Mongol Invasions of Hungary and Poland DOCUMENTARY

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    Our animated historical documentary series on the Mongol Invasions continues with a video on the 2nd and 3rd invasion of Poland, 2nd invasion of Hungary, Berke-Hulagu War and the exploits of Nogai khan, who played a crucial role in the history of Eastern and Southern Europe
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  • @KingsandGenerals
    @KingsandGenerals  4 ปีที่แล้ว +196

    Here are the links to our podcast! History of the Mongols Podcast - www.kingsandgenerals.net/podcast/ apple.co/2QTuMNG bit.ly/2QDF7y0 spoti.fi/2UBmyuO Please follow and comment and rate!

    • @peymanmostafaei6963
      @peymanmostafaei6963 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Do you intend to cover Ilkanates too?

    • @TheJackmeisterMongolHistory
      @TheJackmeisterMongolHistory 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@peymanmostafaei6963 they have a video on the Ilkhanate here: th-cam.com/video/_QiPISsBo5M/w-d-xo.html

    • @zimbra910
      @zimbra910 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Please do a video on the India Pakistan wars too

    • @TyrannosaurusRex5027
      @TyrannosaurusRex5027 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @Kings and Generals not gonna lie this video is confusing, no matter who wins in this battle my ancestors get massacred.
      But hey I just checked out your podcast and it looks awesome

    • @ajithsidhu7183
      @ajithsidhu7183 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Pls do one on mongol war tatcis

  • @h.m.8068
    @h.m.8068 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1742

    Fun Fact: My hometown was burned by the mongols, and to this day it has never had the same population. It only became a city again in 1920.

  • @19MAD95
    @19MAD95 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2020

    Poland: hmmm these horse things seem promising. Might need to invest.

    • @mixsymouth8523
      @mixsymouth8523 4 ปีที่แล้ว +147

      “That where the Hussar came from”

    • @phantomkrieger2744
      @phantomkrieger2744 4 ปีที่แล้ว +206

      THEN THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED

    • @Bogdan-uu5oe
      @Bogdan-uu5oe 4 ปีที่แล้ว +156

      @@mixsymouth8523 Actually Hussars came from Hungary not from Poland. They were created by Corvinus family and were initially Serb warriors.

    • @tamaszlav
      @tamaszlav 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@Bogdan-uu5oe *huszár

    • @juliuscaesar7984
      @juliuscaesar7984 4 ปีที่แล้ว +91

      @@Bogdan-uu5oe Early light-armoured hussars have nothing to do with the XVIIc Polish ones

  • @WR288
    @WR288 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1578

    The Mongols had a century of complete dominance before they were nerfed into the ground for breaking the game meta.

    • @kaisermoneybags4450
      @kaisermoneybags4450 4 ปีที่แล้ว +130

      honestly that patch was a long time coming

    • @b_a_z_e_dv.2.067
      @b_a_z_e_dv.2.067 4 ปีที่แล้ว +191

      I know dude. That patch really hit the mongol player base hard but in turn saved the European players.

    • @carlosnevarez4003
      @carlosnevarez4003 4 ปีที่แล้ว +76

      You ain't kidding. I loved the Mongols during Genghis's rampage. So much in fighting and stupidity going on during this phase.

    • @RexOlafusVidulusMagnus
      @RexOlafusVidulusMagnus 4 ปีที่แล้ว +118

      Fortunately some Islamic hacker reprogramed them.

    • @goldenmemes51
      @goldenmemes51 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Carlos Nevarez if mongols didn’t in fight and more unite they gotta got to Spain and became conquistador to Mexico lol

  • @rjsimpson2484
    @rjsimpson2484 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1396

    “Its easy to take over the world on horse back,but it is hard to get off the horse and rule it”
    -Bogd Khaan

    • @TheDirtysouthfan
      @TheDirtysouthfan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      Isn't that an old Chinese saying from the Han Dynasty?

    • @TH3R34L5H1T
      @TH3R34L5H1T 4 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      Oh fuck off Rebecca.

    • @theworldoverheavan560
      @theworldoverheavan560 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@TH3R34L5H1T lol

    • @theworldoverheavan560
      @theworldoverheavan560 4 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      @Gerd Wiesler you could say that for every empire

    • @raysanele4057
      @raysanele4057 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Or fight like real men face to face like how the Romans conquered Europe infantry vs infantry not shooting arrows and run off like most of the stepp warriors fought.

  • @abcdef27669
    @abcdef27669 4 ปีที่แล้ว +687

    "Ladders helped the mongols to enter the city"
    (they still are represented with their horses on the map)

    • @Ilikeavocados123
      @Ilikeavocados123 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      abcdef27669 does the game have huns units on foot? (I ve never played the game)

    • @EstellammaSS
      @EstellammaSS 4 ปีที่แล้ว +95

      Your horses can’t climb ladders?

    • @dazhibernian
      @dazhibernian 4 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      Horse ladders

    • @linkofvev
      @linkofvev 4 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      Fun Fact: the Mongols actually had horses that could climb walls without the need for ladders.

