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@Olaf I am danish citizen of turkic origin and tengrist, didnt say anything of Attila was "dane"..but one thing i am sure of, our ancestors, the pagans and shamanic people of the past, had more in common, than some realize. Hope Asatro will rise in the north, and Tengrism in the east again.
So there's a solid gold casket, inside a silver casket in an iron casket, with Atilla the Hun's body in it, somewhere in a riverbed in the old Hun Empire. I want to find it
It never surprised me that The Goths died out. Sitting around, listening to Bauhaus all day while smoking cloves leaves you quite open for enemies to attack.
In modern Italy, even to this day, in order to descrive a massive destructions and disgrace we say " The Huns have come" or to point out a destructive person we also say " is like Attila". Such manner of speech was and still accompanied by another one that literally translates " Mother the Turkish are coming". The destructive power they brought upon the roman empire carved such wound that the memory of it survived till now. The nickname of " Flagellus dei" is apparently rooted in a record, when the pope went out the door to meet Attila and the barbarian literally slapped the pope in the face. Hard to tell if it was an actual event or an ancient urban legend.
You have recruited so many units, the treasury is buckling under the weight of their upkeep. Capturing new territory would spread the cost, as well as putting your troops to good use!
@@yourstruly4817 you can capture as many settlements take all the wonders the gold and client states buy all the allies buildings and yet seems like total wars atilla fps is unsalable 😭😞
Hunnic empire size is 4 million sq km of land which is huge and big as Mughal empire which is incredible. Asians and Europeans created biggest empires in human history
"Flagellum Dei" actually translates to God's Whip. Less the scourge of god, more so a punishment sent by God, much like flagellation was a punishment from those you wronged. Attila wasn't a scourge. He was a force that could only be sent by God himself. _Because who else could create something so divinely destructive?_
Scourge can be a verb and as noun. It could be seen as the whip of God, a punishment for perceived sins by the Christians and those who had not converted. It could also have referred to the Anti Christ. Christians were expecting the final battle at any time, they may have seen this as the end of the world. Again.
1:55 - Chapter 1 - Origins 4:30 - Chapter 2 - Rise to power 7:55 - Mid roll ads 9:15 - Chapter 3 - Attila vs the eastern roman empire 14:55 - Chapter 4 - Attila vs the western roman empire 18:20 - Chapter 5 - Defeat & death
Flavius Aetius spent his early military career as hostage/advisor of both the Visigoths and then the Huns, he was no fool, in fact his rank of military governor of Gaul was due to him using a Hunnic army to press his agenda. Again, he was no fool.
@@letmethink8350 Spent his military career as a hostage of both Visigoths and THEN the HUNS. Much in the same way Josephus was Vespasians's bitch. Sorry, but some of the the most prominent figures in Roman history were in fact other people's bitch.🧐
@Compassionate Predator you're blantly lying. It was closer to 10% at most, and where do you think the Mongols and their art style came from??? You can't even tell the truth in any of your statements. Why does attila get depicted looking like a turkic man and not Chinese at all??
@Compassionate Predator the Alans controlled the pannonian basin at the time, that's what the Romans called Hungary, which are still not depicted looking like Attila at all. You're just making stuff up dude, stop it.
“And I saw, and behold a white horse, and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him, and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.” - Revelation 6:2
As magyars we came, where Attila and the huns are originated (the Pannon-Basin). We were known for bowing backwards on horses. It can't be a coincidence 😜
@@russellcavender352 underrated means that something is better than what most people give it credit for, or is too good for how many people watch it, being used mainly in instances in which some believe that not enough people follow something.
@@jaykrappenshitz4992 So, what you're saying is that anyone who hasn't subscribed already shouldn't ever subscribe bc 1.3 million subscribers is all this channel deserves? 🙄
Some people in the comment fighting over who the Huns were dont seem to understand that the hunnic horde was a confederation of tribes Even gothic soldiers were within it after being subjugated of course
Yeah but obviously they mean the Huns who were the original invaders before they even crossed into the Hungarian planes. The Steppe is tricky with the ethnography as u probably know
I love history but always hated lectures all throughout school. But you make it so interesting and I frantically click all your uploads. Thanks again Lord Simon!
