History Summarized: The Mongols

[@GallowglassAxe]

"You don't make our lives difficult and we won't make your lives short." Most badass quote ever!

[@elliem.7992]

Oh shit that’s how Mafia work

[@rjawk652]

Elijah Miller WAIt- fuK- that make sence-

[@chedelirio6984]

Basically a lot of the brutality WAS in order to create a "branding" so that the next kingdom over would say "OK, let's just go ahead and surrender *before* they even bother to attack."

[@thegurw1994]

​@@chedelirio6984 CGP Grey has forever ruined the word "branding" for me.

[@vee667]

As a Mongolian, I expected you to called him Ghengis Khan, but then when I heard you say Chinggis Khan it made me so happy because that's how we say it in Mongolia. Seriously, hearing that watered my crops and cleared the skies

[@Tamarinne]

But “Jemuka” though

[@mungunbayarbattsagaan3403]

@@Tamarinne he gets the pass

[@ereynolds72]

@@Tamarinne what’s wrong with jemuka? I have no idea

[@yoko_13]

you sound like Kublai

[@wingdings_1738]

Big Chungus Khan

[@223sushi]

75% of the population of Persia was slaughtered by the mongols. Saying Iranians take a very, very Dim view of the Mongols is an understatement.

[@tobiasit2190]

should have just surrendered

[@thezeitos469]

@Ankjok Ming estimations say that 2 Million People have been reduced 200 000 in the eastern area of todays Iran.

[@thezeitos469]

@@tobiasit2190 easy to say with hindsight.

[@Knightfire66]

yeah and because of that you statrted to kill the first turc you found... ottomans... dude mongols are our cousins... but it not our fault wht they did... they also attacked us, the ottoman empire... but we fucked them... well seljuk empire got destroyed but the ottoman (succesor) was founded...

[@Brandonhayhew]

75% of the population is slaughtered that doesn’t make any sense if a population was destroyed then the nation would not exist because it would be very different.

[@imienazwisko6527]

"...and Mongols just invaded the most of the universe. "Nice goin', Gengis! I bet it will last a long time!" **BROKEN** " -Bill Wurtz

[@whafflete6721]

"WE INVADED CHINA" Said the Mongols. "PLEASE RESPECT US OR ELSE WE MAY INVADE YOU AS WELL" "Ok." _Pulling out katana_ Said Japan.

[@Green24152]

THE SUN IS A DEADLY LASER

[@mattmarino4033]

@Jacob Wood if you notice at 7:39 there’s a bill wurtz reference

[@KeneIfezue]

@@mattmarino4033 I was wondering if anyone else caught that.

[@shanyewest958]

TIME TO CONQUER ALL OF INDIA

[@teengamerboss888]

The best story of the Mongols is their attempt to take Japan. But they failed not because of their skill. They just lost the luck that Genghis was having in China and got their fleet destroyed by a hurricane... Twice!

[@cobraglatiator]

TFW: nature gets tired of your shit, and tells you to keep it in the steppe...

[@christiandauz3742]

Same with the Spanish Fleet. Mother Nature to OP, please nerf!

[@Jotari]

That's when he decided to switch on Hard Mode.

[@akmonra]

Japan would have fucked their shit up, anyway.

[@cybercidethefirst7457]

thats cute, Japan would have had its ass handed to it if the mongols got on the islands. The mongols had managed to beat one of the largest and most technologically advanced civilization at the time, while Japans economy got busted up from the Mongolian attempt which I remind you got beaten by nature, how long do you think the Japanese would have lasted if they had to repulse the full Mongolian force.. the only hope Japan would have had is the fact thats its fairly mountainous and the Mongols had issues with mountains. so maybe they would not have been completely conquered.

[@Just_Some_Guy_with_a_Mustache]

It was the Mongols who taught us that we should be tearing down walls, not building them up. What an inspirational group of people.

[@Knoloaify]

By pilling up millions of bodies of innocent people and triggering one of the worst epidemics in History. What a nice bunch. I'd rather have a wall that keeps them out.

[@Samm815]

Hey it's you!

[@JohnnyElRed]

No, idiot! You don't see they would just walk around said wall? Better expent your money in a trip to the other side of the planet, and expect to live a long live before they come and conquer that too.

[@thegardenofesim1174]

Just Some Guy with a Mustache now not just a Anime videos you pop up. Interesting

[@cykrya5156]

The Garden of E sim 117 slowly but surely he will conquer all of youtube comments section

[@ubd4128]

I'm actually impressed. Blue made a video about the Mongols that wasn't utterly biased. Credit where credits due, good job.

[@emblemblade9245]

UBD What are the biased ones like?

[@ubd4128]

EmblemBlade9 Usually along the lines of "*heavy breathing* THEY WERE MURDERING, PSYCHOTIC RAPISTS, AND THEIR LEADER IS A TOTAL JERK WAD!"

[@Archris17]

Yeah, as fun as these videos are, it says something that this one stands out as being UNbiased...

[@NotAFakeName1]

LoZ Collector It says something about what we think of Mongols? Blue generally stays pretty close to "as historically accurate as I can paint it"

[@unitymomentum]

UBD weren't they though.

[@shadiversity]

Awesome video mate! It's interesting that one of the signs of an empire's downfall is when it get's too big which very often results in fracturing. Same thing happened with the Franks.

[@manetho5134]

Shadiversity but what about dragons?!?

[@kyokyoniizukyo7171]

Shadiversity Makes me wonder how we could ever make a "United Earth" like in Science fiction novels...the adminastration seems doomed...

[@basilofgoodwishes4138]

Shadiversity Exept being really a big empire isn't a problem, China was large, yet it still exists. Modern countries tend to have better governments than ancient countries hence why they can sustain their countries far longer. Overextension isn't really a problem, once you find a system capable of maintaining it, our history has shown that with each progress, empires are getting bigger and bigger until there might even be a empire capable of holding the Entire World.

[@JK03011997]

@Shad @Rising Theurge Shad: Wow, you actually still hang out here! BTW thank you for steering me over here! Shad and Theurge: There are actually super interesting mechanics in the fractureing of big empires that have a lot to do with communication delay, and there is a lot of analysis (including game theory) on this topic, mostly concerning light-speed lag in K2 civs though, since many maths and theoretical economics people love sci-fi. Just in case you weren't familiar with the idea here is a summery (safe to skip otherwise): When you reach a point where the time for a message to arrive is large compared to the time to make a decision, then you have a very high opportunity cost (what could be done instead) arising from the long round trip time. This basically means, that you pay for each second your message takes to arrive, not only in actually paying for the travel, but also in the form of people not being able to respond to the situation, because they are waiting for your orders. This introduces a cost to having the decision-making centralised, and at a certain point this cost is higher than the cost of having things not go 100% perfect, and losing a degree of control. The longer the round-trip time the more control it is worth it to give up. Note that this does not have to come voluntarily, since the large difference in costs can fuel a pretty big revolt. This was pretty much never the only factor, but it played a role in the "collapse" or limited direct expansion of many empires, and also why the British empire managed to be by far the largest of them all when the telegraph came along Another (related) effect is, that one person can pretty much only manage 150 people, and only like 10 or so efficiently (you see this in army units as well, that is why companies and platoons are roughly the sizes they are). Now each "manager" has to make some decision, and thus has some amount of the total power, otherwise he would be redundant and we will ignore him. It is quite easy to see, that (at least in between 10 and 150 people) your efficiency decreases as the number of people you manage goes up. This means, that either your management becomes increasingly inefficient at each step, or you add more layers giving up more and more control. This again adds a cost to more centralised control, this time not as the area grows, but as the number of people grows. There are a ton more of these effects, but these two alone give a pretty good reason why big and stable empires are usually the way they are and happen when they happen. It also explains, why stable empires are usually either big in size, or big in population or really centralised. An empire often becomes famous, when it is 2 of these, and I am not aware of one that was (unambiguously) all 3 of these

[@basilofgoodwishes4138]

Jonas Kr. To be honest I don't give a fuck about people, who don't know anything about history or logic. If Someone would possess logic, he/she wouldn't find any faults in my argument, for there are none.

