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TH-cam is making it a problem to post links to outside websites apparently so I will just give you the title of the articles I'm responding to instead. Sorry for the inconvenience
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10-myths-and-lies-about-ancient-romans/ on ImperiumRomanum
The history of Rome includes the history of the city of Rome as well as the civilisation of ancient Rome. Roman history has been influential on the modern world, especially in the history of the Catholic Church, and Roman law has influenced many modern legal systems. Roman history can be divided into the following periods:
Pre-historical and early Rome, covering Rome's earliest inhabitants and the legend of its founding by Romulus
The period of Etruscan dominance and the regal period, in which, according to tradition, Romulus was the first of seven kings
The Roman Republic, which commenced in 509 BC when kings were replaced with rule by elected magistrates. The period was marked by vast expansion of Roman territory. During the 5th century BC, Rome gained regional dominance in Latium. With the Punic Wars from 264 to 146 BC, ancient Rome gained dominance over the Western Mediterranean, displacing Carthage as the dominant regional power.
The Roman Empire followed the Republic, which waned with the rise of Julius Caesar, and by all measures concluded after a period of civil war and the victory of Caesar's adopted son, Octavian, in 27 BC over Mark Antony.
The Western Roman Empire collapsed in 476 after the city was conquered by the Ostrogothic Kingdom. Consequently Rome's power declined, and it eventually became part of the Eastern Roman Empire, as the Duchy of Rome, from the 6th to 8th centuries. At this time, the city was reduced to a fraction of its former size, being sacked several times in the 5th to 6th centuries, even temporarily depopulated entirely.
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelled mediæval or mediaeval) lasted approximately from the late 5th to the late 15th centuries, aligning with the post-classical period of global history.[citation needed] It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD and ended with the fall of Constantinople in 1453 AD before transitioning into the Renaissance and then the Age of Discovery. The Middle Ages is the middle period of the three traditional divisions of Western history: antiquity, medieval, and modern. The medieval period is itself subdivided into the Early, High, and Late Middle Ages. Late medieval scholars at first called these the Dark Ages in contrast to classical antiquity; the accuracy of the term has subsequently been challenged.
Population decline, counterurbanisation, the collapse of centralized authority, invasion and the mass migration of tribes, which had begun in late antiquity, continued into the Early Middle Ages. The large-scale movements of the Migration Period, including of Germanic peoples, led to the rise of new kingdoms in Western Europe. In the 7th century, the Middle East and North Africa came under caliphal rule with the Arab conquests. The Byzantine Empire survived in the Eastern Mediterranean and advanced secular law through the Code of Justinian. In the West, most kingdoms incorporated extant Roman institutions, while the influence of Christianity expanded across Europe. The Carolingian dynasty of the Franks established the Carolingian Empire during the later 8th and early 9th centuries in Western Europe before it succumbed to internal conflict and external invasions from the Vikings from the north, Magyars from the east, and the Muslims from the south.
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"Mr. Imhotep" needs to be addressed, he constantly peddles lies to his audience about ancient Egypt and white people in general. It seems he cant even discuss ancient Egypt without berating white people. He has also made videos against you. I would love to see you debunk his nonsense.
I just want to say that I am going to follow your wishes and not comment on this video.
I am sorry to have upset by liking this video🤠
Hey Metatron, you mentioned chainmail for self protection in your video about knife fights. But where i can buy a good quality chainmail? (a chainmail with no or short sleeves)
I hit like at 0:20
I am surprised that Metatron didn't know that, after the crane lifted the knight unto the horse because the knight is also too heavy to move, a bigger crane carried horse and rider to the battlefield. There, they met the enemy crane bearing knight on horseback. The squires from both sides pulled their knights back, then released them to swing at each other, pendulum style.
That Image made me chuckle, thanks
Archimedes has entered the chat.
They call him Sir Wrecketh Ball!
😅😂
The squires were all marginalised females, so now we know who really won the tourneys.
I give it 50 years.
Before a documentary is made.
And someone in it says.....
"I don't care what they tell you at school, the Metatron was black"
^This.
🤣🤣
Challenge accepted.
50 years? I'm pretty sure it's already in production
Lol 😂😂
Can't wait to read articles in 1000 years about World War 2 tanks, and the famous line is going to be "The Tiger tank was so armored, it was unable to move."
They're going to mash WWI WWII and the Cold war into one event
They will talk about how its so slow and you can just circle around it and blast its weak rear as the crew and their allies sit there and watch in unfold.
Fun fact: tank crew veterans from both sides said they would rather be in a tiger tank, despite its "flaws"
"50% of the allied forces were women and trans"
Well the Ferdinand aka Elefant tank was so slow and unreliable that it was often unable to move.
@@shaokhanwins1037 i just immagine archeologists in the future discovering a tiger H cannon and be like "hmm,they obviously used it to joust"
Kevin Costner's "Robin Hood" movie included a main character of color, but did it in a way that made sense instead of insulting its audience' intelligence. Sometimes even with material from medieval european history there would be possibilities to make the cast of the story a bit more diverse, but it would require some clever and creative writing... something in seriously short supply today.
I think the "gladiators were fat" thing is somehow coming from the idea that a nonfat person that works out should have that show-off body that bodybuilders only maintain long enough to compete with. If a gladiator tried to maintain a bodybuilder's competition physique they'd lose every fight they tried. So maybe it is fat in a sense of they aren't 0% fat and dehydrated show-bodies?
I'm sure they had some body fat, but they weren't sumo-wrestler fat. They had muscles as they had to fight, but I'm sure there was abdominal fat as well. The art Metatron shows does allow for both body fat and muscles.
They were wiry, lean males just like the rest of males throughout most of history.
@@lytsedraak Not to mention that thing called “artistic license.” I’m sure there was some idealizing of the human body taking place.
