын
Was that evan a question?!:)) I am european, but if I want to choose a place from history where to live I would want in America before Columb.
@Jaymargera272 жыл бұрын
Imagine if Peasants had Brown Sugar for their Oatmeal
@Fotosynthesis8582 жыл бұрын
I’d survive about 8-9 hours. Unless I could find an electric outlet to charge my iPhone 📲
@godzillagaming887 Жыл бұрын
No joke I had to replay the video because I’m just 1:36 seconds I learned most year worth of highschool history class simplified and understandable😂
@thewhitedoncheadle83459 ай бұрын
yeh thats bullshit. probably a kid who never listened during history class, then blamed the teacher for you not learning
@forpeen2 жыл бұрын
The average life expectancy was definitely not 30+ if someone manages to live past 10 years old. It's closer to 55 - 60. Content quality on KZbin is really declining when even channels specializing in facts are factually wrong. Then again, it's FREE content on KZbin so I shouldn't be complaining.. lol.
@kevinmcqueenie74202 жыл бұрын
It's a common fallacy, centred around "average life span". With such a high number of infants not making it even beyond 5 years old it is skewed way too low. Average is not always the best way to measure something. As you say, anyone surviving until around 20 could reasonably expect a 50-60 year life span, not unreasonable, if slightly low, even by today's standards. Tiresome that this continues to crop up when it is so easy to debunk.
@friedgreenaliernwomerns26002 жыл бұрын
But you are complaining so SHUT UP
@sonofamun81222 жыл бұрын
the grocery store down my block serves a lot of beer breakfast sir
@brentmcintyre55292 жыл бұрын
I have to ask myself would I even want to. Creature of comforts I am.
@Marcoldnia2 жыл бұрын
If we get the jobs of the ancestors that gave our surname. I'm all in for this scenario of going to the middle ages.
@Dinnerbone2254 Жыл бұрын
12:42 Thats the roman empire, not the byzantine empire, I’m pretty sure.
@bigtexdallas2572 жыл бұрын
Middle Ages?! The Wild West was harder by far
@jarrowmarrowАй бұрын
poor people drank beer still in the twenties and thirties in England while the wealthy drank tea. Thats the 1930's! My grandad told me that.He was born in 1911 in Liverpool.
@melroy757 Жыл бұрын
Life was so good back then 😊
@Insolent_Rogue7 ай бұрын
hell nao
@vanessaculater90383 ай бұрын
Say that and live in that time lol
@SpencerTaylor-yh6ln6 ай бұрын
5:59 is that baseball?
@theknowledgetv93452 ай бұрын
Nah
@SpencerTaylor-yh6ln2 ай бұрын
@@theknowledgetv9345Do you know what it is?
@theknowledgetv93452 ай бұрын
Now I get to know that which era and of which place were usually shown in Doraemon and some other cartoons 😅😅😅 I am only 13 years old.
@LetStartWithThis Жыл бұрын
so cool!!!!!!!!
@roberw19122 жыл бұрын
Medieval football was not really soccer. Medieval football is the ancestor of American football, Rugby and Soccer. Soccer is a 19th century development.
@thelastbison22412 жыл бұрын
They can feed their family except during famines (natural or manmade) and wars (foreign and civil).
@DaRedeyeJedi8082 жыл бұрын
And ONE RING TO RULE THEM ALL
@drebbiesimsdesign35353 ай бұрын
Idk why I'm always dreaming about this era
@J_Braz_2 жыл бұрын
If I were thrown magically into them as I am now then no. If I had been born and raised in them then probably.
@thefanone2 жыл бұрын
I probably would have died by bad water. Great information
@izi51502 жыл бұрын
You forgot the dragons. There were dragons flying around. And the incest. A lot of that too.
@melhemalzammar7397 Жыл бұрын
U are so funny man
@yourface2884 Жыл бұрын
Incest for days. That's probably why everybody was so freakin funky looking all the time 😂
@Sayufxx Жыл бұрын
Turns out my last name is a type of English dancing 💀💀
@bladestar87272 жыл бұрын
Not to mention plagues, no doctors, witch hunts, wars, etc. No one expects the Inquisition! Break out the comfy chair and the fluffy pillow! What do you mean it's only a rabbit? Break out the Holy hand grenades!
@KristinkaAranova2 жыл бұрын
Which hunts are a renaissance thing not medieval
@matthewhardy4867 Жыл бұрын
the way he says herbs😂
@freeman10000 Жыл бұрын
Aussie here. The American pronunciation of herbs never fails to crack me up 🤣
@ChadwickTheChad Жыл бұрын
Why would you laugh at the correct way to say it?
@alimay83442 жыл бұрын
Guessing there was a reason why they couldn't mix the red and blue dye to make purple
@LODEH08532Ай бұрын
Menarik
@stevenericlutz2 жыл бұрын
Nah, we still call them spinsters
@Alishasilly Жыл бұрын
On my way to my history exam thankfully found this video
@yasifaizi4316 Жыл бұрын
what was middle age like in "Europe" Asia was in its top form at that time
@benedictwallis5820 Жыл бұрын
Soccer/ is still popular today. The world most played and watched sport… 😂
@tmdavidson1478 Жыл бұрын
I've read that fireplaces with chimneys were known by the Romans, even if they were very pricey.
@KristinkaAranova2 жыл бұрын
I guess we can thank Hollywood for always portraying the Middle Ages as dark and gloomy, when the Renaissance was arguably more intolerant and backward lol
@justacrusader31992 жыл бұрын
So bad people think it's always "dark"
@prismak76072 жыл бұрын
Also the Monty Phyton
@pistachiosandpopcorn71462 жыл бұрын
@@justacrusader3199 I clicked on this video because I thought it was always dark. I'm curious how in the hell we go from there...to here. How we now respect women (contrary to the popular belief being pushed that men don't ) and didn't back then. Or I should say..how I am lucky to be alive as a woman today compared...how that happens.