[@kekero540]

Frontier walls are never meant to deal with massive invasions but they are particularly effective against the thousands of small raids.

[@timothymclean]

If Blue ever does that fortification video he mentioned, I'm sure he'll go into more depth on why he thinks frontier walls are stupid. (I'm guessing a cost:benefit analysis will be involved!)

[@yogsothoth7594]

limes germanicus held for like 200 years so I'd say they work pretty well. Then you have to consider that the Swiss managed to use their fortifications alongside their terrain and army to achieve a state of armed neutrality.

[@OverlySarcasticProductions]

I would argue that the Limes germanicus was disastrously ineffective (and costly), but we'll cover that when we cover that :)

[@deadlordification]

You see, im quite torn about frontier walls myself. On the one hand they are quite expensive and their effectiveness is debatable- but on the other hand keeping an army posted there at all times would be more costly in the long run, so I dont know really. But on other other hand if you need a frontier wall in the first place its because your neighboor is messing with you in some way, shape or form. And building said wall would be treating the symptoms while disregarding the condition, poorly at that. But then again, dealing with troublesome neighboors may get costly or bloody too. God this is complicated.

[@ValinusAeverie]

Please make at least one Donald Trump reference!

[@cheng3580]

Unless you are the Mongols.

[@emblemblade9245]

Red Panzer Productions Crash Course?

[@timothymclean]

As the description references.

[@cheng3580]

Hi, i'm John Green and this is Crash Course World History.

[@Scientist118]

...or Finland.

[@emblemblade9245]

Timothy McLean Whoops didn't read that

[@LSSTyranus]

and the fact that every day of the year is a Genghis Khan descendant's birthday....yeah, just another thing to think about...

[@chinguunerdenebadrakh7022]

I mean, pretty much every king is like that. Pretty much all Europeans are loosely related to old William the Conqueror. The great general Salahuddin also having lots of descendants (the current Queen of the UK being one of them). Chinggis is not unique in that respect.

[@arandomyorkshireman9678]

I’m part of that number.⚔️ Long live the Khan!

[@peterterzops7915]

Wanna talk about my country's best boi, Zeus ?!

[@V-q8is]

@@peterterzops7915 LOL Zeus is a part of mythology, though he was one ladies' man.

[@Michael_De_Santa-Unofficial]

@@chinguunerdenebadrakh7022 1. That's Charlemagne, not William the Conqueror. 2. Saladin has no documented descendants living today. And no, Queen Elizabeth wasn't a descendant of Saladin. You may have mistaken him with Muhammed, who also wasn't an ancestor of Queen Elizabeth.

[@martinmarvinofsparta3656]

Everyone: The Mongol Empire was the most brutal empire to ever exist they slaughtered millions! British Empire: Well you ain’t seen nothing yet son

[@martinmarvinofsparta3656]

But seriously I can’t see why everyone gives the Mongol Empire such crap over what empires do! If they were going to conquer that much it had to result in the death of millions, that’s how conquering works! And even then the Mongols death toll and even all the suffering they caused is nothing compared to other empires like the British, and Russian empires. Not to mention even more modern countries like the USSR had caused far worse damage for so little benefit to its own people. And also sense the world population was way smaller back during the Mongols their death toll is actually much smaller than people see it to be, it’s still huge but it’s nowhere near what people expected.

[@noticemesenpai69]

martinmarvin of sparta because one of the empires is white, the other isn’t. Same reason Alexander the Great is seen as a true warrior.

[@The-kr9rb]

I think part of it is because while the colonial empires were cruel and merciless, they also contributed technology and advances, and western civilization, at the expense of millions upon millions of lives, whereas the Mongols primarily conquered much of Asia and then divided among themselves. They didn't contribute as much technologically. It doesn't justify what they did, but still. The British also helped win WW2, so that might change their public image too. The Mongol Empire split up long ago, and the last people to inhabit it died centuries ago, wheras the British Empire for example, is still in living memory. Also, who said the Mongols weren't true warriors? ALSO ALSO, it could be because while I don't know of much stuff the Mongols wrote themselves, plenty of stuff was written about them, and doesn't exactly paint them in a positive light.

[@alessiacara4101]

A Space Robot of the 75th Millennium like what you said, a big reason is because of how much influence the British and other colonial powers still have over the modern world. They write most of our narratives so obviously they aren’t going to portray themselves as ruthless barbarians like they so easily do to foreign historical powers. And I would like to counter that while these colonial powers are responsible for much of innovation and industrialisation- they did it at the expense of the very subjects of their empire. So while they contributed more to the world, it wasn’t for the benefit of their subjects, unlike the Mongol Empire

[@The-kr9rb]

@@alessiacara4101 but foreign powers AREN'T portrayed like that. Not in our history books anyway. if they wrote the history then they should've done a better job because they aren't painted in a positive light at all.

[@rebelbeammasterx8472]

Ghengis Khan is literally an anime character.

[@ronjayrose9706]

Except for the massive amounts of dead bodies and completely destroyed walls and traumatize Women who just got rape oh an uh fricking Genocide! Yep he's basically male anime protagonist/MC

[@yeboi1887]

Ronjay Rose isaki horror harem anime

[@ronjayrose9706]

@@yeboi1887 with a spice of ecchi mixed in

[@brynhildr6981]

@@ronjayrose9706 and a hint of SnK

[@Mario-us7ds]

There is a manga based on his life lol. It's pretty good actually.

[@hayleybartek8643]

The Mongols were crazy effective while expanding. You don't have to like what they did to respect their power. If you don't approve of the summation of their actions, it may console you that their empire didn't survive. It's the same way I feel about the Aztecs: powerful, rich culture, influential, probably got what they deserved.

[@themiband0598]

@Alvi Syahri the whole reason they fell is because the fellow mesoamericans were so sick of their warmongering that they helped Cortez sack and destroy them

[@100lovenana]

@@themiband0598 Exactly. The very reason Cortez managed to enter the capital of the Aztec Empire was because he had other mesoamerican tribes by his side, tribes that were being constantly harmed by the Aztecs. It's the classic story of revenge, these tribes saw a form of salvation in the new foreigners. They didn't see that conquistadors were just as ruthless because they were already blinded by their hatred against the aztecs. This idea of a group's thirst for revenge blinding them from the other major dangers is something that happens a lot in history, and people always forget this fact because we're constantly told that in history there's only good vs evil. That's not true, every human is flawed, and everyone is capable of doing horrible things if they're pushed to their limits.

[@Sara3346]

@Alvi Syahri They started whole wars to gather those human sacrifices If I recall correctly, so no.