    • @JohnnyElRed
      @JohnnyElRed 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Because they didn't escalate the walls on foot. You should already know that it takes more than an almost vertical path to separate a Mongol from his horse.

  • @umrlih
    @umrlih 4 ปีที่แล้ว +523

    The Mongols were so busy inner fighting, but when they got some leisure time, they invaded Europe

    • @phillipwilliams6686
      @phillipwilliams6686 4 ปีที่แล้ว +60

      And faied miserably

    • @phillipwilliams6686
      @phillipwilliams6686 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Failed

    • @tropicblue3457
      @tropicblue3457 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Invaded east* Europe

    • @phillipwilliams6686
      @phillipwilliams6686 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Everyones always talked about it but never make it past hungary,mustv been mighty enuff

    • @phillipwilliams6686
      @phillipwilliams6686 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      They werent goin anywhere,without suprise factor when have mongols ever won a pitched battle?mayb during subutai....maybe

  • @acadianalien
    @acadianalien 4 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    I love the ''glass shattering sound'' on this channel when a military commander vanquishes his foes, it's so satisfying :P

  • @sayit462
    @sayit462 4 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    I,m old chap from Poland and just want to say Thank you. Never to old to learn.

  • @Normacly
    @Normacly 4 ปีที่แล้ว +337

    The Hungarians learned from their mistakes in the first invasions.
    1. The recuritment of more knights, as their heavy armor can shurg off attacks from Mongolian horse archer.
    2. Hiring and training crossbowmen, since it is easier for peasants to learn and yet it has the capability to kill the Mongol light cavarly.
    3. Constructing more stone fortifications to delay and to force the Mongols to suffer losses in sieges. Contrary to popular belief, the Mongols rarely encountered well fortified cities. When they did, the Mongols suffered greatly at the hands of the defenders. For example, the Mongols repeatedly failed to push through the Song defense of Southern China due to a pair of stone fortesses. It is only when the Mongols recurited Muslim engineers to construct counter-weight trebuchets did they breached the Song defense.
    4. Creating new baronies, so that local nobles have the resources and rights to establish local militias. This is a key strategy, as unlike the "civilized militaries," the Mongols sole source of supplies are from raiding outlaying villages in small parties. Destroyed enough of these parties, the Mongols would lose too many men and would lack the supplies to maintain the invasion.

    • @rydernigguh1703
      @rydernigguh1703 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      And dont fight the mongols at open field, lol.

    • @Normacly
      @Normacly 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      @@peepooo8337 However, it did not mean the Mongols were powerless against knights. The Mongols fielded their own heavy cavalry, who have the blunt weapons capable of dealing with plate armor.
      In fact, the Mongols managed to defeat German knights years before events of thus video, by baiting them to chase the Mongol horse archers into ambushes set up by the Mongol heavy lancers.
      The Hungarians and later Polish learned from that mistake too and knew to reign in their knights from rash chasings. Instead, they use light cavalry to pursue enemies, as they could avoid Mongol heavy lancers.

    • @Normacly
      @Normacly 4 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      @@peepooo8337 Again, there is a reason knights wear padded armor under their plate armor. It greatly soften shock weapons. Also, the shock from arrows will not harm the person, rather it will annoy them.
      Even when crossbow and firearms became common in the late 15th and early 16th century Europe, plate armored units were used as shock infantry for they could take on the fire power to an extent.
      Armored infantry fell out of favor due to cost effectiveness, while armored cavarly served well into the mid-19th century when all Western and Central European infantries fielded muskets. Even in far richer modern nations like the US, not all men get the best of body protection solely due to the sheer costs.
      If Mongol bows can simply go through plate armor, there would end the age of armores cavalry long before the 20th century.

    • @phillipwilliams6686
      @phillipwilliams6686 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Every1 acts like cavalry is so dominant,in the end that was the mongol weakness...only cavalry,with a proper mix of infantry and range u can control cavalry especially in european lands

    • @phillipwilliams6686
      @phillipwilliams6686 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      What eastern europes problem was incomptent leaders,how many times u fall for fake retreat...when deployed correctly those units will run thru mongols force

