Did a Volcano End the Mongol Empire?
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The Kings and Generals animated historical documentary series on Mongol History continues with a video on the eruption of the Samalas volcano, which, some claim led to the destruction of the Mongol empire and countless other problems around the world.
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Not gonna lie, I would prefer volcanoes and history to not intersect at all.
Facts
It helps make a clean slate.
@@jozzieokes3422 Facts
When something disappear in history without having some information , historian consider it that they disappeared because of some natural disasters
Hi kings and generals can you make a video about the battle of Copenhagen plz?
“Could be volcanoes out here. Watch your steppe.”
I won't fall for those traps.
You had the mongall to make such a joke :p
I approve of this punnery.
Good one I could have done it myself
By the mandate of heaven, gtfo.
7:52 "England too reported uninterrupted heavy rain..." As opposed to the normal uninterrupted light rain?
Easily extrapolated by studying umbrella usage.
Volcano: I'm going to end this empire's whole career.
God damn, 45 minutes late. Wanted to say the same thing
Kungfu panda monke??
LoL make mongol devided into pieces
Minoans : i do not know you but welcome to the club....
Mongols!!!!
Yawn, how many people are gonna adapt this meme to every single video
7:53 England? Uninterrupted rain? That’s not new at all.
If English wrote down uninterrupted rain, it must have been real bad.
@@bjorntorlarsson I don't think English are troubled by amount of rain, but lack of sunny days, and at 1400 hours/year for Edinburgh and 1600 for London i don't envy them, However, they are not the worst, Faroe Islands getting only 840 hours of sunshine a year.
@@hernerweisenberg7052 "I have read somewhere..."
Now that's a source I can trust
@@bjorntorlarsson where was that, Manila? Jakarta? Dhaka?
@@bjorntorlarsson is this sarcasm that Sweden is criminal in comparison with some african country?
The Siege of Diaoyuchen is highly underrated and deserve an episode. The fortress was an massive fortress city, perhaps the largest in the world at the time. It was located at the confluence of three rivers and held thousands of troops with their own gunpowder weapon arsenals. They held out for over 30 years.
When they surrendered the three commanders offered terms that they would commit suicide and their men would be spared. The Mongols respected their decision. It was one of the few times the Mongols didn’t massacre the defenders.
to talk about that long a time period would be discussing the surviving southern song dynasty and their defense against the mongols as a whole.
I thought the Mongols, like just about everybody else at the time, had a rule about only massacring the defenders if forced to storm the city, because urban warfare _suuucks._ Also, it makes the city worth less.
Not that I know enough about Diaoyuchen to know whether the Mongols stormed the city before surrender, just that that's not the way to bet with the information presented here.
@@Justin.Martyr no he wasn't.
When you take into account the fact that people where living short life at the time it is very likely that a certain number of people were born and died during this siege
Thanks for shedding more light on this, I heard it mentioned before but don't know any details, hsiang yang or however it's spelled ~1268-73 is the only big mongol-sung siege I've familiar with
I’m a simple Indonesian, I see “volcano” in the title, I clicked
Volcano adiction is bad get help imidiately!!!!!!!
Pacific Nations nod empathetically
"It's the monthly hujan abu, nothing unusual here."
Throw some politicians into it so we don't get the final episode of 2020!
I suppose you would do the same for earthquakes
First volcano ends Sassanid Persian Empire, then it was the cause of French Revolution and now this. Clearly volcans are bane of humanity.
A volcano was responsible for Mary Shelley writing Frankenstein.
@@WaterShowsProd Really? How?
@Esfandiar Nami not really but sometimes its ascribed to volcanic eruption of karatoka in 535AD
How did it effect the French Revolution ?
And Yellowstone will end the American empire, well and, the whole world.
The emperor: petitions for rain
Heaven: gives him rain
The emperor: "It's too much rain, stop it"
Heaven: "Hold on. This whole operation was your idea"
Lol
Heaven: here's some Mongols to help with that rain😂😂🤣🤣😂😂
I done 100
Cringe
@@sergeantmajor_gross No more cringy than your exclusive set of collectible Furby dolls which you spend 7 hours every day cleaning because you have no job or SO to occupy your miserable life.
"The arrogance of man is thinking that nature is in our control and not the other way around."
- Dr. Ishiro Serizawa
Isn't it obvious to almost all of humans that we navigate in environment that is bigger than us?
