10 TERRIFYING FACTS ABOUT MEDIEVAL KNIGHTS DEBUNKED!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ต.ค. 2024
- Here I'm debunking the popular video made by #Mind Warehouse. Their video is full of misconceptions and wrong teachings, if you have watched that video, make sure to watch this one to!
The armours I mention: "Sigismundsharness ~1.78
Wellenburg & Sonnenberg ~1.75
Friedrich I. the Victorious ~1.80"
Link to knyght Errant's video where he wears his armour
• How Long does it Take ...
A knight is a person granted an honorary title of knighthood by a monarch or other political leader for service to the monarch or country. During the High Middle Ages, knighthood was considered a class of lower nobility. By the Late Middle Ages, the rank had become associated with the ideals of chivalry. Often, a knight was a vassal who served as a fighter for a lord, with payment in the form of land holdings. Knighthood in the Middle Ages was closely linked with horsemanship (and especially the joust) from its origins in the 12th century until its final flowering as a fashion among the high nobility in the Duchy of Burgundy in the 15th century. This linkage is reflected in the etymology of chivalry, cavalier and related terms.
In the late medieval period, new methods of warfare began to render classical knights in armour obsolete, but the titles remained in many nations.
While the knight was essentially a title denoting a military office, the term could also be used for positions of higher nobility such as landholders. The higher nobles grant the vassals their portions of land (fiefs) in return for their loyalty, protection, and service. The nobles also provided their knights with necessities. The knight generally held his lands by military tenure which was measured through military service that usually lasted 40 days a year. Vassals and lords could maintain any number of knights, although knights with more military experience were those most sought after. A knight fighting under another's banner was called a knight bachelor while a knight fighting under his own banner was a knight banneret.
A knight had to be born of nobility - typically sons of knights or lords. In some cases commoners could also be knighted as a reward for extraordinary military service.
The seven-year-old boys were given the title of page and turned over to the care of the castle's lords. They were placed on an early training regime. Pages then become assistants to older knights in battle, carrying and cleaning armour, taking care of the horses, and packing the baggage. Older pages were instructed by knights in swordsmanship, equestrianism, chivalry, warfare, and combat (but using wooden swords and spears).
When the young boy turned 15, he became a squire. During this time the squires continued training in combat and were allowed to own armour (rather than borrowing it).
Squires were required to master the “seven points of agilities” - riding, swimming and diving, shooting different types of weapons, climbing, participation in tournaments, wrestling, fencing, long jumping, and dancing - the prerequisite skills for knighthood. All of these were even performed while wearing armour.
Upon turning 21, the squire was eligible to be knighted.
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Thank you sir, thank you! I saw that awful video too and was tempted myself to debunk it, but thou hast done it for me and it is truly a superb job, as always. All the best mate!
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Do it anyway casual.
Come on!
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I'll be waiting for that video Shad!!!
"They were not tall" OH NO HOW TERRIFYING!
OH NO , I AM SHORT BUT HAVE SUCH FINE ARMOUR AND WEAPONS , WHAT SHALL I DO?! I GUESS I WILL LIE DOWN AND PRETEND THAT I AM DEAD
Oh shit a two foot knight our armies are as good as dead
My cousin's so tall he has problems finding suitable cars, clothes and can't for the life of him find a bike in any bicycle store to help him stay in shape. He also needs to be very aware of his surroundings any time we walks through doors or near a ceiling lamp. Truly, being tall is nothing but bliss.
@@trolldrool yeah, evolution wants us to be small
But modern food and substancions in air makes us taller with gives us only problems
I mean, they weren’t that short. Hell 6 foot people weren’t scarce
"On campaign Knights were in their armour 24/7."
Eh?
No.
Sleeping: "augh this steel is making it hard for me to sleep."
Eating: "I'm fucking starving, I haven't eaten in like... 2 months, could you maybe shove some bread up under my armet?"
