The Conspiracy Theory that the Middle Ages Never Happened

[@halfasinteresting]

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[@JouvaMoufette]

I'd believe that because only an AI could continue down the same path of bad jokes

[@brockrunyan2728]

Really everyone let’s go home

[@thanos4959]

Ok

[@billy1519]

Can a AI make bad jokes?

[@skyem5250]

HAI is built upon two or three neural networks, and a few regular computers to support the function of the neural networks. These neural networks are called "Sam", "Adam", and "the Animator".

[@saltylad2107]

The least credible thing about the whole theory is the Pope, the Emperor of the HRE and the Byzantine Emperor agreeing on something lmao.

[@jamier65551]

Historians will understand this bruh

[@TrololzillaOG]

Lmao right - it was hard enough for *two* of the three to agree, let alone all of them.

[@War_is_cool]

Weren’t the pope and the holy emperor in a “kinda but not really” civil war

[@robertgibson6687]

@@War_is_cool Probably. The East-West Schism was brewing during this period, as well.

[@lucabrandalesi6743]

And in such a cluttered time the two emperor's would've never agreed. Maybe the pope end Otto, but th Byzantine emperor no way

[@matthewlee8667]

“Don’t you know that the moon landings were faked?” Me: *squints at my friend* “You believe in the moon?”

[@jjs8426]

🤣🤣

[@Zzzlaldkfjrowpq]

Moon is made of cheese.

[@OveranalyzingEverything]

You have a friend?

[@icecreamsandwich7522]

When someone tries to tell you a conspiracy theory, present an even more absurd one and accuse them of covering up the truth

[@Revealingstorm.]

@@icecreamsandwich7522 well there have conspiracy theories that have been eventually confirmed to be true and now they're not known as one. Like NSA and all that jazz. We're conditioned to scoff at anything that has conspiracy in the name but they're not all crazy.

[@Deborah5000]

I love how conspiracies never account for anything else that happened outside the US or Europe

[@Uchihasasuk5]

Only white people are involved in conspiracies. That's my takeaway.

[@zyanego3170]

What about New Swabia, Argentina, the inner Earth and the Moon?

[@ashleya3731]

Well yea... everyone else's success was due to aliens👽. Aztec empire? Aliens. Mahendraparvata? Totally Aliens.

[@cooperm4185]

Broke: Flat Earth theory Woke: Flat Europe Theory

[@hellsrangers1]

Obviously you haven't read into many conspiracies

[@SpitshineSneakers]

Combine this with the “Rome never existed” theory and you basically have a timeline where Pyramids happen right before Napoleon

[@lunakoala5053]

Obviously the pyramids happened after Napoleon. Back in napolean times they didn't have the necessary power tools. Silly you.

[@KillerWhale806]

tbf there's a huge population of people (who we don't consider crazy) who say dinosaurs existed at the same time as humans.

[@satibel]

They never existed in a new state anyway, the universe was created as is last Thursday, and all your memories with it.

[@lunakoala5053]

@@KillerWhale806 there's a German philosopher who calls religion an "isolated psychosis' for this very reason Can't seem to recall his name tho.

[@lunakoala5053]

@@satibel Thursday... ridiculous. Everybody knows the universe was created last Wednesday and I'll fight you to the death to prove it!

[@radianzero]

People making the Julian calendar: _"This little maneuver is gonna cost us 347 years."_

[@Fred_the_1996]

H

[@eyo2953]

Omg, you’re the blacky speaks Eminem mumble rap comment guy

[@ナフィズロイ]

@@eyo2953 what

[@mohammedrazeenzaeencamil9344]

big brain meme

[@synflwr]

God left me unfinished Radian left a comment on the KZbinr BlackySpeak’s video about Eminem and mumble rap.

[@NewbyTon]

Well if the middle ages existed, how come there aren't any vikings or knights alive anymore Checkmate

[@jorenvanderark3567]

1. Knighthood are still given by certain nations. 2. Because Scandinavia would be grounded into dust if they still tried to pull that nonsense. 3. Funny comment I like.

[@jcrides1320]

BEcuSE tHier died- Karen

[@OMGitsTerasu]

@@jorenvanderark3567 lol @ that nonsense

[@piebomb8221]

Joren van der Ark 5 shush logic isn’t allowed

[@coreytaylor447]

there are, just the vikings became the sweds and got boring, and the knights became the brits and got drunk

[@aaronworsnop]

Theory: Half as interesting doesn’t exist, you’re actually watching wendover productions’ non plane channel

[@swisscake1591]

Oh... my... god... 😂😂😂

[@carolinevs943]

Funny

[@KasabianFan44]

Non-plane? Are you sure about that?

[@whafflete6721]

*Laughs in Victorvile*

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

No one actually runs the channels. Sam Denby is just a paid actor.

[@pixelwanderer1962]

"We normally don't cover conspiracy theories, but we do want lots of views" the most honest KZbin introduction I've seen in awhile

[@maxberry6780]

Not about bricks, but it's still a good video.

[@mikaxms]

The brick joke is getting old. So, the video is better without it.

[@samla3475]

Honestly, the bricks are kinda cool. I wouldn't mind a full video on them, with a ton of jokes about that being inserted throughout of course

[@groundbird7477]

Impossible

[@haniyasu8236]

petition for a full video on bricks

[@kingslushie1018]

I wanna honest watch this

[@theexam7394]

"There isn't a lot of existing archaeological evidence..." I already started smirking at this point.

[@PongoXBongo]

Perhaps part of the lack (not the near-absence as the conspiracy theory posits) is the switch from brick and stone to wood and straw? The latter being organic and biodegradable while the former is not. If the modern world were to grind to a halt, the shiny skyscrapers would remain, but most of suburbia would turn to dust.

[@PongoXBongo]

@@diatomdiatom/videos Depends on how far out we're looking. I'd wager they'd last considerably longer than you typical stick-built tract homes.

[@benjaminhardesty2106]

@@diatomdiatom Romans didn't use iron rebar as reinforcements though..... Hence why many of their structures still stand...

[@paolopappalardo9976]

I live next to a castle...so...non existing archeological evidence 🤔

[@georgecatton]

@@paolopappalardo9976 love how the person who did this conspiracy clearly lives in the America and not Europe were there is evidence littered everywhere and also that they say the fact that there is roman buildings everywhere makes no sense despite using a roman emperor and guy claiming to be a roman emperor in his theory

[@hannahgandon]

The world didn’t start until planes existed

[@Rashed-bx4xi]

Hannah Gandon ships?

[@squeaky9715]

In a way, yeah. Modern time started when commercial air travel was readily available.

[@guttmana9767]

Hannah Gandon that was 1903

[@thenameisgsarci]

And color did not also exist until the invention of the TV. ...there you go, I said something stupid to satisfy my younger self. XD

[@guttmana9767]

thenameisgsarci lol. To me the world did not exist until 27 BC when the Romans were founded

[@regineb.4756]

I once read Mr. Illigs books and the starting point of this theory is, that he erred when he tried to prove, that the Gregorian calendar omitted 325 years because of a calculation error. The base of his theory is an alleged calculation error by switching from the Julian to Gregorian calendar. And then he tried to explain the missing 300+ years and came up with those other theories. He argued that the so called dark ages (with an alleged complete lack of written documents) were dark, because they just didn’t happen, which explained the lack of cultural development and documents in Europe. As far as I can remember, he did not bother to look into e.g. Arabian history writings to compare historical events.