The world: dying
China-Song Dynasty: Lemme issue an edict to the heavens
While European masochists are busy flogging themselves to appease a sadistic god.
@@baltazarandrada8793 yep
@@baltazarandrada8793 well they are just people trying to understand whats going on without any good understanding of the world what would you expect? Also the idea of pleasing God by whipping themselves was never been a doctrine of the church its just confused mob trying desperately to make the condition return to normal because they also suffer one of the worst pandemic they ever had adding to that
@@baltazarandrada8793 plus unlike other places they cant even justified their suffering to anything since they didnt even knew the concept of diseases what they know only people infront of them died unlike those who were wiped by mongols they knew what cause their suffering this led them to speculate and if you know if you speculate without understanding of the world and surrounding it would be fucked up
Mongols: we have literally beated every thing
Volcanoes: lol not me
Thanks Kings and Generals! My day wasn't the best, but this certainly helped make it better :)).
Stop lying, this was the best day of your life and you know it
Hope you're doing al right! Feel free to reach out if you want to talk.
I thought you said 'my dad wasn't the best', I was like, "Ghenghis?"
Where do you live it's only 10 am here
@@Patrick3183 projecting much?
Why don’t you practice what you preach.
Seems like the volcano wasn't satisfied with just killing their envoys.
"Go big or go home!" - ancient volcano saying... I presume.
Boomer volcano
It took out that imaginary city of Atlantis.
I'm Mongolian and I approve of this video. Not gonna lie, this is the first time we have heard of this theory. A thoroughly interesting video, you guys deserve like 100 mil subs.
Same im Mongolian heres proof
Сайн уу means hello
It is reasons like this for why I love history so much. Everything, one way or another, is interconnected through the butterfly effect. I don’t think a lot of people take into account how many different factors influence history. Geography, psychology, biology, and many other separate studies have all left their mark on history for one simple reason: they all influence the decision making of people, which in turn, dictates history. Thank you Kings & Generals for helping me time and time again pursue my love of history!
Reject modernity, return to Möngke.
Ahh
YES
Volcano anywhere in the world: *erupts*
People in Bengal: ah sh*t here we go again
I am bengali and I didn't get you
3:03 Wait a minute, are you telling me the Mongols had confetti technology in 1206?! I DON'T BELIEVE IT!!!
@abis8 alpha8 Mate, it's clearly confetti and ... silly string?!?!
@@comradekenobi6908 Clearly and now I want to see a video of just Genghis Khan's coronation ceremony where he and his band shared ice cream cake; played connect-four, spin-the-wheel, and scrabble; and at the end of it all, Genghis gets the keys to his new chariot to take to the prom.
If you wonder why there is no Samalas volcano on maps, it's because now it's called Rinjani.
Indonesians here, couple times visited Lombok. Didnt realize till now we have the greatest natural weapon ever exist.
I live in Indonesia, and I didn't know these volcanoes had so much impact to the world 😳 Mindblown 🤯
Hah, that's funny because they teach me that stuff, I guess your school don't do the same.
@@Rine910 what stuff? About the connection between Tambora explosion and The Year Without Summer? Your teacher must be a great teacher then.
@@rufuspanjaitan5759 well well well, looks like the education just do fine.
They erupt with different magnitude eruptions like earthquakes. Magnitude 7+ eruptions have global consequences and vei 8 and vei 9 can also kill all life on a whole continent. Thankfully they are very very rare only 4 of 7+ have been estimated to occur in last 2000 years
Mongol Empire: Does great
Mother nature: "You know the rules, so do I"
*"you have reached your maximum credit limit"*
Mongol Empire : NOOOO you can't end our struggle to conquer entire old world
Volcano : haha ashes go brrrrrr
The rest of the world: * literally dying due to volcanic eruptions *
Southeast Asia: first time?
Not all Southeast Asia have volcano. In Southeast Asia, Only Indonesia and Philippines who have volcanoes.
Interesting, thank you for bringing this theory. Though I know that Samalas' impact was global, but I never thought that it might also contributed to the collapse of the Mongol Empire. Regionally, the eruption also weakened the Bedahulu Kingdom in Bali, where most of its populations perished, allowing the neighboring Singhasari to conquer the island later in 1284.
Anyway, this also reminds me of a similar theory on how Tambora's 1815 eruption might play role in the fall of Napoleon's empire. You might want to check that out, if you haven't.