+Sanguis Dominus kissing: "I'll be back sweetheart. I promise that." A few seconds later, "dammit this helmet is making it difficult for me to kiss my spouse
Maintenance: "Um... my armour's getting really.... really rusty. It's getting incredibly difficult to oil whilst I'm inside it. I've got oil in orifices I didn't even know I had.".
+Sanguis Dominus swimming: "augh! This is really...really difficult to see where I'm going." Then surfaces, ahhhh, my eyes they burn!"
Even Neanderthals were sentient and probably liked to stay clean
The proper word is not "sentient," it's "sapient." All animals are sentient, but only a few animals (us among them) are sapient.
He's responding directly to the video Sir Snek. Around 2 minutes in.
there is actually proof that stone-age-men shaved (with sharpened rocks). It probably wasnt a "clean shave" and it also peobably wasnt because of "fashion". They did it, presumably because beards are good moisture deposits which is why a beard in cold climate can freeze and drain you of temperature more than if u where clean shaved so shaving in the stone age was a means for survival (in cold climate).
Neanderthals are humans too, just a different species. They were sentient, sapient and probably of equal intelligence to us. In fact the last scientific research has discovered that europeans and asians have neanderthal dna, so instead of extinct by the homo sapiens competition, like traditional science states, they interbred with the homo sapiens. We are at a certain degree neanderthals.
genographic.nationalgeographic.com/neanderthal/
Don't know what he was on about with that seeing as Neanderthals are largely recognised as having been more intelligent than their contemporary homosapien counterparts, having used tools and worn clothing more complex than even some African tribes as far as into the colonial era.
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That no bath thing comes from Renaissance, after epidemic of plegue because people thought it could be transmitted from water.
Justlikeme613 Very interesting....didn't know this. Thank you for clearing this up.
That could be actually truth.
Cholera is spread through filthy water though it's fairly modern disease.
There was a belief around that time, that disease was caused by foul odour. Or more correctly that there was 'something' in the air causing disease and whatever it was always smelled really rank. If there weren't any foul odours in the area, everything was fine. If there was a foul odour nearby, you had to locate and remove the source of the smell or remove yourself from the area. This is why during epidemics, you'd have doctors and physicians carrying pleasent smelling herbs or incense. The aversion to water came from a speculation that water applied to the skin would open up the pores and make it easier for whatever caused the bad smell to get through.
@@trolldrool "Or more correctly that there was 'something' in the air causing disease "
The word you were looking for is "miasma".
@Patrick Brennan ?
The worst part is that people actually believe it! Look at the comment section, it is just depressing.
That's the worst part of the whole thing... and now all those people will go on and tell others "Hey, did you know that.... " and the cycle of misinformation continues... ugh
Yeah a few of these things should set off alarm bells, given how they would go against common sense. So a knight who most likely has some wealth and servants to do his bidding, are going to be a dirty walking pile of dirt and grim? Yeah that doesn't sound like something someone who is wealthy would do or servants who can do things for them, would allow to happen. You think they would want to up hold a more knightly or noble image. Which with the help of servants to bathe and clean them, they could do a lot more easily.
***** Couldn't hurt to have counter information out there. Just in case someone wants to double check on these "facts" that are being spread around.
Nowadays kida and young adults use youtube videos as a source of information, while 50/50 true, it is better to go to a local library and check out books on knights and medieval times. Libraries are so fun! so much genuine information. The internet eh, again 50/50 true and misinformed information.
I'm really getting pissed off at the roasting everyone gives European culture as a whole nowadays (even western culture as a whole) ..... It's just sad.... There's also a video about how a samurai would destroy a knight!!! What a load of hogwash!
I wonder if reporting them for spam/missinformation is allowed? mindwarehouse is obviously just trying to get views/make money off false information.
You can but it's not gonna do anything, because it's a popular video, which means a lot of money also for youtube, they'll never take it down.
oh youtube fucks with everyone lately from what I've understood. I like youtube drama and there's a shitshow about this lately (though I wouldn't report them, the video seems made for the fun of it so to say and the channel could get strikes over it)
in unsubbed him
and i feel like your information is allot more accurate
Austin Murre Well thank you for that
+Metatron
no problem my freind.
you fight ignorance and I have alot of respect for that.
keep it up! :-D
B-b-b-b-but medieval times were dark, and everyone was filthy and diseased and there was mud EVERYWHERE, and people only wore grey and brown clothing, and never washed!
