Medieval Europe Was Peaceful, Diverse and Wasn't White

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@kappa5809
@kappa5809 Жыл бұрын
As a medieval european farmer, I can confirm that nothing pissed me more than getting my land raided by Japanese and Korean vikings, while our Indian King and his Sri Lankan allies didn't do much to defend against them.
@Tar-Elenion
@Tar-Elenion Жыл бұрын
I see that you decided to not mention how the Zulus and Aztecs rode to your rescue. I wonder why...
@joserubenuriberusca1248
@joserubenuriberusca1248 Жыл бұрын
Oh so you play age II everything will be fine just be careful of the cobra car
@FlagAnthem
@FlagAnthem Жыл бұрын
Mongolian raids
@KeithR2002
@KeithR2002 Жыл бұрын
Average eu 4 game
@dan_mer
@dan_mer Жыл бұрын
No, you got it all wrong. The narrative they are trying to push is that all groups were mixed. So, there were no Japanese Vikings, all Vikings were mixed, one Viking was a black tranny, the other was a disabled Japanese woman, the third one was a Pakistani gay wizard, the attackers were mixed, the victims were mixed, everyone was mixed, there were Muslims living in Vatican, there were no ethnically homogeneous societies. That is what they are pushing.
@anarchclown
@anarchclown Жыл бұрын
In Stockholm (the relatively diverse capital of Sweden) seeing a black person was an uncommon occurence still in the eighties when I grew up and people from southern Europe were considered somewhat exotic for being so dark. If people seriously believe that medieval times were more diverse than the eighties they clearly never heard of an airplane and should probably be considered mental children.
@dlevi67
@dlevi67 Жыл бұрын
The problem is that many US citizens have a strong conviction that the rest of the world is like the place they grew up in.
@Diogenes_43
@Diogenes_43 Жыл бұрын
They can’t survive up there without getting rickets from the lack of vitamin D. Modern supplements in food overcome this problem, but they’d get sick without it.
@anarchclown
@anarchclown Жыл бұрын
@@Diogenes_43 Uhm. No. There were definitely black people up here. Just not many of them.
@rincontibio7664
@rincontibio7664 Жыл бұрын
@@anarchclown indeed, is the same in Northern South America, blondies where an uncommon sight, but they did exist
@bacicinvatteneaca
@bacicinvatteneaca Жыл бұрын
These articles are mindless clickbait, but they're recycling talking points that started as something that made sense, ie: there always was SOME travel, SOME contact, SOME migration, SOME import and export, SOME cultural influences from further away than one would expect. And there's people who deny that.
@Franz_Redmane
@Franz_Redmane Жыл бұрын
Medieval Europe WAS a very diverse land full of many different cultures, it's just that those people were still 99% white. It's interesting how it's only considered diversity if the differing people have different skin colors. You'd be called a racist if you said that Chinese, Japanese, and Koreans are all the same, but for some reason it's perfectly fine to say that Danes, Geats, and Frisians are all the same.
@sianais
@sianais Жыл бұрын
That's what I'm saying. Ironically, they do the same crap to black people when they pull one random black person to represent us all. I have just as much in common with a random white American/Brit as I do a black one. So how does sticking one random black lady as a Viking act as representation for me or any other black person? She's not from my village or my country. Why do they do this crap? How did Europeans embracing their own history end up being equated to being r@cist, and how did tokenism 2.0 become an act worthy of praise? Why is everything today stupid?
@SeasideDetective2
@SeasideDetective2 Жыл бұрын
In addition, a surprising large number of "native" Europeans have had swarthy skin for thousands of years, due to ancient migrations from the Middle East and North Africa. People with olive complexions were found not just in Iberia and Italy, but in much of France and even in Wales and Ireland. Even the Vikings would have seen a few brown-eyed, slightly olive people in their travels throughout northern Europe.
@oduinn7948
@oduinn7948 Жыл бұрын
@@SeasideDetective2 Nah, they had African Queens, don't lie. -Yes, I'm being flippant-
@user-gp5yz5yz4x
@user-gp5yz5yz4x Жыл бұрын
It wasn't 100% white. There were a lot of people from central Asia who'd settle multiple areas of eastern europe, and Spain was occupied by Arabs (who'd I'd contend are white anyways but I digress)
@bristoled93
@bristoled93 Жыл бұрын
@@SeasideDetective2 Thats still white.
@thegoondockswarcouncil9543
@thegoondockswarcouncil9543 Жыл бұрын
The LoTR cast was *very* diverse-the fellowship alone had hobbits, dwarves, high elves, silvan elves, men, and Maiar. That’s a lot of races. And if you consider the cast outside of the fellowship, you had even more races: trolls, orcs, sentient giant spiders, sentient giant eagles, etc. seems pretty diverse to me…
@alexporter7379
@alexporter7379 Жыл бұрын
Never seen it put better. Who needs dark skinned elves (dark elves?) when you got fucking dwarves and hobbits going for the pipe-weed.
@sirrathersplendid4825
@sirrathersplendid4825 Жыл бұрын
If Rings of Power had based major side plots in the southlands with an entirely black cast no one would have batted an eyelid. Indeed it might have added to the respected Tolkien lore. But of course that was too difficult for the clowns that wrote the drivel that was RoP.
@hackerx7329
@hackerx7329 Жыл бұрын
One of the many things about RoP that really gets me is that out of all the races they made a dwarf black. They live most of their lives underground. If your reasoning for forcing the inclusion of black characters in a fantasy world is because "it should reflect our world" (Why? It is fantasy.) then explain how a race that spends their whole lives with little to no exposure to sunlight ended up with somebody who had dark skin pigmentation instead of pale white like all the creatures we keep finding in the deep sea where no sunlight reaches or the creatures that live their whole lives inside caves. You could have chose almost any other race from the writings of Tolkien but you manage to pick the one where is makes zero sense on their own for them to have dark skin. The only way you could have explained it was to have that character be a descendant of a dwarf and another race with dark skin. You could have even had it make some sort of sense as a political arranged marriage as part of some sort of treaty or alliance. But no, you just did something that made fans mad and then called them racists.
@Rubycule
@Rubycule Жыл бұрын
Yet nearly all of them were played by white actors. Why do we always assume the diversity we observe in humans does not extend to fantasy ancestries?
@hackerx7329
@hackerx7329 Жыл бұрын
@@Rubycule Because if it is your fantasy world you get to set the rules because it is fantasy. Middle Earth is NOT ancient Europe but it IS based on it so that is what Tolkein based it on when he made HIS fantasy world. Other people have made other worlds like that of Star Trek where not only do you have people who are light skinned and dark (and in one episode half and half right down the middle) but also blue and green and anthropomorphic cats and so on. It is up to the creator of each world and what THEY imagine for what the people in that world will look like because they are the creator and it is THEIR fantasy world..
@brent6771
@brent6771 Жыл бұрын
the thing that annoys me the most is they don't have to include diversity into medieval Europe. Other places have rich histories that I really enjoy learning about and watching movies. Japan, China, India, Africa, Native Americans, all have unique interesting histories. We do not need to lump them in with European stories, they have their own. Tell those stories
@elizabethanthony3916
@elizabethanthony3916 Жыл бұрын
👍👏👏👏👏
@Geicoenforcer
@Geicoenforcer Жыл бұрын
Hey there Ireland remember remember Ch Chulian well now he is a Senegalese women and Diarmuid is trans.
@KeluMocy
@KeluMocy Жыл бұрын
The point is to undermine European identity.
@theclown3967
@theclown3967 Жыл бұрын
​@@Geicoenforcer Lol.
@alienfish8521
@alienfish8521 Жыл бұрын
It's not about telling stories, it's about erasing European history and undermining the identity of Europeans. Would have thought this was pretty obvious to anyone by now.
@miguelsuarez-solis5027
@miguelsuarez-solis5027 Жыл бұрын
Ever notice that Europe was the only place that was super diverse to these people?
@massimilianomencacci2510
@massimilianomencacci2510 Жыл бұрын
Now they have begun to attack Asia as well. With the astonishing repetition of black samurai, of dark leaders in China... luckily the Chinese and the Japanese put up a lot of resistance. They invent black kingdoms and civilizations in America before the arrival of the Europeans...and I would like to know how these fabulous black civilizations got there, since according to Arab travelers they hardly had pirogues at the time.
@TitB1199
@TitB1199 Жыл бұрын
​@@massimilianomencacci2510Dey done built tha Great Wall of China maine.
@esmeraldagreen1992
@esmeraldagreen1992 Жыл бұрын
I grew up in Southern Europe, in my hometown in the 70s there was only one mixed race family, the husband was an engineer who went to Africa for work and married an African lady.
@DavidValdezBigWaveDave
@DavidValdezBigWaveDave Жыл бұрын
@@esmeraldagreen1992 Italy?
@Jadty
@Jadty Жыл бұрын
Stop noticing!
@BeAniEbOii1
@BeAniEbOii1 Жыл бұрын
One thing that drives me mad is the idea that “white = non diverse” like all europeans share the same culture/experience etc.. even in one country in Europe (Spain) youve got like 10 different points of origin, a guy from Galicia and a guy from Gibraltar have totally different genetic lineages, food, traditions etc, heck even languages.. seems to me the “whitewashing” is happening from more than one source :/
@richardmangelmann4975
@richardmangelmann4975 Жыл бұрын
Yeah that’s true and technically globally Europeans are even a minority. So they’re refusing to acknowledge a lot of very small cultures that absolutely don’t identify with each other
@SeasideDetective2
@SeasideDetective2 Жыл бұрын
It's true that medieval Europe was quite homogeneous, but that was more in terms of religion than it was race or ethnicity. Jews and Muslims did exist in some places at some times, but they were inevitably either banished or forced to convert. And, west of the eastern Balkans, all the Christians in Christendom were without exception - well, except for the unfortunate heretics, of course - Roman Catholic. To put it bluntly, religious freedom just didn't exist. Even Joan of Arc and Teresa of Avila, both good Catholics, were harassed for having unconventional religious visions.
@EdgyDabs47
@EdgyDabs47 Жыл бұрын
It's an American thing. They view one skin colour as a monolith. You're either "white" "brown" or "black"
@FinestFantasyVI
@FinestFantasyVI Жыл бұрын
@@EdgyDabs47 Yea, americans only see white, brown, black, asian or hispanic/latin. And all slavs are evil to americans. Not only do I have to deal with this blackwashing bullshit like Netflix did with Cleopatra and the history rewriting of Woman King. But I also have to deal with my people(i guess) always being terrorists or evildoers. Because my country(Croatia) is sandwiched between the more popular countries like Italy and Greece and even Hungary. We dont get anything other then being slav which means bad.
@Leathal
@Leathal Жыл бұрын
It’s true. Please feel free to call us “Amerimutts” or “burgers” or “A Nation of Shabbos Goys” in response
@KilianMuster
@KilianMuster Жыл бұрын
I agree, the middle ages (中世時代) are never used to refer to any historical time in Japan. European middle ages cover the following Japanese historical periods: Kofun, Asuka, Nara, Heian, Kamakura and Muromachi ­- none of them is named "middle ages". So at least from a Japanese standpoint, "middle ages" are always in Europe, just like Muromachi period will never be used for European history.
@CoolManCoolMan123
@CoolManCoolMan123 Жыл бұрын
That's education system using different terms. We in India have middle ages and medieval period interchangeably to describe our history. Also, Japanese medieval time periods have way better names than the bland middle ages.
@doltBmB
@doltBmB Жыл бұрын
middle ages is a ridiculously broad term that covers almost 1000 years so it doesn't really mean much except that the dominant social structure is feudalism
@Blox117
@Blox117 Жыл бұрын
better than living in the dark ages (now)
@TheRezro
@TheRezro Жыл бұрын
Basically few centuries prior to Sengoku Jidai, can be considered as equivalent of Medieval. Rest is semantic.
@brucetucker4847
@brucetucker4847 Жыл бұрын
@@doltBmB And depending on how you define "feudalism," for many times and places not even that.
@chrisgund88
@chrisgund88 Жыл бұрын
The whole "middle ages were diverse" thing feels like Holldywood creating the baseline to call people wrong (and white supremacist) when people think that their movies with mandatory race quotas lack immersion xD
@edackley8595
@edackley8595 Жыл бұрын
It's all about social engineering. Total political agenda. Until people realize this, the clown show will simply continue. Talking to young people today is becoming very hard to do. Ignorance and dumbing down is very widespread.
@dangerousdiscourse
@dangerousdiscourse Жыл бұрын
Its about erasing our history
@yarpenzigrin1893
@yarpenzigrin1893 Жыл бұрын
It's not Hollywood, it's neo-marxists creating the baseline. This is a neo-marxist ideology but you're correct, their end goal is to call people white supremacist.
@robr.5044
@robr.5044 Жыл бұрын
That’s exactly what they are doing
@steverempel8584
@steverempel8584 Жыл бұрын
This 100% makes sense!
@mlggodzilla1567
@mlggodzilla1567 Жыл бұрын
We went from "medieval times were incredibly dark, anti science, and especially bigoted times we should all forget" to "medieval Europe was a melting pot of diversity and race", I wonder what big media corporation will decide to choose because its starting to be confusing 🤔🤔🤔
@cp1cupcake
@cp1cupcake Жыл бұрын
I want to know what none of those diverse races never got on a boat to go over to the Americas. After all, if groups came because they were persecuted for worshiping Jesus differently, then why wouldn't they have had the same issues for Muslims, who, at the very least, don't believe Jesus is a deity at all.
@_XR40_
@_XR40_ Жыл бұрын
I like the fact that those are presented as being opposed when, in truth, the diversity merchants are themselves "...incredibly dark, anti science, and especially bigoted...".
@mlggodzilla1567
@mlggodzilla1567 Жыл бұрын
@@_XR40_ oy vey did you say merchants?
@_XR40_
@_XR40_ Жыл бұрын
@@mlggodzilla1567 Shhh
@backintimealwyn5736
@backintimealwyn5736 Жыл бұрын
It is actually " medieval times were a wonderful time thanks to diversity, later, black people invented the locomotive and antibiotics".
@konferansjer
@konferansjer Жыл бұрын
The worst myth about that time is that people were stupid back then. They were not. They were about as smart as we are now. They simply had very different grounds to base their thoughts on. They were starting with very different assumptions, but after that, their logic and reasoning were as flawless (or as flawed) as ours.
@DaPeasant
@DaPeasant Жыл бұрын
They were "stupid" in the sense of not many people outside of the nobles and royals knew how to read and write. Not to mention the common knowledge we all share thanks to widespread education. For example you get an open wound, 99% of people know you need to clean the wound with something more than leeches and a prayer. But yeah they didn't have different brains to modern Europeans. They were just missing an education headed by science, good healthcare system, good nutrition, clean water, human rights, and democracy.
@ThatNorwegianGuy-
@ThatNorwegianGuy- Жыл бұрын
@@DaPeasant Your modern average citizen are far dumber than what they were thousands of years ago
@aguilarraliuga1777
@aguilarraliuga1777 Жыл бұрын
@@DaPeasant human rights are a farce, such thinking leads to nothing but trouble. After all: the only right man has is the free will, everything else is defended by tongue and sword.
@stalhandske9649
@stalhandske9649 Жыл бұрын
Most correct. I would also like to add that people back then (and much later, too) had large experience and inherited knowledge of things we moderns often do not consider. By this I mean e.g. various signs in nature that told proper times to sow or harvest, telling from the shape & place of growth of a tree whether its timber is good for tools or building material (and for which part of house), which herbs & how prepared are help for rheumatism and so on. Since the vocations weren't as specialized as they are today and the knowledge wasn't readily available in printed/electrical & mostly free form, as we do, most of these had to be possessed in memory - at least of someone in the village! On top of all that, a number of oral legends, family histories, saints' lives, riddles and popular songs would be memorized; we are cultural animals, after all. My hunch is, actually, that their memory capacity (by necessity) far exceeded ours.
@abcdefghij337
@abcdefghij337 Жыл бұрын
I love that the standard for education was whether one could read and write in Latin. Like, with their standards, most of us are illiterate, too.
@JUAN_OLIVIER
@JUAN_OLIVIER Жыл бұрын
“Medieval Europe Was Way More Diverse” - Oh ok I see, so it was not 99.9% white, it was 99.8% white.
@juerggoestohollywood9390
@juerggoestohollywood9390 4 ай бұрын
Half as white as we all thought, goodness gracious
@Luiiigi
@Luiiigi 4 ай бұрын
The cultures were diverse, but they were basically all white.
