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The theory of modern warfare for hundreds and hundreds of years was You need to charge in to battle bravely and we will win! We lost because where did charge in bravely enuff! 🤦♂🤣
These beliefs were symbolic, something doesn't have to be true or false, to be considered accurate. Myths are a big part of history, and myths and legends have a beauty and a spark that humans have lost in modern times, modernization killed the human spirit and people call these things blatantly false. That was the beauty of medieval culture, each of these beliefs and Gods was an aspect of nature, its beauty and art that you will never understand. Stephen Hawkings was dead on the inside, so it's no surprise.
There's plenty of things the future generations are gonna laugh at us for too, that's just the power of hindsight and making fun of the past. And they'll get laughed at by the generations after them. It just keeps going.
@@fnumbuh they already do, using their phones to complain on Twitter about our carbon footprint while they pay for video game micro transactions using bitcoin on their ps5. At their age all we did is climb trees and play football, so I can see their point.
Many of us laugh at the people of the past, thinking we are smarter and superior to them. But we are the ones who are eating the sweet fruits of THEIR labor to enjoy the technologies and knowledge they had to discover. Without them, we too would be stuck in antiquity.
@@scragglybeard9322 Oh I see. The canadian ones are out of control in the south of my home country, those rat-pigs are destroying entire forests, it's a disaster. But nobody does nothing because the vegans start to cry everytime someone wants to stop that madness.
To be totally fair all medieval drawings of animals look like dogs, regardless of the intended species (including some people who look suspiciously pug like).. I'm pretty sure most depictions from the era come from illuminated manuscripts which were painted by clergymen living ascetic lifestyles and were often depicting animals or figures from vague second and third hand descriptions. The guy probably had no idea what a beaver even was.
Fun fact: it was only Europe that didn't bathe in the past. *Everywhere* else realized that bathing should happen regularly. It's also the origin of the cope about Americans believing Europeans were gods. (We never did, and never would.)
I see it as a wonderous time. You basically just made shit up, but there was still love, adventure, and mixed in with that all was the wonder of the Earth. It was stripped bare of all analytical blah blah blah and presented purely as it was. What analytical, nuts-and-boltsiness there was, only seemed to add to the wonder. "The distemper belched from the Earthquakes..." I mean... What a somehow nightmarishly beautiful wonderous thing even the black death was.
But (yes I am that guy) “physiognomy” was onto something! Genetic syndrome screening by facial recognition technology is really a thing! Fetal alcohol syndrome, Down syndrome, Williams syndrome, kabuki syndrome, Treacher-Collins, Noonan syndrome, and the list goes on, can be identified by facial features. In the case of genetic abnormalities, people with mild cases or who are carriers of these abnormalities may have some of these features.
There have been experiments where men can predict the promiscuity of women by looking at photos of faces. Not 100% accurate but far greater accuracy than random selection. I think people were also able to discern laziness and work ethic. This is not something anyone is taught, it's some instinct most people have.
I can’t keep up with my womb, it’s always turning up in my armpit, mooching behind my left knee, I never know when it will turn up next 🙄 Last week it just popped up through my nose and took over my zoom meeting. Honestly it’s not wandering, it’s plotting. I’ll keep it in as long as I can but one day it might go on a sperm rampage. Forewarned is forearmed and all that..
We laugh at Medieval people, then believe that billionaires and corporations are looking out for us because they put a certain symbol on their internet posts.
No we dont. I damn sure dont & dont know anyone who does. There are plenty of naive ppl in the world though, so guess some that are extremely naive might buy into that
@@kristiskinner8542 I don't know about "naive", I mean yeah there are but there's also a lot of people who _choose_ to be ignorant. Take politics for example. I wouldn't believe any politician because I've been alive long enough to see how everyone plays "the political game" even if they (supposedly) share my views. They are only beholden to their biggest contributers. Yet there are people my age (who SHOULD be old enough to know better) and older who truly hold them on a pedestal like a literal angel heaven sent from god or their non-binary higher power.
They didn’t actually believe a beaver would castrate itself when a hunter comes near. That story was meant to teach people a lesson. The lesson is to cut off all sin from your life so that when the Devil comes for you, you can show him you have nothing for him. It’s not meant to be taken literally, nothing in medieval bestiaries are.
@@bilis2866 That's... Not the point. His point was the beaver story should be taken as a METAPHOR, and NOT as literal fact. Just like many other medieval stories. Him being or not being there to prove things (even if it is physically impossible since we don't have time travel) doesn't change the fact that the stories should still be interpreted as stories.
I think it's interesting that people used to think bestiality would result in a half man half beast creature being born. Also weird how that didn't discourage some people from bestiality...