@@lytsedraak They weren't Walmart scooter fat. Sumo wresters are actually super muscular and athletic, they're fighters. FWIW - I think they had more of a Fedor Emelianenko build.
@@choukichigaijin I have watched sumo wrestling. They are very strong and they have muscles, but do also have a lot of fat. You can see it. they have very little fat between the organs, but you can see their belly and breasts don't show defined muscles, that's all beneath a layer of fat.
I find it incredible how these people seem to think native Europeans having any kind of identity or history as evil, Every time I switch on my TV they are trying to rewrite our history.
Same people think the UK and Hungry have basically the same culture, cause you know “white people”
They are...and in America it's actually crazy how many schools still celebrate the forefathers as Christians and moral kind souls...when they actually were anti-Christian and some like BEN FRANKLIN were Satanic. Like many Eugenicists are .... But wolves in sheep's clothing for sure. We just have plenty of proof now, even in our Library of Congress, yet the school system is refusing to edit THIS part of their manipulations.
Just like people existed regardless of no vax when disease and illness struck- and more often a population would do better based on diet, exposure to elements, to stress adaptations to their environment or not...etc.
And not all native Americans were peaceful Disney Pocahontas types. Lol Yes what happened to them at large was terrible. But there WERE war tribes and sometimes that means oppressing other tribes from controlling resources (AKA land LOL).
We also have more evidence for the general public not agreeing with slavery than the opposite, during the early 1800s, but they were blocked from fighting against it, especially when voting rights were often limited to white men with money, and other wealthy white men would pay to threaten others into perpetuating slavery vs not.
But the Northern govt wasn't kind either, and looking out for the sake of black Americans/African Americans, they were into the industrial push and fighting against the south which had competitive powers given their use of slavery and other resources as well....Abraham Lincoln himself slaughtered many native people due to orders. He had slaves. Pretty sure documentation proves he raped them. Yet he's celebrated as some hero. I also don't doubt he knew they would have cheap labor for industry and other jobs, when blacks were free and looking for work which would be hard to come by.
THOUGH many also are unaware of the first black congressman right at the end of the civil war, or right before the end....and the corruption of the compromise of 1877....
That the first millionaire woman was black....and that most back folk actually were doing really well relatively, by the 1940s, so they were targeted with "black" empowering media like magazines, and marketing that appealed to their sensetivities about the history of racism with slavery etc.
No doubt leading to the destruction of many of their communities. Vs the common CRT narrative today that they never were given a chance and the whole world is against them, and they will always be oppressed by white folk unless given a handout etc.
And the Quakers were the group that is most correctly associated with Thanksgiving in the positive sense, VS the Puritans that were also associated with Catholics...
Anyway. Sorry to rant. But this is a problem around much of the developed world as I understand it. People who have privilege of education, if given to the government and even private school educators, are often misinformed today.
It’s the definition of racism. Judging someone as evil due to their ethnicity, is racism, pure and simple.
And then, when they put non-white people in roles of historically white Europeans, they're suddenly cool.
Yes, they ✡ are.......
What baffles me about the gladiator thing is that no one ever accounts for the fact that they were literally the combat athletes of the time. Fighting and training to fight burns SO many calories, to the point where being in a surplus is beneficial. High carbs mean more energy, and more calories in than you're burning means your body's active recovery... is going to do what it's supposed to do. An hour of hard sparring can burn about 1000 calories -- but yes, tell me how fat these ancient combat athletes were.
According to Tobias Capwell, there were rare cases of gladiators who purposely gained weight in order to use the fat as extra layer of protection.
@@chengkuoklee5734 - The fat layer allowed dramatic bleeding.
Exactly! My BIL was a middle and long-distance runner, in his youth, and he needed masses of carbs to fuel his training, and still looked like he was starving. Our bodies need calories for the energy to move around, grow, mend and live - let alone be training and fighting - and healing from injuries, every day.
makes even less sense the myth they were all slaves, slaves didnt exactly get the lions share of food, or even a dogs share, they were instead the share for the lion! They wouldnt have the calories to burn to be an impressive athlete. Most gladiators were young men many of nobility wishing to prove their strength, even some Emperors got in on the action.
True enough, but only to a point. Sumo athletes also burn a ton of calories while maintaining a layer of fat around those highly-trained muscular bodies. The same goes for NFL linemen, and those guys are only slow in comparison to the truly fast guys at other positions. They're hell on wheels for quickness, too, in both cases. Do I think gladiators pushed it that far? No, but keeping up a certain layer of under-skin fat to help mitigate cuts that would damage muscle otherwise is possible, and thus plausible, at least in some cases, such as perhaps being practiced in some training schools.
As for comments such as ORLY's, how much food a slave got would have varied wildly, but gladiators had to be trained, which made them expensive to replace. Thus, while the diet may not have been very fancy, but it had to have been plentiful. As you yourself put it, training's hard work and consumes a lot of calories, and I recently heard a woman talking about her son when he was on a swim team needing 6,000 calories per day. Atheletes must be fed well, if they're going to perform.
I am tempted to write my own BS "did you know article" about the medieval ages, just to see Metatron mentally suffer some more :-)
DO IT!!! Especially mention how swords could cut through armor and that knights were clumsy idiots and that they rode ponies.
You sadist!
I don't know about you guys, but I assume all fights were pretty much the same as King Arthur vs the Black Knight...
You sadist. ;)
you could write about how armor is so heavy you need a crane to get on top of the horse.
For all its problems, Forged in Fire demonstrated ad nauseam that blades don’t tremble in fear when facing body fat, or sinew, or ligaments, or bone, or …
On the “fat gladiators” idea, I always envisioned it to mean they looked more like a modern heavyweight boxer than what we see in, say, Spartacus. Muscled as hell but with a bit of extra padding-not actually what you’d call “fat”.