  • @stanleysmith7551
    @stanleysmith7551 4 ปีที่แล้ว +499

    Ladislav lV (Hungarian: lV Kun László) was the most interesting member of the Árpád dynasty. He was half Cuman ( Hungarian: Kun) therefore he was much more lax and easy going than his predecessors, he loved (Cuman) women and wine, but apparently never touched his wife Isabella from the Kingdom of Naples. Once he was imprisoned by the nobility to have sex with Isabella, but he still refused, saying she's too frigid and lacks passion. 😅 He was excommunicated several times by the pope because of his lifestyle and friendship with the Cumans. He prompted Simon Kézai to write the history of the Hungarian people (Gesta Hungarorum) where the Huns are being shown as the ancestors of the Hungarians. Both Kézai and the king believed that the Hungarians, Huns and Cumans are basically the same people (Cumans, contrary to other minorities, quickly adopted the Hungarian language and are speaking Hungarian to this day). Ladislav saw his Cuman brethren as 'true Hungarians' their lifestyle as, pure as that of the old Hungarians in Árpád's days. According to Kézai, Árpád, And therefore Ladislav himself is the direct descendent of Attila, the capital Buda is named after Attila's brother Bleda (still Buda in Hungarian literature), Attila's wife Ildikó was Hungarian according to Kézai (while in reality she was a Gepid, but the name Ildikó as well as Attila are still very popular among Hungarians). Although seen as an intelligent, but good-for-nothing drunkard, Ladislav won most of his battles. He defeat Premysl Otakar who was considered to be a military genius at the time and seperated Austria from Bohemia and granting it to a minor swiss nobleman called Rudolf von Habsburg. 😏 He drove back the Mongols and was pitted against the Cumans by the church, defeated them in the battle of Hód lake, but was quick to velcome them back once things have settled. At the end of his reign he had his royal guard composed of only Mongols and Cumans. (he banished the Hungarian nobility and clergy from his court...long story) In the end it was his beloved Cumans who murdered him while he was having sex with his Cuman concubine Édua. (Édua's brother later took revange on the assassins ).

    • @sectorgovernor
      @sectorgovernor 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Here, an imaginary portrait of Kun László www.flagmagazin.hu/userfiles/text/IVLaszloKunLaszlo.jpg?full=1

    • @sectorgovernor
      @sectorgovernor 4 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      Yes, and Gesta Hungarorum's Hun origin is interesting, because a monk in the 13thcentury, went to east, and he found the rest of hungarians, who stayed in the Ural. They had a kind of a state, what is called Magna Hungaria by historians. But I guess they didn't know about 'Uralic languages' in the 13th century. The mongol invasions destroyed Magna Hungaria, those hungarians who survived, probably assimilated to bashkir people(Turkic people in Siberia) according to genetics. That's why bashkirs has Uralic admixture and they are one of the genetically closest modern population to 10th century hungarians.

    • @stalinskaya9516
      @stalinskaya9516 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Kézai also mentioned the fact that at their arival in Panonia, the Hungarians found there the Vlachs, who willingly remained there.

    • @stalinskaya9516
      @stalinskaya9516 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @armalite Yes, but Im not a nationalist tho. I just wanted to point out that we could live toghether peacefuly without all the crap we get from the media in our days.

    • @PrinceVega
      @PrinceVega 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      ​@@stalinskaya9516 , exactly my thoughts. Fuck the media and the politicians who are trying to turn us agains each other! I'm from Bucharest, Romania and one of my best friends is hungarian. Nothing will ever change that.

  • @bobburger6485
    @bobburger6485 4 ปีที่แล้ว +261

    When I visit my family in Poland I always go hiking in the carpathian mountains, it's cool knowing there where a bunch of mongols wandering around in the same area

    • @williamadams4044
      @williamadams4044 4 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      Take your metal detector with you on your walks. Certain metals will survive the test of time and if you get really lucky you could discover the find of a lifetime. One of the biggest treasure hoards ever found was discovered by a guy who had just bought his detector a month before, and his farmer friend asked him to look for a hammer that he had lost in that farm field. Something like 3500 pieces of gold, silver, and bronze studded with jewels. Lucky bastard! lol

    • @AlphaZuluKilo
      @AlphaZuluKilo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Not wander rather ruled 😂😅

    • @bobburger6485
      @bobburger6485 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Couple of people in my family's village do have a "tatar" look to them, maby hulugu or gangis did some raping, lol

    • @ChillDudelD
      @ChillDudelD 4 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      @@AlphaZuluKilo Mongols didn't rule over Poland.

    • @ChillDudelD
      @ChillDudelD 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@bobburger6485 Nah, most likely ancestors of Crimean Tatars who settled in the Commonwealth in the 16th and 17th century.

  • @wachtwoorden2
    @wachtwoorden2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    Dude you guys can not imagine how happy I am to hear you guys have podcast. I have been looking for a decent one for ages!!

  • @mikkopenttila7604
    @mikkopenttila7604 4 ปีที่แล้ว +508

    While there were several factors leading to the Mongol campaigns becoming less successful, the fact that Europeans had learned to fight the Mongols should not be underestimated.

    • @aegystierone8505
      @aegystierone8505 4 ปีที่แล้ว +102

      The wealth from the previous conquest also turns these hardened nomads into complacency.

    • @ReviveHF
      @ReviveHF 4 ปีที่แล้ว +119

      Learning from mistakes is crucial for winning wars. The Polish did what Sun Tzu said: know your self and know your enemy and you shall win hundreds of battles.( 知己知彼,百戰百勝)

    • @rayzas4885
      @rayzas4885 4 ปีที่แล้ว +91

      Subutai also died, the mongols became a far less effective force, and the Europeans actually finally understood just how powerful the mongols were and took em more seriously

    • @KaitoLKun
      @KaitoLKun 4 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Would love to see mongol against the might of western Europe. I’m sure they like the Roman and other did against the Huns will kick them out of Europe.