4:27 - The word "hysteria" itself originates from that belief: Hysteria - from Ancient Greek ὑστερικός (husterikós, “suffering in the uterus, hysterical”), from ὑστέρα (hustéra, “womb”)
OMG I can't believe you mentioned Willem Van Rubroeck!!! He's not well known, but his detailed written account of the Mongolians have been extremely valuable
I thought the villains with scars trope was from ww2. German officers regularly participated in sword duels in school and many of them got horrific facial scars as a result.
Scars were already much less common when the cowards that murdered women and kids in Europe thought scarring themselves would make them look less like pussies. Historically scars were more common long ago before the modern medical industry mastered stitches.
@@midnightchurningspriteshaq8533 "We laugh at people with less advanced technology, shunning their beliefs, yet even today it is so easy to brainwash one into thinking complete lies." -James Elmore, 11/24/2022
Yup, it's been a while since I've heard of this bit of folklore. Beavers can only be reliably sexed with a blood test (or highly invasive prodding of their cloacas according to the website I'm now reading).
They came very close to being extinct. Now they are illegal to hunt unless you have a special trapping license of which there is few, and only a set number. Here in Canada anyway 🙂
@@jayssongreenfield I have never seen a beaver in the wild though I have been told that they're really making a strong comeback and that they are damaging a lot of the trees and damming up the waterways here in Texas I am not a hunter so I do not know the rules I would never hurt any of the woodland creatures. Fin feathered or furry get instant respect .
@@elizabethbarringer2791 often industries that consume more water than allowed will claim beavers have dammed up the river or some other excuse. Beavers were so nearly extinct in Europe that extensive management was needed and yeah, they are still really rare anywhere in North America compared to how many there were before 300 years of unlimited trapping for export and habitat loss more recently. I really hope us humans end our species assault on the planet and our infestation of it ends and maybe our planet will have time for an actual intelligent species to evolbe
Learning about hyper focus was one of the things that made me realize at age 48 that I really could have ADHD. So I started reading more and sought (and got) a diagnosis. Thank you for all your videos. At 51, I am still learning how ADHD has affected and is still affecting my life. I can see many projects or other accomplishments definitely happened because of hyper focus. And learning that this brain wiring is about difficulties in regulating attention AND emotions has really helped me understand and accept myself and my quirks better. Still irritated when the family interrupts me when I’m immersed in something, though - because getting that focus back takes a while! 😂
I don't think people in the past were stupid in the least. Ignorant, sure but certainly not stupid. Even the rates of illiteracy in the middle ages were MASSIVELY exaggerated. We need to do our best to place ourselves in the time in which our ancestors lived before we pass judgment.
True. The Medieval Age is largely scrutinised or even defamed by notorious Renaissance and Enlightenment propagandists due to the amount of influence the Church had despite it having achieved great scientific and philosophical feats as seen from Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas, Roger Bacon, and many more
For sure if everyone here was born then, we too would believe most of this and if they were born now reading yt they would be saying how dumb we are, there is probably a very slight increase in our newborns intelligence over medievil newborns intelligence, but their smart new borns will still be way smarter than our stupid newborns.
What I seem to be observing in my nearly 45 years of incarnation here is that as generations go on, they get thicker and less capable. Maybe I'm wrong, but maybe I'm right...
@@bigbasil1908 I've only been alive a little more than half the time you have. That said, I've learned to respect and take seriously the words of my father and grandfather, my mother and grandmother. I don't expect much from life, I just want to live a bit more similar to my rural forefathers. I've garnered a love for rural living, being out in nature, and separating a little from technology. Learning to live off the land and eschewing the post-modernist hellscape we're currently living in. It seems like the world is becoming more and more soulless and cynical. Standing outside in my field and breathing the clean, country air allows me to forget about it, if just for a moment.
@@herrgodfrey9563 Yes nature is very healing. I think it grounds us. In the past people spent a lot of time out on the land. I like to sit over the park knapping flint, though I'm not very good at it lol.
medieval people having looser categories for things like birds and fish than we do is just a semantic difference, not an error. Fish just meant “water creature.” Now it’s a specific taxonomical category, but this scientific way of classifying things came about much later
"Not having the internet, medievals often got things completely wrong." Oh, yes, because nobody has ever been wrong after the invention of the internet.
Hey, Women: Let's start calling out of work due to "wandering uterus". I am sure no male boss would question it, as men are just as ignorant about and afraid of female bodies now as they were then.
Benefit? I shuddered when my professor said we’d have to be ok with patients touching themselves and watching porn while in our care. I’d lose it if I had to actually “massage” the patient 🥲.
Considering that human dissection was taboo in the classical era, there was no way to actually see how things were really arranged inside the human body.
"Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow."
"The flash of light you saw in the sky was not a UFO. Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the light from Venus."
Am I the only one who, when he mentioned people smelling the Mongols coming long before seeing them, just went “NO SHIT, SHERLOCK!”? 90% of deaths must’ve been caused by infection. Like gangrene. 😬☠️
actually, 90% of deaths were violent. when towns didnt surrender immediately the mongols sacked them. pretty normal so far, but the mongols literally walked house to house killing anyone they found. up to 95% of some cities population died after being sieged.
