The Migration Period: How Europe was Born

[@coliv2]

The big mistake made in videos like this is the belief that there were entire populations moving around. Many times it was just a small fraction of armies that fought each other and took power. Also in the same way the true Romans were not inhabiting all over Europe, those people were just peasants conquered by the Roman empire that were forced over time to use Latin and lost their original languages. Most of the population of Europe are common people who lived in their countries for thousands of years and were conquered by armies from different civilizations.

[@rmac1828]

Quit downplaying the truth. This is pretty accurate.

[@CrispyCircuits]

I had the joy of meeting the last population in Texas to still speak Spanish as their only or primary language from the war between the US and Mexico. These people like to say that they didn't cross the border, the border crossed them. Language can quickly change or it may dwell on for hundreds of years. I may be a common man, but I find it rather insulting to be called one to my face. I think that Europeans might prefer not to be called common either.

[@SodaPrezsing]

@@rmac1828That’s want you wanna believe I guess

[@peter3664]

Thank you, I was going to write the same thing until I saw your comment. People need to understand that a lot of the great invasions of antiquity and medieval history weren't entire peoples leaving their homes for new frontiers. Someone who had a farm along the Danube wasn't just going to up sticks in the hopes of getting a field somewhere in Dalmatia, but his second son might, his daughter and son-in-law might. So while thousands of people moved, they were never enough to completely displace the local populations. Instead what likely happened was that the locals would slowly adapt to (or influence) the dominant invading culture, and a new culture would form. Take Turkey for example. Despite changing hands often throughout recorded history (Hittites, Persians, Romans, Roman-Greeks, Turks) they're genetically still mostly the same people that were there >3000 years ago, but they have culturally shifted. Each of those historical cultures leaving an influence on their modern identity.

[@bosherba]

will second that!

[@nevarmaor]

The byzantines were not called Byzantines until much later. They considered themselves the Roman Empire.

[@sperdouklikos]

yes but they were basically greeks so its unfair and confusing to just call them romans

[@nubnubdubdeh]

@@sperdouklikos Unfair and confusing no? lol they were the eastern roman empire what are you on about?

[@TruthSeeker8834]

​@@nubnubdubdehpolitically they were romans and ethnically they were greek.

[@nikim5051]

They were called Byzantium before the Roman Empire​@@nubnubdubdeh

[@thx1168]

The term is helpful in distinguishing different peoples

[@NormBoyle]

Many of these migrations were mainly just the ruling military class-men. The peasants generally remained, especially the females, and outnumbered the warrior classes which were constantly swapping leadership.

[@NovemberTheHacker]

were you dropped on your head when you were a child?

[@AlecJones-y3p]

Information here is highly incorrect. The dates are all mixed up too

[@saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014]

clearly, it gives the impression that the cimbri invaded a Roman Empire of 117 AD, under Trajan

[@amelialavilla6619]

not exactly guy most of it is highly reliable

[@johannesvalterdivizzini1523]

@@amelialavilla6619 Nope. So. much is wrong.

[@WarwickAvgur]

@@saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014, it clearly shows B.C.

[@mirkodragicevic9609]

I agree

[@Ratimir101]

It all started when portal from Hyperborea was opened by druids of the night

[@makaveli8735]

exactly

[@seaman5705]

And what is Hyperborea and who were the druids of the night ? Don't leave us in the dark !

[@edmundrandall5575]

@@seaman5705 Ask Herodotus

[@Ronin3453]

It all started when the Fire Nation attacked.

[@Userkiller3814]

This is far too oversimplified. The Goths the ancestors of the spanish? really so i guess they wiped out the entire native population of Iberia. Simplifying things is fine but this gives the wrong picture of actual history. This example works with every region and people mentioned here.

[@angelmoreno6577]

30000 goths invaded Spain. Simply

[@egutiguti3337]

3/400.000 godos en una población hispanorromana de 5 millones aprox. Y fundaron la capital de su reino en Toledo.

[@guleet75]

They where NOT even 5% of the population !

[@skurinski]

also Spain didnt exist

[@angelmoreno6577]

Según los primeros análisis genéticos realizados en España, a finales de los años 90,el ADN de los españoles no ha sufrido cambios sustanciales en los últimos 4000 años. El Y DNA masculino procede de la estepa, Indoeuropeos R1b. El ADN femenino procede de los "agricultores de Anatolia". Todos los invasores posteriores han sido guerreros masculinos: romanos, godos y moros no han tenido influencia en el ADN mitocondrial, por eso somos una tipologia antigua y estable a pesar de las invasiones

[@markkennedy5479]

Was this thing put together by ChatGPT? I think a historian would hardly recognize it.

[@miyojewoltsnasonth2159]

*@markkennedy5479* What is/are the the thing/things you most disagree with? (The Migration Period is not an area of history I know much about.) *Reply to:* _"Was this thing put together by ChatGPT? I think a historian would hardly recognize it."_

[@dwijgurram5490]

​@@miyojewoltsnasonth2159Did you create this reply using chat gpt 😂

[@edsimmons3352]

From Font of All Knowledge: barbarian, word derived from the Greek bárbaros, used among the early Greeks to describe all foreigners, including the Romans. The word is probably onomatopoeic in origin, the “bar bar” sound representing the perception by Greeks of languages other than their own. Either ChatGPT or idiot.

[@minetv4001]

@@miyojewoltsnasonth2159 the fact that he said in the video that the Spanish people come from Sweden and when he said Sweden he showed a Island in the Sea, that's why.

[@miyojewoltsnasonth2159]

@@minetv4001 0:14 The island is Gotland, right? So the Goths, i.e. the Visigoths? If so, the Visigoths just _ruled_ over the Spaniards, right? Rather than interbreeding with each other, right? Which is what you need to be an "ancestor," isn't it?

[@mistjor]

So much stuff is wrong. it's crazy how much drama is in the reply section lol, i was just pointing out how inaccurate the video is, and some even tie me to nationalism?

[@igoradamjankowski7705]

Yep Everything is oversimplified the border, the time, and the most important no a.c but b.c

[@BlizzyBlake1185]

​@@igoradamjankowski7705 saying the spaniards come from sweden was legit hilarious

[@Alejojojo6]

@@BlizzyBlake1185 No it wasnt hilarious... Its true. Ever heard the surnames Fernandez, Gonzalez, Rodrigo, Ramirez etc? Well... the ending -ez is a Goth Germanic ending meaning "Son of", and it was because the Visigoth ruled all of Iberia (Hispania) for 2 centuries, and after the Arab conquest, the Reconquista even existed as a will to "recreate" that kingdom. Also Pelagus was a Visigothic King that created the Kingdom of Asturias, the ancestor of modern Spain (And portugal in a way). Also Spain had 5 million people, and Visigoths were 200 000 that's about 5% of the population. It means that today about 10 million spaniards out of 45 million have a distant Gothic ancestor. I myself look Norwegian (Im always mistaken as such) and I am Spaniard 100%. Guess what? My family origins date to a town where Visigoths heavily settled. Even the local Hermit was built by them.