@theprancingprussian
@theprancingprussian 4 ай бұрын
Fr until the 16th century people who were distinctly of darker tone were unknown by many, some given high wages and unique roles for their contrasting appearance, others enslaved soon after as more knowledge about them showed up
@tictacterminator
@tictacterminator 3 ай бұрын
@@Luiiigi diverse in number but european cultures are largely like permutations of the same circumstances and those circumstances were whites conquering whites germanic tribes show up, maybe they adopt vulgar tongue or don't, take up a roman manorial property system, with some inheritance from the Romans themselves (via Childeric), and they try to maintain things via the catechism of the church and through a system of oath taking that we call feudalism today. most of europe was either a part of these sets of circumstances or was conquered by people doing a roman LARP like this
@andraip
@andraip Жыл бұрын
Mediaval Europe was culturally super diverse. For example in medieval Italy alone you had Sicilians, Venetians, Lombards, Neapolitans... it was truly a cultural melting pot.
@daandevos122
@daandevos122 Жыл бұрын
Many of them still exist, though you'd probably need to go to the countryside, where less people move to, to find them. though it is fair, through all the different conquests, many new languages were spread about vast swathes of land, instead of staying in a tiny region, as with many other regions of the world. Meaning it was likely less diverse than let's say Africa, which has thousands upon thousands of etnicities, whilst Europe could only muster a couple hundreds. After all, of the major regions, Europe has the least endangered languages, yet it's endangered languages have on average way more speakers compared to other reginons. Because the languages are less given through to the next generation. Despite Breton having a lot more speakers than some vague language spoken in 3 villages in Guinea somewhere, it might be more endangered, because the youth doesn't learn it anymore(Because they learn French at school, and there's a social stigma against regional languages), and the elderly, who do speak it, are dying off. Compared to the few village, where everyone will still learn the language, meaning the language has a better shot at lasting into the future. I think multiple factors cause it, under which higher levels of education as well as increased migration. Both of which(ironically in the case of the latter), will leave Europe(And the world, we get the same everywhere, instead of differences) a lot less diverse than it has been for centuries. I'd also say the same about food variety, I like European food, but so many people just don't eat it anymore, instead going for rice and other stuff. Sorry, I went on a rant, we'll see how the future goes, for now, I just hope I'll be able to preserve the customs of the past.
@andraip
@andraip Жыл бұрын
@@daandevos122 Europe also had dialects only spoken in a couple villages, just that they went all went extinct already without anyone taking note. For example the small and isolated Portuguese archipelago of the Azores has over 100 different dialects. They are so different from standard Portuguese that someone from the mainland won't understand shit. Even for people living there, go to a different island or even just to the other side of your island and you won't be able to communicate. Nowadays of course everyone learns standard Portuguese in school, but the elderly which back then didn't use to go to school still speak their dialect exclusively.
@hayleylongster4698
@hayleylongster4698 Жыл бұрын
Culturally diverse Racially homogenous
@andraip
@andraip Жыл бұрын
@@hayleylongster4698 The entire human population is racially homogenous, there are neither Neanderthals nor Denisovans around any more. The concept of dividing the human race into multiple races based on the amount of melanin in the skin is a fairly modern invention, but yes there were no settlements of Han or Bantu in medieval Italy. Hair, eye and skin colour were different across different Italian cultures and people would be able to see whether someone was a local or not or which region they are from.
@ManCheat2
@ManCheat2 Жыл бұрын
@@andraip your not gonna be able to get a transplant from someone whos another race....
@DarthChrisB
@DarthChrisB Жыл бұрын
Europe outside of cities is still very white today. 500 years ago you certainly would never see a black/Indian/Chinese/Arabian person unless you were a merchant. I also hate how they say "diverse" but really mean "different skin color". Europe was the most diverse place on Earth, yet everyone was white.
@k.umquat8604
@k.umquat8604 Жыл бұрын
"Diverse" has become an euphemism for non-white.
@mcdick1621
@mcdick1621 Жыл бұрын
i live in germany and was once buying fish from a local farmer in my village and me and a buddy were briefly talking with the farmer (who at that time was well above 80) about his childhood/teens and he said when the brits and american soldiers marched trough our village it was the very first time in his life he has seen a black person. before that only in some books about different nations around the world but not once with his own eyes. even southern europeans were seen as exotic while they basically lived right around the corner.
@PeachDragon_
@PeachDragon_ Жыл бұрын
Europe has the most natural diversity in the world and it's not even close, there's 20+ ethnicities in Europe. You won't find anything in common between a Sardinian and a Scandinavian, but these ignorant people only know like 3 ethnicities and want those specifically, african americans, mexicans, Koreans and white American, there's nothing else to these people because they don't actually have a clue what they're talking about
@elseggs6504
@elseggs6504 Жыл бұрын
​@@mcdick1621 In my experience southern and eastern europeans still get treated like theyre aliens even though now they walk on eggshells when it comes to Ukranians.
@raics101
@raics101 Жыл бұрын
That's true, here in eastern Europe, you still tend to notice a black man because there aren't many around even in larger cities. If one visited a remote village he'd probably be asked for a selfie. Before the migrant crisis started you wouldn't see many middle eastern people either. The Chinese established a notable presence only after they started opening their stores by late 90s, but other far-eastern people are on the level of statistical error.
@purpleanex
@purpleanex Жыл бұрын
I live in rural Suffolk, UK. Up to 20 years ago it was almost impossible to find someone who wasn't white British here. Thirty five years ago when I was at secondary school, there was one Indian girl and one mixed race boy. I didnt see, meet a black person until I was 19 years old. This was 30 years ago, there's no chance they would have been here 800 years ago.
@markshrimpton3138
@markshrimpton3138 Жыл бұрын
I was a student in Norwich in the late 1970s and went out with a black girl who’d been adopted as a baby by a lovely Norfolk couple. She was, in my 3 years there, the only non white person I encountered.
@cleoldbagtraallsorts3380
@cleoldbagtraallsorts3380 Жыл бұрын
I went to school in Suffolk and had a similar experience, at my entire school, out of hundreds of children, there were 2 Asian boys, 1 black boy, 1 black girl and 2 mixed race girls. Where I currently live in Suffolk, there are only 2 black people locally and a handful of East Asian, South Asian and Turkish people who run the takeaways and restaurants. I'm 50 years old and have always lived in East Anglia. I was called all sorts of names including being tarred as a racist by a Korean person online because I wouldn't agree that Anne Boleyn was black!
@leedobson
@leedobson Жыл бұрын
My experience growing up in Washington in the North East in the 80's was exactly the same, a couple of Indians at school and zero black kids, the DNA of people there is completely white European
@backintimealwyn5736
@backintimealwyn5736 Жыл бұрын
yes , they are lying and trying to rewrite history. they want our kids to think it's always been this way, so they don't get a sense of the fact that these lands belonged to their people. they know what they are doing, it's called propaganda .
@Goforfink
@Goforfink Жыл бұрын
I saw a black person at mcdonalds a few months ago... first time I had seen one in my life. I am 37.
@thomaserpingham2798
@thomaserpingham2798 Жыл бұрын
Finally I understand why historical figures, the latest being Anne Boleyn, are being portrayed as non white and our European medieval culture, of soaring cathedrals, massive Spanish galleons, the knights in plate armour, plus our exquisite music and impressive castles are rarely credited to white European ingenuity and toil. It has to be jealousy but we've nothing to apologise for, our ancestors worked hard to leave a historical legacy that may be ridiculed but can never be erased.
@gaborrajnai6213
@gaborrajnai6213 Жыл бұрын
I dont want to sadden you but heavy cavalry, pretty much similar to the European knights was first described by Alexander the Great, as a persian fighting force, then it was applied by the Partians against Roman forces, byzantines adapted it to the Cataphractoi troops and THEN you got the western european medieval knights. It wouldnt even be possible before Carolingian times, because western Europe didnt really know or use stirrups on their horses, and without that simple thing a knight is not battleworthy. If it would try to use its sword or joust in a cavalry charge, and not fixed properly to the horse, he would just fly off the horse at the impact with the enemy.
@CrackBabyZaches
@CrackBabyZaches 5 ай бұрын
​@gaborrajnai6213 Umm, Sarmatians are credited with developing shock cavalry and they, as a group, got completely melted into and assimilated by Slavic and Germanic tribes. So by that logic, we wuz cataphracts.
@SusCalvin
@SusCalvin 5 ай бұрын
It was important for the new nation-states to scrounge up as much historical legitimacy as they could, as far back as possible. Even if the past they pulled up was a weird world where the modern centralized nation-state was not the norm.
@alejandromaldonado6159
@alejandromaldonado6159 4 ай бұрын
Well yes. The sin of Envy is rampant in the West
@benjaminmorris4962
@benjaminmorris4962 4 ай бұрын
What's more is that they'll call YOU racist when you point out that a historical figure was actually white...
@kdolo1887
@kdolo1887 Жыл бұрын
I wonder if these people would ever suggest that the Middle East, North Africa, the Incan Empire, Mali, Benin, China or any of the other awesome places they love to prop up were diverse as well.
@wambokodavid7109
@wambokodavid7109 Жыл бұрын
Calm down....if a fool can file u up like this u end up becoming like them in the long run.
@FlagAnthem
@FlagAnthem Жыл бұрын
Well they were not the kind you have in mind thougg
@Rynewulf
@Rynewulf Жыл бұрын
@@wambokodavid7109 pretty much, people love funding the rage bait and never seem to understand that the goal was to get them angry, so they read the articles and make videos about them and give them free money and advertising
@blacktigerpaw1
@blacktigerpaw1 Жыл бұрын
​@@Rynewulf There's a concerted effort to rewrite Medieval Europe as reflecting modern demographics. There was a push to rename the Anglo Saxon society because "Anglo-Saxon" is white supremacist.
@todo9633
@todo9633 Жыл бұрын
Thing is, ancient Europe was diverse. Hundreds of ethnicities and languages, thousands of dialects, many religions and sects. But apparently that doesn't count as diversity if everyone involved has skin lighter than a specific shade of brown.
@andersschmich8600
@andersschmich8600 Жыл бұрын
Ironically, Northern Europe would not have attracted people from all around the globe because it was not a major economic center. It's kind of funny, these types of articles somehow want to say the past was great, but it was also bad, and they can't quite make up their minds on what to land on.
@clefsan
@clefsan Жыл бұрын
If you say Northern Europe wasn't a major economic center, I suppose that may to some degree depend on your definition of what qualifies for the term. My "counter argument" would be: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_during_the_Viking_Age
@RichardRenes
@RichardRenes Жыл бұрын
*cough*Hanzeatic league*cough* The total trade among towns of the Hanzeatic league equalled the trade in the mediterranean. OK, it wasn't as flashy as it didn't involve spices, silks and other luxury items, but the amount of wool, wheat, wood and animal pelts traded was enormous. Except this didn't involve muslims or Africans so.... your stranger would be Estonian or Danish in Bergen or Stockholm or Kampen instead of Turkish or North African.
@maozedong8370
@maozedong8370 Жыл бұрын
@@LTNetjak Wrong, people had pleasant lives for hundreds of thousands of years before the industrial revolution. Here people go again applying their own modern experience to people of the past. Are you saying people were bored before then or that the industrial revolution just made everything "better"? Made things more convenient perhaps, but people were doing just fine long before then and had their way of doing things. Saying people had sh*t lives before the industrial revolution is like a black guy in Norway who becomes president saying he is sick of white imperialism in his country. It is a ridiculous statement to make.
@Inucroft
@Inucroft Жыл бұрын
My dude, there is a Black person's remains found at the Coppergate dig of York. Dating to the Viking Age (Early Medieval)
@kaizokujimbei143
@kaizokujimbei143 Жыл бұрын
Breaking the Law of Non-Contradiction is a prerequisite towards becoming a communist.
@genzi78514
@genzi78514 Жыл бұрын
As an immigrant myself who came to Europe in the 2000s...well, I was the only foreigner in my grade. In a 400-500;students school, I think that foreigners made around 10 or less. It's amazing how they pretend to "normalize" what it's not normal, and erase people's experiences.
@PeachDragon_
@PeachDragon_ Жыл бұрын
I am very ok with europe welcoming foreigners, my problem arises when white Americans who've never set a foot in Europe outside of a vacation to italy start trying to change our history and erase our culture
@e.mailissimo2146
@e.mailissimo2146 Жыл бұрын
Holy shit where did you move to? There are quite a few places here in germany where the biological-german kids are the minority!
@chuckruckus3648
@chuckruckus3648 Жыл бұрын
Where I am now went from an 80/20 to 20/80 in 10 years I suspect it will be 5/95 by 2030 History repeats
@manub.3847
@manub.3847 Жыл бұрын
Your experience reminds me of Yared Dibaba (actor and NDR moderator), the good man speaks excellent Plattdütsch ;).
@AH13371
@AH13371 Жыл бұрын
​@@e.mailissimo2146 same in sweden, malmö has fewer swedes than migrants. Not sure why swedish people people hate themselves enough to create that
@kaloyan2778
@kaloyan2778 Жыл бұрын
As a knight whom slayeth two dragons and thrice rescued a Japanese, Indian and Aztec princess from captivity across Europe, I dare say this article has blemished my honor!
@mikepalmer1971
@mikepalmer1971 Жыл бұрын
Lol. This made me laugh for real. Lol.
@JuanGonzalez-cl4md
@JuanGonzalez-cl4md 8 ай бұрын
Fucking legend dude.
@TheNabOwnzz
@TheNabOwnzz 4 ай бұрын
Who hath slain*
@Egr-et6ar
@Egr-et6ar 4 ай бұрын
Eropeans aren’t native to Erope. Oldest indigenous group in Northern Erope were the Eurasian Sami tribe. Not even in the Russian steppe - oldest indigenous group there is a Iranian tribe.
@bavid4430
@bavid4430 4 ай бұрын
​@@Egr-et6arwith that logic you could argue that noone is native
@rickmacdonald6355
@rickmacdonald6355 Жыл бұрын
I was born in Glasgow, Scotland and my parents dragged my ass to South Africa when I was 9 (1985). That was when I saw my first black person in real life. I had seen a few Pakistanis and some Chinese but that was it. Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and one of the largest in the UK. The diverse thing has only really been a recent thing and anybody that thinks differently really needs to read some history
@TitB1199
@TitB1199 Жыл бұрын
London was very much White until the 80's. Muh 'windrush' and some south Asian immigration prior to that was docile compared to what happened 1980 onwards.
@user-ze8yy8jg1f
@user-ze8yy8jg1f Жыл бұрын
@@TitB1199 same here in Ireland my parents are from the countryside and when they used to go to the city they always said they hoped to finally see a black person. And this was the 70s early 80s
@wolverine343534
@wolverine343534 Жыл бұрын
I live just outside Glasgow. Born in 70’s, and I agree, there were very few non-white folk while growing up. In fact, if I remember correctly, there was only 1 Asian guy in my high school at the time. I think it was when I got into my 20’s that I crossed paths with a black person. Mainly the people of colour stuck to the big cities, so there was less chance of seeing them in my town. I think it was only once I hit my 30’s that more diversity was appearing. Sorry, I hate saying it like that, every individual is different no matter their colour. I am just saying that when I was growing up, it was mostly white folk in my town. These days, you can see the diversity in the cities. It just isn’t as obvious in the towns and villages. However, this has only grown over the last 20 yrs I would say. So, when I comes to historical movies, I don’t understand why people want to change facts about how it was, just to be diverse. Historical Japanese films, made in Japan, have all Asian people. They don’t include White or Black people unless it was actually part of history, not just to be diverse.
@keltyk
@keltyk Жыл бұрын
@@wolverine343534 The cities in Scotland are quickly changing. The towns are changing too, and even villages, just a whisker, so far. How can I put it, in the local newspapers of Scotland, the rapists are working in teams now. There are usually no descriptions of the desperately sought offenders, but if they catch any, they are "Scottish", but their names aren't
@mchonkler7225
@mchonkler7225 Жыл бұрын
@@TitB1199 Same in the US until 1965 and then again in the 80s under Reagan. As much as boomers love him, he put the final nail in the immigration and border enforcement coffin. Funny how it's only countries with Western govts that need diversity.
@Apollo1989V
@Apollo1989V Жыл бұрын
If Rings of Power wanted “diversity”, they should have had some segments in Harad and Far Harad, which would be Africa to the main story’s Europe. They could explore the interactions with Númenorians, both good and bad, as well as Sauron spreading lies and malice among them.
@staC-wh6ik
@staC-wh6ik Жыл бұрын
You know, it actually sound cooler. They could have explored Harad and Rhun, which are almost never explored in Tolkien writings. It could have been a nice way to show the interactions of Numenor and the people they first befriended and then, after Sauron's influence on Numenor, enslaved.
