I struggle to use the word hate because it's the wrong word but anyway the point I'm making is the video is 25 minutes long, it posted 10 minutes ago but it's got 54 comments on it already ....... so how does that matchup ...... do people even bother to pay attention 1 iota before spouting off opinions, get these crazy people Rudyard..... Rudy Rudy Rudy Rudy!!!!!!!!!! Just fucking with you little buddy, keep it going ..... I imagine you on the Appalachian Trail and making a can of baked beans, same outcome: two cents of hot air
And now, how about battles that _almost_ changed history in a major way? For example... The Battle of Ramu, in the First Anglo-Burmese War. The Burmese won but retreated despite being a few days march away from taking British Chittagong because they pulled back to fight off a BEIC invasion of the Irrawaddy. The most important thing to remember is that the Anglo part of the 1st Anglo-Burmese War was entirely the British East India Company, without any interference from the Crown, and it nearly bankrupted them. The Burmese army returning home after Ramu to deal with the Company forces had little role in that, and probably saved the BEIC by limiting the amount of damage the Burmese could do to them. Instead, the Burmese press on and dive into the largely-undefended British Bengal, ravaging the BEIC's lands there and forcing them to pull back and abandon the war. This leaves Burma independent (and probably in possession of much of Bengal), the BEIC bankrupt and severely weakened, and a lot of formerly-subjugated Indian principalities are emboldened to break free from the BEIC's grip. Effectively, Britain is back to square 1 in eastern India.
Hey Whatifalthist, what do you think of Strauss Howe Generational theory? What do you think of it? Also, did you ever hear of Curt Doolittle? He sounds a lot like you when it comes to analyzing civilizations and what he calls "Success strategies,' or something like that. I find it quite intriguing to observe how abstract things like ideologies and nations often act like distinct organisms with specific niches, strengths, weaknesses, and needs to multiply or propogate, though I'm sure that observation is redundant, IDK.
Fun facts about An Lushan: -He was the son of a sorceress and his name meant "war" -He disobeyed his commander changing into a enemy army and got crushed -He would've been executed for this but his superior liked him so the decision was given to the Emperor -He met the Emperor and forgot to bow to his son and justified it saying he was a barbarian so he didnt know it any better -The Emperor found this adorable -He then bowed also to the Empress, which confused the Emperor -He said it was because barbarians kneeled to mom before dad, which the Emperor also found adorable -In fact the Emperor liked him so much that instead of executing him he adopted him and married him to his daughter -When the Emperor died An Lushan thought his "brother" the prince who's now the new Emperor would execute him for the one time he forgot to bow to him -The new Emperor actually wanted to make him his chancellor -To do that the Emperor sent a eunuch to test his character to see if he was worthy being chancellor -He bribed the Eunuch -The new Emperor thought the eunuch was saying bullshit, killed him and sent another to test his adopted "brother" wholeheartedly believing his character -He bribed the other eunuch too -The Emperor then asked him to come to the capital so they could talk because surely those eunuchs were lying and he could make him his chancellor -An Lushan panicked so badly he went to hide in his province not daring to leave his house and not going even to celebrations and burials where the Emperor would be -The Emperor then appointed his rival who wanted him to answer for his bribery as chancellor, which he thought confirmed that the Emperor wanted to kill him -He then led a army to siege the capital so he could capture the Emperor and make his "brother" be friends with him again once he executed his rival chancellor -His rival used this as proof he wanted to usurp the throne all along and they had his whole family executed -He understandably lost it when his family got executed so he tried to usurp the throne for real by proclaming his own dynasty -He lost because the Sieg of Suiyang took too long giving time for the Tang to recover and was it's own level of mind-fuckery, just search the meme "strategic Tang Victory" -He was killed by his own son who sent an assassin to stab him -He was too fat to grab his sword or even move, also blind, so the assassin just akwardly stabbed him once and his organs popped out like a fart - Did I say he was fat? I mean it, he apparently crushed a horse to death once with his ass trying to ride it -Anyways his last words were "THERE'S A THIEF IN MY HOUSE" or "THIS IS A THIEVE FROM MY OWN HOUSEHOLD" -The later is more likely meaning he knew it was his son who did it but the former is funnier because I like to imagine him thinking he was being randomly muggled -After his death and defeat of his dynasty he actually received a traditional Tang burial given to a royal princ "ause they were more disappointed with him than anything else -His post-death name given by the Emperor simply meant "unthinking" because of his recklessness, but I personally prefer to translate it as "stupid" Seriously it was the stupidest war ever Also it killed a higher percentage of the human population than any other conflict in history, roughly 1/6 of the global population in the highest estimates
@Vinny Zigzag 비니 지그재그 Indeed I mean we only got the Three Kingdoms Period because Emperor Ling had that mind-boogling trust on the Ten Attendants who destroyed the Han Dynasty's China for shits and giggles
The 30 Years War was insane. There were people who were born during the war, grew up during the war, reached adulthood, were conscripted and died in that same war. The price of food at the end of it was sometimes up to 20x more expensive than before it. Was possibly the greatest war that ended in a de facto stalemate.
@@Zeerich-yx9po Yes, the protestants technically won, but the Habsburgs still remained the emperor of the HRE and got to keep near all their territory. The religious status of the empire remained that whateved your ruler believes in, that you too are obliged to believe in. Also, Sweden went into decline relatively short afterwards (thanks to the Great Northern War). You could argue that nobody really won WW1 either, but in WW1, Germany was decimated considerably more than the Entante and lost territory (not talking about all the territory that the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian empires lost.) The major powers on either side failed to siege the other down. So yeah, even though the protestants technically won, their victory was mostly on paper. (Sorry if my english is bad, it is not my native language.)
I am german. After 30 Years War a german writer , Christoph von Grimmelshausen, who lived in those time wrote his in Germany wellknown book ,Simplicius Simplicissimus', which was a bestseller in late 17th century. I have read this book, which describes the life of a fictional man over the years of war. Rather intressing.
Born during the war, grew up, joined the fighting and then died in it, yeah there's only been a few wars that ever lasted long enough to do that. The 100 Years War between England and France is sorta cheating the definition cause it was a hundred years of on again off again fighting, not a single coherent war. The US occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq technically fit the bill a bit better since they both had one continuity for two decades. This is ignoring the fact no one quite knows what the point of those wars really is and more on the fact that everyone agrees that it's the same wars. The Hundred years war and many other long lasting conflicts are better described as a series of wars in short succession rather than a single conflict. Like how WWII is often thought of as WWI part II but no one would really argue it was the same exact conflict. Wars that last the 20ish years needed to have people die on the battlefield who were born during the same war, it's hard to name many of em. Part of what makes the recent quagmires so absurd.
And the paraguayan president Francisco Solano López, the guy responsible for dragging a war they didn't have hope to win and who almost send all paraguayan adult males (And some non adults) to a slaughterfest... is considered a national hero in Paraguay. Thanks to the effort of a later dictatorship, but this is some major bullshit.
Its really sad that the Latin American countries never really found cohesion after the fall of the Spanish empire. The way the empire ruled was really flawed and it carried on to the modern day cultures and we still see the repercussions today.
Wallenstein (in my mother language: Albrecht z Valdštejna) was so obsessed with war, that the palace he built in Prague (today it is the seat of senate of the Czech republic) is decorated only with weapons. All ornaments, decorations, paintings, statues are canons, swords, crossbows, war horses, maces, shields and muskets. The palace is actually beautiful, but everywhere you look is depiction of war. Also fun fact, as it is common for this kind of people to be kinda crazy, he made stabels as an integral part of the palace. So horses were literally living inside of a palace. He loved animals and especially horses more than people.
I knew that Wallensteins real name was Waldstein , which means ,forrest rock', assumingly the name of first castle of his family. In Germany the names of many castles or noblemen end with -stein.
Wallenstein was of lower nobility, but invented the concept of war entrepreneurship : instead of hiring costly trained fighters, better enroll bunches of peasants, give them a musket or lance, an helmet and seven days training, nearly no money but the right of pillage, christened that an army and rent it to the emperor. The soldiers would learn their trade by practice, their number was so great that you could have several armies on the field, so no worry if one was defeated, and victorious or defeated Wallenstein became the richest man of Bohemia. A good part of the lesson learned for 30 years war was to keep entrepreneurs out of the war business, which became a state monopoly, and to separate combat form pillage. Unfortunately, we go the other direction since the 1990s and the contractors.
Wallenstein actually was ever bit a politician as a warrior. From autumn 1632 to spring 1634, he left the imperial army mostly twiddling thumbs, much to the chagrin of the region it was in, as the soldiers didn't limit themselves to twiddling thumbs precisely... Meanwhile, Wallenstein negotiated with Saxony to bring it out of the alliance of his enemies and later with a number of Protestant leaders to broker a peace. Which of course was why he was accused of treason and murdered on behalf of the Habsburgs who had no interest in peace at that point.
The history of Southeast Asia has been a void to me. Thank you. Also, after accidentally becoming an amateur archaeologist by finding a huge Mayan settlement under my family’s rural Guatemalan town, I can tell you the wars of Meso-America were epic
Really enjoyed the Demetrius call-out. Kinda disappointing how little we know about pre-Islamic history of eastern Iranian plateau. Truly a cultural panoply of some of the most unknown yet successful conquerers in world history
@@Charles-gk7xx I mean kind of. There's some good modern scholarship by people like Farhad Kazemi. But in terms of Eastern Iranian history, the best we get in terms of primary sources is the Shahmenah by Ferdowsi, and much like the Indian sources that tends to mix myth (in this case Zoroastrian) with remembered history. Not to mention it is written after the Islamic conquests. You add into the fact that the Parthians have left us nothing, and all we have to go on is inscriptions and coinage. The history might be there, but the details are all incredibly murky.
Indians also made a musical type movie about demetrius invasion to their land, ending with the defeat of demetrius and his greek army by united indian forces. Search in youtube "gautamiputra satakarni" to see the full movie
2:11 Taiping rebellion, the little brother of Jesus Christ starts the third most deadliest war in history 4:00 Demetriu's invasion of northern India, greeks invade India 4:46 The An Lushan Rebellion 6:42 The second Congo War 8:04 Imjin War, the war with admiral Yi, nation hero of both Koreas 6:44 War of the triple alliance, Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay vs Paraguay 10:54 The great northern war, Supersweden vs all it's neighbors, including, but not limited to: Russia, Denmark (plus Norway) and the Commonwealth of Poland-Lithuania, later I understand the english join 13:08 The fall of Assiria, the beginning of the end of the first dark age 15:53 Bizantyne-Sasanid war, the end of antiquity 17:35 The Spanish succession war, the whole of Europe and half of Spain vs France and the other half 19:47 Rise of Maurya, the birth of the first grand Indian empire 21:22 30 years war, a big chunk of Germany is killed over a guy being throw out of a window
The only war I never heard of on this list is Demetrius' war. How the Greco bactrian state might be the most cursed state in history (other than the Taiping state).
Oh, give us a break! We are talking about the Galapagos Islands! A very delicate ecosystem and a world heritage... 😁 I bet you've never heard of the war of the people of Alberta, CA against rats! As far as I know they also emerged victorious 🤣
Indian history WAS well recorded, secular education existed alongside traditional religious oral transmission; it's just that the humid hot Indian climate didn't lend well to preserving old manuscripts written on tree bark. That and the upheaval of the Islamic era resulted in both massive book burnings and the collapse of secular sanskrit education ie those who preferred to write in favour of the ascetic religious fundamentalists who were more concerned with oral preservation of the Hindu religion's core tennets rather than every chronicle that had come to exist up to that point.
Doubt. Muslims in the Middle East were known to take great interest in secular Greek manuscripts and didn’t burn them, but had them translated into Arabic. So why would they destroy secular Indian manuscripts? Makes no sense and seems like just an excuse Indians make for their lack of written secular history.
@@joellaz9836 Literally baseless assumptions by leftist historians with an agenda in mind. Please do tell me what was in the massive libraries of the greatest university of it's time, Nalanda, that took almost 3 weeks to burn down completely? What was in the university of Taxashila and Shardapeeth that it took invaders SO LONG to burn down? Know your shit before you talk or call other people's valid arguments bullshit. You just look like an idiot.
I lived for a few years near the Odenwald region of Germany. While hiking along the extensive trails in the area, I often stopped to read the historical placards. It shocked me how many towns and villages had their entire populations completely wiped out during the 30 Years War, due to various combinations of direct violence, starvation, disease and refugee migration. Even though the region was never a part of Prussian territory, I can easily understand why similar destruction may have led to the militarization of Prussian society that arguably characterized Germany history for the next three centuries.