You should have paid attention in school....Read the credits, the narrative is written by one guy who's not even a historian...Might as well be reading wikipedia. This one sided regurgitation is not the way history is presented or thought. It cherry picks interpretations to form a bias narrative.
lights8811 yo can you read? When did I ever say I didn’t pay attention?? I said he makes what he talks about INTERESTING. And that the lectures that I attended in school were boring but I never said I didn’t pay attention. Quit trying to change something and turn it into something it’s not. And even if he isn’t 100% accurate on every single video he still is pretty factual.
Yeah, he was the glue of the empire. He was a rare leader, both loved AND feared, and irreplaceable. Lil Attila was none of those and probably could never escape his fathers shadow.
Man, central Asia is so mysteriously cool in history, like, there's all that land and our entire understanding of it is the fringe touching Rome or China. Even archaeology can't give us the variety of stories of the people.
This makes me remember a Far Side cartoon. There’s this guy at the base of a fortified wall surrounded by arrows in the ground. He yells back, “No, no! I’m Al Tilley the Bum!”
A bit unrelated, but I greatly appreciate that the majority of this channels videos have closed captioning that isnt auto generated. You speak faster than I would prefer, a lot of info in a short amount of time, but I realize that this brevity is probably for the majority who may choose not to watch it if it took twice as long. None the less, the captions are incredibly helpful. Most channels do not use them and the auto translate only works to get ideas crossed if no accents or odd names are used. They also lack punctuation so you almost have to build the previous sentence, using common sense to figure out when one sentence ends and the next begins, which makes you miss details. It's a minor piece of a channel on youtube but one that deaf and partially deaf people are eternally grateful for. I value it more than HD. Lol So just had to mention that. It is a little late, I'm sure I've watched 100 videos by now but I realized in the most recent one, the black dahlia video, how much of a difference it makes since that one does not have captions yet. I am only half deaf, it just makes it more difficult but not impossible to understand.
@@emmitstewart1921 the Huns where closely related to the Xiongnu. Recent studies show Hungarians who participated in the conquest of Pannonia (895) where 46% Xiongnu. The theory is that Hungarians are Royal Scythians from the Hunnic Empire. As Árpád said to the Byzantine Emperor, we are not turkic, we are from an ancient land.
@@blazingnomad Ém magyarul tanulok. Wasn't the posterior vowel portion of the magyar nyelv originally spoken mainly from horseback? Also, from what I have studied, little is known about the ancient history of our ancestors due to the catholic church and the austrian invasion. Szent István didn't want others to think we were still barbarians. Magyar nyelv nehéz, bocsass meg angol válaszomat.
The retroactive division and labelling of Western Roman/Byzantine Empires was something I’d never even bothered to consider. Blew my mind for a second Simon, thanks for the vids buddy
The Greek speaking people inhabiting the area around constantinople (modern day Istanbul) considered themselves Roman's right up until the late 19th century. Byzantine is very much a recent western European idea.
Attila lead an absolutely amazing life as history and myth has been passed down. Starting from almost nothing to becoming the ruler of almost half the known world, he was a very crucial and impactful leader.
Please do videos on the following people: 1. Dennis Rader 2. Jack London 3. Upton Sinclair 4. Jack Ketchum 5. Jane Austen 6. Anton LaVey 7. Annalise Michel
Dennis Radar is and American serial killer also know as BTK ( bind torture kill ) you can actually learn a lot from the show Very Scary People on HLN network. They did BTK in their second season. Not going to be indepth as biographics will most likely be. But while your waiting.
Atila and huns win Roman Empire, saved nations of Europe. Atila Destroyer of Aquilonia and builder of Cremona. Atila knew 4 languages. Roman Empire was the dark, killer and barbarian empire. Atila and the huns were educated, gracious and just but very hard nation. A Roman prisoner was able to reach a strategist position. Lived as a servant with pleasure at the Huns, than as free one in Rome! This is a fact. It is possible to read it in Priskos writing. At the Huns the knowledge, the humanity, the justice and the expertise counted, not the natal right.