@jaredthehawk3870
@jaredthehawk3870 Жыл бұрын
I would have killed for an entire series set in Harad and see all the different tribes and peoples competing against each other. Show how Sauron's influence affects them all as some rally to his cause, but some resist desiring to be the masters of their own fate. Would have been excellent. it could have been way more game of thronesy than what we got.
@Alex-dh2cx
@Alex-dh2cx Жыл бұрын
I believe even Tolkien mentioned one source of conflict between the Easterlings and Númenor as the colonization of a portion of land they claimed. The seeds of the stories were planted by Tolkien, they just ignored it to push their own nonsense
@shockwavecg
@shockwavecg Жыл бұрын
But then they would have actually had to go in-depth into Tolkien's work and that's hard. They don't like to do actual research. It would have been incredible to see what actual, hard-core Tolkien fans would have come up with given a budget and a good director.
@MrChickennugget360
@MrChickennugget360 Жыл бұрын
Rings of Power is the biggest shit show in modern TV history.
@elogic7368
@elogic7368 Жыл бұрын
As an aztec warrior from 1300 who was Count of Aquitaine in France and larried a Korean princess of the Holy African Roman Empire, I can confirm this continent wasn't that much diverse
@TheVideoLounge
@TheVideoLounge Жыл бұрын
I wondered when Count St Germain would turn up on these pages to put right some inaccuracies, nice to have you back sir.
@incorrba
@incorrba Жыл бұрын
Thank you for your eyewitness account
@TheDonLemonSnickety
@TheDonLemonSnickety Жыл бұрын
Much obliged to you and your Holy African Empire. I hope to visit one day when I’m on my to Motown by way of Valeria.
@pinkiepie6880
@pinkiepie6880 Жыл бұрын
As a direct relative of Eleanor of Aquitaine, I concur! 😂 P.S. She wasn't called the Grandmother of Europe for nothing lol my Mum is really into genealogy and through extensive research and DNA testing her paternal side goes back to many French nobility.
@Prince_Sheogorath
@Prince_Sheogorath Жыл бұрын
Acquitaine was a major pushover - completely gynocentric and developed chivalric code which taught men to be subservient losers. Look up Peter Wright's blog, Gynocentrism for the full explanation. Feminism is repackaged chivalry. Feminists refuse to acknowledge gynocentrism, and insist that all bad things stem from men. This attitude was consciously created by aristocracy in medieval times, but these spirits have manifested long before and in other parts of the world.
@jeanninerossouw5921
@jeanninerossouw5921 Жыл бұрын
In the middle ages, Algerian and Barbary pirates from Africa were raiding European coast to get white European slaves. There is a good reason why Europeans mounted a offensive and fought back, starting with the reconquesta
@guycrew3973
@guycrew3973 5 ай бұрын
Who taught you history? These are two things that have absolutely nothing to do with each other by the time the barbary pirates started raiding the reconquesta was already completed and all the crusades had already happened
@jeanninerossouw5921
@jeanninerossouw5921 5 ай бұрын
@@guycrew3973 north African pirates are recorded to be raiding into Europe from at least 700ad. The term term Barbary pirates may now refer to a specific group, but the act of piracy from the Barbary coast and Algeria predates the term.
@guycrew3973
@guycrew3973 5 ай бұрын
@@jeanninerossouw5921 i know that but few talk about the Barbary pirates so I thought you knew when they started
@J-IFWBR
@J-IFWBR 4 ай бұрын
Reconquista was not motivated by barbary slavetrade i think. Also this does not match with the timeframe, the reqonquista was finsihed in the same year in which Queen Isabella tasked Columbus with sailing West. in the year 1492. The Barbary slavetrade from the port/pirate cities of north Africa, most notably Algir, and Tunis, was only finaly stopped after the invention of the USA in 1815. Althou Sweden had fought the Barabaries since 1810 or smthing. Edit: so even if the barbary slavetrade predated the 18s considerately, it seems implausible to see it as motivational for the reconquista, otherwise there is no explenation for the 300 year gap inbetween those two things. IF the reconquista was about slavery, why would they have stopped without acchieving their goals at all?
@jamesrian1578
@jamesrian1578 4 ай бұрын
Slave trade unfortunately just was a very normal thing in the entire world for the biggest part of history. Italians took slaves from the Balkans and sold them to Arabs, Vikings enslaved Italians and other coastal villages to sell, Africans enslaved people from other “clans” (I forgot the word, I don’t speak English natively) and sold them to Arabs and all sorts of people So this is honestly nothing new or shocking for anyone Doesn’t necessarily lead to the reconquista
@samvimes9510
@samvimes9510 Жыл бұрын
Used to be that if history made people uncomfortable, we'd try to learn from it. Now if history makes people uncomfortable, we just rewrite it.
@th3mous380
@th3mous380 Жыл бұрын
Yep. It's very dangerous Ministry of Truth style deception.
@WilliamGarrow
@WilliamGarrow Жыл бұрын
​@@hah-vj7hc Who is they? Most of this crap comes from Europeans themselves. Nobody if sound mind thinks you had millions of black people in the past living in Europe.
@PolythenePam0451
@PolythenePam0451 Жыл бұрын
lol? this has always happened
@akatsukicloak
@akatsukicloak Жыл бұрын
The victors are indeed rewriting the history for people of European descent.. I wonder who might those people be...
@hehexd5317
@hehexd5317 Жыл бұрын
​@@akatsukicloak oy vey, cool it with the antisemitic remarks
@Don-Coyote-De-Transylvania
@Don-Coyote-De-Transylvania Жыл бұрын
"Medieval Europe Was Peaceful, Diverse and Wasn't White" And penguins play symphony in the Arctic Ocean.
@peterpike
@peterpike Жыл бұрын
Penguins play music. And Canadian seals go clubbing......
@BasementPepperoni
@BasementPepperoni Жыл бұрын
@@peterpike Baby Seals walk into clubs all the time ffs!
@karenburrows9184
@karenburrows9184 Жыл бұрын
Silly. Everyone knows penguins play symphonies in the desert. Sheesh.
@garesonc9672
@garesonc9672 Жыл бұрын
You meant highlight the absurdity of their thinking with another nonsensical notion but in their world, penguins(or at least humans identifying as such) could play a symphony in the Arctic Ocean. See? They have you check-mated.
@Don-Coyote-De-Transylvania
@Don-Coyote-De-Transylvania Жыл бұрын
@@karenburrows9184 They do, but only on Tuesday.
@darthplagueis13
@darthplagueis13 Жыл бұрын
The funny thing is, depending on the specific area, medieval europe could very much be a diverse place. Just not in the sense that those articles mean. What a lot of people seem to miss, and I'd blame that on the fact that many of these writers are american and it's still very common to define people by outdated racial categories in the US, is: "White" is not a culture. "White" also isn't an ethnicity. I mean, imagine you're in 13th century Rome. With Rome being a major trade center and also being home to the vatican city and important sites of pilgrimage, you might see all kinds of people. People of italian, german, greek, slavic, french, hispanic and scandinavian, british or hungarian origin. Those people, even though they would all be considered "white" would speak different languages, have different habits, have arrived for different reasons, be interested in different wares, wear different styles of clothing and even look a bit different. And sure, odds are, you'd also find a few people from a more remote background as traders, diplomats or slaves, some northern african sailors, some arabic scholars and traders, and maybe once in a blue moon even someone from further away places like sub-saharan Africa or India, but the notion that those few select foreigners should be the standard of medieval european diversity and that all the "whites" are basically just part of a homogenous group is just completely misguided.
@kaizokujimbei143
@kaizokujimbei143 Жыл бұрын
Leftists only care about skin color and sexual orientation.
@SirLongarm
@SirLongarm Жыл бұрын
Exactly. Europe had a lot to do with Europe but with Nobody Else for a Long time.
@grrman
@grrman Жыл бұрын
But that obviously doesn't count, since they all look white! Jokes aside, you don't seriously believe that people who actively talk about muh evil whuiteness care about facts?
@notsocrates9529
@notsocrates9529 Жыл бұрын
tl;dr diverse in cultures
@arandomgreekfrombactria6302
@arandomgreekfrombactria6302 Жыл бұрын
This comment is highly underrated ^^
@AnaLucia-wy2ii
@AnaLucia-wy2ii Жыл бұрын
I believe Tolkien was writing folk legends for England in particular. I hope I’m not perpetuating another myth in the comment section, but I’ve heard several times that Tolkien lamented the fact that England lacked the rich folk tale history that the rest of Europe had so that was his inspiration behind Lord of the Rings. So Middle Earth is basically England or perhaps all of the British Isles.
@evanburrows1697
@evanburrows1697 5 ай бұрын
As I understand it from the prologues, Middle Earth is basically a mythologised Ancient Europe with some resonances in geography, though by no means identical. The Shire (Tolkien's primary POV) is closest to Britain. Gondor apparently takes a lot of inspiration from the Byzantine Empire. The deserts of the Harad (south of Gondor) are akin to the Sahara/Middle East, and there are references to their being distant jungles south of them.
@777Looper
@777Looper 5 ай бұрын
A new mythology like Norse or Greek/Roman, (but better, and incorporating the good bits) for the rest of Europe.
@alex-E7WHU
@alex-E7WHU 4 ай бұрын
Slough being Mordor makes a lot of sense.
@TrinityShoji
@TrinityShoji Жыл бұрын
Yes, because my Japanese ancestors in the Heian period had SUCH a problem with constant incursions of Germanic knights with Zwiehanders and had constant trade wars with viking traders.
@Leathal
@Leathal Жыл бұрын
I’d watch that anime
@petegarnett7731
@petegarnett7731 Жыл бұрын
Totally unfair; thats why the Japanese became insular no doubt. (accurate use of insular--living on islands.)
@Imman1s
@Imman1s Жыл бұрын
@@petegarnett7731 Well, there was an instance of rampaging drunken sailors creating chaos and slaying ronins left and right resulting in rapiers been banned... so yes, they had good damn reasons to become insular. Just measly 300-400 years off the mark, but what are a few centuries among friends?
@JJJBunney001
@JJJBunney001 Жыл бұрын
Hey that's just the plot of For Honor
@petegarnett7731
@petegarnett7731 Жыл бұрын
@@Imman1s That's the re-imagined version. My grandma told me.
@donwild50
@donwild50 Жыл бұрын
I love the Europe = White = Racist meme. The writer who brought up the Japanese history of the same time period should check out what happened to anyone who went to or arrived at Japan either deliberately or accidentally. For the most part, with a caveat about the Portuguese who were allowed to trade on a tiny island in the port of Nagasaki and a short period where the Jesuit Order was allowed very restricted entrance, if you were shipwrecked anywhere else in Japan...you got killed. Xenophobia is a human trait...and it is not exclusive to Caucasians. But I'm sure someone will tick my name with the title "racist" for even pointing that out. History happened all over the globe. People of differing cultures, races or religions might arrive anywhere and get welcomed...or murdered, enslaved, beheaded or even eaten. That's just fact. Read the texts...not just the European but also Islamic, Chinese, Japanese, Hindu, Mongol or anywhere else. History happens everywhere, with all the good and the bad pretty much evenly distributed.
@666Kaca
@666Kaca Жыл бұрын
Portuguese were allowed to trade almost anywhere during oda nobunagas period, later they were replaced by the dutch. A ton of koreans served as samurai retainers. There were even 4 westerners who were awarded the samurai class, 1 english guy, 1 dutch guy, 1 portuguese guy and 1 african guy. So what exactly happened to people who went to japan in your head?
@JohnSmith-ty2he
@JohnSmith-ty2he Жыл бұрын
@@666Kaca Only 4? That's hardly diverse enough for a modern movie. Needs to be at least 25% of the cast.
@koffiegast
@koffiegast Жыл бұрын
@@666Kaca >200 years of isolation >4 guys got samurai class >totally counteracts your story about killed on sight, bro Except that the Japanese wrote a lot of the stuff down since ages. You were literally not allowed into the country. Even the Dutch/Portuguese were only allowed on a special island, with very rare cases were they allowed into the country where they were not to interact with anyone as they got carried all the way.
@cp1cupcake
@cp1cupcake Жыл бұрын
@@666Kaca Metattron did a video about the black guy who "became" a samurai and tl:dr there is no evidence he was anything more than an exotic bodyguard.
@666Kaca
@666Kaca Жыл бұрын
@@koffiegast how many japanese were knighted in 16th century europe again?
@alexissjc409
@alexissjc409 Жыл бұрын
I think this proves Steven Hawking and the paralell/multiverse theorem correct as these people must be living in another universe.
@Pika-Chu64
@Pika-Chu64 Жыл бұрын
Lol
@nayrtnartsipacify
@nayrtnartsipacify Жыл бұрын
they have woke radical leftist revisionism disease
@ShawnKavanagh
@ShawnKavanagh Жыл бұрын
I was ripped from a better one and brought here. Could you help me find my way back?
@mattd5240
@mattd5240 Жыл бұрын
I want to go back to my original universe, this one sucks ass, the people are all lunatics.
@YelFlux
@YelFlux Жыл бұрын
Haahahaha
@FrankHarwald
@FrankHarwald Жыл бұрын
13:30 A coincidence about The Witcher: it's obviously heavily based on the novels by Sapkowski but many don't seem to realize that Sapkowski who based his novels on the already existing folklore, legends & tales around Poland, Pomerania & adjacent regions are overlapping with the regions that the Brothers Grimm were traveling around to record their Fairy Tales from in the 19th century. Because of this I'm not astounded that there are regularly overlapping themes, details & background info between the Witcher novels, games & Grimms' Fairy Tales (even if they are clearly written in a highly idealized fashion & for a younger audience) & to a certain degree this even holds true for those Grimms' Fairy Tales adaptations that Disney made.
@AmericanJustus
@AmericanJustus 4 ай бұрын
You are onto something! I recently listened to Powerwolf, a German power metal band, and they sometimes include the names of creatures that have also appeared in The Witcher. An example is the song Armata Strigoi.
@SanoyNimbus
@SanoyNimbus Жыл бұрын
Interesting that the photo used as an example of lack if diversity is the photo of the fellowship where elves, dwarves, hobbits, humans and even one Maya were present. That is diversity.
@silmaril8989
@silmaril8989 Жыл бұрын
They can't see diversity beyond skin colour! (And biological sex) It's extremely superficial
@FlagAnthem
@FlagAnthem Жыл бұрын
​@@silmaril8989 American "progressives" are still rooted in Jim Crow cathegories.
@kecukraftwork1988
@kecukraftwork1988 Жыл бұрын
The hilarity is even stronger when you consider that Gimli & Legolas are not just *an* example, but are rather the *ideal* examples of diversity in motion: two individuals from wildly different and conflicting walks of life, who are gradually willing to accept and appreciate their differences in order to accomplish a unifying goal and ultimately get along.
@antoinelachapelle3405
@antoinelachapelle3405 Жыл бұрын
​@@kecukraftwork1988 yup. Gimli and Legolas' friendship literally brings together 2 people who used to be thousands of years old rivals
@andresanguianozuniga6798
@andresanguianozuniga6798 Жыл бұрын
By that logic Wakanda is not diverse... Oh wait, to them diversity just means not white.
@fioredeutchmark
@fioredeutchmark Жыл бұрын
I didn’t see a black person in the flesh until I was 17 years old and there were maybe 2 kids in my entire school who weren’t white. These kinds of articles are always so funny to me.
@HenryLoenwind
@HenryLoenwind Жыл бұрын
I saw some from afar when I was younger. American soldiers stationed around here.
@Celisar1
@Celisar1 Жыл бұрын
Same here, saw the first black person in my life at 16, a black US soldier stationed in Germany. Before that nothing, nada, rien, niente.
@BeautyJulik
@BeautyJulik Жыл бұрын
My mom didn't see a black person irl until her mid 40s
@Ligmaballin
@Ligmaballin Жыл бұрын
In my country it's like 99% white people so most of us are kinda in shock when we see other races, it's to the point where racism here is common especially for the older generation, i myself make racist jokes, but so do the very few blacks here and immigrants.
@Slender_Man_186
@Slender_Man_186 Жыл бұрын
Roughly the same here and I’m only 20 living in West Virginia, there were maybe 5 black kids in a high school of roughly 1000 students. It was basically the same for my mom when she was young in Revere Massachusetts, there was one black family and that was it.
@basswars7060
@basswars7060 Жыл бұрын
If you go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art they have an extensive collection of armor. Several of the displays have chest plates that have a curious dent. These chest plates had been shot. This was done, to prove to the buyer, that the armor was indeed, bulletproof.
@todo9633
@todo9633 Жыл бұрын
To be fair, you could easily just put a bit less black powder in your arquebus and weaken the shot for marketing purposes. Not to say that there weren't certain pieces of armor that could resist specific firearms in that period, but we shouldn't take stuff like that for granted, snake oil and shady business have been a thing forever.