Anything in Sub-Saharan Africa would be met with screeches of racism. Since anything negative, facts, reality = racism i guess Taiping tho, yes. Please
I think it's still a bit too soon for a Congo War game but a Taiping Rebellion game would be cool since I've always had a particular interest in the late Qing era
Here's one for you that I find pretty silly: the War of Jenkins' Ear. Long story short, a British smuggler in the Caribbean got stopped by a Spanish warship looking for contraband 1n 1731. The ship was boarded, and the captain, Jenkins, somehow had his ear cut off. Eight years later, the guy goes to the British Parliament together with a bunch of slave merchants hoping to cause outrage among MPs against 'Spanish barbarism', and eventually pushed them into angrily declaring war on Spain and raiding many of their coastal possessions in the Caribbean and Central America in 1739. This whole thing has been mostly forgotten by now except in Spain, in part due to the "idgaf about the Caribbean except 20th century Cuba" mentality of most western historians have, and also because the conflict was then absorbed into the War of Austrian Succession.
As a brazilian I love to hear someone talking about the Paraguay War, it was a massive war that change the history of South America. The battle of Riachuello is one of the most epic I've ever heard. Unfortunately the brazilian government pushed the war too much, so thousands of Paraguayans died for nothing.
The issue isn't that Brazil pushed the war too far, but rather Solano Lopez never sued for peace and kept riling up Paraguay into combat, so many lives would have been spared if he had been more sensible, there was zero chances of Paraguay turning the tables and yet he kept doubling down further and further into a war he never had a chance to win in the first place. He threw everyone he could into the battlefield, even children, and went into hiding trying to resist to the very end. Add precarious infrastructure and tropical diseases to that and you have a recipe for disaster.
Guerra do Paraguai foi uma batida de pelada . Todos os envolvidos eram países pobres fodidos .Solano Lopez era um doido .Tais como os Kims da Coréia do Norte . E para piorar .Essa guerra inflou demais o ego dp Exército Brasileiro que depois deu o golpe republicano .
@@hanoi9316 tá falando bosta, Brasil e Argentina name não eram pobres pohha nenhuma, Brasil durante o periodo imperial era uma das maiores potências globais, maior que os EUA que fez atè os britanicos hesitarem, que eram a maior potência global da época.
8:03 I am pleasantly surprised to see the Imjin War make it on this list. Nobody knows about it despite how devastating it was to Korea. 2 million Koreans lost their lives due to famine and over 80% of Korean farmland was destroyed. The commander of the Japanese speartip towards Seoul, Yukinaga Konishi, missed the fleeing Korean King Sonjo by only a day after his departure. He used the royal palace as his headquarters before ordering it burned down since it seemed to be haunted by ghosts. The Japanese lost the war but they didn't return empty handed. Over 50,000 porcelain makers from Korea were essentially kidnapped and brought to Japan, bolstering Japanese ceramic manufacturing and artistry, since apparently the Koreans made better china at this time. During the war, the Manchu chieftin Nurhaci offered to support the Chinese and Koreans militarily against the Japanese. They refused, because who would accept the aid of barbarians? After the Imjin War these same Manchu under the same leader would invade China, topple the Ming Dynasty, and establish the Qing. I recommend Samuel Hawley's book on it!
For the Assyrian one, I'd like to point out that Iranian people such as the Kurds or Persians, still celebrate the fall of the Assyrian capital on the 21th of March via the Newroz festival. I repeat, they're celebrating a military victory that took place 2600 years ago. This alone should tell you more than enough about the Assyrians.
That's what happens when you treat people so harsh that it wasn't even necessary, they contributed almost nothing and ended up hated and mostly forgotten, the Assyrian independence movement in Iraq is alright but i hope they don't make another empire lol.
The third deadliest war came about because some guy from *Kentucky* wanted to spread the name of the lord. Sometimes reality truly is stranger than fiction.
Imagine being such a narcissist that when a random guy tells you about Jesus you develop a massive god complex and start one of the deadliest wars in history.
I think the Thirty Years War is an important one to have. As someone who had mainly studied WW1 and WW2 before taking my AP Euro class I thought the war was not relevant or worth studying. After learning about its sheer devastation I walked out of class thinking it was "Metal as fuck". It instilled some interest in Pike and Shot Warfare, and respect to the Dutch.
The war also directly led to the principle of national soverignty that now governs much of international relations... though some guy in Russia didn't get the memmo, it seems.
"His Realm, His Religion," as well as the Treaty of Wesphalia, are my two big takeaways from 30 Years War. The fact that the 80 Years War was concurrent with it was pretty interesting. Captain GARS, the end of the HRE's centrized leadership, and our favorite French cardinal... so many interesting things going on in the early 1600's.
@@ArawnOfAnnwn the American Colonies were formed as sovereign religious states. Rhode Island was for the Quakers, Massachusetts for the Puritans, Carolinas for Anglicans and so on. The whole concept of a United States was for the states to be sovereign. It appears you didn't get the memo about American history.
The Russo-Polish War (1654-1667), is also interesting, especially given current events, as it was the war where the Russian Tsardom first seized the Left Bank of the Dnieper and Kiev amidst the backdrop of reorganizing their society via massive religious reform that split the Russian Orthodox Church. Alternatively there is also the Livonian War, 1558-1583, otherwise known as that time Ivan the Terrible fought a nearly thirty year long war, and failed to get a port on the Baltic Sea, planting the seeds for Russia's Time of Troubles and the Romanov dynasty.
I never thought about Russo-Polish War (1654-67) as interesting, but it's maybe because at same time we had great war against Sweden which was one of the biggest in our history.
Some of the wars between the Maori and British in New Zealand are also pretty underrated. They were some pretty impressive attempts to hold back being colonized which is pretty unusual for small islands with low population.
War is a consistent theme in history. We got fortunate to have lived in a time where war was the exception and not the rule post-WWII. With what’s going on now, the brutal course of history returns.
there are on average 2 major wars per century between the military powers of the world, or known world to each region (depending on the time in history), we are due for our next one now
I think the two biggest wars we are likely to see in this century are a U.S. vs China War over Taiwan and war between Iran and an alliance of Turkey, Azerbaijan, Israel, Saudi Arabia and possibly the U.S. I don't think a war over Taiwan would go nuclear, and it would be purely concentrated in the South China Sea. I'm not sure about the second scenario though.
You should therefore be one of the most qualified people to project current events into the near-to-mid future. Care to give us the quick and dirty version of how this "fourth turning" will go?
@@CmdrCorn imo, a fourth turning's can't happen anymore due to nukes. we will see nuclear obliteration before another powershift happens. so uhh, enjoy your last years?
I’m curious as to how many times has the world’s major nations sat down to devise a plan to prevent wars “like this last one” from ever happening again.
Rome and carthage once signed something like it, also egypt and the hittite empire in the bronze age had maybe the earliest version - the hittites were the first to transition away from bronze. Both were great peace treaties that were effective for a long time.
As a history minor, I had at least heard of most of these. I did an essay on the Great Northern War, analyzing how Sweden was able to defeat several armies that were much larger than them. Demitirius' invasion, the Assyrian collapse and the rise of the Mauryan Empire are ones that I hadn't heard much about
1) Chola Chalukya war is among the most underrated ones 2) Chola sack of Srivijaya 3) Tripartite Struggle for Kannauj is another massive one 4) Talikota and the sack of Vijayanagara 5) Incan conquests 6) Aztec Purepecha wars for saltpeter 7) Fall of Champa
@@WhatifAltHist Holy crap he responded to me. I LOVE your stuff man. Please make sure to advertise those apps in your future videos. As an American son of Russian immigrants I would also really love your take on everything that is going on. Keep kicking ass man.
A lot of Indian books were destroyed by outside powers so they could have control over India. And the history turned into legends. I wish the books were never destroyed.
There was a similar episode in China. The ruling dynasty decided to suppress Confucianism, and so the philosophy almost died out, except that some people managed to hide copies of important books so they wouldn't be destroyed.
@@rishiraj1508 Probably, right? I mean, the Greeks pretty much stayed out (except that one invasion in the video), the Persians couldn't get in, the Mongols couldn't get in. It wasn't until the Islamic/Mongol hybrid Mughals that North India was defeated by invaders.
Humble Criticism: During the Spanish war of succesion, the Aragonese part of the Empire allied itself with the Austrian Monarch. They did that because the bourbons had fame of being centralist, and the Aragonese didn't want to lose their "authonomy". Also: a Suggestion for a war: The War of Jenkings Ear
There are records of Ancient India but they are also intermixed with Mythology, so it's harder to decipher the facts, also the Indo Greek kingdom was allies with the Mauryans, There were Indo greek princess in Mauryan Kingdoms, The Mauryans after conquering most of India became very philosophical and almost renounced war, this allowed the Shunga empire to rise, The theory goes that the Indo Greeks invaded North western India to avenge their Mauryan Allies, this might be true because their rule was generally considered to be benevolent by texts at that time, but the Indo_greek kingdom is a convenient name but it is generally considered to be a confederation of may local kingdoms who started allying under Demetrius. Edit: Also Alexander is never mentioned anywhere because his invasion was a series of insignificant raids, no Indian kingdom paid the Macedonian empire any tribute, contrast the fact that the Acaemenid empire extracted a large tribute from only a couple of Indian states, there are western records of King porous but only speculation in Indian accounts, by Greeks accounts Alexander's army was harassed along the Indus and his one decisive victory seems to be against the city of Multan, but even that is not mentioned anywhere given the fact that Taxashila, considered a center of learning existed at this time.
Yes that's interesting there are Indians records of Darius and other Persian kings who came before Alexander to India and there are also records of Selucus Nicator but not a single mention of Alexander
some records were recovered with the help of Chinese sources as well. Also, along with Taxila there was a Nalanda University which attracted students from all over the east. It was burnt for 3 months along with 9 million books by a Turk, Khilji.
And also goes over how Hinduism didn't really have such one single governing philosophy,it had several sects and as such this is unlikely to be the case. Considering how Southern Indian kingdoms tended to be largely Hindu aswell,yet have recorded their histories but have also been less prone to plunder and invasion due to more advantageous geography. Regardless didn't Buddhist,Jain,Parsi etc sources still record history throughout India? Although it could be true that largely the state culture in India didn't focus on Archiving history as heavily as other states,it still would have occurred independently regardless due to the sheer diversity in philosophy and even religion at play here.Considerable amounts of them however are regardless still unverifiable,twisted with mythology or destroyed leading to this less clearer and relatively less detailed picture of history in India when compared to say Europe or China.
Before getting into history TH-cam I knew a lot about American Civil War, Ancient Israel, and World War II western front. As well as some about Romans, general America, and the Age of Exploration. Now thanks WhatIfAltHist, Kraut, History Matters, Kings and Generals, Cynical Historian, Sam O'Nella, Atun Shei Films, History with Hilbert, and others my knowledge is much broader. Both in total number of facts I know, and in my ability to discern historical trends. While I've always been skeptical of right wing histories, I can now sus out left wing historical lies. So thanks for that Rudy.
Ever listened to Mark Felton or Drachinfel? I must warn you...those channels are addictive to history buffs. Do not watch if your history rotation is already full of "to watch" videos.
I just generally love how limited the knowledge of history of an average American is. On the other hand, I knew all those things before I even went to school. But I am biased, right after I learned to read I started reading books on history. No joke I learned the basic outline of world history when I was like 7. And school alsl taught that to me later on
The Assyrians were basically the Nazis of the Iron Age, they wiped out numerous cultures like the Sumerians and Hittites and invaded and occupied many nations. The crazy thing is that they are actually a few Assyrians still alive today in Syria and Iraq, they converted to Christianity and today make up around 3% of Syria's population.
6:00 Correction. Imperial forces did not assassinate An Lushan. He was killed by his eldest son, who he decided to ignore and make the second son heir. Also info on the Imjin war: The Japanese had no chance on the water. Samurai naval combat usually revolves around boarding actions, where 2 ships get close and the man on board draw their swords and engage in melee. Or simple exchanges of volleys of arrows. Korean ships on the other hand, have competent cannons. You get the picture. Guy with a gun vs guy with a knife.
That is quite true. The Japanese had a water force but it wasn't a navy. Their ships were smaller than their Sino-Korean counterparts and were unfit for prolonged engagements or even just long voyages in general. China and Korea simply had a true naval doctrine and the ship designs, tactics, and strategies that reflected it. Toyotomi Hideyoshi was aware of this and tried to buy some European ships of the line but failed.
fun fact: the Koreans acutally used stabilized rounds with tips made from low-carbon metal (weighing up to 20 kgs ) to target Japanese ships. look up 대장군전 on google and you'll see images of it.
thanks for pointing this out, his original explanation of "brilliant tactics" and "tidal pools" were dissatisfying, especially since we were introduced to a japanese army that had clear advantages over nearby states.
I probably would have put the Hussite Wars on their. It was an early example of protestentism and a transitional war, between the Chivalric Bohemia and the Renascence era military of Jan Zizka, the great Czech commander.