[@tiffanyhendricks1860]

@Alvi Syahri They had garland wars with tlaxcala and other minor 'tribes' (they're not really tribes, more like city-states) such as the huejotzingo, and chulola on the regular so they could sacrifice them (defeated enemies) to their gods. These city-state 'tribes' were sick of it and helped Cortez topple the Aztecs. It is my firm belief that Cortez couldn't have dealt the Aztecs such a crippling blow with just his advanced weaponry and disease alone.

[@emiliospowerballer1441]

People dont realize that the Mongol nation gave birth to a lot of dynasties which ruled Asia as late as the 19th century

[@Poisonedblade]

I would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for my damn kids! - Khan

[@jasonlewis4438]

Underrated comment lmfao

[@ronjayrose9706]

And their meddling horses

[@brianisme6498]

Ronjay Rose with their metal armour

[@dilophosaurussk4333]

*Congratulations, you played yourself*

[@anu-lc2ke]

damn *meddling* kids

[@firesparkling9370]

**Insert Bill Wurtz meme here**

[@someonesilence3731]

The Mongols just invade most of the universe

[@thenewguyinred]

We've invaded China said the Mongols!

[@seiban8455]

But then died in a tornado.

[@darkdreamer871]

(actually a typhoon)

[@thenewguyinred]

darkdreamer871 but they tried again and had such a nice time fighting with the Japanese.

[@EmpressTiffanyOfBrittany]

I'm amazed the story of Temujin hasn't been turned into an anime. It's so goddamn good. It's a harem, a shonen, an isekai, and a seinen ALL IN ONE.

[@michaelterrell5061]

He did too much bad for him to be a protagonist though.

[@EmpressTiffanyOfBrittany]

@@michaelterrell5061 Like historical figures have never been a bit whitewashed in order to make them palatable to a mass audience :P

[@michaelterrell5061]

@@EmpressTiffanyOfBrittany Sure, but gosh Temujin did a lot of crazy stuff.

[@EmpressTiffanyOfBrittany]

@@michaelterrell5061 So did Nobunaga but they still gave him an anime where he has a harem of 12-14 year old girls :P

[@michaelterrell5061]

@@EmpressTiffanyOfBrittany Fair…

[@brendanmurphy4034]

God: Hey mongols, how much of the world's population did u kill? Mongols: I don't know, like 10, 25 percent my dude. God: those are rookie numbers watch this: Permian-Jurassic extinction event.

[@thebaconbuizel3598]

Brendan Murphy What's God?

[@calicokity1]

Somebody: Hey, you know what caused even more death than the Mongols? The Permian-Jurassic extinction event. I'm going to present this information in a humorous manner. You: I'm going to be a 3edgy5me wad about this

[@brendanmurphy4034]

Kathrina Avery Damn son, why u gotta roast me? I ain't the cities of the mongols' enemies.

[@thebaconbuizel3598]

Kathrina Avery Yeah, I clearly wasn't replying to it in a sarcastic tone. You failed at your own game lol.

[@delgerjargal8230]

Slave trade, Spanish inquisition, genocide of native Americans, Nazi Germany...Various Europeans have caused more extinctions than Mongols and much later in history when they are supposed to be civilised. However, it's not really extinction when it's committed by europeans, right?

[@Rachel-zf2wm]

The Roman empire: we're the biggest, best empire Mongolia: That's cute

[@cristhianramirez6939]

One lasted 2000 years while the other barely 200,cute

[@Swan_River_Cowboy]

@@cristhianramirez6939 rome may of lasted a long time but most of that was either in civil war, war, raids and more

[@cristhianramirez6939]

@@Swan_River_Cowboy So? They still existed and left a cultural legacy so huge that the mongol empire doesn't even compare

[@RemoveChink]

@@johkupohkuxd1697 The Mongol Empire was probably equivalent in percentage of global population.

[@sushidope1701]

It is. The Roman Empire shaped the world for the better. The mongols just slaughtered mindlessly for basically no reason at all. The Romans were civilizers. The mongols were anti-civilizers.

[@anthonyminyard2715]

We are the Mongols *Resistance is Futile*

[@lokilaufeyson2043]

I like your comment, but for future reference, could you call us Mongolians?

[@red_29]

welll.. a real mongolian here

[@lokilaufeyson2043]

Are you referring to me or yourself?

[@messyatbest2958]

Why is your profile pic an American flag then?

[@lloydbautista2055]

One of the reasons the Mongols never made their way into Central and Western Europe is that they were stopped by the second Mongol invasion of Hungary. So basically in 1241 the FIRST mongol invasion of Hungary, the Mongols attacked the Kingdom of Hungary and were actually almost defeated but managed to surround the camp of the bulk of Hungarian army and killed most of them. They then went on to brutally pillage and slaughter the local inhabitants (as they tended to do), and in the process killed about 20% of the kingdom's inhabitants. Having subdued the area the Mongols then pulled out their troops. Despite being crippled, the Kingdom was actually left standing. King Béla IV of Hungary knew that the Mongols would return, and so when about the next few decades reforming the Hungarian military to prepare for the potential attack rather than roll over to the Mongols. King Béla IV had observed what had been effective in fighting the Mongols in the first invasion, and used this knowledge in his reformation of the military. What makes Hungary unique for Central Europe is that it is essentially an island of flat grassland. Because of this, Hungary had few castles and stone fortifications compared to the western and central Europe which were more mountainous since castles are typically placed on high ground to give a strategic advantage. Of the few stone castles they did have though (only 10 total) none of them fell to the Mongols despite being behind enemy lines. Seeing this, the King ordered the construction of 100 new castles and fortifications 66 of which were made of stone. He had also observed that while the light cavalry which had composed the bulk of his army was ineffective against the Mongols, heavy cavalry (knights) showed considerable success as they were able to easily crush the Mongol soldiers when in a straight fight and their heavy armor resisted Mongol arrows, so he increased the proportion of knights in his army by expanding the status of nobility to large and midsize landowners. Despite having few crossbowmen during the first invasion they had also proved to be highly effective against the light armor of the Mongol soldiers, and so he hired 1,000 Venetian crossbowman. Finally, between 1259 and 1264 the Mongols sent message to the King of Hungary saying that if he lent 1/4th his army to them for a planned conquest of Central and Western Europe then Hungary would receive 1/5th the plunder, tax exemption to the Mongol Empire, and be spared from further destruction. King Béla IV refused the offer, and so the Mongols prepared a force. In the year 1285 a Mongol army composed of 60,000 men was sent to destroy the Kingdom. When they arrived the, they found the land stripped bare as all the food had been taken into the many newly built castles, of which they were unable to capture and suffered heavy casualties during all attempts. Thousands of men their men began to starve to death as wandered around the countryside continually harassed by Hungarian Knights. They Mongol army was finally crushed in a head on conflict with the royal army of Ladislaus IV (successor King) who chased the remaining forces out through the mountains of west Transylvania where they were ambushed by the Székely people who acted as light cavalry on behalf of the Hungarians. By the time the survivors made it back to allied territory nearly the entire army of 60,000 thousand had been killed, and those few who had survived pillaged their allies land for food. This event reminds me somewhat of a medieval Battle of Thermopylae, but that would probably be inaccurate. While seemingly noble to stand against the Mongols rather than aid in their planned conquest of Europe, it most likely would have been unnecessary as the weapons and defenses employed against the Mongols during the second invasion were already far more popular throughout western Europe then they were in Hungary at that time as the were not well suited to the Hungarian geography. Europe is also largely mountainous which does not play well into the Mongolian light cavalry tactics that had made them so successful everywhere else. They most likely would have been stopped by the Holy Roman Empire on their first attempt.