@From-North-Jersey
@From-North-Jersey Жыл бұрын
The bullet proof armor chest plates from the end of the armor cycle worn by the conquistadors were much much much thicker and heavier than the armor worn before to defend against melee weapons. Once rifling was invented chest plates became too heavy to carry let along wear and were abandoned in favor of the ability to move quickly to avoid being hit.
@percussion44
@percussion44 Жыл бұрын
@@todo9633 This armor was proofed for the kings own, you think people were faking tests for the kings armor? Do you see that ending well?
@runningcommentary2125
@runningcommentary2125 Жыл бұрын
A lot of the time they just hit it with a chisel and told the buyer they’d shot it.
@kikixchannel
@kikixchannel Жыл бұрын
@@todo9633 Black powder is WEAK. And their bullets were just (at best) just small spheres, which aren't exactly all that good at penetration. At worst, they were supposed to be spheres, but were poorly shaped and lost even more power while flying through the air. Armor is also made to deflect more than block. You absolutely cannot do anything at all with medieval-age firearm to a heavy-armor knight from long range, unless you are very lucky. But if you need a dozen shots (aka. a dozen people shooting) to have just one bullet penetrate the armor and deal SOME damage (usually not lethal, since a lot of force would be gone for penetration), then the armor is still extremely useful. Plate armor stopped being that useful when firearms evolved into using piercing bullets (instead of spherical) with more potent powder (in place of black powder). And especially when they could be reloaded quickly, or at least, mass-made at a reasonable cost. That was centuries after firearms entered the medieval Europe. CENTURIES. If you think that black powder isn't weak, then let me ask you this. Why can you LEGALLY have a black powder gun, bullets meant for it AND black powder to load it with and shoot from in European countries, but you CANNOT have firearms that use more modern bullets and/or gunpowder? Yeah. That's because black powder is not as powerful as the movies make it to be. It is still lethal to an unarmored person of course. But it is not as dangerous when you have any sort of solid protection.
@aerialpunk
@aerialpunk Жыл бұрын
I thought the same thing when you read about how the Middle Ages wasn't just in Europe. I was like, well *yeah,* the Middle Ages is literally a term used to refer to a period in *European* history, so... Yes, yes the Middle Ages *were* just in Europe, lol
@SuddenReal
@SuddenReal Жыл бұрын
Europe at that time, was the world. Just like Japan was the world during the same period, or Africa, or South American empires... Or, you now, how the US believe they are the world nowadays.
@baigandinel7956
@baigandinel7956 Жыл бұрын
That's like saying the Middle Kingdom was not just Chinese.
@TheRezro
@TheRezro Жыл бұрын
@@SuddenReal Well... if you ignore North Africa, Middle East and Central Asia. Which for reminder real historians don't ignore.
@TheRezro
@TheRezro Жыл бұрын
@@baigandinel7956 Middle Kingdom is basically just Chinese Classic Era.
@SuddenReal
@SuddenReal Жыл бұрын
@@TheRezro And yet, all the things that happened in the Middle Ages in Europe had little effect to what transpired in Central Asia at the same time period, nor did either regions care since they weren't part of their world. You know, like you said in your other comment how "Middle Kingdom is basically just Chinese Classic Era". That was all that was relevant to them during that era because they were the world at that time. But since you're talking about real historians, you're acting like different time periods in history don't have specialists. I"m not saying those specialist don't know anything about other countries during their era of expertise, just that they have an in-depth knowledge of the things relevant to their expertise, all the rest is just basic knowledge (for instance, someone who knows all about the vikings will not know the Chinese dynasties in depth, because why would they? The vikings only made it to the middle east). And let's be honest, the people who are being called out in this video aren't real historians.
@orenmontgomery8250
@orenmontgomery8250 Жыл бұрын
This article's logic "the Edo period didn't only happen in Japan."
@crazyjoeshorts5256
@crazyjoeshorts5256 Жыл бұрын
Its weird how they can't comprehend concurrent time phases. Like how both hard rock music and disco existed at the same time during the seventies; one would be hard pressed to conflate the two. they took the equivalent of Kiss doing one or two disco songs and assumed that their entire discography was that, or that every band from the era did it. ACDC, DIO, Black Sabbath and the other metal/hard rock guys were typical of the way things were done. Also an interesting look at the 1950's and 60's, the decades where rock and roll were born, most people( in America anyway) listened to country, folk, bluegrass and what was considered 'American standard' like Jazz or the crooners of the era. It would be inaccurate to say that EVERYONE listened to the new style.
@cveki007
@cveki007 Жыл бұрын
"The Edo period happened in Lesotho and Nigeria, too."
@Elcore
@Elcore 4 ай бұрын
​@@cveki007Of course we had the Edo Period in Nigeria. Edo 'Period' Nsambwe was our 12th least corrupt president (unfortunately only our 32nd least voracious accumulator of young female staff but we no longer speak of this).
@flyingsquirrell6953
@flyingsquirrell6953 4 ай бұрын
That actually seems like a fun prank to ask a historian “what do you think about the edo period in Europe?” And see what they respond with.
@PeenSprouts
@PeenSprouts Жыл бұрын
I used to be a ghost writer and I can tell you with certainty that the reason all of those articles are similar, to the point of having the SAME EXACT point (albeit reworded) for each numbered entry in their lists, is because most writers will just search up the topic they've been hired to write on and then plagiarize - excuse me, REWORD - some other person's article. That's why you'll see tens if not hundreds of articles regurgitating the same, incorrect point and parading it as truth. Most writers don't care about the content of their work, they care about meeting their word count and getting paid. Great video as always, Metatron!
@elzoog
@elzoog Жыл бұрын
If you don't mind, there is a theory I want to test. Ask me to write something and I'll do it and send it to you.
@danielawesome36
@danielawesome36 Жыл бұрын
@@elzoog I WANT PICTURES OF SPIDERMAN, PARKER! AND I WANT THAT MENACE REVEALED TO THE PUBLIC. I WANT AN ARTICLE SHOWING SPIDERMAN IS A MENACE! YOUR DEADLINE IS IN THREE DAYS!
@elzoog
@elzoog Жыл бұрын
@@danielawesome36 Fine, how do you want me to submit it? (the text might be too long to paste into a KZbin comment)
@danielawesome36
@danielawesome36 Жыл бұрын
@@elzoog Oh lol you're actually going to do it? Okay, I guess you can just make a new comment after it's been cut off
@elzoog
@elzoog Жыл бұрын
@@danielawesome36 You don't have a throw away e-mail I can send it to?
@sevenproxies4255
@sevenproxies4255 Жыл бұрын
Correct. Kevlar is not plate armour. But here's the thing: soldiers on modern battlefields don't use kevlar. Kevlar only reach NIJIII levels of protection. It's not enough for the kind of bullets a soldier is expected to face. You need a protection level of NIJIV at the very least. And you get that from steel or ceramic SAPI plates.
@schwarzerritter5724
@schwarzerritter5724 Жыл бұрын
I thought those are combined with kevlar.
@gameragodzilla
@gameragodzilla Жыл бұрын
Technically it’s Level IIIA that Kevlar goes up to. Level III can protect against rifle rounds. Level IV protects even up to armor piercing .30-06, and is the highest tier of official body armor. Of course it’s also heavier and more expensive. To the other guy’s point: yes it is combined with Kevlar. Typical ceramic plates work by breaking up the bullet into smaller, slower pieces, and those pieces are then caught by the Kevlar underneath.
@enalb5085
@enalb5085 Жыл бұрын
yea wearing steel will get you killed because the bullet shatters and doesn't get absorbed. It shatters all over your neck and arms and will kill you pretty quick. If I ever have to shoot at people I hope they have metal plates
@logicplague
@logicplague Жыл бұрын
@@schwarzerritter5724 They are, the only real difference is with plate or without. With = IV, without = III
@todo9633
@todo9633 Жыл бұрын
Armor that contains plates is not necessarily plate armor. If we stretch definitions like that then literally any armor with flat pieces of metal in it would be plate armor.
@keyboardstalker4784
@keyboardstalker4784 Жыл бұрын
14:20 it’s because for them, the discussion about diversity and representation isn’t about telling stories that otherwise might go unheard. It’s about making everything safe and familiar for comfortably middle class coastal liberals. That’s why whenever they make a “diverse” story, it always just looks like it might take place in San Francisco whether or not makes sense in the context of the universe. Someone who actually cares about diversity in storytelling might have the main character travel to strange lands and create conflict in the story with their clashing cultural values, which could be resolved through finding common ground and mutual understanding. Instead, modern authors just have all their fantasy races show up everywhere in equal number, and they all share the exact same cultural values because the writers are from California.
@assaraan9407
@assaraan9407 5 ай бұрын
they grew up in a globalized world. and they can not comprihend that the world has not aleays ben like this. its just sad
@Tallorian
@Tallorian Жыл бұрын
I think those "writers" played too much Civilization VI, that's why they think that Medieval Era happened for everyone and was recognized as such around the globe. Although I did hear occasionally mentions of "medieval Japan", so there can be a deeper confusion. As for "european diversity", I keep remembering "the portrait of a black woman", dated somewhere late 18th century, in a provincial Dutch museum. That woman was painted very black-skinned indeed, but had remarkably and undoubtedly white european features. Which proves that EVEN at the dawn of industrial revolution, EVEN in a maritime colonial nation, EVEN those who were aware of black people's existence have most likely never seen one themselves. And they try to tell us that Europe was a "melting pot" in medieval times, before the age of discovery and before sailing around Africa?
@80krauser
@80krauser Жыл бұрын
Bold of you to assume these morons have the mental capacity for even a game of Civilization
@myview5840
@myview5840 Жыл бұрын
One town during Napoleonic war in the UK hung a monkey believing it to be a French person who was a spy, even people living within 100 miles had no idea what a french man looked like.
@joedoe7041
@joedoe7041 Жыл бұрын
@@myview5840 to be fair that town was pretty close to the mark😄
@wastrelperv
@wastrelperv Жыл бұрын
@@myview5840 Somehow I doubt this but I want it to be true, need to look it up myself. Probably a myth or a joke that has since been taken seriously.
@tonyromano6220
@tonyromano6220 Жыл бұрын
@@joedoe7041 😂😂😂😂
@xtremeranger30
@xtremeranger30 Жыл бұрын
If any examples of "diversity" I can think of in the Middle Ages is maybe after the Norman conquest of Sicily was the religious diversity among Christians, Jews and Muslims since the Normans were fairly religiously tolerant.
@esti-od1mz
@esti-od1mz Жыл бұрын
Probably, unfortunately for the muslims it lasted for less than 200 years, then the christians took all over... Ottoman empire is a good contender too.
@Nick-hi9gx
@Nick-hi9gx Жыл бұрын
The Normans weren't at all religiously tolerant until they realized trying to enforce Catholicism on the recently-Byzantine Greek and Muslim subjects would result in endless revolt. Took a couple generations, just like it did in Norman Acre.
@esti-od1mz
@esti-od1mz Жыл бұрын
@@Nick-hi9gx technically speaking, the norman nobility tried to exploit the muslim farmers who lived mostly in the countryside. The christian settlers wanted their lands, while the muslims wanted to reestablish their rule: that's why in the last act, king frederick II decided to expel all the muslims from Sicily.
@Nick-hi9gx
@Nick-hi9gx Жыл бұрын
@@esti-od1mz Yeah, the Normans were never nice overlords to anyone that wasn't Catholic. You saw the same with the Greek Christians around Bari and Tarento, exploiting the hell out of them to please their Catholic lords and subjects. But they DID allow Muslims in their realms until right near the end.
@xtremeranger30
@xtremeranger30 Жыл бұрын
​@@Nick-hi9gx It was a mixed bag: Orthodox Greeks, Jews and Muslims were marginalised and treated with a degree of hostility which could not be described through modern eyes as tolerant. But they were also allowed to live their own lives, and were treated far better by the Normans than in other kingdoms of medieval Europe. I should've worded it better with a bit more nuance from my original statement about religious toleration.
@Dragonmoon98
@Dragonmoon98 Жыл бұрын
If anything, I'd say that claiming that old timey Europe was as diverse as the modern US is a special kind of offensive to the descendants of slaves. It's the historiographical equivalence of plugging your ears and going "lalalala didn't exist lalalala"
@gameragodzilla
@gameragodzilla Жыл бұрын
Hell, even modern US isn’t as diverse as people think. I remember that poll people did where the people polled vastly overestimated the percentage of the population certain minority groups were. For example, I’m Asian. We make up 6% of the total US population. The poll estimated we were 29%, so a nearly 500% overestimation. lmao
@bobSeigar
@bobSeigar Жыл бұрын
​@@gameragodzilla There's a whole conspiracy about a group of people because of that fact. Low pop %, with high representation
@Ju5-I-S0m36UY
@Ju5-I-S0m36UY Жыл бұрын
@@bobSeigar I mean not exactly a conspiracy, just look when foreigners are questioned about demographics in the US (mostly from television ads and movies).
@staC-wh6ik
@staC-wh6ik Жыл бұрын
@@bobSeigar Jews have a high representation in American movies because they used to be pioneers in the American film industry, when WASP high society largely scorned it. Although this representation is generally limited to the heritage of actors and directors rather than elements of Jewish culture and history in movies (except for Christmas/Hannukah commedies and Holocaust movies).
@wisdomleader85
@wisdomleader85 Жыл бұрын
Diversity, relative peace....the contemporary society is considered "modern" because of these concepts. What these "historical articles" are doing is basically denying all the social progresses we've made in the last five centuries.
@benjaminmorris4962
@benjaminmorris4962 4 ай бұрын
Love how the articles are like "Your high school history teacher lied to you!" and then immediately demonstrate they never paid attention to their high school history teacher 😂
@WKogut
@WKogut Жыл бұрын
It's concerning someone might read those and think this is factual information, you're doing great job debunking it.
@kyleblankiv7589
@kyleblankiv7589 Жыл бұрын
Nobody actually believes in this woke crap. They force it on themselves and choose to believe their own lies.
@WKogut
@WKogut Жыл бұрын
@@kyleblankiv7589 Believe me, lots of people do
@kyleblankiv7589
@kyleblankiv7589 Жыл бұрын
@@WKogut nah they're just pretending they do
@yarpenzigrin1893
@yarpenzigrin1893 Жыл бұрын
@@kyleblankiv7589 You underestimate human stupidity and the power of fake news.
@callumbiasnow4825
@callumbiasnow4825 Жыл бұрын
I really want the next medieval film set in Europe to have a predominantly Inca or Native American cast, you know, to add realism.
@lexiheart6558
@lexiheart6558 Жыл бұрын
They'd be black. Yes. I said it. Woke assholes are trying to push that they were all black.
@hunivox
@hunivox Жыл бұрын
lmao
@tinamckay-iv3tf
@tinamckay-iv3tf Жыл бұрын
LOL yes we need more diversity and the natives have been left out in portraying the real Europe.
@TheVideoLounge
@TheVideoLounge Жыл бұрын
Personally I won't be happy until Australian Aborigines are the protagonists.
@tinamckay-iv3tf
@tinamckay-iv3tf Жыл бұрын
@@avae5343 But once the empire split in two and the eastern capital moved to Constantinople (what is now Istanbul, Turkey) in the fourth century C.E., Rome's diversity decreased. Trade routes sent people and goods to the new capital, and epidemics and invasions reduced Rome's population to about 100,000 people. Invading barbarians brought in more European ancestry. Rome gradually lost its strong genetic link to the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East. By medieval times, city residents again genetically resembled European populations.
@blackmichael75
@blackmichael75 Жыл бұрын
Cracked next week: "You're picturing Yuan Dynasty China wrong! You're picturing it as being overwhelmingly full of Chinese people, but that's wrong, because Marco Polo was there, and a handful of other foreigners, which made it very diverse, and a melting pot."
@totallynotsarcastic7392
@totallynotsarcastic7392 Жыл бұрын
Oh heavens, no, they'd never dare say that: they only ever promote diversity for Europe.
@supremecaffeine2633
@supremecaffeine2633 Жыл бұрын
Sorry, but "diversity" only goes one way.
@MohamedRamadan-qi4hl
@MohamedRamadan-qi4hl Жыл бұрын
Well tang dynasty that had that reputation
@magister343
@magister343 Жыл бұрын
To be fair, there is actually evidence that ancient Asia had a lot more ethic groups with "Caucasian" phenotypes, although most were really more like the Ainu than like most Europeans. There was one group of Slavs that migrated to western China and adopted Tibetan style Buddhism.
@brianmiller5444
@brianmiller5444 Жыл бұрын
There actually ARE a lot of different ethnic and language groups beyond Han Chinese. Although the Han dominate demographically, and the modern CCP is certainly playing up Han nationalism and ethnocentrism as a way to unify the country. Heck, Mandarin Chinese was a court language imposed by Mongol imperialists later in Chinese history.
