The Gothic War (376-382) The Fall of Rome #2

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[@bremnersghost948]

Hi HT, I would like to see what happened to the Anglo Saxon exiles post 1066 who became the Bulk of the Varangian Guard, I know they were rewarded for good service with lands on the NE Coast of the Black Sea but they kind of disappear from History after that, Maybe a stupid and obvious question, But I'm curious if they were the Founders of Georgia? Due to both England and Georgia having the George Cross Flag

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Done that! Excellent work .

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it cool! Great work on this series I have learned so much. I never before knew about the events from the Goth perspective!

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[@HistoryTime]

Thanks Ryan appreciate the comment

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Most welcome 👍

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11:11 Roman historian: "This is bad year. It shall forever be known as TITLE TEXT HERE." Never speak of this year again.

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TITLE TEXT HERE....... doesn't really roll off the tongue so i don't think it will be spoken of much.

[@HistoryTime]

We shall never speak of that year ..

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My dude, two uploads within the span of less than a week, thank you!

[@HistoryTime]

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This is such a fantastic piece, I had no idea we knew so much information about the movement of the German tribes during this period of Roman decline and hun advancement. Thanks for spending so much time on it.

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You had to put this up right as I'm studying for finals

[@HistoryTime]

Sorry about that...

[@zoetropo1]

History Time: unless Ryan was studying the year 375.

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I've been waiting for this !!!

[@HistoryTime]

Thanks for watching!

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[@HistoryTime]

Thanks Rob glad you like it

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looking forward to the part 3 :)

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[@kelamuni]

the shadow here 3:53 is a true and accurate depiction of a recurve bow

[@Noobfantasy]

EXCELLENT DOCUMENTARY. THANK YOU SO MUCH

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Superb this - well done.

[@HistoryTime]

Thanks very much Alfredo appreciate it

[@AngryHistorian87]

This video and its first part are very interesting. Very nicely done. p.s. The Huns' musical theme is very creepy and fitting

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Your videos are brilliant! Many thanks!

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Awesome storytelling as always. Thanks!

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Thanks very much appreciate it

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THank you! THis was very well done!!!!!

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Thankyou!

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Fabulous! Informative! High quality!

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Lovin' your work.

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Captivating! Thank you very much for this work. This Richomeres Frankish guy seemed to have been quite a General to listen too. Erff Valens...

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Thanks very much glad you like it

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Glad you like it!

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Of course not!

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Thanks for watching

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Nice video.

[@derrengui]

Great video, I'm fascinated by the Germanic tribes, as a Spaniard I'm interested in the Visigoths but I find the anglo-saxons even more interesting. Great great video as always

[@danteslemagnifique1901]

Charles Yuditsky not really the vandals settled in North Africa not in Andalusia

[@MattieK09]

I hear the kings of Spain claimed descent from the visigoths

[@CarvedStones]

@@MattieK09 They did as they had gothic ancestry or were half goths.

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This was really cool, thank you!!

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Thanks very much

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@@Ed-wm8dx baz battles and kings and generals are 2 great channels for historical events

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So interesting.

[@HistoryTime]

It is indeed a fascinating time period

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LOL at those cg arrows That made my day

[@bandit5272]

nice arrow animation

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2 years later and the fans of History Time wait for Theodosius follow up, maybe one day

[@HistoryTime]

One day absolutely. This Fall of Rome series will likely take me a decade or more. It’s a marathon not a sprint

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We all wait expectantly for the day it continues!

[@Ladybug-uf7uh]

Just happened to be reading some history about this time period. Really helped to visualize what the Goths were up against with the Huns. The Romans were, predictably, so arrogant and made so many stupid mistakes. Over the centuries, people have pretty much stayed the same, unfortunately. Thank you for your narrative and upload.

[@HistoryTime]

It's such a fascinating topic. And much more on the way

[@aporist]

Huns were a motley crew - Bulgars and Gyoks mixed with Tokarians, Alans, Sarmatians, Scythians, after 2c. Goths so at 4c. it was difficult to tell who is who.

[@obobobobobi]

Romans at that time where deeply corrupt they had no favors with god and got what they deserved. Goths Huns Turks completely devastated the empire into non existence. That is why all modern day nations have very strict laws against corruption not to let their nation fall like Rome did.