[@svetoslavgeorgiev2621]

​@BlizzyBlake1185 so, you mean that visigoths didn't migrate from Scandinavia?

[@BlizzyBlake1185]

@Alejojojo6 they would be diluted into the hispano romano population. They maybe have the name but in no meaningful way do they maintain their "swedish heritage"

[@JohnFlynn-p3i]

I thought Greeks formed word barbarian and Romans adopted it

[@John-dw5pn]

100% correct. βάρβαρος = βάρ βαρ ος (bar bar + os = masculine noun)

[@johannesvalterdivizzini1523]

In that, as in a about everything, this is incredibly amateurish.

[@JohnFlynn-p3i]

@@johannesvalterdivizzini1523 Huh?

[@mariakatopodi8131]

As a history teacher, I can not accept a lot of the information in this video.

[@bluemountainjamboree]

Correct

[@elvisbjones]

Stilico moved the capitol not from Rome to Ravenna but from Milan to Ravenna as the western court had already moved away from Rome during the establishment of the tetrarchy in 286 and then was moved to Ravenna in 395

[@History_Mapped_Out]

So indeed the Augustus of the West ruled from Mediolanum. But in 312 Constantine, after defeating one of the usurpers, briefly made Rome his capital. After that, he moved it to Constantinople.

[@elvisbjones]

@@History_Mapped_Out that may have been so, but Mediolanum had returned as the capital of the middle portion once Constantine had died, and the Empire was split amongst his three sons, and it was his son, Constans I that ruled from Milan, and then the whole of the west after Constantine II died.

[@martinkupka3575]

Nicely made but some information too rough and some other even wrong. The worst wrong information was that the Goths had not been defeated by the Byzantines, which of course had been the case. When the Lombards came to Italy, they defeated the Byzantines, not the Goths. The Lombards had not at all been "invited" but moved away from the Avars.

[@saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014]

Yeah, how he came to that conlusion, any people with good general knowledge on the high middle ages knows about that. For him the Byzantine just kept giving lands to everybody

[@kevins34]

Indeed. General Belisarius under Roman emperor Justinianus defeated the Vandals and the Goths .

[@max_danco]

Yes there are serious inaccuracies in this video, as people mention all over the comments, but that makes the topic so much more graspable than real deep history. I'd tell it in this manner to a beginner, for whom the video apparently is. It's better to create a vague idea of how Europe came to be than to not understand the process at all or giving up while trying. Great video.

[@LazTheofylaktos]

0:49 The romans called the outsiders barbarians? I don't think so. The term barbarian was WIDELY used by greeks to define anyone NOT speaking the (ancient) greek language a really long time before even the Roman Republic was formed, let alone the Roman Empire...

[@deniaridley]

This.

[@viktvlad]

Corect. Even ancient Greeks called Macedonians barbarians which means foreigners. (non Greeks)

[@srantoniomatos]

Barbarian...the one who stutter...which means, dont understand what he says...dont speak greek/latin...is a outsider..."the other"...inferior, enemy...

[@erazmo]

I've read somewhere that the root of "barbarian" is pejorative, to bark, someone who barks. The greek soldiers of the east roman empire used it to describe foreigners, whose language was unintelligible to them.

[@vanmars5718]

​@@viktvlad Macedonias were Greeks and the rumor that other Greeks called them barbarians comes explicitly from the animosity of Demosthenes of Athens and Philip of Macedon. When Macedonia was about to become the most important Greek state and put all others under them, Demosthenes rallied the populace of Athens against Philip in order not seen them as the promised Panhellenic leader which Philip was presented as. So Demosthenes called Philip a barbaria... This is a political propaganda inside the politics of Gree states. So stop don't repeat modern nonsense used for petty local Balkan propaganda. Alright pal?

[@janostoth4315]

The video is maybe not perfect, but its simply interesting to see the wanderings of the nations and the changes so animated. One thing disturbs me a little bit. At 00:17:33 the video says, the Magyars came and they called their new country "Hungary". Magyars called their country Magyarország and not Hungary. Only later, English speaking people gave Magyarország the name Hungary.

[@urbangorilla33]

I would be more bothered by the pronunciation of Mag-ee-ar. Why can't educated people learn how to say these names correctly?

[@ShamanKish]

@@urbangorilla33 Colonizers don't care about that 🤫

[@vulkanofnocturne]

then nobody cares@@ShamanKish

[@JohnDoe-fu6zt]

@@ShamanKish "Colonizer" is a loaded, even racist term which betrays bias. Why do you use it? What do you mean by it? Why do you use it here?

[@ShamanKish]

@@JohnDoe-fu6zt How about 'imperials'? You think that Greeks or Romans cared about 'barbaric' languages? They didn't. Did the 'colonial' powers bothered to learn languages of lands they conquered? No, they didn't. That manner still exist in the 'colonial' or 'imperial' West.

[@adnan_Ok]

"Magyar people called their country Hungary" Wrong! Western nations call it Hungary . The Magyar call their country ""Magyarország"

[@danielfodo]

Who gives a shit?

[@Kliscian]

@@danielfodo its like saying germans call their country Germany

[@aleksandersokal5279]

@@danielfodo People that care about historical facts? I guess you do not, but leave that people that do to their study.

[@berranari1]

​@@danielfodo the people who are watching this to learn about the history of the world. It's not a music video, it's a history video. "who gives a shit?" 😂 Like he's still in school and is making fun of the teacher. But we can find better sources for information. Who gives a shit? Lmao Who gives a shit about most of the shit that people are currently conserned with? History isn't going to be. 😁 But Hungary is a country that has different names in different places and that is stupid and it's interesting. Who gives a shit? 😂 People who work in tourism, international relations or just people who don't want to be ignorant. 😅

[@el_chico1313]

rome basically became a patchwork of different barbariab kingdoms who in time became institutionalized hence "creating" europe on the frameworks of the romans

[@marcelrenes2435]

As a Dutch historian I'm amazed how wrong this video is. I must congratulate the person who got so many mistakes in such a short video. 😢

[@miguelblanco3484]

My Swedish ancestors agree with you.

[@hakanliljeberg790]

@@miguelblanco3484 Eils! Arme Froia! The singers, Fredrik Kempe and Dotter are mainly from Värmland. it belongs to the wast area the vandals came from 2000 years ago. The first known name VendilaR has something to do with Vänern lake´s oldest name *Vendiz "the Turner", tide-and-floodlake"... To the character of west Sweden and south Norway belongs a funny and crazy humour...kzbin.info/www/bejne/p2HIqHtqi7CFf5osi=eKPtUaGMnw92n2-s

[@fejiobbdo]

some examples?

