This is really historically inaccurate and dishonest. It falsely alludes that Europeans invented slavery when it existed before modern times, and the Arab slave trade predated the European slave expeditions in Africa by centuries.
This is really historically inaccurate and dishonest. It falsely alludes that Europeans invented slavery when it existed before modern times, and the Arab slave trade predated the European slave expeditions in Africa by centuries.
It doesn't "allude that" at all 😂 He just states when the beginning of the African Slave trade starts, which is an incredibly important historical era.
Can we all just take a second to applaud Medieval Madness for not changing his videos to be full of AI generated images like so many other creators of this stuff do now. Its so much better knowing you are looking at real images that took time to research and know you're listening to a reap voice. So much of this stuff now on TH-cam is just full of lazy AI generated generic images of people with a generic AI voice and i don't know about you but i find that to be heavy uncanny valley when watching and it puts me off instantly. This is still so professional compared to all that stuff. Well done.
@@plugshirt1762 the narrator is real, the pictures are real. I don't mind a little AI in pictures, heck it's so much quicker and easier. But when a video is full of those slightly off AI pictures of faces which you can spot instantly it really takes me out of the video. There's something just now quite right about them and to me it's so obvious and a bit creepy. I'm glad this creator hasn't went down that road because it's so much easier and cheaper at the expense of the audience.
I ALWAYS want more from your channel. I fall asleep to you every night. This time line is amazing, but I do hope you elaborate more on all these stories
This was actually a really awesome video. I could appreciate you going more into detail on each topic, but for what it was, (and I think what it was going for..)- just a timeline to sort of put things in perspective, it was very good. Great way to contextualize these events we've learned about, and kind of all know happened around the "Middle Ages." But centuries are incredibly difficult for the human brain to put into context.
New style of video! I have always enjoyed your focus on a particular subject, but in no way do I think this installment is inferior. Great, concise overview! Cheers 🎉
Man it’s insane to think that we only know these by transcripts imagine all of the other stories and transcripts that are lost that we would never know
Great. I just discovered this. Finally a rare score for the TH-cam algorithm. I love the format. Im 62 and from the UK. I would have been so much more interested in history with this kind of presentation. More please!
@@Fitness4London Fun Fact: Alfred the Great is the only English King to be called "Great", but he was not King of England (which is not considered to have begun until 927 under Aethelstan) and Cnut the Great is the only King of England to be called "Great" although he was a Danish King and not English.
Going into my "Saved" videos pile on TH-cam, and I will transcribe it shortly. It is just so handy and complete a reference to keep nearby when reading historical books to be able to place events in their right place. I'd love to see one which places great works of art into their right historical place, in addition to musical artists -- that would be massively interesting and handy as well. Thanks again -- been a fan from the start, and suspect I will be here until the bitter end of all the madness!
You know it’s Anglo-centric when Alfred the Great is mentioned but the conquest of Granada (and most of Spain) is completely ignored. Extra points for acknowledging the Aztecs, though.
He also left out the Battle of Manzikert of 1071 in which the ERE were defeated, The Navas de Tolosa of 1212, 1204 Sack of Constantinople during the 4th Crusade, The Great Schism of 1054, etc. Otherwise great video.
I think that the battle of Aljubarrota should’ve been mentioned, it’s a very important battle of the medieval ages and allows the exploration age to be what it was with Spain and Portugal
I love this channel. I just subscribed. I start looking for the new videos on Thursday and am always pleased when I see I new one posted. I have learned a lot from watching the videos. Cheers!
European Christians might have started buying and selling Africans in Portugal as you mentioned, but African and Middle Eastern Muslims had been buying and selling Africans for hundreds of years before that.
Yeah but the European slave trade was strongly racialized and led to the foundations for modern racial hierarchies. The Arab slave trade was significantly less racialized. Like for example, the enslaved people and their descendants from the Arab slave trade ended up being integrated into society whilst the European slave trade destroyed societies, led to the colonial system and depopulated regions in Africa.