Hey Simon, if you are looking for a somewhat forgotten genius, who could use a little Limelight, I have the Guy for you. Henri Lefebre, he was speaking out against people like Le Corbusier in the City Development strategies and led quite an Interesting Life. Hope you like the Idea. And thank you for making these videos
Gengis khan is probably the reincarnation of attila the hun. They both are so similar to eachother, banded rival clans together,rode on horse backs to battle, and killed there brothers at a young age.
@@ellameyer8151 It's funny because you'll correct someone for something so pointless, something I can guarantee they knew anyway making your correction pointless, but you yourself don't know that the bible has numbered verses. You just look stupid.
So the people who buried him and then were killed, were killed by someone who still knew the location right? Now im really convinced that the coffin is no longer there.
Hey Simon, can you do a video on William Fairbairn? He was one of the most badass dudes ever, getting into over 600 street fights by the age of 55 while being a British beat cop in turn of the century Shanghai. He designed his own knife that you can still get today and was just a fascinating individual! Love all your channels, thank you!!
Liaten gentlefolk, the scythians are mentioned here. In India, they are called sakas, they were a predecessor of kushanas, a xiongnu tribe, therefore huns are the same as xiongnus.
Was doing my genealogy recently and found him as one of my ancestors. Very interesting find and brought me to want to learn more about him. All of this was such interesting information!
@@millercalenThat's funny cause the huns are notoriously hard to pinpoint genetically so you were probably duped especially if you did your own research.
Play historical deduction games, and you'll come to the conclusion that either Alexander or Genghis Khan were the "greatest" warlords in history. Alexander conquered the Persian Empire who kept Attila at bay, who bent the Romans to his will, who defeated Hannibal. Genghis Khan was too late to fall into this stupid game I just played, but his nomadic chaos would've been petrifying. I forgot about the Mughals and Mehmet, dammit.
There's some interesting characters across Chilean history, I would recommend the naval battle of Iquique where a captain ( Arturo Pratt) jumped ships to battle the enemy when his ship (la esmeralda) was about to sink Pretty cool stuff
Alexander, Atilla, Genghis Khan. What is it about singular great people uniting warring tribes and conquering everything in site for a little while before dying and their entire empire vanishing? It seems happen a bizarre amount of times. Edit: also worth mentioning that they all die in some weird and completely anticlimactic way.
I have read accounts from diplomats met him. They claimed he would present himself as a simple man, sitting upon pillows on the ground with furs and a simple table, while he would treat his guests like royalty.
Although it can /may never be proven, just based on the war they lived, the way they fought, and the way they thought, Attila was an ancestor, maybe even a great, great,, great, uncle-grandfather of Ghengis Khan. Either that or Ghengis Khan was the reincarnation of Attila the Hun. They both came from the Asian Steppes, in fact one of the reasons why the Chinese built the Great Wall was to keep the Huns from invading China. Fun Fact:if you're a boy and your given the name of Attila, in Hungary it is considered a great honor. Learned that from a friend from Hungary.
I mean they were definitely culturally related and likely shared dna of ancestors as many still do today. Go back far enough and none of it seems to matter
Something I like about these videos is that the actual truth of the history is always sought as much as possible, and if something isn't matter-of-fact, it's never portrayed that way.
Its interesting to think this is the same sinon who is the ultimate Blaze host in the Business, with co-host Eta/Charles. One minute hes Blazing and talking back and forth with Eta and the next he puts on the teachers jacket and informs us of things we should have learned more about in school.
You have to understand Attila's Tribes' context in Northern China and Southern Mongolia. The Han built a wall because of him. They were ousted from East Asia militarily. Which caused the migration West.
The Huns never invaded Denmark or controlled it. The English didn't leave Denmark (Jutland and Anglia) for Britain due to the Huns; they were facing coastal flooding and then they were hired to put down intra-Celtic problems. Payment issues changed the deal and so England was founded by Jutes in 449 CE. Large amounts of Angles (many being island and coastal dwellers) then also Frisians joined in (they were also coastal and island dwellers). Many Saxons, Swedes and Norwegians also came over through the 500s.
@@ParkVonGun True, but steppe peoples often influenced one another. Even his title of Khan is derived from a turkic term for steppe Kings and generals, not to mention that there are mongolic people who adopted turkic culture and language and some even converted to Islam which was a factor in dividing the the Mongol empire into Islamic and non-Islamic states.