[@marcelrenes2435]

@@fejiobbdo Well, to start with England. They were'nt taken over by the Danes, but by the Juts, Angeles, both from Denmark , but also the Saxons from northern Germany, Frisians from Holland and the Norse from Norway. The real Britons now live in Wales, Ireland, Scotland, Cornwall and Brittany, current day France. This is only in the first seconds of the clip.

[@ZhanetaPetroska]

😂😢

[@ScottySundown]

It’s crazy that we, in our little slice of time, also believe our great civilizations will last for a thousand years. So many things change and will change

[@generalstoaschicken]

I love it when he said the angles and juts "swam" across to Britain. Badass

[@bsaneil]

The ancestors of the Spanish did not come from Sweden. People who contributed a tiny bit to the ancestry of the Spanish came from Sweden. There is a vast difference.

[@russelneilv1361]

It was a Celtic territory at one time and occupied by Islamic people for over 700 years after being invaded....

[@graiant]

​@@russelneilv1361 Islamic is not a race . those who invaded spain were mostly germanic vandal and caucasoid ancient north Africans. Like the blonde mummies of canary islands and they were invited by the Arian Christians ostrogoths.

[@RS-ln3ns]

THE NORTH OF SPAIN WASN'T OCCUPIED BY THE ISLAMIC PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY, THE BASQUE REGION.

[@RS-ln3ns]

THE SPANISH DIDN'T COME FROM SWEDEN AND WAS NOT OCCUPIED BY THE VIKINGS, EITHER.

[@RS-ln3ns]

NORTHERN SPAIN ARE MAINLY, CELTIC AND NOT VIKING.

[@Yora21]

And this doesn't even go into the probably even crazier chaos that was going on in central-eastern Europe.

[@WalintHUN]

nobody talks about the middle of the Carpathian basin (i wonder why) the west end of the steppe area the most fertile black ground and the Roman Empire never could get the hand on it, still its like a hole on the map... for the West, Roman Empire is important but what the hell was going on where was the best to live (not in forests, mountains and sea shores like Roman Empire and western Europe) in the fields with grain and horses, oxes and cows, noone really want to touch that, the steppe is too chaotic for them.... but all European ppl came from there except Basques and few who survived 40000 years ago super vulcano eruption in todays Italy when neanderthals disappeared

[@paprskomet]

This is not how the Roman empire fell and its funny how suddenly a mysterios large state called "Byzantine" empire appears in your video without any explanation and how it suddenly changed not just name but also its original color...

[@Basil-HD]

bias of course displaying the narrative that only the western roman empire was the roman empire

[@josejunior6199]

The Byzantine Empire was the continuation of the Roman Empire in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages

[@akritas365]

​@@josejunior6199Continuation of the Roman Empire under Hellenic identity completely disconnected from the western Roman Empire.

[@paprskomet]

@@akritas365fistly they didn't continued under "hellenic identity" but under Roman-and very firmly so,often emphasising that to westerners who tryed to doubt that and secondly under "completely disconnected from the W.Roman empire you mean what?Both were halves of the same Roman empire(Romans never officially devided their state into two as modernly often simplified),at the time Roman west fell both were very much the same in everything as for army,gouverment,culture and so on.One half had Latin as dominant languge while other always had Greek as dominant Lingua Franca and greek was recognised as 2nd imperial language already since early 1st century.

[@nubnubdubdeh]

@@akritas365 They were still romans

[@thekurdishtapes8317]

The Saxons did not come from Normandy to England

[@mikloscsuvar6097]

It was shown northern from there.

[@wblansh1104]

We are not Normans??

[@Vincentovich89]

"Along the way, they robbed the Gauls, who fled to Roman protection." 😂😂

[@KoenDeKapoen]

There may be inaccuracies in this video, but it shows the chaos of the time very well. Imagine living in this dystopian world.

[@athenianheretic3395]

The term "barbarian" was not coined by the Romans but from the Greeks who thought of anyone who did not speak Greek as a barbarian cause their language sounded to them as "bar bar bar"

[@Bamboo-fk5dm]

And then the term Barbarian was adopted by Romans to refer to non-Roman and non-Greek people. Anyway, many Greeks were already given Roman citizenship even before Augustus.

[@FrankinDallas]

How did they all get around without cars, trucks and autobahns? Horses or on foot? Amazing!

[@cathjj840]

@@angelito2144 Human beings were already established in Every corner of the Earth except Antarctica tens of thousands of years before horses or carts. On foot or by boat. By the stars and sun, by keen observation, reasoning and memory the same as any modern human. (Latest findings for the Americas: 26,000 yrs ago at least; everywhere else was orders of magnitude earlier than that).

[@MerkhVision]

They used these amazing things called LEGS! Lmao

[@LaurenMartins]

This video is accurate! I'm Brazilian from Minas Gerais and my DNA showed a mutation of the CCR5 gene that is only common among Swedes (Suebi tribe). My Brazilian boyfriend also have the same mutation, we are descendent of the Suebi who make the modern Portuguese people you see today.

[@fredact]

While there are some inaccuracies, its a good reminder that the idea that some particular people or another "stole" land from another, is nothing but splitting hairs over some particular era in history. Taking land has been the norm of history.

[@nambr9]

Very nice video. Love the graphics, narration, pace ... keep it up!

[@Coucher99]

PLEASE REDO THE VIDEO WITH ACCURATE INFO, THE FORMAT IS SO GOOD AND EASY TO UNDERSTAND ❤

[@59vlada]

If one rally wants to answer the question "how Europe was born" needs to start with Lepenski Vir and Vinca/Starcevo cultures, 7000-8000y old, mostly on the territory of today's Serbia.

[@legamaxx2752]

Lmfao lets leave mythology aside for now

[@garvan]

I echo what other comments have said, but I like the design, model and flow. Just change the music!

[@fynryn]

Absolutely a perfect introduction to this important but mostly unknown period possibly due to its complexity. Great intro

[@SeventhSaucer]

No. Not perfect.

[@fynryn]

@@SeventhSaucer perfect introduction. that's the context

[@DavidCoimbra492]

Spain didn't exist when the Visigoths went to the Iberian Peninsula, it was a region of The Roman empire called Hispania. Only many centuries later in 1490 with the unification of most catholic kingdoms in the Iberian Peninsula is when Spain started, using a name inspired by what the Romans called their province Hispania. With this being said, there's a common misconception I want to clear up. Spain (a kingdom founded in around 1490) is not the same as Hispania (Province of the Roman Empire) in between both many different kingdoms and civilizations existed.

[@jeanlundi2141]

Hear, hear. Oldest continuous nation state (Portugal; besides San Marino) always being conflated with Spain by 'muricans.