@binmanbinman ???? Slavery is slavery mate, The Ottoman slave trade was devastating, with an estimated 1-1.25 million Europeans captured and sold into slavery between the 15th and 19th centuries. The Ottoman Empire also enslaved a large portion of its population, with about one-fifth of the population in the 16th and 17th centuries being slaves. Here are some other details about the Ottoman slave trade: Slaves sold for different prices The price of a slave depended on their race, and they were considered to be suitable for different tasks based on their race and ethnicity. Female sex slaves Female sex slaves were sold in the Ottoman Empire until 1908. The devshirme system This system involved the forced removal of children from their families and their conversion to Islam. Some of these children were trained for government service or served in the Janissaries, the Ottoman Empire's elite military corps. The Anglo-Ottoman Convention of 1880 This convention was intended to address the slave trade in the Red Sea, but it was not enforced in practice. Yeah really sounds like they weren't racist considering that your prices and the jobs youd do in society as a slave was directly proportional to your skin colour. The force rape of women and young girls, the forced conversion to Islam, yeah so much better then the Europeans, and let's not talk about how the Africans would fight each other, enslave their rival tribe and then sell them on the market, I am not down playing European slavery but I am saying that slavery and the treatment of slaves are the normal in those days, Korea has the longest Unbroken tradition of slavery in human history, see everyone practiced it and everyone were assholes about it
Such an excellent episode! A few comments are negative, not seeing it for what it is. It was so informative as an overview and I’ll be re-watching. Thanks from a long-time subscriber!
Bc it basically focuses mostly on the Anglo world, completely ignoring the reconquista of Spain or other important events going on in other parts of Europe
I really enjoyed this episode. It's rare to find anyone who includes global civilizations external to Europe in medieval history. I am curious to know how you feel about 'Pope Joan.' I know that *common* historical texts exclude her as a possibility, but there are too many oddities in the papal authentication practices to totally exclude it.
Thank you for this great overview! It's such a huge period in history with so many different stages. It would be great to weave some of these threads through the period.
The format is great, and it's a good basis for understanding a lot of medieval events. However, I feel that the selection of dates is a bit strange at times. The exploration of the Western European timeline is generally good (the Moorish invasion of Spain would've been relevant to mention, as well as the Cathar civil war and the Viking explorations over the Atlantic), but the video glosses over a lot of significant events in the East or Central Europe; a few examples: the invasions of the Huns, Magyars and Mongols into Europe; a lot of significant Byzantine events are ignored; if I had to pick one, the 1204 Sack of Constantinople is probably one of the top 10 most significant events in medieval history. The 1299 Fall of Acre, ending the Crusader presence in the Holy Land, also significant, as was the fall of Jerusalem in 1187. I'm not saying non-European history is insignificant, but just mentioning the Aztec Empire and some Japanese novel is a bit odd too. The Inca Empire was also significant, for one thing.
I know you had just 15 minutes to cover a thousand years of worldwide history, and you did a splendid job. So I know, something like this, you can only pick the highlights. I would have chosen the Nika Revolt in 536, where political tensions united the people of Constantinople against Justinian, who was on the verge of fleeing when his wife, Theodora, talked him into standing up to the crowd, which resulted in the slaughter of maybe 30,000 citizens at the Hippodrome. That event salvaged everything Justinian accomplished, from kind of reuniting the Roman Empire to his codified laws which you mentioned, and it kept the Byzantine Empire going, which survived until the Fall of Constantinople in 1453, which again you mentioned. Had Justinian abdicated, the remnants of the Roman Empire would have died with him. Some scholars, believing the Byzantines continued the Roman Empire right up to the dawn of the Renaissance, believe Rome in all its forms lasted over 2000 years; had the Nika Revolt been successful, that would have been shortened to about half that.
Wow, a lot of information about a kind of "black hole" in my history. Some basic building blocks there that established the West as we know it today. The voiceover has a kind of pedestrian quality, as if running through a list of boring grocery items. However, I very much appreciate the fast and efficient summary format.
I really enjoyed this. I did find myself wanting to stop the narrative and click on a link for more information about the current event and what happened next; for example, the Black Death lead to the end of feudalism (not enough workers left to support the feudal system). Don't get me wrong, I'm thoroughly enjoying this, and want more!
536 is considered the worst year ever to be alive in history, and it continued for the decade of the 540s. Leif Erickson sailed to Greenland in the year 1000. The chimney was invented in 1100. Johann Gutenberg made it possible to have modern-day things like radios, TVs, computers, the Internet, smartphones and WiFi. Christopher Columbus discovered America to make the whole world in contact with each other for the first time, and America is definitely a continent, not a country. We can be distant descendants of Charlemagne. Because of low life expectancy from wars, famines and disease, I am so glad to live now in the 21st century. I love history and I get fascinated by videos like this.