If you lived in a small village in Devon, England in the Middle Ages you would certainly never see any foreigners, unless you saw people from another village who were often considered foreigners.
Yes but the people in the next village were strange... they had webbed feet and six fingers don't you know.
This was also the case right up until the 90s I grew up in Northern Ireland and their was one welsh kid in my school who was considered A strange foreigner
Major trade ports and Holy sites are about the only places that would get much foreign traffic
@TommyMclean-fv5cy I mean northern ireland and Wales are technically two countries
Stick to the Road stay clear of the Moors.
Going through all the trouble of having a horse fit for battle mainly for extra mobility, only to armour it so much it cannot move anymore. Seems logical.
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The horse is just a step lader at that poin😂
@@titanscerw a worse offender would be the german big cats in the later part of WW2, too heavy for their engine and transmission. But even then the most stupid part was taking tanks designed for the flat plains of Eastern Europe and sending them in the mountains of Italy, where the extra weight had a much greater impact.
Damn dude I see you all over TH-cam.
Same with tanks they'd armor them so they can't move, oh wait they dug them in as pillboxes.
The stationary horse was a truly frightening site on the battlefield.
😂
Wagering on horse races was much simpler then. The horse that moved at all, won.
Only if it's a giant horse on the beach. I'd be terrified it would contain Greeks waiting to kill me. 😂
Is that how we got the idea of a vaulting horse in gymnastics?
They just stare you down and make the enemy feel uneasy. Very important job
I just heared political garbage of highest class: A black American woman denounced the phrase "good morning" as originating from a mockery of black of black slaves. The morning after a slave was whipped or killed, the master would ask her or his relatives if they had "a good mourning".
Thanks for debunking the "fat" gladiator thing. I had heard it and thought it was a little strange. I don't believe that they looked like body builders, but I'm certain that they had a clear musculature, even if they were possibly asymmetric to some degree.
“Christians, Jews, and Muslims all lived amongst each other without issue.”
Given the Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition happened, I think the article and I have very different definitions of ‘without issue’.
I love how they also portray the Spanish as being the problem in the inquisition when in reality the noses and snackbars were threatening families to convert to their religions and trying to gain forces for a revolt to kill the king and queen and takeover Spain. People also forget that the Crusades were because snackbars had taken over most of Europe and so they had to fight back for their land, but only revisionists want others to believe it was hatred for their race and religion, not the urge to remain free and keep their land in the hands of their people's. These same people still have slaves to this day, yet White people are the problem in their eyes, that alone says it all about them.
Mostly peaceful inquisition
And a couple different religious reformation amongst other things.
They did in Grand duchy of Lithuania and we are proud of that fact. The whole region was pagan, few dukes decided to chriten to get political recognition and to stop invasions from the west (the whole slav-slave thing), GDL was called a Northern Jerusalem in terms of population of Jews, duke Gediminas invite Crimean muslims to come and start businesses. And all conquered regions were orthdox. To avoid infighting Radvila prohibited contra-reformation massacre and allowed propaganda only warfare which resulted construction of western style universities. I recounted brief history from 1300's to 1600's. Having said that - it is indeed and exclusion, not the rule.
@@cftyftyufyfuyftymostly peaceful Jihad
Thank you Metatron for my daily "thinking about the Roman empire" moment.
History Chad's ask..."which Roman Empire...?"
I never think about Rome, not even when it was trendy to do so.
@@vermilionpill6916Had to think about it to reply you don't think about it.
@@vermilionpill6916 ok
@@prdalien0 I never contemplate it. I only think of it as a trendy fad going around, nothing more. I feel bad for those that are made to think they have to contemplate it to fit in with the moral relativism.
When people complain that women only recently got the vote ... they're forgetting that widespread voting rights for men is also a pretty new convention.
Not to mention that the "right" to vote is more properly described as a privilege. In several states, being convicted of a felony can suspend your voting "rights" indefinitely. Personally, I think voting "rights" should be scaled back to people of a minimum age of 30 and own at least $10K in property. No restrictions on race or gender. That would effectively cut out the portion of the voter pool that tends to vote for idiotic (i.e. left wing) economic policy that hurts us all.
And that many women were actually against it, because with voting rights also could come civic duties like draft ;)
Do apartments count? I ask cause it would some real estates poison.
@@thethrashyone "at least $10K in property"
Why ?
So poor people can't vote ?
Yes it was a novel experiment.
"They bred a legless horse for high speed and mobility"
Well another one for you, Netflix is making a movie about Hannibal using a 68 years old black man portraying a 29 year old man who was probably Phoenician.
Back in my college days in the early 1970s, my Art History professor informed us that in studying documents in France, he found that the highest-paid worker on Chartres cathedral was a female mason.
No, women somehow have always been oppressed until last year, when we learned how to speak.
@@Crisofora_ women are also paid more than men in white collar jobs.
Christ, even there was some QUEENS 😂
Quite interesting. We should not forget, though, that female masons were extremely rare exceptions in these days, even rarer probably than today. It would be very interesting to find out whether that profession was open to women across Europe or whether some areas allowed them and others not.
@@blogbalkanstories4805 depending on the time period they may not have been more rare. Many jobs were family jobs and not necessarily taught only to sons, and big projects often became all hands on deck so to speak.
I'm sorry, I instinctively liked the video when it started like I always do. I DIDN'T KNOW.
Me too, I also left the first comment like a bad bad boy
Same here… i don’t wait for Metatron to start speaking before i like. Also i will not remove rhe like on principle…
@@ForceM1782same 😂
😂
I am guilty, I too, do this 😂
Common misconception: warhorses in the Medieval period weren't abnormally large, but rather, abnormally muscular.
Chad Horsington charging Chad Knightington into glorious battle
To debunk a common and very recent misconception: Knights did not ride on horses as small as ponies.