[@sgonzo5572]

Hispania and Spain is the same reference. The spelling changed from (His)pana to (Es)pana. Thats why dominican republic is called Hispanola, But you will also see it spelled as Espanola. In old spanish they sometimes spelled things differently and even the script was different. Some of the words were said also more like portuguese. The Austurians were the continuation of Roman Catholic Traditions from Romanized Celts and Goths

[@DavidCoimbra492]

@@sgonzo5572 it's not the same thing. Hispania was a province of the Roman Empire in the Iberian Peninsula. Spain is the country that took inspiration from the name Hispania (the Roman Province) when most kingdoms unified in the Iberian Peninsula, with the exception of Portugal, in 1490.

[@micupedro]

With Suintila the whole Iberian Peninsula was unified in a Kingdom or State with its capital in Toledo. This Kingdom or State is called Spania, and that is how Saint Martin of Tours calls the kings of Toledo in his letters: Kings of Spania, which in Castilian and Portuguese sounds almost the same as the modern name of Spain ( España), since it derives from it, by changing the "ni" for the "ñ" when this letter was created in Castilian later on. Another thing is that no Portuguese is interested in admitting that what much later was called Portugal, which did not exist then, was part of an independent Kingdom or State called Spania. And the same thing happens with the separatists of other parts of Spania, or now Spain ( España-Spania- Hispania ), who try to erase this part of History by any means.

[@jeanlundi2141]

@@micupedro You are high as a kite. Portugal AT MOST was part of Leon. But you spanish nationalists (not satisfied with having your own boarders apaprently; want to grow larger) keep hiding behind this word "Hispania" as if it ever meant anything else than what the romans called the peninsula. Obviously if the arabs came next, they are going to use the name to a certain extent. Just like Iberia was used in many instances elsewhere.

[@nicolamanenti8323]

Saying that the Visigoths are the ancestors of the Spanish is a bit reductive

[@markshaw5159]

Hey, a bit reductive? No, just wrong, wrong. The Visigoths were just one of MANY groups of peoples that entered the Iberian peninsula.

[@padredemishijos12]

The Visigoths were Romanized barbarians. They were the founders of Castile and their capitol was Toledo. They completely Latinized during the Arab conquest of Iberia. Moreover, Visigoths were quick to convert to Islam as they were followers of Arianism. Al-Andalusi, was the name Arabs gave to Spain, and Andalusia mean Land of the Vandals. It was the Asturians who were never conquered by the Arabs/Berbers, and they were Celts. It was they who led the longest war in history, the Reconquest of Spain, 800 years. You can also add the 300 years of the Conquest of the Americas.

[@mihair2854]

​@@padredemishijos12 "Romanized barbarians" is like saying Anglicized Haitians. Different religion (Arians), different dialect, different laws, different way of life. The estimate is likely 2-10% of the total population of Iberia were actually Germanic Visigoths, which is significantly lower than Franks in Gaul, 20-50%, or Anglo-Saxons in England, where the upper estimates are 80% before the Norman invasion.

[@angelmoreno6577]

​@@mihair2854R1b (celts?) is dominant in Spain in similar porcentages to England, around the 70%. Rest is German or viking in GB and semitic in Spain, J1, J2 and E1b

[@aleksandersokal5279]

@@mihair2854 I think the Haitians (that were originally slaves taken from Africa) were Francized not Anglicized. So yes, modern day Haitians are Francized Africans that were settled in the modern day Haiti during the colonial era.

[@MagicZell]

This is why history must been treated by specialist and not by a random guy.

[@TheFutureMike]

The Cimbri invaded with the Teutones 6 decades before Caeser annexed Gaul but you have it Gaul showing Roman Red on your incorrect map.

[@History_Mapped_Out]

Yep, a cartographic mistake from our side as the video starts with the events of 109 BC whereas the map is showing the Roman Empire at its peak (116 AD). Thank you for spotting it!

[@attilatasciko4817]

History Mapped < Nobody checked for accuracy before publishing ‽

[@Potent_Techmology]

this is very pro-German centric "the Huns then brutally executed the King of the Goths" but the Goths didn't brutally execute Sarmatians? Just with hugs and kisses and in the name of love and equality, right?@@History_Mapped_Out

[@JordanClymer-fh3pf]

@@attilatasciko4817 welcome to soulless money grabbers humping AI taking over the internet. If you want to learn things, get books that are 100+ years old.

[@nofurtherwest3474]

I want to know, how exactly did the countries form? I mean, exactly. There had to be an agreement at some point. What was that like. Did the heads of each state sit down for a lunch meeting and hash out the details? Did they drink wine and sleep with women during this negotiation? Or did the less powerful one just beg for some land to rule over?

[@ЗоранХулк]

Where are Tracians,Dacians Avars and many more?

[@carlomaionico5440]

The Thracians and Dacians had already been Latinized and Hellenized in the eastern part of the Roman Empire at that time. Following the invasions, it is highly likely that those who were Latinized in the northern part of the empire (Jireček Line) sought refuge in the Carpathian and Balkan highlands due to their pastoral knowledge, later being referred to as Vlachs. Regarding other populations, you are right, it's a bit general, but I imagine going into too much detail would have made the video very long.

[@angelito2144]

It is a shame that by summarizing so many important groups of people are left out. I have missed the Celts. I know they were already established throughout Western Europe before the Roman Empire, but I would have liked to know more about them in this context.

[@АнтонПавлов-ц4з]

​@@carlomaionico5440😅

[@attilakovacs1415]

nowhere🤣🤣🤣

[@pontuseuxinus1958]

Not mentioned the Dacians when even emperor Trajan made a triumphal column to commemorate victory of romans with dacians.that’s a shame…

[@thor.halsli]

Thank god youtube added misinformation reporting. Almost 15 years on youtube and i've only used it twice

[@pierevojzola9737]

Hi, so the 7 Magyar clans who migrated along with turkic kavars into the lands of the Moravians started to call themselves Hungarians? I don’t think that the Magyars would use the English word Hungarian rather than their own name for themselves. History written in English always gets the names wrong every time, languages are just too hard for islanders!

[@thecaski8239]

We just have different names for the countries in english of their own etymologies. Germany - Deutschland We call it germany because the Romans called the german lands Germania A lot of examples is just from name butchering and pronunciation preference. The Romans called Iberia Hispania which morphed into Spain in English. Other cultures (probably all) are guilty of this aswell? The French call “England” Angleterre.

[@gagszi5850]

Yep. We call ourselves Magyarország now or Magyar Királyság (Kingdom) before. Also Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia. :)

[@hakanliljeberg790]

What influence did the gepids have? They were living in Pannonia, and then subdued by Avars and Langobards.. Avars then subdued by Magyars.. Gepids originally came from Västergötland, like Timoteij...@@gagszi5850

[@hakanliljeberg790]

One reason why Hungarians that came to Sweden had it easy to adapt in the 50ies, often looked people from Götaland... I asked my friend M.Toth, where do you come from? I meant, where in Sweden? He said, Hungary! I was totally astonished... PS There is also a finnish element in swedish population...DS

[@garyreynolds5733]

Even the English in this voiceover is pretty bad (esp. for pronunciation, grammar w incorrect verb tenses).