1492 the Portuguese Empire dies, we never recovered from this. Spain hated the Portuguese and slowly banned the nobility till we had to fight for indepence and restart the kingdom but we were never as powerful as we once were. :(
@diegoflores9237 technically it does, but regardless the parent commenter saying it died in 1492 makes no sense anyway. Portuguese colonization had barely gotten started at that time
1071 - Manzikert should also be in the video. This battle meant the beginning of the end for the Byzantine Empire, which lost control of the Middle East. One of the major triggers for the First Crusade 20 years later.
I always thought that Medieval times ended Aug 22, 1485 with the death of Richard III at Bosworth. I guess it depends on which historian you listen to. Great job and thanks for posting this video. 👍
Periods and Eras of history are themselves made up by historians, so it's not surprising they may disagree on exactly what event marked the boundary. Especially since most such events don't have immediate effects across the whole planet.
Schwerpunkt is a real history channel who has hundreds of hours of quality content for anyone who wishes to really learn something about all kinds of different facets of the past. I strongly recommend him to anyone who seeks any meaningful knowledge about the medieval period.
Great video! A little remark: You mentioned that the house of Habsburgs was "producing kings of croatia, spain, portugal and hungary among others" but you forgot to mention austria even though the house of habsburg is also known as the house of austria.
Austria never had a king though. Sometimes the duke or archduke of Austria was titled king of the Germans or king of Italy in addition to being king of Bohemia or Hungary, but never king of Austria.
The Mongols actually only had the largest connected empire, the Magna Carta actually was annulled soon after. The Habsburg family only became highly relevant from the mid-15th century. Worth mentioning also about the slave trade that about an estimated 90% of these slaves were bought from African kings. No mal intend. Good video.
You know Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth or Commonwealth of Two Nations as it is properly known was created in a Renaissance period in 1569, the unions between Kingdom of Poland and Grand Duchy of Lithuania like does in 1385 or 1413 didn't merge it into a single state unlike the 1569
One of the first assignments of my bachelor study in history was to create a timeline of important events. Only to show that it is completely random and meaningless without such things as a clear goal, scope and selection criteria.
I mean he talks about the Ottomans, Japan, China, Italy, etc. and even one courtesy Aztec reference. But yes, a lot of medieval history tends to focus on Britain and France haha.
Many people think that the fall of the Roman Empire was a bad thing. Consider - scientists have studied the bones of people who died in different periods. They discovered that the common people were better nourished after the Empire fell than they were during the Empire. Also, the feudal system did not arise after the Empire. It gradually came into being during the Empire. It's what remained after the Empire disappeared.
Thanks so much - If you want to know more I just finished reading The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan which is wonderful history lesson covering many of the events hinted at here
I really enjoyed watching that so well done on putting it together. Isn't it crazy how 1,000 years of 'our story' (humanity) can be condensed into 15 minutes or so?..... all those huge events that happened in their time that would have dominated the lives of so many people at the time now seem almost irrelevant and trivial to most people today.... it makes you wonder what events of today will be put in a video in 500-1000 years time about now..... probably very little! You might get the Beatles / 60s cultural revolution and you will probably get the rise of the internet and the effects it had on globalisation, but other than that.. the politics, market crashes, wars, even the covid pandemic probably won't even amount to a second's worth of content!
3:16 Hold on the Vikings killed “Russians”? According to Frankopan and many others, if I understood this correctly, in the 8th and 9th century there are no Russians there, yet, but rather, the Vikings who first raided and then settled in Eastern Europe would _become_ the Kievan Rus, and they killed and enslaved _Slavic_ peoples. Could you explain what you mean?
@@tochukwuifeanacho3843 No, I don’t think so. The Rus‘ aren‘t Slavic, but Norse. Not in the time we are talking about. (Dark ages ‘till the founding of the Rus state in 862. Only later would the Norse melt together with the Slavs.
If this interests you, there's a GREAT book called "Cathedral, Forge and Waterwheel: Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages" by Frances and Joseph Gies that all will LOVE. A most fascinating book and one of my faves.
THAT WAS AWESOME! NOW WHEN I THINK OF PAST MOVIES IVE SEEN I CAN SEE WHERE WE WERE IN HISTORY -QUICKLY😅 KNOWING WHERE WE WETE AT ALWAYS HELPS PERSPECTIVES & SO THANKFUL I WASNT BORN BACK THEN😅😅‼️
Very nice! One niggle though: The world's first university is that of al-Qarawiyyin, located in Fez, Morocco. It was founded in 859 CE by Fatima al-Fihri, a woman of notable education and wealth. Initially established as a madrasa (Islamic educational institution), it later expanded to teach a variety of subjects, including theology, medicine, mathematics, astronomy, and philosophy.