This guy will take horses in trade in pretty much _any_ era. If he can survive his own constant war efforts through the early and mid-game he can be a pretty good trade partner and ally. Until you eventually pass him in tech and nuke him for the victory.
Simon my new YT dealer. This man ghosts folks then drops dime after dime outta nowhere and no matter how irritated i am i always indulge greedly. Well played simon.
The Xiongnu from Mongolia/Manchuria predates the Huns in Europe (as they showed up 200 years later from the northern borders of China). Many scholars have debated for years and many now are in a agreement that they’re the same confederacy who have reached Europe. The Russian anthropologist (1960s) provided the ethnological details of the skulls and the skeletal remains when visited the Hunnish and Avar cemetary sites in Hungary and Romania. Most of Hunnish elite leaders had a striking resemblance to modern Manchurians and the elite Avar skeletal remains with central Mongolians. He has also noted that the most of calvary remains were either intermixed or homogenous. Overall, it had a higher Turkic related remains. What’s interesting about his report is that all the elite/leader skulls were purely Mongoloid/East Asian.Huns, Avars and conquering Hungarian nomadic groups arrived into the Carpathian Basin from the Eurasian Steppes and significantly influenced its political and ethnical landscape. In order to shed light on the genetic affinity of above groups we have determined Y chromosomal haplogroups and autosomal loci, from 49 individuals, supposed to represent military leaders. Haplogroups from the Hun-age are consistent with Xiongnu ancestry of European Huns. Most of the Avar-age individuals carry East Asian Y haplogroups typical for modern north-eastern Siberian and Mongolian Buryat populations and their autosomal loci indicate mostly unmixed East Asian characteristics.
Very interesting and educational video, I learned a lot about Attila the Hun, and I really thought I knew everything about this man! Thank you for sharing this video with us!
The Huns were also terrifying in appearance. They would wrap leather cords around children's skulls forcing them to grow elongated skulls like a xenomorph and many used scarification on the face to prevent facial hair.
Let me complete your paragraph to make true... "ACCORDING TO ROMAN SOURCES, The Huns were also terrifying in appearance. They would wrap leather cords around children's skulls forcing them to grow elongated skulls like a xenomorph and many used scarification on the face to prevent facial hair." There are other sources too you know, notably Chinese and Persian that paint a completely different picture.
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@@ryrizzle319 they have navy
Yes! Zeros and A5Ms
But I recommend stay away from wt since it's a horrid game
@@ryrizzle319 Boats are in, we got super-sonic jets like it's fucking vietnam, modern tanks and AA of all kinds and yes.
"The greatest of all Warriors should be mourned not with tears or the wailing of women, but the blood of men".... dude... thats so metal!
Nothing like blood and guts🤘
He was a great warrior and spirit, AND one of mine ancestors..by the way, er også fra Danmark:)
@Olaf I am danish citizen of turkic origin and tengrist, didnt say anything of Attila was "dane"..but one thing i am sure of, our ancestors, the pagans and shamanic people of the past, had more in common, than some realize. Hope Asatro will rise in the north, and Tengrism in the east again.
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So there's a solid gold casket, inside a silver casket in an iron casket, with Atilla the Hun's body in it, somewhere in a riverbed in the old Hun Empire. I want to find it
Same I'd definitely love to see that
As specialy with the rise of the price of gold in the last few months ;) !
It's in Pannonia somewhere. Between Tisza and Duna according to the legends
You would not want to be a pallbearer
@Syed Abdul Malik Behold, pedophilia apologia everyone. If she bleeds she breeds is your logic.
Imagine having the nickname "The Scourge of God."
That is one of the most terrifying things I've ever heard a person be called.
Might be the best nickname evee
I have it on good authority that "the Scourge of God" was later changed to the dreaded "MOTHER-IN-LAW!!!"
😂😂😂😂😂
@@bignasty1876my brother, shut up
It’s gotta be one of the coolest names ever.
@@bignasty1876 1985 called. They wanted their mother-in-law jokes back.
It never surprised me that The Goths died out.