[@felixVanDiemen]

A long and complicated history, very lucidly presented, well done!

[@prigual2901]

The Roman Empire did not fall till the 1453

[@wimpie133]

Or 1806, fi you count the Holy Roman Empire also as 'the Roman Empire'. Although I can understand this isn't taken into consideration, as even when the H.R.R. still existed Voltaire said it was "neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire"

[@alidali-rn4em]

This nice work ........ Shows us how Center & Eastern Europe people have had a huge impact on Western Europe.............. Major threat to Roma many many times

[@NosyVoldemort]

I'm surprised you got so few subscribers.. keep it up, you will be a big channel in the future

[@killbill1175]

My friend the greeks called them barbarian! Not the romans!. The romans were also barbaric till they conquered greece and they became civilized!.

[@aserher215]

Only the spaniards of visigoth descent originated from Sweden, native Spaniards are celtiberian and basque heavily influenced by Greek and Roman culture.

[@ilFrancotti]

Iberians are Italics who colonized the peninsula back in Roman times. The local Celts were vanquished.

[@RS-ln3ns]

THE NORTHERN SPANIARDS ARE MAINLY, CELTIC, WITH A MIXTURE OF ROMAN. THE CELTIC PEOPLE IN THE NORTH OF SPAIN, DIDN'T JUST DISAPPEARED, FROM THE IBERIAN PENINSULA. THEY STILL EXIST THERE.

[@RS-ln3ns]

NORTHERN IBERIANS ARE NOT JUST ITALIC. THEY ARE MAINLY, CELTIC.

[@aserher215]

​@@RS-ln3ns Well, the celtiberians were there before the greeks and romans, but the basque are even older than that, the basque are the original iberian natives.

[@RS-ln3ns]

@@aserher215 YES, THAT'S RIGHT BUT OTHERS KEEP SAYING THINGS ABOUT SPAIN WHICH ARE INCORRECT, SO I HAVE TO CORRECT THEM. THE BASQUES ALWAYS HAD THEIR OWN CULTURE, AS WELL.

[@leovigildrekkared8702]

I am from northern spain and here is a visigothic church and I have a visigothic Family-Name. I'm proud of it. The first history book about spain is called: history about visigoth, suebi and vandals, written by isidor from sevilla. The romanic population of iberian peninsula started to identify their self as visigoths. It is very complex but spanish identity is based on a visigothic idea of a united iberian peninsula in a kingdom . In galicia there is a certain influence of the suebi.

[@deank.4169]

Meanwhile the Balts: popcorn and chill.

[@stefantrajkovic7157]

Except the fact that Serbs (and most other "Yugoslavs") are only about 30% Slavic. The most dominant haplogroup present among them is L2A, meaning they are mostly Proto-Europeans dating back to Vinča and Starčevo cultures.

[@casamia995]

Don't read fake news. 80% of serbs are related to Iranians mostly mix of roma, sinti. only 9% of sorbs are yellowish from poland. native Europeans must be very white. serbian is similar to Sanskrit

[@user-kb5py3hm2e]

Slavic people are part of the Proto Europeans, so I'm not sure what your point is.

[@Drazen-u2c]

Ancestors of Serbs are Croats, only when Serbs took ortodoxy instead of catolicism that Serbs gain some identity. Othervise just an offshoot of Croatian branch.

[@user-kb5py3hm2e]

@@Drazen-u2c nope. They are originally from Eastern Germany. They're related to the Sorbs, a Slavic people who still exist.

[@stefantrajkovic7157]

@@user-kb5py3hm2e Slavs are Proto-Indo-Europeans, it’s not the same thing

[@metodinedialkov9211]

European nations were born thousands of years before the Roman Empire! Even though, throughout its history of Europe, it was constant migration, tribes, nations and borders were very fluid, there were some major tribes that gave birth of today’s European nations. The first Europeans are the Thracians and the Greeks (around 4-5000 years ago) then came the Slavs, Germans, Celts etc.

[@pax378]

The Germans were Scythians before they moved into Europe.

[@mattmeyer3211]

it is not just about the Angels (English) from Danmark, but also the German Saxons that were ruling in Briton

[@Potent_Techmology]

and this is very German centric "they brutally executed the King of the Goths" but the Goths didn't brutally execute Sarmatians? Just with hugs and kisses and in the name of love and equality, right?

[@veronicajensen7690]

the dna from Anglo-Saxon is very similar to Danes and Dutch , dna from Northern Germany reads as Dane or Dutch due to the mixing and migration /changing of borders

[@antoinemozart243]

Don't talk about DNA. This is stupid. All DNA researches about ancient people are non scientific and often contradictory. For example these researches stated that the English and the Dutch have similar DNA whereas completely different from the Danes. This is so stupid. People confuse ethnicity with culture. Some danish researches found that the Vikings were not even Scandinavian but came from elsewhere adopting Scandinavian culture.

[@peroperic5988]

No mention of the Avars?

[@koxagen]

The Bulgarian demolished them. Bulgarian tcar Krum defeated Avars.

[@peroperic5988]

@@koxagen yeah but that was later

[@WalintHUN]

Carpathian basin was the west end of steppe. Roman Empire could never own it. Iazigo, Hun, Avar, Magyar the same nomadic culture and people. Attila the Hun and Árpád from the Árpád dynasty is from the same lineage 5 generations apart. Huns disappeared from western history maybe but not in real ;) Attila in real was christian and the biggest mage, with marriages and politics united "barbaric" (from Kiev to Celts in Ireland, Hispania and N. Africa) Rome was begging to him to not destroy them and he didn't only because christians in Rome... which turned out later they are fake christians....