[@hedgehog3180]

The thing about the Dark Ages is that they don't have a complete lack of writing, just a noticeable decrease compared to the period before, and a lot of stuff did certainly happen during them but it shouldn't surprise anyone that the collapse of the Western Roman Empire left Western Europe in turmoil for a long period of time. Also the Dark Ages only really happened in Western Europe, in the surviving Eastern Roman Empire we still have tons of writing during this period and they regularly reported on their interactions with Western Europeans.

[@Anonymous-df8it]

@@hedgehog3180 Shouldn't that mean a lot of writing, to report the turmoil?

[@snuffysam]

@@Anonymous-df8itWho’s gonna regularly report on the turmoil when the only literate people still around are monks holed up in a tower re-transcribing the bible again lol That’s a massive oversimplification of how the dark ages were “dark” but. It’s not like they could just take pictures of everything with their phones lol

[@markofsaltburn]

My three favourite conspiracy theories: 1. There are four Elton Johns; 2. Paraguay is in Africa; 3. potatoes have never existed.

[@MrMinecraftmasters12]

i read this while eating a potato lol

[@SwanintheSwamp]

Gay

[@TheTaquitoProject]

UGkMultiplayer go away, Big Potato shill.

[@lonerscandream2019]

@@MrMinecraftmasters12 lies and deceit

[@myriampro4973]

Well, I've been in Paraguay, but I was a child, so I don't remember the cross of the ocean.

[@Blue-Maned_Hawk]

Of course they never happened, time only started on January 1st, 1970.

[@timschulz9563]

You're right!

[@ericcao4829]

The world will also end at exactly 3:14:07 AM on January 19, 2038.

[@agustinvenegas5238]

what? i'm missing the reference

[@Blue-Maned_Hawk]

@@agustinvenegas5238, I'm referencing the Unix Epoch. Unix, and many OSes after it, stored the current time as a 32-bit value detailing how many seconds had passed since 1970.

[@MariaNicolae]

There better be a big observance event when Unix time reaches 2^31.

[@mariafyodorovna8362]

My 7th grade history teacher actually thought that this theory way "quite plausible". Even then I went like "what about the rest of the world? Did they make up their history too?".

[@magicmulder]

Conspiracy theorist: Yes. Next question.

[@kingrojin7692]

You saying that is quite plausible

[@podcastfnw5262]

The rest of the world in 1300 ??? They where hunting and making fires 🙄🙄🙄🙄... Until the jesuits came with the education Sistem... they also wrote the books which they teach from 😔😔😔

[@tescomealdeals4613]

Podcast fn&w the irony in you saying “education sistem” is palpable.

[@podcastfnw5262]

@@tescomealdeals4613 i'm spanish English is not my native language ...is it educational ? ..well btw thats not the point.

[@AnarchyPenguin]

I always enjoy how conspiracy theories manage to get the entire world’s leaders to agree and work together in perfect sync in the hopes that they can keep their citizens from knowing something

[@ElinWinblad]

Keep them from knowing about the reoccurring natural disaster which wipes out most of humanity every so often.

[@pretzelbomb6105]

“Can we reduce trade barriers and work to mitigate predatory economic practices to shore up our respective economies without creating dangerous dependencies? “Are you mad? This is incredibly unreasonable!” “Mhm, fair. Can we fabricate hundreds of historical texts, commission dozens of fake paintings, murder a town of 5000, and reroute a river to convince our peoples that horses were extinct until the Mongols invaded?” “Of course! That should benefit us both nicely.”

[@hedgehog3180]

Also that's never how any state has ever gone about convincing it's citizens of anything, if a state really wants to convince it's citizens of something it'll use propaganda and just prevent information from the rest of the world from reaching them like in North Korea. But these conspiracy theorists are usually the most gullible ones when it comes to propaganda because they have no critical thinking skills. And also like states only care about propaganda that has a clear benefit to them, like Russian media spreading propaganda about Ukraine being fascist because it justifies their brutal invasion or when the US government spread the lie about WMDs in Iraq. The things that conspiracy theorists propose that every single state is lying about though never have any clear material benefit for those states.

[@longiusaescius2537]

Not hard

[@mjwillin]

@@pretzelbomb6105could you implore me about some of those conspiracy theories I would like to research them

[@sebastianschumann4744]

Its amazing how much the term "conspiracy theory" engulfs: form the belief that lobbyists had some play in big political things, to the belief that a literal time period was propaganda.

[@DonVigaDeFierro]

It's all to dismiss legit topics that require scrutiny. Just shove them with the flat earthers.

[@FloridaManVal]

It's a definitive term. Like crime.

[@sebastianschumann4744]

@@FloridaManVal i know that, they are theories of what is real which go against what the governemnt of the country you are in at the moment says is true, but still.

[@tablescissors]

But nothing is propoganda now, thank you big brother

[@charlesalberti563]

That's literally the entire point in the term being coined. To conflate the plausible with the batshit crazy. It makes it easier to just dismiss it all away when the water is muddied. Anytime the media/ govt/ powers that be start using it, you should pay attention to what's going on

[@ojutay8375]

Heribert Illig: the Middle Ages didn't happen The Mayans, Chinese and Arab: are we jokes to you

[@Degioannie]

Sadly a lot of history, even history written today, is still very Western-centric, and often ignores or doesn't event investigate the histories of non-western societies when constructing theories

[@mr.silbergleit5724]

And jews

[@Kriae]

@@Degioannie Americans don't even learn about countries other than themselves and maybe the british empire

[@colemorrow5042]

@@Kriae are you stupid? We have to learn at least world history in school

[@mobilewintercamp7515]

KakEvangel that would hurt the narrative that only Europeans stole land and made war. Can’t have that.

[@generalgrievous5615]

Another conspiracy: Chancellor Palpatine is the Sith Lord. Crazy right

[@whorfianism4981]

Sith Senator*

[@dennisbrown2106]

Another conspiracy: rey is palpatines granddaughter Hard to believe right?

[@cajudd8403]

Dennis Brown No. That’s insane. There’s no way something that dumb and desperate would actually get into a Star Wars movie. Right? Right?

[@atharvashah384]

Yeah man crazy

[@gnashattack1]

If what you tell me is true, then you have gained my trust.

[@andrewtuttle9682]

Rule 69: If it exists, there's a conspiracy theory about it.

[@Alizudo]

Rule 69 is actually a real Rule of the Internet, and it's "LOL 69 AMIRITE?". Note: Rule 70 is "If your question ends in "AMIRITE?", the answer will never be Yes".