    • @ikballalli5539
      @ikballalli5539 4 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      I think the decline of success is due to them losing there best general Subatai

  • @johnathan5249
    @johnathan5249 4 ปีที่แล้ว +213

    Mongols: Imma attack y’all
    ERE: Here’s my princess

    • @MrAizatazmi
      @MrAizatazmi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      *illegitimate princess

    • @mr.c.3760
      @mr.c.3760 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      @@MrAizatazmi not what he told them mongol boys

    • @adriancaine5278
      @adriancaine5278 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@mr.c.3760 Those mongol boys got deceived though, that "princess" was a bastard born out of marriage, lmao

    • @Palestine4Ever169
      @Palestine4Ever169 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Prime Arch
      Does it matter?
      Its truly disgusting if you asked me
      But than again my culture sees that as filthy behavior

    • @hansohatori4814
      @hansohatori4814 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      How many illegitimeta girls tho

  • @victork4700
    @victork4700 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I subscribed to the podcast a while back and I LOVE every episode released.. I listened to the latest 2 episode on the Mongols this morning... Can't wait for the next.

  • @suprcrzy
    @suprcrzy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +155

    I would rather watch content like this 100 times over, rather than the crap YT tries to recommend to me on a daily basis! Well done!

  • @iimReVeRsAL
    @iimReVeRsAL 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I cant describe how much i love this channel. You guys are simply amazing.

  • @DrumApe
    @DrumApe 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Fantastic stuff! So important to understand the politics and economics, not just the battles. Thanks for your amazing content

  • @feha6580
    @feha6580 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Historical accurate town names of that time, finally, thank you and well done! Quality video as always.

  • @WWSzar
    @WWSzar 4 ปีที่แล้ว +236

    Danzig wasn't in the HRE until the second partition of Poland in 1793. Was controlled by Polish nobility until 1308 the Teutonic order took it and lost it in 1466.

    • @dd.mm.ll.
      @dd.mm.ll. 4 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      Danzig/Gdańsk never was a part of HRE. Even though it belonged to Prussia, it wasn't under imperial jurisdiction.

    • @sdsd2e2321
      @sdsd2e2321 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      It was always a German city though until 1945

    • @WWSzar
      @WWSzar 4 ปีที่แล้ว +119

      @@sdsd2e2321 The city was founded in 980, before there even were any Germans in the Baltic.

    • @conradrybicki6384
      @conradrybicki6384 4 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      @@sdsd2e2321 I swear in every legitimate comment discussion, there has to appear this one immune-to-historical-facts butthurt nationalist idiot like you.

    • @nomooon
      @nomooon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@WWSzar But Germans are Germanic, and Poles are Slavic. That distinction comes way before 980 A.D.

  • @MKfanmomo
    @MKfanmomo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    Many would always group the Mongols as a single entity where they have a single political structure. But every time we learn how complex and fascinating Mongol history is thanks to you.

    • @user-bv8sb8iu7u
      @user-bv8sb8iu7u 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It is interesting that the Caucasoids, who were thought to be the master race, were dominated by Mongoloids or Asians. They are only white pigs. Now the Neanderthals were on a roll and are being crushed by the Eastern camp.

  • @shauryasharma2268
    @shauryasharma2268 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    The podcast is great! Thanks for the shout-out

  • @22vx
    @22vx 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Great job K&G 👍 Thank you!

  • @ElBandito
    @ElBandito 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Been waiting for this!

  • @dbuyandelger
    @dbuyandelger 4 ปีที่แล้ว +172

    Trivia: Nogai in Classical Mongolian means dog

    • @Brutian96
      @Brutian96 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Their banner is also a winged wolf or a dog 🤔

    • @oguzmen5451
      @oguzmen5451 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      It is a Winged-Wolf

    • @quetiaogoreng4651
      @quetiaogoreng4651 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      Dog in today society and Mongol era was different

    • @vyatcheslavgrim1076
      @vyatcheslavgrim1076 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Buka, is that you?

    • @dbuyandelger
      @dbuyandelger 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@vyatcheslavgrim1076 Oui

  • @KHK001
    @KHK001 4 ปีที่แล้ว +64

    Amazing! More Mongols

    • @rishisunak2
      @rishisunak2 ปีที่แล้ว

      No no more Mongols they lost and either way USA would have killed Mongols.

  • @9wowable
    @9wowable 4 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    Hungary was somewhat lucky in this period.
    Throughout massive crises Hungary usually had very weak kings; Vladislaus II being an example, fucked up the Hungarian army and nobility pathing the way for Mohacs.
    Béla IV was a strong ruler, and if he wasn’t king at the time, and another weak ruler was in charge, I don’t think Hungary would’ve made it out of the 13th century. He’s got to be one of the greatest Hungarian rulers imo. Not many can take on the might of the mongols, lose and still maintain your prior territorial borders.

    • @yessir2514
      @yessir2514 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      true, mongols did not succeed because horse archers are better than kngihts, it's that they're used with generals who know how to use them.

  • @bryan753
    @bryan753 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Nothing makes my day more than a kings and generals video

  • @johanlindwall7295
    @johanlindwall7295 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Nice job as always guys! Really interesting. Also works well together with the pod Wrath of the Khans by Dan Carlin, complement eachother well.