Sitting around, listening to Bauhaus all day while smoking cloves leaves you quite open for enemies to attack.
hilarious and underrated comment
HAHAHAHAHAHA LMAOOO
Haha awesome comment!
pretty sure the goths are still around(Germans,Dutchs,Swedes,Austrians etc etc) lol
@@teovu5557 nah, they're Anglo saxons
In modern Italy, even to this day, in order to descrive a massive destructions and disgrace we say " The Huns have come" or to point out a destructive person we also say " is like Attila". Such manner of speech was and still accompanied by another one that literally translates " Mother the Turkish are coming". The destructive power they brought upon the roman empire carved such wound that the memory of it survived till now. The nickname of " Flagellus dei" is apparently rooted in a record, when the pope went out the door to meet Attila and the barbarian literally slapped the pope in the face. Hard to tell if it was an actual event or an ancient urban legend.
It was a legend.
@NO IT HAPPENED THATS HOW THE HUNS LEFT BACK HOME WITH A SAFE PASSAGE 🙄DO YOUR RESEARCH BRO 🎉hungarienness
In the empire he ruled, they called him Attila the fun
@Robert McConnell I thought that was his personal baker
In an alternate universe, he was a comedian, known as attila the pun
If he were a 5K, he'd be Attila: the Run.
He was so bright they called him Attila the sun
When he put on a bit of extra weight they called him Attila the tons of fun behind his back.
You have recruited so many units, the treasury is buckling under the weight of their upkeep.
Capturing new territory would spread the cost, as well as putting your troops to good use!
Ahh the nostalgia
@Marechal Zolotoy Attila: Total War
@@yourstruly4817 you can capture as many settlements take all the wonders the gold and client states buy all the allies buildings and yet seems like total wars atilla fps is unsalable 😭😞
Your health is low do you have any potions...or food?
Hunnic empire size is 4 million sq km of land which is huge and big as Mughal empire which is incredible.
Asians and Europeans created biggest empires in human history
"I don't destroy lives.
I turn civilizations to dust.
Sword of Mars! Photon Ray!"
white titan sefar go brrrrrrrrrrr
Best Saber.
There's the Fate comment.
Damn, Attila looks like THAT!
"Flagellum Dei" actually translates to God's Whip.
Less the scourge of god, more so a punishment sent by God, much like flagellation was a punishment from those you wronged.
Attila wasn't a scourge. He was a force that could only be sent by God himself.
_Because who else could create something so divinely destructive?_
I was so confused because "Flagellum" refers to Whip, doesn't it? Caught me off gaurd immediately
Scourge can be a verb and as noun. It could be seen as the whip of God, a punishment for perceived sins by the Christians and those who had not converted. It could also have referred to the Anti Christ. Christians were expecting the final battle at any time, they may have seen this as the end of the world. Again.
I think you’ve misunderstood the word… ‘scourge’. He wasn’t ‘A’ scourge. He’s scourge of god, similar to ‘wrath of god’.
In addition, a scourge is a type of whip.
The Assyrian, Isaiah 10, and he was an AntiChrist.
1:55 - Chapter 1 - Origins
4:30 - Chapter 2 - Rise to power
7:55 - Mid roll ads
9:15 - Chapter 3 - Attila vs the eastern roman empire
14:55 - Chapter 4 - Attila vs the western roman empire
18:20 - Chapter 5 - Defeat & death
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Flavius Aetius spent his early military career as hostage/advisor of both the Visigoths and then the Huns, he was no fool, in fact his rank of military governor of Gaul was due to him using a Hunnic army to press his agenda. Again, he was no fool.
He was their bitch, but he was no fool.
@@letmethink8350 Spent his military career as a hostage of both Visigoths and THEN the HUNS. Much in the same way Josephus was Vespasians's bitch. Sorry, but some of the the most prominent figures in Roman history were in fact other people's bitch.🧐
@@letmethink8350 So cuss words are your sole determining factor in how high or low ones IQ is. I think your a prejudice person then.
@@letmethink8350 Would you prefer the term coward?
@@ricky-sanchez lmao dude ran away
wut a bitch
And Attila is still very popular Hungarian and Turkish name :)
Imagine if Simon and Lucy Worsley some how had a child.. the kid would narrate it’s own birth.
David Starkey conducting the christening
Lucky duck. Lucy is hot.
Lucy Worsley is all dried up, she's 48, no more kids for her.