[@ivanborsuk1110]

If it exists, there's a conspiracy theory that it doesn't exist

[@octopusgoodness1909]

The death star is actually flat. (All of the pictures of it being round are hyper advanced 1970's CGI)

[@dayaautum6983]

The Death Star is actually very small and Luke , Princess Leia, Han, Obiwan and Chewy were never on it, they were in somebody's basement, the whole thing was staged! Crazy I know, but how else do you explain them just sneaking up on Alderan to blow it up without anyone seeing them? (Edited be cause I had to add the word Death to Death Star because I goofed that badly)

[@bride4jesus0126]

Omg! I love this one! 🤣🤣🤣

[@abvmoose87]

Thats such a great way of calling attention to the last real color photos taken of Earth are from the 70’s. Love it, keep it up :)

[@FootLettuce]

Plot twist: Everything you know didn't exist until last Thursday.

[@BearHawkful]

Foot Lettuce Vsauce!!

[@jeremiahriffell7941]

A fellow believer in last Thursdayism.

[@LEFT4BASS]

I love last Thursdayism because you can’t disprove it.

[@wittykittywoes]

But what if today is Thursday, overrated piazza sauce.

[@leg10n68]

But what if... Last Wednesdayism is better 🤔

[@Nurselady]

He just threw in that “the world probably only has a few decades left” all casually 😂😂

[@alucardnolifeking789]

which is plausible.

[@AyakaruJuuhachi]

He's just being optimistic. Using decades as a plural, i mean

[@fidget0227]

Matthias Woah, you one of those people who think we have anywhere near a decade left?

[@AyakaruJuuhachi]

@@fidget0227 now now, i wouldn't speak of "time left", that's some unfounded optimism right there

[@AyakaruJuuhachi]

@Who Asked if we're wrong about the world ending yesterday, then it would imply that we would in fact live another day to complain about it

[@mememe1468]

When I was younger I thought this was interesting and a little possible. Looking back I was just really interested in alternative history ideas. As I've learned history I've learned just how utterly stupid this theory is. I can't imagine a person taking it seriously while simultaneously having any interest in history

[@taiyoutamaki1872]

Well that's a bit harsh don't you think? Being interested in something doesn't mean you have to outright believe it. And for some people it's really just that an "interest." Now I get it in today's age anyone who doesn't immediately discount anything outside of the norm in the scientific world is considered an idiot. But honestly if there weren't people who looked into things like this we might never have discovered certain ideas or decided to at least discuss it. I feel really annoyed with people whom have your mindset lately because you act almost as impossible as dark age Christians. Enjoy being smarter than everyone else I'm sure you're fun at parties.

[@bighands69]

The concept is not implausible but it has flaws. Now the year we live in is probably not exact but it is probably accurate to a certain degree.

[@CEDEREL]

@@taiyoutamaki1872 i mean, if you believe something really stupid and choose to ignore very reasonable facts just because cognitive dissonance and a need to feel special makes you completely distrust any foundation of science or history, calling them dumb isn’t very harsh. you can say it’s rude, yeah, but its not wrong lmao beliefs like this comes from the realization that you weren’t there when it supposedly happened, so any evidence that supports the idea that… the middle ages existed, for example, becomes meaningless because you just simply don’t want to believe it. that sort of mentality isn’t a curious mind trying to learn for itself, it’s contrarians fighting to appear like they’re against the grain because it makes them feel cool. choosing ignorance isn’t unique, its what most people do to justify their dedication to a weirdly disconnected reality they created for themselves unless its just a neat passing interest, than yeah getting mad about that is dumb. those aren’t the people we tend to talk about when we laugh at conspiracy theorists, though

[@freaxfilm]

Exactly, thanks for this commentary. Also traveling to historical places makes you realize. I can imagine people who havents seen any historical sightsseing can believe the theory

[@1960ARC]

actually if you look at channels talking about antique technology you will find there is a lot you have ignored and does not make sense. How do people build amazing buildings when their main transport is a horse and cart?

[@jiamingzhang147]

5:43 "Invent the Tang Dynasty", shows a picture of Emperor Yang of Sui Dynasty

[@CWPTraining]

Damn ya beat me to it ummm, or not

[@shockedcurve453]

Open your eyes, Sam is in on the Phantom Time Theory

[@pretzelbomb6105]

Well duh, of course he did. How could he show a picture of something that didn’t happen?

[@ChannelName991]

Underrated

[@Hiroakiarai88]

@South Jersey Gambler û

[@DJTileTurnip]

Here's a conspiracy theory He's never going to make a video about bricks

[@theanonymouschicken169]

But he’s already made two videos about bricks

[@JouvaMoufette]

@@theanonymouschicken169 I think he's up to 4 now

[@nootics]

@@theanonymouschicken169 boi do I have some news to tell you

[@anthonynonstop7533]

Swap the b to d

[@ninjanerd98]

@@anthonynonstop7533 dricks?

[@jacobhelbig6967]

here's someone who really likes his stock footage subscription

[@AzsimuthOldAccount]

I once seen a stock photo company took someone's image an turned it into a stock photo without consent.

[@ronwesilen4536]

@jocaguz18 you exist...

[@flavoursofsound]

*Economics Explained has entered the chat*

[@HermesTV2]

​@TheCTSimp he claimed sponsorship from storyblocks

[@bloodnthuner]

My grammar school science teacher told us that beach sand was made by dinosaurs crushing the boulders they walked on and that the moon was a planet and not a natural satelite of earth. She is revered for her groundbreaking work in field of pseudoscience.

[@justeremiahsjourney]

The moon is now technically considered a protoplanet.

[@petermello55]

Gotta love the south, stupid and proud.

[@YaBoiDREX]

Did she think dinosaurs were Godzilla sized

[@justanotheryoutubechannel]

How the f#£& did she become a science teacher

[@tejas4567]

@@justanotheryoutubechannel she should have been a pseudoscience teacher

[@abadgamer11]

I'm still waiting on that 10 hour documentary on bricks

[@charliewootton8748]

You are on youtube my friend. Only that quality of content is available on nebula, through the $20/year curiositystream subscription...

[@ronwesilen4536]

@@charliewootton8748 marvelous comment

[@Perririri]

Normie

[@trailfork7815]

"the world has a few decades left" 2020: hold my beer

[@Hypogean7]

2038

[@georgewilson7432]

It somethingvthat has being said since the Plato times. Every day is Doomsday.

[@gderu6109]

@@georgewilson7432 it definitley hasn't been said since then, at least not with any sort of proof. Today we have proof that global warming is rising, and fast, and if we don't do anything, Earth will be too warm for us. There was no threat of the like back then.

[@TheNaruciak11]

@@gderu6109 ok zoomer, we all know global warming is a thing. Tho, go and be catastrophical somewhere else, really. No one really likes to be anxious about that, so please - just dont. There are better ways of reminding people about that, than being all catastrophical. Thanks, bye.

[@georgewilson7432]

Remember when the Ice Age came in the 80s? Remember when the United States ran out of food and starved millions? Remember when Europe bacmae overcrowded and started euthanizing at random? Sorry buddy, I read so many, so many apocalyptic prophecies with a coat of science that I lost all enthusiasm for the Apocalypse. Keep believing, though.

