Actually the current emperor of Japan is from the same dynasty that founded the country and it’s so old they claim descent from one of the Shinto gods. And it’s crazy interesting cause all the emperors had lots of kids and wives and literally had to found new houses to put all the princes in. Btw your videos have gotten me through my two month stay in the hospital your the best man
@zarni0005 жыл бұрын
yeah well Alexander the Great notably claimed to be descended of Zeus and Achilles.....many people claim many things...mostly what suits them.
@selvoselvo14 жыл бұрын
It seems like harem system would always supply enough successors, they did not have to beg the Pope to annul marriage, and allow a new one.
@clarkwinters17702 жыл бұрын
@@zarni000 most the gods were men that became defied,not all of them. ancestor worship whether in rome or in the Shinto religion is was a universal practice. Even german historians from the middle ages said Odin was an ancestor of the Germans and a king of theirs. Likewise the greek historians casually talk of the families and people descended from Zeus and his progeny
@1911Zoey6 жыл бұрын
I like this format. You're probably the most underrated history channel in KZbin.
@OljeiKhan6 жыл бұрын
Beylik is not a new term that pops up during the early Ottoman days. A "bey" is a rank that is similar to "duke" or "baron" and actually exists within the nomadic turkic feudal system. Each bey rules over a tribe and answers to the khan. If there is disputed succession within the realm , beys may claim the title of khan by overthrowing legitimate heirs by use of brute force , or in the case of Anatolian beyliks , there is a huge power vacuum and one of the beyliks get strong enough to call it's ruler a khan. Osman is a bey , but Mehmed the Conqueror is a khan. Kinda similar to the European feudal systems eh?
@OljeiKhan4 жыл бұрын
@Kdrgrp maybe yes , maybe no. See not all beys rule over a tribe , noblemen might be a much better translation for bey.
@OljeiKhan4 жыл бұрын
@Kdrgrp yes that is correct my friend
@tammijatti91646 жыл бұрын
Dude! You fucking rock! I’m totally spellbound and addicted to your videos. Tammi
@ismailsafavi16115 жыл бұрын
Thersites Im a big fan but u made a mistake the safavids were the heads of the so called persian empire more commonly known as the safavid empire however the safavids were what in modern day ud call Azerbaijani aka turkomans and also of turkic descent so ur comment about them beeing persian was a mistake as they all spoke modern day Azerbaijani and wrote poems in the language and also it was the court and military language so yeah and most of the consorts and the mothers of the shahs were turkoman as all turkic people west of central asia were called aka modern day Azerbaijanis and qashqais and turks so yeah otherwise ive wathced/ listened to all of ur videos mainly when playing ck2 if u havent played id recommend u do
@ThersitestheHistorian5 жыл бұрын
Hi Ismail, I was unaware of the heritage of the Safavids. Thanks for bringing that to my attention. As for CK2, I don't know if I have a computer up to the task of running it and I am so far behind on my PC gaming that I still haven't tried Civ 5 or Shogun Total War II.
@ismailsafavi16115 жыл бұрын
Thersites the Historian i really really love ur channel and im not saying this to suck up or anything but its 2 channels that i watch on youtube about history and thats you and kings and generals i love your work my name is Ayaz Akif Hajiyev u can add me on fb if u wish to talk about history ik about my history and of my region and the history of around the world that is not to say that u need any help in what u are doing but just if u want somebody with an unbiased view on history im always open to discussion but that is not to say that im not proud of my turkic heritage and that i do not count them as the greatest conquerors in history from atilla onwards and i love ur emperors and diadochi series and am myself a huge supporter of the ptolemaic dynasty and i like also how u always claim that the muslim world was always as complex if sometimes not more than the rest anyways im rambling just because im a fan from Azerbaijan who studies in london and i really like ur take on things but in the future in 2-3 months because ur busy i would like to sponsor a video on turkic history and how my ancestors influenced the world from atilla untill the last ottoman and qajar unions and ps for the past 1000 years the region of iran was ruled by turkic people (Azerbaijanis) save for the zand dynasty even the pahlavi had to marry Azerbaijani women for legitimacy purposes and even the current ayatollah of iran is an iranian Azerbaijani thank you for responding uve made my day
@radunMARSHAL6 жыл бұрын
The battle of Kosovo was not a great victory for Murad I but a defeat, since he was killed in battle, he's the only Ottoman sultan to be killed in battle and the first major battle lost since the establishment of the Ottoman beylik, so it was seen by the Ottomans as a major blow at that time, as well as the the fact that the Ottoman forces had withdrawn in the aftermath, pretty much annihilated, and without any immediate land conquered. It was the fact that the Ottomans had far bigger manpower, wealth and supplies that turned this battle into a strategic Ottoman victory since the Serbian forces had fizzled out without hope of recovery, and the Ottomans still had an army in Anatolia, so the Ottomans have asserted their power onto Serbian principalities in the subsequent period. It's somewhat of a pyrrhic victory for the Serb princes.