The average horse in medieval times was smaller than modern day horses. This is largely due to the fact that horses were bred and used for many more purposes than they are today. This includes a large number of horses that were for instance used in mines. They, of course, had to be fairly small. Horses pulling carts were also quite common, and they don't have to be very tall. So, there was a much larger number of smaller horses in the Middle Ages than there are today. This of course greatly affects the average size of those animals. It just doesn't tell us a lot about the size of specific horses - such as war horses.
Depends on what you could afford and what your breeding philosophy was.
@@blogbalkanstories4805 We know the destrier was a smaller horse than modern horses. Modern horses are actually too tall for charging since if you couch a lance on a modern horse it will be above the enemy foot soldier and you then have to aim the lance downward to hit their chest which causes you to lose power from the charge.
So they purposely bred them to be shorter. It is only when you have guns taking over and cavalry just using swords that horses start to be taller.
Look up Percheron's. Large, muscular,etc. but they also used palfreys and donkeys,if travelling long distance as they were comfier. Palfreys have a 4 speeds instead of a horses usual 3
Historically _most people_ didn't have the right to vote, but women who met the criteria for land or property ownership generally were permitted a vote. The vote represented the household, which _typically_ meant it would be cast by the man of the house, but that didn't mewn he wouldn't consult his wife about it. In fact, some of the strongest opponents of women's suffrage were rich women who thought it _insulting_ to suggest they had so little influence over their husband that he could vote in a manner they didn't approve of.
I really like how Metatron is finally getting so much more views and subs! ;)
I appreciate that
I appreciate your work... and great hair! :)@@metatronyt
I have one small point. It wasn't simply women who were mistreated in medieval times, as well as throughout history. In fact, it had far more to do with wealth and status than gender. This is something that really bothers me, as many people portray historical women as victims, and historical men as villains, when the reality is that most HUMANS, irrelevant of gender, were and are mistreated by other humans. It is demonstrably better than it's ever been historically for us, but that too comes with it's own consequences. Point is, women are not special victims, and men are not villainous monsters who abuse women. Humans abuse humans quite uniformly and indiscriminately, and that is a far more accurate way to portray it. When it comes to men and women, they may have different brands of suffering, but neither are better or worse than the other. Loved the video my friend, looking forward to the next one!
[looks at actual history] yeah, um....
Little has changed
@@thekaxmaxSo, peasants and male slaves weren't mistreated? Those eunuchs probably asked to be de-nutified, too.
The problem is people from modern culture (especially American) will look at other cultures (especially older ones) and perceive a mostly happy life where the woman just has a few complaints as her being oppressed and abused. Every lifestyle will have complaints.
Personally I'd much rather my complaints in life be me picking up my husband's dirty socks and having to ask him permission for everything I want to buy, than be constantly putting up with abusive customers and struggling to meet rent because I decided to be "strong and independent".
@@Aidames where did I say that? Please point out where I said that. I obviously missed it.
I remember, during the release of the movie Krull, there were interviews with some of the actors talking about how they were the first people in hundreds of years to ride the particular breed of heavy horse (Clydesdales) that was being used in the film. They also gushed about how amazing the animals were, how strong they were, and especially how silky smooth their gait was, even at a gallop. Nothing like experience, I guess. It sure beats fantasizing from a position of ignorance.
Did the actors really think they were the first to ride clydesdales in hundreds of years? It's pretty common for equestrians to ride draft horses.
All those farm kids who rode the draft horses don't count?
One of the most amazing(and underrated)fantasy movies. 👍
I loved riding my cousin's Clydesdales when I was a kid. 😅
@@friendlyone2706 well, nobody are interviewing them about it, so I guess they don't count.
One of my high school history teachers said that a fully armored knight could drown in a puddle if he fell on his face. 🤣
American for sure ...
😂😂😂😂😂
As an American teacher I am embarrassed lol
Similar thing happened to me in Ireland: A teacher told my class (about age 9-10 students) the old meme of knights being lifted onto their horses by crane. So it's not just in america. This was in the 1990's.
Seems to have been a particularly popular myth in the 1990s. Some of that nonsense is still in circulation, believe it or not.
Common men and women without a certain amount of property could not vote. Both genders could vote. Property was the requirement. property requirement was key to voting until the 20th century. Women and men had a tough time before 1900. Voting status was for those with money. That said more males had that right
Surnames like Brewster and Baxter show that there were at least female tradesmen well established enough that their families became known by their trade. Brewster and Baxter at the feminine versions of the more familiar Brewer and Baker. So there are several families today that owe their surname to matriarchs in the medieval period.
Of course women could weave as we can see from the common English surname Webster as opposed to the masculine Webber, which was one who would weave.
I will always like a teacher like The Metatron who brings common sense and knowledge to the study of history.
Problem is the truth and honesty lead to whites being Supreme, and we can't have that. Especially if it's objectively true.
I just finished watching a video called "I Bathed Like a Medieval Person for a Month," and the young woman performing the experiment did so responsibly and respectfully, not looking down on the people of the past but instead saying multiple times that people of the past were people. If poor Metatron needs a respite perhaps checking out something like that would allow his frazzled mental state time to recuperate.
People washed much the same way right up to the mid 20th century when sinks and baths were widely installed. Basically, they used a jug of hot water and a large bowl.
“Calgon, take me awaaaaay!”
@@sirrathersplendid4825 its funny that this is true but the idea that surgeons should wash their hands was still so foreign and weird that they laughed at those who did.
pretty funny to think they had different standards and views of what was "dirty".
@@underarmbowlingincidentof1981 - They had no idea of the existence of microbes and bacteria. But good surgeons knew from experience how to improve the survival rates of patients, for example by cauterising wounds with a hot iron which, of course, would kill bacteria.
There is a famous story, anecdote(?) from Germany. Ä messenger came to a castle and asked for the owner. He was told, the owner is in bathroom with his family. To surprise of the knights Family, the messenger entered the bathroom naked, because he thought, there is prepared warm water for bathing. But in reality the Castle owner was in bathroom for annother reason..