[@Mr.Flame2000]

The guy:How you have roman architecture without a roman empire? Roman Empire still existing until 1453: Am i a joke to you?

[@adamvialpando106]

The Roman Empire in 1453 was like Napoleon III. Kind of similar and they did stuff, but not as cool as their precursors.

[@arandomseal4793]

Adam Vialpando pls tell me your joking

[@unhomesenzill4366]

@@arandomseal4793 He isn't wrong.

[@Tjalve70]

The Byzantine Empire was about as Roman as the Holy Roman Empire.

[@bandit9667]

@@Tjalve70 But it was literally known as the Eastern Roman Empire, the name Byzantine came after it's fall

[@emachiavelli_]

You said, “two kings and a pope,” and I IMMEDIATELY started believing it

[@fredkeele6578]

Walked into a bar...

[@sebastianelytron8450]

Why are the Middle Ages also referred to as the 'Dark' Ages? because there were so many *knights*

[@rares_ic]

Shut up

[@maximuslee5670]

Brilliant!

[@thicctac4108]

Get out.

[@johanandhira5429]

May I escort you out of this comment section, my good sir?

[@Wasserkaktus]

Fun fact: Chivalry only really became a thing later in the Middle Ages, near the end of the Dark Ages into the High and Late Middle Ages.

[@NewGoldie]

I realized conspiracy theories had gone off the rails when a long time friend of mine rambled for 10 minutes about the moon not being in space but in fact just a few miles away from us. He also mentioned how gravity wasnt real. When I asked how come the moon hasnt fallen out of the sky he told me I was fucking stupid.

[@magicmulder]

If gravity isn’t real, what does he think makes things fall down?

[@cyrilmarasigan7108]

Lmao, we would probably didn't exist in this time and also we wouldn't probably see moon

[@sillyking1991]

@@magicmulder most people that dont believe in gravity explain things falling as due to buoyancy. Which...is technically true. If you wsre less dense than air you would float upward. But only because of gravity

[@sillyking1991]

@@qwertyuiopjk229 did you even bother reading my comment becore deciding to try to correct me?

[@sillyking1991]

@@qwertyuiopjk229 i see...then what was your point?

[@SilverDemon456]

Imagine having your theory debunked because you forgot that places other than Europe existed. That is just hilariously egotistical. Great job.

[@donaldduck830]

Nope. Or are you egotistical enough to believe that the Chinese (or even just the Muslims) used the Christian calendar? Are you that insane?

[@talltroll7092]

@@donaldduck830 You know that calendars don't control time, but are merely ways of marking its' passage, right? It's possible to relate one calendar to another by finding events known to multiple civilisations, and matching them. Turns out there is no "missing time" anywhere, because we can match the calendars pretty well (it's never perfect, and sometimes there is slippage, but mostly a few days, sometimes months, but never anywhere near 347 years...)

[@donaldduck830]

@@talltroll7092 That i what I wrote in another post: One needs a fixpoint (like the stone of Rosetta). But the videomakers use of a solar eclipse is flawed cause eclipses occur and reoccur in a cycle. Only with exact dates between cycles and good observations of the kind of the eclipse (total-partial/sector of sky it is in/time when it begins and length) it is possible to pinpoint eclipses accurately. And the only observations good enough that we have written proof of are Babylonian. Even the Egyptian ones are not good enough and there are discussions on how to reconcile the Babylonian and Egyptian timelines. That is why several hundred years is actually a sensible amount for missing time: Time between similar eclipses. And the Muslim timeline and the veracity of reports on Harun ar-Rashid are also questionable. Rome had a decent calendar (ab urbe condita) and that is it. There is no Russian or North African calendar in that timeframe. The dark ages were called dark ages because historians knew very little about them. And faking historical timelines ("my ancestors owned this land for many many generations") is self-serving and common. Only with a good fix of the timeline from before and after the questionable time would we be able to put this discussion to rest. But there is no civilization with a calendar AND contact. So the op is hilariously wrong. And if you are a decent person you are willing to at least think about this. And acknowledge my points(which I copied from smarter people than me). Or you may live up to your name and keep on trolling. ;)

[@bighands69]

Imagine other places did not use the same calendar at all.

[@studioplopmemes2985]

@@donaldduck830 ok if you really don't want to believe the accuracy of Solar Eclipse dates because they Come in cycles than how about this pliny the younger (the nephew of pliny the Elder) recorded the eruption of the Vesuvius and the destruction of Pompeii ( this happened once in doesn't go in cycles) in the letter it said 24 August 79 but most were skeptical about this day since the original letter was gone and An eruption couldnt have happened in the summer eventually they found a text in charcoal with the date 17 october 79. This is the reason that they now think it happened 24 october because there is a calendar system in Rome with August as the 8 month but also one with october as the 8 month

[@stephen89jones]

I died laughing at the intro! 😂🤣😂🤣 "We don't want to spread conspiracy theories, but we do want more views to further our quest for money..." Thanks for being honest!

[@ThisJustin_87]

Arguably one of the most honest sentiments I've heard in all of KZbin.

[@postandghost9391]

They got my money with that line

[@samuelmelcher]

The entire time I was just wondering, “Did anyone think to ask all the people who didn’t live in Europe? This guy knows that non-Europeans had history going on too, right?”

[@bjh3612]

Lies, the only continent to exist is north America, Europe sunk into the ocean after ww2, the middle East is just an island in the sea, Asia doesn't exist, and Africa was banished to the shadow realm.

[@jamesknight2198]

@@bjh3612 you forgot to list Australia and Finland (both fakes apparently)

[@danielharvison7510]

@@jamesknight2198 Man, that's a relief. That means all the flooding we've had over the past week didn't happen! JOY!

[@duetopersonalreasonsaaaaaa]

@@bjh3612 Africa being banished to the shadow realm alongside Jimbo was the saddest battle in all of history :( rip in pieces Africa-Jimbo army

[@CatholicWeeb]

HAI: *_Doesn't Make A Brick Video_* Me: no brick, sad.

[@xxsknnylgndx1357]

We can only have a little bit of brick content, as a treat

[@conesinker_4209]

@@Ryan-wr8fx didn't ask

[@Tw0Dots]

Conesinker _420 Plot twist: you did

[@Perririri]

Normie

[@TheGeekyChef1190]

Wow. I had no idea how much control big calendar really had over people.

[@harshdharpawar3183]

HAI: I don't want to make any conspiracy...i want to gain money SAM: So lets start....Skillshare Me: Yeah I was waiting for the same

[@Am_Roblox]

The middle ages don't exist as much as a good video about bricks.

[@thelegend8570]

@The Devil Well, bricks are pretty cool don't you think? I like bricks, they're very interesting! Don't you like bricks?

[@axellepatriadi5162]

@The Devil i remember HAI made a reference to bricks in a video at some point

[@thelegend8570]

@The Devil Well, he talks about interesting things. Bricks are interesting.

