Why did the German Tribes Start Migrating?

[@Knowledgia]

Imagine you were an advisor to the Roman Empire in its final years. What strategies would you propose to prevent its fall in the West?

[@Chuck44442]

Open your borders. Let young women n men flood in until White man is demea to 34% Then cause whity..only drops 1.4 kids, ( compared to migran).. repro rate 400%.. Gotz uz

[@AnglandAlamehnaSwedish]

Paulus was one of the generals who had to give up power after 1 week n get it back the next week, it made no progress.Get rid of the generals changing power every other week, that killed us n so many mercenaries turned on us

[@RazielXT]

Rejoin with East. Better to keep Rome in Roman empire than lose whole west. But people like Ricimer would never allow that.

[@notmysteriousthief4629]

Complete overhaul, maybe a reversal to the societal collapse it experienced just before it well and truly collapsed geopolitically.

[@martinkupka3575]

Roman empire fell due to wrong economic policy, corruption and greedy struggle for power among the wealthy caste. In it´s final few years, it was much too late to rescue the empire by some simple advises which could be easily fulfilled in short time. So my advise would have been: Run!

[@miliba]

Germanic Tribes are still migrating. Nowadays they mostly go to an island called Mallorca

[@ericdanielski4802]

Absolutely nice joke. 😂

[@b89976]

​@@GARTEN-KATZEN-SACHSENLAND I don't get it

[@Cleeon]

​@@GARTEN-KATZEN-SACHSENLAND the one who replaced other, will be replaced with another

[@samiman5606]

​ @GARTENPARADIES-SACHSEN But at least if the Germans convert to Islam they get married a making alot of kids I know a white German man Muslim convert married a white German women convert and got 8 kids and he love and respect his wife so much and the same About her imagine if this German man his atheist and his wife she is a feminist they will never get married and they will never have kids Islam is allways the solution if you want the white Europeans make alot of kids with out Islam the white Europeans will get Extinction by red pill and feminism and lgbtq and atheism and liberal

[@samiman5606]

​ @GARTENPARADIES-SACHSEN But at least if the Germans convert to Islam they get married a making alot of kids I know a white German man Muslim convert married a white German women convert and got 8 kids and he love and respect his wife so much and the same About her imagine if this German man his atheist and his wife she is a feminist they will never get married and they will never have kids Islam is allways the solution if you want the white Europeans make alot of kids with out Islam the white Europeans will get Extinction by red pill and feminism and lgbtq and atheism and liberal

[@KingMordred]

Historians usually agree that the massive immigration of barbarians to Roman territory was caused by an enormous drop in temperatures and Hunnic attacks. Therefore, it is safe to say that stirrups and lack of coats caused the fall of Rome.

[@pbh81]

How much of a temperature drop?

[@recoil53]

The Huns did not use the stirrup - neither grave finds nor Roman writings show any. It's not until the Avars came in the late 500's that the stirrup arrived in Europe, after the Western half of the Roman Empire fell.

[@hcn6708]

@@pbh81 Enough to make Scandinavia suck to live in That was likely the motivation for the Goths to move to what is now Poland

[@craezee247]

@@pbh81enormous. Ostia Antica, the port city of Ancient Rome is nowadays 4km inland.

[@marcodalu5494]

i agree on both as a matter of fact the map shows germanic people in the wrong place i guess visigoths were located in the balkans Ostrogoths were located East of them Huns invaded the land of the Ostrogoths, they pushed the Visigoths, who pushed into the empire the ruote from scandinavia was way larger than just trough Denmark we are talking about Finland and then southwards

[@Nabonidus-m7x]

"Germanic tribes are not sending us their best! They send us their criminals. Some I assume are good people."

[@oneshothunter9877]

Quote from Trumpinius? 😀

[@Nabonidus-m7x]

@@oneshothunter9877 Trumpinius Maximus BILLIONS AND BILLIONS OF MAXIMI!

[@argylemanni280]

So did Rome fall or not?

[@Nabonidus-m7x]

@@argylemanni280 they wouldn't have fallen if orangey was around :(

[@lost_porkchop]

​@@Nabonidus-m7xThey would have fallen even faster 😂

[@lethalbroccoli01]

"these germanic tribes shared many similiarities with the vikings as well." Am i missing something? "Vikings" are germanic already. Why did the video talk about vikings as if they werent germanic?

[@ninototo1]

Right. I mean they literally came from the same place. It was the same people.

[@ravinraven6913]

yea you're missing something...you're missing a youtube channel that does research and doesn't just say what the first story says. He didn't do any checking to make sure what he said was actually true... Germans were migrating long before the roman empire was even formed....look at why Caesar invaded Gaul....with this alone, it should have given pause to confirm that some of the things hes saying isn't true or accurate.

[@cXms-k8y]

​@@ravinraven6913what's your source give the page number and line

[@azelucy1798]

Not all germans are descendants of vikings

[@TetsuShima]

And all of this just because Tiberius said: "Who cares about stupid Germany?"

[@TheBandit025Nova]

Germanic Tribes: What did you say

[@Trickaz94]

Germanic tribes: and I took that personally

[@saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014]

Yeah. Germanicus begged to Tiberius “One more campaign, they are weak, it would the very last attack, germania will be subjugated and tamed” Tiberius: No! I want germans to invade us one day!

[@davidwarburton2915]

Augustus was so smart in so many ways. He did a lot of things right. But he messed up his succession. Tiberius was a weird guy who governed like a weird guy. A pretty bad emperor all around.

[@TetsuShima]

@@davidwarburton2915 To be fair, Livia forced him to name Tiberius as his sucessor. Also, compared to Caligula and Nero, Tiberius was pretty decent

[@ziqiding1493]

My favourite part is when the germanic tribes said "it's migratin' time" and proceeded to migrate all over the roman empire

[@TheLionFarm]

The Huns likely entered Western Asia shortly before 370, from Central Asia: they first conquered the Goths and the Alans, pushing a number of tribes to seek refuge within the Roman Empire. In the following years, the Huns conquered most of the Germanic and Scythian tribes outside of the borders of the Roman Empire.