...
Because apparently people didn't have noses back then, and didn't like things such as swimming in rivers and lakes, or taking a bath for the sheer enjoyment and refreshment purpose alone, or something.
xD
Just to let you know....
Bathing Ng was looked down on by Christians but supported by heathens so depending on what area you were from decided how often you bathed.
Teeth were brushed with twigs.
From as early as the 200's even peseants had a full colour palet, not just brown and grey.
From the 699's they also had access to silks, stains, brocade, linen, spices, all kettles ect... Dark ages does not mean the people were unkept, dirty, even the peseants. The "peseants" so many refer to are actually serfs - HUGE difference.
Medieval London was full of bath houses that were filled with people that gambled and whored in the warm water for hours. And London was very small compared to places like Firenze, Venice, Paris or Constantinople.
People have always preferred to not be dirty.
And why would people in the middle ages only dress in brown and grey? People have a habit of liking nice colors.
I think the joke went right over your head.
The Duke No it didn't. I agree with it.
mustarastas88 Sorry, I was refering to L Groot.
Terrifying fact about European Knights: they often fought mounted. Anyone who's ever dealt with large angry livestock needs to read no more.
Starch is split into sugar in your mouth by enzymes in your saliva, so you needn't eat sugar for cavities, flour is enough. And there were also abrasive residues in it from being ground between stones and such. But even tribes still living in paleolithic conditions take care of their teeth. So we can asume that there were some dental problems and there are archeological finds of skulls with good teeth and some with bad teeth. It's definitely wrong to say that everybody back then had catastrophic dental problems.
Not only that, but starch is also a foodglue, it sticks like shit to a wall. Hence why cookies tend to be worse for your teeth than a lot of candies.
And the highest amount of starch is in white flour. Since white flour is only "purified" normal flour, it was much more expensive. So, leaving mechanical issues out and assuming that peasants had similar ways to clean their teeth as wealthy folks, the wealthier people would in the end come out having more problems with cavities.
Another additional point is that nowadays people tend to snack always, especially drinking juices and soda stuff. So bathing your mouth in sugar and acids obviously has an effect.
Flouride in toothpaste is actually a workaround for nowadays food and eating habits. Instead of eating healthier humanity came up with using flouride to repair the damage done over night...
"You people deserve to be taught reality." Well said, and thank you.
2:45 The word for "Saturday" in the Scandinavian languages is "bath day", (e.g. Norwegian *lørdag*) and this goes right back to Old Norse, so a weekly wash for ordinary folk is definitely at least as old as the Middle Ages. And of course the Romans were always hanging out at bath-houses, so there was plenty of precedent.
Scandinavian (and Finnish) homesteads had their own bathhouses as a part of the compound. Why would they go through the trouble of building entire small houses for an activity they would only take three times a year? Not to mention public bathhouses did exist in the middle ages. Medieval people not bathing makes no sense when one considers all the evidence to the contrary.
Gentlemen , we have to stick to the rhetoric of Evil Dark Ages , otherwise how can we be anti Church , or against our own culture ??? Next we will hear that the Crusades were the result of ongoing 700 years Islamic invasions of Europe and that the Inquisition was a kitten with its 1500 victims compared with the conquest of Hungary by the Ottomans for instance when 50% of the population was exterminated (or Moldavia loosing 80% of its people at the hands of the Mongols ) Please ! We need to stay Political Correct ! The truth doesn't matter , it's the "feelings" ... that matter !
krix pop I hear an axe grinding.
A lot of historical nastiness in Europe has to do with the Counter Reform and later on the Industrial Revolution. People during the XIXth century were noticeably less healthy, dirtier and smaller than during the XIVth century.