[@EGRJ]

​@The Devil He started a video talking about bricks to bore away the FBI. People in the comments said they actually wanted to learn about bricks. kzbin.info/www/bejne/poixeHSLq7ishcU

[@Volodimar]

Pretty interesting video about bricks and brick walls: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pmbUh6t3pLCqmKc

[@dietwater15]

I actually did my conspiracy theory project on this one. It's really interesting that he didn't provide evidence for the early middle ages not existing for other continents other than Europe.

[@theogarcez1999]

Mayan calendars.

[@magicmulder]

Well, if those years never existed in Europe, how could they have existed elsewhere if time flows the same everywhere on Earth? Checkmate! ;-)

[@brentlarsen4414]

agreed. I dont even believe this conspiracy theory, but their rebuttal of it was weak. You dont need to erase the ting dynasty simply because we happen to currently place it in that time period, unless the Chinese were using CE dating in their history at that time, their history can effectively slide. I dont know enough of the subject to confirm this, but it certainly wasn't well clarified in the debunk explanation. I actually walked out of this video being more suspect of the official story than I was when I walked in. Conspiracy theories really are "better than fiction". (unless, of course, they are fiction).

[@fredndegwa68ify]

@@brentlarsen4414 Totally agreed, what i like about his rebuttle is that he agrees there is a problem. When he says the Gregorian Calender fixes the problem by deducting a leap day every 100 yrs and adds it back every 400 years. What I don't understand is the day we add every leap year. If it takes 128yrs for .24219 to become a day. Which is actually deducted in 100 yrs. Y

[@hernandemornay7559]

Well ,they used a different calendar

[@erictaylor5462]

There is something you should understand about conspiracy theorists. They don't give a damn about evidence, unless that evidence supports their theory. I saw a quite well done flat Earth video that talked about how gyroscopes on airplanes should behave if the Earth was a spinning globe. And he was exactly correct in his analysis. The only thing he did wrong was he failed to ask a pilot how gyroscopes in airplanes actually behave. I guess he just assumed that they do not behave in that way and ran with it. He was wrong of course, because gyroscopes in airplanes do, in fact, behave in exactly the way he said they should. I pointed this out in his comments section and linked a pilot training video that describes this behavior and how to compensate for it. He responded to my comment by saying that NASA builds the gyroscopes to do that. I linked him a video that would tell him how to build his own gyroscope for not too much money but I never heard back from him.

[@abvmoose87]

What does that ’compensate part’ entail? It seems to me gyroscopes can pretty much show what you want it to show depending on how you set it up. Your comment suggests that you are heavily biased against alternative explanations other than those from the establishment. This is not always a helpful stance to have if the main motivation is finding the truth. I suggest you check yourself sir.

[@jesseb5076]

No not all conspiracy theorists , you mean flat earthers do that. See I believe in some conspiracy theories but do not believe the earth is flat because I have also seen where the flat earth stuff has been debunked. What one person believes does not automatically throw every single person in the same bracket. Sometimes there are legit reasons why people question things that’s all.

[@scottbing8201]

How dare lop flat earth theory onto the general category of conspiracy theorists. Are you part of an agenda?

[@hedgehog3180]

@@abvmoose87 Then go make your own, get a plane and go for a flight and show it that it doesn't tilt as you fly along. But just like OP said you're not actually interested in finding evidence, you just want to throw suspicion at everyone else.

[@hedgehog3180]

@@jesseb5076 Being smarter than a flat earther is not exactly an achievement, it just makes you not quite the dumbest person in the world.

[@flaetsbnort]

"finally, it's calendar time" it's always calendar time literally

[@TepidTurtleWater]

"The Holy Roman emperor and Byzantine emperor...so why would two kings and--" *TRIGGERED*

[@Perririri]

SJW

[@thenickstrikebetter]

Conspiracy Theory: Conspiracy Theories dont exist.

[@theanonymouschicken169]

Nah you trippin, that’s just a crazy Conspiracy Theory

[@Rovsau]

Conspiracy Theory: Conspiracy Theories exist, and are overshadowed or added to by falsified preposterous theories that many of the same people tend to believe; thereby making the theories and their believers seem completely unbelievable.

[@jyotipandey3922]

XD

[@ndakeren8673]

gasp

[@killergoose7643]

There are actually people who sorta buy into this. They think conspiracy theorists are controlled opposition that the elites use to distract us from their schemes.

[@JeremyFinch42]

I mean, to be fair, most inventions of the middle ages were so haphazard and dangerous it's a wonder historians could find the remains.

[@bruhbruh-us6gl]

Man really forgot about the hundreds of medieval cathedrals, fortifications, and aqueducts which are still very much intact and in-service to this day.

[@dantecaputo2629]

Wait, so when the Roman Empire fell were all they’re buildings just supposed to magically collapse?

[@placesaroundus]

Well it fell didn't it

[@WildBluntHickok]

Looters stealing the building materials would be more likely. Decades after the actual valuables were looted the very stone and wood of the buildings would be stolen to use to build new stuff.

[@markcossman200]

"Their"

[@morticiagomez6558]

The Roman Empire never Fell. They simply “switched brands”, but remained as wicked and expansionist as before.

[@bomtennett]

@@placesaroundus underrated

[@mackycabangon8945]

Me, memorizing maps in the Middle Ages: years of academy training wasted!

[@_420_69]

That sucks

[@ssrbgangimaribotan6thofthe12]

atleast you can play crusader kings easier if you recognize which country is which

[@a_yan6581]

Currently not going to school and suddenly HAI gave me a Math lesson.

[@neweclipz6595]

Aryan Ferdiansyah It do be like that though

[@panzerveps]

History, not math.

[@nobodyimportant2470]

You can't escape math. It is everywhere and never sleeps. It might put you to sleep though. Years ago I played a MMO where the resource market was based on a % markup over the NPC price and ended up giving some kids a crash course in calculating the prices based on what crafters and middle men were offering. Also told them to talk to their teachers to get more in depth explanations because math is important. Also the only game where people becoming merchants was somewhat appreciated as crafters wanted bulk purchases and hunters/miners wanted to cash in for their last run to repair gear and get more ammo.

[@Perririri]

Normie PFP

[@40KBeyond]

“Isn’t a lot of existing archeological evidence” *Screams in Sutton Hoo*

[@mechasentai]

Stupidest thing I've never heard. I'm subbing immediately.

[@jeffersonsteeleflex8178]

Oh... We're allllllll devastatedddddd.

[@wadialrimal]

They tell you that the past was just people living on stone and catching diseases and dying of different varieties of reasons while in fact it was so much different.

[@philippedefague3835]

If what he wrote was taught in schools, you'd probably believe it.

[@hedgehog3180]

@@wadialrimal You've clearly never actually talked to a historian.

[@cloverberry721]

No one : SkillShare : *I’m going to sponsor this man’s whole career!*

[@Perririri]

Normie: No one:

[@Eli-ds3wh]

Plot twist: Nothing actually happened and we’re all in a simulation

[@godspeedhero3671]

We are in a simulation, but that doesn't make anything that happens here any less real.

[@BrutusAlbion]

No spoilers plz

[@lepidotos]

it so, i would rather like the people running it to give me a modified velociraptor model

[@menabrattan6019]

Yes we are. The latest version since 1947.