@C.M.Giordano
@C.M.Giordano Жыл бұрын
Having just discovered your channel via KZbin's recommendation algorithm today, I obviously was not familiar with your content, so when I saw this video's title I sighed and rolled my eyes and thought, "Here we go again," thinking this would be another one of the Cracked-type information dumps you reference, only to find out that you would be calling such content into question. THANK YOU. It's so freakin' refreshing to find content creators who aren't afraid to be honest about what history actually entails: The good AND the bad. In this day and age, it seems like so many people want to gloss over the horrors and atrocities of the past because they're uncomfortable to talk about instead of actually learning the lessons they can teach us.
@schwarzerritter5724
@schwarzerritter5724 Жыл бұрын
If you want a modern example of how long different weapons can coexist: Anti-air cannons have been considered obsolete for a long time until it turned out they are quite effective against drones.
@purplespeckledappleeater8738
@purplespeckledappleeater8738 Жыл бұрын
They are still popping up on ships and tanks. Autocannons are very popular around the world right now that also can act as AA cannons. There is a video on KZbin of Russia slapping some naval AA guns onto APC's just because they had some lying around so why not. kzbin.info/www/bejne/rGixdKJviZpni5o&ab_channel=RedEffect
@osric1730
@osric1730 Жыл бұрын
I don't know where you got that idea. The Gephard that was supplied to Ukraine was in German service until 2010. WW2 era 40mm Bofors were phased out of AC130s in 2009. The Chinese have the PGZ95 25mm quad cannon that only came into service in 1995 and still is. The Russian ZU 23 is still in service in no less than 70 countries. The world is awash with anti aircraft guns that are direct descendants of guns like the 20mm Oerlikon from the 1920s. The ability to lob a great deal of moderate caliber relatively cheap explosive ammo around the place has never gone out of fashion.
@nunyabidness3429
@nunyabidness3429 Жыл бұрын
a net gun can down a drone more effectively and less expensively
@cympimpin20
@cympimpin20 Жыл бұрын
@@nunyabidness3429 Not necessarily. Depends on the kind of drone. Your run of the mill consumer drone being used by terrorists or irregulars, nets can probably handle that. Some of the more high flying and faster military drones, not much of a chance. Plus developing effective net guns costs more R&D money. Basic AAA guns are something we already have. Plus net guns are single shot and take a while to reload. An automatic AAA machine gun doesn't have to worry about missing with one shot nearly as much. Net guns are really only a smart choice if you care about capturing the drone for intel purposes. If you're just trying to destroy it, pulling some old 60s/70s AAA guns out of storage and using ammo stockpiles we already have is way cheaper and more effective.
@realdragon
@realdragon Жыл бұрын
When you say anti air cannon I can't help myself but imagine medieval cannon aimed very high
@Fyrexsama
@Fyrexsama Жыл бұрын
I love how it's always and only Europe that that get's this treatment. Literally no other part of the world is this done to. If Europe was such a meltingpot then it stands to reason it would also have gone the other way.
@lada8744
@lada8744 Жыл бұрын
Not necessarily if you think about. Everyone comes to white countries (Europe & America), but no one really really goes to India, Africa, etc. it’s pretty one sided of where people want to live.
@Fyrexsama
@Fyrexsama Жыл бұрын
@@lada8744 Maybe today, but we're talking caultures from 1000-3000 years ago. And where are all the black Ancient Chinese emperors? (we wuz ancient china and shit) Where the Asian Zulu's? Surely we need more representation for these old cultures like Korean Shaka Zulu. Throw some white zulu warrions in there, some native americans etc.
@Monkey-King
@Monkey-King Жыл бұрын
​@@lada8744 I'll give you Europe, but are we forgetting about the Natives and Hispanics that live and lived in America before the colonization of it's lands Edit: I meant Mexicanos, indigenous Latin Americans, with origins from indica, Mayan, Aztec, tribes...etc Not Hispanics my bad, Hispanics were said to have arrived after Europeans Settled in the Americas
@Monkey-King
@Monkey-King Жыл бұрын
​@@lada8744 ​ Also people have the tendency to immigrate to North America because people from foreign countries are advertised, "brain washed", and encouraged to do so because America, Canada are still pretty young countries that are constantly looking for workers, laborers, soldiers(1st generation that's born from immigrants), voters, etc... That... and it's much easier to immigrate to certain places in Europe, UK and South/ North America then it is to move to other countries like India, China, Israel, Japan, S.Korea, Saudi Arabia, etc Also infrastructure, economy has a lot to do with it also, America and most European countries are strong economically with little civil unrest, overpopulation and being war torn... well besides France, Ukraine and Russia that is...
@lada8744
@lada8744 Жыл бұрын
@@Monkey-King Europeans came to settle and live with other Europeans, then non-Europeans wanted to come live with them after the Europeans crates civilization there. It’s still one sided.
@cttommy73
@cttommy73 Жыл бұрын
If there are people who believe that medieval period was "diverse" and "peaceful" or "great", I got a castle to sell them in England.
@JackJackrabbit
@JackJackrabbit Жыл бұрын
trying to get out of another border conflict are ya Whitebeard?
@fobinc
@fobinc Жыл бұрын
​@@JackJackrabbithow dare you assume the color of his beard!?
@TheRezro
@TheRezro Жыл бұрын
Medieval times were diverse, but that doesn't mean that people were tolerant. Skin color become relevant only in modern times. Viking didn't really care if his slave is white or from Asia.
@wieldylattice3015
@wieldylattice3015 Жыл бұрын
6:16 the image of two knights swinging big guns at each others heads is absolutely fantastic thank you for including this
@ardwick8096
@ardwick8096 Жыл бұрын
700 years after the invention of firearms, we're STILL using metal plate to protect the upper body. It didn't go away, it changed. (And right after I wrote this out, you mentioned the same exact point in the video lol)
@filmandfirearms
@filmandfirearms Жыл бұрын
Not only that, we also use ceramic today. I'm an armed guard and my company provided plate is ceramic composite
@superfamilyallosauridae6505
@superfamilyallosauridae6505 Жыл бұрын
metal plate as armor against small arms in the last 100 years hasn't really ever been a particularly good idea. kevlar and ceramic, since the 60s, have always been better options. helmets though... yes, metal helmets were crazy widespread forever.
@Cdre_Satori
@Cdre_Satori Жыл бұрын
We still use crossbows and those could also penetrate armor at the right conditions. It's not like a knight had nothing to worry about. Firearms were just another thing they could use. Heck if you want real social equaliser of knights and peasants in middle-ages the Hussite "cep" the thing used for beating the grain and cracking knights.
@enalb5085
@enalb5085 Жыл бұрын
if you use metal plate for body armor you're still going to die when the bullet explodes and the hot metal shreds through your neck and arms
@purplespeckledappleeater8738
@purplespeckledappleeater8738 Жыл бұрын
Technology in armour couldn't keep up with large caliber muskets that punched right though armour technology of the time. They still used armour and bows in the 1600's and early 1700's but shed armour in the mid 1700's. It was very recently when metallurgy and plastics technology allowed personal protection against some small arms. Metal helmets came back with mass artillery use due to head wounds from falling debris. Metal helmets in the 1800's were often more ceremonial than for protection but many armies were still using swords until the Second World War. Melee weapons are still common from knives to machetes to varieties of axes depending on the region of the world.
@level9drow856
@level9drow856 Жыл бұрын
You have to give credit where credit is do, you all (Metatron, Shad, Skal, Lindy, etc...) have been changing the views on normie medieval views. They are changing as you can see by the articles. That's encouraging, the work you guys are doing is actually slowly making a change.
@bigguy7353
@bigguy7353 Жыл бұрын
*due
@nunyabidness3429
@nunyabidness3429 Жыл бұрын
@@bigguy7353 dew*
@Bubben246
@Bubben246 Жыл бұрын
@@nunyabidness3429 *du
@plain_simple_garak
@plain_simple_garak Жыл бұрын
Du hast mich
@kalinkapavlova9398
@kalinkapavlova9398 Жыл бұрын
*dyu
@cyborgspaceman
@cyborgspaceman Жыл бұрын
6:40 To further emphasize your point here, armor worn by modern troops *is* metal armor. The armor I was trained to use in the military was a Kevlar vest, but in every point where there was room there were pockets which held armor plates. The plate is still there, it's just under durable fabric and held together with fabric. So yeah: not only did armor never go away, PLATE armor never went away.
@jmanfromthehills
@jmanfromthehills Жыл бұрын
Well its not metal used by most modern militaries, its a ceramic composite plate. Metal plates today are still sold in civilian and guerrilla markets but have extreme issues with spalling (bullet fragments ricocheting off into your throat and shoulders) and weight-as they need to be heavy AR500 steel around 0.6 cm thick or more to even have a chance at withstanding rifle fire from typical rifle rounds. Ceramic does a much better job at dispersing energy and slowing the bullet to where the kevlar/resin plate covering can prevent total penetration.
@Novusod
@Novusod Жыл бұрын
Armor in the military completely did go away in the 18th and 19th century though. So if you are looking at the Napoleonic war or the US civil war nobody was wearing armor in that time period for a very specific reason. It had to do with war doctrine that larger armies were better than well equipped small armies. There was also a belief that soldiers were expendable and it just wasn't worth protecting them with armor. If they died nobody cared. They just brought in more soldiers with more guns. That attitude didn't change until world war 1 when armor in the form of helms were reintroduced the battlefield. To say that "armor never went away" is false. There was this 200 year long period where armor completely went out of style and then was brought back in the early 20 century. Use of armor did go away but then it was brought back.
@DevinMacGregor
@DevinMacGregor Жыл бұрын
@@Novusod Napoleon cavalry wore a cuirass and they wore metal helmets.
@efffvss
@efffvss Жыл бұрын
@@DevinMacGregor One very specific type of Cavalry did that, to the point that their name was derived from the presence of said armour, it wasn't all cavalry (plus Cuirassiers weren't universally used by all armies of the period). However, Novusod is still wrong, the decline of armour wasn't to do with 'big army, therefore soldiers are more expendable'. It was that the armour didn't work against the firearms of the day. Even the breastplates worn by Napoleonic Cuirassiers weren't able to resist musket and rifle fire, only sword and pistol. Effective body armour (outside some very niche cases) only really reappears in the post WW2 period. Once it did, it was adopted again by armies that could afford it.
@kyoMcMushy
@kyoMcMushy Жыл бұрын
@@jmanfromthehills spelling is easily solved, anti spall coating, spall bags, the carrier itself, and possibly gear on the carrier. And curved armor sends the small amount of spall that may get through away from the shooter
@dargaard3339
@dargaard3339 4 ай бұрын
I'm a Viking BlackChinese borned in the highlands of Japan, my mom is a Filipino from the Apache indo-american tribe and my dad is an European from the Ganges river that used to play with his Mongolian brothers from Egypt with Dacian Falxes to build rafts for my little Mayan sister of Hungarian origin to navigate Alps and Carpathian mountains in South Africa to carry her Kangoroos pets on top of each Montain.
@ShikisaiMoment
@ShikisaiMoment 3 ай бұрын
So do you live in Echo Park or Silverlake?
@Jaris84R
@Jaris84R Жыл бұрын
Disney may just take this title seriously.
@unitron2005
@unitron2005 Жыл бұрын
May? They are one of the major ones who made it up and are championing it!
@kirc3375
@kirc3375 Жыл бұрын
And what's the problem with that? I don't think Disney movies are supposed to be realistic
@marcogenovesi8570
@marcogenovesi8570 Жыл бұрын
they have been basically screaming it as true for the last while
@carlosgomezzzzzzz
@carlosgomezzzzzzz Жыл бұрын
They already take it seriously
@vinz4066
@vinz4066 Жыл бұрын
Dont give them any ideas
@RwandaBob
@RwandaBob Жыл бұрын
i’m not exactly a medieval historian, but i wouldn’t be surprised if almost all europeans north of the alps would have thought it extremely alien to have seen someone much darker than a typical spaniard or sicilian in their entire lifetime during the medieval period
@crankynu
@crankynu Жыл бұрын
Well, vikings and arabs were a thing. But again, that was like year 800-something.
@greyman8335
@greyman8335 Жыл бұрын
@@crankynu What thing?
@esmeraldagreen1992
@esmeraldagreen1992 Жыл бұрын
​@@crankynu They were not a thing. You must have watched that movie with Antonio Banderas
@esmeraldagreen1992
@esmeraldagreen1992 Жыл бұрын
In the middle ages anybody from the middle east was hated and with good reason. Europe withstood nearly 1600 years of unrelenting attacks from the Arabs, the Turks and North African warlords, slave riders, and pirates. In the late middle ages and early Renaissance, sailors who went to sea would take insurance policies against being captured by slavers. In Europe until the 16th century, there was only one religion Catholic, and if you weren't Catholic then you were a heretic and would usually end up dead. Until the 1950s people would spend their entire life in one community and marry within
@rodi8266
@rodi8266 Жыл бұрын
@@crankynu vikings didnt abduct millions of berbers to sell them into slavery in london, visby or copenhagen lel
@raginasiangaming910
@raginasiangaming910 Жыл бұрын
I'll weigh in on armor as a hobby-historian and modern-day soldier (10 years in the Army, almost 10 years as a high-risk contractor). Armor and weaponry go through a seemingly never-ended cycle. My understanding is that armor didn't fade so much because of gun powder, but more so due to economics. As firearms became more sophisticated, more sophisticated (and expensive) armor was needed to stop shots. At the same time, armies were becoming larger and more professionalized, so not only was armor more expensive, you'd need more of it. My feeling is that most nations just didn't to foot this cost (although some units, often elite cavalry, still received armor). We see this in modern times. As a modern warfighter, I put my armor on before going out to the 'battlefield'. Many western nations with highly professionalized armies place a high emphasis on equipping their ground troops with quality body armor. On the other hand, more impoverished armies, or those that don't place a high value on the lives of their soldiers, issue low quality armor or none at all. Also, I would be almost certain that medieval armor was highly effective at stopping attacks and protecting the user. As someone who has spent almost 20 years in warfighting, I wouldn't wear that extra heavy, heat-trapping gear unless I know it works. Warfighters don't change that much over the centuries, so I am willing to bet that no medieval knight would have gone through the time-consuming ritual of donning armor and suffered its weight and heat unless he was pretty damn sure the stuff worked. Grunts aren't the brightest folks in the world, but we know damn sure what equipment will keep our vital organs inside our bodies with a minimal amount of perforation.
@SusCalvin
@SusCalvin 5 ай бұрын
How costly armour was varies. A mail hauberk in early Scandinavia with a metal helmet was a bit of a status item. Early modern period Europe has cheap, mass-made munition armour. Bits come off one by one like the back plates, the gorget etc.
@bubbasbigblast8563
@bubbasbigblast8563 Жыл бұрын
Very much, "knowledgeable enough to be wrong" sorts of things. *Firearms and Armor:* Kind of funny, since "bullet proof" literally involved shooting armor to show that it worked. I suspect a big part of this is that people get confused on how knights actually fought, since their strengths lay in flexibility, not just a willingness to launch frontal charges while dripping with armor. *Diversity:* The Lord of the Rings is basically a mixture of Irish and Scandinavian myths, and they had little contact with West Africa: the Canaries ("Fortunate Isles") literally had to be rediscovered because contact was so sparse, even for Portugal. Also, nobles had to track blood for a reason: it only takes a few generations to look generically Mediterranean. *Knights:* While it's true that the nobles of the past were able to abuse, even murder, the poor if they felt like it, that has less to do with the knights and peasants, and more with the rich and powerful just facing fewer consequences than the poor in general.
@hengineer
@hengineer Жыл бұрын
"Racial slavery didn't exist yet" Ottoman Turks have left the chat. Barbary Pirates have left the chat.
@th232r6
@th232r6 Жыл бұрын
Africa was enslaved by Africans.
@akatsukicloak
@akatsukicloak Жыл бұрын
@@hah-vj7hc Or Zanj, like the Zanj rebellion.
@Maciekk_
@Maciekk_ Жыл бұрын
Pretty much most of countries have left the chat
@egesahin2498
@egesahin2498 Жыл бұрын
​@@hah-vj7hc it means south. For black people in Turkosh there is the arabic rooted word "Zenci" which is Zanj + -i (-i means "from"). So it technically means southener.