[@Max-wv1cu]

@@TheLionFarmtotal bs. Never made it past the elbe, or to scandinavia

[@Stephen-Montefinese]

Especially after the Huns rode in and screamed “what up b*tches!?!?”

[@Manuka-px2pe]

Wrong, this doesn’t explain why norse tribes came from scandinavia to southern europe, it can’t be the huns.

[@ericvantassell6809]

KZbin historians are funny

[@theirishshane]

Hundred and twenty million people sounds a bit to much for the western Roman empire

[@fancyfact1389]

yea the area of modern day spain, portugal, france, italy had around 30 million

[@primusIIV]

did he say western specifically because he could have meant the entire empire

[@HarryMonn]

scholars generally accept the entire population of the empire never exceeded 75 million. So the Western half probably had 30-40 million. 120 million is 100% impossible.

[@ChristiaanHW]

i'm pretty sure they meant the whole Roman empire. so from Hadrian's wall to North Africa and from Morocco to Irak. and for all those territories 120 million sounds plausible.

[@HarryMonn]

@ChristiaanHW the world population at the time was around 180-200 million. China had 60-80 million at this time. So if Rome had 120 million then there would have to be almost nobody outside of Rome and China, which we know can't be true, seeing as India alone also had a very large population. Thus Rome couldn't have 120 million. Most academics say 75 million max.

[@seanwebb605]

If there wasn't enough land to farm in Germanic territory then why didn't they just go into IT and become coders?

[@YarPirates-vy7iv]

Market was saturated. They'd do better learning to repair elevators, but try getting a young person to want that!

[@seanwebb605]

@@YarPirates-vy7iv The odious Otis job?

[@peabase]

@@seanwebb605 Otis? More like Schindler, KONE or Thyssenkrupp.

[@seanwebb605]

@@peabase It's really tough to move up working for an elevator company.

[@vetiarvind]

becoming nazis was easier

[@dukeon]

Fun fact: The largest diaspora of Germans today (people of Germanic descent living outside of Germany itself) is in the United States. It is the most prevalent ethnicity in the US, mostly due to the waves of German immigrants in the 19th century who settled in the Great Lakes area (think beer and pretzels) as well as the plains states. My grandparents grew up speaking German at home in rural Kansas, farming and raising livestock. Much of the middle and north of the country is still predominantly German ethnically (as well as Polish and Scandinavian), while English ancestry clusters mostly in the eastern third of the country, and Irish and Italian communities tended to remain predominantly in cities. There have been many other waves of immigrants too, obviously, such as Chinese, Jews, Russians (and Slavs in general), Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, Filipinos, Southeast Asians, and on and on. It’s what made the USA such a vibrant nation culturally and economically.

[@ninototo1]

Yeah. I found out last year that I have an American uncle and he came to visit us here in Germany last week. He doesn't speak German but his grandparents did. They emigrated in the 1800's. Back then people left en masse due to famine and the promise of freedom (they still had feudalism in Germany). I also notice just how many Americans today still have German surnames, it's crazy.

[@guleet75]

The most prevalent ethnicity in the USA are actually people from the British isles ! That includes people who call themselves Americans !!

[@bastian9693]

@@guleet75The English are also Germanic cousins…combining the other German speaking countries of Austria and Switzerland which has about 2 million descendants in the states gives Germans the majority even with combined British isles

[@dorothybermudez8904]

And all legally here too!

[@jiritichy7967]

"vibrant"? Rather heterogeneous, source of disagreements and disunity.

[@christianeaster2776]

Looking for unpopulated land? The Roman empire was more densely populated than the lands they came from.

[@Gingerichsauce]

I think he was talking about the density of trees. France had cleared farm land already

[@mikman7219]

@@Gingerichsauce But a cleared farm land is not fertile. Clearing trees and burning them creates a fertile land for a few years. Unless you have fertilizers.

[@kevincousino2276]

That is just more slaves to work the land for them.

[@ravinraven6913]

I don't think this guy did much research...the Germans were nomadic people long before the days of the roman empire. Look at the reason Julius Caesar invaded Gaul. It was because he claimed an invading army of germanic celts were moving in...the celts were actually one of the first road makers in europe. They have roads dating back to before the Roman era. So Caesar used it as an excuse to conquer Gaul. That alone should have been reason to change the name of this video, or at least be more specific because he doesn't talk about anything before the roman days...which he should have, theres a reason Italy was mostly empty when the greeks came in.

[@heroedeleyenda05]

well to be fair, the land did become unpopulated once they ravaged trough it.

[@carlharmeling512]

A lot of Northerners still migrate south because they’re sick and tired of the cold weather.

[@TimDyck]

Have you ever been outside in -50? It sucks! The only good thing is there are no mosquitoes.

[@carlharmeling512]

@@TimDyck No, but if been out in -30 in Sheboygan and I soon realized that it’s actually life threatening.

[@TimDyck]

@@carlharmeling512 yes at -30 if your not dressed properly your gonna die. I have worked outside most of my adult life and learned quickly that you need to dress properly and know when to add or shed clothing. If you let yourself get too cold your in trouble, if you start to sweat then when you stop working physically your in trouble. It's a balancing act. But to be honest if I could I would rather be outdoors than inside even in the worst conditions. Unfortunately arthritis has set in and the cold is not my friend.

[@wutrudoin]

There's MANY more Italians and Spanish people in Germany than vice versa

[@HarryMonn]

120 million is way too much for the population of the Western Empire. Scholars generally think the entire empire never exceeded 75 million. So the Western half probably had around half of that. The first empire to reach 100 million in population was Tang China.