I can’t stop binge watching g your videos! They’re so good, & so different than all the other videos out there that just regurgitate the same information.
Fun fact in some south American countries capybara are also considered fish and an official papal dispensation was given to allow catholics to eat capybara and muskrats during lent..
@6:37 Although 99% ridiculous, the sea is above the land in some cases. I looked up 7 cities below sea level. For example: Cairo, Egypt. With global warming, they may not remain dry for long.
Am surprised you did not mention ‘Dogheads’ (ie people with the head of a dog), thought to live in the wilderness. There were even ecclesiastical debates as to whether, once encountered, they should be converted to Christianity.
Yes. Hate it when people say that, because we today are not one bit more intelligent. We just know more thanks to other people's work. These people died doing their best, so we can live in comfort now, with the things we know. No hate to the channel, just some of the comments take it a bit far.
@@nouhorni3229 Exactly. Ignorance and stupidity are two different things and it took a long time of trial and error and thinking to get to where we are. It is a bit amusing to hear old beliefs, but those people weren't stupid. Heck, how many people believe silly things today? For example, I was taught in grade school that your blood in your veins is blue. But, that is absolutely wrong and people still believe that.
I dont think Medieval scholasticism encouraged ignorance too, many great scientific and philosophical achievements were made that succeeded the knowledge of the ancients from accomplished scholars of the time such as Albert the Great, Roger Bacon, Copernicus, etc.and even Faith and Reason was harmonised by the teachings of Thomas Aquinas. The Medieval Age in the West is often downplayed by Humanist and Enlightenment propagandists that envied the influence the Church had which itself ironically discouraged superstition until the arrival of the Black Death but also remedied from the Counter Reformation.
Well then, no more bathing for me. Can't risk offending the water dragon. Our modern politically correct society will just have to respect the culture. okay, I'm not a Mongolian, but I do eat a LOT of Mongolian Stir Fry with a LOT of Garlic. I also don't have any money, and only have a few clothes, which I basically never get to wash.
There was no wonder back in the day , as people were pretty miserable throughout human history. History was made by relatively young and also relatively drunk individuals . I think, we should be extremely thankful that we live in the 21st-century.
I once saw a fox trap in an antique shop, it had an old bandage wrapped around each jaw. When I asked my dad what that was for he informed me that foxes were known to chew off their foot when trapped, so trappers poured poison on the bandage as an extra measure. The beaver story put me in mind of that.
You might laugh at the water dragons, but the Mongols never had to deal with cholera from contaminated drinking water, or other diseases of that nature. Strange beliefs don't come out of nowhere; they're often a justification for some practice that aids in survival in some way that the culture doesn't fully understand because they lack full knowledge of things like how disease works.
Modern people: Haha medieval people stupid! We smort now! Also modern people: Oh I'm a sagittarius! What's your sign? I wonder if we are in the same soul pod!
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Can you do a video on Tales of Heroic Animals, there must be some old tales of how a Sir Knight was rescued by his trusty steed or some quirky stories involving Animals
Damn, and I thought that the medieval (up to early modern!) Europeans were filthy by not washing their bodies except for their teeth and hands. At least we washed our clothes lol
As far as I know, the Catholic Church discouraged superstition during the High Middle Ages. The Black Death changed this for a time, I believe, then the counter-reformation brought it back to its senses.
Yes. Many great scientists, philosophers, and theologians were clerics themselves. Regression really appeared in the arrival of the Black Death. But as the Counter Reformation and Inquisition came in, it would reinforce medieval scholasticism and discouraged superstitions like witch hunts.
Um... that section on the Mongols is inaccurate and misquoted. Also broadly applied to a very specific legal code/time/place that was not widely enforced + bad translation + political slander. And "bathing" is different in cold/arid climates. Just because someone doesn't sit in a tub of water or a creek doesn't mean they aren't getting clean some other way; scented oils & rubbing cloths were common, sweat baths (saunas aren't gross), and dry methods of cleaning are quite effective. /ANY/ horse army is going to smell bad, I don't care who they are.
I will say... and I never thought I would say anything like this - Hawking seemed very ignorant or may I dare say - idiotic with that opening statement. It's not now the history of stupidity and ignorance, it's the history of human psychology. Awesome video though, and apologies to Hawking's memory.
Hawking's specialty was physics. It's foolish to assume he was a genius anywhere else. People get famous for one thing and everybody thinks they're an authority on every topic.