@zarni0005 жыл бұрын
correct. But one more correction. it was it was not a Serb vs Ottoman only war. There were Hungarians and Bulgarian contingents fighting on the Christian side..
@als14385 жыл бұрын
Safavids were also turkish/ turkic dinasty not ethnically persian
@mrsir22545 жыл бұрын
Oh hey, don't know why this hadn't shown up on my feed yet, as usual would love to see more ;).
@ThersitestheHistorian5 жыл бұрын
This video was from a couple years ago, so that is probably why it didn't pop up in your feed.
@mrsir22545 жыл бұрын
@@ThersitestheHistorian True enough, the home-page will often toss suggestions from among a channels entire catalogue, it's a travesty such a thing did not happen in this case however. It was pretty interesting though, you feel like a really good high school history teacher at times, more often than not on older videos.
@bmayden6 жыл бұрын
Your ‘about’ page does not state that you use these for institutional teaching purposes. Do you refer students to these videos? And, if so, where do you teach? I came across you two days ago, and I feel the quality of your lectures far surpasses those of most youtube-mainstream history content of the same genre.
@ThersitestheHistorian6 жыл бұрын
I wrote my about page before I knew that I would teaching an online course this term. I link my students to these videos via Carmen. I am a grad student at Ohio State. Thanks, I'm glad that you enjoyed the video.
@HxH2011DRA5 жыл бұрын
I think he does well because he's not trying to be overly PC like most other history channels on KZbin. I saw a channel that refused to even mention the strangling. History is brutal guys no 2 ways about it
@mrsir22545 жыл бұрын
@@HxH2011DRA Dont get exclusivity issues or anything 😁 did they really? Do you recall the channel, if not it's understandable.
@HxH2011DRA5 жыл бұрын
@@mrsir2254 nah been too long
@theone5212 Жыл бұрын
You didn't make mention of Osman Father Ertugrul who had sacrificed and laid the foundation.
@gregorflopinski90163 жыл бұрын
Osman: ayo bro I had this crazy dream about a tree growing out of me and covering the world Grand vizier: only if you embrace alabama
@rohhaiil3 жыл бұрын
uhh I think by his daughter he meant the vizier's daughter, not Osman's.
@GreekGamerTW3 жыл бұрын
Paleologi is actually the correct greek pronunciation of Palaiologoi. You were right before correcting yourself.
@karetsin265 Жыл бұрын
It feels so weird like our education doesn't even explain most of the bad parts.
@mattpliska5 жыл бұрын
Weren't the seljuks falling apart before the mongols the khwarezmians had usurped arljuk power in persia in the late 1100s and early 1200s
@HalalHistory4 жыл бұрын
Osmans father's name is pronounced like: ertu-rul
@Emre-xu2mh3 жыл бұрын
Ertuğrul :)
@ergbudster33333 жыл бұрын
Our narrator doesn't really do pronunciations very well. Almost every video he "Americanizes" other people's languages. I guess you can't be good at everything,
@ergbudster33333 жыл бұрын
Uh.. "Say hello to my little friend"..? Hmm.
@MrCount845 жыл бұрын
I love the Turkish involvement in this video!!!
@mattpliska5 жыл бұрын
I also thought bayezid was literally turkish for thunderbolt
@thehottamale29102 жыл бұрын
Can we get the mid to late history of the ottomans
@ThersitestheHistorian2 жыл бұрын
Yes, that is something that I plan to do eventually. Unfortunately, my back catalogue of things to do is rather long, so I will not even hazard a guess as to when I might actually get around to something like that.