[@RoboticDragon]

Came to say the same

[@warmth9140]

They had had waning populations for several generations

[@TheAnonymousKnightOfJustice]

Mr Obvious CHINQ HAS LESS LAND AT THE TIME COMPARED TO GREAT ROMAN EMPIRE 😂

[@odenoki9571]

​@@TheAnonymousKnightOfJusticeRefer to the 'Valeriepieris Circle' to explain why that is. Most of mankind has lived within one section of planet Earth

[@ravinraven6913]

where are you guys getting such random info that conflicts with the rest? There are many estimates of the population for the Roman Empire, that range from 45 million to 120 million with 59-76 million as the most accepted range. they didn't write down the names and counts of all their slaves. So really, it is impossible to say it wouldn't be more.

[@ytchanviewer5389]

Low quality popularisation of history : a bunch of maps displayed in arbitrary order without dates, frequent use of dubious terms like "ferocious" and "savages", use of teleology, etc. If there's a bingo card of how *not* to popularise European history from the 300s-500s, this proboably ticks all the boxes. If anyone wants good history videos on this topic, The Historian's Craft is a much better KZbin channel.

[@dukeon]

Thank you, I was thinking the same thing throughout.

[@Nowhere-from]

Hopefully you apply this same logic to the current migrants in western nations, and I truly mean it, no sarcasm.

[@d_all_in]

If that channel is doing a better job popularizing history then why does it get 1/10th the amount of views?

[@Okiejayjay]

@@d_all_in dumbed down population?

[@jaif7327]

youre better off not using youtube in general if you want to actually learn history

[@ImBalance]

The Western Roman Empire had 120 MILLION people?? Does that not seem super high to others?

[@ShengLiang]

yeah and half of them were slaves.. think about that. no one had to do any work,, well except for the slaves obviously.

[@lamastu2156]

40 millions people at it's best.

[@boxsterman77]

It sure does.

[@lindenstromberg6859]

​@@lamastu2156 What are you basing 40 million at its height on? While I don't know where this video got 120 million, Waltger Scheidel puts the Empire at over 100 million, while more conservative estimates (such as Kyle Harpers) put it around 75 million.

[@lamastu2156]

@@lindenstromberg6859 The time of Pax Romana the cities had almost 40 million citizens. That I've learned in history scool. Now how many oiving on steppes is anither story. Nobody can say for sure. Roman empire was primary at some cities in Iberian peninsula, the modern Italy without the north Italy, Sicily, the Greek peninsula, the Greek cities in Anatolia and Egypt who formed after Alexander and Roman Carthage. The other parts as northern Iberia, Gallia, Dunabe land, Levant and main Egypt was Secondary Rome. Romans consider the prime citizens the Latin and Greek speakers and secondary the other cultures. Now at 3rd century before the fault of western empire maybe the empire had 120 million citizens. No one can say for sure

[@Sargon2137]

Population of Roman Empire 120 million? In 4th century I don't think it was half of that. And in time of sack of Rome by Alaric Ravenna was a capital.

[@deaeth1411]

It's really hard for know precisely. It's estimated so.

[@padinspi11]

You're right. The roman empire at its peak is estimated to have reached between 60 and 100 million people. That's the entirety of the empire. And some of the most populated regions were in the east (Egypt, Greece)

[@fancyfact1389]

@@padinspi11 the area of modern day spain, portugal, france, italy had a population around 30 million at the time, compared to the modern day area of egypt, levant, anatolia had almost 20 million people

[@hazzmati]

Yeah he pulled that number out of his ass. Not even in Rome's golden age did the population reach anything near that

[@lagjescuni5482]

@@padinspi11 There was no Greece in that period...however, the most numerous peoples were the Thracians and the Illyrians

[@timhare9867]

Your numbers here feel well off. Most Censuses I’ve seen to the Roman Empire’s around 60 million. Not 120 million. It’s very difficult to gain a reliable estimate of Germania’s population at the same time, but 3 million sounds ridiculously low. Like an ancient historian has just counted warriors and their familles, and not the vast network of tenant farmers, slaves and their families beneath them.

[@gas132]

my guy, even medieval england only had 3 million people, and france during that same time had nearly 20 million yet england was so good at fighting, that they managed to face france for 112 years and almost beat them all of germania having 3 million people just before their agriculture collapsed seems not only reasonable, but almost too much

[@dukeon]

@@gas132 what a load of 💩

[@gas132]

@@dukeon cool criticism, very informed

[@mimorisenpai8540]

​@@gas1323 million is too low for Germania. Don't medieval france mostly 7-10 million

[@gas132]

@@mimorisenpai8540 not 7-10 million, 17 million by the time of the hundred years war

[@Maphisto86]

Ironically the Ostrogothic Kingdom in Italy under the reign of Theodoric the Great was better governed and prosperous than under the last Roman emperors. Despite the weaknesses of King Theodoric’s successors, the Ostrogoth administration maintained Roman civilization in Italy and it could be argued that ancient Roman civilization in its old homeland was destroyed with the devastation wrought by the eastern Roman Empire’s invasion during the Gothic War.

[@jaimendaniel5578]

Better governed and more human and Christian.

[@YarPirates-vy7iv]

​@@jaimendaniel5578ew

[@DeutschlandDenDeutschen1848]

The greeks will not like this comment

[@daddy_1453]

Then the former Western Roman Empire got its revenge during the 4th Crusade, which permanently crippled the Eastern Empire, thus enabling the Ottoman conquest in 1453

[@IncarnationOfNeutrality]

You've probably just angered a bunch of Greek Supremacists and Byzantine suck-offs with this one lol

[@svilendyakovski7191]

I am only at half the video, love the subject, but get irked by the lack of knowledge and understanding. The Macromanic wars of Marcus Aurelius around the year 200 were not mentioned. Neither was mentioned the migration of the Goths south in the middle of the 3rd century, including invading the Balkan Peninsula, and eventually settling on the northern side of Danube river in what is now Romania and Ukraine. The Visigoths did not come into the Western Empire from Germany! They came through the Danube in what is now Bulgaria, killed a Roman Emperor in the battle of Adrianople in 378, had free reign in the Balkans and took them 32 years before they moved into Italy and sacked Rome. Also the push that started the domino effect were the Huns who attacked the Goths in Ukraine and moved Westward pushing Alans, Vandals, Goths, Franks, Suebi etc across the Danube and Rhine.