Feel pretty good only didn’t know the Congo war. The rest especially the fall of Assyria and An Luahan’s rebellion made me smile that you included them. Huge fan of the Tang and enjoy researching the neo Assyrian empire. At the same time a little sad that both of these world events are not more known especially the fall of Assyria as it could be argued was the first true empire and had the first professional standing army. Awesome video by the way as always.
@@jhutt8002 Similar to the war in Yemen if it doesn’t move people then the news is pretty lax about covering it. Which is said no matter what the loss of human life is tragic no matter the nationality or ethnicity. Think we’ve evolved quite a bit as a species but as long as people in power want what others have I believe war and conflict will occur.
A fact about Myeongnyang war: The Strait of Myeongnyang had a bizarre property that every 3 hours the stream would turn around to the other side and the General new this feature so he decided that the war should be there and when the stream started to run backwards fiercely the Japanese crumbled _On the topic in the entrance of the video: I'm currently reading an encyclopedia and in it's preface it says that people don't know history 'cause schools barely give history and the books motto is to teach general knowledge on world history starting from classical civilizations and coming to 20th century I'm currently at Middle-Age and just a 100 pages in and I take notes when reading and further research for some topics I'm specifically into so it's like a medium knowledge on history BUT *when I share anything I learnt from that book NO ONE KNOWS* and that makes me feel kinda bad for the people because it's just medium knowledge maybe you know basic knowledge and you learn a few things but bro they ask and they are surprised of every info
Rise of Mauryan Empire is popular story in India, it starts with Chanakya and King Nanda and it ends with Ashoka's Brutality over small Kalinga Kingdom.
Let’s see how many I knew about: Taiping rebellion - yes, incredibly interesting and underrated Demitrius’ invasion - yes, but only due to kings and generals Ahn Lushan rebellion - Also only do to Kings and Generals 2nd Congo war - also, it’s questionable whether how many Congo wars there actually are Imijin war - yes. War of the Triple Alliance - only because of your covering Great Northern war- yes, but I have Sabaton to thank for putting me onto it. (Like most other people who know about it) Fall of Assyria - never heard of it, my knowledge really starts with the Persians Byzantine-Sassanian war- Belisarius series put me on to that, but the wars lasted for almost a century War of Spanish succession- know very little about it Rise of the Mauryans - know nothing about it 30 Years war - I am a German, we remember it well.
Speaking of the last one: I've heard that until relatively recently rural German mothers would scare their children with Swedes, the same way American ones scare them with the Boogy-man, or us Swedes talk of trolls. The Swedish version of "speak of the devil" translates into something like "when you speak of the trolls, they're almost in the hall," supposedly there's a Czech version that translates to "speak of the Swede and he's already round the corner."
Taiping Rebellion: Same Demitrius - Same An Lushan Rebellion - No Congo War - Only because of Armchair General Imijin War - Same War of the Triple Alliance - No Great Northern War - Yes Byzantine-Sassanian War - Yes because of Extra History War of Spanish Succession - Heard about it once Rise of the Mauryans - Know somewhat because I am of Indian descent (still not as much as North Indians) 30 Years War - Just read a very brief summary in a history book Overall, TH-cam and the Internet have actually taught me more history than school has
This is why I love this channel. You explain history better than anyone else. Not just history, you know culture, religion and economics too. Great video!
Taiping Rebellion is one of those rabbit-holes of history like the Holodomor that your can’t believe you got to be a certain age without ever before having heard of it.
I’ve been watching you since you were at about 20k subs, and I knew 7 of these, 6 of which I only knew because of you! You’re awesome dude!, and have played a huge part in my history education. Thanks!!
While I had heard of all of these wars but one, most of them i knew only cursory amounts about, and most of these wars I did not realise how hardcore they were.
How about the Ambazonian War in Cameroon? It's a huge conflict in Africa that everyone overlooks. Actually, pretty much every war in West Africa is completely insane.
@@noahtylerpritchett2682 It's still going on today, that's the crazy part. The Ambazonian War is this large conflict throughout Cameroon by an English-speaking rebel group (Cameroon mostly speaks French). The rebels want to create a state known as Ambazonia and are going to any lengths to achieve this.
@@noahtylerpritchett2682 yep, this is still going. Not as hot as the wars in Mali or Libya or Nigeria, and certainly not as bad as the conflicts in Assam-India that nobody talks about. And really, _nobody in Western Media _is talking about Assam, as far as I'm aware, not in a conflicht 50 years old.
You said an Indian Genghis Kahn, how about a Mi'kma'ki version, Property lines include: th-cam.com/video/ZbZ4XGKCBf4/w-d-xo.html Turtle Island, South Africa, South America, Australia, Northern Glacial Waters. All lands and waters devoted to Environmental policy supporting strong ecosystems. The Majority of the Planet was managed as such for Generations, up until the 1500s when the process was halted Lack of productivity over such a large area, it would support international standards. Without them, it would lead to the Black Path, or the War path of each of the 4 races.
This video is a treasure of potential alternate history scenarios. Especially the Byzantine-Sassanian war, the Imjin war, the and the Taiping rebellion. Not to mention that three of them already have videos.
Pls remove this misconception that Indians didn't wrote History. Indians did write history but all that books , manuscripts were burnt down by muslims in Muslim conquest that started around 1000 years ago ,thats why people believe that Indians didn't wrote History but the truth is everything was burnt. Search about Nalanda University it took almost 4 months to burn completely.
@@hititmanifydo you mean the Islamic golden age? It was mainly the Muslims own archivments, predominantly done by Persians. The Islamic state that was created after the lose of the richest provinces of the Eastern Roman empier and all of greater Iran was richt in population, culture and education. The Iranians esentialy continued what they were doing during the sassanid era.
Another noteable overlooked conflict to add to this list would be the Arauco War. It's one of the few wars where Indigenous Americans managed to defeat European colonists. It's ramifications even extend into the present with the Mapuche conflict in Chile.
Yeah Heraclius really deserves more attention. Maybe even an epic or tv series about his life. How he rose to the throne of a crumbling empire, saved it from total defeat, managed to restore the empire to its pre-war borders, and then start some rebuilding. The end? Nope, then the muslim conquests commence and manage to undo a lot of his progress. He's ben called the emperor who lived too long for a reason.
@@ImMaxi Heraclius was one of the most famous byzantine emperors, I don't know how he hasn't got more attention. Also a shame what he fought so hard for was not meant to last.
Suggestion thread! The No Ataturk and Vikings in America videos are awful and badly need updates. What if the Zulus won? What If the Incas crushed the Spanish? (We were promised this a long time ago.) What if Napoleon beat Russia? Good departure point would Sweden teaming up with France. What if the US never annexed the Philippines? What if Abraham Lincoln never got shot? What if King Phillip beat the English? What if any/all West African empires became superpowers? What if Russia won the Crimean War?
The Hussite wars. A blind general of a Protestant peasant army beats the crap out of the Holy Roman Empire multiple times fighting from inside horse-drawn wagons using farm tools. Sure it didn't have much of an impact on history but what a great story.
0:05 "Whatever National Bullshit your Country had: 15%" "Weebs Worshiping Samurai: 3%" Those had me literally just sitting there laughing for like 30 seconds.
Yeah there’s a lot history and geopolitical channels on TH-cam. I can’t help to think that maybe the reason why I like his channel so much is because of his interesting maps and how he explain things throughout history, society and civilization. Also Caspian report, good times bad Times, brains 4 breakfast, history matters, politics with paint, armchair historian, Call Me Ezekiel, oversimplified, poly matter, extra credits, history scope, name explain, Kraut, CGP Grey, country explained, Logan productions, overly sarcastic productions, m. Laser history, kings and generals, Historian Civilis, geo history, knowledge hub.
I actually wrote a paper on the Imjin war and how the Japanese lost it due to their lack of powerful artillery and supply chain disruption. Very interesting topic, it really is a much larger war than people realize and saw some of the first use of volleyfire being employed by most combatant nations.
Japan was notorious for their pirates for previous centuries up to the Imjin War. No other Asian countries had enough soldiers trained enough to fight Japanese warriors-turned-pirates one-to-one. Japanese pirates were Somali pirates on steroids, looking for loot outside civil war Japan. China and Korea relied on different solution to this. China used their abundant manpower to create a formation of soldiers that could "boss-raid" a single samurai. Meanwhile Korea went all-in on ranged weapons like bows and artillery because Korea never had the luxury to outnumber the invaders. Instead, people would evacuate into fortifications on the hills and then rain down projectiles until the invaders called it quit. Even now South Korea has more self-propelled howitzers in active service than the US, and "the other Korea" is welding two howitzer barrels back to back to shoot far enough to hit Seoul from the DMZ. Meanwhile Japan sucked at logistics by sea because they had been fighting a land war on an island that is bigger than the Korean peninsula. They had little opportunity to experience what is like to feed hundreds of thousands of soldiers fighting on a land across the sea. (Of course I would say as a Korean that Yi the naval Jesus was the bigger reason they froze and starved in Korean winter :P)
Some other weapons used by Koreans include a medieval verion of a grenade launcher, (unguided) anti-ship missiles, and Rocket-propelled artillery(named Hwacha)
There is also the hypothesis that the newly formed government of a unified Japan really wanted to get rid of the giant hordes of unemployed soldiers who had fought all throughout Japan for generations. So send them to another country to pillage and burn to their hearts' content. If huge numbers of them die in Korea, at least they won't cause trouble in Japan.
@@Yora21 well it seems imvading korea was always a useful way of getting rid of excess soldiers for japanese warlords. Though possibly a secondary objective opposed to empire building when a huge chunk of your adult male populations job is fighting gotta keep them busy after all
As someone currently living in Korea I was happy to see the Imjin War mentioned, Admiral Yi was a legendary general and I was surprised I never heard of him before visiting the Korean War museum in Seoul and seeing a replica of his famous armored boats.
My wife is Korean and I only found out about it when I went there for the first time. We went to the Admiral Yi museum and saw the giant statue of him and his turtle ship in Seoul too.
In the game Age of Empires II there is a mission where you play as admiral Yin's army trying to kick out the japanese out of Korea. so, not totally ignored.
THAT was a lot of work. Good job. Super interesting. It reminds me of a poem called “Grass” which says how important something is at the time it happens. But then with time it’s importance is diminished until it’s forgotten all together.
My favorite gross oversimplification of the 30 Years' War is that it started because a couple of Catholic lords regent were thrown out a window in Prague Castle by a bunch of pissed of Czech Protestants. Was not the first (or even second) time something like that caused problems.
Hinduism does consider outside world/materialistic/etc. as illusion but not historical records as such. From ancient time knowledge were passed on orally, also many written records were also burnt by Mughal invaders. Source: Chinese book of journey to the west.
Correction @ 4:04 we had records of history all were burned as details were stored in universities like Nalanda this is a highly debated topic don't just say this is it to that and finalize @ 5:04 don't agree with that since 3500bce around the time when 3 earliest civilization flourished to 1580 india was the single richest country in the world Even when tang dynasty was there the classical time but still the economic historical records show china overtook india for first time around 1600 to 1580 Then india overtook them then it was falling back and forth till aurangzeb time when for one last time india leaded long ahead against qing dynasty then british time came india fell qing fell china liberalize india liberalize now here we are Also edit : this is not how I think we should calculate bloodiest wars We should consider what percentage of population got affected bcs population was low back before christ . during ashoka Kalinga war a huge proportion of indias population got killed
Honestly, I find WW2 as dull as dishwater, even the more interesting bits have been done to death. There's so much more history out there and I'm so grateful to random history channels on youtube for exposing me to them
Speak about the war of the sicilian vespers. This was wild. Or maybe speak about the Chola war with the Srivijaya empire. Those two were really crazy. In the first one, the great powers of Europe tried to conquer Sicily, but only the aragonese succeeded. The second was a massive naval invasion by Chola, a southern Indian kingdom, against Srivijaya, a indonesian kingdom. It ended up with the firsts being victorious.
Here's a thing most people do not know. The Treaty of Westphalia gave rise to what we now call the "Westphalian System". The key concepts are still in place today and can be seen in the concepts of the UN and treaty systems like NATO. Without Westphalia, there would be no modern Europe.
You forgot about the blood Pepsi-Coca Cola War during the 1970s and 80s. Extremely devistating conflict that doesn't get talked about anywhere near as much as it should.
I still have PTSD from the Cola Wars of the 80s. There was also the horrific Flame broiled vs Fried burger wars of the 80s which pitted Der Köning des Burgers and Lord McDonald of the House of Ronald.
The Byzantine Sassanian war is often overshadowed by the Byzantine Sassanian war against the Arab Caliphate, although the real factor that caused the fall of the Sassanid and the decline of the Byzantine Empire was that war, which left both empires weak and open for invasion from any new rising power who tried hard enough and was unified against a common enemy! Had the Sassanids decisively won the war and took Constantinople, they probably could have survived the Arab conquests!