I have to say it. I'm not a history "buff" and I don't claim to know much. But I will say this, I am a fan of the passion and interest you have for history that makes me interested in whatever it is you are talking about.
The classic outro music brought tears to my eyes...how can I not put a like on this video???
One of the headaches I get from the mishandling of the idea other races were present in Medieval Europe is that people then use the idea to misrepresent the historical human experience. The London of 1320 did not have a demographic makeup like the London of 2020. If we don’t recognize this and represent it well, then stories about things like international and race relations start to take on very different forms.
And the idea people might travel far for a pilgrimage they may only make once or twice in their life is very different from today’s idea of populations making large, sometimes permanent moves.
I made it as far as “So heavily armored they were unable to move” before I had to tap out.🙁
How many times they did this already 😂?
I love the current day American view of "people of color" as applied to history. It always makes so much sense. It's not like I'm old enough to remember that "Caucasian" includes the peoples of whole swaths of Asia, including the Middle East, and much of North Africa, or that neither Christian nor Muslim is an ethnic category, or that until two minutes ago, simply wearing religious or cultural pieces of garb did not change your race to "non white" aka "person of color," while at the same time, people who may look to non locals exactly the same could and often did hate their neighbors for a myriad of, to the outsider, minute differences. In other words, before a very specific set of recent views of American social issues were (might I say, imperialistically *and* parochially) applied to all times and places.
I think a lot of people mistake having a round stomach with having fat. A lot of strongmen have rounder stomachs, but it’s all muscle. It’s actually next to impossible to have super distinct abs because you have to be dehydrated for them to stand out and look chiseled.
Abs start showing at 10-15% bodyfat, which isn't that low. Not rippling musculature by any means, but the lines would definitely be visible.
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The fat for protection is comical. I’m an emergency room nurse and most lacerated/ruptured tendons or ligaments that we see are in wrist, elbows, knees, ankles and those are not protected by fat. I don’t know anybody who has a fat, elbow, knee or wrist. It’s just silly.
You can tank the heart attack. Keep the article critiques up!
The trick is always to embrace the misery.👍
Oh, the book excerpt reminds me of this widespread myth that "knight's armour was so heavy and cumbersome that toppled knight would not be able to stand up".
I still remember this bollocks repeated in elementary school. And even when I was a kid, it made zero sense to me - why would you wear an armour you can't move in - you would not be able to fight and you would not pose a threat.
Immovable enemy, even if we make a this hyper-generous assumption that the knight is impenetrable, is just an obstacle - you can walk around it.
I once read a manga where a girl wear a full harness in a modern setting. Proceed to chase and knock out a creep in a subway, lecturing him about how armor is meant for battlefield and thus how much of a fool he is for thinking he could outrun a knight so easily. Made my day...
After that intro, the first thing I did was defy Metatron and hit the "like" button. I'll watch the rest now. :)
I did the same but then I realize that the videos kind of sucked and was extremely boring so I changed it to a thumbs down.
My personal theory on Gladiatorial combat is a significant number of the fights were essentially "kafabe" or works, and then a certain number of the fights were "shoots". If you know these terms.
Probably. Gladiator fights were meant to entertain first and foremost. And I've heard that the vast majority weren't fatal. So I think it would be fair to assume some of the fights were a "work" as pro wrestlers would say.
Right, it wouldn’t surprise me if many of the woundings were intentional, like the pro wrestling anecdotes about making small cuts on the eyebrow with a razor blade stashed where the script calls for a fall. Pretty easily done by people with a lot of experience with edged weapons.
"personal theory" LOL
Ok, how about historically informed hypothesis?@@underarmbowlingincidentof1981
I have a degree in history with a focus on medieval history (yeah kinda of worthless but I was going to be an Army officer so not totally useless). I have found that the ignorance of medieval history is much, much worse than that of the Roman period.
IMO the active misinfo from the Victorians on the medieval era is the main cause.
Per usual, the epitome of a proper response to enemies. Thank you for another instructive video.
The katana is not only the last historically acurate thing in this video, but also the first - the beak mask is not medieval but rather late renaissance :)
I feel like a lot of people just lump in every time period between the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the Industrial Revolution as "Medieval"
Samurai literally are not Medieval. They were horse archers prior to Songoku and used longer Tachi similar to saber.
Uchigatana was invented as answer to incrensing use of the guns, similarly to full plate in Europe.
@@fattiger6957*pique and shot intensife*
@@TheRezroa yes. The Long anti cavary Katana. Still being be nightmares of How to use that thing
@@TheRezroyour point being? Gunpowder doesn't mean anything for the demarkation of ages...
I'm so old that I remember when "cosmopolitan"( 9:44 )meant that there were Welsh and Scots in London.
Please do a review of this up and coming "girl boss" movie called "Damsel" which turns the princess into her own "knight in shining armor." 🙄
"Christians, Jews, and Muslims all lived amongst each other without issue." ...just like we see nowadays, lol.
babe, new metraton just dropped
I'm here for it. The Metatron has risen.
he neither a phoenix nor jesus bro
@@mintoo2cool Looks like Judas Iscariot has arrived.
You're the best history teacher I've ever had. Thank you for making it so engaging, and thank you for holding history to the facts and data. It's so important
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Random Peasant: "Heavily armored cavalry to the east!"
*Looks east, sees castle and nothing else.
Gladiators probably had bodies that looked like *Johnny Weissmuller who was muscular but not "cut" like many men today look to be.
*Weissmuller was an American Olympic swimmer, water polo player and actor who played Tarzan in several films from the 1930s & 1940s. He was known for having one of the best competitive swimming records of the 20th century. He set world records alongside winning five gold medals in the Olympics.