[@TheWampam]

Jkla Alkj You need more upvotes

[@tombatty1964]

i think they didnt have the population to go everywhere tbh

[@b.boldnasan9592]

For you guys it was the "invasion of europe", for us it was the "raid of europe". Mongolians attacked europe to get wealth and to show how powerful they were, so that no invasion would ever dare to occur from the west in the future. Mongolians, specially the people from the steppes never had that many people. All those Mongolian forces who where in the first so called invasion of europe had to stay in modern day Russia to keep control over these areas. By the time second invasion of Hungary, most of the Mongolian force were forced conscripts from the conquered lands. These conscript were not that good, royal and reliable. Another thing is those numbers that you are giving is hard to believe. Specially coming from you guys who said that we used dragons to win the battle of Mohi.

[@cptndunsel2670]

I think you are downplaying the threat ths Mongols posed in order to make Hungary look good. The main reason the mongols did not push Europe further is because of the death of Ogedei Khan prompting them to pull back until a new Khan could be chosen. Afterwards unified leadership just kind of imploded.

[@tombatty1964]

it is incredible how mongols with only 400k population did so well .wiped countries with milllions of population

[@sciverzero8197]

There's not actually anything that states you can't be both a genocidal maniac, AND doing everything for the good of your people. That doesn't make it necessarily rational, but they aren't opposite extremes on a single axis... one is intent and the other is action... they can overlap. "Right" and "wrong" don't really factor or matter in that calculation, and determining which is which is nigh impossible in non-laboratory conditions, and is largely a fool's errand.

[@roberteischen4170]

Right? Look at Communist China

[@hermocrasbreadlord9557]

I'm going to burn down an orphanage because under it has some secret treasure that can end world hunger

[@Freekymoho]

Rape is pretty universally bad though, as an example. And the end result of their civilisation consists pretty much entirely of misery and suffering for everyone left behind

[@Freekymoho]

@u wot? i gotta disagree. War doesnt give you a blanc check to start acting like a monster. Warcrimes are a thing, and basic human dignity should still be expected. Especially if you're a massive empire and you started the war

[@Freekymoho]

@u wot? yeah sure, the mongols got the biggest empire in history by fighting a series of exclusively defensive wars, i totally buy that. Even if that were true their actions would still be unacceptable

[@karac9139]

Should I start quoting crash course? " everyone knows you can't invade Russia unless you are wait for it.. the mongols"😆

[@christiandauz3742]

Mongols actually lived in places much colder than Russia, so the Russian Winter is calm in their eyes

[@lewisirwin5363]

The big trick is to enter by the back door.

[@everydaysoopsaaah]

Mongols... the only force who were able to defeat the Russians in winter

[@johnkirsch5479]

I mean, they managed to get to Moscow but the city got burned before they could do anything. Napoleonic France, on the other hand...

[@Righteous1ist]

I wonder if Russians take offense to this

[@jamestown8398]

"But that's just me and you're allowed to disagree." I wish more people would say that.

[@k.g.donathan6271]

Ganghis Khan = good leader Ghansis Khan = not a good guy There is a difference.

[@iapetusmccool]

"A good King but a Bad Man", as 1066 And All That might have put it.

[@sorcererberoll4641]

Kublai= the one to doom them all

[@chocolatecharley99]

I wouldn't put "good" anywhere near that disgusting man's name. There should only be shame because of the shame he put women and little girls through when he mutilated them.

[@mobiushelldoctor1423]

@@chocolatecharley99 fine: competent leader is it better?

[@temuulenbtjgl9498]

@@chocolatecharley99 which fairy tale you live in xD

[@ThePatrick1118]

I love how you guys make subtle references to other KZbin channels in your videos. You aren't taking from them, but fans of those channels have a good chuckle in spotting the Easter eggs.

[@tinchosabala]

There’s Big, then Stupid Big, then Chinesely Big, then Alexander’s Ambition Big, and then Mongolian Big. On a more serious note, I think that Temujin’s life philosophy overall was rather good, he was nice to those who deserved it....or, the way he saw it, those who didn’t resist....which isn’t as noble....but the thing is that, even if you had the worst luck in history, if he thought you deserved more, he would help you. Now, it is true that they were incredibly cruel (even if most empire were), I won’t deny that. What I like was Temujin himself, he valued people for what they were capable to do and what they were themselves. Even though he had faults, other great kings weren’t like that, really.

[@brianlewolfhunt]

"Don't make our lives difficult and we won't make yours short." I need to incorporate that line into my everyday life somehow.

[@rogueone3538]

Don't mess with the Mongols if you wanna keep your butt in one piece.XD

[@nostradamusofgames5508]

"we are the exception!"

[@noelrose7419]

I don't really see why you have to come down on one side or the other. Like i've never personally thought of history that way. To me when i look at it i just go hey look at all these humans, living, loving and making decisions good and bad. So i wouldn't take the stand of the empire was a good net, or a bad net thing. It happened, and i look into it cause it's super interesting :) Great video too lol!

[@Evillious_Oracle]

It would be nice if you guys could also cover the Philippines some time... Though there quite a few, Philippine Mythology is also very interesting as well as being deep and quite creepy too. Then there's the Philippine literature that's actually pretty interesting and is usually focused on either love or patriotism... Buuuut its up to you guys if you'd like to cover the Philippines...just thought I'd ask...

[@romankazinets1759]

Wait. I always thought the Phillipeans were uninhabited until spanish conquest. Actually now that i think abouut it, that makes no sense. I am intrested. Also Docter Mike, Buzz off.

agree

[@ironkeko4423]

They did The Legend of Mount Mayon so there's one for us

[@Evillious_Oracle]

@ElvenSithLord wait, who is this Doctor Mike?? Dif he say something wrong? His comment isn't here anymore

[@Evillious_Oracle]

@@ironkeko4423 I'm glad they did! It was so nice to see the characters in Red's art

[@mingmeiizhao4973]

Jamukha x Temüjin is otp.

[@quertie420]

Candy Floss Same tho. I've a shipping problem..

[@mingmeiizhao4973]

Help Me, this channel only makes it worse for me tbh

[@erdenezaya100]

Candy Floss Sorry to burst your bubble but that ship will probably be one of the toxic relationship ever. Instead i recommend you Genghis x Khulan or Genghis x Burtei Ujin , Genghis x Boorchi. And last but not least Genghis x Zelme. Last two are his best buds and been there for him during rough times. Khulan was his favorite queen and she helped him big time when they were young. Burtei and Temujin (Genghis) were engaged at very young age. They were good friends but separated due to his father's and death betrayal of others. When he reached manhood he went back for her. They got married at age 16 and 17 (Burtei was 1 year older than him.) Burtei's father was like chief of village or something and he helped Genghis a lot. Like Blue said she got kidnapped yada yada plot twist she is pregnant. No is sure who is the father. (Ps this kidnapping is kinda Genghis's dad's fault). It bugged him a lot but he accepts Zuch as his son. Genghis got popular, he gets more queens. She became jealous and probably gave them all something cause everyone except her had daughters. So yeah

[@HarpyMin]

Nice to see someone who is also from Mongolia here ^u^

[@kolsveinnskraevolding]

It ends with Temujin Yesukheigiin (Temujin Yesukhei's Son) lifting Jamukha Jadaraan over his head and breaking his spine over his knee. (I call him Yesukheigiin because he technically wasn't a Borchigid at the time).