@liquidsnake6879
@liquidsnake6879 Жыл бұрын
What is "racial slavery"? it was just slavery, the fact that many came from Africa was a circumstance of their pre-existing culture and ways, same reason the Islamic slave trade was overwhelmingly african as well, Subsaharan Africa had a long history of slavery before any European reached it, all the way back to Mansa Musa at least lol the slaves were freely sold often times to the Europeans
@patricialavery8270
@patricialavery8270 Жыл бұрын
I demolished alot of ROP people trying to revise what Tolkien actually wrote.I freaked one out by saying where are the Asian,and Hispanic Elves and Hobbits ,because I only saw Black and White ones.When I mentioned South Asians and Middle Easterners would actually match Tolkien's descriptions of some Easterlings and Haradrim the person simply started calling me names.
@stevenschnepp576
@stevenschnepp576 Жыл бұрын
What else did you expect? It was never about what Tolkien wrote.
@LJJ22
@LJJ22 Жыл бұрын
In the end I don't care much what skin colour they have if the actors are good, but it does make a lot more sense if in one group/city/region 99 % have the same skin colour in those movies like ROP, House of the Dragon, etc. So there would be plenty of room for all nationalities and skin tones, but if there are a story and a reason behin it, it makes more sense. Like: This person/family came sailing from far away some generations ago, or this tribe migrated to the west through deserts and settled...
@thefallenfaith1986
@thefallenfaith1986 Жыл бұрын
@@LJJ22 So why doesnt hollywood put white characters in wakanda, then?
@moreau1755
@moreau1755 Жыл бұрын
@@thefallenfaith1986 The irony is that there is a white Wakandan in the comics, T'Challa's adoptive brother Hunter.
@th232r6
@th232r6 Жыл бұрын
It's all they got.
@FrostyIgnition
@FrostyIgnition 5 ай бұрын
Africa wasn’t known or discovered in England until 1500 ad. To say that black people were walking around England in the Middle Ages 450-1450 is fucking crazy.
@danielobrien9502
@danielobrien9502 4 ай бұрын
Do a little research on the Iberian peninsula.
@JohnnyRingo-c5v
@JohnnyRingo-c5v 4 ай бұрын
@@danielobrien9502one small area and in a minority brought over by the moors 😂
@LalaDepala_00
@LalaDepala_00 4 ай бұрын
​@@danielobrien9502That's like saying that Africa is a European land because of the Europeans who ruled it for a time.
@jonathansimon6433
@jonathansimon6433 4 ай бұрын
North africans werent black sgit for brains​@danielobrien9502
@J-IFWBR
@J-IFWBR 4 ай бұрын
With all due respect but your statement is incorrect to the opposit end. Maybe the average Joe didnt knew much about africa. But Educated people in England knew Africa existed for way way longer! Actually the knowledge of at least north africa was never lost since roman times. In 1500 people in Britain already knew about the Americas, they certainly knew about africa. Why shouldnt they? its right there south of France.
@skjaldulfr
@skjaldulfr Жыл бұрын
The invention of firearms did not *immediately* end plate armor, but firearms ARE the reason full plate went away.
@vinz4066
@vinz4066 Жыл бұрын
* modern Body Armour joyned the Chat *
@vitoravila9908
@vitoravila9908 Жыл бұрын
@@vinz4066 « full plate »
@INSANESUICIDE
@INSANESUICIDE Жыл бұрын
​@@vitoravila9908 Have you seen early 2000s US body armor? Not far off tbh, which they quickly revised as it became to heavy and impeding.
@crazeelazee7524
@crazeelazee7524 Жыл бұрын
* Ned Kelly has joined the chat *
@todo9633
@todo9633 Жыл бұрын
@@INSANESUICIDE It really wasn't even close. The fact that both contained steel in their designs doesn't mean they're anything alike.
@lelandkinsella7380
@lelandkinsella7380 Жыл бұрын
"He who controls the past commands the future" -George Orwell
@massimilianomencacci2510
@massimilianomencacci2510 Жыл бұрын
They're in a fucking hurry to finish the game before the whole building collapses on them. You have to fight them always and in any case.
@cheryldeboissiere1851
@cheryldeboissiere1851 Жыл бұрын
I am tired of this remark. Orwell was using it to illustrate the thinking of Ingsoc, not because it’s a fact. He wrote elsewhere about people who were denied their actual history and provided with a false imperialist history. They rejected it as it denigrated them but since they lacked their own history, he said they became rootless with a tendency to wander. False histories do not work. People can hear the self-serving crap. They create their own identity and jam to their own music 🎶. They make up their own style and become something quite separate. Orwell saw this repeatedly in Burma (Myanmar). No one can subjugate people with fake history. It has to appeal to them in some way. Eg. White supremacists like their false history, everyone else laughs. People push Cleopatra VII was black, other people laugh knowing she was actually Greek. False history never sells. Nor can one control the entire media.
@lelandkinsella7380
@lelandkinsella7380 Жыл бұрын
@Cheryl de Boissiere Unfortunately people do fall for False History.......there is a big effort to falsify European history for sure! I understand they probably want to help bury the romanticized history that white nationalists wanna give us but these woke propagandists are throwing it the other direction way too much. As for me, I only want to do one thing: Tell The Truth! I will not add or subtract from history.......it must be told as accurately as possible.
@CriminalizeObesity
@CriminalizeObesity Жыл бұрын
@@cheryldeboissiere1851 Semitic. Why are you kvetching over white supremacy? He quoted fucking 1984, that's milquetoast neo-con boomer shit.
@SeriouslyAwesome
@SeriouslyAwesome Жыл бұрын
@@cheryldeboissiere1851 How naïve. The last decade I've been surrounded by people and media gas lighting me about history I've experienced, been told, and read all of my life.
@GH-cp9wc
@GH-cp9wc Жыл бұрын
In case you haven't noticed, History revision is in complete vogue now, for a variety of reasons.
@magicbuns4868
@magicbuns4868 Жыл бұрын
Yup, problem with history, it tends to not fit well with nasty political dogmas.
@dawnfire82
@dawnfire82 Жыл бұрын
Been going since the 70s.
@spyderman4206
@spyderman4206 Жыл бұрын
@@dawnfire82 Historical revisionism is old as humanity. Every kingdom and empirer tried to paint itself as the greatest country ever and their historians exaggerated accounts of battles and distant lands. More rigurous standards were set in the last centuries and even then there still existed strong revisionism among societies. Think of Romanticism for example, and all the Viking stereotypes that Wagner's compostions inspired in the collective imaginary of 19th and 20th century.
@grimmwolf9690
@grimmwolf9690 Жыл бұрын
Please stop calling it revisionism, revisions are done when new evidence of fact are found that increases our understanding of what actually happend. This crap is the straight up falsification of history.
@ThatNorwegianGuy-
@ThatNorwegianGuy- Жыл бұрын
Those reasons are neo-marxists ideologues attempting to undermine and erase everything that is considered "euro-centric"
@biffstrong1079
@biffstrong1079 4 ай бұрын
The suggestion that medieval Europe was peaceful Is ridiculous.
@flyingsquirrell6953
@flyingsquirrell6953 4 ай бұрын
Lord shiddenfarter has taken my rightful claim! I must raise my peasant levy! (and then proceed to not even need them as the two agree to duel for the title. One of the lords gets Mordhau’d into a vegetable.)
@wsippel
@wsippel Жыл бұрын
If the black guy in full plate armor you're referring to is Maurice, he's a legend. There are many depictions of him everywhere, primarily in Germany. He's the patron saint of the German Emperors, and as such, usually portrayed wearing contemporary armor, but he actually lived in the third century. He was an Egyptian born commander in the Roman army. Interestingly, many people these days don't know who he was, and think the many depictions of a black man in various German crests was racist, a symbol of slavery or whatever, and should be removed.
@TheOriginalTuhat
@TheOriginalTuhat Жыл бұрын
“No, the Medieval Germans couldn’t have a black man as their patron Saint, the Europeans are SUPPOSED to be RACIST 🤓😡”
@OutOfNamesToChoose
@OutOfNamesToChoose Жыл бұрын
Not to mention that it also erases Christian (Coptic) Egyptian identity.
@2nerC9
@2nerC9 Жыл бұрын
I just read that apparently he was first depicted as a white Roman soldier until the 13th century saw a refurbishment of Magdeburg’s Cathedral in 1240-1250 after it was damaged by fire, he was portrayed as a black African. As of why an unknown artist changed the racial identity is ambiguous but some theory says it's because he and his men were from Thebes in Upper Egypt and near Nubia, they were considered “Ethiopians” which in the Medieval European world was a generic description of all dark skinned people on the African continent. The black St. Maurice iconography spread across German states but not across all of Europe. In churches in modern Germany the image of the black St. Maurice endures while in churches in Switzerland, France, and Italy he continues to be depicted as white.
@peterkrochmalni673
@peterkrochmalni673 Жыл бұрын
So, instead of race swapping historically white people into black people Hollywood could’ve just make a movie about this historically black knight and it would have been historically accurate and a better form of historical representation for the first time ever? Of course, Hollywood would never do that as they have a narrative to push.
@Awaifn
@Awaifn Жыл бұрын
Just wait until they learn about the Black Samurai 💀
@stefano_etrusco
@stefano_etrusco Жыл бұрын
Medieval times? Try the 20th century. In Italy my father saw a black person in real life in 1944 when he was 12 years old. And that person was a US soldier during WW2. I myself never had the chance to meet any blacks or non-Italians in general when I was a little child. It was only in the 80s that we started to see the first black guys who immigrated here from west Africa.
@_00_36
@_00_36 Жыл бұрын
Yep the 80s was when their mass immigration experiment began in full force
@theforsakeen177
@theforsakeen177 Жыл бұрын
true for italy but not for other world spanning europeans empire
@kevinkelly5780
@kevinkelly5780 Жыл бұрын
I was 22 before I saw my first black man on a bus in Scotland. He was dressed in a yellow and blue check suit and I thought Huggy Bear must have got it right
@kikixchannel
@kikixchannel Жыл бұрын
Right? In Poland I saw a black person maybe once or twice till my 20's. And that was in one of the larger and more tourist destination cities in the country. Even now it's hard to find one in any mid-sized or smaller city. Other than an Armenian classmate, I've seen only purely white, natively European people.
@mikehunt3436
@mikehunt3436 Жыл бұрын
At least some people understand, that but for a few cosmopolitan or imperial hubs, the idea of racial diversity was alien in Europe until the contemporary era foisted it upon the indigenious Europeans.
@faselfasel2864
@faselfasel2864 Жыл бұрын
The original LotR Trilogy was very diverse. A Maia (Gandalf), Human, dwarf, elf and several halflings with very different cultures came together to solve a common problem. Can't get much more diverse than that......unless the only thing you care about is skin colour.
@jennyvlogs7160
@jennyvlogs7160 Жыл бұрын
I think it's wierd to apply " diversity" to fantasy creatures who aren't even human.
@Imman1s
@Imman1s Жыл бұрын
They believe the "good" races represent white people and the "bad" ones blacks and consider high fiction as colonization media promoting genocide. Not specifically about Tolkien, but I recall that BS spouted around DND and Forgotten Realms.
@seldom_bucket
@seldom_bucket Жыл бұрын
@@jennyvlogs7160 why? Any other words you find weird in fictional films or just diversity? Is it weird to say the federation in star trek is diverse? Or is it just an observation of a story?? Why is it any different than calling the federation technologically advanced?
@jennyvlogs7160
@jennyvlogs7160 Жыл бұрын
@@seldom_bucket Applying human races to fantasy creatures like elves, dwarfs, halflings and mermaids is strange. Human races wouldn't apply to a creature that is not human. You wouldn't call a black cow an African American cow or a white cow a Caucasian cow would you? See how it doesn't make sense to project human races onto fantasy creatures? Just seems like a way to pander to the " woke" demographic. Who cares if you cast a black actor as a drwarf. It's making a big deal about it that's wierd.
@seldom_bucket
@seldom_bucket Жыл бұрын
@@jennyvlogs7160 there are aliens in star trek... Just so we're on the same page, you know 'diverse' isn't confined to just being about race?
@Trinket_Master
@Trinket_Master Жыл бұрын
My grandmother (we are Irish) told me that its cool I am used to living in a diverse country because when she was younger her entire friend group was literally blown away by seeing a black man move into the neighbourhood. She was 15 when she saw her first black person.... Ever
@globalpropertyinvestment
@globalpropertyinvestment Жыл бұрын
I'm Irish too and saw my first black person when I was around 12 years old. It just wasn't common at all in the 80's.
@fobinc
@fobinc Жыл бұрын
My first teacher when I came to the US was a nice Black lady and she spoke Spanish and English. Naturally I assumed she spoke Mandarin also to ease me into learning English, boy was I wrong.
@denniskrenz2080
@denniskrenz2080 Жыл бұрын
My grandmother was 20. But is that REALLY a surprise? She was 20 when WW2 ended and US forces occupied the city she was transfered to, before returning home into a town, that was liberated by the 9th US army a few weeks earlier. And this 9th Army has to stop first in disbelief here, because they found a large town and a titanic factory (Still the biggest car factory in the world) right in front of them, where their maps only showed forests and farms. She grew up far away from the big cities, large markets and cultural life - and during the course of the war came to Salzburg. From her perspective, even a Frenchman was unknown and special, despite the fact, that 120 years earlier, Napoleons army travelled often through the place and her ancestors likely had to live with them. Imagine taking a nameless figure from one of your favorite books, and then write their story. That is what good historians actually have to do. The kings and queens are just the decor on top of the real history in a place.
@BlitzTaco
@BlitzTaco Жыл бұрын
I hate when film makers don't respect the world and history (whether that be fantasy or historical) by making their cast the same demographics as modern day New York in a time period where deserts, oceans, mountains were massive barriers to cross. There are plenty of stories that deserve to be told from other cultures, there are border kingdoms that have a lot of contact with other populations (like medieval Poland having a large population of Cumans), so do them honor by telling them and not just pretending like they didn't exist and are homogenous with the native population.
@BigWheel.
@BigWheel. Жыл бұрын
See it doesn't matter to them if it's diversity among "white" people. To them, every Slav, Scott German and Spaniard is "the same" because they all look visually similar at a glance. But they all have their own cultures languages and histories. What does matter to them is when you can OBVIOUSLY show diversity, by putting people of radically different outward appearances into someplace. What ruins this is how they represent the diverse fictional groups as completely homogeneous in ideology and culture. When in reality you'd see those people of radically different cultures attempting to coexist but likely clashing here or there In even the best case scenario. Even among the "white people" who are "basically all the same" you saw clashing again and again. Even till today (the culture clashing between Eastern and Western cultures).
@mixlllllll
@mixlllllll Жыл бұрын
I hate when in every movie they always speak English, even though the movie should be located somewhere like Nazi Germany lol
@akatsukicloak
@akatsukicloak Жыл бұрын
Cumans looked almost indiscernible from European people, Medieval Middle-Eastern sources describe them as blonde haired and blue eyed, they probably looked a lot like the modern day Kalash people. Great point, bad example.
@emequaza5537
@emequaza5537 Жыл бұрын
No offense, just curious, but where did you read about a large population of Cumans in medieval Poland? Unless you mean Red Ruthenia and Podlachia, which were conquered quite late in the Middle Ages, I didn't hear about any Cuman settlements in Poland. The only thing I know of regarding Cumans and Poland was some raids. As far as I know they mostly settled in Hungary, Rus and the Balkans.
@kawo666
@kawo666 Жыл бұрын
@@emequaza5537 I suspect he meant the Tatars, i.e. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipka_Tatars
@yukipaw1702
@yukipaw1702 Жыл бұрын
The only diverse thing about medieval Europe was how many ways you could die before you reach 40
@Morfeusm
@Morfeusm Жыл бұрын
This is I hope seriously just a joke right?!
@nathanperoandrei3841
@nathanperoandrei3841 Жыл бұрын
BAHAAHAH GOOD ONE! Have an a pint of ye old ale 🍻🍺
@karolinakuc4783
@karolinakuc4783 4 ай бұрын
But people of Europe were diverse. We have different haplogroups like R1A (predominantly in northern Slavs), R1b (Celts) etc.. but all are classified as white race.