@@tedarcher9120 not really heraculius was a one of a kind emperor and the Byzantine’s were far weaker than the Sassanians after the war. The reason for the Islamic conquest of the Sassanian empire was that after khosrow parviz’s death the empire went through 6 shahs. Originally the Arabs only wanted Mesopotamia but the Sassanians kept attacking them and that foreign policy divided the empire and led to civil unrests and that’s what truly led to the fall of the Sassanian empire.
You conveniently left out the fact that the Arabs had a numerically and technologically inferior army, as well as lesser experienced forces They were hungry desert dwellers and still managed to pull an unthinkable feat. You gotta give credit for that as well.
@@themercifulguard3971 I am an admirer of Persian & Roman history but I also have to admit that they've reached an unimaginable feat & I'll give them credit for that.... Although one point in which you are mistaken is that they didn't have an inferior number at all.... Most sources show that in all of the Islamic conquests the armies of the Muslims 90 percent of the times was just as big & as numeric as the armies of their opponents (they sometimes had even more numbers !!!) ,,,,, *However this doesn't change the fact that they had much worse & inferior armors & weapons I agree* ....
I'd put Selim the Grim's Conquest of Egypt. My boi doubled the size of Ottoman Empire in 2 years by destroying the Memluk Sultanate, one of the strongest Muslim states at the time, resulting in Ottomans controlling Spice and Silk Roads both. This led to a century-long cold war between Portugal and Ottomans, many proxy conflicts like the war between Ethiopia and Adal. Also, for the first time caliphs were non-Arab and Ottomans became incredibly rich because of Egypt. Selim I is pretty underrated, compared to his son.
Also incentivized the Portuguese to investigate alternate routs to China, leading to the exploring Africa and discovering America. So that is definitely a war with wide-reaching secondary effects.
@@waynemarvin5661 You focusing on that for no fucking reason and trying to insult me for no fucking reason without even an argument gives away some things about you as well.
12:40 Wrong. Ottomans did not imprison Charles, he fled into the Ottoman lands with his remaining men and tried to convince the sultan to declare war on Russia, which did not work. During his stay he was given some payment to cover his own expenses. After years of accommodation he still refused to leave and made Ottomans furious, thus gainin g the nickname "demirbaş" in Turkish, which is a word to describe large and heavy furniture that can't be moved. Eventually he was kicked out by Ottomans with force however there was no imprisonment at any time.
I would have included the Saminite wars. I know it’s roman history, but most people have no concept of the idea that Rome went from a city state to an empire
Often overlooked, or purposely lumped into the Second Anglo-Boer war, the First Anglo-Boer war is worth mentioning. The British didn't fare so well at all and had to create huge changes in their military which had later influence to change the nature of warfare.
16:46 with Avars there where a lot of South Slavs who used this opportunity to settle in the Balkans, even reaching Constantinople and Athens, but in Greece they will not be a majority, so they got assimilated and in the parts of former Yugoslavia Serbs and Croats would assimilate locals and culturaly dominate regions in the years that follow
I’m in a Alexander the Great class now that has graduate students as well and some dude is doing a paper on them. It’s crazy how little records we have on them.
Records may be few but a fair amount is known or speculated, and many coins and statues have been left behind. I once saw an exhibit dedicated to images of the Buddha made in Gandhara: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhara
Sweet, knew 8 of 12! I definitely point to the peace of Westphalia as a major infliction point in Western Civ and how Christians in Europe perceived their particular sect; understanding the Taiping Rebellion of the 19th century is fundamental to understanding China of the 20th century; and I absolutely love blowing minds at parties with Greco-Bactrian History in Central Asia and India.
Let's see what I've heard of: 1. Taiping Rebellion, check, basic stuff in Chinese history. Heard of it in school. 2. Demetrius Invasion of India, check, I've heard of this. I was interested in knowing what happening to the Greco-Bactrian kingdom afterwards 3. An Lushan Rebellion. I had never heard of this, interesting 4. Second Congo war, check. Yeah, pretty sad. I heard of this and the history from the news and documentaries and researched a bit more myself 5. Imshin War, check. Heard of this since this resulted in the isolationism of the Tokugawa Shogunate. 6. The War of The Triple Alliance, check. I have heard of this only because it was example of a horrible and useless war that resulted in huge casualties of male soldiers. Thanks history meme pages. 7. Great Northern war, check. As a person born and educated in Finland, this was part of the history curriculum in school. Europa Universalis also features it. 8. Fall of Assyria. No, hadn't heard of it. 9. Byzantine-Sassanian War, check. Heard of this from History of Byzantium podcast. 10. War of Spanish succession, check. Heard of this due to playing Europa Universalis, lol. Also I have watched some TH-cam documentaries on the subject 11. Rise of the Mauryan empire. No, I haven't heard of this. I knew something lf Mauryan Empire but not how they came to power. 12. Thirty Year's War, check. I have heard of this in school, documentaries and also from Europa Universalis. Actually I don't think this war is so obscure, pretty normie stuff. >Twelve wars you've never heard of >I have heard of nine of them >Nine Either I am a huge history buff or these wars aren't really so obscure. The former is more likely, considering I am this channel's target audience... Yeah Rome and Byzantium are my interests but I am also interested in Victorian Era and the Modern period after that
The most insane siege in world history was the Second Siege of Cochin in 1504. 130 Portuguese and 9500 Cochinese faced off 70,000-84,000 Calicut, they killed 5,000 Calicut (13,000 Calicut also succumbed to disease) while suffering 0 casualties themselves and won the battle.
Just a note on Karl XII and the Battle of Poltava: Karl XII was injured during the battle and the Swedish army was led by Fieldmarshall Carl Gustaf Rehnskiöld. Rehnskiöld was a very competent commander and basically the young kings mentor. Not saying the battle (nor the war) would have gone differently with the king in direct command, just adding flavour.
Also, should've definitely thrown the Moroccan invasion of Songhai up there. Super wild war. I mean the Moroccans literally crossed the entire damn Sahara with heavy artillery in tow and summarily defeated the greatest West African empire up to that point in history.
I am not an elite historian, but I already knew about the majority of those wars from TH-cam. The three wars I did not know about and thank you for covering were the rise of the Maurya, Demetrius/Bactrian conquests, and the Taiping rebellion. I would really like each of those to get their own episode's with more information. Two wars that are not well known that really need coverage are the Berber-Muslim war, and the Buddhist-Hindu wars of Medieval Greater Indonesia.
Us history classes are the worst for getting real info especially from in an city area being an honor roll student. Once i hit college my honor roll status made me fall behind because everyone else was ahead of me for better teaching and in depth study.
Is it weird that I consider myself to barely even be a history nerd yet have heard of most of these? Maybe I'm just a tad more focused on the obscure stuff, I can't even name a single WWII tank lol.
I want to mention the war of the league of Cambrai, the sheer amount of fucked up side switching is absolutely hilarious, especially when one considers, that the entire affair, through years of bloody war, changed basically nothing and ended in the status quo ante bellum.
Personal bias but the Portuguese Restoration War is pretty interesting. Fought between 1640 to 1668 it consisted mainly of border skirmishes and cavalry raids to sack border towns combined with occasional invasions and counter-invasions, many of them half-hearted and under-financed. Only five major battles happened during the 28 years of conflict. Both Portugal and Spain fought other wars during this period: The Dutch-Portuguese War(1602-1663),The Thirty Years War(1618-1648) and The Franco-Spanish War(1635-1659).
The history of the War of Spanish Succession was just amazing Everyone thinks Napoleon when thinking about a possible french world but if France won that the West would go "Bounjour" right then and there
@@pierren___ They won but it was more of a phyrric victory than anything else, taking the Orleans on the spanish throne as a big deal today is like saying Napoleon II sitting on the austrian throne is a "Napoleonic Victory" In fact this channel made a whole video about if France crushed Austria in that war and thus got full hegemony over Spain, so really, cant see how he's anti-french about that
@@ale-xsantos1078 how so ? Its not even a Orléans on the throne, its the Sun King sons (Bourbon) who STILL are on the throne. How many have France lost ?
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I struggle to use the word hate because it's the wrong word but anyway the point I'm making is the video is 25 minutes long, it posted 10 minutes ago but it's got 54 comments on it already .......
so how does that matchup ......
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And now, how about battles that _almost_ changed history in a major way?
For example...
The Battle of Ramu, in the First Anglo-Burmese War. The Burmese won but retreated despite being a few days march away from taking British Chittagong because they pulled back to fight off a BEIC invasion of the Irrawaddy. The most important thing to remember is that the Anglo part of the 1st Anglo-Burmese War was entirely the British East India Company, without any interference from the Crown, and it nearly bankrupted them. The Burmese army returning home after Ramu to deal with the Company forces had little role in that, and probably saved the BEIC by limiting the amount of damage the Burmese could do to them.
Instead, the Burmese press on and dive into the largely-undefended British Bengal, ravaging the BEIC's lands there and forcing them to pull back and abandon the war. This leaves Burma independent (and probably in possession of much of Bengal), the BEIC bankrupt and severely weakened, and a lot of formerly-subjugated Indian principalities are emboldened to break free from the BEIC's grip.
Effectively, Britain is back to square 1 in eastern India.
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Some ideas
What if mithridates’ empire survived?
What if Japan conquered Korea in the 16th century?
What if guns or gunpowder weren’t invented?
Hey Whatifalthist, what do you think of Strauss Howe Generational theory? What do you think of it?
Also, did you ever hear of Curt Doolittle? He sounds a lot like you when it comes to analyzing civilizations and what he calls "Success strategies,' or something like that.
I find it quite intriguing to observe how abstract things like ideologies and nations often act like distinct organisms with specific niches, strengths, weaknesses, and needs to multiply or propogate, though I'm sure that observation is redundant, IDK.
Fun facts about An Lushan:
-He was the son of a sorceress and his name meant "war"
-He disobeyed his commander changing into a enemy army and got crushed
-He would've been executed for this but his superior liked him so the decision was given to the Emperor
-He met the Emperor and forgot to bow to his son and justified it saying he was a barbarian so he didnt know it any better
-The Emperor found this adorable
-He then bowed also to the Empress, which confused the Emperor
-He said it was because barbarians kneeled to mom before dad, which the Emperor also found adorable
-In fact the Emperor liked him so much that instead of executing him he adopted him and married him to his daughter
-When the Emperor died An Lushan thought his "brother" the prince who's now the new Emperor would execute him for the one time he forgot to bow to him
-The new Emperor actually wanted to make him his chancellor
-To do that the Emperor sent a eunuch to test his character to see if he was worthy being chancellor
-He bribed the Eunuch
-The new Emperor thought the eunuch was saying bullshit, killed him and sent another to test his adopted "brother" wholeheartedly believing his character
-He bribed the other eunuch too
-The Emperor then asked him to come to the capital so they could talk because surely those eunuchs were lying and he could make him his chancellor
-An Lushan panicked so badly he went to hide in his province not daring to leave his house and not going even to celebrations and burials where the Emperor would be
-The Emperor then appointed his rival who wanted him to answer for his bribery as chancellor, which he thought confirmed that the Emperor wanted to kill him
-He then led a army to siege the capital so he could capture the Emperor and make his "brother" be friends with him again once he executed his rival chancellor
-His rival used this as proof he wanted to usurp the throne all along and they had his whole family executed
-He understandably lost it when his family got executed so he tried to usurp the throne for real by proclaming his own dynasty
-He lost because the Sieg of Suiyang took too long giving time for the Tang to recover and was it's own level of mind-fuckery, just search the meme "strategic Tang Victory"
-He was killed by his own son who sent an assassin to stab him
-He was too fat to grab his sword or even move, also blind, so the assassin just akwardly stabbed him once and his organs popped out like a fart
- Did I say he was fat? I mean it, he apparently crushed a horse to death once with his ass trying to ride it
-Anyways his last words were "THERE'S A THIEF IN MY HOUSE" or "THIS IS A THIEVE FROM MY OWN HOUSEHOLD"
-The later is more likely meaning he knew it was his son who did it but the former is funnier because I like to imagine him thinking he was being randomly muggled
-After his death and defeat of his dynasty he actually received a traditional Tang burial given to a royal princ "ause they were more disappointed with him than anything else
-His post-death name given by the Emperor simply meant "unthinking" because of his recklessness, but I personally prefer to translate it as "stupid"
Seriously it was the stupidest war ever
Also it killed a higher percentage of the human population than any other conflict in history, roughly 1/6 of the global population in the highest estimates
Damn
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Indeed
I mean we only got the Three Kingdoms Period because Emperor Ling had that mind-boogling trust on the Ten Attendants who destroyed the Han Dynasty's China for shits and giggles
@Vinny Zigzag 비니 지그재그 Who knew Kentucky is famous form fried chicken and starting a bloody civil war
This straight up sounds like a Shakespearean comedic tragedy.
You know this guy took like an hour to type this 😂
The 30 Years War was insane. There were people who were born during the war, grew up during the war, reached adulthood, were conscripted and died in that same war. The price of food at the end of it was sometimes up to 20x more expensive than before it. Was possibly the greatest war that ended in a de facto stalemate.