[@daviddevault8700]

It seems that the logical approach would be to send a military mission maybe a Legion into Gothic lands as allies. Freinds Romans Country men we eaither beat the Hun over there or face him here

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O B those laws are useless, we are as corrupt now as back then

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Great stuff @History Time, are you going to finish this series?

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That bust you captioned as Ammianus is actually a bust of Constantine, nice pressentation though

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2 parts both very good, think we all ready for part 3 😜 come on

[@HistoryTime]

It is coming.

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Andrew Sinnamon The History of Rome podcast? That’s guy who voices that is an American so nah not the same guy for sure

[@HistoryTime]

It's not no. Thanks for the comparison though.

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Thankx!

[@3rd_coast_images]

Love your historical content! And although I'm clearly not clever by noticing the error around 11:13 while we are at it....drop the hand drawn arrows on maps. They dont add much value if any and they look pretty terrible. With that said ...I truly enjoy your historical narratives...outstanding content and you have a great voice to compliment it. Also wanted to volunteer my help....I'd be happy to review any of your videos prior to posting to make sure small errors are not missed. Free of charge of course and it would be my pleasure to help. Let me know!

[@MrJarl66]

Hi. Love your videos, they are GREAT! I have a side note commentary, Fritigern took over as ruler of the Thervigian Goths..(..)..I immediately heared/saw the resemblant of the ruler in Britain who invited the Saxons/Angels, Vorteigern...Is it a anglic/saxon version of his Celtic/Romano name...or was he of Germanic blood also? Fritigern...Vorteigern...pretty close languistic...

[@HistoryTime]

Chalex08 An interesting point! We’ll never know but perhaps Vortigern himself was a Britonised Germanic auxiliary who ‘went native’ becoming a part of the Romano-British elite. Guy Halsall talks about the possibility of the initial first wave of Saxons coming across to Britain back in the 370s and 380s to fight under the command of Magnus Maximus, so there is a decent enough amount of time for there to be a settled population of Romano-Britonsed Saxons established amongst the ruling classes of lowland Britain by the time their mainland brethren began crossing over into Britain in the mid 5th century. The entire period is extremely complicated and becomes even more so the more you think about it! Thanks for raising this thought provoking point. I’d highly Recommene Worlds Of Arthur by Guy Halsall for many more interesting tid bits like this. Cheers!

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Goddamn it! It finished! Didn't even notice, so intense..

[@Crafty_Spirit]

Wow, you actually plan 20 episodes for the fall of the Roman Empire? Highly ambitious 👌🏾

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Didn’t happen 😞

[@matthewhayes7176]

​@@trancevoyagesessionswere there just the 2, do you know?

[@roccman2003]

Can you provide a citation for the self sacrifice of Ermanaric? There is very little on the web regarding this. Nothing that speaks to him sacrificing himself. Thanks

[@hectorosbert]

Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae XXXI - "He was struck with consternation at the violence of this sudden storm; for a long time he did his best to maintain a firm and continued stand, but since rumour gave wide currency to and exaggerated the horror of the impending dangers, he put an end to his fear of these great perils by a voluntary death."

[@MattieK09]

Hector Osbert that’s a leap

[@dminard1]

The Alans wouldn't stop running until they got to France.

[@geletoz]

The vandals ran till they got to Africa lol

[@travellingwitch]

Very informative video. I have a question about the name Fritigern, could it possibly have similar roots to Kettigern?

[@MattieK09]

Good observation

[@MasterDrewboy]

Dude someone should make a movie of this stuff

[@januszkowalski5345]

Maybe the CIA "Operation Fritigern the refugee" ?

[@hilairebelloc7815]

An episode on the roman fleet patrolling the saxon shore on south coast of britain in the time period you are concerned with. By the way my earlier comment on the felix expedition does not fit your time frame, but perhaps you could do it some other time. The commander of the felix expedition was aelius gallus.

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This is quite difficult to follow but I'm enjoying it nonetheless. Do you plan to do any slavic related videos (specifically on the Polish kingdom pre-commonwealth)?

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Narrated by a master storyteller

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So damn good.

[@HistoryTime]

Thanks so much!