[@cankhovich1796]

"We're in the Matrix, it's all a game, a thought experiment." -Erin Valenti, Utah Tech CEO with no history of mental illness, found dead in backseat of own California rental car, days after going missing/calling her parents ------ 33yrs old, 2019 october

[@ikkeheltvanlig]

1:00 lol, most ikea furniture are given super ordinary boy and girl names when they're not named a fitting adjective or city name. So if you think a nordic person is named something sounding like an ikea furniture they may very well actually straight up share name with one. Eg. my chair is called Markus, which is obviously a boy's name.

[@cdsbradley]

You ever meet someone from the Middle Ages? Me neither.

[@agentpixi6435]

Queen Elizabeth ll is proof enough the middle ages happened.

[@kurtkoserak9419]

Have you ever meet a canadian Yeah, me neither

[@infoprod7731]

Somebody: Middle Age don't exist Everyone who fought the Goryeo-Tang war: *yEAH rIGHt*

[@-Techmage]

day 20 of quarantine: i don't know what i'm watching anymore

[@Devlinator61116]

Ah, the good old days when we still could remember which day of quarantine we were on.

[@moonchild8477]

@@YahyaAhmed-yt7fg wait d-did you count it

[@PBAmygdala2021]

You're still counting it in days? How quaint. I can remember back when I counted Covid in months...

[@the98themperoroftheholybri33]

As we all know, when empires fall everything they ever built immediately becomes ruins, they definitely aren't repurposed by the inhabitants still living there for hundreds of years

[@Gottaculat]

My favorite theory to debunk is the flat Earth theory, and it's so friggin' simple to debunk. All you have to do is ask a Flat Earther to explain how it is that when viewing Polaris, the stars appear to rotate counter-clockwise around it as time passes, and why the opposite is true when viewing Sigma Octantis. Both stars are confirmed to exist, yet the night sky spins in opposite directions depending on which you're viewing (spoiler, one is over the North pole, the other over the South pole). Furthermore, ask them to explain why the stars at the equator appear to rise in the East and set in the West, traveling directly overhead as the night passes. They can't, because a flat Earth isn't possible with the celestial data we have. Not to mention if you can see Polaris, you can't see Sigma Octantis, and vice versa. Then again, I've heard those nutters try to tell me Australia doesn't exist, and that "They" knock you out with gas on the plane ride, then take you to a secret place. Again, doesn't explain how in this secret place the stars rotate the opposite way across the sky, and that some of the stars can be seen in both, say, Europe and Australia, so clearly this "secret place" they pretend is Australia can't be on the under side of the flat Earth.

[@MMFan2004]

Why this comment aren't blew up yet?

[@SHDUStudios]

Not the topic of the video, but thanks, that’ll be useful.

[@adamvialpando106]

I applaud your dedication. But flat earth has way easier ways to debunk it. Like no matter which angle you go at there are holes in flat earth theory just by looking at regular physics observable to everyone. Does the government fake the laws of reality too?

[@maythesciencebewithyou]

You know, nutjobs have a shitty explanation for everything

[@CWPTraining]

WOW - just wow : you guys actually believe the Earth exists ?!?!?!? And you call Flat-Earthers " Conspiracy Theorists " - sheesh

[@rubenlarochelle1881]

Most banally: so all the people who knew what year it was are supposed to have been told to skip all that time but no one eventually casually mentioned it anywhere? lol

[@rubenlarochelle1881]

@@Isometrix116 I was talking about the people. Imagine the government right now telling people the year we are in is actually called 2320 and expecting everyone to just go along with it. The theory in this video absurdly assumes that not a single person ever talked about such event.

[@wolverineminer]

@@Isometrix116 I mean you'd think some uppity monk somewhere would have written his pen pal "I can't believe we can just add and subtract time like this and they don't even get it." Or whatever though. Lack of archeological evidence means it didn't happen according to this theory.

[@hedgehog3180]

@@wolverineminer Or just one of the many enemies all of the conspirators in theory had. Like the HRE and Eastern Roman Empire on account of being empires had a lot of enemies that they were in near constant war with like the Bulgars, Magyars, Danes, the Sassanid Persians and the various Caliphates, or like the many internal enemies at court. You'd think at least one of them would have spilled the beans to show that their arch enemies were untrustworthy and duplicitous. I mean seems like a pretty potent weapon for the pope to have wielded during the Investiture Crisis.

[@Snqwy]

Me: *Playing Crusader Kings 2* *inhale*

[@AwesomeHairo]

"It was all a lie"

[@wtfbros5110]

I can't believe King Rameses the Saoshyant didn't marry her daughter

[@johndanes2294]

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN POPE INNOCENT III WASN'T A HORSE!?"

[@johnwilletts3984]

I’m a Tour Guide in York. During 866 Danish Vikings arrived and settled in York. They actual called the city Jorvik and this was later corrupted to York. The whole character of our city is Danish including our Yorkshire dialect. Evidence from this period may be rare elsewhere but York is packed with it.

[@praveenneevarp4822]

Kids: moon landings were fake Men: middle ages were fake Legends: australia is fake Ultra legends like HAI: HAI is fake.

[@bugzyhardrada3168]

And children don't exist, they're just midgets in disguises

[@MMFan2004]

Demi gods: Every bad events from 1950 to 2018 were fake

[@sammybeaver9130]

Gods: everything is fake

[@wittykittywoes]

Me: *I AM FAKE*

[@Perririri]

Normie

[@Scarletraven87]

5:42 The achilles heel of every CTheory: Coordination unlikely.

[@magicmulder]

The very core of every conspiracy theory: You can’t avoid eventually having to claim there are millions of co-conspirators over decades to centuries.

[@rfichokeofdestiny]

Not necessarily. Unplanned opportunistic coordination happens all the time. It’s how markets work, for instance. The CEO of Ford doesn’t have anything to do with the CEO of Tropicana, the CEO of Walmart, or the owner of an orchard. But Ford trucks carry oranges to Tropicana processing plants and carry orange juice to Walmart locations. Everybody involved acts in their own best interest and coordination happens without any communication or planning involved. Occasionally, a perfect storm scenario can lead to unusual intersections of incentives that create very strange scenarios. They generally involve government meddling since government is the only enterprise that has no useful profit motive.

[@magicmulder]

@Kevin Cobb How is it a conspiracy? It's always been out in the open.

[@magicmulder]

@Kevin Cobb With your definition almost everything is a conspiracy. People commenting on KZbin are a "conspiracy to make KZbin comments" because nowhere does this group explicitly say they are here to comment. Duh.

[@hedgehog3180]

@@rfichokeofdestiny Do you not know how like business transactions work? Or do you just get all of your goods delivered to your door randomly without ever speaking to anyone?

[@eliasstenman3710]

I was gonna sign up to Skillshare. Problem is that the money to do so never existed.

[@nicks1451]

Bucket list item #47: create an absolutely absurd conspiracy theory that becomes popular.

[@msuspartan2016]

4:35 that butchered pronunciation of ‘nye see a’.......