  • @swaminathanbalakrishnan5182
    @swaminathanbalakrishnan5182 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    For a minute I thought you had repeated the old video. Great work!

  • @maskedm3owllin68
    @maskedm3owllin68 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Fantastic as Always,thanks mate!

  • @pragueexpat5106
    @pragueexpat5106 4 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    I'm a Mongolian and I've been to Budapest just last week :D, what a timing

    • @DoraFauszt
      @DoraFauszt 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Haha hope you liked it! 🙂 I had two classmates in elementary school from Mongolia, they were really nice people! 🙂

    • @MDud-pg2un
      @MDud-pg2un 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      I hope you didn't sack it too much

    • @pragueexpat5106
      @pragueexpat5106 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@MDud-pg2un haha

    • @benzminibusdoc
      @benzminibusdoc 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@pragueexpat5106 damn sure you brought some culture there

    • @rishisunak2
      @rishisunak2 ปีที่แล้ว

      God screw you all.

  • @devereuxbirdzell
    @devereuxbirdzell 4 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    Gah, your videos are just so freaking good. Words fail me but your excellence seems to somehow get better and better and I have trouble telling everyone just how good your content is. You guys absoutely rule. Best history channel on TH-cam. Hands down!

  • @jaydenulbert4847
    @jaydenulbert4847 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Had no clue you guys had a podcast! Subscribing & sharing with friends today.

  • @stare8562
    @stare8562 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I just want to say, huge amazing job to the animations and the map just looks so fucking amazing

  • @vv5651
    @vv5651 4 ปีที่แล้ว +83

    It seems that Kaidu's depiction comes straight from Marco Polo!

    • @TheDirtysouthfan
      @TheDirtysouthfan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Yeah. Kings and Generals uses a lot of images from that show and other movies. In the early Mongol series, they use pictures from the Russian Mongol movie about Genghis Khan for Temuljin and Jamukha. In the Crusader episodes they used images from Kingdom of Heaven as well. It's better than using an auto generated Total War/Paradox Game face, or some sort of flag, I guess.

    • @santamaria7733
      @santamaria7733 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Such a awesome show!

    • @vj_great551
      @vj_great551 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I want marco polo season 3

    • @WitcherDAD
      @WitcherDAD 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Benedict Polak was visiting Mongols before Marco Polo . Stop reading Western Version of history

  • @siegfriedeisenkraut5285
    @siegfriedeisenkraut5285 4 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    Fun but little known fact, that city that Batu founded and named Sarai would eventually be renamed Volgograd which played an integral part in one of the biggest wars we've known.

  • @GRKNG
    @GRKNG ปีที่แล้ว

    subscribed to your spotify podcast!!!!! i've been waitin for that!!!

  • @OzymandiasWasRight
    @OzymandiasWasRight ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Dan Carlin's Wrath of the Khans is a great overview of the Mongols rise to power. It's what brought me here for a more visual overview.
    Although anything and everything from Hardcore History is worth checking out. Commuting anywhere has never been so enjoyable thanks to that podcast.

  • @tomcast853
    @tomcast853 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Podcast is awesome!! More on the Mongols, Tartars, and anything more on vercingetorix, post roman england, and Norman's from Rollo to Henry to Italy.

  • @camdenmartin4916
    @camdenmartin4916 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I have to thank you for the quality of videos that you produce. They answer a lot of my questions. Will you have any episodes to cover the following mongol campaigns?
    Mongol Conquest of the Korean Penisula
    Mongol invasion of Burma
    Thank you for your time.

  • @dzpower189
    @dzpower189 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for this great work

  • @kevhynaleks2631
    @kevhynaleks2631 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Hungary and Poland always in the same boat, moved together with fights and battles and fails and successes... and you wondering why we are known as twins, dwe bratanki, két testvér? We saved the asses of westerners several times just because we was there on the way of paganic eastern empires! God bless our eternal union and brotherhood!!!

    • @TB-bb6kb
      @TB-bb6kb ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Friendship of Poland and. Hungary. was forged in the fire of many battles
      The best proved. friendship we ever have

  • @twojacksandanace3847
    @twojacksandanace3847 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Mongols: Nothing can bear horse!
    Eastern Europe: And I counter with stone wall.
    Mongols: Bring ladders!
    Eastern Europe: "Builds bigger stone walls".
    Mongols :/

  • @dexterrr9163
    @dexterrr9163 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    As a Mongolian, I deeply appreciate all your works. God bless yall! (Tngri)

    • @edenender
      @edenender 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      John burton let us speak about your british ancestors that killed and sacked for centuries all the world.

    • @edenender
      @edenender 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I am no turk.I am descendant of Nogay Khan soldiers.

    • @dexterrr9163
      @dexterrr9163 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      John Burton i can see deep racism and hatreds toward to other races from you. Is that because youre a son of a innocent completely perfect nation by a chance?? That shit dont exist gtfo kido

    • @amgaaac8480
      @amgaaac8480 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      christians ate people because of a hunger which Mongols never did

    • @dexterrr9163
      @dexterrr9163 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Amgaa s stop the bullshit bro, aint no need to push anything to others just cuz they are christian

  • @SamuSpain15
    @SamuSpain15 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This channel is awesome. Thank you for your work.