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The theory of modern warfare for hundreds and hundreds of years was You need to charge in to battle bravely and we will win! We lost because where did charge in bravely enuff! 🤦♂🤣
06:45 sky ocean from the BUYBULLS ignorant teachings!
that frau aint so jung
These beliefs were symbolic, something doesn't have to be true or false, to be considered accurate. Myths are a big part of history, and myths and legends have a beauty and a spark that humans have lost in modern times, modernization killed the human spirit and people call these things blatantly false. That was the beauty of medieval culture, each of these beliefs and Gods was an aspect of nature, its beauty and art that you will never understand. Stephen Hawkings was dead on the inside, so it's no surprise.
There's plenty of things the future generations are gonna laugh at us for too, that's just the power of hindsight and making fun of the past. And they'll get laughed at by the generations after them. It just keeps going.
Or maybe they’ll hate and envy us because we left them with nothing 😀
Like evolution.
@@fnumbuh real
@@fnumbuh they already do, using their phones to complain on Twitter about our carbon footprint while they pay for video game micro transactions using bitcoin on their ps5. At their age all we did is climb trees and play football, so I can see their point.
Many of us laugh at the people of the past, thinking we are smarter and superior to them. But we are the ones who are eating the sweet fruits of THEIR labor to enjoy the technologies and knowledge they had to discover. Without them, we too would be stuck in antiquity.
Their beaver drawings sure do look a whole lot more like a dog than any beaver Ive ever seen lol
Aren't beavers from America?
@@me.ne.frego. there are different subspecies of beaver. One of them is the European one.
@@scragglybeard9322 Oh I see. The canadian ones are out of control in the south of my home country, those rat-pigs are destroying entire forests, it's a disaster. But nobody does nothing because the vegans start to cry everytime someone wants to stop that madness.
To be totally fair all medieval drawings of animals look like dogs, regardless of the intended species (including some people who look suspiciously pug like).. I'm pretty sure most depictions from the era come from illuminated manuscripts which were painted by clergymen living ascetic lifestyles and were often depicting animals or figures from vague second and third hand descriptions. The guy probably had no idea what a beaver even was.
Looks like he is licking his cock.
A lot of channels don't have an over arcing message:
"Wash Yourself"
Is a valid, culturally conscious, and historically learned lesson.
Thank You
Indubitably!!
I like my girls fragrent
@@Promislandzion me too
Fun fact: it was only Europe that didn't bathe in the past.
*Everywhere* else realized that bathing should happen regularly.
It's also the origin of the cope about Americans believing Europeans were gods. (We never did, and never would.)
This is the exact reason I’m somewhat obsessed with the medieval era. Everything was so crazy
Today you can legally change your biological sex.........
It was like how Russia is today
@@ransakreject5221 what???
then you won't like this channel. it's mostly made up nonsense.
I see it as a wonderous time. You basically just made shit up, but there was still love, adventure, and mixed in with that all was the wonder of the Earth. It was stripped bare of all analytical blah blah blah and presented purely as it was. What analytical, nuts-and-boltsiness there was, only seemed to add to the wonder. "The distemper belched from the Earthquakes..." I mean... What a somehow nightmarishly beautiful wonderous thing even the black death was.
I’m sorry, I can’t make it to work today. My uterus is in my knee caps.
🤣🤣🤣
😂
relatable
Ahh the old uterus in the knee... happened to me a few months ago
"hello doctor, i'm not feeling well, can i have a genital massage please?" not sure if it's genius or disturbing
Can you get that on the NHS or do you have to go private?
@@richardmoores think its a guarantee on private lol
@@kristiskinner8542 😂
isn't that why vibrators were invented?
@@russellmarra8520 yes
It's totally amazing that I am alive. How my ancestors survived is completely bewildering.
But (yes I am that guy) “physiognomy” was onto something! Genetic syndrome screening by facial recognition technology is really a thing!
Fetal alcohol syndrome, Down syndrome, Williams syndrome, kabuki syndrome, Treacher-Collins, Noonan syndrome, and the list goes on, can be identified by facial features. In the case of genetic abnormalities, people with mild cases or who are carriers of these abnormalities may have some of these features.
That’s true. If you can identify a neurological or genetic abnormality in somebody’s face, that can give an understanding to their behaviour.
There have been experiments where men can predict the promiscuity of women by looking at photos of faces. Not 100% accurate but far greater accuracy than random selection. I think people were also able to discern laziness and work ethic. This is not something anyone is taught, it's some instinct most people have.
Pseudoscience garbage
“Gay face” is a real thing
I can’t keep up with my womb, it’s always turning up in my armpit, mooching behind my left knee, I never know when it will turn up next 🙄
Last week it just popped up through my nose and took over my zoom meeting.
Honestly it’s not wandering, it’s plotting. I’ll keep it in as long as I can but one day it might go on a sperm rampage.
Forewarned is forearmed and all that..
I now have an image of a womb hiding in the shadows awaiting its next victim, I shall have to use the beaver escape method
Don't worry, I'll save you from this aweful state.
My ex always got a bad womb after mixing her drinks and smoking weed on an empty tummy !