Actually, romans didnt have bath houses. They had Grese houses. They washed in grease and use a intrument to scrape it off. In which after wards they took a QUICK dip in cold water.
I am very happy to have watched this!
A friend of mine works at Medieval Times in Orlando FL. He gets so frustrated at having to explain the truth to tourist about the lives of knights and debunking the mythology. To emphasize his point he'll do cartwheels, backflips, and pancake splits while in full armour.
btw-he loves your videos too
thank you i cringed when i watched that other video. you are awesome.
I'm glad you liked my video :)
you are right on, TH-cam gives voice to any and all fools with a computer, don't expect them to change, they are not about to waste their time with actual research
Soap was around before during and after the dark ages.
They did but I think it was mainly used to wash clothes but I could be wrong.
Yeah gallics were using it before the roman empire
it was a charcoal soap tho
Hadrien Lormiez
Pigs fat was used.
there where also from charcoal ash, it basically depended on where you are located, for what I know, pig fat was the most common tho
It is like people saying vikings were downright unclean. They bathed nearly everyday! Heck their dreadlocks were only due to their curly hair, not from lack of bathing!
iirc the germans of roman ages used soap more often than romans
I remember hearing a historian quote an early medieval text of how the anglo saxon men were "complaining", because apparently some of the anglo saxon women had taken a liking to the scandinavians who had settled the land, simply because the vikings washed and cleaned themselves so much!
Hidden Desire that actually were very into grooming their hair, especially before battles
In old norwegian, saturday was named Laugardag.. meaning washday. It was a day for bathing and getting clean, and part of the culture so much it got its own day of the week named for it.
Ok, how come the Romans and later the Muslims wrote about the high and size of Germanic tribesmen. Not much changed from 400 to 1400 in terms of size except food became especially BREAD and ALE became readable available which lead to a high carb, high fat, and high protein diet thus resulting in larger people especially the wealthy ( knight class )
Cero Matala Usually their scruptures were extremely biased towards them, an example of this is like with several chronicles from Monks describing how vikings were brutish people and raiders, which is not entirely true.
Because they were even smaller than the Germanic tribesmen.
How are these terrifying? Even if they were true?
I have Nanosophobia so it terrifies me.
remember kids, in order to be a knight you have to pee and sleep in full plate have fun. is basically what that video said
Don't forget to rape women!
Did that actally happen?
+Replay Bro
...
OR DO THEY?
DOn't forget to carry around a blunt sword and never sharpen it, even for battle.
Are you implying that drinking from the skulls of people I've killed is not normal?
Oh, so THAT'S why nobody talks to me anymore...
“Guys lets alienate culture with myths and misconceptions, because that would rack up views right???”
“10 Terrifying facts about knights” they were dirty and short
wait, so they were hobbits?
@@blitsriderfield4099 more like orcs haha
Hobbits love been clean
There's an orthodontist (I forget his name) who said that 90% of people today have misshapen rows of teeth and jawlines and 10% have the correct overall structure to that which we originally evolved to have, and the original humans had the opposite statistics, even up to medieval times and even 100 years ago
D Dog 2015 I have an overbite
I have deep bite and fucked up teeth (3 extra). After quarantine Im getting it fixed
I was laughing so hard on that knights ware armor 24/7 part... my belly hurts... Awwaaaaaaa~~~~~!!!
I know right? xD
Sometimes all it takes to figure out the plausibility of something is to use this thing called common sense.
"Knight were of short height"
OMG terrifying!
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Wha?? No!.... ya bastahd!
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Aight mate!
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Watching that video was painful for me...I literally screamed with happiness when I saw you debunked their BS.
Thank fuck, Metatron there's many videos of this kind by pseudo historians...would you like links?
Sure :)
But please check my debunking playlist first so you don't give me links to videos I have already debunked thanks ;3
Metatron It's fine, I have seen it. Is there a specific _kind_ of video you're looking for next?
Edit: Would long documentaries with lots of bullshit information be bad?