There are papers that link climate change- crop failure- Arab Spring. In fact middle east and Africa impacted the most from climate changes.
We are under mercy of nature but we did not pay attention enough because we have taken modern technology for granted.
This is what historians should call the "butterfly effect"
Domino effect
"England too reported uninterrupted heavy rain"
Me: you don't say
Mongols:
"we have the greatest empire in history"
Mother Nature:
"ahahah volcano goes BOOM"
god revenge for infidels
LoL BOOM!!! KABOOM!!
Lol
@ @@teagoodstuff734 , ???? You are brainwashed
Genish Khan : *Finally I manage to made greatest land empire in human history*
Little volcano in Indonesian island : *Observe*
Its like the mongols were playing a table top game andthey just rolled poorly so the whole thing fell apart
That moment when you get three stab hit events in a row...
@K To be fair, it wasn't just the storms that stopped the invasions of Japan. Mongols didn't really get the whole sailing thing. Half the ships they used as transports were river boats that had very swallow keels or none at all.
0:24 -- "His brothers, Kublai and Eric Booker."
That auto-subtitle gets weirder everyday.
Great Khan Eric from the Tribe of Booker, the most ruthless of all Mongols and one true successor of Genghis.
Mongol empire: *exists*
Volcano: "I'm gonna do what's called a pro gamer move"
Mongol empire: nearly conquers medival world
Volcano: He's to dangerous to be left alive
Indonesian Volcanoes: “I’m going to end all empire’s careers”
Yawn
This made me look into the end of Chola Dynasty (A Tamil empire which ruled over Southern India and vast regions of SE Asia 850-1279 A.D.) as the period is suspiciously close to that of 1257 Samalas eruption and although famine was widely reported during that period, the end of Chola dynasty was attributed to victory by rival Pandian Dynasty in wars. We know from other regions of the world during this period that the famines & wars were interlinked.
Mongol Empire:''We shall rule the world''
Volcano:''YEET''
It's crazy how frequently you guys push these videos out, and in such good quality. Amazing work as always.
Today mount Samalas is now a volcanic lake called "segara anakan" and right next to the lake is an active volcano called mount Rinjani
Greetings from Indonesia 🇮🇩
I guess y'all take for granted you're hemmed in by terrifyingly powerful volcanoes? Toba makes me sweat! 🗿
Salam bro, gunung berapi kita legendaris juga ya, dari gunung toba sampai lambas
@@sheldonwheaton881 if you want to know how do we live with a bunch volcanoes surrounding us? The answer is
*Deal with it* 😎
This is the type of content I expect from Kings and Generals. Well researched, niche topics that educate their audience not only on that specific topics but on how that topic should be a learning lesson for us now.
Awesome video, amazingly well researched. Thank you Kings and Generals
I love how you concluded this episode, in very interesting way. Keep doing your best! Best regards!
I would have never knew about Mongol history or even get interested. Thanks to this channel i'm addicted to this series. Thanks so much!
Another glorious video with talked about perspective I remember from university. Good work Kings and Generals!
I just have to say, your volcano with the smoke animation at 5:30 is really well done!
Brilliant work. Thanks for posting this!
This video was by it's very nature- outside of your usual content, and it was extremely well presented, in my opinion.
Good stuff.
great content as usual, btw, you should totally make a video about the Battle of Aljubarrota
It wasn’t just the volcano, it was also when the horses broke up with the mongols
This needs to have 1 mil. views. Quality production.
Kings & Generals, great video! Enjoy your Tuesday! Merry Christmas!💯🙏👐
Indonesia: one of the kingdom here literally defeated a mongol expedition force
Also Indonesia: oh, btw one of our mountain too
Magnificent content as always! I love it.
I really like this kind of discussion video on historical interpretations and views of events. Narrative videos are good fun, but I think they overshadow just how much disagreement there can be over events.
Just a shout out to you guys to say thanks for the great content! I particularly love your Thirty Years War series!
Best ways to die? 😁😁😁😁
@@scoobydicky9459 according to legend, Attila the hun died in the throes of intercourse
Amazing video. Your content was already good but this is just top teir stuff👌
Good stuff as always!
Big up rashad ad-din for making this very interesting video possible!
This reminds me to several years ago where me and my family got stuck in Mataram for about 3 days because an eruption canceled our flight
I love these videos. Always give me great worldbuilding ideas. History is the best source.