Lol
😂
We laugh at Medieval people, then believe that billionaires and corporations are looking out for us because they put a certain symbol on their internet posts.
You mean like the Ukrainian flag rather than the Syrian or Yemeni one
No we dont. I damn sure dont & dont know anyone who does. There are plenty of naive ppl in the world though, so guess some that are extremely naive might buy into that
Look up 'outer space 1992'
Maybe you do.
@@kristiskinner8542 I don't know about "naive", I mean yeah there are but there's also a lot of people who _choose_ to be ignorant.
Take politics for example. I wouldn't believe any politician because I've been alive long enough to see how everyone plays "the political game" even if they (supposedly) share my views. They are only beholden to their biggest contributers. Yet there are people my age (who SHOULD be old enough to know better) and older who truly hold them on a pedestal like a literal angel heaven sent from god or their non-binary higher power.
They didn’t actually believe a beaver would castrate itself when a hunter comes near. That story was meant to teach people a lesson. The lesson is to cut off all sin from your life so that when the Devil comes for you, you can show him you have nothing for him. It’s not meant to be taken literally, nothing in medieval bestiaries are.
were u there?
@@bilis2866 That's... Not the point. His point was the beaver story should be taken as a METAPHOR, and NOT as literal fact. Just like many other medieval stories. Him being or not being there to prove things (even if it is physically impossible since we don't have time travel) doesn't change the fact that the stories should still be interpreted as stories.
@@DansuB4nsu03 hes saying ppl didn't take stories like this seriously, I bet many did and many didn't
@@DansuB4nsu03 were you there?
@@bilis2866 yeah prolly. even today that still happens all the time despite all the information and facts readily available
I think it's interesting that people used to think bestiality would result in a half man half beast creature being born. Also weird how that didn't discourage some people from bestiality...
Wouldn't you want a centaur son?
Ancient furries trying to create irl anthros
Beastiality has never been all that common of practice but something to joke about instead.
@@norml.hugh-mann You're not from the countryside are you? 😉
4:27 - The word "hysteria" itself originates from that belief:
Hysteria - from Ancient Greek ὑστερικός (husterikós, “suffering in the uterus, hysterical”), from ὑστέρα (hustéra, “womb”)
It’s just the symptoms of not having an orgasms
@@StoutProper no it is definately not
@@kristiskinner8542 missed the point.
@be bd don’t be daft
@@kristiskinner8542 it absolutely is. As a man of experience, I know
OMG I can't believe you mentioned Willem Van Rubroeck!!! He's not well known, but his detailed written account of the Mongolians have been extremely valuable
I thought the villains with scars trope was from ww2. German officers regularly participated in sword duels in school and many of them got horrific facial scars as a result.
They were called “Heidelberg Scars.”
No, disfigurement has long been thought to physically represent characteristics of a humans personality by the superstitious.
Scars were already much less common when the cowards that murdered women and kids in Europe thought scarring themselves would make them look less like pussies. Historically scars were more common long ago before the modern medical industry mastered stitches.
This video is a good reminder that we don't know everything and are probably wrong about many things today.
Nah, not possible. We know everything there is to know. we have become infallible
@@curiodyssey3867 We surpassed God!
@@Poodleinacan Tupac is still alive ask illuminati
We are already going back the road by denying basic biology.
@@midnightchurningspriteshaq8533 "We laugh at people with less advanced technology, shunning their beliefs, yet even today it is so easy to brainwash one into thinking complete lies." -James Elmore, 11/24/2022
8 yo me: pee in the swimming pool
Gengis Khan: So you have choosen... DEATH!
I am guessing wandering wieners caused more problems than a wandering womb. Wayward wombs, now that’s different.
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The point that sexuality starved women can be a hand full is valid though. 🤣
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Ahh yes, the ol beaver escape method 😂
Yup, it's been a while since I've heard of this bit of folklore. Beavers can only be reliably sexed with a blood test (or highly invasive prodding of their cloacas according to the website I'm now reading).
An amazing fact as many hunters as there are in the universe and have been in the past that the beaver is not extinct. He is definitely one tough nut
They came very close to being extinct. Now they are illegal to hunt unless you have a special trapping license of which there is few, and only a set number. Here in Canada anyway 🙂
@@jayssongreenfield in the US they're very common again, and commonly trapped, mostly when they start causing property damage.
They are not rare in South Dakota, to the point State Trappers from Game,Fish & Parks have to trap/kill them and blow up their dams.
@@jayssongreenfield I have never seen a beaver in the wild though I have been told that they're really making a strong comeback and that they are damaging a lot of the trees and damming up the waterways here in Texas
I am not a hunter so I do not know the rules I would never hurt any of the woodland creatures. Fin feathered or furry get instant respect .
@@elizabethbarringer2791 often industries that consume more water than allowed will claim beavers have dammed up the river or some other excuse.