This comment's too good 😆
Pretty sure Genghis Khan was the reincarnation of this guy.
@Compassionate Predator the beginning of the video literally states nothing is known for sure, also his depictions do not look Chinese at all.
@Compassionate Predator you're blantly lying. It was closer to 10% at most, and where do you think the Mongols and their art style came from??? You can't even tell the truth in any of your statements. Why does attila get depicted looking like a turkic man and not Chinese at all??
@Compassionate Predator the Alans controlled the pannonian basin at the time, that's what the Romans called Hungary, which are still not depicted looking like Attila at all. You're just making stuff up dude, stop it.
@Compassionate Predator uhh, Genghis entered Europe in 1226, you are hundreds of years off...
@Compassionate Predator lmao you get called out and change the subject, when did attila and Genghis die smart one???
“And I saw, and behold a white horse, and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him, and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.”
- Revelation 6:2
David Bowie's Ghost it's a Bible verse from the book of Revelations
Sounds like Coronavirus to me.
@@ellameyer8151 God help you
@@ellameyer8151 hahahahahahaha
@@ellameyer8151 chapter 6 verse 2 .
a biography of Flavius Aetius would be really interesting, because of his life among the huns.
YES YES YES🎉
A lot of similarities between the Mongols and the Huns. Both excelled at shooting arrows from horseback.
As magyars we came, where Attila and the huns are originated (the Pannon-Basin). We were known for bowing backwards on horses. It can't be a coincidence 😜
Yeah. They were horse nomads.
A mongolok a hunoktól tanulták.
there were alot of nomadic war people like
This ignorant people think Mongols are the only nation of the steppe 😂😂😂 more than 80% of the mongolian army was TURKİC
Attila gave up on his final attack on Rome because too many teenage girls were signing petitions
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Bruh 😂😂
He was defeated by gretta the great 😂
That's why I stopped doing story time at the local school
This channel is *so* underrated.
So underrated but you still watch it!
@@russellcavender352 underrated means that something is better than what most people give it credit for, or is too good for how many people watch it, being used mainly in instances in which some believe that not enough people follow something.
Yeah just recently found this channel and have been hooked!
1.3 million subscribers. I'd say it's not underrated at all
@@jaykrappenshitz4992 So, what you're saying is that anyone who hasn't subscribed already shouldn't ever subscribe bc 1.3 million subscribers is all this channel deserves?
🙄
Some people in the comment fighting over who the Huns were dont seem to understand that the hunnic horde was a confederation of tribes
Even gothic soldiers were within it after being subjugated of course
Yeah but obviously they mean the Huns who were the original invaders before they even crossed into the Hungarian planes. The Steppe is tricky with the ethnography as u probably know
Yes, but it's obvious their origin is Asiam. I dont like revionist historians trying to "Euro-fy" it and make it seem like they were Caucasian
YES SIMON!!! I've been wanting a video on Attila the Hun for ages! Thank you so much!
Typically Roman to say that the enemy had no reason to invade. Rome invaded all the time. Guess what, with no particular reason ❤ X x
They all did lmao. They still do. People don't change at all
I love history but always hated lectures all throughout school. But you make it so interesting and I frantically click all your uploads. Thanks again Lord Simon!
You should have paid attention in school....Read the credits, the narrative is written by one guy who's not even a historian...Might as well be reading wikipedia. This one sided regurgitation is not the way history is presented or thought. It cherry picks interpretations to form a bias narrative.
lights8811 yo can you read? When did I ever say I didn’t pay attention?? I said he makes what he talks about INTERESTING. And that the lectures that I attended in school were boring but I never said I didn’t pay attention. Quit trying to change something and turn it into something it’s not. And even if he isn’t 100% accurate on every single video he still is pretty factual.
@@scionixx9568 How can you be factual but not 100% accurate? UGH....please don't reply anymore.
lights8811 if you wanna nitpick it then go ahead
Yeah, he was the glue of the empire. He was a rare leader, both loved AND feared, and irreplaceable. Lil Attila was none of those and probably could never escape his fathers shadow.
Napoleon II vibes
"I stopped Atilla the Hun from sacking Rome."
~ Some Pope at the time.