It’s wild to me that the Roman Empire lasted ~2000 years. Almost the entirety of recent human history. And to think that it fell only 40 years before Christopher Columbus landed in the Bahamas is baffling.
It’s so refreshing to see a creator engage in history and include women…. It’s so often that’s they’re excluded and there might be a separate video or text or not even bother at all
I guess you could argue that the Roman Empire lasted until the fall of the Eastern Roman Empire, no? It was only the Western Roman Empire that fell that "early".
1000 years of medieval history in 15 minutes is madness!
But we clicked, didn’t we? So how mad are we, I ask you!
Medieval madnes, that is...🧐
It is just as meaningless as a 10 minute history of the Universe.
Exactly!🎉
Thats how they teach history in public schools 😂
I’m addicted to this channel. I love learning about the Middle Ages without romanticizing it.
Learning about real history without the influence of pop culture is the best way to learn it!
@@avatarmewBut pop culture is cool. Just take it with a grain of salt.
This is really historically inaccurate and dishonest. It falsely alludes that Europeans invented slavery when it existed before modern times, and the Arab slave trade predated the European slave expeditions in Africa by centuries.
@@akhost3929 I genuinely can't imagine someone thinking the video was trying to imply Europeans invented slavery lmao.
❤❤good work 😮😅
1000 years abbreviated with great skill. Each short piece worthy of several episodes. Good job!
This is really historically inaccurate and dishonest. It falsely alludes that Europeans invented slavery when it existed before modern times, and the Arab slave trade predated the European slave expeditions in Africa by centuries.
It doesn't "allude that" at all 😂 He just states when the beginning of the African Slave trade starts, which is an incredibly important historical era.
@@oremstale8558but the African slave trade didn’t start there
Just in from work and medieval madness to watch. Fantastic. Thanks for your hard work
Can we all just take a second to applaud Medieval Madness for not changing his videos to be full of AI generated images like so many other creators of this stuff do now. Its so much better knowing you are looking at real images that took time to research and know you're listening to a reap voice. So much of this stuff now on TH-cam is just full of lazy AI generated generic images of people with a generic AI voice and i don't know about you but i find that to be heavy uncanny valley when watching and it puts me off instantly. This is still so professional compared to all that stuff. Well done.
I could not have said it better!
Agreed.
eh I could care less for the pictures used but ai voices are terrible
@@plugshirt1762
Believe it or not, the narrator is a real person
@@plugshirt1762 the narrator is real, the pictures are real. I don't mind a little AI in pictures, heck it's so much quicker and easier. But when a video is full of those slightly off AI pictures of faces which you can spot instantly it really takes me out of the video. There's something just now quite right about them and to me it's so obvious and a bit creepy. I'm glad this creator hasn't went down that road because it's so much easier and cheaper at the expense of the audience.
I ALWAYS want more from your channel. I fall asleep to you every night. This time line is amazing, but I do hope you elaborate more on all these stories
1054 - the Great Schism between the Western and Eastern churches
1204 - the sacking of Constantinople during the 4th Crusade.
This is handy! As someone with a hobbyist’s interest, it’s helpful to have an efficient reference like this. Thanks!
Thank You. Very entertaining educational refreshing refresher !!
Be cool to see each chapter get it's own 15 minutes of madness
Loved this so much! This is by far my favourite history channel on TH-cam
Surprised you skipped over the great schism of 1054. This divided Europe in half as Catholicism splits off from Orthodox Christianity
Good point 🙂
Serious good point
He left out a lot of events that influenced the entirety of Europe and focused too much on England
He also skipped the destruction of sassanids empire and also made mistakes like the first university was in morroco
yeah . year 1054 and year 570 - source od all evil in todays world
what an excellent summary, this would make a great syllabus. thank you.
This was actually a really awesome video. I could appreciate you going more into detail on each topic, but for what it was, (and I think what it was going for..)- just a timeline to sort of put things in perspective, it was very good. Great way to contextualize these events we've learned about, and kind of all know happened around the "Middle Ages." But centuries are incredibly difficult for the human brain to put into context.
New style of video! I have always enjoyed your focus on a particular subject, but in no way do I think this installment is inferior. Great, concise overview! Cheers 🎉
Man it’s insane to think that we only know these by transcripts imagine all of the other stories and transcripts that are lost that we would never know
That’s one of the saddest things to think about. How much has been lost forever
there's lot more much older that got lost
Loved this. So informative and interesting, just brilliant. Thank you 🫶
I strongly recommend Schwerpunkt's summary on the XX amount of dates to learn by heart to necessarily but not satisfactorily know the Middle Ages
Great show! The new format was very innovative and fun to watch.