[@kantoquad]

agreed. not listening to this channel again. I think some people make videos for money, regardless of if they have the knowledge to do so

[@alexandrutomescu4146]

Video full of mistakes.

[@155gerard]

Very amateur video full of inaccurate statements, a bit like a 4th grade oral class report

[@BraveGisgo]

Rome was sacked in 410AD, not 420AD

[@PeepsChicks]

Exatly, also skiping the causes that led to the sack of Rome

[@sandrocottusrex7108]

इतिहास में ऐसा होता ही है। एक महान साम्राज्य का अन्त होते ही क़बाइली समाज का उदय होने लगता है।

[@abdiyusuf8561]

And today these once mighty warriors are controlled by a small state in the Middle East 😢

[@twilightknight2333]

only because they allow it

[@lookoutforchris]

Oy veh! They know!

[@morahman5496]

Explains why the Germans and the Dutch has a prototype 6” foot 4 inches goalkeeper

[@antoniomoreira5921]

Not sure it's the right niche but if or anything Migration Era and Germanic related I strongly recommend Schwerpunkt's videos series

[@bellum_7997]

Thank you, I was looking for years for this kind of stuff

[@filipmelnikov8411]

The description is extremely vague. Nothing is said about the eastern migration of the Goths, nothing about the kingdom of Oium on the territory of modern Ukraine. The path of migration is shown incorrectly.

[@ravenalbj]

What migration???.......the one described by Jordanes??? Those were a bunch of Goths on three ships and that was no migration. The rest of Goths lived right there on Romanian territories and the most powerful of them named GREUTHUNGI have a most Romanian name. GREU means "heavy". GREU-THUNGI means "the heavy ones". The territory was called OIUM, because whoever passed thru had to pay taxes called OIUM. OIUM is derived from the word OI meaning "sheep" in Romanian. The word OIUM meaning "food for Oi (sheep). Even today in Romania one has to pay OIUM 5% to a miller for milling wheat in to flower. Huns and Goths were Romanian ancestors. Germans didn't migrate anywhere. Those were Goths/Gete not Germans. Stop this stupid Mommsen theory. Can't you fools see there is not a German word in those countries you claim Germans conquered??? Conquerors always impose their language. Look at the present situation you idiots. Where Spanish conquered, people speak Spanish. Where Portuguese conquered, people speak Portuguese. Where French conquered, people speak French. Where English people conquered, people speak English. Do you see how dumb you are??? The Goths were Romanian ancestors GAETI/GETE and that is why Italian, Spanish and Portuguese are closer to Romanian than to Latin. Do you fools get it???

[@voiceofreason2674]

The hunnic empire is prolly the most overlooked historical entity of all time

[@jilhaneyisaiahdanielb.8878]

ATTILA: Stop me? He InVITED ME. 😈

[@greywolf7577]

Attila the Hun is one of the most well known barbarian of all times. I don't think the Huns were overlooked at all.

[@NemoElohemi]

Not overlooked, just tried hard to forget.

[@voiceofreason2674]

@@NemoElohemi very good way of putting it , I haven't ever thought of that , the worst parts of history get swept under the rug

[@germanshepherd2701]

Great video but it made me chuckle that… “The westernmost migration of the Germanic tribes ended up in Britain” Meanwhile the Suebi at the bottom of the screen chillin’ all the way in Galicia on the other side of Hispania: 👀👀👀

[@nikoskarkavelias1612]

@@germanshepherd2701 well some other 'tribes' tried to do the same en masse not quite a long time ago, using aerial means, if you know what i mean.

[@mimorisenpai8540]

Don't forgot vandals and Visigoth

[@nedames3328]

The folks who went "a viking" were germanic people.

[@veronicajensen7690]

correct , however the word Viking was not only used as "going Viking! it was also used for people although many think it wasn't we have Rune stones in Scandinavia where the locals complains about other Vikings (Vikingr/Vikingar in old Norse) and one Rune stone who reads "he was a great Viking" , anyway the Germanic people spread from Scandinavia

[@markusbauer9085]

Exactly my thougt. Vikings were part of the northern Germanic culture group. The term "Viking" was used since the looting of the english Lindisfarne monastery in 793 AD. Before it was called "Vendel culture". The term "Germanic" was used until the different tribes were christianizated. That happened in Iceland in the Middle Ages around 1000 AD. The Saxons for example were christianizated by the sword around 800 AD. The first Franconian king who was baptized was Chlodwig in 498 AD. A turning point in european history... Also the number of 120 million inhabitants of the Roman Empire is to much. Should be around 80 million more or less. That is roughly around the third of the complete world population in these times!

[@cetus4449]

Maps incorrect as usual....

[@jonnygzz1631]

yeah i got annoyed at the location of Massalia, Milan, and Bologna (there's probably more inaccuracies)

[@labibabdullah389]

Germany even being a barbarian, is still efficient and competent.

[@martinkupka3575]

Germany today is like Rome short before it´s fall.

[@wotanvonedelsburg1610]

@@martinkupka3575 EU

[@oneshothunter9877]

Imagine if Germany stopped using telex and telefax machines. 😀

[@roboparks]

@@martinkupka3575 It already Fell / The HRE broke up in the 1600s .

[@martinkupka3575]

@@jaimendaniel5578 Thanks

[@Ghostrex101]

Absolutely fascinating! Thanks for making this video

[@loots9821]

The burgundians knew what they were at "lets head to southern France & northern Italy, i heard its nice there!"

[@dutchman7623]

They needed to plant their wine somewhere warm...

[@Alsayid]

It's interesting to think how the Romans Latinized half of Europe, but when the Germans conquered the Roman Empire they simply melded into the Latinized lands (aside from Britain). On the other hand, when the Slavs conquered the other half of Europe nearly every area they took became Slavicized. The Slavs were never known as a powerful people, yet they still became more dominant.