Good stuff K&G Thank you!
Loved this. Great job.
Too nice historic video showing &clear explaining of events how volcanic occurs not planning events in area...thanks for sending
Amazing video. Thank you guys!
Usa,russia,china : we have nuke
Indonesia : hold my deadly volcanic mountains collection
Love your videos. I didn't watch the video yet, but liked it.
I love this take on natural disasters & history ! Very well done ! Please consider doing more like these ! Thanks a lot
I legit saw the title and thought "K&G Be doing History Channel shit now", but that was something I would have never thought of... great video!
Great artwork and effects, very informative too
The production quality of your videos is outstanding! 👌😀
11:19 the years you state don't match the newspaper graphics you used; "1235" when the picture says 1835
Ya seems like he made a mistake or whoever wrote the script messed up
We noticed but kept quiet. Let's just pretend nothing happened. We owe it to them.
Tambora was 1815.
There's speculation that it hastened the invention of the bicycle by making horse feed too expensive.
Great research @KingsandGenerals
Mongol empire: a series of fortunate and unfortunate event...
History, Geography, Biology (Micro-Biology) in one video! One of the best document I ever watched in this chanel... (although, nearly every document here is amazing!)
Good Lesson on Geography as well. Thank You Kings & Generals.
It’s awesome to see this Chanel making the correlation btw climate patterns and historical events. It’s something i have been thinking about for a few years
I was wondering about the volcanoes effect on Europe and you went into what happened there! Thanks for the context regarding the world during it.
When are you guys gonna do the history of your channel??
@@rj5848 you know that all of the people tell their TH-cam stories about how they grew and how they became popular etc
@@35_xe_raghavpatil67 May need extra maps or historical dates.
@@baabaaer they just need to talk about how they started their channel it doesn't require a lot of effort
@@35_xe_raghavpatil67 r/wooosh
very intresting video well done!!
One of the best video, very well researched and organized.
Seems like Natural Twists of History.
This video is an 11 out of 10. Just awesome and well done. Well explained. Just WOW!
Hey Kings and generals how do you do it ? How do you post quality videos every day !! You are probably the only TH-camr that does both quality and quantity
Thank you for another visionary history lesson!
I was not exited for online school today but this video made it wayyyyyyyyy better.
This video could also be called "Did a Volcano in the Pacific caused people in Italy to whip themselves?"
Or "Indonesian Volcano Strikes Again"
Great content!
The people of Mongolia experienced a So Called Bruh Moment......
Again a awesome story from the best channel in TH-cam
Just the sheer quality of content is mind blowing for free
Humans always try to oversimplify history: Rome collapsed because barbarians, the Mongols tore themselves apart, etc. Real history, like any good story, usually has many causes for the big events that transpire.
Humans always try to oversimplify, generally
This is the opposite of simplification lol
Natural catastrophes and epidemics are often overlooked in our study of history. ;)
Thank you for including this in your analysis.
Man the history of the Mongol empire after Ögedei is so complicated. I listened to Dan carlin and most of your videos on this topic but still can't wrap my head around this period.
Excelente como siempre. Esta perspectiva siempre es refrescante
A volcanic eruption on Lombok island defeated the entire Mongol army. Since I'm from Indonesia, that's interesting. Thank you. 😊
'WE HAVE THE HORDE'
'We have a volcano :3'
2020: Virus
2021: Volcanic eruption?
One thing to note is that the famines experienced across Europe and Asia have a myriad of causes and vary on the specific area, but a major reason for those of Eurasia and Asia was due to the cumulative death count of the Mongols from Genghis to Ogedai. The pax Mongolia did make silk road trade more efficient, but at the same time the Mongols habit of slaughtering people, livestock and destroying crops shouldn't be overlooked. Moreover, the tendency for land based empires to become over extended and subsequently collapse into separate entities is a pretty common occurrence in history. A centralized state especially with unclear lines of succession on top of incredibly vast distances and massive diverse populations to govern is difficult if not impossible to maintain for long without some decentralization.
Excellent video!
Man, I love this channel
Beautiful cahnnel and great details. I think you made a mistake, @11:17 when u said tambora eruption in 1215 AD when it was in 1815 and same with the other eruption after it
Incredible video. Love anything mongol-related.
11:14 Tambora eruption is 1815, you narrated as 1215