Great. I just discovered this. Finally a rare score for the TH-cam algorithm.
I love the format.
Im 62 and from the UK.
I would have been so much more interested in history with this kind of presentation.
More please!
FACT CORRECTION: King Athelstan was the first king of all the English, Alfred the Great's grandson, and son of Edward the Elder.
True, Alfred was King of the Anglo Saxons in southern England, and the Vikings ruled Danelaw (the north-east and East Anglia).
@@Fitness4London Fun Fact: Alfred the Great is the only English King to be called "Great", but he was not King of England (which is not considered to have begun until 927 under Aethelstan) and Cnut the Great is the only King of England to be called "Great" although he was a Danish King and not English.
Going into my "Saved" videos pile on TH-cam, and I will transcribe it shortly. It is just so handy and complete a reference to keep nearby when reading historical books to be able to place events in their right place. I'd love to see one which places great works of art into their right historical place, in addition to musical artists -- that would be massively interesting and handy as well. Thanks again -- been a fan from the start, and suspect I will be here until the bitter end of all the madness!
You know it’s Anglo-centric when Alfred the Great is mentioned but the conquest of Granada (and most of Spain) is completely ignored. Extra points for acknowledging the Aztecs, though.
Aren't you so glad that All the good people won All the wars.
Amazing!
Cheers
Well, the Napoleonic wars were definitely won by the worse lot.
It is only 15 minutes, he does talk about the birth of the prophet Muhammad and Islam.
Honestly lol, the reconquista, being one of the important things in European history, isnt even given the mention it deserves
People would be less "learning history" adverse if they watched this brilliant channel. It was bright and breezy with great art. I adored it.
This was great. Only one I’m surprised you left out was 711 - When the Moors invaded Spain and 732 - Battle of Portiers.
He also left out the Battle of Manzikert of 1071 in which the ERE were defeated, The Navas de Tolosa of 1212, 1204 Sack of Constantinople during the 4th Crusade, The Great Schism of 1054, etc. Otherwise great video.
Battle of tours*
1488 - Bartolomeu Dias, first European ever to navigate past southernmost tip of Africa and reach India Ocean, the Cape of Good Hope
I think that the battle of Aljubarrota should’ve been mentioned, it’s a very important battle of the medieval ages and allows the exploration age to be what it was with Spain and Portugal
Surprised that the conquest of Spain and the battle of Tours not included but did enjoy this video
I love this channel. I just subscribed. I start looking for the new videos on Thursday and am always pleased when I see I new one posted. I have learned a lot from watching the videos. Cheers!
European Christians might have started buying and selling Africans in Portugal as you mentioned, but African and Middle Eastern Muslims had been buying and selling Africans for hundreds of years before that.
No, American's invented slavery in 1776. (I saw it on a tee shirt...somewhere)
And the Muslims also abducted and enslaved Europeans
Yeah but the European slave trade was strongly racialized and led to the foundations for modern racial hierarchies. The Arab slave trade was significantly less racialized. Like for example, the enslaved people and their descendants from the Arab slave trade ended up being integrated into society whilst the European slave trade destroyed societies, led to the colonial system and depopulated regions in Africa.
@binmanbinman ???? Slavery is slavery mate, The Ottoman slave trade was devastating, with an estimated 1-1.25 million Europeans captured and sold into slavery between the 15th and 19th centuries. The Ottoman Empire also enslaved a large portion of its population, with about one-fifth of the population in the 16th and 17th centuries being slaves.
Here are some other details about the Ottoman slave trade:
Slaves sold for different prices
The price of a slave depended on their race, and they were considered to be suitable for different tasks based on their race and ethnicity.
Female sex slaves
Female sex slaves were sold in the Ottoman Empire until 1908.
The devshirme system
This system involved the forced removal of children from their families and their conversion to Islam. Some of these children were trained for government service or served in the Janissaries, the Ottoman Empire's elite military corps.
The Anglo-Ottoman Convention of 1880
This convention was intended to address the slave trade in the Red Sea, but it was not enforced in practice.
Yeah really sounds like they weren't racist considering that your prices and the jobs youd do in society as a slave was directly proportional to your skin colour.