  • @gabagool20
    @gabagool20 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    How do u pump out all of these good ass videos so fast Kings and Generals?

  • @michaobidzinski1125
    @michaobidzinski1125 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Love you Hungarians from Poland! Fighting together forever!

  • @philRminiatures
    @philRminiatures 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    A pleasure to watch as usual, lovely animations and explanations, and a pleasure to play, we have fought in miniatures a few Bela IV's battles, Mongol and Hungarian armies are truly superb, even in 15mm!

  • @paulfisker
    @paulfisker 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I am so impressed over this content.

  • @justinlee3924
    @justinlee3924 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This channel is pure gold SUBBED

  • @rotciv1492
    @rotciv1492 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Bizantine manual for invasions:
    1.If you have chances: fight.
    2.If you don't: pay tribute.
    3.If they still invade you: "here, marry this princes. I have some to spare".
    4.If even that doesn't work: get destroyed early, but then change dinasty, get reformed and regain your loses.

  • @Milenium412
    @Milenium412 4 ปีที่แล้ว +124

    I'm here early enough that envoys have been killed comments are not yet upvoted

    • @gibberconfirm166
      @gibberconfirm166 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Guy stole a long joke from John Dolan's War Nerd podcast and it got upvoted.

    • @Milenium412
      @Milenium412 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@gibberconfirm166 I didn't still any joke, if you have been watching kings and generals and it seems you haven't, mongol envoys have become a meme.

    • @gibberconfirm166
      @gibberconfirm166 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Milenium412 I was talking about the Poland/invade Russia joke at the top.

    • @thuranz2773
      @thuranz2773 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      In all fairness listening to Voices of the Past's reading of Güyük Khan's letter to Pope Innocent IV; I can really understand why Mongol Envoys kept getting killed.

  • @flexman22
    @flexman22 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Just awesome. Thanks!

  • @thefallenking1
    @thefallenking1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love your videos. You are doing an amazing job

  • @pauljastrzebski5164
    @pauljastrzebski5164 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Would love some videos on Polish battles and kings!

  • @NimbleBard48
    @NimbleBard48 4 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    11:10 Kick-ass the 2nd :D

    • @cembiten911
      @cembiten911 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Damn you man i split my tea!!:D
      Kai-kus the 2 would be very upset i assume.

    • @heretyk_1337
      @heretyk_1337 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Damn you! Damn you to Hell... Now i cannot unhear that... HELP!

  • @sweett273
    @sweett273 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I had no idea you guys have a podcast, time to catch up on that!

  • @DarylTunget
    @DarylTunget 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Excellent presentation. Thank you.

  • @napoleonibonaparte7198
    @napoleonibonaparte7198 4 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    It’s fascinating that the Mongols nearly conquered the entire known world, but the medieval Europeans may not have known the extent or know where and what Asia is without maps (until Polo came about...)

    • @WitcherDAD
      @WitcherDAD 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Marco Polo ? no way . He was 2nd in Far East . First maps has been done by Benedict Polak .

    • @richardkovacs2006
      @richardkovacs2006 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      A hungarian priest was sent to the east to look for the roots of hungarians and that's how he bumped into the mongols, so he went back to hungary to warn the hungarian king. Just about 2 years before the Hord arrived.

  • @rageraptor7127
    @rageraptor7127 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    *Whenever the channel releases a video*
    Me: oh boi 8 am

  • @mikeward1337
    @mikeward1337 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Of course I'm going to listen to your pod cast!!!

  • @Miamcoline
    @Miamcoline 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very well done again!

  • @Acularius
    @Acularius 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    "We have a pod..."
    Never have I subscribed to something so quickly.
    Except maybe the 'Revolutions' podcast.

  • @CMDRSloma
    @CMDRSloma 4 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    Finally, Central Europe is getting some love :)

    • @keithbrown7685
      @keithbrown7685 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      really? if that's love, I'd hate to see what hate is

    • @LegendKingY2j
      @LegendKingY2j 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hungarians kinda deserved it at the time because of betraying their Cuman allies

    • @kingkong2598
      @kingkong2598 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Which is huge love 😆

    • @mingming919
      @mingming919 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Getting love? Not from the mongols lol

    • @rohansensei5708
      @rohansensei5708 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@keithbrown7685 Ottomans

  • @sergeantmajor_gross
    @sergeantmajor_gross 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Looking forward to the next video

  • @stevew4646
    @stevew4646 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yes!!! A Spotify podcast! 💪🏼

  • @skeletonmandiecastcollector
    @skeletonmandiecastcollector 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I’m here taking a break from Ghost of Tsushima and researching history about Mongolian invasions around the world

  • @dogrudiyosun
    @dogrudiyosun 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    you die "suddenly", and your son dies "suddenly" and your grandson dies "suddenly"...damn rng.