Metatron First (I'm literally just looking up "medieval" just to show how prevalent this is>)
Ughhh... I'm so tired of Medieval misconceptions, they're fuckin everywhere. It's like nobody even bothers to research things before making assertions about them.
My grandmother used to "brush" her teeth with salt, she still does. No toothpaste, no dentists still has a full set of teeth looking a lot better than those of my parents. If some peasants from the East Balkans figured this out, why would ancient people not use the same tricks ?
Ancient people had dentists and did clean there teeth.
Often they suffered from there teeth wearing out from grit in the bread.
May I ask how she did it? Sounds interesting.
Finger in water, then finger in salt, then just use your finger as a toothbrush. Simple as that.
If you think about that salt is toxic to bacterias it makes sense.
Weird, I once knew a girl from North Korea that did that as well. Saying that it's how her parents taught her when she was a little girl... and she had AWESOME teeth.
Okay then. I guess I'll try that once I get my teeth fixed ?_?
NO FUCKING BATH HOUSES!!!!!???? Go visit Budapest in Hungary, and no doubt your tour guide will lead you to one of many Turkish bath houses. Considering that the Ottomans brought the "style" in at the dawn of the 16th century, you would think that even common people in large cities liked to keep clean. The absence of indoor pluming didn't mean people liked swimming in their own shit... Where do these people get their source material? Game of Thrones?
Even besides there are several roman baths throughout Western Europe, the notion that bathing was an alien concept to any European populations is just utter tripe.
I... that video is HORRIBLE. It's the most complete gathering of bullshit about medieval knights I'v even heard, though. No, wait, lacks the fact you need a crane to get on a horse when in full plate, maybe?...
That crane one always get me. Yes, the cranes designs existed, but if the cranes themselves were used for people as opposed to lifting goods off wagons, as the more likely designed for, then they were used to lift fat nobles in their faux armor onto horses for parade more than anything. After all a knight that can not mount their own horse was not knight at all.
Another myth I'm surprised the video didn't profess to be true was that medieval armor weighed hundreds of pounds.
The cranes might have been true for jousting armour which was much heavier and more inconvinient than the armour a knight would wear. And even so probably only in some extreme cases.
I have however not seen a jousting armour being that inconvenient. Especially not one form the medieval period. But I admit I have not seen all armour from the period. ;)
Still I find it doubtful.
Cythil Yeah I was just suggesting the possibility. It is very much possible that even that is a myth.
From my knowledge, a battlefield chest plate (about XV sec) was rarely thicker than 2-3mm, thinning down toward the limbs plating. A 4-5mm thickness would get a huge amount of weight on it, but still not enough to require a crane.
If you value the fact that the plating may be around 12-15kgs, and with all the paddings and such an armour may hit the - how much - 35kgs, and they are well distributed, there's no way you may need cranes to get on horses.
Plus, Knyght Errant should have a video about armour overall weight.
Friend! Thank you for making this video! Literally 5 minutes ago i watched the original video. I was really thrown off by some of the claims but believed it somewhat. LUCKILY YOUR video was in the related videos. Thanks again for setting the record straight
Wouldn't there be bathhouses anywhere that had been in conquered by Rome?
Carver Yes there were and they were used frequently, I believe.
Apart from that and new ones were being built. London in the 1300s had around 50 bathhouses (called stews) but none were built by the Romans.
Yes but Christianity though they were bad because they were pagan
@@parthiancapitalist2733 Or because there was a massive plague that swept through, making people think it was a bad idea to wash together in large groups. I know this comment's old but come on.
Larger bathhouses existed even outside former Roman colonized areas. Just look for any German town that starts with "Bad ...". Smaller ones that used the passive heat from a bakery's oven where even more common.
"You watch [Pew Dei Pie] scream and you feel entertained. I don't, but other people do..." loled so hard there.
Thank you. Very well done. I was starting to have a fit of rage, then I saw the next video was this one. So I calmed down, and clicked on your vid.
You ARE right the other video should be removed! Children will believe that OTHER BS and not true facts.