@Diegoromir
@Diegoromir Жыл бұрын
Hello Metatron, I am a student of History and I have you as a great inspiration as a professional, I look up to you and your methods. I look forward to your video about Tolkien. They used Lord of the Rings as an example because they need this argument that Europe was extremely diverse and multicultural to justify the forced diversity they apply today in fantasy movies, series and games, but the reason why there is no diversity in these works is obvious, because they are usually inspired by European history, culture and mythology, and it is perfectly understandable that a work represents the people who originated the culture on which it is based for its stories and world. It was no different with Tolkien, he wanted to create a mythology for England, and the stories of his books are intrinsically European, due to its sources in European cultures, mythologies and histories, mainly from the Germanic, Celtic, Greco-Roman (classic), Finnish and Slavic cultures. Example: Elves and Dwarves are beings from Germanic mythology, Hobbits and the Shire are based in rural England, Rohan in Germanic and Anglo Saxon peoples, Númenor in Atlantis, a Greek story and Lyonesse, of Arthurian legends, Gondor in Rome and Byzantium, The Battle of Pelennor Fields was inspired by the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains, Dead Marshes in the Battle of the Somme, Mordor in the Black Country of the West Midlands of industrial England, Mount Doom on Mount Stromboli in Italy, among many other examples... Tolkien even attests that the Northwest of Middle-earth, where the main stories take place, would be Europe in the distant past (or as he himself said, "in a different state of imagination") and even establishes its latitudes referring to Europe, with Hobbiton and Rivendell being approximately at Oxford latitude, Minas Tirith at Ravenna or Florence latitude, more or less close to Belgrade, Ethir Anduin and the city of Pelargir close to the latitude of the ancient city of Troy, Umbar, the City of Corsairs, around the latitude of Cyprus and the bottom of the map as if at the latitude of Jerusalem. And I remember this line from him: "It should possess the tone and quality that I desired, somewhat cool and clear, be redolent of our ‘air’ (the clime and soil of the North West, meaning Britain and the hither parts of Europe: not Italy or the Aegean, still less the East), and, while possessing (if I could achieve it) the fair elusive beauty that some call Celtic (though it is rarely found in genuine ancient Celtic things)..." So, in my view, the cultural context matters when approaching who will be represented in the story. In the same way that if I were to create a work based on Feudal Japan and Japanese Mythology, I would like to see inhabitants of that part of the world being represented in the story. The absence of care in this type of decision helps to break the immersion and the suspension of disbelief. I understand it's fantasy, but even fantasy works have rules, I quote Tolkien again: "What really happens is that the storymaker proves a successful 'sub-creator. He makes a Secondary World which your mind can enter. Inside it, what he relates is 'true': it accords with the laws of that world. You therefore believe it, while you are, as it were, inside. The moment disbelief arises, the spell is broken; the magic, or rather art, has failed." - On Fairy-stories Instead, why not invest in the stories of non-European peoples? Africa and Asia, for example, whose countless peoples have such a rich history, culture and mythology, all the stories that would provide beautiful books, movies, and games would not fit in a commentary.... Why not invest in the history of peoples like the Nubians and their Kingdom of Kush? The Ghana and the Songhai Empire, the Kingdom of Aksum, the Kingdom of Ndongo, the Kingdom of Kongo, the Yoruba of the African West, the Zulus of South Africa, among many others. This would be an authentic representation worthy of the cultural wealth of these peoples, who rarely manage to have visibility in the media. In my opinion, this would be the best and correct decision to make.
@Sully685
@Sully685 Жыл бұрын
Because that would be cultural appropriation and exploitive. At least that’s what they’d say. I’m not sure the motive but the movement to turn European culture into a world cultural can only result in its disassociation with Europeans. No matter the motive it’s incumbent that it is unsuccessful.
@paullatina7413
@paullatina7413 Жыл бұрын
Their intention is not to add to the historical work but to destroy it so going forward it no longer exists. The people we are talking about don’t have a creative bone in their bodies.
@juliusbeutler7090
@juliusbeutler7090 Жыл бұрын
Great Comment. I, for one would love to see more Media based around cultures outside of Europe
@nohrii023
@nohrii023 Жыл бұрын
I thought the Battle of Pelennor Fields was inspired by the Second Siege of Vienna, because there are some scenarios that fits quite in.
@Diegoromir
@Diegoromir Жыл бұрын
@@nohrii023 Yes, indeed, other sources indicate that the battle was inspired by the Siege of Vienna as well, and the Siege of Constantinople.
@thecrusaderhistorian9820
@thecrusaderhistorian9820 Жыл бұрын
Great video and info!
@starfox300
@starfox300 Жыл бұрын
If you go to secluded places in the countryside in Denmark, Netherlands, France etc. you will see that the people living there are pretty much all white, seemningly of European ancestry. To assume 500 years ago there were plenty of African, Asian and Indian people living there together is very unlikely.
@DieNibelungenliad
@DieNibelungenliad Жыл бұрын
Britain especially. Scandinavia and Ireland and Frisia too
@massimilianomencacci2510
@massimilianomencacci2510 Жыл бұрын
Even now, if you go in little cities in Europe you will not find black people. Maybe some asians. Blacks have no relation to European civilization now let alone six hundred years ago. To be mean, they have no relation to civilization even in Africa, but never mind that.
@kinidiosodlosios6892
@kinidiosodlosios6892 Жыл бұрын
@@DieNibelungenliad its not unlikely its is impossible for obvious reasons
@matiasluukkanen7718
@matiasluukkanen7718 Жыл бұрын
Not unlikely, ludicrous and downright mental and anti-scientific!
@Giagantus
@Giagantus Жыл бұрын
@@kinidiosodlosios6892 There were never plenty but they were there. We have primary sources literally telling us that. In Roman Britain we have DNA and skulls from AFricans. WE have pcitures of blacks in fencing schools from ther 13th century. Medieval Europeans weren't necessarily racism.
@FourOf92000
@FourOf92000 Жыл бұрын
loving this Metatron vs Cracked arc, Cracked has needed a comeuppance for a good while
@jonbaxter2254
@jonbaxter2254 Жыл бұрын
It used to be so good though :'(
@ravenloft6
@ravenloft6 Жыл бұрын
Yeah I used to like Cracked, then they jumped the shark.
@frostyblade8842
@frostyblade8842 Жыл бұрын
Yeah they used to be great but they're just left wing talking points at the moment. Its a shame how far they've fallen
@natmanprime4295
@natmanprime4295 Жыл бұрын
They be on CRACK
@ade9597
@ade9597 Жыл бұрын
@@ravenloft6 the jumped the shark/started using crack
@GiordanoBruno42
@GiordanoBruno42 Жыл бұрын
I agree, however it is also important to avoid making the medieval period seem worse than it was. There were periods without war, famine or plague in different areas at different times. An apple farmer in Cornwall circa 1150 was probably living a pretty peaceful life, but somebody living on the same land a century later could have been affected by barons war. My point being that the medieval period was terrible when you were affected by or fighting in a war, victim to disease or plague etc. However these things weren't affecting everybody everywhere all the time. Things like lack of sewer systems and deadly infections were a problem for almost everybody in every period up until the industrial revolution.
@MrChickennugget360
@MrChickennugget360 Жыл бұрын
one thing to consider was that statistically murder was far more common then then in modern times.
@cjryan88
@cjryan88 Жыл бұрын
if he wasn't taken by Muslim slavers
@maozedong8370
@maozedong8370 Жыл бұрын
@@MrChickennugget360 Where is the source from which you got that information?
@Hevdan1
@Hevdan1 Жыл бұрын
Even when there was no war, famine or plague, living conditions were still relatively poor. Especially when it comes to farmers who had no access to any medical services. There were doctors in the cities, but even they usually offered a little help for the people's ailments. It happened that a visit to the doctor ended in the patient's death. This is why doctors were sometimes learned to leave patient's house quickly - to evade being caught by his/her family members. Another issue is the problems with access to running water - it was not available in every city. And the water could be easily poisoned - mostly unwittingly and accidentally, due to the street pollution. Therefore, sewage systems began to appear in cities - at first very primitive, with time more and more advanced. The great bane of the Middle Ages were primarily fires. They happened very often and sometimes people did not even try to fight the element, because there was little they could do about it. Entire villages and sometimes large parts of cities were burned in this way. For this reason ignitegium or "curfew" was introduced in cities, which was in force from dusk to dawn and consisted in extinguishing all fires in order to minimize the risk of fire. The Middle Ages may not have been as unimaginably nasty as people sometimes say, but they certainly weren't easy times to live from today's point of view, and they were bad.
@Inucroft
@Inucroft Жыл бұрын
1150 was near the tail end of the English Anarchy, a period of civil war so brutal that overseas mercs refused to go to England.
@OmegaZ21
@OmegaZ21 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for the great content this is only your second video I've watched but the arrow showing your viewers where you are reading from is one of the best things I've seen and not many or any other creators do that its better than highlighting alone and says here is where we are follow along. This is better than some people will just throw a paragraph up and you have to pause to find your place.
@jessecunningham9924
@jessecunningham9924 Жыл бұрын
One of the biggest problems I see with these articles, as an amateur medieval scholar myself, is they always say, “In medieval times,” while picking an arbitrary country to cherry pick from (as an American, it’s usually something in Britain). I’m always like, “but where?!?” Medieval Europe alone had a wide variety in standards of living, laws, governmental structures, etc. Careless writers seem to like to cherry pick random facts from random periods of times and even random places. I often see them pick something that was true in England, then follow it with something that was true in France, in a different century! I always tell people this is like saying cell phones existed in the second millennium A.D. while technically true, it grossly misrepresents the truth, and someone using this “fact” could easily make the egregious mistake of thinking cell phones were used in the 1300’s in Ethiopia. Anyway, I appreciate this mythbusting. We medieval apologists still have so much work to do!
@damionkeeling3103
@damionkeeling3103 Жыл бұрын
Medieval Europe is really Catholic Europe. Orthodox Europe was part of the Eastern Roman Empire so didn't have a "middle age" between the fall of Rome and the renaissance. In a touch of irony the Orthodox fall of Rome coincided with the West's renaissance.
@JohnSmith-ty2he
@JohnSmith-ty2he Жыл бұрын
An "American?" BUT WHERE? American only narrows it down to 2 continents, and a number of islands.
@jessecunningham9924
@jessecunningham9924 Жыл бұрын
@@JohnSmith-ty2he hah! Well, I’m not sure where you’re from, but over here in the Americas, you would never say your were from the continent, only the country. So when I say American, I mean USA the country. Likewise, I would never say I was South American. Instead I would say I was Brazilian, Venezuelan, Chilean, etc.
@JohnSmith-ty2he
@JohnSmith-ty2he Жыл бұрын
@@jessecunningham9924 Depends on where you are from. Around here most people say "The States" or "The US." My point being though is most people don't exactly use precise language in more general usage. Saying you're from America isn't any better than saying someone from Russia is "Asian" from the perspective of a global audience.
@jessecunningham9924
@jessecunningham9924 Жыл бұрын
@@JohnSmith-ty2he Sure. That’s a fair point. My main gripe was with people who say “this is how it was in the medieval age” implying that it was that way everywhere, when in fact a lot of things varied from country to country, and from region to region.
@brendan9868
@brendan9868 Жыл бұрын
I’ve always kinda thought it was funny when people try to call out video games or movies set in medieval Europe for not being diverse enough when really in most instances they’re probably more diverse than their real world counterpart. I don’t see why people get stuck up on the idea of medieval era countries back then being not so diverse, it was just difficult to travel long distances back then just. Like you aren’t going to find many people who decided to move from like Mali to Bohemia, it just wouldn’t make much sense. They’d have to learn a whole new language, find a way to move all their belongings on a trip consisting of thousands of miles and all to most likely deal with a whole lot of racism when they arrived. Back then it just made more sense for people to stay around where they were unless they were forced out or left for a business opportunity like if they’re a trader of some sort, it’s not the 21st century where you can just hop on a plane and go anywhere you want in a few hours. If anything it should be something to celebrate about the modern age that we’re far more diverse and accepting than we were a thousand years ago and that we now have the technology where people can move wherever they want in the world fairly easy.
@MrYago-xd7um
@MrYago-xd7um Жыл бұрын
Don't take this the wrong way, but have you ever met three of those types of persons irl? Fairly certain our greatest exposure to the "ancient times were more diverse!" crowd are clickbait authors & clout goblins who spew mess they don't believe in cause they understand that kind of line drives engagement.
@landsknecht8654
@landsknecht8654 Жыл бұрын
Diversity means divide in Latin. So no, Diversity is not a good thing in the long run if you want to have a nation-state. It also keeps the population divided...IE BLM riots throughout the U.S. as an example. Also, I wouldn't say we are more accepting as a whole as humans don't change but rather we are currently more comfortable and have "better policing" to keep the peace as in keep from a civil war to break out in a country. If you loose comfort and loose control in a diverse "nation" you have nothing to fall back on as a binding factor so fights or wars break out.
@boobah5643
@boobah5643 Жыл бұрын
As much to the point, the few people who _did_ make the trip were swallowed up in the mass of humanity that was already there.
@MrAnonymoss
@MrAnonymoss Жыл бұрын
@@boobah5643 but one thing that I think they do fail on massively is that they're oft remembered even in my friend group, our one swedish member is called the swede games and movies often do a terrible job of highlighting that yes there might only be a handful of non-whites in that town, but also that's not really diversity diversity in the context of that time included everyone there's a reason no one kicked off when italians and irish were excluded from american whiteness White wasn't a thing and as far as the English and French were concerned if you called us both the same race you can expect nothing more than a painful death you only had to be a quarter french for your nickname to be guaranteed as frenchie and your frenchness exaggerated often in media, non-whites or non-natives just sink into the back ground, they try to avoid a discussion around race and ethnicity and I think that's where it's incorrect
@yarpenzigrin1893
@yarpenzigrin1893 Жыл бұрын
You don't understand why because you don't understand neo-marxism. Know your enemy. I suggest starting with reading the wikipedia article about the Frankfurt school.
@n.l.4626
@n.l.4626 Жыл бұрын
"I really don't understand what these article writers, what these politically charged and motivated speakers are trying to do. I don't get it." My money is on the following: They think that something (exclusively) catering to whites, being white or belonging to whites count as a fundamental moral failing that has to be rectified - which of course means that if there's a time and place in history that is commonly assumed to have been pretty much exclusively white, this of course has to be wrong because they *want* it to be wrong. (It's basically the same idea that is behind the same people's collective obsession to find warrior princesses and girl bosses where they never existed.) The more insidious part however is the political motivation: All ethnicities have their ancestral place of origin (I am using the term "ethnicity" in an extremely broad sense here); and for caucasians/whites it's Europe; which means that historically Europe has been the white continent pretty much like sub-Sahara Africa has been the black continent. However, by rewriting history and peddling their progressive fairy tale that Europe has never been white but always been diverse instead (and repeating that over and over again until it has taken root) they try to undermine the claim of indigenous Europeans that these are *their* countries, and replace that notion with the idea that everyone has a right to be here - it's by no means a coincidence that the same people who believe the myth of an ultra-diverse Europe are also the same who think borders should be abolished and that unrestricted migration is a fundamental human right. Naturally, this only applies to Europe as a destination. If Europeans wanted to migrate elsewhere en masse for a change, this would of course be them infringing on the rights of indigenous peoples there and would have to be prevented at all costs. (Mind you, I am not opposed to migration on principle. But I *do* like to have the option of vetoing certain policies, and I strongly dislike the idea that a few basement dwellers with their heads stuck up their asses spread lies to further a political agenda that is very unlikely to end well.)
@jacksonquinn8744
@jacksonquinn8744 Жыл бұрын
You hit every nail on the head.
@Amadeus8484
@Amadeus8484 Жыл бұрын
Its because they want us to fight a culture war so that we don't fight a class war.
@defaultytuser
@defaultytuser Жыл бұрын
Oh boy, is this much truth allowed ? I sometimes forget there is still sane people on the internet. Hats off!
@boobah5643
@boobah5643 Жыл бұрын
Yes, indigenous Europeans moving into other places is _colonization,_ which is *bad.* For reasons.
@Amadeus8484
@Amadeus8484 Жыл бұрын
@@boobah5643 Well to be fair, conquering other people is bad, regardless of whether you are European or not.
@stephenbenner4353
@stephenbenner4353 Жыл бұрын
We all remember Marty McFly wearing the wood stove door under his poncho in a gunfight.
@JLP627
@JLP627 Жыл бұрын
Then I dare them to create a movie in mediaval-time Africa and remember to get a diverse cast for the modern audience. Let's see how people react to the blue eyed blonde best friend of the lead character or maybe the fair skinned Asian love interest.
@Kirasfox
@Kirasfox Жыл бұрын
Considering EVERY show I've seen with a non white majority involves at least ONE white friend or love interest 🤷🏽‍♀️...wouldn't be much of a reaction
@JLP627
@JLP627 Жыл бұрын
​@Iron.kitsune3000 Really? Name one African based mythology/folklore that's been adapted for the modern audience by Hollywood with a diverse cast. Also, the token white guy won't equate to what they're doing now, has to be more diverse than one actor.
@Kirasfox
@Kirasfox Жыл бұрын
@@JLP627 The token white person has been a thing since the start of black shows lol, I'm saying having a white person in a majority non white show has been a thing since forever. Hardly anyone will be mad since this has been a thing since forever, 🤷🏽‍♀️ a white character has to be included in every show.