  • @socratrash
    @socratrash 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Beautifull video. Thank you

  • @user-db7vy8sf2h
    @user-db7vy8sf2h 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I just love your videos!

  • @hernancortes7602
    @hernancortes7602 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Podcast is lit

  • @blumetzy8405
    @blumetzy8405 4 ปีที่แล้ว +115

    Lengyel Magyar két jóbarát
    Polak Wegier dva bratanki

    • @bkp5334
      @bkp5334 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Poland love Hungary

    • @shaunibabe1
      @shaunibabe1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      🇦🇹🇩🇪🇷🇺

    • @mateuszm4411
      @mateuszm4411 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Friendship forever ❤️ Amen.

    • @jabohonu
      @jabohonu 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      dont feel proud of being polish. it's not your strength that stopped the mongols, but their inner problems

    • @ViXbart11
      @ViXbart11 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@shaunibabe1 Austria you fucking traitors!
      "When the wings Hussars arrived!"

  • @igorpriladyshev3477
    @igorpriladyshev3477 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    very nice! thank you for the video

  • @rexvanderwal3244
    @rexvanderwal3244 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great content, love all apsects

  • @Whispersbear
    @Whispersbear 4 ปีที่แล้ว +79

    Bravo Hungary and Polish

    • @michaelweston409
      @michaelweston409 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Hernando Malinche the mongols by then had seen much of the world. Europe was boggy, cold & full of warring kingdoms. The mongols probably weren’t to impressed by it. China, India & the Middleast were probably far more exotic.

    • @fyfyi6053
      @fyfyi6053 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Eastern europe can't do much to defend themselves.This is why they were always invaded by every empire. It was always just some land of s3xy women with long legs and nothing else.

    • @zhiv8087
      @zhiv8087 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@fyfyi6053 We defended the eastern wall of Europe while the western kingdoms grew turnips and had jousting matches. Never anything but contempt from the “superior” West. You would all be praying to a different god now...

    • @jamesmanuel8517
      @jamesmanuel8517 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@zhiv8087 lol the simp envies you because of your angelic women. But, well simps are simps! 😂

    • @jabohonu
      @jabohonu 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@zhiv8087 dont feel proud of being polish or hungarian. it's not your strength that stopped the mongols, but their inner problems.

  • @lukred6271
    @lukred6271 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    King Ladislaus "For every" Mongol- head "sent to me on a platter you get 30 pounds in gold and a nice Christmas bonus !"

  • @wesmercredi3406
    @wesmercredi3406 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love that you still use the picture of Kaidu

  • @antoniosingh4604
    @antoniosingh4604 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Will appreciate it ever so much

  • @user-pv8wv4ob4u
    @user-pv8wv4ob4u 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I knew it was about the mongols from your last Facebook thread :)

  • @davidkardos2794
    @davidkardos2794 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Great video !
    Let me show something:
    Mongolian invasions of Hungary:
    1241: victory (battle of mohi)
    1285: not victory (draw)
    1345: defeat --->TOTAL HUNGARIAN VICTORY !
    In 1345 King Louis the Great sent baron Andrew Lackfi to invade the lands of the Golden Horde in retaliation for the Tatars' earlier plundering raids against Transylvania.
    On the days 2-5 february 1345 the hungarian army crushed the huge tatar army. TOTALLY ! It was the three days long battle,one of the biggest battle of middle ages.
    Thereafter the Golden Horde's control of the lands between the Eastern Carpathians and the Black Sea weakened.
    So the Hungarian Kingdom became great power.
    Please make a video about these events !
    THX from Hungary !! Amazing work again !

  • @diomuda7903
    @diomuda7903 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Poles and Hungarians, your efforts kept us safe. We Czechs salute you all.

  • @mkh6666
    @mkh6666 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    شكرا لكم هذا رائع /This is great, thank you.

  • @borisgeorgiev8535
    @borisgeorgiev8535 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Very nice episode, about a very interesting and complex period of time in Eastern Europe. One thing you did not mention however, which I personally consider very important and worth mentioning is that the bulgarian ruler Constantin Tikh, did not just suddenly die, he fell victim to the first and only succesfull peasent uprising in european feudal history. It was led by a man called Ivaylo, has was a very fascinating character said to have inspired many other later peasent uprisings and many other later historical figures such as Yan Hus and Joan of Arc. The conditions for this to happen were because Constantine Tikh did not always pay his tribute to Nogai, so the mongols would pillage the northern countryside of Bulgaria for years, without Constantine actually bothering to do anything about this. The bulgarian peasentry was expectedly furious, they were led by Ivaylo, in many battles against the mongols in which they succesfully defeated the armies of Nogai in three separate battles, making the mongols flee north of the danube. After this he rebels led by Ivaylo were able to confront the royal forces, still loyal to Constantine Tikh in a battle infront of the gates of Tarnovo (the bulgarian capital) in which it is said Ivaylo personally killed Constantine and became ruler of Bulgaria for three years. Ivaylo married Constantine's widow, niece of Michael VIII (she betrayed him because he was planning to remove her from power in Bulgaria) lvaylo defeated the byzantine armies led by Michael VIII, by ambushing two of his armies in the balkans passes and destroying them (de-javu) after that he succesfully waged more war against the Golden Horde for 3 years. Unfortunatelly he was betrayed by his own vasals who could never accept a peasent commoner as their tsar, so he fled to Nogai, where he weas eventually killed on the orders of Michael the 8th. (Michael's daugther is said to have instigated this since she was wife of Chaka). Thank you for reading. Keep making such wonderful material, you guys are the only youtube channel that I so gladly donate to, I wish I could give more. You deserve it. Respect from Bulgaria.