I'd rather gouge my eyeballs out with rusty razors covered in hot sauce and salt than watch that video again.
By doing so, you wouldn't be able to watch much better videos. That and you'll die of bleeding or live in agony if you survive.
Prove it.
Even the wildest animal licks itself clean after a hunt
I'll quibble with one point you made. In the "what about the heat of battle" scenario, the truth is they pooped or wet themselves in battle. Even modern soldiers do, it's just part of being scared shitless.
I watch this video you speak of and I couldn't believe what I was hearing, good job putting this counter video together!
3:10 [sarcasm]: They were drinking alcohol instead of water, they were drunk all the time XDDDDDDD
I'm no expert on armor and knights, but when I saw that video awhile ago I was questioning everything cause it felt false. Im glad I listened to my gut instincts and found your video which had started my being subbed to you.
Just wanted to add that not only eating sugar leads to cavities in the teeth - it increases the chances significantly but is not the only reason.
I love the animated version of you
it's so cute and funny especially if he's grumpy
Concerning the teeth, it's true that people in the middle ages didn't consume much sugar such as glucose or fructose but they ate bread which was their main source of food, and as a matter of fact, bread can be almost as bad for your teeth as candies.
I hate it so much when people that have NO IDEA WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT try to teach people INVALID information. For gods sake, JUST READ A TEXTBOOK. OR, watch somebody's video that actually has HISTORICALLY ACCURATE INFORMATION.
Sort, that just really butters my croissant.
Love your vids Metatron, super awesome for history buffs like myself. Stay cool.
I love the occasional Londoner accent that pokes through :')
:3
I would love to see your production quality increase and your audio quality to become more crisp. I would suggest a nice microphone, not expensive, but nice to improve audio. I only say these things because I enjoy your debunking series and I would enjoy seeing these pushed up in value. Keep it up man!
my love for knights have been restored thank you sir god bless you
Thank you so much for this great debunking video!! medieval man didn't have as much technology, but he wasn't unhuman.
"Oh I have to take a piss, glad my armor has a big massive-" why the... hdgajcldhe amsg
Thankyou for this video. I did watch the original video and was actually upset with the strange concepts that they had come up with. I am glad that you addressed as many aspects of it as you did. Again, thankyou.
Sound the horns, lads, we're going to WAR!
thank you. I couldn't even get through that whole video which I watched about a month ago. good to see someone standing up to it.
I love this video, especially after just watching the video this is criticizing. Although some did have like 3 foot beards, it was the style for some of them. Like the Knights Templar, they were known for having long beards. In fact when they were being persecuted in France, guards picked them out of the crowd based on their long beards in many cases.
I literally subscribed because I felt the exact same way you did about this subject. To educate, you must be educated. Bravo sir, hurrah.
Pretty much all these "list of facts" you find around TH-cam are mostly, if not entirely bullshit.
THANK YOU! I just watched the video on which you based this. Absolute bollocks! It is good to know that there are honest video makers out there.
Good video. In regard to height of a knight: the average height of a man in the "middle ages" (68.27 cm, ~5,7) was actually taller than the average height of a man in the 19th century (~5'5). People always exaggerate this claim that people of the past were short--it isn't that simple. Europe experienced unusually warm climate during the "middle ages" which experts suspect contributed to this increased height. There are also many other factors which I couldn't possibly explain in a comment such as region--as Metatron mentioned.
I love how everyone outside countries with metric system dont know shit about it. 68 cm is a gnomish height. The average person would be amount 1 METER and 73 CENTIMETERS tall in the middle ages.
Don't forget the availability of food, that is also an important factor.
Love your content, love your name and I love your vision. You sir have gained a loyal fan!
I'm with you for the most parts...
I don't agree on the teeth thing though...
I mean... at first, wine, which was a pretty common drink back then, has enough sugar in it to cause cavities... And any corn-product is also pretty sufficient in causing it too.