[@alexandrutomescu4146]

@@WalintHUN

[@aruuito]

​@@koxagennot tcar, he was khan

[@funkstienn1002]

I think you left out the Moors Conquering the Iberian Peninsula

[@akhripasta2670]

Real video Spain France(Romano-Germanic) Netherlands Germany Austria are all Germanic, imitating Greco-Roman architecture, culture & script UK(Germanik & Celtic mixture) imitating Greco-Roman architecture, culture, script. Proud of its Germanic roots(even though most of them have Celtic DNA)

[@Simon_SM]

Amazing video however there are slight mistakes For example the Magyars did not name their state Hungary but Magyarország Basically everyone around them calls them Magyars except for the Germans which call them variations of Hungary and Hungarians which stuck around

[@funkyribar2301]

I as a Croat call Hungarians as Mađari (or Magyars if you like), also every ex Yugoslav country calls Hungary as Mađarska :) btw I love my neighbors :)

[@cvfrent]

Ottoman, Turkish, Turkey, Türkiye, Turcia Germany, Deutschland, Germania, Nemti Romania, Roumania, România, Románia Italia, Italy Grecia, Greece, Hellas, Hellenic Republic Every country can use their name as they wish, but they cannot force a change of English or any other language of the name of the country, based on their fancy language. Will be funny to see and force a name change across all languages to Németország instead of Deutschland (german language) or Germany (english) 🙂

[@baassiia]

In Polish: Germany = Niemcy (simple translation, those who can't speak 😂 ) Hungary = Węgry (no idea why). Italy = Włochy (no idea why) Other countries names are similar to engilosh version. Example: France = Francja England = Anglia Danemark = Dania Portugal = Portugalia Holland = Holandia Etc

[@seron187]

​@@cvfrentwe don't care what oders call our country, but in this video said the magyars called their country Hungary. No, we never do 😂

[@hugoagogo9435]

I don’t know much about history but reading the comments I won’t learn any facts in this video

[@brafianblackfyre9220]

The video is obviously great and well-edited, and it shows how European nations formed, but why not clarify Byzantium was just the Roman Empire and why suggest the whole Roman Empire fell in 476?

[@Alejojojo6]

Byzantium was not the Roman Empire. It was rather a succesor Roman state that spoke greek.

[@Basil-HD]

a successor state is a different state, the eastern roman empire was the same state with the same linage of emperors that lost the western parts of its empire@@Alejojojo6

[@brafianblackfyre9220]

In 476, the army and administration still spoke Latin. Every neighbouring state saw it as such and referred to it as the Roman Empire. When the Ostrogoths conquered Italy, they declared themselves Roman vassals as a result. The name Byzantium was never used by anyone until after it fell one thousand years later, and it only makes sense anyway after the Muslim conquest when the Roman Empire was confined to Greece and Anatolia only. @Alejojojo6

[@akritas365]

The Byzantine Empire originated from the Greek city Byzantium . It was based on the Hellenic culture, language,and Greek Orthodox religion. Rome was an enemy of Byzantium the reason why they never came to.the rescue of Constantinople. In 1453 during the siege by the Ottoman savages.

[@akritas365]

​@@Basil-HDIf it was the same state they would've spoken the same Latino language. But they didn't because the were originally ionians Hellenic people who spoke Greek and not the Latino language of the west.

[@T0NT0]

And that's what the Romans said about the barbarians: "They come out of the fucking walls they come out of the fucking walls!!"

[@dominiquecharriere1285]

Very interesting, it’s high level but it is not wrong. Just notice that the Catalaunic fields are in northeast France (Champagne) and the Burgundians were coming from the island of Bornholm. So most of the northern barbarians were Scandinavians.

[@josephboyce-pi9qm]

This is a very simple but clear perspective on a period of history. This would be good for a middle school history lesson.

[@CoryAlbrecht]

No, this would not be a good video for a middle school history lesson as there are a lot of significant errors with it. For example at the beginning when it's showing the Cimbri invading just before 100 BCE, it's showing the Roman borders from more than 200 years later at it's height in 117 CE. Rome had yet to conquer Gaul when the Cimbri invaded.

[@mgtowpatriota]

Muito bom! É uma pena que esse canal tenha poucas visualizações, os vídeos são muito bons, a edição, narração assuntos é quase perfeito. 👍

[@saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014]

Becareful it is mostly innacurate and misleading, especially after the fall of the Western Roman Empire

[@vasilisvat7931]

at this period, if you call someone who lived in Konstantinoupol , Byzantine, he wouldn’t understand anything. The name was Eastern Roman Empire!!! and the people were Romans.

[@BOONDAAo]

I have recently found this channel and I am supprised that how you don't have more subscribers and attention. Your content is top-tier.

[@LajoieNYC]

I agree. I found this channel, lost it, furiously tried to find it, finally did. I'm glad I did

[@alarik36]

You should see the video: Kempe Medley, from one of the areas the vandals came from, Värmland, including Fredrik Kempe. Their name VendilaR (sing.) probably comes from the ancient name for Vänern lake, namely *Vendiz. So the vandals might have come from a huge area from Vänern to south Norway..PS I can´t link to other videos anymore..DS

[@stefanomilani-ef8yj]

The Capital of west Roman Empire After Rome was Milan and After Milan Ravenna .

[@alexandrutomescu4146]

It was the capital of EasternGeats under Teodoric.Here is the basilica of Teodoric,a gem of a church.

[@alexandrutomescu4146]

In the Basilica there are mosaicsin which the apostles are dressed in Dacian clothes as on Trajan's column from Trajan's forum in Rome.

[@DistantLights]

It's kinda crazy how most of western Europe side of italy (and scotland and ireland) are all Germanic kingdoms of some sort, and it extended into North Africa

[@Mostspecialusername]

yeah, you started pretty badly. Most of the ancestors of brits, spaniards etc already lived there, the invaders were a small % of the populations they conquered.

[@CoryAlbrecht]

It's a good thing I had put down my drink before I started the video, otherwise I would have sprayed water all over the dog in my lap when they said that the swedes were the ancestors of the Spanish .

[@history6094]

Looks like your channel is starting to get a bit of the recognition it deserves! keep it up, great videos!

[@Basil-HD]

Nice depiction but many historical errors. Roman Empire didn't fall officially in 476 AD. Western Roman Empire only fell. Roman empire finally fell in 1453. Also the Byzantines or better call them Eastern Romans had a tough time but eventually defeated the Ostrogoths and didn't invite the Lombards to defeat the Ostrogoths.

[@alals6794]

Yes, and in fact what modern scholar now refer to as the Byzantine Empire was still called Roman Empire by the inhabitants of that era. I mean, the people living in the so called Byzantine Empire considered themselves and called themselves Roman.

[@pancho871]

1:06:16 I wasn't expecting this! Thank YOU Izzy!!! I was glad to hear you're still returning. All Hail Lord Izzy, the Elf-friend, the lord of all that is seen. King of kings, lord of lords. Saurons Bain!

[@deckiedeckie]

Jews and English manipulate history.....

[@Byzantine_Orthodox_Mapper]

"How Europe was born"❌ "How Europe was destroyed"✔️

[@AMEurope333]

Nice graphics presentation in video. One small note - there was no migration of Slavs. Slavs are the autochthonous population in the areas they still inhabit today.

[@History_Mapped_Out]

Where did you get this information from?

[@AMEurope333]

From Serbian history, tradition and folklore. By the way, nice graphics in the video.

[@nemanja2500]

They found some Roman Emperor's conscript book. It scripts Slavic people's names from the Balkans even in 1 AD Serbians and their Alphabet have the most similarities with Indian Veda's. Even some things coorelate. That's History even before the Cristhianity@@History_Mapped_Out

[@bletrick3352]

Lmfaoooo Serbian cope. You're 7th century Carpathian immigrants.