[@Luca-vn9yb]

I love this video so much simply because it comes full circle at the end. I can´t express how hyped I get every time I get to that last sentence

[@jackmyers8687]

Love or hate Ghengis Khan, you got to respect a guy who goes from practically nothing to ruler of a huge empire and having more children than most people have hot meals.

[@lucyadam9128]

No , something like that doesn't make you deserve respect

[@jackmyers8687]

@@lucyadam9128 Agree to disagree

[@lucyadam9128]

@@jackmyers8687 it like saying people like Hitler deserve respect. People like them don't deserve respect

[@kathryniredale6152]

Of all the things you could have listed as a reason to respect the guy did you really need to go with the fact that he was a rapist? Really?

[@mikaeleulrichzagetapoc2022]

@@lucyadam9128 idk its a typical rags to riches story, pretty respectable, except the r@pe

[@randomdragons]

Quite thankful I found this channel before starting Pre-AP world history haha. You guys are awesome!

[@jerrickothomas8345]

Don't make our lives difficult and we won't make your lives short. Words to live by

[@eyuin5716]

You should do the Gupta empire next.

[@declannewton2556]

No, he should the Maurya Empire.

[@silphaer5353]

Gupta. First name Chandra. The first. Anyone get the reference?

[@paxonite-7bd5]

Silphaer yes!yes!yes!yes!yes! I wanna see him doing a story on bindisara the son of king chandragupta cause his birth story is interesting

[@imienazwisko6527]

Ęÿūį Æßñ GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE. WILL YOU GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE IF I GIVE YOU 500 ELEPHANTS? Thanks. _Time to conquer all of India_ Uhm... _...most of India_

[@silphaer5353]

Space Dust - What about that part? Those are the Tamil Kings, no one conquers the Tamil Kings. [Who are the Tamil Kings] *Merchants probably* And they've got *SPICES!*

[@danukil7703]

If you do end up tackling Russian history, you will absolutely HAVE to cover Ukrainian history. And then maybe the Belarusians. Those poor Belarusians...

[@Twitch1872]

I actually love the mongols Like they did a lot of conquesting against people who refused to trade with them or whatever but they were all like "Feed my horse? Great you are now one of us, you can keep your religion, religious artifacts, artwork and you can spread it around also divorce is fine if your husband is a douche and nobody is aloud to discriminate against you" How many other Conquerors can you say let you keep your religion and culture? I mean I will never say they were all good because the people who didn't feed the horses were killed and raped and shit but hey if you surrendered you were safe which is better than the vast majority of enemies in any other culture so even as far as the whole "killing and murdering and raping" goes they were pretty good about taking in there enemies, there were no prisoners just more to the family.

[@romankazinets1759]

I mean Geghis literaly sent half of his army to free a budhist country under Muslim ocupation during his war with China. Just think about that. He didnt know these people, and he was in a death strugle. Years later he took the area in on his own with no oposition.

[@kina.12]

Sounds like a reach but it’s as if they had to surrender to his love and care or die lol

[@chocolatecharley99]

"War provides men with the perfect psychological backdrop to give vent to their contempt for women. The maleness of the military-the brute power of weaponry exclusive to their hands, the spiritual bonding of men at arms, the manly discipline of orders given and orders obeyed, the simple logic of the hierarchical command-confirms for men what they long suspect-that women are peripheral to the world that counts."

[@chocolatecharley99]

Maybe YOU would do okay near them, but your mother, sister, wife, daughter? Yeah I guess we dont give a F about those people. Are they really even people?

[@OleandyrTheGreatDragonGod]

Thank you OSP for making this video! I know you guys are D&D nerds 'cause you got a cameo in Jocat's video on how to be a dungeon master, so you'll probably appreciate the fact that I used your video about the Mongols to help with my research so I could add my own allegory for the Mongol Empire to my special Homebrew D&D setting. It's an empire founded and mostly ruled by Orcs because I wanted a chance to make Orcs look sophisticated and honorable (from a certain perspective) and defy fantasy stereotypes, but like the Mongols they actually believed in racial equality, so yay! I called this allegory empire the "Altanmori", because "altan mori" means "golden horse" in Mongolian. I was inspired by "the golden horde" Mongols and before I watched this video I knew from being a fan of "The Hu" (A famous Mongolian Folk-Metal band) that the Mongols had a big cultural thing about horses, so that's why I put "horse" in the name of my Orc empire. 😂🐴

[@kyuubitao]

Personally, I find myself in awe of the sheer powerhouse that the Mongol Empire was during its days of expansion, and admire the military genius of Genghis Khan. I often wonder how today would be different if the succession wasn't botched and mangled so badly.

[@tailkinker1972]

4:50: Tom Clancy had this to say about the Maginot Line (just such a frontier wall, for those reading the comments): "In World War I, it stopped the Germans at Paris. In World War II, it stopped them at the Spanish border."

[@dentescare]

Cold, Hot and Mountains: Trifecta of the Supreme Geographical Nope. Inca Empire: Hold my Chicha de Jora

[@MobiusCoin]

"Was it worth it?" I feel like this is the wrong question. It is entirely the wrong way of understanding the Mongol Conquests. And let's just first off, dispel the notion that the Mongol Conquests were "amazingly unique", rather they were "marginally unique" due to the vastness and swiftness of their conquests. But to be sure Mongol Conquests is not a unique aberration of history. In fact, on the very (VERY!) broad level, the history of Eurasia can be described as a series of invasions of the horse people of the great steppe (the Mongols being only one of their incarnations) against the settled agricultural empires of the coasts. The animating force of famine and drought that led the Scythians and Cimmerians to challenge Persia is the very same that has led countless horse people to leave the steppe and venture into the realms of the settled people. The same pattern of conquest, domination, assimilation, runs through the Sarmatians, the Hunnic invaders of Rome, Altai Turks, the Xiongnu, the Avars, the Khazars, Onogurs, Kutrigurs, Pechenegs, Cumans, Uzes, just to name a few. "... the periodic thrusts of the nomads into the cultivated areas were a law of nature. It should be added that whether Turk or Mongols, they belonged to an intelligent, level-headed, practical people which, drilled by the harsh realities of its environment, was ever ready for the word of command. When the sedentary and often decadent communities yielded under his onslaught, the nomad entered the city and, when the first few hours of massacre were over, without any great difficulty took the place of the rules whom he had defeated. Unabashed, he seated himself upon the most time-honored and exalted thrones, as grand khan of China, king of Persia, emperor of India, or sultan of Rum, and adapted himself accordingly. In Peking he became half Chinese, in Ispahan, or Rai half Persian." -René Grousset, Empire of the Steppes, a History of Central Asia To assign value to their conquests is to view their wars and their conquests in an overly Clausewitzian way. Their conquests weren't a matter of cost/benefit, their wars weren't an extension of politics. Those were side effects. For the steppe nomads, conquest and war were a way of life.

[@kolsveinnskraevolding]

"For the steppe nomads, conquest and war were a way of life." Makes me proud to have Turkic blood in my veins.

[@iminformedbecauseisawabunc9402]

How the hell does that make you proud?

[@kolsveinnskraevolding]

+Pleep Plop I like swords, axes, bows, beards and armies.

[@aLukepop]

I think he means worth it for humanity as a whole, not for those who did the conquering.

[@rodney2x48]

jon bad I mean, it was probably worth it in some way for people in Asia. After all, once the Mongolian Empire fell or changed, many other Empires, Kingdoms and so on took its place. Chinese history wouldn’t be the same, Russian history wouldn’t be the same, and so on.