But that's not my main point here, and I don't think that they wanted to adress this problem only by mentioning this point. I think they rather implied the loss of teeth due to physical force. Knights trained a lot, and had to fight alot too... Think of Ice-Hockey players... Despite the helmets and the mouthpieces it's not a rare occasion to see a Player loosing one of his teeth... Same might quite likely be true for knights aswell.
Corn came to Europe in 16th century.
I watched that so-called "fact" video some days ago and was hoping that you'd respond to it. I'm not even a serious student of the topic and knew that most of it was, to be charitable, poorly researched. Good job as always. The best I can say is that we find ourselves in a target-rich environment in the war on idiocy.
Thank god you made a video about this. It was ridiculous.
The height of knights is often based on the armor that was left for later ages to study. However, as a rule that armor would be either "salesmen's sample's" which would often be smaller than the suits worn by actual knights/men-at-arms and sets of armor built for men who were somehow out of the average. Most armor that fell in the sizes of normal sized warriors would by worn by someone until it could no longer be repaired. Hence the average knight/warrior's armor would seldom survive to be studied.
Good job!
thank you!!!! for flips sake it physically hurt me when I clicked on the video my reaction was exactly the same as yours nearly word for word!! keep the good work in general and thanks for some rationality in the universe for this video.
neanthal were sentient as well and they weren't pre human there populations even had some interbreeding
cavities? fruit, roots, shrooms. And meat dont bring bacteria that likely, since it doesnt get stuck.
baths? EVEN ANIMALS BATHE
yeah, they were pretty hygienic, just not as we, as they didnt have such threats, but others
Yes, Neanderthals were our cousins, not pre human. They were hominids, in other words human.
I've heard that some people actually have Neanderthal DNA.
human refers to the genus Homo, of which us Anatomically Modern Humans, happen to be the last surviving species. Anything from Homo habilis to us, are human species.
Gumaro R. Villamil
not species, one level lower to family, one higher to species, in portuguese it's gender
omg this is great was just telling my folks about the "truth of knights" night before last or so! I'd seen same video you're debunking - good work mate keep it up!
"Knights were super wealthy."
"Can't afford sugar."
Well which is it?
Garl Vinland he said peasents cant afford sugar, knights could, but it was expensive and rare
knights were super wealthy, but sugar was expensive because sugar was rather rare. peasants could not afford it and knights did not have it with the regularity that we do today.
honey was far more popular between medieval rich people than sugar because sugar was imported from india and was rare and expensive like spices
honey was far more popular between medieval rich people than sugar because sugar was imported from india and was rare and expensive like spices
honey was far more popular between medieval rich people than sugar because sugar was imported from india and was rare and expensive like spices
Cool video. Good debunking. But about the teeth: it's not just the sugar, you can get cavities from starch as well... So eating bread / potatoes etc.
you're starting to get a southern english accent lol
magnasupreme ZABI ZABI ZABI
which area of southern England? He definitely doesn't sound like a Londoner.
wow ive learned more on this channel for litteraly 2 hours or something about medieval knights than I have in 30 years watching TV and playing video games. You're awesome.
As an odontologist I could confirm that not the sugar is the main problem. The main problem is the food remnants in the mouth and between the teeth. Because of the over prolonged exposure the food leftovers in hot and humid environment starts to decay and its a perfect source of food for bacteria which consumes decaying food and extracts toxic materials which damages the teeth.
And yet it seems that going by archeological evidence that teeth were in pretty good condition for most people.
Big issue is how much we like to mix sugar in with shit that makes it stick to the teeth. Bacteria likes sugar, it eats sugar, and poops shit that makes teeth go bye-bye. Now normally with sugars, chances are it will be washed down the gullet by saliva fairly quick, but then you have people mixing it with things like starch, and now the sugar isn't so easily washed, you have to brush it off and other shit.
Just came across this by sheer curiosity after seeing the video you were debunking. When it got to the "only cleans 3 times a year", I instantly thought bullshit - especially about the rest. Kudos to see you teaching how it really is.
Hey Metatron, love your vids. Just some language advice, we tend to say 3 and a half minutes rather than 3 minutes and a half. It's not wrong but just one of those things that sounds wrong without being so :)
ok thankyou for that!