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That skull has a large mass for deformation alone, what are the sagital line shapes and placement?

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Nice

[@HistoryTime]

Thankyou!

[@sebastianlangley8900]

When is the next instalment out please??

[@zoetropo1]

5:40 The Alans came back, though: in the west they integrated particularly with the Bretons (hence the horse archer on the Bayeux Tapestry), while to the east they produced a bloodline leading to Genghis Khan.

[@mrxmry7763]

*Cries* in Roman :´(

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Epic.

[@HistoryTime]

Thankyou!

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Great

[@HistoryTime]

Thanks very much!

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All the while, Bauhaus plays in the background

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Rolling a fat joint as we speak...getting ready to watch.

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Your gonna achieve so much in life

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I like how at 2:42, when you're supposed to be viewing the world at 375 BC, you see a modern car driving along the road.

[@tama-a-tumatauengahiku3647]

That was the 375BC Wild Stallionus. Great breed of horse of that time, in terms of transport for gathering food of such🤣🤣

[@hilairebelloc7815]

An episode on the roman expedition to arabia felix, now called yemen. I have heard they marched south along the wst coast of arabia , and were supplied by sea by the roman navy, did this really happen?

[@paprskomet]

Yes.Ant it is not hard to read about it in primary sources all of which are easy to find online for free.

[@vatopunko]

did this series end here? can't find part 3 or really any other part of the 20 part series

[@shotou]

The bows the huns used were like the Yumi that the Samurai used?

[@pypy1986820]

If I remembered right. No. Yumi was more like longbow (no recuve or composition but much larger so it's not very effective on horse back or used on the move in general as it require longer draw and thus full body stand still to utilize its full power), which is why Japan almost immediately phased out bows as a battlefield weapon when they discovered matchlocks unlike the never happening in China and Asian Steppe until cartridge firing modern fire arms. China did used rifles extensively but it never replaced archery but as a back up to archery when China found it hard to match up the range fire powers of the semi-nomadic kingdoms of the North, and Japan was still using Yumi just no longer as a preferred battlefield weapon but as a personal weapon like Katana.

[@shotou]

Ah yea, I just meant the asymmetrical shape.

[@eagle162]

@@pypy1986820 not true, to put it simply the asymmetry design was used to help it on horseback and Bows were not almost immediately phase out with discovery of gun, bows still very much so played an important role on the battlefield along with guns.

[@corlyssd]

I like the prominence of maps.

[@TheRomipow]

Gigantic long bows no dude.

[@madsdahlc]

Why history time ? Why do you such great videoes . But yes again you make an awesome . Well researched . But again. So hallo from Denmark I Can also link Denmark to history of the roman Empire . As tradition states that the cimbri (Who toghether with teutones fought the roman repuplic between 113 and 101 bce) came from northern Jutland . No one knows why the cimbri migrated South . Some theories talk famile or over population . But cimbri migrated South . And eventully they entered gaul and Spain . Where they raided . This brought them into conflict with the romans ... And after a series of battles . Where the cimbri and teutones defeated several roman armies . Their armies were finally defeated the roman consol Gaius Marius in 101 bce in northern Italy . But also the germanic thribe the herules is said have come from Scandinavia . According the gothic historian Jordanes, the herules came from modern southern sweden and the danish Island if Bornholm . They also migrated South and settled on Black sea coast. And in the year 261 . The herules with fleet attacked and raided Athens . Where they did huge damage to puplic buildings and agora . And the herules was among the tribes (like the goth ) that entered the roman Empire in third century and settled down ...

[@HistoryTime]

Thanks very much for the comment! Interesting

[@madsdahlc]

History Time you are very welcome sir

[@vox_dei_365]

Are you sure about the longbows of Huns? Will they be composite bows?

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@History Time do you do anything on Slovakia. Please do. From a very interested Australian. Da man.

[@BenState]

@Van Aser much historty

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Why an Australian is interrested in Slovak history?I ask just from couriosity.

[@Bnailling]

I never realized the goths were basically like the population overflow of Germanic tribes. These documentaries teach me more than a whole semester of college typically does.. the professor I had just listed off the names and focused mostly on Roman laws and freaking satellite images of Irish farms. THIS is what we should be learning about in this video.