[@zjeee]

It is funny how the slavs that took over ended up being orthodox just like the Eastern Romans. What a coincidence.....

[@baassiia]

Yes and almost ignored in this video 🤣 I was checking once, current population of Slavs vs other groups like Latin, Germanic in Europe and Slavs have highest number. Wondering how that happend. Such a loosers but such huge fertility and adaptability success.

[@Terter1551]

The Germanic tribes had a strong warlike culture, they were hierarchical and created many strong kingdoms. While the Slavs (even though they also waged wars) were not that centralized it seems. The strongest and most important early Slavic states were not created by Slavs, but by Bulgars and Rus for example, which melted into the Slavic ethnicity. They probably had a very inclusive culture, as Procopius stated that they lived in a 'democracy'. Also they were probably quite numerous and settled in lands devastated by wars and migrations, which gave them strong positions in those regions. Actually, the Slavs that settled in the Byzantine Empire, were under a heavy threat of hellenization, however they managed to create their own Slavic culture - the Cyrillic alphabet, the Slavic liturgical language, etc. and survive even in those areas.

[@marcobassini3576]

​​@@RichardRemerIt is not only the written word, it is the civilization, the Roman is the greatest civilization ever seen in this side of the world, the Germanic tribes were just barbarians, and left nothing to posterity, not even in their own homeland. Europe is what it is because of the Greek-Roman civilization!! And this civilization is now predominant in most of the world (thanks to the colonial expansion of European countries).

[@PoochieCollins]

@@marcobassini3576 I mean TBF, Germania had far fewer people, and the land was much less supportive of a blossoming society.

[@Peizxcv]

The Huns were running from the Chinese Han Dynasty that chased them all the way to Lake Balkhash

[@VforVanish]

I was curious and asked chatgpt, he answered that Han Dynasty exerted military pressure on the Xiongnu and the Xiongnu onto the Huns. Interesting.

[@nenenindonu]

They weren't running away from anything Xiongnu-Han wars had ended long before the migration period and Huns already had their own polity near the Altai that is the kingdom of Yueban

[@عليياسر-ف4ن9ك]

​@@nenenindonuThe Uighurs are allies of the Han Dynasty: they are free real estate 😂😂😂😂

[@ravenalbj]

The Huns didn't run from anybody or anything. They were migratory Skyts who went from the Black Sea to China and controlled everything. They were White Race and their original name was OUZI. Today in Mandarin OUZOU means "European"......get it??? The Mongols were related to the Huns, and Mongols were White Race as well. Genghis Khan had red beard and blue eyes.

[@mimorisenpai8540]

They didn't

[@mattmeyer3211]

very good information, thank you!

[@jeffa847]

Amazing to still hear the Nordic and Germanic people being called "barbarians". Meanwhile you can't even point out the savagery of individual tribes of other peoples.

[@FattasMotorhuv]

this video is annoyingly full of flaws but the word barbarian ACTUALLY referred to germanic people (and btw norsemen are northgermanic people)

[@gerardv.dgalien]

@@FattasMotorhuv to be fair it referred to anybody who was not roman(for the romans of course) or Greek(for the Greeks) I believe barbarian comes from the word barbaros which is Greek I think) but I might be wrong in that.

[@FattasMotorhuv]

@@gerardv.dgalien that’s absolutely true. The Greeks invented the term and used it as you describe. Then the Roman’s adopted the term and used it to label all non-Roman’s and illiterates but over the course of time it was more and more used for Germanic tribes until it became an exclusive term for the Germanic people in Roman day to day language

[@rnz1155]

@Knowledgia you said Skanderbeg part 2 will be ready by April?

[@jacksprat7087]

Don’t forget there was a large drop in northern hemisphere temperatures about 500 AD. Lot of people were forced to migrate from northern areas.

[@uryen921]

You spoke the Germanic people and the Vikings separately, but weren't they the same group of people?

[@MrPbhuh]

Sort of, Vikings were gently Norse Germanic. Tribes that remained in the North while the Germanic invaders were 400 years earlier.

[@ravinraven6913]

they were indeed...this guy doesn't do any fact checking...that or he just reads one book thats been out of date and disprove years ago...

[@firstnamesecondname852]

You should rather ask why the Romans migrated to Germany, France, Britain, Spain, Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey, Syria, Israel, Egypt, Libya, Algeria, Tunesia and Morocco?

[@anikmahmud1737]

The Roman Empire did NOT end during the Barbarian Invasion, but it ended with the Ottomans conquering Constantinople in 1453!

[@daylight3325]

Neeerd

[@augustuscaesar8287]

​@@daylight3325Nerdy is good.

[@erasin8844]

Even though its citizens would have called themselves Roman, Byzantium is not really considered as Rome due to major greek influence and differences in culture but also because of the different capital.

[@ikmkz]

Still to this day not conquered but divided

[@vikinglegacy9136]

A city cant be an empire. In the beginning the roman empire was called the roman repuplic. But dont surprise me you wanna take credit for that.

[@kristianpoulherkild3401]

They weren't German tribes, they were germanic tribes - with their urheimat in Denmark. From where they migrated North, east, west and south.

[@jimparsons6803]

Heard about the 'Huns Theory,' in University. The notion of that time was there might have been a "cold spell" in what is now Mongolia or what is now Southern Siberia, for several decades or generations. So people were fleeing the cold?

[@Argacyan]

One anecdote about the vagueness of the term Germania: One of the south-easternmost pre-migration tribal confederation were the Bastarnae & while this map cuts off Germania in Silesia, the Bastarnae lived all the way in current-day Moldova. Post-migration you would still have Germanic tribes in areas like Crimea (the Crimean Goths) for centuries. The use of a green map shade with a strict border is to be regarded as suboptimal as it implies strict cutting-off of an area, though I get it why in mapping people tend to do it.

[@ellin67]

13:09 later and I'm still wondering why the Germanic tribes migrated. The video very nicely explains HOW they migrated, not WHY.