Not only were they investigating only 22 bones of gladiators, they specifically mentioned that they didn't die in the arena. That would mean that they were retired and no longer exercising as they would have been while they were fighting and so much of the muscle that they would have built up in their youth would have turned to fat as they got older.
I think you misunderstood the sentence. The "not fighting in the arena" was for the "31 other people" who were found at the dig site who were not gladiators. They were differentiating those bones from the gladiators who were the ones fighting in the arena.
Muscles don’t turn to fat.
@@____________838 They don't, but inactivity in middle age leads to both muscle loss and fat gain if you're still eating like you used to when fit.
Well, if you lose your muscles this won't show on skeleton. What you see on a skeleton is the areas where muscles connected to your bone. When you have a lot of muscle mass at some point in your life, these areas will be greater than when you don't. But the marks these connections leave on your bones do not disappear together with your muscles. You can tell that someone was quite muscular, and to a degree this may even tell about his or her profession, but you can not tell if they stopped working in that profession in say their 30's or their 50's. Usually you'd use other clues for that as well, such as bone deformations or bone wear. (Unless the skeleton shows that that individual died in, say, their mid-30's. Then you can say that that person did not work in that profession until their 50's with certainty.)
@@blogbalkanstories4805 You can also tell by the bones whether someone was overweight or not, and in this case in particular if the archaeologists are coming to the conclusion that the gladiators were fat it could be because they are looking at bones of retired men who put on weight long after they stopped fighting. Also keep in mind that it is not the job of the archaeologist to interpret the finds but to remove them without damaging them then send the artifacts, whatever they may be, to specialists to be analyzed. Always take what the archaeologist says with a grain of salt.
7:01 this is one of the things that frustrate me the most, TV shows/movies are now doing the exact opposite with them, but if it was anyone else they would keep the casting/designs accurate.
We wuz Europins n shiet.
He's reading way too much "politics" into it. Kinda shows his own political bias a little bit.
I'm truly glad The Metatron is around... He is a man that keeps me from falling for misleading ( Stupid) facts about the world, and the people that live on it... Thank you sir, Bravo !!!! - Gernard Howell
“Anyway, I think this satisfies our daily dose of complete HORSE-SHIT today..!” I literally spit my coffee out due to instant laughter! Thank you, brother! I appreciate starting my day (it’s currently 5:45 am, where I am on the Eastern Seaboard of the United States - in the EST zone)…
It’s always a good way to start the day. The best, in fact. Now, let’s just see if I can maintain the smile off the rest of the day. Lol!
My pleasure! As long as you don’t spit proper Italian coffee we are all good
@@metatronyt Haha!! No, sir. Just cheap, “American” Walmart brand stuff. Just god the sake of caffeine & getting going. Don’t like to waste money like that. Not that the proper Italian isn’t GOOD or even GREAT coffee. I’m saying I like to ENJOY such things, & I’m simply not capable of such a thing the first hour or two of the way. So, THAT coffee - the GOOD shit - is for the afternoon caffeine shot. Lol! So, no worries, good sir! I don’t waste the finer things, in life.
@@BrottenGuy I only drink Kopi Luwak coffee that has passed through the digestive tract of and been shat out by a civet cat.
@@scipioafricanus5871 Haha! Gross. But, whatever ya like, Homie! We all have our own tastes, for things. Lol!
Great video! I apologise for engaging but I am a history student at an university in the Netherlands (in english) and right now I have a class on how to rate academic writing and how to identify historical or academic inaccuracies. I think a lot of people would greatly benefit from this class after seeing what literature is out there.
I must be a sadist, because as soon as Raf said "please don't watch until the end", I made sure I saw the end screen.
Did you see the new article about a movie about Hannibal Barca and it’s gonna be played by Denzel Washington
Why can’t they just get someone from north Africa to play as him?
They're americans. They're still persuaded Africa is just one country where everyone is black wich they couldn't locate on a world map, you're asking far too much of them...
(I wish I was joking...)
Hollywood (like most Americans) just assumes all of Africa is sub-Saharan Africa, ignoring all the brown people around the Mediterranean. Just like how most people only think of the eastern regions when they hear Asia, ignoring everyone apart from China, Korea, Japan and the South-East countries.
Nobody likes to talk about knights having an 'ass' weakness in armour due to that specific area needing access when fully geared. Most armour was rudimentary in the rear, allowing for quick access for the poop chute to a depository location. So, stabbing a knight in the ass was their Achilles Heel no matter how much steel they wore; at best they wore a chain skirt.
It's like people think steel actually covered a knight completely. I'd feel bad for any jouster wearing assmail.
Achilles heel.... more like "knight's rectum."
I think the armpits were the key weak area, along with the eye slits. On medieval miniatures you often see men with daggers finishing off fallen knights via those openings.
@@sirrathersplendid4825 I made my comment in the spirit of a good joke.
"assmail". My favorite word of the year.
@@sirrathersplendid4825 yeah but that didnt happen often, a knight was worth a fortune in ransom...
With regards to "people of colour" being in Europe - they seem to be conflating black people with Northern Africa yet again. You had the Moors in Spain and later the Ottomans in modern day Turkey but that was essentially it. Very few sub-saharan Africans outside of a few slaves in the later periods, next to no one from the far East and certainly no one from the "new world" until much later. So what they mean to say is that parts of southern/eastern Europe had dealings with north Africans and Middle Easterners. Their choice of "people of colour" is poor.
Salve Metatron! I love your videos! Sono americano con origine Siciliani... and I'm in Palermo for the first time ever. I've been watching your Matatron academy videos on Italian language.... your advice has seriously helped a lot. Grazie
In regards to what gladiators' bodies might have looked like; I am old enough to remember what heavy weight boxers used to look like - as well as "muscle men" in carnivals and side shows. They were not fat, but they lacked definition, because the modern "sculpted" look is inherently unsuitable for serious physical activity. Today, people seem to focus on building specific muscle groups just to look a certain way - which simply did not exist fifty years ago
We probably shouldn't tell Metatron that they're trying to make Carthage and Hannibal black. They learned nothing after they were rebuked for calling Egypt and Cleopatra black. Hopefully, Tunisia learns from Egypt and stands up for themselves
We wuz Carthaginians.