@thehottamale29102 жыл бұрын
@@ThersitestheHistorian he responds! Thank you I love your work.
@overmanonfire5 жыл бұрын
Ghazi is Arabic word for conqueror, it use to be a word added to victorious leaders in middle ages, has nothing to do with Holy War or whatever.
@kayser17224 жыл бұрын
In turkish ghazi means "someone who survived many battles" not a conqueror. And its not arabic. its turkish
@kayser17224 жыл бұрын
@Kdrgrp may be true. Thanks for the info
@reaperplays41703 жыл бұрын
No Ghazi = Warrior Fathi = conquest
@suzannabradley35765 жыл бұрын
Enjoy watching Ertugrul 1,2 and 3 season on Netflix waiting for season 4 and 5... love all Turkish actors 👍😍 Arizona 🇺🇸
@natehensley88105 жыл бұрын
Great show, really digging it!
@selvoselvo14 жыл бұрын
Do you know the exact circumstances of Byzantines promising Orhan the fortress in Europe? I read that Tzympe and Gallipoli were captured, also after the damage from the earthquake.
@Sevil20242 жыл бұрын
In reality Osman's Turkic given name was Ataman, not Osman or Othman. It is believed that Sheikh Edebali changed it to Osman but not evert historian believes this to be true. Here is a good video with explanation but even the subtitles are in Turkish. kzbin.info/www/bejne/pYOxoWxvbdVgbsU
@ima1sthumanonearth8 Жыл бұрын
Albino u lucky they are gone ur woman was the ultimate prize
@VerySuperFamousGuy446 жыл бұрын
The thumbnail looks like Scarface.
@ThersitestheHistorian6 жыл бұрын
It is. Many modern movie scenes and other pop culture things have been redone in a retro Ottoman style.
@johnmanno20522 жыл бұрын
Something I've always wondered about the Janissaries: They were young men, all crowded together, denied access to women, and living communally. They were disallowed marriage. These were young guys. Like 16-35 or so Did they, well, have gay/homosexual (whatever word you want to use) relationships? Young guys in prisons do. Young guys in combat often (not always) do. These guys lived in a very exclusive environment, did they?? Nvm. Finally just Googled it. Answer: Yes. Big time. Big. Time
@hoots187 Жыл бұрын
They were castrated, thats how they enforced their no procreation policy. They could have sex with women since they could not produce sperm.
@johnmanno2052 Жыл бұрын
@@hoots187 Janissaries were castrated?? I've never read anything about that. What is your source?
@fatihengin9782 Жыл бұрын
@@johnmanno2052 My friend, as a Turk, I write the truth, Janissaries were brought from Europe, Central Asia and the conquered lands, and they were made Muslims. No castration, Homosexuality is forbidden in the Ottoman Empire. Death penalty. They were forbidden to marry, but they had intercourse with their lovers, secretly or for a fee, in taverns. read turkish sources, not westerners, greetings
@lilestojkovicii6618 Жыл бұрын
I like how its so unbelivable to the western people today that a lot of people in the past MAY have actually practised celibate because of how oversexualised everything is today
@ragael10243 жыл бұрын
standing armies were super expensive to maintain, as far as i know, reason why no country really had one just yet. how did the ottomans afford it? Edit: also, i think the byzantines did have a standing army, somewhere near Constantinople, loyal only to the emperor. but somehow it got disbanded in favor of mercenaries. one of the many retarded moves they've done to themselves, and following emperors could/did not fix. but this was due to them being broke. what made the early ottomans so super rich that they managed to afford a standing army?