[@jacquesstrapp3219]

It does say at the very end. The Huns, overpopulation, and poor harvests.

[@NotoriousN_I_G_]

Because azns were superior fighters

[@igonz22]

What software did you use to make this video?

[@aforrosaline4141]

I was completely absorbed by this ancient history documentary. The way it was put together is incredible.

[@rajsekharRonaldo5297]

Germany : WTF is an empire 😂😂😂

[@marchauchler1622]

Not Germany but Germania. Slight difference.

[@jefflebowski918]

Because Germans love Italian food and Italian women.

[@nikoskarkavelias1612]

@@jefflebowski918 if only these poor men knew!

[@kakehull2566]

As a germanic person i especially love the last thing u mentioned

[@GeraldM_inNC]

I have always read that the cause was the Asiatic hordes. As you said, even though the Germans were great at warfare, the Asiatic hordes were beyond the ability of even the Germans to fight.

[@ravinraven6913]

it was the Huns and the Asiatic hordes of the steppe. You shouldn't listen to this guy as a source of facts. He gets one things wrong every minute at least.

[@lichang-l3m]

1. It was mainly because of the climate change, weather became colder and colder, therefore, it was harder and harder to agriculture. 2. Almost at the same time, the Chinese empire in the east also suffered the same situation, including the Huns. 3. The Huns was also forced to move to the south, when they encountered Chinese, some started to move west. It was not because the Huns was stronger to beat the German, it was simply because they had large amount of cavalry, and the German were almost infantry.

[@jacksprat7087]

I agree on the temperature thing as a root cause of migrations there at about 500AD. A great amount of data pretty well proves a large temp drop.

[@sahajdeep_sandhu]

i am early this time 🙂 also i love ur videos they are really informative

[@Rikhradouhr]

As Schiller said German poet. We Germans are unique cause we got the Germanic Soul of freedom.

[@patrickuotinen]

2:13 The Danes must love this map.

[@heinzfischer2710]

Research found that the Roman era had comparatively warm climate, which made also the Germanic lands in the north inhabitable. Still Tacitus wrote about the "cold and raindripping forests of Germania". Probably it was the worsening climate in the dark ages of th 4th and 5th century due to volcanic eruptions somewhere on the globe. which made Germanic tribes migrate, and the reputation of the rich Roman lands. When the Romans arrived in Germany the city of Rome was a big city of a 100 000 inhabitants. while in Germany only villages existed, not a single town! Only villages. Originally the Germanic tribes were backward and living in a kind of cold rainy jungle which covererd their land with a few fields and villages in between. In military terms and handicraft they caught up, in science the backlog of lasted till into the 12 century and longer, while the Arabs who conquered Palestine and North Africa allowed Greek science to continue to thrive except for philosophy, where they interdicted all philosophy outside of Islam. So when Spain was reconquered, they began to translate Arab copies of Greek scientific books back into European languages. The western Europe conquered by Germanic tribes had fallen back below the level the Romans had already achieved. You see this in mathematics where the Arabs developed Al Gebra, and only from the 16th century on the names become French, German, and English: Bernoulli, Law of Cauchy, Lagrange, Laplace, L'Hopital (French), Gauss, Leibniz, Euler (German), Law of Stokes (British).

[@morwickchesterham3875]

The biggest mistake Rome made was hiring Germanic mercenaries... These mercenaries made the backbone of the Germanic armies that invaded Rome... They also knew everything about Rome and its military. The same mistake was made centuries later by the Persians, who had continuously hired Arab mercenaries. For those who don't know, the Arabs took-over Persia and Islamised them.

[@viktorsocial]

And now? 🤡🎉

[@joebombero1]

They had to use them as Rome kept having brutal civil wars that continuously trimmed off tens of thousands of their best troops every generation.

[@ravinraven6913]

uh no, the biggest mistake they made was relying on them as they would rely on their own Legions. And then not training the legions but hiring mercs...Every one used Mercenaries back then, not every one paid...if the germans were properly assisted against the huns and previous waves of invaders. Germans wouldn't have had a need to move into Rome.

[@trythis2006]

PROUD TO BE A BARBARIAN

[@samiman5606]

Me too

[@PatriotOfPersia]

Oh Sh*t

[@renevalleramos994]

Yeah, that is why i wanna be like conan.

[@jaimendaniel5578]

A Spanish philosopher, Ortega y Gasset said that the fascination with culture and all things culture is a barbarian trait.

[@newreast3904]

When there is nothing else left to be proud of, I guess….

[@Mad-Jam]

Gothic people most have some connection with Sweden. We have both "Göter/Gauter" (Southern Sweden) and "Gotlänning/Guter" (people from the island in the baltic) groups in Sweden. Jordanes the 6th century historian said that the goths come from a island in the north called Scandza....

[@Rainbow_Oracle]

Yeah, Got, Goth, Gota, Jute, Geat, all same root word for groups with the same ancestry. With Visigoths and Ostrogoths stemming from there, and then settle all of Europe, it's a wonder we came to name them Germanic Peoples. Gothic peoples would have been a much better fit.

[@ninototo1]

​@@Rainbow_OracleTrue but we call them that cause we copied what the (ignorant) Romans called them.

[@KingMordred]

Remember kids. All of this was Quintilius Varus' fault...

[@rambopack9140]

Im pretty sure rome at its absolute peak was 75 million people comparable to the Chinese dynasty at that time.

[@andrewmichaels5725]

I hope the Germans are not offended that we called them Barbarians. They should be proud of their origins:)

[@AndreasConfirmed]

Russia and Ukraine did not exist in that time! Also there are a lot of other mistakes in this video.

[@tjmozdzen]

I wonder how these people with different languages communicated with each other. Even 1850s Germany had hundreds of local dialects, many of which were distinct enough to be incomprehensible to neighboring villages.