[@peterhartz3304]

He actually pronounced it correctly

[@shootingskelly17]

Ni-cae-a is what he said...

[@scottrziegler]

naɪˈsiːə

[@badgerwatkins]

@@peterhartz3304 no he didn't: forvo.com/word/nicaea/

[@VictorCardoza]

@@badgerwatkins Ah yes, curse his distasteful American English bastardization of an English bastardization of a latinized greek word.

[@Mate.Norbert]

In highschool I made a presentation on Illig's theory in history class, and the teacher found it so good, that she gave me not one, but two 5s at once. (Our grading goes from 1 to 5, not from F to A) Also, I bought the book of course ('Das Erfundene Mittelalter'), and I use it to this very day regurarely ... as a wedge.

[@sharefactor]

You bought the book so you financed his moronic nonsense...

[@bighands69]

@@sharefactor But is it totally moronic. We pick out flaws in it show that it did not happen but to say it is moronic is just throwing insults.

[@rexluminus9867]

🇭🇺😂👍Great. Nagyszerű. Thanks.

[@marvinmuller1085]

Next video: "The Conspiracy Theory that Bricks Never Happend"

[@TinyDeskEngineer]

Or that last Monday didn't happen

[@LemonMan-nq2qc]

Or that Wendover Productions is HAI

[@marvinmuller1085]

@@LemonMan-nq2qc i think thats a little too far off

[@Sabagegah]

Ah yes, Covid-16.

[@some-online-dude]

When I looked up something about the history of Berne, Switzerland, I ran into an entire, over-300-pages book scan that pretty much said that the middle ages never happened *in the way it is written down*, but made in an extremely professional, "science-y" manner, and even discussed the "why did they even build this then if it was foreseeable if it is only useable for a few decades?" stuff and all. This actually discussed the renaissance period even, all the way to the 18th century, which was baffling. Basically, it shifted around a whole bunch of things and also removed a few centuries, and... yea. Actually, I should look if I can find this book again. In a way it was really interesting and entertaining.

[@zrx2779]

the real thing is that there were no 1xxx years. our history is 1000 years younger. we are currently live in year 1020 instead of 2020. why? because there were no 1 , like 1475 - there were J475 and J - means : from the date of born of Jesus. (some variants is "I" - italian / spanish language) and then , than "i" was replaced with 1 , and we started to believe that our history is 2000 years - but in reality we live only 1000 years of "modern life". if you think that this is some psycho-guy shit-talk : just start to explore paintings from middle-ages and you will be shocked - they ALL dated as J475, J621 or as ][539 and so on.

[@Uchihasasuk5]

Take a look at the Wikipedia page "Pseudohistory"

[@zrx2779]

@@Uchihasasuk5 wikipedia is a crap, any idiot could write there anything as he wants.

[@kark2036]

ZR X Could you explain more? Or post some links? It sounds really interesting 🤔

[@zrx2779]

@@kark2036 i can't remember the name of the video where one guy showing it, but... after that video i went to all main museums of: Rome, Athens, Munich, Vienna (last 2 cities have a huuuge collection of paintings) and there i saw with my eyes nearly on every picture from middle-ages (70% from the total) this f*cking J-word , like J629 or i - with dot on top , so it's not as "1 wich lost it's left side" and became as l. also on EVERY globe (it's very difficult to make a fake globe in comparison to fake map) on the place of location of modern Russia was written a Tartaria - the country which modern historians "don't accept" as a historic fact. what i know now, after visiting more than 30+ museums is that our history is a complete hoax & fake. you can try to make some researches by yourself

[@wildfire9280]

"Holy Roman Emperor" "Byzantine Emperor" ... "Two kings and a pope"

[@alexmarshall8187]

History Civilis helped me understand the calendar part so much by having previous knowledge about the Julian vs Gregorian calendars.

[@connormoon8363]

Pretty funny how the man that says the Middle Ages never happened is literally named heribert illig. The most Middle Ages name I’ve ever heard

[@bradpara]

It’s almost like this guy realized the seeming discrepancy in the calendar reform problem, came up with whole crazy theory without even bothering to research a much simpler explanation that they were resetting to a later point. And now refuses to admit he is wrong

[@wesleymiller8661]

Actually not called dendrological dating. It’s called dendrochronology.

[@kakyoindonut3213]

dandruff

[@flufanga]

A related phenomenon allows a tabby cat's age to be determined by counting the rings in its tail.

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

It's both.

[@duetopersonalreasonsaaaaaa]

@@kakyoindonut3213 head and shoulders

[@sirrathersplendid4825]

@@kakyoindonut3213 - Can you date dandruff? I need to know.

[@VABJMJ]

"We're going to learn a tonne about Calendars. The sexiest thing since the Abacus." Subscribed.

[@aaronleblanc9276]

A giant conspiracy perpetrated by Lego just to sell those awesome castle sets from the early 90s..

[@zendean5207]

There's ANOTHER theory that the calendar skips1300 to 1700 and that we really should be in the year 1721 instead of 2021.

[@PBAmygdala2021]

Oh no, I haven't been born yet!

[@rymacreeks2k07]

If A.D is after Christ then technically we should be in 1988

[@PBAmygdala2021]

@@rymacreeks2k07 Actually, A.D. stands for "Anno Domini" which is latin for "In the Year of our Lord". The term was coined in the 6th or 7th century (can't recall, you can look it up), long before English was a language of any significance. After years of priests using the expression in their correspondences, regular people stated using it in non-religious exchanges. Then the abbreviation came in, and stuck. Then ages later, people started using it as the official "year". It's important to remember that the "AD" year is just one of at least a dozen different timekeeoing methods (calendars) in use in the world today.

[@RandomPerson-go5sn]

So the title is “why the low Middle Ages never happened”

[@azpxtzx4289]

Conspiracy theory: The Stone Age to the ad never happened.

[@SpiffoGaming]

Conspiracy theory: earth isn't real

[@markhenley3097]

Conspiracy Theory: Nothing ever happened until yesterday. The World was created yesterday.

[@douglasparise3986]

Next they will say the smothers Brothers never existed

[@ARandomDonut]

Heribert Illig, who's name sounds like a piece of IKEA furniture I cannot stop laughing at that one lol

[@NorthernGate777]

I went to an old traditional school. The history we learned revolved around one country and left one feeling that every other country was inferior. After the years went by, I realised I was being taught racism and my parents had paid a lot of money for me to be indoctrinated. After travelling myself and seeing many countries in the world, I have to look back and cringe at what I was taught back then. The world is filled with interesting people of all types and what a pity it is when one country thinks it is the greatest.

[@Crazyapple16]

Do you live in serbia or?

[@legionaireb]

I'm glad I grew up in the era of Carmen Sandiego and Yakko's World.

[@tylerdurden1656]

the UK?

[@NorthernGate777]

@@tylerdurden1656 I did not want to mention the country because I found out later the same thing can happen in other "great" countries too ;)

[@cutecommie]

@@NorthernGate777 yeah the description fits way too many countries

[@frog9524]

Last time I was this early, round earth was a conspiracy theory.