The force rape of women and young girls, the forced conversion to Islam, yeah so much better then the Europeans, and let's not talk about how the Africans would fight each other, enslave their rival tribe and then sell them on the market, I am not down playing European slavery but I am saying that slavery and the treatment of slaves are the normal in those days, Korea has the longest Unbroken tradition of slavery in human history, see everyone practiced it and everyone were assholes about it
Just because two things are bad, doesn’t mean one can’t be much worse
Such an excellent episode! A few comments are negative, not seeing it for what it is. It was so informative as an overview and I’ll be re-watching. Thanks from a long-time subscriber!
Bc it basically focuses mostly on the Anglo world, completely ignoring the reconquista of Spain or other important events going on in other parts of Europe
Frame work is critical to learning.
This is perfect. 😊
Tony Buzan said 10 parts on 10 topics is the foundation of an education.
I really enjoyed this episode. It's rare to find anyone who includes global civilizations external to Europe in medieval history. I am curious to know how you feel about 'Pope Joan.' I know that *common* historical texts exclude her as a possibility, but there are too many oddities in the papal authentication practices to totally exclude it.
536: volcanic winter, resulting in famine, then the plague of Justinian.
Yup; the video glosses over a lot of significant events not in Western Europe.
@@Transilvanian90 a fifteen minute video covering a thousand years tends to do that lol
@@Transilvanian90wait a 15 minute video covering 1000 years of European history missed some things out?!
Yeah, plague of Justinian should have been mentioned.
Think that plague, like them all, came from Wuhan.
No mention to the iberian peninsula kingdoms until the very end… this video was so british-french-centric
The timeline is great - but I was left wanting a little more detail on each of the elements - but thanks for producing it
Thank you for this great overview!
It's such a huge period in history with so many different stages.
It would be great to weave some of these threads through the period.
The format is great, and it's a good basis for understanding a lot of medieval events.
However, I feel that the selection of dates is a bit strange at times. The exploration of the Western European timeline is generally good (the Moorish invasion of Spain would've been relevant to mention, as well as the Cathar civil war and the Viking explorations over the Atlantic), but the video glosses over a lot of significant events in the East or Central Europe; a few examples: the invasions of the Huns, Magyars and Mongols into Europe; a lot of significant Byzantine events are ignored; if I had to pick one, the 1204 Sack of Constantinople is probably one of the top 10 most significant events in medieval history. The 1299 Fall of Acre, ending the Crusader presence in the Holy Land, also significant, as was the fall of Jerusalem in 1187.
I'm not saying non-European history is insignificant, but just mentioning the Aztec Empire and some Japanese novel is a bit odd too. The Inca Empire was also significant, for one thing.
So many cool stories to flesh out here. Good work!
I know you had just 15 minutes to cover a thousand years of worldwide history, and you did a splendid job. So I know, something like this, you can only pick the highlights. I would have chosen the Nika Revolt in 536, where political tensions united the people of Constantinople against Justinian, who was on the verge of fleeing when his wife, Theodora, talked him into standing up to the crowd, which resulted in the slaughter of maybe 30,000 citizens at the Hippodrome. That event salvaged everything Justinian accomplished, from kind of reuniting the Roman Empire to his codified laws which you mentioned, and it kept the Byzantine Empire going, which survived until the Fall of Constantinople in 1453, which again you mentioned. Had Justinian abdicated, the remnants of the Roman Empire would have died with him. Some scholars, believing the Byzantines continued the Roman Empire right up to the dawn of the Renaissance, believe Rome in all its forms lasted over 2000 years; had the Nika Revolt been successful, that would have been shortened to about half that.
@flagcoco69 Thank you so much for this additional information! It was much appreciated!! Cheers!
Great! 🎉thank you for making my history review simplified. 😊
Wow, a lot of information about a kind of "black hole" in my history. Some basic building blocks there that established the West as we know it today. The voiceover has a kind of pedestrian quality, as if running through a list of boring grocery items. However, I very much appreciate the fast and efficient summary format.
Well done and very entertaining. Great job!
Fabulous❤❤❤❤
Took notes. 😊
Excellent work
The medieval art is so terrible! I love it! Thanks for this episode. Please cover the dancing plague and the Garden of Unearthly Delights.
I enjoyed this and learned a lot.
Thank you for including events and figures from other continents than just Europe!
Best episode by far
New to your work, but love your style. This first video on the middle ages so helpful at putting it into context for me. 🎉
I really enjoyed this. I did find myself wanting to stop the narrative and click on a link for more information about the current event and what happened next; for example, the Black Death lead to the end of feudalism (not enough workers left to support the feudal system).
Don't get me wrong, I'm thoroughly enjoying this, and want more!