[@StevenJebaLeb]

Now arab/african migration to the same lands.. ahh the cycle of life

[@loquat4440]

Mixed with the Germans were some Iranian speaking tribes called Alans that for a few years even had a kingdom in hispania. The most obvious trace of them remaining are the Alano (Alaunt, Alao) dogs that the brought to Spain-Portugral and southern France.

[@antoniotorcoli5740]

Because of the Huns mainly.

[@markkristopher2552]

Wow! That was really good!

[@TitusVI]

As a German i think its highly offensive to call my ancestors barbarians. When Europeans moved into the Americans we didnt call them barbarians either.

[@arnarCJer]

The Amazinhg ("berbers") would like a word with you lol

[@davidd.c.9344]

Germans acting like barbarians until WW2, and you take offense??😅😅😅 Yeahhhh, you're so misunderstood. Pity the poor germans. 🤣🌈🤡

[@trollmcclure2659]

But the Europeans in America indeed acted like barbarians

[@Houthiandtheblowfish]

well they called us iranians barbarians too i take it as a compliment whilst sasanids were fighting romans we had even communicated with germans to invade italy whilst we preparing to attack rome there are fascinating accounts of this

[@TitusVI]

@@Houthiandtheblowfish right. rather be a barbarian who did something in history then beeing african and doing dog shit all history

[@gerardvandermeulen62]

120 million, with 50 % (!!!) slaves, that's 60 million slaves in the Empire. Seems a lot to me...

[@Benito-lr8mz]

In Spain the Visigoths with a lot of diference the most quantitative invasion.

[@ThinkTwice2222]

How did these genetic tribes become posh like European royals

[@Rildar]

White excellence

[@randomcamus9445]

With time everything is possible

[@kriskris998]

In year 375 the huns crossed don river and attacked the Ostrogoths and this is how the domino effect started

[@TheLionFarm]

Important The Huns likely entered Western Asia shortly before 370, from Central Asia: they first conquered the Goths and the Alans, pushing a number of tribes to seek refuge within the Roman Empire. In the following years, the Huns conquered most of the Germanic and Scythian tribes outside of the borders of the Roman Empire. They was being pushed kinda like what happened in the bronze age collapse so did iron.

[@AnglandAlamehnaSwedish]

They couldn't go anywhere where there was castles n mountains

[@GoaGlenn]

Why mentioning some origins in southern Scandinavia but only coloring Denmark in green? It is known that some Germanic tribes probably originated from southern Sweden and possible south east Norway e.g The Heruli.

[@jamieflame01]

Because the heart land of the culture is Jutland, the Danish islands and Skåne. If you take a look at Beowulf and the locations of Nordic bronze age cult finds.

[@GoaGlenn]

Sure, it could be a sort of heart land. Beowulf likely originating from the Geats(Götar) in what is nowadays Sweden. Yes, I know he traveled to the Danish King

[@shailingkhongmalai9515]

​@@GoaGlenn denmark is Southern Scandinavia. Germanic tribes originated in Denmark and Northern germany

[@ravinraven6913]

huh? Its more likely they originated from Denmark and moved out...denmark, being north of germany...But not across any bodies of water. Makes it much more likely. Then the migration from eastern europe into scandanavia so really..Scandanavians arn't even fully germanic. They are closer to the original celtic peoples...

[@nenenindonu]

Pressure of Oghuric tribes who were led by Hun Kama Tarkhan that's why

[@TukozAki]

5:50 Showing the Ostrogoth going south east from today's Czechia to Illyria is so funny 😄 It's probably to have them come what OP's map shows as Germania, but these people came from the Pontic (today's Ukraine), pushed by even fiercer warriors coming from the East: the Great Migrations from the other half of Eurasia to Europe had begun.

[@Mordacitas7]

Low quality video which misspells Britain and calls it the westernmost Germanic migration despite their Spanish conquests, dramatically overestimates the population of the Western Empire, doesn’t get into the actual question in title… not sure if it’s AI slop or human error, but in either case: 👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼

[@Hun_Uinaq]

Vikings are Germanic people as well. So, of course the customs are similar! 🙄 I mean duh!

[@TheLegacyTales]

I love this video man. As someone of German ancestry this is great. Love the bit on the Huns potentially being the most savage which is why Germans fled more West

[@epg96]

"Why do we call the whole world's attention to the fact that we have no past? It isn't enough that the Romans were erecting great buildings when our forefathers were still living in mud huts; now Himmler is starting to dig up these villages of mud huts ... All we prove by that is that we were still throwing stone hatchets and crouching around open fires when Greece and Rome had already reached the highest stage of culture. We really should do our best to keep quiet about this past. Instead Himmler is making a great fuss about it all. The present-day Romans must be having a laugh at these revelations" (Speer, 141). Speer, Albert. Inside the Third Reich. New York: Avon Books, 1970.

[@AnglandAlamehnaSwedish]

Ah yes gotta have propaganda not that it is used ever after the Nazis were defeated eh

[@lagjescuni5482]

the Adriatic Sea was dominated by the Albanians ( illyrians) before Rome became an empire through the lembi and liburna ships..without forgetting that the Macedonians were also vassals of the Illyrians until Philip (Alexander Father) managed to gain independence in the period of King Bardhyl

[@Runo1923]

It's safe to say Turks are responsible for the fall of both Western and Eastern Rome in a thousand years apart. Mehmet II finished what Atilla started.

[@manjushagongale]

How Western Roman Empire?

[@Runo1923]

@@manjushagongale Huns are one of the oldest known ancestors of Turkic people. They split into Western Huns and Eastern Huns in Europe and Asia. Atilla led the western branch.

[@steffenb.jrgensen2014]

The Huns never reached Scandinavia and thus not caused the Jutes and Angles to go to England. But the Danes, originally inhibiting the Danish Isles and Scania at the same time emerged in Jutland. If they just filled up a vacuum or repressed Jutes and Angles is difficult to say, probably a combination, but I think first of all people crossed the North Sea because they could. Shipbuilding and seafaring techologies accellerated in these centuries and would a few centuries later culminate in the Viking age.