[@ron2092]

Is it the music from age of mythology?

[@SimonNZ6969]

Its Age of Empires 2 music.

[@sephyrias883]

+El Psy Definitely not. It might be Age of Empires 1 though.

[@yonokhanman654]

It's Darude - Sandstorm. (In all seriousness, the ending is Age of Mythology, but I think I've heard Age of Empires 2 somewhere in the middle of the video too.)

[@Raiys-k7g]

it's age of mythology

[@bonquiquixoxo7978]

YEEEEEES IM NOY THE OLY ONE

[@cracklingvoice]

Militarily, the Mongols were a remarkably modern force. Fast-moving, with officers promoted from the ranks based on merit, adaptive to opposing forces, and unafraid to move vast distances at speed to gain an advantage. As administrators ... they left a few things to be desired. Kinda hard to rule over a city after it has been raped and pillaged out of existence.

[@bootlegcrusader1773]

Persian Muslim: executes some mongols Mongols: *flips table* that’s it we’re going in China: oh no Mongols: *invade China and Persia*

[@Armaggedon185]

Empire is never worth it, but when individuals condemn the Mongols while praising the Romans with the same breath, it gets really irritating. Not talking about Blue here, just something I've noticed.

[@jondeoliveira8248]

Shogun Banzai Rome created a culture and laws, that survive to this day, aswell as preserving cultures they actually conquered. We only know of Druidism because of the romans, for example.

[@Armaggedon185]

I'm not denying the good that Rome did, but often the same people exalting Rome for its culture and laws are also condemning the Mongols for its violence and barbarism. It's the lack of rounded representation that bothers me in both cases.

[@jondeoliveira8248]

Shogun Banzai for someone that goes by "Shogun Banzai", you seem to have a peculiar problem with violence.

[@Armaggedon185]

It's all important to take into account.

[@yogsothoth7594]

It rather depends how long an empire lasts and how internally stable they were. If you have an empire like Alexander the Great's which lasted less than a decade it certainly isn't. And if you have an empire like the Ottomans who were constantly fighting for the throne then once again definitely not. The trick is to create an empire that lasts and remains unified. Rome achieved the long lasting part but had a fair few problems when it came to the second one i.e. Sullar, the collapse of the 1st and 2nd triumvirate, like the entire 3rd century ect. The British empire managed the second but not so much the first. If you could get a truly global empire who could to both it might be worth it, but that of course is easier said then done.

[@izzy1221]

HELL YEAH. I have some stronger than usual Mongolian blood in me and seeing you covering this is really cool to me. Thanks Blue!

[@kovi567]

So how's Ulanbator? Mongolia's only city... which is not a village called a city... yeah... STEPPE MADAFAKÖRZ!

[@richardsantanna5398]

@@unitymomentum Who isn't?

[@lysanamcmillan7972]

@@richardsantanna5398 Um... hi. Too many of my ancestors were in charge of the soldiers doing the raping. Now, if you extend it to land-grabs, my DNA is so colonizer-sourced I might not get through the shields around Wakanda.

[@richardsantanna5398]

@@lysanamcmillan7972 I'm not sure what your point was but we're all descended from rapists so it's not a big deal. I never watched black panther. I detest mediocre films made by people with no talent.

[@Vinemaple]

The book _Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World,_ while dealing primarily with Temujin himself and the cultural exchange between Europe and the Khanate and later the Golden Horde, is a fascinating and well-written look into this topic. It's limited in scope, but it's also a reasonable length. One notable wrinkle on Blue's take that I got out of that book is that the Mongols' reasons for conquering were rather different than European ones. One wrinkle on that wrinkle, which I came up with myself, is that we may not know enough about what was going on back in the sacred mountains of Mongolia to truly understand the Mongol Khans' motivations.

[@thezeitos469]

They tried to go down the Levante, but the Mamluks were like: "Yeah thats enough. Please stop right here and think about what you have done."

[@VoxDelta38]

As of the moment of writing this, I'm finishing up my MA dissertation work on the Mongol Empire, and I can say for the most part, this is highly accurate, though I lean more towards the Mongols being more of a force of good than bad, though their conquests are highly within the grey for a multitude of reasons. That said, great video and keep up the good work!

[@rayanhey2411]

This video remind me of John Green. Good times

[@michaellynes3540]

“You goddamn Mongorians!! You break down my city wall for last time!!”

[@davidfabella1]

CrashCourse history flashbacks intensifies

[@brendanmurphy4034]

To the best of my knowledge other important things to mention about the mongols is that one they were very tolerant about other religions and before Genghis died he tried to make a legal system that would've made women legal equals in the empire.

[@chocolatecharley99]

Oh wowww so progressive. They get to be "equal" (but probably not actually equal in day to day life). Was this after brutally mass mutilating women and little girls?

[@messyatbest2958]

@@chocolatecharley99 hope so..

[@silphaer5353]

OSP have a new video? Right, forget my job, loading KZbin.

[@Threeezzz]

Just found your videos a week or so ago. Came for history, stayed for the fast talking summaries of classic stories.

[@sunlitsol5454]

Imagine calling yourself an empire and not lasting for more than 200 years lmao. *laughs in Latin*

[@cake6851]

So when do we get to the huns where Attila was a woman with a rainbow sword who's actually a space titan. Just a thought

[@paxonite-7bd5]

Cake# soon...

[@paxonite-7bd5]

Cake# and spoiler alert atila becomes cosmic titan not a space titan there is a difference

[@Samm815]

When we get a Cu Berserker with a warp spasm.

[@unitymomentum]

What are you talking about? Is that in a show?

[@paxonite-7bd5]

Anony X history man it's amazing!

[@ba7875]

It's documented that: cyrus the great was a liberate king for 44% of population of the world around 300 BC. And cyrus the great cylander is refered as the frist human right declaration. who set the slaves free and treat them as his own people. He Paid for the labours and banned the slavery, gave them money and support and also gave them freedom of religion, language , culture , education and what not... he also told them to choose any job they liked and they were free to live where ever they wanted to live.and more importantly he almost conquered all of the world in that time, without killing civilians and innocents. For example: he conquered the babylon without killing anyone or shedding any blood. Because people knew that he was a messiah and not a killer, so they welcomed him in without any war or conflict.

[@okm8699]

when did he ban slavery? he is a pretty good ruler but he didn't do that where did you get that from and he did kill,you can't say he didn't,granted the ones killed were soldiers,overall he is one of the best rulers in history but i am pretty sure most of what you said other than the basic stuff didn't happen,not to mention that this is the persian side of the story of the conquest of babylon,there are other sides describing a siege taking place in babylon so yah.

[@g-rexsaurus794]

The Persian empire did not have 44% of the world population in 300 BC, you would have to believe that China and India had so little population to make that possible.

[@mr.expunged6040]

The Mongols made each other’s empires lives difficult, and thus all of their’s were short.

[@Zappygunshot]

8:18 I would argue both: he was a genocidal maniac that was protecting his own people. They're not mutually exclusive. He did good things, but the ends do not justify the means.

[@geremynakhone826]

I asked for this and you listened. Thank you

[@plolsteg7705]

Asia: exists Mongols: **it’s free reel estate**

[@musti4157]

I found me a new fav channel.