536 is considered the worst year ever to be alive in history, and it continued for the decade of the 540s. Leif Erickson sailed to Greenland in the year 1000. The chimney was invented in 1100. Johann Gutenberg made it possible to have modern-day things like radios, TVs, computers, the Internet, smartphones and WiFi. Christopher Columbus discovered America to make the whole world in contact with each other for the first time, and America is definitely a continent, not a country. We can be distant descendants of Charlemagne. Because of low life expectancy from wars, famines and disease, I am so glad to live now in the 21st century. I love history and I get fascinated by videos like this.
1492 the Portuguese Empire dies, we never recovered from this. Spain hated the Portuguese and slowly banned the nobility till we had to fight for indepence and restart the kingdom but we were never as powerful as we once were. :(
Every empire eventually ends. What goes up must come down.
no it didnt died, what died were the kingdoms of Castille, Leon, Navarra and Catalunha, where in the hell you get that stupid information from?
The Portuguese empire was the first and last colonial empire, it only ended in 1999 with the surrender of Macau to China.
@@josebilhoto1780 Macau doesn't count as an empire 😂😅🤣🤣😂🤣
@diegoflores9237 technically it does, but regardless the parent commenter saying it died in 1492 makes no sense anyway. Portuguese colonization had barely gotten started at that time
1071 - Manzikert should also be in the video. This battle meant the beginning of the end for the Byzantine Empire, which lost control of the Middle East. One of the major triggers for the First Crusade 20 years later.
A lot of stuff should be here
I always thought that Medieval times ended Aug 22, 1485 with the death of Richard III at Bosworth. I guess it depends on which historian you listen to.
Great job and thanks for posting this video. 👍
Periods and Eras of history are themselves made up by historians, so it's not surprising they may disagree on exactly what event marked the boundary. Especially since most such events don't have immediate effects across the whole planet.
This was excellent. Thank you!
What about the Plague of Justinian in 536? Great 👍 history in a nutshell video.
No one thought Muhammed was the last prophet except Islam, not being rude but the way it was said made it sound universal to all Abrahamic religions.
Heavy English bias here. Half a continent's history was largely skipped.
Agreed, but the bits skipped are the boring bits!😜😘👍
@@anthonywatts2033the reconquista is boring?? It’s literally one of the most interesting parts of the Middle Ages
Huh? Why did you show the plague mask the doctors wore for the 1347 outbreak? Wasn’t the mask used in a later outbreak. This this one? 10:04
Schwerpunkt is a real history channel who has hundreds of hours of quality content for anyone who wishes to really learn something about all kinds of different facets of the past. I strongly recommend him to anyone who seeks any meaningful knowledge about the medieval period.
@dianedylan5423. Thank you so much for this recommendation! It is greatly appreciated!! Cheers!
Great video! A little remark: You mentioned that the house of Habsburgs was "producing kings of croatia, spain, portugal and hungary among others" but you forgot to mention austria even though the house of habsburg is also known as the house of austria.
Austria never had a king though.
Sometimes the duke or archduke of Austria was titled king of the Germans or king of Italy in addition to being king of Bohemia or Hungary, but never king of Austria.
@@danvernier198 Yes, that's true. Though the habsburgs were the emperors of the austrian empire so i figured it would be worth to mention.
Awesome video!
medieval lore at 4am goes hard.
The Mongols actually only had the largest connected empire, the Magna Carta actually was annulled soon after. The Habsburg family only became highly relevant from the mid-15th century. Worth mentioning also about the slave trade that about an estimated 90% of these slaves were bought from African kings. No mal intend. Good video.
I enjoyed the format
A few more details here and there would embelish an already excellent presentation.
Yes, I did enjoyed it a lot 👍
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He skipped all the Iberian history
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Probably took a toilet break.
732 …. With a victory in the Battle of Tours, Charles Martel stops Muslim expansion into Western Europe
A guy whose nickname is "The Hammer" must have been a cool dude.
Thank God for Martel.
Nice recap of the Middle Ages 😁 However, the lack of info about the rise of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is surprising and disappointing…
You know Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth or Commonwealth of Two Nations as it is properly known was created in a Renaissance period in 1569, the unions between Kingdom of Poland and Grand Duchy of Lithuania like does in 1385 or 1413 didn't merge it into a single state unlike the 1569
Fantastic. I finally know the dates that started and finished the middle ages!
Nice. Liked and shared.
One of the first assignments of my bachelor study in history was to create a timeline of important events. Only to show that it is completely random and meaningless without such things as a clear goal, scope and selection criteria.