Where? And how?
Also, please share this comment to whoever could find benefit from it.
If you care so much about diversity, why not bring a bunch of professional historians, hear what they have to say about Carthage and its people, and then decide what people are you giving representation when making whatever you are making.
My suggestion for the portrayal of these people, have Middle Easterners and North African Berbers do it. And if you want Black people to appear, don't overdo it and make sure it's natural and educational.
Unfortunately many Americans (especially those in Hollywood) don't seem to realize that North Africa isn't the same as sub-Saharan Africa. Ask an American (maybe most westerners) and they only associate the continent with black people, ignoring all the brown people along the Mediterranean.
@@ibrahimihsan2090 Dude, they’re doing Thule Society stuff except replace the blond haired blue eyed Aryan supermen with Sub-Saharan African and you have the same thing.
Ever see a fat guy do really intense cardio, maintaining strong endurance? Maybe seldom, but endurance is one of the key components of a fight, and the Romans undoubtedly knew this! You don't build a continent-spanning empire with out of shape soldiers.
Roman legionaries used to march for at least 20 miles a day. To most modern people, a quarter of that is too much. The Roman certainly knew about fitness.
So true.
Only wealthy enough men could afford to have their wives at home. Many were washer women which was much harder work than now, worked in mines same as even tiny children, were farmhands, as their homes were usually tied to the work.
I know from my Victorian born paternal gran that during Edwardian times toddlers were helping in fields from as soon as they could take a few steps, carrying maybe a couple of vegetables to a basket and so on. It would have been the same for women having to do heavy labour in fields. I also know that women used to work up to going into labour and often gave birth right where they worked in the field. They had to get back to work with the newborn swaddled on them or left on the ground, the mothers bleeding and all. They had production targets, come what may. It would have been the same in medieval times.
TV shows about how farm hand families promote the false narrative of how relatively simple it was for everyone, including women and children.
Most wealthy land and company owners considered workers as very disposable. There were always more to replace them except during the times of the plague. Very few wealthy were halfway humane.
Gladiators would indeed look like modern day body builders. Combat training means working out all of your body to be able to keep up with an opponent. footwork would build up legs, swinging weapons the upper body, stamina training builds the core etc etc. All aspects of Ancient life was FAR more physical and most things taken for granted today were chores done daily.
This is true. Heavy carb diet only made sense for the exertion they had to go through.
To be honest I could understand that some gladiators were fat also for "protection" reasons. Not necessarily from the cuts, but from bruises and blunt trauma. But anyway, everytime I see stuff like this I like to look at modern martial arts/combat sports scene. Yeah you have slim and small guys who prefer speed and agility, you have big muscular guys and you have guys with extra fat (which btw sometimes gives you more power, especially with the momentum - anyone who has ever been in a fight with a "big guy" knows whay I mean).
Like George Foreman said about his heavyweight championship fight: "he was hitting me hard with body shots, but I was protected by cheeseburgers" :D
To be fair, Metatron, I bought that exact book “Knights” when I was about fourteen. I’m forty three now.. so it has been a minute! Hopefully the bar for research has risen since then!
"My diluted pizza blood" 😂 you had this Gallo Roman feeling down right froggy and bouncing all over the place.😂😂😂 I literally laughed out loud. Yes there's some definite crazy reimagining going on in the history world these days.
You're pain and frustration feeds my soul
This is on the same level as "people had to drink beer because water was dirty"
I'm so glad I've had a few drinks before watching this video. The author of the book "Knights" knows diddly-doo about actual knights... Classic.
This guys biggest problem is being so smart😂. I couldn’t imagine being so knowledgeable and constantly seeing BS online. Itd drive me nuts
This clown thinks he lives on the surface of a ball covered by mostly water moving four directions at once all faster than the speed of sound but none detectable by scientific instruments or man's senses.
I’m on a ward as we speak, only get my phone for 10 minutes a day.
Being smart is a burden. I lowered my IQ as a side effect of drug abuse, I‘m still smart but not as much as I used to be, but I‘m significantly happier now.
@@ynpavolucky you. All drugs did for me was make me think faster. No memory loss, no cognitive impairment, still miserable. I envy you.
Sometimes I like to claim my assessors were all fairy folk and that's why I don't see representation of myself and modern media or history books.
Broad beans have a lot of protein (more than meat), but dried fruit not so much. Other legumes will vary, peas have a fairly modest amount, lentils, chickpeas and kidney beans have more but still less than meat.
I think it's possible some gladiators had some excess fat but still not obese 300lb whales. I'm thinking like 20-30% body fat. Maybe less for protection from blades as for protection from being hit by the edge of a shield or an elbow or butt end of a trident. Of course muscles help protect from such blows too. Fat and muscle might even provide protection from deflected/glancing blows of lances or even swords?
A knight on a destrier that couldn’t move could still be used as a static defense, like burying tanks so only the turret was visible 😁
Yeah worked so well for the Germans in the second war.
Buried to the knights chest so he can still swing his sword
Have you seen Denzel will be playing hannibal 😂
Honestly I would actually watch that lol he could probably pull that off
Do you think they'll dye his hair red and bleach his skin?
Hannibal was black
@@justinchetelat9962I wouldn't have thought so, he didn't bother whiting up and wearing glasses when he portrayed Edward Woodwards' character in the Equilizer.
@@marauderad no he wasn't.