@@Zeerich-yx9po Yes, the protestants technically won, but the Habsburgs still remained the emperor of the HRE and got to keep near all their territory. The religious status of the empire remained that whateved your ruler believes in, that you too are obliged to believe in. Also, Sweden went into decline relatively short afterwards (thanks to the Great Northern War). You could argue that nobody really won WW1 either, but in WW1, Germany was decimated considerably more than the Entante and lost territory (not talking about all the territory that the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian empires lost.) The major powers on either side failed to siege the other down. So yeah, even though the protestants technically won, their victory was mostly on paper. (Sorry if my english is bad, it is not my native language.)
I am german. After 30 Years War a german writer , Christoph von Grimmelshausen, who lived in those time wrote his in Germany wellknown book ,Simplicius Simplicissimus', which was a bestseller in late 17th century. I have read this book, which describes the life of a fictional man over the years of war. Rather intressing.
How about 100 years war?
Born during the war, grew up, joined the fighting and then died in it, yeah there's only been a few wars that ever lasted long enough to do that. The 100 Years War between England and France is sorta cheating the definition cause it was a hundred years of on again off again fighting, not a single coherent war. The US occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq technically fit the bill a bit better since they both had one continuity for two decades. This is ignoring the fact no one quite knows what the point of those wars really is and more on the fact that everyone agrees that it's the same wars. The Hundred years war and many other long lasting conflicts are better described as a series of wars in short succession rather than a single conflict. Like how WWII is often thought of as WWI part II but no one would really argue it was the same exact conflict. Wars that last the 20ish years needed to have people die on the battlefield who were born during the same war, it's hard to name many of em. Part of what makes the recent quagmires so absurd.
@@Lusa_Iceheart it's not a few if you look toward the East, China "civil" wars usually lasted around 100 years
At the end of the Paraguayan war, Brazilian troops claimed to have seen children wearing fake beards and wielding muskets. Pretty gruesome conflict.
And the paraguayan president Francisco Solano López, the guy responsible for dragging a war they didn't have hope to win and who almost send all paraguayan adult males (And some non adults) to a slaughterfest... is considered a national hero in Paraguay. Thanks to the effort of a later dictatorship, but this is some major bullshit.
Its really sad that the Latin American countries never really found cohesion after the fall of the Spanish empire. The way the empire ruled was really flawed and it carried on to the modern day cultures and we still see the repercussions today.
@@ektouge8700 Brazil would have become like a giant Netherlands today, but then the republic came...
@@Menezarian But like the Germans say “Jedem das seine” or “ In the end everyone get’s what they deserve.”
@@ektouge8700 whoever said this wasn't wrong
Wallenstein (in my mother language: Albrecht z Valdštejna) was so obsessed with war, that the palace he built in Prague (today it is the seat of senate of the Czech republic) is decorated only with weapons. All ornaments, decorations, paintings, statues are canons, swords, crossbows, war horses, maces, shields and muskets. The palace is actually beautiful, but everywhere you look is depiction of war. Also fun fact, as it is common for this kind of people to be kinda crazy, he made stabels as an integral part of the palace. So horses were literally living inside of a palace. He loved animals and especially horses more than people.
Horses deserve some love after serving as bio-tanks for ages.
I knew that Wallensteins real name was Waldstein , which means ,forrest rock', assumingly the name of first castle of his family. In Germany the names of many castles or noblemen end with -stein.
Wallenstein was of lower nobility, but invented the concept of war entrepreneurship : instead of hiring costly trained fighters, better enroll bunches of peasants, give them a musket or lance, an helmet and seven days training, nearly no money but the right of pillage, christened that an army and rent it to the emperor.
The soldiers would learn their trade by practice, their number was so great that you could have several armies on the field, so no worry if one was defeated, and victorious or defeated Wallenstein became the richest man of Bohemia.
A good part of the lesson learned for 30 years war was to keep entrepreneurs out of the war business, which became a state monopoly, and to separate combat form pillage. Unfortunately, we go the other direction since the 1990s and the contractors.
Wallenstein actually was ever bit a politician as a warrior. From autumn 1632 to spring 1634, he left the imperial army mostly twiddling thumbs, much to the chagrin of the region it was in, as the soldiers didn't limit themselves to twiddling thumbs precisely...
Meanwhile, Wallenstein negotiated with Saxony to bring it out of the alliance of his enemies and later with a number of Protestant leaders to broker a peace. Which of course was why he was accused of treason and murdered on behalf of the Habsburgs who had no interest in peace at that point.
The history of Southeast Asia has been a void to me. Thank you.
Also, after accidentally becoming an amateur archaeologist by finding a huge Mayan settlement under my family’s rural Guatemalan town, I can tell you the wars of Meso-America were epic
Absolutely, so many conflicts and entire civilizations overlooked across Mesoamerica
Really?
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Dude that's so dope! 😂
Really enjoyed the Demetrius call-out. Kinda disappointing how little we know about pre-Islamic history of eastern Iranian plateau. Truly a cultural panoply of some of the most unknown yet successful conquerers in world history
The history is there. U just need to read on it lol
Unsure was he the son of Antigonis? I know he was all over the place
@@Charles-gk7xx I mean kind of. There's some good modern scholarship by people like Farhad Kazemi. But in terms of Eastern Iranian history, the best we get in terms of primary sources is the Shahmenah by Ferdowsi, and much like the Indian sources that tends to mix myth (in this case Zoroastrian) with remembered history. Not to mention it is written after the Islamic conquests. You add into the fact that the Parthians have left us nothing, and all we have to go on is inscriptions and coinage. The history might be there, but the details are all incredibly murky.
@@Kai555100 nah different demetrius
Indians also made a musical type movie about demetrius invasion to their land, ending with the defeat of demetrius and his greek army by united indian forces. Search in youtube "gautamiputra satakarni" to see the full movie
2:11 Taiping rebellion, the little brother of Jesus Christ starts the third most deadliest war in history
4:00 Demetriu's invasion of northern India, greeks invade India
4:46 The An Lushan Rebellion
6:42 The second Congo War
8:04 Imjin War, the war with admiral Yi, nation hero of both Koreas
6:44 War of the triple alliance, Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay vs Paraguay
10:54 The great northern war, Supersweden vs all it's neighbors, including, but not limited to: Russia, Denmark (plus Norway) and the Commonwealth of Poland-Lithuania, later I understand the english join
13:08 The fall of Assiria, the beginning of the end of the first dark age
15:53 Bizantyne-Sasanid war, the end of antiquity
17:35 The Spanish succession war, the whole of Europe and half of Spain vs France and the other half
19:47 Rise of Maurya, the birth of the first grand Indian empire
21:22 30 years war, a big chunk of Germany is killed over a guy being throw out of a window
thanks
The only war I never heard of on this list is Demetrius' war.
How the Greco bactrian state might be the most cursed state in history (other than the Taiping state).
@@Eh-nj4qj no need, the satisfaction of finally be "the minutes guy" is enough pay for me
@@philswiftreligioussect9619 yeah pretty much same
Byzantine*
Actually I’ve heard Ecuador’s war against goats was the most intense war in human history, probably can surpass the great emu war
Yeah, and unlike the Aussies, the Ecuadorians actually *won*! Truly, a triumph to mankind’s resolve!
Oh, give us a break! We are talking about the Galapagos Islands! A very delicate ecosystem and a world heritage... 😁 I bet you've never heard of the war of the people of Alberta, CA against rats! As far as I know they also emerged victorious 🤣
@AileDiablo do you have a life outside the internet?
@AileDiablo except it's all made up
@AileDiablo Do you by chance mean 'Persia'
Indian history WAS well recorded, secular education existed alongside traditional religious oral transmission; it's just that the humid hot Indian climate didn't lend well to preserving old manuscripts written on tree bark. That and the upheaval of the Islamic era resulted in both massive book burnings and the collapse of secular sanskrit education ie those who preferred to write in favour of the ascetic religious fundamentalists who were more concerned with oral preservation of the Hindu religion's core tennets rather than every chronicle that had come to exist up to that point.
Doubt. Muslims in the Middle East were known to take great interest in secular Greek manuscripts and didn’t burn them, but had them translated into Arabic. So why would they destroy secular Indian manuscripts? Makes no sense and seems like just an excuse Indians make for their lack of written secular history.
@@holyturtle1132
All cope. Historians agree that Indians did not have a significant tradition of secular written history.
@@joellaz9836 lmao says a european who knows next to nothing about India
If you’re writing cope, you’re the aushole
@@joellaz9836 Literally baseless assumptions by leftist historians with an agenda in mind. Please do tell me what was in the massive libraries of the greatest university of it's time, Nalanda, that took almost 3 weeks to burn down completely? What was in the university of Taxashila and Shardapeeth that it took invaders SO LONG to burn down? Know your shit before you talk or call other people's valid arguments bullshit. You just look like an idiot.
I lived for a few years near the Odenwald region of Germany. While hiking along the extensive trails in the area, I often stopped to read the historical placards. It shocked me how many towns and villages had their entire populations completely wiped out during the 30 Years War, due to various combinations of direct violence, starvation, disease and refugee migration.
Even though the region was never a part of Prussian territory, I can easily understand why similar destruction may have led to the militarization of Prussian society that arguably characterized Germany history for the next three centuries.
Taiping rebellion and the congo wars need more films and games about them. Absolutely criminal that they get so little coverage
Taiping rebellion would be an awesome setting for an assassins creed game
@@jackfrost5808 ong
Anything in Sub-Saharan Africa would be met with screeches of racism. Since anything negative, facts, reality = racism i guess
Taiping tho, yes. Please
A congo war game would be a bit strange since it happened very soon.
I think it's still a bit too soon for a Congo War game but a Taiping Rebellion game would be cool since I've always had a particular interest in the late Qing era
Here's one for you that I find pretty silly: the War of Jenkins' Ear.
Long story short, a British smuggler in the Caribbean got stopped by a Spanish warship looking for contraband 1n 1731. The ship was boarded, and the captain, Jenkins, somehow had his ear cut off. Eight years later, the guy goes to the British Parliament together with a bunch of slave merchants hoping to cause outrage among MPs against 'Spanish barbarism', and eventually pushed them into angrily declaring war on Spain and raiding many of their coastal possessions in the Caribbean and Central America in 1739.
This whole thing has been mostly forgotten by now except in Spain, in part due to the "idgaf about the Caribbean except 20th century Cuba" mentality of most western historians have, and also because the conflict was then absorbed into the War of Austrian Succession.
Britain performed poorly in that war
@@mint8648 maybe because of this they don't talk about that xD
As a brazilian I love to hear someone talking about the Paraguay War, it was a massive war that change the history of South America. The battle of Riachuello is one of the most epic I've ever heard. Unfortunately the brazilian government pushed the war too much, so thousands of Paraguayans died for nothing.
The issue isn't that Brazil pushed the war too far, but rather Solano Lopez never sued for peace and kept riling up Paraguay into combat, so many lives would have been spared if he had been more sensible, there was zero chances of Paraguay turning the tables and yet he kept doubling down further and further into a war he never had a chance to win in the first place. He threw everyone he could into the battlefield, even children, and went into hiding trying to resist to the very end. Add precarious infrastructure and tropical diseases to that and you have a recipe for disaster.
Guerra do Paraguai foi uma batida de pelada . Todos os envolvidos eram países pobres fodidos .Solano Lopez era um doido .Tais como os Kims da Coréia do Norte . E para piorar .Essa guerra inflou demais o ego dp Exército Brasileiro que depois deu o golpe republicano .
@@hanoi9316 Kim Jong un taking notes for 2030 plain be like :
@@hanoi9316 tá falando bosta, Brasil e Argentina name não eram pobres pohha nenhuma, Brasil durante o periodo imperial era uma das maiores potências globais, maior que os EUA que fez atè os britanicos hesitarem, que eram a maior potência global da época.
@@rb98769 what I mean is Paraguay in 2 years of war was already destroyed, as you said Solano Lopez send children to the war.
8:03 I am pleasantly surprised to see the Imjin War make it on this list. Nobody knows about it despite how devastating it was to Korea. 2 million Koreans lost their lives due to famine and over 80% of Korean farmland was destroyed. The commander of the Japanese speartip towards Seoul, Yukinaga Konishi, missed the fleeing Korean King Sonjo by only a day after his departure. He used the royal palace as his headquarters before ordering it burned down since it seemed to be haunted by ghosts.
The Japanese lost the war but they didn't return empty handed. Over 50,000 porcelain makers from Korea were essentially kidnapped and brought to Japan, bolstering Japanese ceramic manufacturing and artistry, since apparently the Koreans made better china at this time.
During the war, the Manchu chieftin Nurhaci offered to support the Chinese and Koreans militarily against the Japanese. They refused, because who would accept the aid of barbarians? After the Imjin War these same Manchu under the same leader would invade China, topple the Ming Dynasty, and establish the Qing.