[@fandzejka9540]

Nope

[@USSResolute]

I like how this is referred to as the "migration period" but when Europeans moved to the New World, it's referred to as "stealing native land".

[@danielbianconi6441]

Lol so true. Also the exact same thing happened. Slavery, massive wars. Either way it was wrong.

[@akhripasta2670]

Because Most of Modern "Europeans" are not native to Europe or Americas.

[@Frater_Maven]

This was made and narrated by A.I. I'd set my watch and warrant on it.

[@JordanClymer-fh3pf]

The internet was mostly regurgitated trash already, now it's regurgitated trash that people can't even be bothered to make. Get a library of 100+ year old books if you can afford it and want to learn actually.

[@popacristian2056]

@@JordanClymer-fh3pf Right!

[@doomd1816]

Excellent channel Need more views Keep at it

[@97Jaska]

This whole video just goes to show how little the maker actually understands history. You just cant make this kind of statements. Macromannis for example arent GERMANS but Germanic. For example - Goths are also Germannic but he wouldn't call them Germans since they came from Gotland, which is nowadays Sweden. German, like many other nationalities, is an natio-ethnic consept. I understand that the video maker wants to use consepts and terms that are easy to understand and common for people who dont maybe know history but streamliness like this is super dangerous .

[@History_Mapped_Out]

Unfortunately, our team of historians lacks a linguist to spot the difference, so we indeed could make a mistake there 🤷‍♂

[@sajt6619]

@@History_Mapped_Out man, donnt worry, good job. you packed crapton of chaos of few hundred years into 13 minutes. we can make do without explanation of deep antropology and shift of cultures and ethnicities within this. Good job. I'd check this video out every time i want to remind myself more or less the order of things

[@Alejojojo6]

Swedish, German, etc are all modern concept. He says all the time "Germanic tribes" but there is a link between modern Goths Island inhabitants and Spaniards, since people from the island settled and reproduce to the modern day in Spain and those left in the island reproduce until today and are Swedish.

[@claudioristagno6460]

Not migration period, but barbaric invasions as we say in Italy

[@N1ghthavvk]

The visualization is so good! Very informativ and fun video to follow along.

[@iptamenos-los]

visualization is good however, mapping is wrong

[@jobengals86]

3:00 that wasn't the first time Germanics were settled in Roman lands. Caesar's conquests in Gaul ~60-50BC showed us this. There were many, many Germanic tribes living west of the Rhine, and there were many many more tribes who moved from east to west of the Rhine to join the newly emerging Empire (from the ashes of the Republic) post Gallic Wars and assimilate into the much more powerful and orderly Roman culture long before the Marcomannia.

[@miguelalexandresimoesneves8660]

I always have a hard time understanding this topic, specially in the iberic peninsula where im from. Because we barely have germanic dna, how did it work? They just happen to fled the huns and other threats there and then settled with the locals? How was the percentage of germanic compared to them? How far in the roots are they in portuguese dna? in a dna test I get 20% france area, 66 iberia and 6 magrhebi (arab invasion or ancient migration?), but dont know if that refers to much older history migrations, celts or this

[@angelito2144]

Hi, Spanish here. You must take into account that after the events described in this video, the Iberian peninsula was first invaded by Arabians and after that, during the Reconquista, many "empty lands" were populated not only by people from northern Spain but also by the Franks. "Franks" was the generic name given to people from today's France, Netherlands and West Germany. They were offered lands and many families, even whole communities, came here during the end of the Middle Ages. We can observe this recent population movements in some details: - the straight north-to-south lines that follow the languages in Spain: Galician language is related to Portuguese, Catalonian is related to Valencian (I don't mean to begin a discussion about whether they must be considered the same thing or not); - modern genetics have proved that "north-to-south" movements, too; - about the Franks heritage, I've always found funny that in Spain you can randomly find a lot of people that have northern Europe features. I don't mean only blue eyes or blonde hair, but the shape of the eyes or the shape of the face, that kind of details, specially in Extremadura and some parts of Andalucía. Some famous examples of this are Josefa Flores González (you know, Marisol), Soraya Arnelas, Cardaval brothers (you know, Los Morancos), and many more. I've always assumed they have that recent "Frank" heritage.

[@miguelalexandresimoesneves8660]

@@angelito2144 this makes a lot of sense! Its weird that people would conquer land, and then offer to other to populate xD I understand why, just funny. Basically they just took the opportunity after arabic clearance to make their own Christian kingdoms and most came from central europeu? Makes sense

[@MrSludov]

Another spaniard here. The only true arabian have ever settled in Iberian peninsula was Abdelrraman I, the rest, in VIII th century, north-african berebers, in very few numbers and expeled less than a100 years later by the emirate of Córdoba, and after totally banished by the califate. There were no arabs in Spain. Islamization of Spain was promoted by the visigoth elites which automatically mixed with northafrican generals who took control of the peninsula (all the spanish islamic aristocracy were descendants of Abdelrraman I, who married not a muslim woman, but the grand daughter of the last Visigoth king, Witiza) and converted to Islam in order not to loose their political power and territorial dominance...We must not forget that the Visigoths had only been Roman Catholics for less than a century. Until then they were Arrian Christians, Arrianism being a Christianity that did not admit the Holy Trinity of God, which made it, therefore, very similar to the new Islamic faith. For the Visigoths it was a mere change of name, not a radical change of faith.. We are talking about moments in which Islam had just been born and had not finished being fully formed. The radical differentiation of Islam dates back much later, from the 10th, 11th and 12th centuries with the diverse succession of fundamentalist movements, Shiites, Sunnis, Fatimids, Almohads, Almoravids, etc...

[@mikeg2306]

You can see the Germanic influence in Spanish words of Germanic origin such as “hermano” (which btw has the same origin as the word “German”).

[@miguelalexandresimoesneves8660]

@@mikeg2306 not meaning to disrespect, but are you sure about that? a quick search showed me it comes from latin, as most of iberian languages do. It does come from frater germanus (apparently meaning literally full brother or brother of blood), which is similar to germania, but germania was a name given by the romans, not themselves

[@LinkMan-wl3qv]

I love the animation and effort. But I think this video is up for a renewal. The info and dates could use a little more work

[@piotrm9260]

The Goths from Gotland were about 11% R1a... while in the Ukraine were about 65% R1a... Gotland had too small potential for real influence on Europe. It was just a german brand or name for slavic masses. Sarmatians were germanic ? Sarmatians were a branch of Scythians. Scythians were decsendants of Aryans R1a Z93. How they could be germans. German "history".

[@VoldemarPr]

Are you from the poland?