If you look at modern day weight lifters / strongman, they always have a bit of weight, they aren't fat but have more body mass to sustain their muscles. I could imagine something similar with some (not all) gladiators.
I can imagine different men fitting in different shapes from Big Chungus strong guys with a belly to Featherweights. Some women just love a Dad Bod and showmen love making money
Wrong. You don't understand how many calories that type of training burns.
Look at modern day MMA fighters and remove a bit of the muscle (they gained through steroids) and you have probably something like what gladiators would be
Gotta find Metatron a stress/anxiety a coequal relief factor. These videos are too good to stop while the getting is so good 😜
Actually these are one of my favorite videos of yours. It's good to see others being as annoyed as I get when I read nonsense :) Very therapeutic
It depends on the time frame. Modern Northern European phenotype of white-skin blue-eyed blone appeared less than 7000 years. Similarly the Chinese phenotype also appeared less than 8000 years. I suspect the wide spread of farming and herding are main factors.
According to David Reich, DNA analysis has shown that Western Hunter Gatherers were typically dark skinned and blue-eyed. Graeme Warren has said that their skin color ranged from olive to black, and speculated that they may have had some regional variety of eye and hair colors. Johannes Krause stated that they do not know whether the skin color of Western Hunter Gatherers was more similar to the skin color of people from present-day Central Africa or people from the Arab regions. It is only certain that they did not carry any known mutation responsible for the light skin in subsequent populations of Europeans.
😂 the intro has me dying
Sorry, I shouldn't have liked your comment nor should I be replying to it right now...
Regarding your gripe about the "fat gladiators topic " the way I see it, gladiators were more likely built like strongmen rather than bodybuilders.
Absolutely not. How tf can you see strongman perform in high speed, high stamina HIIT like combat?
This is delusion
@@starfox300 Hmmm fair point. Imo, bodybuilders mainly build muscle for show not necessarily for utility
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this aint the case for bodybuilders either, so it falls on neither
Audiences like beautiful bodies on their combatants, whether it's Mongolia or Rome. Using imagery from the Spartacus series, can you imagine Lucy Lawless paying for the attentions of Chris Farley?
It's my guilty pleasure, also loved your attitude xD now I will go spam link to this video in every chat group and discord server.
On women, the writer was correct, that is the point of dowry, if the woman was unhappy with the husband she had her dowry to leave his home with. It was more recent that women's rights were more circumscribed. I am Jewish, and in Judaism the woman has a far easier time obtaining a divorce than a man, and this is a protection against bad husbands.
I'm 40% body fat, and therefore an impenetrable tank
Test it, for science.
We always love it when you have a snit, Metatron.
Nobody can throw a tantrum quite like an Italian.
😂😂😂
I nearly had to slow down the play speed.
When it comes to the Gladiators, maybe one point of the Diet would also be the Region they lived. Maybe it was easier at that time to get more vegfood in that Region and Meat was more rare. Of course i could be wrong, but i think this is also a factor that this writes of the Articels should think about, before writing. And ofcourse, Thank you for suffer to teach us something valuable, i hope to always see more videos from you.
Meat was more expensive, people in general didn’t eat as much meat as people do now. So there’s that and if your gladiator is a slave you’d just go with a high caloric cheaper alternative, which barley is cheaper than wheat.
@@ImperialSenpai Of course this is a factor, but thats not what i was talking about. And you cannot say in general, oh yes slaves, thats why cheaper food, because not all gladiators where slaves. But what i was talking about was the difference in the diet of the people all together,. A Soldier in Britain, had a completly different diet then a soldier in Spain, or Egypt, yeah even Gaul or Italy. So the fact that this samples that are mentionted in the Articel have this diet, can of course be because pf their job, or their Livestyle, but more likely its because this was the common diet in the Region. Before checking other gladiator remains from other Regions of the Empire, there is no clear way to tell the truth.
@@snowsallerlei813 I was just adding to what you said not retorting it, yeah what you said is largely true and what I said is as well. Region, year, season, social status, etc. all play a part. Meat was more expensive back then so all the gladiators who were slaves wouldn’t have gotten meat from their masters generally speaking. That’s what I was talking about.
I always see these people saying women were mistreated during history. They were treated horribly, but 'mistreated' implies they didn't deserve it.
And one more thing, fat doesn’t cover ligaments near bone joints in a way to protect them.
The greater a man's knowledge, the greater his sorrow.
Silly Metatron, actually educating yourself and learning things through thorough study and research. You could be so much happier if you were entirely ignorant huh? :P
Nah, dumb people throw hissy fits about stuff that happened in history. Most of which they made up.
"Life's more painless for the brainless . . ."🎶
Sounds like a description of the "Afrocentric" movement.
Remember "Ignorance is Bliss" is an actual saying.
Metatron, we have been trying to reach you about your cars extended warranty.
This whole "gladiators were fat" thing is also really irritating because they apply it to modern activity levels. A large number of modern, sedentary workers now would obviously put on weight eating nothing but a ton of barley every day, but if you are spending every day training for show fights, you're not going to put on the same amount of weight in the same places...they always seem to skip that one.
When I was in army basic training back in 1986 a guy in my platoon lost over 60lb in 8 weeks, I put on about 15lb of muscle but I was 5’11” and about 155lb when I went in. But if you’d seen the way we ate, especially at breakfast, you’d be shocked that anyone could lose weight. A typical breakfast for me was 2 eggs, biscuits & gravy, bacon/sausage, several slices of toast & jelly, pastries, a few of those single serving boxes of cereal, and 3 or 4 glasses of orange juice. Easily 3500-4000 calories per day.
yeah but it contained a lot of protein thats the thing@@philsmith2444
NGL, I thought he was going to commit suppuku with the katana
Myth; People in Medieval times were primitive.
Truth; Medieval people invented time travel and frequently vacation in modern times. Even peasants, who's favorite past time was spreading misinformation about their time in modern times.