    • @borisgeorgiev8535
      @borisgeorgiev8535 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      If anyone is interested in reading more about this:
      ---
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivaylo_of_Bulgaria
      ---
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uprising_of_Ivaylo

    • @TheJackmeisterMongolHistory
      @TheJackmeisterMongolHistory 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      There was a bit more on Ivaylo in the original script I sent them- but sadly it had to be cut for time. To discuss it properly would have been another 5 minutes at least onto this video, already very long as it was, and alot more animating it. Such cuts, sadly, always have to be made for videos on any topic.

    • @zalansteyer7272
      @zalansteyer7272 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Boris One question, please. According to the facts, there were no Romanian, neither one person. Please tell me who they are? How can it be, you have lost your territories under the centuries? I know we stood face to face for "Erdőn túl" Erdély (Transylvania), but after this period what happened with you there?

  • @enlightenedterrestrial
    @enlightenedterrestrial 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Master George from Solivar (from Sáros/Šariš), thumbs up! I live where the guy was from!

  • @Riley-uy5pe
    @Riley-uy5pe 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    love the podcast btw

  • @nomadichorseman
    @nomadichorseman 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Always love your videos about the mongols. I was hoping this video series would go further in-depth about the golden horse and it seems I’ll get my wish soon enough.
    Who needs game of thrones when you have history?

  • @blakelester1419
    @blakelester1419 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Great video. Nice to see a return to the Mongols

  • @zamirroa
    @zamirroa 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    People when talk about mongols: amazing warriors
    About Spanish: genocides
    It's funny

  • @Kowsar_Mehdi
    @Kowsar_Mehdi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great video

  • @raykaelin
    @raykaelin 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    My Lord, I am thoroughly exhausted following to the very end this professionally done and visually excellent video, not to mention its lucidly presented narration. Well done! The complexity of the many, continuous wars and generalships was truly fascinating.

  • @tovarishchsimonov289
    @tovarishchsimonov289 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    It is astonishing that the Mongols will get as much as 50 more episodes

    • @MasterMalrubius
      @MasterMalrubius 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      They did attack a lot of different peoples.

    • @DoraFauszt
      @DoraFauszt 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      You might be surprised to discover just how important the Mongol Empire was for the 13th century in general. Totally shaped history.

    • @jaythompson5102
      @jaythompson5102 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@DoraFausztThey also affected more people and lands than any other conquerors before or after until the British did their world tour. They arguably affected the world even more than the Brits due to having such an impact in China.

    • @DoraFauszt
      @DoraFauszt 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@jaythompson5102 yes, true that! The Mongol Empires affect on world history is quite underrated

    • @umaransari9765
      @umaransari9765 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      They placed very crucial role in Eastern Asia, especially China and around till at least 19th Century

  • @haroldasbutkus5235
    @haroldasbutkus5235 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    I feel a litteral satisfaction once I see notification from Kings n Generals.. Especially if it is Ottoman or Mongol series.. jesus keep up good work guys :D

    • @michaelweston409
      @michaelweston409 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Haroldas Butkus it’s so well made series

  • @danianjan
    @danianjan 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The complexity of these wars is maddening... no wonder history is a mystery to most students...

  • @enesakhan4032
    @enesakhan4032 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    ohh been a while for the Mongol videos ... great work pals

  • @thedoruk6324
    @thedoruk6324 4 ปีที่แล้ว +91

    Mongol is the *ultimate* patch for shortest term planetary conquest; albeit can be fragmented

    • @thedoruk6324
      @thedoruk6324 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@kimbara3525 precisely - japan saved thanks to their sea patch

    • @theworldoverheavan560
      @theworldoverheavan560 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@kimbara3525 lol

    • @carlos930610
      @carlos930610 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@thedoruk6324 Japan installed the kamikaze - the divine wind patch on their sea sever

    • @thetowerofbabble6307
      @thetowerofbabble6307 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Carlos Chan then they patched it to their planes

  • @wenlu9136
    @wenlu9136 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    The original plan of Batu Khan and Subutai was exactly "keep conquering until see the Ocean", so if Ogedai Khan didn't die at that time, Batu and Subutai wouldn't stop invasion. In fact, when the Ogedai' death arrived the western expedition army, Batu had already prepared for battle of the siege of Vienna(to catch Bela IV).

  • @claytonshepherd
    @claytonshepherd 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I agree. You have a very harsh voice on a very harsh history. Well Done Mate.

  • @Definedd
    @Definedd 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    love how u use total war to help tell your stories