@hannibalburgers4772 жыл бұрын
Ok, I actually know your answer and Its very interesting
@hannibalburgers4772 жыл бұрын
The answer is the semi-autonomous trade companies that march with the main army. (Kayi tribe used to one of them before evolved into the ottomans) Basically a trade company that is responsible for its own protection, aka. Kafila, follows the army and provides extra resources like quality food, quality armor, sweets etc. This way the ottomans has to only provide simple needs of the army, for example soup as the main ration (Corbaci/Soupmaker, the cook of the ottoman army) and army can pay their own food with their salary. This is also the reason why ottomans have some sort of fast food culture. (The Turkish Food Theory goes as that every traditional turkish food designed with considering these three factors: 1st one is the food designed to protect what is important 2nd, the food designed to be able to withstand harsh conditions 3rd, the food designed to be easily carried) Think about famous Turkish foods: Sarma, literally means covered in turkish, you can just put the food on hot water and let it cook. Its easy to carry. Kavurma, a meat that has been cook in its own fat for a long time, you can put it on a vaze and it wont spoil for years! The Dolma, literally means filling, is just you you fill a fruit, (technically a berry but whatever) like eggplant with rice and salted meat. It can last for years. Borek, is just meat or cheese wrapped on some sort of thin flat bread and cooked. Durum (meaning wrapped), Doner (litterally meast spinner), Chevirme (literally means turned) all food are designed to protect the meat and be carried easily. Also you can see that post Ottoman nations claim to first invent this food, while also claiming that their neighbours stole it from eachother.
@hannibalburgers4772 жыл бұрын
It helps the moral of the army and give them a chance to spend their earnings. After the conquests, these trade companies were allowed to establish trade posts and obtain lands on the newly conquered territories. A win win for everyone.
@hannibalburgers4772 жыл бұрын
Tldr: The main thing that slows down an army is the lack of resources, one way to fix this issue has private companies. Or what is equivalent of it. Imagine you are going to conquer lands and trucks full of snacks, quality smiths and tailors and food trucks coming with the main army. Imagine you are a tired soldier in an outpost on middle east, and you just move to the makeshift store near you and buy yourself an chocolate bar, a refreshing sode (its equivalent would be shebet) or an ice cream
@hannibalburgers4772 жыл бұрын
At least this i what used to be before roads were not secure anymore after the end of 17th century. Then they used what other armies did; suffered.
@jakemiller25075 жыл бұрын
I thought Ottoman law prohibited the recruitment of any boys under the age of 8 into the Janissaries
@majormarketing65523 жыл бұрын
They start training at that age
@hannibalburgers4772 жыл бұрын
They were put in the muslim families so they could learn the language, culture and religion. At their springtime (I do not know what age that supposed to mean but I assume 14-15) they were put in the army
@hannibalburgers4772 жыл бұрын
Its not like ottomans will pay to somebody teach them how not to pee yourself on bed, or to teach them how to count fingers. They just put them under a muslim family.
@dubarai3 жыл бұрын
Analogy to Alexander the great more suitable to Mehmet II than Suleyman (in terms of drive and energy to conguest, talents and intellect)
@chrisd9972 жыл бұрын
Don’t make please laughable comparisons with Alexander . Stick to the internal ottoman sultans, Alexander is one another level with very few others in the same league .
@fatihengin9782 Жыл бұрын