[@theoxerbox3014]

I like how he made the the Mongol Empire blue and China red

[@zorigoobatjil2246]

Hello Blue, I'm Mongolian citizen and I want say that Thank you for giving good summarizing of my nation. Oh and also I just started watching channel, you and Red are great

[@benjamingrist6539]

Every country, society, and people group has done at least one majorly bad thing in their history. That doesn't excuse what they did, but it doesn't mean they were/are entirely evil either.

[@JasonDoe1000]

Now compare the level of bad in the mongole example though with the rest

[@mnk199245]

Ya you are right herr grist

[@alnu8355]

One? That would be a horrifically generous understatement. Arguably there has never been such thing as any nation, religion, philosophy, ideal, political inclination, etc that has ever lasted more than a year without a series of moral compromises. For the record I pretty much agree with you.

[@CalebJMartin]

7:34 I weep for the day when people will watch old history videos like this and they won't understand the Bill Wurtz reference. Or the Crash Course reference in the description. What a fascinating and vibrant community history buffs have created on KZbin.

[@blitzkriegdragon013]

There are some hypotheses that the biggest contributing factor to Mongol success was the time and place in which Genghis Khan was born in. The idea that he was born at a time when the empires of China, Korea, and Persia were divided and a shadow of what they once were. Not that this diminishes their accomplishments, but it adds another layer to their story. Similar to how Shakespeare's success came from the fact that the English just started going towards the written word over the oral word. If he had been born later, his poetic play structures would not have been nearly as successful.

[@Billious]

8:10 -8:26 I think it’s both His conscious justified that he had to conquer in order to help his people and his family. His subconscious just liked the idea of conquest, and derived pleasure from battle and death. Because of this, he let his vices go wild, he had a sound mind, because any time his morality got in the way he could justify to himself that it’s all for survival.

[@9051team]

I think that the mongols were considered pretty average when it comes to brutallity when compared to other medivel armies.

[@Todsor]

As for a Mongolian, i'd would say "above average". Most Mongolians praise their history because of ignorance and biased history. At school, we are taught mostly good things of our history and rarely know about bad things. Case 1: There was a lady from ruling class who happily married to a commander of 100 unit. A month after their marriage, Mongol army invaded Baghdad. Husband was sent to the battlefield on the second day and his wife was one of accountants in supply and logistic unit following behind the army. Unfortunately, husband got shot to death and never returned to his young wife. Widow got so revengeful and hysterical that she begged Hulegu khan to let her lead an unit to take revenge of her husband. Hulegu khan admired her determination (or blood-lust) and made her a commander of 100 unit like her husband. When she got inside the city, she went full rampage, killed unarmed citizens regardless of age and domestic animals in the street. After the invasion, there were so many dead bodies rotting and smell was unbearable that the army had to camp away from the city. Case 2: Before the invasion of Korea, Ogedei khan sent an small of army of 300 units to each Korean cities to ask their submissions separately. You might figure out why khan first asked city officials instead of one emperor. Some officials submitted and some negotiated but one official of city humbly refused which angered the commander of unit and he reported the refusal to khan, over-emphasizing that the city official gave him a middle finger in today's term. Khan sent him another 300 unit and told him just to intimidate the official with his doubled army. City official decided to submit but the commander didn't get satisfied with it. He demanded every woman regardless of age to come out of city for "inspection". There were around 80 decent women and army took them to the near forest then.....imagine at least 500 soldiers on 80 women. Most women didn't survive after the long session. There were many more bizarre brutalities and humiliations that should be forgotten but doesn't matter since it still happens somewhere around us.

[@redbenada798]

@@Todsor 🤪🤪🤪🤪

[@jabs615]

​@@Todsor You better respect your ancestors son, there were only 1 million or so of them, they sure could not make attrition wars, so they made pragmatic decision when making wars, but the killing for fun was never their intention, they did not force assimilation of others onto their religion or ways nor did they try to kill off entire religions, peoples or cultures. That's far better than many of countries that are under good light. Good example: your neighbors.

[@messyatbest2958]

@@Todsor L

[@foldabotZ]

@@messyatbest2958Looks loke they deleted their comment, what did they say?

[@nquisitiv3471]

I get nostalgic whenever i watch these because of the music. Age of mythology was my favorite game of all time, it still is, and it makes me want to play it when i listen to the music

[@knpark2025]

5:20 when your ancestor(13C Korea) capitulates to the Mongols but the dynasty become best buds with Kublai Khan Game-of-Thrones-style, 10/10 will be Mongol royals again until Ming show up.

[@ariellesoomiyoo5029]

Omg the John Green description. Yas. But also I'm pretty sure John Green would love this, there's nothing to dislike

[@shane9723]

Major Props for the Age of Mythology soundtrack

[@cassiegrey3053]

Thankful I found this channel before my history finals last year

[@salemhassan2010]

Really should've covered Timur and the other mongol related dynasties.

[@vladprus4019]

Mughals! They were awesome!

[@salemhassan2010]

dose that mean we'll see a video on them specifically, that would be great.

[@lokilaufeyson2043]

Mughals? It is one thing to shorten our name to Mongols, but Mughals? I'm confused.

[@lokilaufeyson2043]

Sorry, I just found out who Mughals were. Sorry.

[@its_drez]

Loki Laufeyson Boi.

[@colby6054]

Thank you so much for this video! I have to do a book report on genghis Khan but I'm an auditory learner and this helped a whole bunch

[@Galadrian70]

I think you should do Charlemagne. He influenced history so much!

[@maxpellant8731]

I always like the music from these videos and can't help but laugh when I recognize it. A lot of Reds videos use Two Steps From Hell as far as I have noticed, and a lot of Blues videos use music I've heard from Age of Mythology. Perfect choices to set a good mood.

[@Huy-G-Le]

Mongol: “No body excepted US!” Spanish Inquisition: ;_; ...

[@TeamDragofied]

I think Ghengis was a man worried about the safety of the Mongol people, but had an off sense of morality in doing so.

[@МахамбетМамыров]

Yep, we had 300 cities on territory of Kazakhstan before and 30 after mongols.... but all rulers of my people later were chingizids and every kazakh now has a bit of mongol blood... so I don't know how to feel about them... but I could have ginger hair if not the fucking mongols, so I guess I'm on negative side of spectrum

[@Man-nx4ig]

Dont forget that as a Kazakh your major and most important ancestors are the Cumans-Kipchaks!!! They were described as blond and blue eyed by all the nations in the world, so they were Indo European but had a Turkic language and culture. They are the core of your people, never forget it, and always remember them! I am Cuman. Even now the surname Kipchak and Kumanov occurs in Kazakhstan. Read the ENGLISH Cuman article on Wikipedia, it is extremely detailed and you will learn many things about them which will blow you away. Only the English article has the most information and pictures, not the other languages.The Mongols are responsible for destroying the absolutely HUGE land the Cumans had and most of the Cumans left after the Mongol defeat as they were too noble to let themselves be ruled by someone else, so they went to Egypt where they established the powerful, famous and big Mamluk Empire, to Bulgaria where they established the Second Bulgarian Empire where every emperor was Cuman and the cavalry in the army were all Cumans, to Hungary where a Cuman lady became queen of all Hungarians and was responsible in creating a Cuman ruling dynasty, to present day Romania where they established the country that is modern day Romania, to Georgia where they helped the Georgians to make the most powerful kingdom in the region and helped them hold back the Seljuk Turks and saved the country and were given elite and noble status. The joke is on the Mongols though in the end, as the Mamluk Cumans utterly crushed the Mongols in a famous battle AND the Cumans who remained in the steppe gave their language and culture to the Mongols, so much so that the official language in the Mongol Empire and Golden Horde became Cuman-Kipchak.