@michaelsorensen7567
@michaelsorensen7567 Жыл бұрын
I think one issue you'll have with this is the radical race activists equate "diverse" with "non white", so for example African sports teams are written about as being "100% diverse", whereas English sports teams are "too white"
@trustymccoolguy4259
@trustymccoolguy4259 Жыл бұрын
@@Kirasfoxyes but the “token white guy” shows are usually in modern day or something. I’ve also seen plenty movies that take place in tribal times or something. Those movies that low key feel like documentaries, and there’s no white people in those. Or in the National Geographic recreations of things. But if there was a movie about African tribes, imagine one of the tribe members being white. It just wouldn’t make sense. Same way that if you’re talking about Vikings or something, it wouldn’t make sense to make one of them black
@Bollocks565
@Bollocks565 Жыл бұрын
When he said Indonesia i was completely shocked. Our history about our ancient kingdoms/empires are mostly written but many of them are still a mystery due to missing scripts causes by war with each other and with the Dutch.
@alex.profi27
@alex.profi27 Жыл бұрын
And by the arab colonization That s why you even muslim to begin with :))
@SantomPh
@SantomPh Жыл бұрын
most history of those times is oral history (told by story tellers) and even historical scripts are diverse. The Islamic growth in Java in particular led to the previous history being ignored as more people left Hindu-Buddhism. The Java centric era of the 50s to 90s meant that people ignored the rich histories of Sumatera, Borneo and NTT people and even when they were interested there was nothing to read. And yes as an island country Indonesia is super diverse. Papuans can be blacker than most Africans, Balinese are unique people and no one can explain the Batak nose.
@jarrodbright5231
@jarrodbright5231 Жыл бұрын
@@SantomPh The only place in Indonesia where I found a good record of 1200s - 1800s history was in Surakarta (Solo) in central Java. When I asked about why this information was so much better than could be found in Jakarta I was told this was because of the Daerah Istemewa around Surakarta. That was back in the late 1990s. I hope these records still exist there.
@TransRoofKorean
@TransRoofKorean Жыл бұрын
And for every people that survived to this day with a history incompletely passed down, there have been a dozen other peoples, civilizations even, that were completely wiped out, forever forgotten to history.
@erikraphael5552
@erikraphael5552 Жыл бұрын
They want to rewrite history at all costs.
@chrisyoung5363
@chrisyoung5363 Жыл бұрын
Its called a Revision to re-vision to see again with new sight In the land of the blind, The One Eyed man is KING. but what if the 2nd eye is in the back of his head ?? He can watch his own 6 !! :P :) (Jeez, i crack myself up....)
@yarpenzigrin1893
@yarpenzigrin1893 Жыл бұрын
Yes, they're neo-marxists.
@jimmythe-gent
@jimmythe-gent Жыл бұрын
Yup. They rather you not look at old films of European cities from 100 years ago, or even 50 years ago. (The London streets for ex. look substantially different...)
@wilkinscoffee4228
@wilkinscoffee4228 Жыл бұрын
Who is they?
@ivancar555
@ivancar555 Жыл бұрын
@@wilkinscoffee4228 Small hats?
@parapendejadas4913
@parapendejadas4913 Жыл бұрын
"Remember kids, no matter what they tell you in school, Cleopatra was a 17ft male transformer"...
@hkn9723
@hkn9723 Жыл бұрын
Bro out here summarizing the big (and extremely stupid retcon) reveal of Transformer The Last Knight
@majimasmajimemes1156
@majimasmajimemes1156 Жыл бұрын
Never underestimate the American eagerness to turn the demographics of every historical period into modern day California.
@patternenjoyer2022
@patternenjoyer2022 Жыл бұрын
the Jewish eagerness
@SeasideDetective2
@SeasideDetective2 Жыл бұрын
California isn't even that diverse, really. Aside from Los Angeles and San Francisco, pretty much every city and town in the 2020s is more or less evenly split between "Anglos" (German, English, and Irish, mostly) and Hispanic mestizos (almost exclusively Mexican). In certain areas there will be some token Filipinos or Middle Easterners, plus a Black community here and there - but there's no guarantee you'll see them.
@jamesbuchanan3145
@jamesbuchanan3145 Жыл бұрын
Oh believe me, it isn't "American" eagerness. It's more just the club of people who wear small hats. ✡️
@kigucloudjester4467
@kigucloudjester4467 Жыл бұрын
@@SeasideDetective2 I live in California and I’ve noticed that as well! I’m in Central San Joaquin valley California and the only time I see Asians are in the San Francisco Bay Area or in lie Angeles Asians are virtually extinct everywhere else in California
@thomaslamb8635
@thomaslamb8635 Жыл бұрын
Leftist commie eagerness, more like. Especially when you learn where the term “racist” came from.
@joshhampson8994
@joshhampson8994 Жыл бұрын
I literally have an English Civil War breastplate at home that my dad bought in some random antique shop that has a big dent in the centre where it’s been shot at with an early firearm. My dad told me that they used to do this on purpose to prove that the armour could withstand musket fire.
@johnpmchappell
@johnpmchappell Жыл бұрын
So, kind of. It's literally called 'proofing' and sometimes could not be taken at face value (as in, the armour seller faked it), and they didn't shoot it somewhere obvious and central when doing so. It's where the term 'bullet proof' came from - proved with a bullet. This began to be a thing quite quickly after the arrival of the first firearms, but continued till quite late (like English Civil War period, for example). Once you get into the early rifles, metal breastplates are largely ineffective against firearms even at range, but of course, much of the fighting was still close quarters, especially when it involved cavalry, who also were the ones still wearing the metal cuirasses.
@whyjnot420
@whyjnot420 Жыл бұрын
@@johnpmchappell Not to mention that through the course of history a lot of the fighting was not done between the forces of opposing armies, but by well armed people against not so well armed people. Be it an actual soldier or just someone who had proper arms and armor vs. someone who didn't (or didn't have much). Even today there are plenty of situations where a 400 year old breastplate would be a major advantage. addendum/minor tangent: I really don't see a whole lot of difference between those late pieces of armor, such as the breastplate used by later cavalry and the plate carriers people use today. Sure there are some differences such as the materials, but once you get into the idea of what it is, what it is doing and how it is doing it, they are essentially identical. I really do love the never ending back and forth between offense and defense over the course of history. Especially how certain ideas/concepts are timeless in and of themselves, but get executed differently at various points in history.
@johnpmchappell
@johnpmchappell Жыл бұрын
@@whyjnot420 In concept, sure, those cuirasses are not a million miles from NIJ "Class III" armour. Although metal plates have not been used for decades, at least not in military issue and the best commerical offerings.
@whyjnot420
@whyjnot420 Жыл бұрын
@@johnpmchappell Like I said though, there is a lot of fighting where one side is not the best equipped. The military sphere, while important, is only part of that overall picture. (not to mention, as shown clearly by russian troops in Ukraine and a thousand other armies, the kit of even actual national soldiers can be garbage) A lot of non-military, professional and amateur (as in people who do it for money and people who do it because they love what they are doing), use plates that simply are not the top of the line, for various reasons. Just as is pointed out in this video, it is important not to create straw men (pun very much intended), consciously or unconsciously. Talking as if only the top end matters or only the top end exists, or that only one group which uses the item matters or exists, is a straw man here. Something else pointed out in the video is that just because one thing appears does not mean another simply vanishes. Which is also worth remembering.
@rachdarastrix5251
@rachdarastrix5251 Жыл бұрын
There was a phase some time ago where people would suddenly say "Correction, there is no such thing as bullet proof only bullet resistant." But this seems to have died out recently.
@drvian5660
@drvian5660 Жыл бұрын
"Medieval Ages" are called medieval because they happened somewhere between collapse of the Roman Empire and rise of Renaissance era. "In the Middle" -> "Middle Ages" -> hence "Medieval". And yes, that name is relevant only in european history, in other parts of the world this time period is called differently. Word "medieval" applies to other cultures of that era only in western books, intended for a european audience.
@admirekashiri9879
@admirekashiri9879 Жыл бұрын
Indeed
@jurisprudens2697
@jurisprudens2697 Жыл бұрын
The term "Middle Ages" is an ideological term made up by Italian Humanist poets of the 14th century. They pretended to have "rediscovered" the ancient arts, which have been "forgotten" in the "middle era" between the Roman Empire and their time.
@____Carnage____
@____Carnage____ Жыл бұрын
@@jurisprudens2697 this sounds like the Imperium from 40k You gonna talk about the Omnissiah too?
@jurisprudens2697
@jurisprudens2697 Жыл бұрын
@@____Carnage____ W40000 was based on something . On stereotypes, to be precise
@teaser6089
@teaser6089 Жыл бұрын
Indeed and thats a good thing. No one is forcing non Europeans to learn European history. European people learn about European history cause it's part of our collective identity and it has the highest likelyhood of being relevant. Knowing about Ethiopian history in the medieval time period of Europe wont be a thing people will ask for or expect you to know. But your own countries history is something people expect you to know, cause its part of your heritage.
@anthonysaunders345
@anthonysaunders345 Жыл бұрын
3:03 I love the red arrow over the extraneous word. The best writing is clear and concise. This means that its meaning is unequivocal, and using as few words as possible without affecting clarity. I'm writing a book about art, design and architecture, and when I go back and read what I wrote, I'm often surprised by how many words and sentences I can delete without losing meaning. Metatron, you're little comment there got you a "subscribe" from me.
@mcampbe41
@mcampbe41 Жыл бұрын
Early firearms were not adopted as they were more effective than cross bows & longbows but due to the dufus factor. You could take someone off a farm & train them to use a matchlock very quickly; it took a lifetime to train an archer. Lining up troops with an arquebus was cheap and fast and armour was also expensive.
@alexporter7379
@alexporter7379 Жыл бұрын
Well that and the pike and shot method proved deadly to everyone. Pikes handled what would later be done by the bayonet, while the shot handled the job of the archer. You can do that in a single formation. Combined with what you said, you can devastate most middle to late medieval armies. Throw a cavalry charge in to handle the routers, and you have an unquestionable victory.
@TheTeremaster
@TheTeremaster Жыл бұрын
Most likely why armour fell by the wayside too. Why spend so much money on armour when you can save that and use it for an extra few hundred (or thousand) peasants with just guns? Took you near 15 years to train a knight, probably 5 for a man-at-arms, took a week to show some barely literate farmer how the bang stick worked, the value of that musketeer was far less so why protect them as much?
@Kamamura2
@Kamamura2 9 ай бұрын
@@TheTeremaster Manpower is not infinite either, and if your peasantry gets killed in a war, famine follows.
@DrEgonCholakian
@DrEgonCholakian 4 ай бұрын
They actually crossbows when it came to penetrating armor plus they also were an effective terror weapon early on. The explosive sounds would scare men and frighten horses.
@benjaminmorris4962
@benjaminmorris4962 4 ай бұрын
"The dufus factor" 😂
@ruprecht8520
@ruprecht8520 Жыл бұрын
For anyone to suggest medieval Europe was multi-cultural seems a bit daft, the Europeans were constantly at war with each other, I doubt they'd tolerate other cultures on European soil any better.
@raoulduke344
@raoulduke344 Жыл бұрын
or "dafties", as we call them in our corner of Europe... I think the word comes from Ancient Arabic, or Japanese that was brought here when people emigrated from the East en masse in 1298.
@Melkor54
@Melkor54 Жыл бұрын
pity its not that way now....
@Novasfan100
@Novasfan100 Жыл бұрын
​@@Melkor54 me when I'm racist???
@realmario979
@realmario979 Жыл бұрын
@@Melkor54 Racism is real?!?!
@inesdamonteines3985
@inesdamonteines3985 Жыл бұрын
"Marry a woman of our own people" old traditional say in Italy until last century.Not to follow the " rules" of your time was punished with something more than bullying.
@Kernwadi
@Kernwadi Жыл бұрын
Own a sword for manor defence, since that's what the Magna Carta intended. Four heathens break into my cottage. "What in the Lord's name?" As I grab my aventail bascinet and windlass arbalest. Punch a bolt through the first man, he's dead on the spot. Throw a pot of naft at the second man and miss entirely since it's a hand thrown grenade in the dark and burns down the neighbour's harvest causing them to starve in the winter. I have to resort to the pot of boiling oil at the top of the hay loft "Deus Lo Vult!" The boiling oil completely drenches two men and cause them to scream in agony and writhe on the ground, racked with incomprehensible pain. The screams of pain frightens horses in nearby stables. Draw sword and charge the last terrified infidel. He bleeds out with no one to assist him since this is Feudal Europe and nobody gives a shit. Just as the Magna Carta intended.
@StarboyXL9
@StarboyXL9 Жыл бұрын
Based
@TheRealNormanBates
@TheRealNormanBates Жыл бұрын
That's because you were too stupid to set the bear traps by the door after everyone else has gone to bed! No home invasion if they cannot get into the home!
@peterkrochmalni673
@peterkrochmalni673 Жыл бұрын
So, the Magna Carta has its version of the Second Amendment which makes sense because the US Constitution is based on the Magna Carta itself which is why the two are similar. The More You Know 🌈 ⭐️
@Leathal
@Leathal Жыл бұрын
Lmao this is one of the best musket copypasta versions I’ve ever read
@petegarnett7731
@petegarnett7731 Жыл бұрын
The Europeans did not even know about Magna Charta. That was just a handful of English Aristocracy trying to steal some power from the Norman/french Monarchy. It was a few more years before deided to get their own back and were seen as anything but an offshore island across La Manche from France
@Sascha1887
@Sascha1887 Жыл бұрын
Love your channel and your authentic style!! Greatings from beautiful Croatia to beautiful Greece✌🏼
@dieterich6533
@dieterich6533 Жыл бұрын
Medieval Europe wasn’t white 😂 🤣 That’s like saying Medieval South Africa wasn’t black. How did this article writer keep his job? Being European born myself, I can assure you presently Europe is still white. As Meta said, exotic people exist but is not the norm and large scale travel of people of different races happened only the last 100 years.
@Steven9567
@Steven9567 Жыл бұрын
South Africa south africa didn't even exist as a country of any form heck the onky reason theirs a country is cause of wyites lacks weren't native that part of africa
@totallynotsarcastic7392
@totallynotsarcastic7392 Жыл бұрын
tbh the articles were probably written by AI and the names above the articles were just the slacktivists who typed in the prompts
@mattd5240
@mattd5240 Жыл бұрын
They keep their jobs because they're paid to write disinformation. That is until they go bankrupt.
@admirekashiri9879
@admirekashiri9879 Жыл бұрын
​@Steven9567 Who is talking about modern nations? Point is in the medieval era all there were in the region was black people. Though like Europeans they weren't homogenious.
@ManCheat2
@ManCheat2 Жыл бұрын
@@admirekashiri9879 South africa didnt even exist back then is what he was saying.. Im pretty sure at that time period, the who would be zulu already killed everyone who was there and ditched the place.
@TheCompleteGuitarist
@TheCompleteGuitarist Жыл бұрын
Obviously the problem is that there are not enough medieval Europe films coming out of Japan, not enough Japanese Shogun movies coming out of Africa and not enough African Empire movies coming out of Europe.
@coltonross5414
@coltonross5414 Жыл бұрын
*cough* vinland saga *cough*
@heiskanbuscadordelaverdad8709
@heiskanbuscadordelaverdad8709 Жыл бұрын
Skin color had a lot to do with latitude because large migrations were rare because people lived in a economy of subsistence and traveling was expensive, dangerous and often there wasn't an incentive to do so therefore migration only happened in times of desperation as a last resort, that why the distribution of skin color only started to change in the early 19th century when people were actually able to migrate
@emillutzkanov1348
@emillutzkanov1348 Жыл бұрын
I recently discovered your channel, and I am fascinated by it. You answer questions I've been having in my head for 20+ years. Nice! :)
@austinp.2259
@austinp.2259 Жыл бұрын
Metatron: "Middle Earth is a different world" Tolkien fans: "Well yes, but also no"
@dominushydra
@dominushydra Жыл бұрын
It's still under review by Tolkien scholars such as myself. 🧐
@Kirochi
@Kirochi Жыл бұрын
It's absolutely a different world.
@Cassandra112
@Cassandra112 Жыл бұрын
@@luciusannaeus but did Middle Earth occur before or after the Hyborian age?
@Mek_Alenes
@Mek_Alenes Жыл бұрын
@@Cassandra112 During. Tolkien once wrote in a letter that the 3rd age ended around 6000 years ago with the coronation of Aragorn. Given the fact that the Hyborean age was about 10000 years ago, we have an overlapping. ^^
@dominushydra
@dominushydra Жыл бұрын
@@Mek_Alenes perhaps Tolkien made a typo and meant 16,000 years ago.
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