@elyhew7232 Жыл бұрын
It was in fact dark. As a civilisation Europe regressed compared to other continents. This video is just an attempt to whitewash history.
@SuperGGLOL11 ай бұрын
@@pistachiosandpopcorn7146yes, because there are 209 genders now!
@bezimenkostotebrigovic5149 Жыл бұрын
11:28 Belgrade, Serbia; I would say
@jeannestein54484 ай бұрын
I would much rather have live back then : I hate technology, and love simple things ; and the short lifespan would suit me ; who wants to linger on for decades in pain ?
@mllenicolettejeanne Жыл бұрын
My favorite part of this video was the Sacagawea coin in the treasure pile representation from merchant ships.
@MrYeet-dl4cb6 ай бұрын
what century are you talking about exatly
@user-yq9ko7vu7c4 ай бұрын
This picture 🖼️ is out of rensfaire fair or out of the Bible arts
@moiitsdanielle71386 ай бұрын
A simpler time would love to live like it for a week to just experience the good the bad and nasty xd.😊
@TheRealDarthCosby Жыл бұрын
how did salt make it possible for ppl to consume saltwater fish? curious about that comment...
@idkhahahaha Жыл бұрын
Sources? Where are the sources??
@Maidaseu Жыл бұрын
The alcohol consumption was due to the lack of clean water and not to gain extra calories
@DrLumpy Жыл бұрын
8:41 OK, the guy on the left is grabbing his wife's WooHoo. What's the guy on the right doing? Romancing a swordfish?
@Deyv1d2 ай бұрын
That video reminds me of The Witcher
@kuest8692 жыл бұрын
Scroll past this video everyday and answer the question myself😭
@wilheimreis82722 жыл бұрын
Yep
@DenaWilson-ev9mv2 ай бұрын
Tomatto's are fruit btw, not vegetables
@iananderson55612 жыл бұрын
Too many generalisations and half-truths in this video. But still an interesting video.
@giovanni5452 жыл бұрын
see this verse please Revelation 14:12 (1599 Geneva Bible) 12 [a]Here is the patience of Saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
@greatgoat6735 ай бұрын
Don't you have life in anglo saxon england?
@ChrisLawton66 Жыл бұрын
Unfortunately, this reminds me far too much of a workplace training video for me to continue watching past the first two minutes. I love the subject matter, but not the format. Sorry.
@tashaLei5 ай бұрын
ADHD got me here! 😂😂
@prismak76072 жыл бұрын
If I had the DeLorean this is the period I would choose. Sustainable economy, limited wars and simple life.
@DrLumpy Жыл бұрын
Surnames indicate your ancestors trade. What about all those people with the last name Lipschitz
@yourface2884 Жыл бұрын
Lmao 😂 if that's an accurate statement, I'm sure it doesn't apply to every culture or area
@Rookblunder4 ай бұрын
I wonder what the guy was doing that was called Master Bates.....
@Julesnshane3 ай бұрын
Beer with the consistency of porridge omfg 🤮
@approachingtarget.45032 жыл бұрын
Well...since my heritage is still doing the same thing they did in the middle ages, i would say yes. And my proven abilities of the armed forces continue in my blood.
@user-xx3sg1mm2v3 ай бұрын
Vegetables like tomatoes...
@harbinger65622 жыл бұрын
I have 💯
@pbailed80072 жыл бұрын
Good if your rich, poor not so much…
@rickyjuuice48672 жыл бұрын
No Wi-Fi so no.
@jaywa33632 жыл бұрын
I had my appendix out at 10 so im dead
@jerrygmarchantmarchant1412 жыл бұрын
Let's do the math together no one survives life
@friedgreenaliernwomerns26002 жыл бұрын
...but some learn to shut the hell up
@yusted1 Жыл бұрын
Probably better than victorian england
@LindaMerchant-bq2hp5 ай бұрын
Mead grog ale wine gin england
@5gUmIsDeLiSoUs2 жыл бұрын
soccer is still played every where in the world lol
@mrwrong49302 жыл бұрын
Funny fact no one survived the middle ages
@epicwolf2 жыл бұрын
No I wouldnt. I will be bored out of my mind.
@giveaf93702 жыл бұрын
In response to the title... My answer is no. I smoke too much 🤪
@IamPatrickStar2 жыл бұрын
Even though most of this is correct “congratulations on that” there are still a few errors in here
Without a good shower, food, and constant fighting I think I can survive just teach me how to use a sword, and farm or fish and boom I’ll survived
@friedgreenaliernwomerns26002 жыл бұрын
You wouldn't survive today without free American food stamps and free healthcare provided by AMERICAN TAX PAYERS!!! You are a flea on the ass of this country!
@louisbrown46202 жыл бұрын
No one survives life.
@mplwy2 жыл бұрын
Um, food still comes from farms. What, do you think we 3D print it or something? Lol!
@coolkid_25542 жыл бұрын
tell me what meat can grow on plants?
@yourface2884 Жыл бұрын
Meat still comes from farms. Cattle farms, poultry farms? Still, I don't know why some people are making that statement. Yeah, food comes from farms but most of us aren't responsible for harvesting it, processing it, and putting it on the dinner table. Most people don't even RESIDE near a farm, let alone have access to one. And being able to live off of only what you grow and harvest is almost completely obsolete for modern civilization, farmers make freakin bank