[@asmirkingg]

take a drink every time Balkan is pillaged

[@SkiourosTimmy]

Very heavily focused on Barbarian tribes and completely neglecting the fact that the Greeks had established European states thousands of years before the collapse of the Western Roman Empire. Also completely leaving the Eastern Roman Empire on a little side note in all of this is really doing injustice to the history of early Europe.

[@rayke0627]

Well western Europe is the part that made the modern world. The east isnt even slightly as relevant

[@NuclearBunker25]

Well, he isn't talking about Greek colonization because the video isn't about that, it's about the Migration Period.

[@kynareth3605]

Maybe you should watch a video about the european Greek colonies instead then. This is a video about the migration period.... ?

[@SkiourosTimmy]

@@NuclearBunker25 Obviously its focused on the migration period but stating that it alone shaped Europe is incorrect when parts had been shaped for thousands of years before.

[@VLSG]

⁠@@SkiourosTimmythat’s crazy bc i don’t remember the part where he said migratory tribes were alone responsible for the creation of modern europe. go ahead and leave a time stamp with that part, as i’m sure someone as adamant as you are would surely be capable of substantiating their claims with evidence if not, then i’m sure we can understand that this video is an exploration of the great migration and the role of these tribes in the creation of modern european ethnography, and not a full narrative of the creation of contemporary europe. as your name is “skiouros” i’m not surprised in the slightest that you are upset about the lack of attention given to the greek colonies of classical antiquity and the byzantine empire 😂 its apparent you misinterpreted the scope of the video, and struggle to grasp the historiography of late antiquity, as you expected content to be present that was obviously not going to be present given the title of the video. evidently the very language you use to argue your point is simply a combination of latin and germanic dialect, not greek, (although i’m sure you’ll try to point out the few classical greek terms and letters retconned into english by the philhellenes and revivalists of the early 19th century) which just proves what the video was trying to impress. cheers 🥂

[@sasachiminesh1204]

The borders were not formed by Germanic migrations. The basic borders of those nations and their provinces are based on pre-Roman kingdoms (provinces) and the national borders reflect mostly the provincial borders under Roman rule.

[@ermioniburgess8720]

The Greeks called people that did not speak Greek they called Barbarians.

[@gio3128]

Can you say it properly? Those barbarian populations entered territories with Roman population and they mixed up. As you said it it seems that these tribes replaced completely the previous Roman populations, but for many centuries they cohabited in the the same territories giving birth to the populations of Europe as we more or less know they are nowadays.

[@MrLordasd]

Magyars named their land "Hungary" : )))))

[@TheMlodyMlodzian]

😜

[@Epicurus941]

Υπερβολικά απλοποιημένα τα λες και χάνεις επεισόδια... Κατά τα άλλα είναι ένα ωραίο βίντεο στον τρόπο που τα παρουσιάζεις!

[@resident-z9m]

Who were the Vandals? Were they responsible for the word, "vandalism?"

[@angelito2144]

Yes, the vandals were specially known for their cruelty and power of destruction, that's how they gave name to the act of randomly destroying something. As a fun fact, this old power of destruction and the search of more room were core concepts of the n4z¡s. Basically they wanted to "reboot" the history of Europe to the time in which barbarians (e. g. the vandals) were not constrained by modern laws and religions and they could take anything by the force and exterminate whoever they didn't like. There were even attempts to reactivate the cult of the Germanic gods. This "reboot", as everybody knows, ended up with some 50 million deaths just in Europe. Crazy but true.

[@skurinski]

yes

[@evangiles4403]

Yes and the word thug comes from the Indian (continental) thugee both refer to lawless robbers

[@politicallyincorrect2564]

Yes they are. They sacked Rome for weeks, destroying art, sculptures etc therefore the act was called vandalism.

[@berranari1]

No, it's the Romans who turned it into a derogatory term Vandalism.

[@maritavestin7617]

Very interesting, thanks

[@finsfan90]

Great video. I wish you didnt use the term "Byzantine". Its the Eastern Roman Empire.

[@History_Mapped_Out]

thanks for your comment

[@arkhamsquire4503]

Thumbnail looks like your average game of Kaisereich

[@MagnaMater2]

The graphics are very cool, and I like the concept, but... that's not quite what I was taught and learned from books. Germanic and German should not be used interchangeable, it's two different things. And the migration and locations of the different tribes... there are more tribes and some things therefore rather amiss, shortcuts turning it inaccurate. And there are some rather important details, that might be able to change the viewpoint and the narrative: Like Theoderic the Great being raised at the emperial court and an eastern-roman officer SENT by the emperor to get rid of Oduacer. Theoderic the Great might not have been aware he would be considered a barbarian, afterwards. He certainly primarily thought, as a magister militum he was a Roman officer, that perchance also was a member of the Amal-Clan, and could use his relationship to their royal line to lead the Goths as a sort of 'private army' into battle - to the purpose of his emperial fostering sister's husband. AND you left out the major role christianity played in it. Along the limes the 'western roman state' was still run by bishops as a sort of theocracy. These bishops presiding over a staff of religious state administrators, that often were organized in religious monkish (and therefore non-self-procreating) orders, and always ready to mission their barbaric 'foreigh mercenaries' were still answerable to their pontifex-maximus (after all a former religious imperial office) in Rome.

[@nonusolarozationeatoumatic6239]

The "Byzantines" DID defeat the Ostrogoths.

[@karlkarlos3545]

The Angles came from modern day Germany as did the Saxons. The Jutes came from modern day Denmark

[@inpersonaDK]

Angles came from Schleswig Holstein (nowadays southwest Denmark and Northwest Germany)

[@antoinemozart243]

The words "angles, Saxons and Jutes" mean nothing. These words described confederations of tribes who themselves were a conglomerate of different group of people from diverse origin. Nobody knows where these people came from and their different journeys. It is just a recent written myth.

[@karlkarlos3545]

@@antoinemozart243 Genetic tests and historical linguistics tell a different story.

[@antoinemozart243]

@@karlkarlos3545 Genetic tests are scam. They have been tested several times on monozygotic twins and have a different result. 😅😅 Language is just culture. When a different ethnic group meddled with another powerful one they immediately adopted the culture ( language, religion). These people were quite isolated and only encountered others by war, immi or emigration. Read historians.

[@sebe2255]

@@antoinemozart243You are being reductive. While it is obviously unknown who led what group of settlers and invaders, it is not unknown what the general trend was and where those people came from They were Germanic people from what is now Northern Germany and Western Denmark (though it wouldn’t have been either back then)

[@kvanck5774]

Huns didn't disappear. Turks, Hungarians and Bulgarians are their descendants as well as many other Central Asian peoples. Attila is still a common name in Turkiye.

[@RealDavidN]

Byzantines didnt just suddenly appear. Thats the eastern half of the romN empire, survived after a fashion for almost 1000 years

[@jotarokujo5132]

it's just a name, dummy