@@chrisd997 Do not forget that Solomon 1 prohibited dance in France with an order and ruled over 15 million square kilometers of land. He destroyed the Hungarian army of 100,000 in 2 hours Conquered 390 castles in Europe :) Countries connected to the Ottoman Empire in 1570 :) 1) Türkiye (Anadolu) 2) Bulgaristan (545 yıl) 3) Yunanistan (400 yıl) 4) Sırbistan (539 yıl) 5) Karadağ (539 yıl) 6) Bosna-Hersek (539 yıl) 7) Hırvatistan (539 yıl) 8) Makedonya (539 yıl) 9) Slovenya (250 yıl) 10) Romanya (490 yıl) 11) Slovakya (20 yıl) Osmanlı adı:Uyvar 12) Macaristan (160 yıl) 13) Moldova (490 yıl) 14) Ukrayna (308 yıl) 15) Azerbaycan (25 yıl) 16) Gürcistan (400 yıl) 17) Ermenistan (20 yıl) 18) Güney Kıbrıs R.Y. (293 yıl) 19) Kuzey Kıbrıs T.C. (293 yıl) 20) Rusya’nın güney toprakları (291 yıl) 21) Polonya (25 yıl)-himaye- Osmanlı adı: Lehistan 22) İtalya’nın güneydoğu kıyıları (20 yıl) 23) Arnavutluk (435 yıl) 24) Belarus (25 yıl) -himaye- 25) Litvanya (25 yıl)-himaye- 26) Letonya (25 yıl) -himaye- 27) Kosova (539 yıl) 28) Voyvodina (166 yıl) Osmanlı adı: Banat Asya 29) Irak (402 yıl) 30) Suriye (402 yıl) 31) İsrail (402 yıl) 32) Filistin (402 yıl) 33) Ürdün (402 yıl) 34) Suudi Arabistan (399 yıl) 35) Yemen (401 yıl) 36) Umman (400 yıl) 37) Birleşik Arap Emirlikleri (400 yıl) 38) Katar (400 yıl) 39) Bahreyn (400 yıl) 40) Kuveyt (381 yıl) 41) İran’ın batı toprakları (30 yıl) 42) Lübnan (402 yıl) Afrika 43) Mısır (397 yıl) 44) Libya (394 yıl) Osmanlı adı:Trablusgarp 45) Tunus (308 yıl) 46) Cezayir (313 yıl) 47) Sudan (397 yıl) Osmanlı adı: Nübye 48) Eritre (350 yıl) Osmanlı adı: Habeş 49) Cibuti (350 yıl) 50) Somali (350 yıl) Osmanlı adı: Zeyla 51) Kenya sahilleri (350 yıl) 52) Tanzanya sahilleri (250 yıl) 53) Çad’ın kuzey bölgeleri (313 yıl) Osmanlı adı: Reşade 54) Nijer’in bir kısmı (300 yıl) Osmanlı adı: Kavar 55) Mozambik’ in kuzey toprakları (150 yıl) 56) Fas (50 yıl) -himaye- 57) Batı Sahra (50 yıl) -himaye- 58) Moritanya (50 yıl) -himaye- 59) Mali (300 yıl) Osmanlı adı: Gat kazası 60) Senegal (300 yıl) 61) Gambiya (300 yıl) 62) Gine Bissau (300 yıl) 63) Gine (300 yıl) 64) Etiyopya’ nın bir kısmı (350 yıl) Osmanlı adı: Habeş Halifeye Bağlı Olan Ülkeler 65) Hindistan Müslümanları (Pakistan) 66) Doğu Hindistan Müslümanları (Bangladeş) 67) Singapur 68) Malezya 69) Endonezya 70) Türkistan Hanlıkları 71) Nijerya 72) Kamerun
@chrisd997 Жыл бұрын
@@fatihengin9782 still not even close . Alexander was , is and will always be remembered and studied. Don’t compare titans with just a competent conqueror . Have a nice day , and countries were not “connected “rather than butchered and conquered
@fatihengin9782 Жыл бұрын
@@chrisd997 Geschichte lügt nicht :) Lies neutrale Geschichte
@chrisd997 Жыл бұрын
@@fatihengin9782 couldn’t agree more , you can start even now it is never too late :) and next time list your sources . Spoiler alert this is the first step in the science of history , and Netflix is not :)
@kurkkamambusu40632 жыл бұрын
damn u need to convert your captured christian kids to islam in a secular state... major BS alarm goes off....
@dubarai3 жыл бұрын
Pronunciation of Edirne, shahzade, Kose Mihal and some other turkish/ottoman words are terribly wrong! Corrections would be appreciated and highly recomended.
@chrisd9972 жыл бұрын
U should be thankful that he made a video for the only , the only empire in history that managed to produce nothing positive for the human civilization, except perfecting on enslavement of local indigenous people, taxing them and of course mass extermination policies .
@dubarai2 жыл бұрын
@@chrisd997 I am thankful for the effort the producers put in this video. I appreciate the knowledge provided in it and the effort behind it. That is why I recommended pronunciation check. Your comnents are welcome, but not my concern at all.
@chrisd9972 жыл бұрын
@@dubarai very good answer that should be listed before going direct to criticism in your initial comment, like ottoman names are of some kind of importance to human civilization outside ottoman world . Take care
@HxH2011DRA5 жыл бұрын
Lol nice try to be cool, it was cute Also if it works it works BELIEVE IT
@lights88116 жыл бұрын
25:20 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otranto
@ahmeterencakr50616 жыл бұрын
Where is tayyip erdoğan?
@Rogerrramjet16 жыл бұрын
diluted history
@RobbyHouseIV5 жыл бұрын
You can make all the excuses for why the Sultanate of Rum didn't prosper however I think we all know it was because they were hitting the bottle a bit too much. Yes indeed...a little too much Bacardi and Coke if you knowhati'msayin....