Beavers were so nearly extinct in Europe that extensive management was needed and yeah, they are still really rare anywhere in North America compared to how many there were before 300 years of unlimited trapping for export and habitat loss more recently. I really hope us humans end our species assault on the planet and our infestation of it ends and maybe our planet will have time for an actual intelligent species to evolbe
I don't believe any of these artists have ever actually seen a beaver.
"The Middle Ages were magic!" - Caitlin Doughty
Learning about hyper focus was one of the things that made me realize at age 48 that I really could have ADHD. So I started reading more and sought (and got) a diagnosis. Thank you for all your videos. At 51, I am still learning how ADHD has affected and is still affecting my life. I can see many projects or other accomplishments definitely happened because of hyper focus. And learning that this brain wiring is about difficulties in regulating attention AND emotions has really helped me understand and accept myself and my quirks better. Still irritated when the family interrupts me when I’m immersed in something, though - because getting that focus back takes a while! 😂
I don't think people in the past were stupid in the least. Ignorant, sure but certainly not stupid. Even the rates of illiteracy in the middle ages were MASSIVELY exaggerated. We need to do our best to place ourselves in the time in which our ancestors lived before we pass judgment.
True. The Medieval Age is largely scrutinised or even defamed by notorious Renaissance and Enlightenment propagandists due to the amount of influence the Church had despite it having achieved great scientific and philosophical feats as seen from Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas, Roger Bacon, and many more
For sure if everyone here was born then, we too would believe most of this and if they were born now reading yt they would be saying how dumb we are, there is probably a very slight increase in our newborns intelligence over medievil newborns intelligence, but their smart new borns will still be way smarter than our stupid newborns.
What I seem to be observing in my nearly 45 years of incarnation here is that as generations go on, they get thicker and less capable. Maybe I'm wrong, but maybe I'm right...
@@bigbasil1908 I've only been alive a little more than half the time you have. That said, I've learned to respect and take seriously the words of my father and grandfather, my mother and grandmother. I don't expect much from life, I just want to live a bit more similar to my rural forefathers. I've garnered a love for rural living, being out in nature, and separating a little from technology. Learning to live off the land and eschewing the post-modernist hellscape we're currently living in. It seems like the world is becoming more and more soulless and cynical. Standing outside in my field and breathing the clean, country air allows me to forget about it, if just for a moment.
@@herrgodfrey9563 Yes nature is very healing. I think it grounds us. In the past people spent a lot of time out on the land. I like to sit over the park knapping flint, though I'm not very good at it lol.
There always will be people believing the most outlandish theories
Yeah like the round earth "theory"
@@sabastionlandberg2806 🙄 its more oval & its not a "theory" by any means jfc
Nothing has really changed even with our current QAnon BS
@@sabastionlandberg2806 earth an an imperfect circle…
@@kristiskinner8542 exactly
10:56 - 11:08
These days those idiotic beliefs are more popular than ever THANKS TO the internet.....
The sky ocean would make a great experimental cartoon, a la Book of Kells
I’m all about learning and the beaver escape method is awesome!!
medieval people having looser categories for things like birds and fish than we do is just a semantic difference, not an error. Fish just meant “water creature.” Now it’s a specific taxonomical category, but this scientific way of classifying things came about much later
"Not having the internet, medievals often got things completely wrong."
Oh, yes, because nobody has ever been wrong after the invention of the internet.
Your channel is so underrated ,sweetheart
The beaver escape method, I gotta remember that one
wish i'd known that before i got married
@@russellzauner so does your wife
Amazing, the clever things one can learn from TH-cam videos
Hey, Women: Let's start calling out of work due to "wandering uterus". I am sure no male boss would question it, as men are just as ignorant about and afraid of female bodies now as they were then.
good idea lmao
Yep next time I get a sore throat Im just gonna blame it on my damn wandering uterus lol
Then you'll go to the Hospital for a nice and healing genital massage.
There was a benefit to midwifery I had never considered before!
Helping out uterine congestion and hysteria 'manually'.
Benefit? I shuddered when my professor said we’d have to be ok with patients touching themselves and watching porn while in our care. I’d lose it if I had to actually “massage” the patient 🥲.
Nothing beats some of the craziness in the ancient Roman writer and "scientist' Pliny.
Considering that human dissection was taboo in the classical era, there was no way to actually see how things were really arranged inside the human body.
The animals and monsters he described lol
4:07 What and where is this amazing painting to be found? is it contemporary? It is quite incredible given the level of detail!
idk but you could probably screenshot it, crop it and print it lol
That thumbnail lol medieval people could only draw memes
such a great channel!
The Hawking quote at the beginning was perfect. I miss him
Doesn't sound like much has changed🤣
"Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow."
"The flash of light you saw in the sky was not a UFO. Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the light from Venus."