[@kb.e3762]

genuine question, why is there atila mentioned in the norse sagas?

[@joebombero1]

The Vikings did build amazing ships. Did you see the Viking ship they rebuilt which raced a modern yacht? The Viking ship lost, but it kept pace well. Amazing ships.

[@ReturnEternal]

Denmark be marked "Northern Germany" and goes oh oh ....

[@lerneanlion]

Correction: The Roman Empire did not end with the Sack of Rome. It continued on with Constantinople as its capital for centuries to come. Also, why didn't the Roman government at the time just directed all of the Germanic tribes to Britain after they left the island? By doing so, they will be preoccupeid with fighting against each other for finding lands to settle rather than bothering with the Roman Empire as a whole.

[@sebe2255]

Actually it ended with the dissolution of the HRE

[@Tyrs_Finox]

This video kind of glosses over the gothic kingdom in modern Ukraine and similar regions. Also the other east-germanic tribes like the vandals that were nearby. Collectively they were the ones who took the brunt of the initial hunnic invasion into europe which is the reason why the migrations started. I've always wanted to know more about that old gothic kingdom, it's not very well sourced though.

[@ericp0012]

It seems we are seeing a similar scenario today with others tribes/ tribal groups invading the European Union.

[@Rildar]

No we aren't. Don't compare the two. What's happening today is orchestrated, planned, and extraordinarily genocidal above all else. And unlike the fate the Romans suffered, the invasion today can and WILL be reversed to deadly effect.

[@wildheaven1827]

"They prefer sudden raids as the most effective form of attack, and wield a wide range of well crafted weapons" Some things never change

[@faenethlorhalien]

Too cold up there innit

[@ravinraven6913]

specially when the volcanos were going off blocking out the sun for over a year...one year is called the Year without summer.

[@RichardDavies-g3h]

Your maps doesn't include the angles and the saxons

[@inialny]

Germanic tribes is just the name and does not mean German tribes. There were no German people on the territory of Poland until Polish prince invited the Order of Teutonic Knights in the 12th century. Ostrogoths, Visigoths and Vandals were maybe Germanic tribes but they are not ancestors of Germans.

[@internettoughguy5943]

Why do modern Germanic people look exactly how the Roman’s described them then?

[@marchauchler1622]

Correct!

[@Jether.]

Germwnic aren't the only Germans, celts,baltics and one slavic tribe too

[@alfred-vz8ti]

some saw the big city down south, and thought, why not be warm.

[@KARADJORDJIJE]

Goth coming from Scandinavia isnt it?Area in today Sweden name Gothland

[@alexandrutomescu4146]

Is'nt sure.

[@baqaqipekhebi7148]

Maybe you didn’t mean to do this, but when you begin speaking about Slavic migration as yo focus on Avars. The Avars are not Slavs!

[@ravinraven6913]

maybe you didn't realize this but it doesn't seem like he did any research and even less fact checking...thats not the only part he got wrong. It seems like he got something wrong in every minute of the video.

[@Mjc0308]

History repeats itself as we speak, and our leaders know it

[@Rildar]

They use these events from 1500 years ago to justify ethnically cleansing Europe with hordes of 60 IQs

[@PackHunter117]

You forgot to include the Frisians. They also migrated to Brittania after Rome pulled out also.

[@MrPbhuh]

Potentially, we don't know. The Romans called most of Netherlands above the Rhine Frisii, then there is a gap in the historical record and in 600 we speak of the Frisians. They are likely connected but nobody knows how. Frisians may have assimilated with the Anglo-Saxon migrants. One key element here is the lack of a Frisian kingdom in Britain.

[@mohammedabdullah4602]

Because of the Turkic tribes with their horses (Huns ans Avars) ...Attila the Huns used to have an army of 500,000 horse arches spreading terror and blood in Europe

[@Manuka-px2pe]

Moh moh moh, the the reason why norse tribes spread to southern europe was because the iron gate came down in Sweden. The norse are seed of Gog and Magog.The huns came so much later..

[@wotanvonedelsburg1610]

@@Manuka-px2pe what?

[@ronaldwinfield307]

A subject that has always intrigued me.

[@azazeln]

Is CE the same as AD? The same counting of years? Are we in the 2024 CE?

[@Trickaz94]

Yes bc/ad are christian terminology And BCE/CE is academic terminology for the educated people

[@azazeln]

@@Trickaz94 Thank you for the answer. What is the reason for CE to begin, I mean what happened and BCE ended and CE started 2024 years ago?

[@Trickaz94]

@@azazeln CE stands for common era, in other words when we started counting the years in the new calendar the romans introduced, BCE stands for before common era, before the new year count The christians use their own system which is basically the same but have given their own meaning to it, this was decided on with the Council of Nicea in 325 CE when the roman Catholic church tried to unify all christian cults and reform solely under the roman Catholic church

[@rohantayron6857]

@@Trickaz94 Are you serious? The romans just happened to introduce a new calendar in the exact birth year of Jesus Christ? Stop spreading misinformation. The calendar we use today is the gregorian calendar based on Jesus Christs birth, and the atheists just want to use BCE and CE instead of the actual terminology which is BC and Anno Domini. Youre just straight up lying about the Council of Nicaea thing too, there was no roman catholic and eastern orthdoox church back then, there was one united insitution

[@argylemanni280]

@@Trickaz94 Please, get boosted. It is so necessary. You've been educated, you know the score. Believe in the science. The booster waits for you. You need it.

[@PKAClips]

What an interesting time in history

[@jesperlykkeberg7438]

Calling the Germanic tribes "Germans" is like calling the Gallic tribes "French" and the Aztec tribes "Mexicans".

[@saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014]

Indeed, there was more diversity in “germania” , the Belgii, Lugii, Boii and Cimbri were Celts (or mix) living in these areas . Some suggests that the majority of the Vandals were composed of Lugii migrants and warriors

[@Schwizinberg]

Yessss finally a question i needed the answer for