[@riggs20]

I don’t know about the rest of the world, but in the US we can’t even get our elected representatives to agree on a budget. Much less an international time-shifting conspiracy.

[@christostsiam5535]

The fun facts are that in that period, byzantine empire went into a long-lasting civil war, wars against bulgarian empire and persian, avars literally got just outside the walls of constantinople, and for the first time there seemed a slight chance of a schism between the catholic and the orthodox church. Do they seem only to me as too much for three people to come up with?

[@pyroshrimp4073]

Not to mention bulgaria and eastern rome commit what many today would call warcrimes. Seriously, A bulgarian dude turned a byzantine emporeres skull into a cup, you can't make that crap up

[@NullFX]

Damn Bulgarians are fucking based

[@swampwitch7313]

@@pyroshrimp4073 Hey can't blame Basil for doing what he did. Sometimes you need to commit an atrocity occasionally to drive home a point

[@pyroshrimp4073]

@@swampwitch7313 both Sides commuted atrocities to bring home a point

[@hedgehog3180]

@@swampwitch7313 Basil likely didn't actually commit those atrocities, they only get mentioned in sources from long after he died and were likely part misunderstanding and part moralizing to the current generation. Basically during his reign Basil established a reputation for brutal punishments against traitors because he had to put down a bunch of them, specifically he tended to blind them, however he only ever punished the leadership, never the common soldier. This was a deliberate strategy to make him look like a just ruler who'd crack down swiftly on insubordination and it worked since the empire was pretty stable during most of his reign and following it. Secondly he lead a relentless campaign against the Bulgarian Tsardom that lasted over a decade and did definitely blind the Tsar and his sons when he captured them, however the rest of the Bulgarian nobility was given some pretty nice deals in exchange for serving the Roman Empire. Seemingly in later generations because Basil was remembered so favorably people started to use him as the model for a good emperor and so certain characteristics of his got exaggerated to fit whatever agenda people wanted to push. Specifically his harsh punishment and his reputation as a military man got combined into a story about him blinding 20.000 captured Bulgarian soldiers, because some at the court like Micheal Psellos, wanted to make a point about the ideal emperor being a practical military man with no qualms about bloodshed. The fact that he was the emperor that finally defeated the Bulgars only added to this and the myth of "Basil the Bulgar Slayer" got born. However there really is no contemporary evidence that he was this bloodthirsty and while he did tend to brutally punish traitors he also made shows of clemency to prove that he was a good Christian. So basically outside of what was normal in warfare at the time, and it was plenty brutal, Basil probably wasn't actually all that bloodthirsty. It's a myth that later grew out of his famous character traits as he went from a living memory to more like the ideal for an emperor, sorta similar to how Augustus was deified.

[@nekocatism]

Medieval ages are just a D&D setting, change my mind

[@Perririri]

Normie

[@thehasbullaofalltime]

Bro you are amazing, I've watched countless videos but never understood what a leap year is but when you explained it for like 5 seconds I understood. Idk how u do it but you make even the most complex things incredibly simple

[@barricadedpurifier]

Excavations of past Medieval battlefields: “Am I a joke to you?!”

[@whynotcaptaincrunch]

I thought this was going to be about Fomenko's New Chronology. That one's even more deranged than this one.

[@JesseSherman117]

It has to be said... its pronounced Council of "Nye-see-uh"

[@davidbonar5190]

here in europe it'S generally "nee-kay-ah" :)

[@Perririri]

Nice

[@marshalljarnagin9370]

I mean, I could be pretentious and say that the 'Byzantine' Empire continued many roman aspects into the 15th century, or well into the Renaissance. By this argument, then, the classical era existed until the Renaissance, and boom, no middle ages. Of course, this was only in Byzantium...so even that would be a stretch, but its important to remember that roman ideas didn't straight up vanish while all of Europe went stupid in the head in 476, regardless of whether you want to argue about certain time periods existing.

[@bighands69]

It may have but that does not mean the theory is totally bonkers. We are talking about a 2000 year history that may have mistakes or even actions by certain people.

[@nkl7345]

@@bighands69 still stupid af, too many independent actors and independently recorded histories. The only common thread is Christianity so you could argue the church forced rulers to fabricate it but you totally ignore Islamic recordings of interactions with the Eastern Roman Empire during that entire time period. Stupid af conspiracy theory to waste time on

[@LaCriaturaDelMar]

@@bighands69 yes, the theory is totally bonkers

[@emiliolachappa2135]

@@LaCriaturaDelMar dude Joe Biden being president is bonkers. Think before you speak.

[@hedgehog3180]

@@emiliolachappa2135 A former vice president becoming president is less believable to you than this theory?

[@RR_theproahole]

There is no such things as mediaeval ages or modern age, we are still living in classical antiquity

[@brandonchan5387]

We're still stuck in the matrix everyone, take that goddamn red pill now!

[@codymcdowell316]

@@brandonchan5387 videos?

[@trillstina]

You should do a video on the definitions of "Conspiracy" and "theory" because it seems like people believe a Conspiracy theory is some kind of politically motivated fairy tale or misinformation campaign when in reality... people conspire to commit crimes all the time

[@gorknmork9194]

That has been implanted into the people's minds for a reason. Someone accuses the government or a corporation of wrongdoing or cover ups but cannot provide sufficient (the government or corporation in question usually defining how sufficient it is) evidence? Compare them to some Alex Jones type and say something like "what's next? Was it the Lizardmen secret society? Eh, schizo?" If you do that, then congratulations! You have successfully made the person challenging your narrative look like a deranged mental patient in the people's consensus. Dissent has been silenced and you barely had to do anything, the official narrative is protected and people continually enforce your narrative by mocking those who disagree on and on and on.

[@trillstina]

@@gorknmork9194 it's unfortunate because it seems, to me, that people don't care what the truth is. They do not want to focus on things that make them feel small or wronged... and even if confronted with the truth, they choose to look the other way and forget about it.

[@tomsavage7279WalteroftheSea]

Certainly succeeded with the flu didn’t they? 1200 out of 27mllion Australians killed by covid 40019 and all that brutal repression! I agree there’s to many conspiracy theories. However one or two aren’t ‘theories’ at all- they are bloody fact!

[@MrElionor]

"Theory" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that phrase "conspiracies" (proven and well documented attempts/successes to collude for illicit purposes) happen all the time problem is when people try to get ahead of what's known/knowable and guess/"theorize" about what's true this issue is compounded by an unwillingness to recognize when a theory has been debunked to are at least proven to be unlikely

[@ariconlay8480]

shut up, this isn’t political it’s just about funny history

[@curtwalker224]

I used to think that the Middle Ages never happened when I was little.

[@unfunnnymeme8609]

5:38 Why did you censor this?

[@Xneb.]

The image is supposedly a depiction of the prophet Muhammad which is forbidden in Islam since (to my knowledge) it could promote worshipping of him instead of God

[@Vanished_Mostly]

To add to what Xneb said, people have, quite recently, literally been killed over this. At the very least, you can expect death threats.

[@Fubumaa]

Collapsed in 475 AD Konstantinos XI: Am I a joke to you