I recommend Samuel Hawley's book on it!
From what I have studied, the war had less than 800,000 deaths.
For the Assyrian one, I'd like to point out that Iranian people such as the Kurds or Persians, still celebrate the fall of the Assyrian capital on the 21th of March via the Newroz festival. I repeat, they're celebrating a military victory that took place 2600 years ago. This alone should tell you more than enough about the Assyrians.
That's what happens when you treat people so harsh that it wasn't even necessary, they contributed almost nothing and ended up hated and mostly forgotten, the Assyrian independence movement in Iraq is alright but i hope they don't make another empire lol.
The third deadliest war came about because some guy from *Kentucky* wanted to spread the name of the lord.
Sometimes reality truly is stranger than fiction.
Edwin Stevens was from Connecticut, not Kentucky, but the point still stands. Just crazy
Imagine being such a narcissist that when a random guy tells you about Jesus you develop a massive god complex and start one of the deadliest wars in history.
That shit would have happened sooner or later anyway. Massive famines after overpopulation are unfortunately chinas go tos.
I think the Thirty Years War is an important one to have. As someone who had mainly studied WW1 and WW2 before taking my AP Euro class I thought the war was not relevant or worth studying. After learning about its sheer devastation I walked out of class thinking it was "Metal as fuck". It instilled some interest in Pike and Shot Warfare, and respect to the Dutch.
The war also directly led to the principle of national soverignty that now governs much of international relations... though some guy in Russia didn't get the memmo, it seems.
"His Realm, His Religion," as well as the Treaty of Wesphalia, are my two big takeaways from 30 Years War. The fact that the 80 Years War was concurrent with it was pretty interesting. Captain GARS, the end of the HRE's centrized leadership, and our favorite French cardinal... so many interesting things going on in the early 1600's.
@@eurodoc6343 Multiple guys in America also didn't get the memo.
Studying the Thirty Years War is pointless without first studying the Hussite War which it was the continuation of.
@@ArawnOfAnnwn the American Colonies were formed as sovereign religious states. Rhode Island was for the Quakers, Massachusetts for the Puritans, Carolinas for Anglicans and so on. The whole concept of a United States was for the states to be sovereign. It appears you didn't get the memo about American history.
The Russo-Polish War (1654-1667), is also interesting, especially given current events, as it was the war where the Russian Tsardom first seized the Left Bank of the Dnieper and Kiev amidst the backdrop of reorganizing their society via massive religious reform that split the Russian Orthodox Church.
Alternatively there is also the Livonian War, 1558-1583, otherwise known as that time Ivan the Terrible fought a nearly thirty year long war, and failed to get a port on the Baltic Sea, planting the seeds for Russia's Time of Troubles and the Romanov dynasty.
I never thought about Russo-Polish War (1654-67) as interesting, but it's maybe because at same time we had great war against Sweden which was one of the biggest in our history.
Grouping it with Swedish Deluge would be better
Some of the wars between the Maori and British in New Zealand are also pretty underrated. They were some pretty impressive attempts to hold back being colonized which is pretty unusual for small islands with low population.
I mean those guys are literally monsters of human beeings. I mean the islanders not the british as usual lol
The Spanish-American war is relatively mainstream but I'd say it definitely fits on a list like this of obscure yet very important wars
Have to incorporate the Philippine Insurrection into it though.
The War of 8 Saints in 14th century Italy was pretty wild. Definitely worth a mention if you ever make a part 2.
War is a consistent theme in history. We got fortunate to have lived in a time where war was the exception and not the rule post-WWII. With what’s going on now, the brutal course of history returns.
there are on average 2 major wars per century between the military powers of the world, or known world to each region (depending on the time in history), we are due for our next one now
Nuclear weapons have prevented the major powers from waging a total direct war. At least so far.
we shall see. with war going on in ukraine, the war could spread to neighbouring countries. the West isn't safe either
I think the two biggest wars we are likely to see in this century are a U.S. vs China War over Taiwan and war between Iran and an alliance of Turkey, Azerbaijan, Israel, Saudi Arabia and possibly the U.S. I don't think a war over Taiwan would go nuclear, and it would be purely concentrated in the South China Sea. I'm not sure about the second scenario though.
That’s deep man.
Sadly, i knew all of them. Sometimes i wish i could forget all history that i know and learn it all again. History is just so fun
You should therefore be one of the most qualified people to project current events into the near-to-mid future.
Care to give us the quick and dirty version of how this "fourth turning" will go?
i knew almost all already with varying degrees of knowledge but i agree i would love to forget it and relearn it all again
I knew most of them as well but good to learn about the few I didn’t know
Same
@@CmdrCorn imo, a fourth turning's can't happen anymore due to nukes.
we will see nuclear obliteration before another powershift happens.
so uhh, enjoy your last years?
I’m curious as to how many times has the world’s major nations sat down to devise a plan to prevent wars “like this last one” from ever happening again.
I believe the Roman Empire and the Persian Empire signed an "Eternal Peace" in the late 6th / early 7th century...
In the past 300 years alone they did it for the seven years war, the Napoleon ice war, ww1, and ww2. Not a very good track record
Don't forget the Pacific Rim war, and WW3... Oh wait, those mistakes are still to come.
Rome and carthage once signed something like it, also egypt and the hittite empire in the bronze age had maybe the earliest version - the hittites were the first to transition away from bronze. Both were great peace treaties that were effective for a long time.
As a history minor, I had at least heard of most of these.
I did an essay on the Great Northern War, analyzing how Sweden was able to defeat several armies that were much larger than them.
Demitirius' invasion, the Assyrian collapse and the rise of the Mauryan Empire are ones that I hadn't heard much about
1) Chola Chalukya war is among the most underrated ones
2) Chola sack of Srivijaya
3) Tripartite Struggle for Kannauj is another massive one
4) Talikota and the sack of Vijayanagara
5) Incan conquests
6) Aztec Purepecha wars for saltpeter
7) Fall of Champa
Malik kafur's conquests
Samudragupta's conquests could also be considered
These are soo undertated even whatifalthis don't know about them lol
I would add Malik Ambar's wars, Naderian wars and Afghan conquests to list
@@gocool_2.0 yassss totally missed those
@@aksaraylicelali lol
@@aksaraylicelali Malik Ambar the absolute Chad. I visited his tomb
Dude I wish i could sit down with you and just pick your mind about geopolitics and history.
I'll start an Onlyfans. 😂😂😂 JK, but that's literally what the apps Pearl and Pillar I'm launching now are about
@@WhatifAltHist ayyy
@@WhatifAltHist Holy crap he responded to me. I LOVE your stuff man. Please make sure to advertise those apps in your future videos. As an American son of Russian immigrants I would also really love your take on everything that is going on. Keep kicking ass man.
I wanna as well
Hahahaha I can relate.
A lot of Indian books were destroyed by outside powers so they could have control over India. And the history turned into legends. I wish the books were never destroyed.
Momins hate books of history and knowledge till today.
There was a similar episode in China. The ruling dynasty decided to suppress Confucianism, and so the philosophy almost died out, except that some people managed to hide copies of important books so they wouldn't be destroyed.
Outside powers ..you mean muslims?
@@rishiraj1508 Probably, right? I mean, the Greeks pretty much stayed out (except that one invasion in the video), the Persians couldn't get in, the Mongols couldn't get in. It wasn't until the Islamic/Mongol hybrid Mughals that North India was defeated by invaders.
@@hoi-polloi1863 exactly ..we lost everything ..nalanda , Kashmir ....good books and knowledge burnt.....
I feel like the Portuguese colonial independence wars don't often get discussed for how brutal they were. Basically Portuguese Vietnam.
Brutal? It was a soft conflict
Humble Criticism: During the Spanish war of succesion, the Aragonese part of the Empire allied itself with the Austrian Monarch. They did that because the bourbons had fame of being centralist, and the Aragonese didn't want to lose their "authonomy".
Also: a Suggestion for a war: The War of Jenkings Ear
When you said that history buffs are clustered on WW2 and the Roman Empire, I took that personally
lmao same
There are records of Ancient India but they are also intermixed with Mythology, so it's harder to decipher the facts, also the Indo Greek kingdom was allies with the Mauryans, There were Indo greek princess in Mauryan Kingdoms, The Mauryans after conquering most of India became very philosophical and almost renounced war, this allowed the Shunga empire to rise, The theory goes that the Indo Greeks invaded North western India to avenge their Mauryan Allies, this might be true because their rule was generally considered to be benevolent by texts at that time, but the Indo_greek kingdom is a convenient name but it is generally considered to be a confederation of may local kingdoms who started allying under Demetrius.
Edit: Also Alexander is never mentioned anywhere because his invasion was a series of insignificant raids, no Indian kingdom paid the Macedonian empire any tribute, contrast the fact that the Acaemenid empire extracted a large tribute from only a couple of Indian states, there are western records of King porous but only speculation in Indian accounts, by Greeks accounts Alexander's army was harassed along the Indus and his one decisive victory seems to be against the city of Multan, but even that is not mentioned anywhere given the fact that Taxashila, considered a center of learning existed at this time.
Yes that's interesting there are Indians records of Darius and other Persian kings who came before Alexander to India and there are also records of Selucus Nicator but not a single mention of Alexander
some records were recovered with the help of Chinese sources as well. Also, along with Taxila there was a Nalanda University which attracted students from all over the east. It was burnt for 3 months along with 9 million books by a Turk, Khilji.
@@avibcci1297 Khilji was Turkic not Mughal
@@siddharthtyagi8980 oh yes. I am sorry
And also goes over how Hinduism didn't really have such one single governing philosophy,it had several sects and as such this is unlikely to be the case.
Considering how Southern Indian kingdoms tended to be largely Hindu aswell,yet have recorded their histories but have also been less prone to plunder and invasion due to more advantageous geography.
Regardless didn't Buddhist,Jain,Parsi etc sources still record history throughout India?
Although it could be true that largely the state culture in India didn't focus on Archiving history as heavily as other states,it still would have occurred independently regardless due to the sheer diversity in philosophy and even religion at play here.Considerable amounts of them however are regardless still unverifiable,twisted with mythology or destroyed leading to this less clearer and relatively less detailed picture of history in India when compared to say Europe or China.
Before getting into history TH-cam I knew a lot about American Civil War, Ancient Israel, and World War II western front. As well as some about Romans, general America, and the Age of Exploration.
Now thanks WhatIfAltHist, Kraut, History Matters, Kings and Generals, Cynical Historian, Sam O'Nella, Atun Shei Films, History with Hilbert, and others my knowledge is much broader. Both in total number of facts I know, and in my ability to discern historical trends. While I've always been skeptical of right wing histories, I can now sus out left wing historical lies. So thanks for that Rudy.
I'm going to be real with you Kraut gives some biased history.
Ever listened to Mark Felton or Drachinfel? I must warn you...those channels are addictive to history buffs. Do not watch if your history rotation is already full of "to watch" videos.
@@saddamhussein7181 Everyone does, that's why it's important to cross reference.
i love how sus is just a part of our vocab now due to how far reaching the amogus memes have reached
I just generally love how limited the knowledge of history of an average American is. On the other hand, I knew all those things before I even went to school. But I am biased, right after I learned to read I started reading books on history. No joke I learned the basic outline of world history when I was like 7. And school alsl taught that to me later on
The Assyrians were basically the Nazis of the Iron Age, they wiped out numerous cultures like the Sumerians and Hittites and invaded and occupied many nations. The crazy thing is that they are actually a few Assyrians still alive today in Syria and Iraq, they converted to Christianity and today make up around 3% of Syria's population.
Wow, to think that I've heard of some of these wars but the magnitude and implications of these events are best delivered by this video, nicely done.
6:00 Correction. Imperial forces did not assassinate An Lushan. He was killed by his eldest son, who he decided to ignore and make the second son heir.
Also info on the Imjin war: The Japanese had no chance on the water. Samurai naval combat usually revolves around boarding actions, where 2 ships get close and the man on board draw their swords and engage in melee. Or simple exchanges of volleys of arrows.
Korean ships on the other hand, have competent cannons. You get the picture. Guy with a gun vs guy with a knife.
That is quite true. The Japanese had a water force but it wasn't a navy. Their ships were smaller than their Sino-Korean counterparts and were unfit for prolonged engagements or even just long voyages in general. China and Korea simply had a true naval doctrine and the ship designs, tactics, and strategies that reflected it.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi was aware of this and tried to buy some European ships of the line but failed.
fun fact: the Koreans acutally used stabilized rounds with tips made from low-carbon metal (weighing up to 20 kgs ) to target Japanese ships. look up 대장군전 on google and you'll see images of it.