What a significant part of human history.
This video should be called middle ages in Brittain and France.
I mean he talks about the Ottomans, Japan, China, Italy, etc. and even one courtesy Aztec reference. But yes, a lot of medieval history tends to focus on Britain and France haha.
Now play nice ! But obviously correct ❤ 😂
Many people think that the fall of the Roman Empire was a bad thing. Consider - scientists have studied the bones of people who died in different periods. They discovered that the common people were better nourished after the Empire fell than they were during the Empire.
Also, the feudal system did not arise after the Empire. It gradually came into being during the Empire. It's what remained after the Empire disappeared.
it’s impossible to talk medieval history without talking about the by far most important city of constantinople…
Thanks so much - If you want to know more I just finished reading The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan which is wonderful history lesson covering many of the events hinted at here
Great stuff
I love history, thank you for making and sharing your video. I was wondering how you could do it in 15 minutes, lol you did good.
I really enjoyed watching that so well done on putting it together. Isn't it crazy how 1,000 years of 'our story' (humanity) can be condensed into 15 minutes or so?..... all those huge events that happened in their time that would have dominated the lives of so many people at the time now seem almost irrelevant and trivial to most people today.... it makes you wonder what events of today will be put in a video in 500-1000 years time about now..... probably very little! You might get the Beatles / 60s cultural revolution and you will probably get the rise of the internet and the effects it had on globalisation, but other than that.. the politics, market crashes, wars, even the covid pandemic probably won't even amount to a second's worth of content!
3:16 Hold on the Vikings killed “Russians”? According to Frankopan and many others, if I understood this correctly, in the 8th and 9th century there are no Russians there, yet, but rather, the Vikings who first raided and then settled in Eastern Europe would _become_ the Kievan Rus, and they killed and enslaved _Slavic_ peoples. Could you explain what you mean?
You are correct just that the slavs were the Russians then
You are correct just that the slavs were the Russians then
@@tochukwuifeanacho3843 No, I don’t think so. The Rus‘ aren‘t Slavic, but Norse. Not in the time we are talking about. (Dark ages ‘till the founding of the Rus state in 862. Only later would the Norse melt together with the Slavs.
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The rus are both Slavic and Norse the Norse conquered the Slavs living in Russia and created the country of Rus
If this interests you, there's a GREAT book called "Cathedral, Forge and Waterwheel: Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages" by Frances and Joseph Gies that all will LOVE. A most fascinating book and one of my faves.
@truthray2885. Thank you for the book recommendation! It is appreciated! Cheers!!
please make this 4 hours long and in depth
More 15 minute history videos, please.
THAT WAS AWESOME!
NOW WHEN I THINK OF PAST MOVIES IVE SEEN
I CAN SEE WHERE WE WERE IN HISTORY -QUICKLY😅
KNOWING WHERE WE WETE AT ALWAYS HELPS PERSPECTIVES
& SO THANKFUL I WASNT BORN BACK THEN😅😅‼️
Very nice! One niggle though: The world's first university is that of al-Qarawiyyin, located in Fez, Morocco. It was founded in 859 CE by Fatima al-Fihri, a woman of notable education and wealth. Initially established as a madrasa (Islamic educational institution), it later expanded to teach a variety of subjects, including theology, medicine, mathematics, astronomy, and philosophy.
"... and many historians consider this as the end of the medieval period. But not me."
It’s wild to me that the Roman Empire lasted ~2000 years. Almost the entirety of recent human history. And to think that it fell only 40 years before Christopher Columbus landed in the Bahamas is baffling.
How is the first novel not The Iliad of The Odyssey or something?
I love this kind of video
It’s so refreshing to see a creator engage in history and include women…. It’s so often that’s they’re excluded and there might be a separate video or text or not even bother at all
You are brave, I tip my hat to you...good job!
You should've named this video Important dates in English history and the rest of the world.
It’s good, I liked it. Just what I expected from a flash review.
Meanwhile, in sub-Saharan Africa…absolutely nothing happened.
Other than the richest dude that ever lived?
Alfred the great only ruled over Wessex and a part of Mercia that wasn’t part of the Danelaw. His grandson, Æthelstan was the first king of England
I guess you could argue that the Roman Empire lasted until the fall of the Eastern Roman Empire, no? It was only the Western Roman Empire that fell that "early".
Thanks. Wonderful introduction. Sbscribed
Excellent!!!
Great video, thank you!
Can we take a moment to appreciate that last picture?
"Timeline of the Middle Ages through English eyes"