[@Altama2002]

Catalytic Nomad lol Why do you want to look western? Why cant you embrace your own beauty? Yes western culture is dominant at the moment but these thing go up and down all the time. You need to love yourself and be your own center. Stop wanting to be like others. We all have uniqueness and beauty. I am Mongolian and I find beauty in all people and looks. History sucks in a sense but it is what it is and our life is here today. Lets focus on the future!

[@Man-nx4ig]

I really like and respect your response!! I actually agree with a lot that you are saying. I would like to discuss this further but in private - I tried to message your youtube account but it appears you have turned private messages off in your account -can you turn them on or give me any way to contact you? Would really love to talk about this more and there is kore interesting stuff I want to say :-)

[@LiverBird123]

Modern Kazakhs are not the native central asian people from before Mongol Invasion and etc. Kazakhs are turkic-mongolic and that is it. I also have seen many Kazakhs with ginger hair or greenish eyes, but the majority is Turkic-Mongol with both cultures and traditions incorparated. The people who inhabbited the territory of Kazakhstan before are just a SMALL part of mixture. Just like everyone is partly African or Native Americans are partly mongoloid.

[@GushChew]

Actually the only description that possibly exists of Genghis Khans appearance was one of his decedents lamenting that his son didn't inherit his grandfathers red hair, either the Great Khans or the grandfather on the mothers side who knows.

[@typacsk]

0:53 *We're the exception!* (cue the Mongoltage)

[@tatiannachandler4196]

It would be really interesting to see how they operate in battle -(I'm still trying to separate the myths from the actual facts)-

[@douglewis7946]

I love Blue. He's such a dork. Processing a surface-level Star Wars reference and just...going for it. Ya big nerd.

[@karac9139]

I personally admired the mongol empire. Yes it was tragic for 25% of the population but overall still an impressive force

[@christiandauz3742]

If I could travel back in time, I would replace Genghis Khan Mongols conquer the world, but fewer people die or suffer Technology and Knowledge unites the world under my Futuristic Utopia

[@jamestang1227]

Christian Dauz no way, the conquered would rebel because you didn't kill them and cities wouldn't just surrender to you because of you're reputation

[@christiandauz3742]

How about my Tanks and Airplanes. Would that pacify the conquered people

[@jamestang1227]

I guess that would work, I thought you were bringing yourself but sill need to mange an empire spanning toehold world and if your enemies steal your tanks and planes well...

[@delgerjargal8230]

Those estimates by western historians are largely based on prejudice, a lot of people did die but 25% is way over exaggerated. Spanish and british empires caused more death and extinction more recently and their actions were based on racist ideologies.

[@paulthetyyppi]

Those Mongol envoys were there to adress the issue where that same governor had robbed mongol caravan of all its goods.

[@Gabdube]

If you want an answer to the "is imperialism worth it?" question, just ask a native american if they're glad to have been conquered and subordinated by europeans "for their own good". Only the most alienated individuals can come up with justifications for the horrors of conquest. No, empires are not worth it for the people they conquer. Period. Nobody ever wants to be conquered, especially not "for their own good", even IF we assumed that it would somehow actually be in our interest ('cause, in reality, it never is). It is just pure hypocrisy and revisionist rhetoric on the part of the oppressors and their descendants.

[@faristasairuv5143]

Absolutely right, brother/sister. Those who say imperialism is good are always revisionist and terrible. At the very best it’s needless war and at the worst it’s generations of terrible oppression. If your country has an idea they think can help other countries, just fucking peacefully and diplomatically explain your idea to them like a normal person and if the idea is truly ely good for them they’ll embrace it peacefully and if they don’t then your idea wasn’t as good as you thought. It’s not a coincidence that the conquered people of like every empire hated the empires that conquered them.

[@chocolatecharley99]

Yeah him saying that annoyed the f out of me. Glad he is in such a privileged position to say let's "agree to disagree" on mass mutilation.

[@barsaa._.]

Then what if we want just our own parts back? Like Baigal nuur and Inner Mongolia? It’s our land, we will take it one day.

[@pyropussquantscalethewell-6472]

I don't think blue ever said that anything that happened was good for the people that were conquered. Furthermore, almost every culture has oppressed someone at some point, and to group people into binary categories of "colonizer" and "colonized" just reduces and oversimplifies a complex historical narrative. If you cancel everything related to oppression, you're cancelling human history.

[@Gabdube]

@@pyropussquantscalethewell-6472 The point isn't to cancel history, on the contrary. It is to show and recognize that most of human history *is* a series of conquests and injustices which we should learn from and avoid repeating, instead of praising. Which at least you and I have the honesty of recognizing. Unlike most traditional western historians and "romaboo" who cling to the renaissance idea of Golden Age(s) of "civilizing" imperialistic unification, etc.

[@polariscrow3144]

How have i never found this channel??? I love reading and this kind of stuff! SO AWESOOMMMEEE!!

[@theraginginfernape9496]

"Hell yeah! Now we've got business!" if you did not sing that in a bill wurtz voice, you're lame

[@twudotJam]

I love the little Bill Wurtz reference at 7:39 XD

[@Saikhnaaaaa]

Mongol here. Sup, noobs.

[@kolsveinnskraevolding]

Hi Mongol, I'm Qipchak. Your Islamic cousin from the North.

[@Saikhnaaaaa]

Hi, Qipchak, Good to hear from family.

[@oguzoflaz270]

bloodspilla55 lol

[@hmmmhmmm6917]

sup steppe savage, go pet your horses now that you can't steal shit from the civilized world anymore.

[@lostintime519]

like you are a civilized one, finnish boi :D

[@tyrant-den884]

There is a reason I see the Mongols more as an event in history than an empire.

[@Archris17]

Really good video here and very unbiased too, which is praiseworthy in and of itself. Any clues on what we can expect less? Are episodes chosen by patreons or something? Do you guys even have a Patreon page?

[@unitymomentum]

LoZ Collector how is there a damn bias on this, they killed, tortured and raped in unholy numbers...of course they're scum. You can't ready apply "well there's a side to everything" bullshit.

[@Archris17]

Did you know that the Mongols enforced religious tolerance under their empire? Unlike literally every other nation on the planet, there wasn't so much as a tax for not being a certain religion. Further, it was said that a woman could walk naked from one end of the Mongol empire to the other, with a gold plate in her hands and never once be accosted, as they enforced their laws that well. Speaking of women, Mongol women often held a great deal of power, certainly more than in China, the Middle East, or Europe at the time. The Mongols re-vitalised trade that had been suffering from the fragmentation of nations along the Silk Road and Blue mentioned the Yuan Dynasty's boom of culture, art and science before the big one by the Ming a little later. Yes the Mongols were UTTERLY brutal and ruthless to ANY who opposed them, but by all accounts, life under their rule was actually much better for the people they ruled over, than it had been when they were independent. EVERY nation, EVER has done horrible things in the pursuit of power and many didn't even use their power to do good things for the majority of their conquered people. The Mongols were just the most effective people at the time, when it came to attaining power.

[@dishfishes]

I started World ap history this week and these vids are gonna be real helpful for this year, thank you for making these ❤️❤️

[@mingmeiizhao4973]

Do ancient China next please.

[@S4NoctiS]

Really great content, better than any History class I've ever had in school - especially considering it gives me the itch to learn more on my own with a pool of unlimited information just a click away.