@@kmk8168 Thanks. Appears to be the Korean translation for rocket. Boy, with high velocity, those things would cut through a wooden ship like butter!
thanks for pointing this out, his original explanation of "brilliant tactics" and "tidal pools" were dissatisfying, especially since we were introduced to a japanese army that had clear advantages over nearby states.
Without yi sun shin, japan decimated almost the entire korean navy
I probably would have put the Hussite Wars on their. It was an early example of protestentism and a transitional war, between the Chivalric Bohemia and the Renascence era military of Jan Zizka, the great Czech commander.
Feel pretty good only didn’t know the Congo war. The rest especially the fall of Assyria and An Luahan’s rebellion made me smile that you included them. Huge fan of the Tang and enjoy researching the neo Assyrian empire. At the same time a little sad that both of these world events are not more known especially the fall of Assyria as it could be argued was the first true empire and had the first professional standing army. Awesome video by the way as always.
It strange, since here in Europe that war has been pretty well covered in news every now and then.
Ruandan genocide part of it especially.
@@jhutt8002 Similar to the war in Yemen if it doesn’t move people then the news is pretty lax about covering it. Which is said no matter what the loss of human life is tragic no matter the nationality or ethnicity. Think we’ve evolved quite a bit as a species but as long as people in power want what others have I believe war and conflict will occur.
Most people know the battle of agincourt….which is basically a skirmish compared to these
A fact about Myeongnyang war: The Strait of Myeongnyang had a bizarre property that every 3 hours the stream would turn around to the other side and the General new this feature so he decided that the war should be there and when the stream started to run backwards fiercely the Japanese crumbled
_On the topic in the entrance of the video: I'm currently reading an encyclopedia and in it's preface it says that people don't know history 'cause schools barely give history and the books motto is to teach general knowledge on world history starting from classical civilizations and coming to 20th century I'm currently at Middle-Age and just a 100 pages in and I take notes when reading and further research for some topics I'm specifically into so it's like a medium knowledge on history BUT *when I share anything I learnt from that book NO ONE KNOWS* and that makes me feel kinda bad for the people because it's just medium knowledge maybe you know basic knowledge and you learn a few things but bro they ask and they are surprised of every info
Thank you for covering the major wars in Asia! Honestly they’re so unknown to those outside Asia but it’s very interesting and really underrated.
Rise of Mauryan Empire is popular story in India, it starts with Chanakya and King Nanda and it ends with Ashoka's Brutality over small Kalinga Kingdom.
Then end with Ashoka conversion to Buddhism and ultimately end of Marya smaraj.
@@avibcci1297 nothing like budhism and hinduism. ashok was following budha dharma before kalinga war.
Let’s see how many I knew about:
Taiping rebellion - yes, incredibly interesting and underrated
Demitrius’ invasion - yes, but only due to kings and generals
Ahn Lushan rebellion - Also only do to Kings and Generals
2nd Congo war - also, it’s questionable whether how many Congo wars there actually are
Imijin war - yes.
War of the Triple Alliance - only because of your covering
Great Northern war- yes, but I have Sabaton to thank for putting me onto it. (Like most other people who know about it)
Fall of Assyria - never heard of it, my knowledge really starts with the Persians
Byzantine-Sassanian war- Belisarius series put me on to that, but the wars lasted for almost a century
War of Spanish succession- know very little about it
Rise of the Mauryans - know nothing about it
30 Years war - I am a German, we remember it well.
Speaking of the last one: I've heard that until relatively recently rural German mothers would scare their children with Swedes, the same way American ones scare them with the Boogy-man, or us Swedes talk of trolls.
The Swedish version of "speak of the devil" translates into something like "when you speak of the trolls, they're almost in the hall," supposedly there's a Czech version that translates to "speak of the Swede and he's already round the corner."
demetrius was defeated by prince agnimitra
Taiping Rebellion: Same
Demitrius - Same
An Lushan Rebellion - No
Congo War - Only because of Armchair General
Imijin War - Same
War of the Triple Alliance - No
Great Northern War - Yes
Byzantine-Sassanian War - Yes because of Extra History
War of Spanish Succession - Heard about it once
Rise of the Mauryans - Know somewhat because I am of Indian descent (still not as much as North Indians)
30 Years War - Just read a very brief summary in a history book
Overall, TH-cam and the Internet have actually taught me more history than school has
@@theflyingpenguin98 Ha, isn't that true
@@longtimelurker2184 Very true
This is why I love this channel. You explain history better than anyone else. Not just history, you know culture, religion and economics too. Great video!
Taiping Rebellion is one of those rabbit-holes of history like the Holodomor that your can’t believe you got to be a certain age without ever before having heard of it.
I’ve been watching you since you were at about 20k subs, and I knew 7 of these, 6 of which I only knew because of you! You’re awesome dude!, and have played a huge part in my history education. Thanks!!
While I had heard of all of these wars but one, most of them i knew only cursory amounts about, and most of these wars I did not realise how hardcore they were.
How about the Ambazonian War in Cameroon? It's a huge conflict in Africa that everyone overlooks. Actually, pretty much every war in West Africa is completely insane.
When did this take place?
Yeah the anglophone community there hate the Francophones
@@noahtylerpritchett2682 It's still going on today, that's the crazy part. The Ambazonian War is this large conflict throughout Cameroon by an English-speaking rebel group (Cameroon mostly speaks French). The rebels want to create a state known as Ambazonia and are going to any lengths to achieve this.
@@noahtylerpritchett2682 yep, this is still going. Not as hot as the wars in Mali or Libya or Nigeria, and certainly not as bad as the conflicts in Assam-India that nobody talks about.
And really, _nobody in Western Media _is talking about Assam, as far as I'm aware, not in a conflicht 50 years old.
You said an Indian Genghis Kahn, how about a Mi'kma'ki version, Property lines include: th-cam.com/video/ZbZ4XGKCBf4/w-d-xo.html
Turtle Island, South Africa, South America, Australia, Northern Glacial Waters.
All lands and waters devoted to Environmental policy supporting strong ecosystems.
The Majority of the Planet was managed as such for Generations, up until the 1500s when the process was halted
Lack of productivity over such a large area, it would support international standards.
Without them, it would lead to the Black Path, or the War path of each of the 4 races.
This video is a treasure of potential alternate history scenarios. Especially the Byzantine-Sassanian war, the Imjin war, the and the Taiping rebellion. Not to mention that three of them already have videos.
Pls remove this misconception that Indians didn't wrote History.
Indians did write history but all that books , manuscripts were burnt down by muslims in Muslim conquest that started around 1000 years ago ,thats why people believe that Indians didn't wrote History but the truth is everything was burnt.
Search about Nalanda University it took almost 4 months to burn completely.
China and india sparked the little renaissance the muslims had i once heard and read
Sup harsh
Not quite true. Written records were rare, but by no means does that mean that they didn't exist. I have no clue why he stated that.
@@hititmanifydo you mean the Islamic golden age? It was mainly the Muslims own archivments, predominantly done by Persians. The Islamic state that was created after the lose of the richest provinces of the Eastern Roman empier and all of greater Iran was richt in population, culture and education. The Iranians esentialy continued what they were doing during the sassanid era.
Another noteable overlooked conflict to add to this list would be the Arauco War. It's one of the few wars where Indigenous Americans managed to defeat European colonists. It's ramifications even extend into the present with the Mapuche conflict in Chile.
That's one I didn't know about, the Chichimeca War was similar in the North, defeated Spanish through guerilla tactics
The Bizantine-Sassanid war has to be my favorite. Heraclius really snatched victory from what seemed like total and complete defeat.
Byzantine
Yeah Heraclius really deserves more attention. Maybe even an epic or tv series about his life. How he rose to the throne of a crumbling empire, saved it from total defeat, managed to restore the empire to its pre-war borders, and then start some rebuilding. The end? Nope, then the muslim conquests commence and manage to undo a lot of his progress. He's ben called the emperor who lived too long for a reason.
@@ImMaxi Heraclius was one of the most famous byzantine emperors, I don't know how he hasn't got more attention. Also a shame what he fought so hard for was not meant to last.
trajan did similar, allowed rome to exist for another 100 years
Some ideas
What if mithridates’ empire survived?
What if Japan conquered Korea in the 16th century?
What if guns or gunpowder weren’t invented?
Suggestion thread!
The No Ataturk and Vikings in America videos are awful and badly need updates.
What if the Zulus won?
What If the Incas crushed the Spanish? (We were promised this a long time ago.)
What if Napoleon beat Russia? Good departure point would Sweden teaming up with France.
What if the US never annexed the Philippines?
What if Abraham Lincoln never got shot?
What if King Phillip beat the English?
What if any/all West African empires became superpowers?
What if Russia won the Crimean War?
What if Britain won the Suez Crisis?
What if the Taiping Rebellion succeed?
What if Hawaii remained independent?
What if the Ottomans took Vienna in 1683?
@@GanyuSimpingDegenerate he actually did that last one
@@GanyuSimpingDegenerate he did What if the US never annexed Hawaii.
The Hussite wars. A blind general of a Protestant peasant army beats the crap out of the Holy Roman Empire multiple times fighting from inside horse-drawn wagons using farm tools. Sure it didn't have much of an impact on history but what a great story.
Wasn't the general executed and his skin used to make a war drum by his followers?
0:05 "Whatever National Bullshit your Country had: 15%" "Weebs Worshiping Samurai: 3%" Those had me literally just sitting there laughing for like 30 seconds.
Rudyard helps me understand the world and makes sense of everything.
He's pretty good at what he does. But you should always check with another source. Kraut is a pretty great one.
I agree, Kipling was pretty enlightening
@@LoganLS0 also History Scope
Yeah there’s a lot history and geopolitical channels on TH-cam.
I can’t help to think that maybe the reason why I like his channel so much is because of his interesting maps and how he explain things throughout history, society and civilization.
Also Caspian report, good times bad Times, brains 4 breakfast, history matters, politics with paint, armchair historian, Call Me Ezekiel, oversimplified, poly matter, extra credits, history scope, name explain, Kraut, CGP Grey, country explained, Logan productions, overly sarcastic productions, m. Laser history, kings and generals, Historian Civilis, geo history, knowledge hub.
I actually wrote a paper on the Imjin war and how the Japanese lost it due to their lack of powerful artillery and supply chain disruption. Very interesting topic, it really is a much larger war than people realize and saw some of the first use of volleyfire being employed by most combatant nations.
Japan was notorious for their pirates for previous centuries up to the Imjin War. No other Asian countries had enough soldiers trained enough to fight Japanese warriors-turned-pirates one-to-one. Japanese pirates were Somali pirates on steroids, looking for loot outside civil war Japan. China and Korea relied on different solution to this. China used their abundant manpower to create a formation of soldiers that could "boss-raid" a single samurai. Meanwhile Korea went all-in on ranged weapons like bows and artillery because Korea never had the luxury to outnumber the invaders. Instead, people would evacuate into fortifications on the hills and then rain down projectiles until the invaders called it quit. Even now South Korea has more self-propelled howitzers in active service than the US, and "the other Korea" is welding two howitzer barrels back to back to shoot far enough to hit Seoul from the DMZ.
Meanwhile Japan sucked at logistics by sea because they had been fighting a land war on an island that is bigger than the Korean peninsula. They had little opportunity to experience what is like to feed hundreds of thousands of soldiers fighting on a land across the sea. (Of course I would say as a Korean that Yi the naval Jesus was the bigger reason they froze and starved in Korean winter :P)
Some other weapons used by Koreans include a medieval verion of a grenade launcher, (unguided) anti-ship missiles, and Rocket-propelled artillery(named Hwacha)
There is also the hypothesis that the newly formed government of a unified Japan really wanted to get rid of the giant hordes of unemployed soldiers who had fought all throughout Japan for generations.
So send them to another country to pillage and burn to their hearts' content. If huge numbers of them die in Korea, at least they won't cause trouble in Japan.
@@Yora21 well it seems imvading korea was always a useful way of getting rid of excess soldiers for japanese warlords. Though possibly a secondary objective opposed to empire building when a huge chunk of your adult male populations job is fighting gotta keep them busy after all
As someone currently living in Korea I was happy to see the Imjin War mentioned, Admiral Yi was a legendary general and I was surprised I never heard of him before visiting the Korean War museum in Seoul and seeing a replica of his famous armored boats.
My wife is Korean and I only found out about it when I went there for the first time. We went to the Admiral Yi museum and saw the giant statue of him and his turtle ship in Seoul too.
@@ARWest-bp4yb It's nice that they celebrate him now, but the way his government treated him at the time...
@@boobah5643 Yeah, politics has always been a dirty game. Some things never change.
In the game Age of Empires II there is a mission where you play as admiral Yin's army trying to kick out the japanese out of Korea. so, not totally ignored.
Instead of Hollywood constantly rehashing the world wars into movies, I'd LOVE to see some historical movies about literally any of these wars.
THAT was a lot of work. Good job. Super interesting.
It reminds me of a poem called “Grass” which says how important something is at the time it happens. But then with time it’s importance is diminished until it’s forgotten all together.