Am I the only one who, when he mentioned people smelling the Mongols coming long before seeing them, just went “NO SHIT, SHERLOCK!”? 90% of deaths must’ve been caused by infection. Like gangrene. 😬☠️
actually, 90% of deaths were violent.
when towns didnt surrender immediately the mongols sacked them. pretty normal so far, but the mongols literally walked house to house killing anyone they found.
up to 95% of some cities population died after being sieged.
You can't judge them for not knowing what we know now, they lived with diseases we don't see on the streets and just wanted quick answers
I can’t stop binge watching g your videos! They’re so good, & so different than all the other videos out there that just regurgitate the same information.
Fun fact in some south American countries capybara are also considered fish and an official papal dispensation was given to allow catholics to eat capybara and muskrats during lent..
How silly. But some people today think saying something makes it true. Just look at Trump and the MAGS cult.
The Inaccurate Facts we Are Led to Believe Today are Possibly MORE Hilarious than in Medieval Times. Much Love ALL From Birmingham UK.
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@@futuristica1710 did you know you can change your biological sex legally? 😁
@6:37 Although 99% ridiculous, the sea is above the land in some cases. I looked up 7 cities below sea level. For example: Cairo, Egypt. With global warming, they may not remain dry for long.
Am surprised you did not mention ‘Dogheads’ (ie people with the head of a dog), thought to live in the wilderness. There were even ecclesiastical debates as to whether, once encountered, they should be converted to Christianity.
They weren't stupid, just ignorant.
Yes. Hate it when people say that, because we today are not one bit more intelligent. We just know more thanks to other people's work.
These people died doing their best, so we can live in comfort now, with the things we know.
No hate to the channel, just some of the comments take it a bit far.
@@nouhorni3229 Exactly. Ignorance and stupidity are two different things and it took a long time of trial and error and thinking to get to where we are. It is a bit amusing to hear old beliefs, but those people weren't stupid. Heck, how many people believe silly things today? For example, I was taught in grade school that your blood in your veins is blue. But, that is absolutely wrong and people still believe that.
I dont think Medieval scholasticism encouraged ignorance too, many great scientific and philosophical achievements were made that succeeded the knowledge of the ancients from accomplished scholars of the time such as Albert the Great, Roger Bacon, Copernicus, etc.and even Faith and Reason was harmonised by the teachings of Thomas Aquinas. The Medieval Age in the West is often downplayed by Humanist and Enlightenment propagandists that envied the influence the Church had which itself ironically discouraged superstition until the arrival of the Black Death but also remedied from the Counter Reformation.
Best thumbnail ever
These days we do have the internet and look at the things some people believe . . .
Some of this make sense. Even they knew water was precious.
How did the Mongols "ritually cleanse" a house without water?
I'm from the future and here to tell you guys that when it comes to hilarious beliefs, the Medieval has got nothing on you.
Ok boomer
Well then, no more bathing for me. Can't risk offending the water dragon.
Our modern politically correct society will just have to respect the culture.
okay, I'm not a Mongolian, but I do eat a LOT of Mongolian Stir Fry with a LOT of Garlic.
I also don't have any money, and only have a few clothes, which I basically never get to wash.
Find a clean river today to wash your clothes in most are filthy and polluted
Is the stir fry good? Don't think I've ever had any.
@@heinoustentacles5719 It’s noodles stir fried with meat, veggies and sauces of choice. It’s not bad, but not my first choice.
I think the view that it's "the history of stupidity" sort of obscures the wonder of living in that time.
There was no wonder back in the day , as people were pretty miserable throughout human history.
History was made by relatively young and also relatively drunk individuals .
I think, we should be extremely thankful that we live in the 21st-century.
I once saw a fox trap in an antique shop, it had an old bandage wrapped around each jaw. When I asked my dad what that was for he informed me that foxes were known to chew off their foot when trapped, so trappers poured poison on the bandage as an extra measure. The beaver story put me in mind of that.
things i learned from this video:
1. wash myself
2. use the beaver escape method
Ah yes! The Wondering Uterus and the stinky Mongols, my favorite bedtime story!
My wife’s proper grumpy and she’s got a hairy chest so there might be something in physiognomy
You might laugh at the water dragons, but the Mongols never had to deal with cholera from contaminated drinking water, or other diseases of that nature. Strange beliefs don't come out of nowhere; they're often a justification for some practice that aids in survival in some way that the culture doesn't fully understand because they lack full knowledge of things like how disease works.
True, superstition often works where reason fails when it comes to human behaviour.
Makes me wonder which of our beliefs are actually nonsense??? 🤷🏻♀️
beginning with religion… 🤔
… most of them😀
Modern people: Haha medieval people stupid! We smort now!
Also modern people: Oh I'm a sagittarius! What's your sign? I wonder if we are in the same soul pod!