It sounds cooler. More...knightly...
Dude! are u dodging my questions? XD
I think it might be the European way of saying it. I could be wrong but I've heard someone from Britain say "five dollars, thirty" rather than "five dollars and thirty cents."
215dagby Or it could be that I was wrong xD I'll check that one out with my friend from Cambridge but probably it comes from Italian, I don't think it's the first time I make that mistake, because I recall someone pointing that out for me.
Well an advantage of having many viewers I get to be corrected so I can improve my English :3
subscribed, and shared. Just because it's nice to see truly enlightened people who do research rather than get spoonfed information.
Thank you for that friend ^^
this video is so true
good job man
sub for you
Yessss I was waiting for this soo much
That video gave me headache
I contracted autism from it.
+LeafyIsCancer Nice username.
thank you.
Not only is this video retarded I think mind warehouse plagiarized from another video. Go to watch a video called 10 shocking facts about Knights from a channel called total media. It's almost exactly the same.
I must admit that I did read a lot of stuff about Middle Ages Pillers of earth, as an example and did think that a lot of it must be wrong,logic,pervales so I have found your channel informing entertaining, and I like your accent,also it is normal to shit your self in battle,any battle any time in history.
It´s funny how much more views lies get haha. I´m losing my fucking sanity
thank you! I've been waiting for a debunking of this video since it came out
Did you say that Neanderthals were pre-humans? That doesn't make sense
Neanderthals were our cousins, not pre-human.
Modern humans didn't evolve from Neanderthals.
Adrian Parkes
They still came before homo sapiens so you could argue that the original statement was true.
Modern humans didn't evolve from Neanderthals, so how can they be pre-human?
They evolved before us from a common ancestor. Modern human's didn't branch off from Neanderthals.
I'm glad you made this video and set the truth right. Thumbs up and shared for you Sir!
6:20, I beg to differ, watching this video with you is quite entertaining. That being said, I totally appreciate that their is a war going on between truth and misinformation. Thank you for standing up for reality.
I was waiting for you to debunk this for 3 days now xD i kinda knew you would do it ahahah
"They were short"
*OH HOW HORRIFYING*
I'm no scholar or historian but this actually makes a ton of logical sense - even animals in the wild keep themselves clean for the most part - some are cleaner than most - the ones that do roll in mud and such use it as a protective coating to cut down on parasites - which leads me to think fleas, lice, and bedbugs etc would naturally be detested and dealt with in some way.
I'm so glad that u made this video. I wondered how accurate that video was. thx.
So many people forget about adrenaline and how amazing it really is. That feeling of going poo will go right away, that or you'll ish your pants but good chances you wont notice it until after the fight. Your body knows what it's doing when it comes to fight or flight. Forget your heart, your gut will never lead you astray if you listen to it!
Thank you for this. I saw the original vid and posted some counterpoints to theirs, but of course no response.
You rock :-)
It's true, in most cases knights in armour would be able to quickly remove their armor to shit or piss, however, there were some cases, like before the battle of agincourt in the hundred years war, were the knights of one or both armies (by agincourt the english) were not aloud to put their armor off for a relatively long time as it wasn't clear when and if the enemies cavalry would do a surprise attack. Many historians, including John Keegan support this theory, with him having written about it in one of his books "the Face of Battle".
dude, I am loving these freakin videos
Oh my god. I have been waiting for a debunking for this video. Thanks Metatron.
I just watched that video and this was "up next"! so happy to see this
God thank you Metatron! I saw this few days ago and I was so triggered. In a second I thought about you and that you didn't make any debunk video in a while. I was about to send that to you. Thank you once again!
Thank you for making this video Metatron! I actually saw the video your debunking before this one. I was tempted to throw my pc out the window in a rage at the utter rubbish they were feeding. It's very unfortunate that people will believe such nonsense. Keep up the good work, and may the truth overshine the hollywood nonsense
its good to see a small youtuber correcting a big one... keep up the good work