My favorite gross oversimplification of the 30 Years' War is that it started because a couple of Catholic lords regent were thrown out a window in Prague Castle by a bunch of pissed of Czech Protestants.
Was not the first (or even second) time something like that caused problems.
Hinduism does consider outside world/materialistic/etc. as illusion but not historical records as such. From ancient time knowledge were passed on orally, also many written records were also burnt by Mughal invaders. Source: Chinese book of journey to the west.
Correction @ 4:04 we had records of history all were burned as details were stored in universities like Nalanda this is a highly debated topic don't just say this is it to that and finalize
@ 5:04 don't agree with that since 3500bce around the time when 3 earliest civilization flourished to 1580 india was the single richest country in the world
Even when tang dynasty was there the classical time but still the economic historical records show china overtook india for first time around 1600 to 1580
Then india overtook them then it was falling back and forth till aurangzeb time when for one last time india leaded long ahead against qing dynasty then british time came india fell qing fell china liberalize india liberalize now here we are
Also edit : this is not how I think we should calculate bloodiest wars
We should consider what percentage of population got affected bcs population was low back before christ . during ashoka Kalinga war a huge proportion of indias population got killed
The Battle of Talas River between Tang Dynasty China and the Abbasid Caliphate is another worthy mention
Honestly, I find WW2 as dull as dishwater, even the more interesting bits have been done to death. There's so much more history out there and I'm so grateful to random history channels on youtube for exposing me to them
Time to watch another whatifalthist video least then I excepted it.
Speak about the war of the sicilian vespers. This was wild. Or maybe speak about the Chola war with the Srivijaya empire. Those two were really crazy.
In the first one, the great powers of Europe tried to conquer Sicily, but only the aragonese succeeded.
The second was a massive naval invasion by Chola, a southern Indian kingdom, against Srivijaya, a indonesian kingdom. It ended up with the firsts being victorious.
19:06 No mention of Eugene of Savoy? He kept the French out of Northern Italy
10:55 Extra Credit's "Extra History" series has a more in-depth, multi-part look at the Great Northern War.
Here's a thing most people do not know. The Treaty of Westphalia gave rise to what we now call the "Westphalian System". The key concepts are still in place today and can be seen in the concepts of the UN and treaty systems like NATO. Without Westphalia, there would be no modern Europe.
You forgot about the blood Pepsi-Coca Cola War during the 1970s and 80s. Extremely devistating conflict that doesn't get talked about anywhere near as much as it should.
lmao 👍🤣
I still have PTSD from the Cola Wars of the 80s. There was also the horrific Flame broiled vs Fried burger wars of the 80s which pitted Der Köning des Burgers and Lord McDonald of the House of Ronald.
Or Britney vs Christina, the ultimate y2k battle.
@@k.j.hulander2204 the casualties in that one were horrific.
@@rjohnson1690 The burger wars were particularly brutal, as both sides would commonly target civillians.
The Byzantine Sassanian war is often overshadowed by the Byzantine Sassanian war against the Arab Caliphate, although the real factor that caused the fall of the Sassanid and the decline of the Byzantine Empire was that war, which left both empires weak and open for invasion from any new rising power who tried hard enough and was unified against a common enemy! Had the Sassanids decisively won the war and took Constantinople, they probably could have survived the Arab conquests!
Or the other way around too
@@tedarcher9120 not really heraculius was a one of a kind emperor and the Byzantine’s were far weaker than the Sassanians after the war. The reason for the Islamic conquest of the Sassanian empire was that after khosrow parviz’s death the empire went through 6 shahs. Originally the Arabs only wanted Mesopotamia but the Sassanians kept attacking them and that foreign policy divided the empire and led to civil unrests and that’s what truly led to the fall of the Sassanian empire.
@@godscroissant1539 true 👍
You conveniently left out the fact that the Arabs had a numerically and technologically inferior army, as well as lesser experienced forces
They were hungry desert dwellers and still managed to pull an unthinkable feat. You gotta give credit for that as well.
@@themercifulguard3971 I am an admirer of Persian & Roman history but I also have to admit that they've reached an unimaginable feat & I'll give them credit for that....
Although one point in which you are mistaken is that they didn't have an inferior number at all....
Most sources show that in all of the Islamic conquests the armies of the Muslims 90 percent of the times was just as big & as numeric as the armies of their opponents (they sometimes had even more numbers !!!) ,,,,, *However this doesn't change the fact that they had much worse & inferior armors & weapons I agree* ....
I'd put Selim the Grim's Conquest of Egypt. My boi doubled the size of Ottoman Empire in 2 years by destroying the Memluk Sultanate, one of the strongest Muslim states at the time, resulting in Ottomans controlling Spice and Silk Roads both. This led to a century-long cold war between Portugal and Ottomans, many proxy conflicts like the war between Ethiopia and Adal. Also, for the first time caliphs were non-Arab and Ottomans became incredibly rich because of Egypt. Selim I is pretty underrated, compared to his son.
Also incentivized the Portuguese to investigate alternate routs to China, leading to the exploring Africa and discovering America. So that is definitely a war with wide-reaching secondary effects.
"Boi"? Your spelling of "boy" gives away how old you are. 15 -16?
@@waynemarvin5661 You focusing on that for no fucking reason and trying to insult me for no fucking reason without even an argument gives away some things about you as well.
@@waynemarvin5661 cry
I’d say the Polish-Soviet war is quite often very overlooked despite being quite important and it also has some interesting events, twists and turns
12:40
Wrong. Ottomans did not imprison Charles, he fled into the Ottoman lands with his remaining men and tried to convince the sultan to declare war on Russia, which did not work. During his stay he was given some payment to cover his own expenses. After years of accommodation he still refused to leave and made Ottomans furious, thus gainin g the nickname "demirbaş" in Turkish, which is a word to describe large and heavy furniture that can't be moved. Eventually he was kicked out by Ottomans with force however there was no imprisonment at any time.
I would have included the Saminite wars. I know it’s roman history, but most people have no concept of the idea that Rome went from a city state to an empire
Often overlooked, or purposely lumped into the Second Anglo-Boer war, the First Anglo-Boer war is worth mentioning. The British didn't fare so well at all and had to create huge changes in their military which had later influence to change the nature of warfare.
16:46 with Avars there where a lot of South Slavs who used this opportunity to settle in the Balkans, even reaching Constantinople and Athens, but in Greece they will not be a majority, so they got assimilated and in the parts of former Yugoslavia Serbs and Croats would assimilate locals and culturaly dominate regions in the years that follow
Skip to 2:10 for the subject
Greco-Bactria sounds so interesting, such a shame we have such little records
Buddhist Greeks? 😳
I’m in a Alexander the Great class now that has graduate students as well and some dude is doing a paper on them. It’s crazy how little records we have on them.
Records may be few but a fair amount is known or speculated, and many coins and statues have been left behind. I once saw an exhibit dedicated to images of the Buddha made in Gandhara: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhara
@@Atabanza Yup. Menander I was the first known Buddhist of 'European' descent.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menander_I
@@Zeerich-yx9po I know
You’ve been killing with the vids lately, consistency and quality
Sweet, knew 8 of 12! I definitely point to the peace of Westphalia as a major infliction point in Western Civ and how Christians in Europe perceived their particular sect; understanding the Taiping Rebellion of the 19th century is fundamental to understanding China of the 20th century; and I absolutely love blowing minds at parties with Greco-Bactrian History in Central Asia and India.
Let's see what I've heard of:
1. Taiping Rebellion, check, basic stuff in Chinese history. Heard of it in school.
2. Demetrius Invasion of India, check, I've heard of this. I was interested in knowing what happening to the Greco-Bactrian kingdom afterwards
3. An Lushan Rebellion. I had never heard of this, interesting
4. Second Congo war, check. Yeah, pretty sad. I heard of this and the history from the news and documentaries and researched a bit more myself
5. Imshin War, check. Heard of this since this resulted in the isolationism of the Tokugawa Shogunate.
6. The War of The Triple Alliance, check. I have heard of this only because it was example of a horrible and useless war that resulted in huge casualties of male soldiers. Thanks history meme pages.
7. Great Northern war, check. As a person born and educated in Finland, this was part of the history curriculum in school. Europa Universalis also features it.
8. Fall of Assyria. No, hadn't heard of it.
9. Byzantine-Sassanian War, check. Heard of this from History of Byzantium podcast.
10. War of Spanish succession, check. Heard of this due to playing Europa Universalis, lol. Also I have watched some TH-cam documentaries on the subject
11. Rise of the Mauryan empire. No, I haven't heard of this. I knew something lf Mauryan Empire but not how they came to power.
12. Thirty Year's War, check. I have heard of this in school, documentaries and also from Europa Universalis. Actually I don't think this war is so obscure, pretty normie stuff.
>Twelve wars you've never heard of
>I have heard of nine of them
>Nine
Either I am a huge history buff or these wars aren't really so obscure. The former is more likely, considering I am this channel's target audience...
Yeah Rome and Byzantium are my interests but I am also interested in Victorian Era and the Modern period after that
The most insane siege in world history was the Second Siege of Cochin in 1504. 130 Portuguese and 9500 Cochinese faced off 70,000-84,000 Calicut, they killed 5,000 Calicut (13,000 Calicut also succumbed to disease) while suffering 0 casualties themselves and won the battle.
Just a note on Karl XII and the Battle of Poltava: Karl XII was injured during the battle and the Swedish army was led by Fieldmarshall Carl Gustaf Rehnskiöld. Rehnskiöld was a very competent commander and basically the young kings mentor. Not saying the battle (nor the war) would have gone differently with the king in direct command, just adding flavour.
The Swedish king Karl XII did not die at Trondheim. He died at Halden in the south of Norway.
Also, should've definitely thrown the Moroccan invasion of Songhai up there. Super wild war. I mean the Moroccans literally crossed the entire damn Sahara with heavy artillery in tow and summarily defeated the greatest West African empire up to that point in history.
Also, where does the claim of Charles XII wanted Norway in order to invade England come from? Never heard of, ever, and I'm a Swede.
I am not an elite historian, but I already knew about the majority of those wars from TH-cam. The three wars I did not know about and thank you for covering were the rise of the Maurya, Demetrius/Bactrian conquests, and the Taiping rebellion. I would really like each of those to get their own episode's with more information. Two wars that are not well known that really need coverage are the Berber-Muslim war, and the Buddhist-Hindu wars of Medieval Greater Indonesia.
Us history classes are the worst for getting real info especially from in an city area being an honor roll student. Once i hit college my honor roll status made me fall behind because everyone else was ahead of me for better teaching and in depth study.
I can't be the only one who knows the Korean turtle boats from Age of Empires 2.
Is it weird that I consider myself to barely even be a history nerd yet have heard of most of these? Maybe I'm just a tad more focused on the obscure stuff, I can't even name a single WWII tank lol.
Same, I can only name the panzer III. And that’s just from HOI4
T-34 and Tiger I. You don't need much else.
I want to mention the war of the league of Cambrai, the sheer amount of fucked up side switching is absolutely hilarious, especially when one considers, that the entire affair, through years of bloody war, changed basically nothing and ended in the status quo ante bellum.
Imagine being the missionary from Kentucky being responsible for starting the 3rd largest war in history. Probably one of the worst job mess ups ever.
Personal bias but the Portuguese Restoration War is pretty interesting.
Fought between 1640 to 1668 it consisted mainly of border skirmishes and cavalry raids to sack border towns combined with occasional invasions and counter-invasions, many of them half-hearted and under-financed. Only five major battles happened during the 28 years of conflict.
Both Portugal and Spain fought other wars during this period:
The Dutch-Portuguese War(1602-1663),The Thirty Years War(1618-1648) and The Franco-Spanish War(1635-1659).
The history of the War of Spanish Succession was just amazing
Everyone thinks Napoleon when thinking about a possible french world but if France won that the West would go "Bounjour" right then and there
France won the Spanish succession. The Bourbon still sits there.
(This channel has much anti-France bias)
@@pierren___ everybody is anti France man
@@MMGAMERMG not really, no
@@pierren___
They won but it was more of a phyrric victory than anything else, taking the Orleans on the spanish throne as a big deal today is like saying Napoleon II sitting on the austrian throne is a "Napoleonic Victory"
In fact this channel made a whole video about if France crushed Austria in that war and thus got full hegemony over Spain, so really, cant see how he's anti-french about that
@@ale-xsantos1078 how so ?
Its not even a Orléans on the throne, its the Sun King sons (Bourbon) who STILL are on the throne.
How many have France lost ?
The records would have been there if colonials haven't loved burning things(that doesn't contribute to their idea of world) that much.
lmao yes
Mexicans and Peruvians also feel that pain too.
14:45 tao cruz is not in that song, i think you mean Prince Royce
Whatta beautiful video! So happy to see u cover this topic. The little details u add to highlight their significance really has me impressed!