Medieval people also believed in astrology:p
@@falcon_arkaig ya ik, just fooling around.
*Starts @ **2:15*
Patience is virtue
You picked up a high class sponsor, I'm quite fond of HH's youtube videos but have never bought the subscription. Because of your recommendation, I'm now considering it. Anyone here who can tell me if it really offers that much more useful and/or targeted info than I can find here?
Yes I found it very worth it. It has lots of variety about different subjects and full length documentary's you don't find on youtube. Production quality is at a nice level and I found that the shows look just as good if not better than most of Netflix and hulu's stuff. My favorite history to watch is stuff about the Karling's and the area around the Alps, whereas my daughter really likes PreColumbian American and Renaissance stuff and we have always been able to find something that we are interested in, so it has a nice variety about things you don't see covered to death.
I haven't had HH yet, but the content on sites like HH is generally more in depth than what you can find here on YT. I've had both MagellanTV and Curiosity Stream and I currently have a recurring subscription to MagellanTV and Nebula, although Nebula is "just" originals made by selected TH-cam creators. I hope that MedievalMadness will become one of those someday, as he's definitely on par with Tom Scott, Bright Sun Films, Wendover Productions and so on.
6:07 "I've been really tryinggggg baaabby!"
This channel is sooo good! ❤️❤️🔥
"Meat and two veg"🤣🤣🙃 cheeky
6:07 is that a midevil rendition of lets get it on 😂😂
Glad i’m not the only one who heard it
Hairy hips?? What the…. Who has hairy hips???
I’m watching medieval madness, must be time to fold laundry!
Do more on what the medieval ages was like in other countries! Like east Asian and Africa and India even what was going on the in americas maybe
Medieval ages are a European thing anyway they didn't call it the middle ages anywhere else
"The Wondering Womb" sounds akin to the "Chest-burster" in "Alien"!!
YIKES!!
What a delight to endure an advert that completely overshadows the program !!! 🤔🙄😒🤔
Oh sweet lord, the flat earthers love the as above as below the firmament 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Watch later! Thanks
Nooo! Watch now! :P
Can you do a video on Tales of Heroic Animals, there must be some old tales of how a Sir Knight was rescued by his trusty steed or some quirky stories involving Animals
We are the descendants of those who survived.
I did read that the middle men in the spice and Silk routes told each side the same stories so they wouldn't go exploring and be able to cut them out
Damn, and I thought that the medieval (up to early modern!) Europeans were filthy by not washing their bodies except for their teeth and hands. At least we washed our clothes lol
Thank you
medieval era, also known as "trust me, guys" era
I’m glad I don’t live in medieval times
As far as I know, the Catholic Church discouraged superstition during the High Middle Ages. The Black Death changed this for a time, I believe, then the counter-reformation brought it back to its senses.
Yes. Many great scientists, philosophers, and theologians were clerics themselves. Regression really appeared in the arrival of the Black Death. But as the Counter Reformation and Inquisition came in, it would reinforce medieval scholasticism and discouraged superstitions like witch hunts.
King, small typo in your video's title. Great vid as always.
Thank you.
Thanks dude
Um... that section on the Mongols is inaccurate and misquoted. Also broadly applied to a very specific legal code/time/place that was not widely enforced + bad translation + political slander. And "bathing" is different in cold/arid climates. Just because someone doesn't sit in a tub of water or a creek doesn't mean they aren't getting clean some other way; scented oils & rubbing cloths were common, sweat baths (saunas aren't gross), and dry methods of cleaning are quite effective. /ANY/ horse army is going to smell bad, I don't care who they are.
The idea of my various neurodivergencies being caused by my uterus wandering around my body looking for sperm is both horrifying and hilarious.
Ignorence was highly owned 😂😂😂
Wash myself. Got it. Lesson learned.
I will say... and I never thought I would say anything like this - Hawking seemed very ignorant or may I dare say - idiotic with that opening statement. It's not now the history of stupidity and ignorance, it's the history of human psychology. Awesome video though, and apologies to Hawking's memory.
Hawking's specialty was physics. It's foolish to assume he was a genius anywhere else. People get famous for one thing and everybody thinks they're an authority on every topic.
Physics nerds are often dicks...
Is the song in the sin part a medieval version of “Let’s get it on”?
Wandering of the uterus. That pretty much sums up the problem with relationships in the western world.
Men are more promiscuous than women, so you could say it's the wandering Willie's that are at fault. Plus men commit more than 99% of sex crimes.
used the beaver method when i got married..... still get harrassed daily
I have already washed myself once this year.
What is the song at 2:16? Please answer!
the wandering womb is basically the precursor to religious mindgames for their "curses."
classy video as always. 🤣
“Hilarious compilation of ridiculous medieval beliefs”.
Go to talk to any theist of any faith, it still goes on!
Or many atheists about economic theory or whether sex is a biological constant. It's far from only religion.