Sounds like Donald slump
@@jenrutherford6690 why with the politics? Is it something I said? If so, I don't give two shits.
@@jenrutherford6690 and slow joe will take credit after cheating his way in
St Leo is such a Based
Seems like every fall of a nation is from the accounting department.
@Welp Welp it just seems like greed in most cases over money or power.
Oh you in trouble Dum Dum. You better run run, from Attila the Hun Hun.
Dang thats a rough assignment to have the honor of being one of the people to bury him only to be killed to keep it secret.
Fr thatd be the best day to call in sick lol
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Man, central Asia is so mysteriously cool in history, like, there's all that land and our entire understanding of it is the fringe touching Rome or China.
Even archaeology can't give us the variety of stories of the people.
The freakiest thing we can find in that area is that its such a harsh place any culture would be wiped away with enough time
This makes me remember a Far Side cartoon. There’s this guy at the base of a fortified wall surrounded by arrows in the ground. He yells back, “No, no! I’m Al Tilley the Bum!”
I want a biography of Gary Larson
A bit unrelated, but I greatly appreciate that the majority of this channels videos have closed captioning that isnt auto generated. You speak faster than I would prefer, a lot of info in a short amount of time, but I realize that this brevity is probably for the majority who may choose not to watch it if it took twice as long. None the less, the captions are incredibly helpful. Most channels do not use them and the auto translate only works to get ideas crossed if no accents or odd names are used. They also lack punctuation so you almost have to build the previous sentence, using common sense to figure out when one sentence ends and the next begins, which makes you miss details.
It's a minor piece of a channel on youtube but one that deaf and partially deaf people are eternally grateful for. I value it more than HD. Lol
So just had to mention that. It is a little late, I'm sure I've watched 100 videos by now but I realized in the most recent one, the black dahlia video, how much of a difference it makes since that one does not have captions yet. I am only half deaf, it just makes it more difficult but not impossible to understand.
"Unknown language": yup, that describes hungarian allright
Hungary has nothing to do with Attila or the Huns. Hungarians are descended from the Magyar tribes.
@@emmitstewart1921 And the magyar tribes came from space
@@emmitstewart1921 hülye americai
@@emmitstewart1921 the Huns where closely related to the Xiongnu. Recent studies show Hungarians who participated in the conquest of Pannonia (895) where 46% Xiongnu. The theory is that Hungarians are Royal Scythians from the Hunnic Empire. As Árpád said to the Byzantine Emperor, we are not turkic, we are from an ancient land.
@@blazingnomad Ém magyarul tanulok. Wasn't the posterior vowel portion of the magyar nyelv originally spoken mainly from horseback? Also, from what I have studied, little is known about the ancient history of our ancestors due to the catholic church and the austrian invasion. Szent István didn't want others to think we were still barbarians. Magyar nyelv nehéz, bocsass meg angol válaszomat.
9:52 "You challenge my every decision Atilla! It is as if you wish to lead the Huns yourself."
And what about you, noble warrior?
I salute you, man of culture.
The retroactive division and labelling of Western Roman/Byzantine Empires was something I’d never even bothered to consider. Blew my mind for a second Simon, thanks for the vids buddy
Had a similar experience when I learned the same
The Greek speaking people inhabiting the area around constantinople (modern day Istanbul) considered themselves Roman's right up until the late 19th century. Byzantine is very much a recent western European idea.
Attila lead an absolutely amazing life as history and myth has been passed down. Starting from almost nothing to becoming the ruler of almost half the known world, he was a very crucial and impactful leader.
@Lord Nuetral I think he's confusing Attila with Genhis Khan.
He was just a psycho. There didnt seem to be any great strategy, just attack and kill everyone you can.
@@kidShibuya thousands of men have had those ideas, only 2 or 3 have had the intelligence and fortitude to pull it off, simply wishing it isn’t enough
he was never 'nothing"
@@kidShibuyapsycho > socio
Please do videos on the following people:
1. Dennis Rader
2. Jack London
3. Upton Sinclair
4. Jack Ketchum
5. Jane Austen
6. Anton LaVey
7. Annalise Michel
Dennis Radar is and American serial killer also know as BTK ( bind torture kill ) you can actually learn a lot from the show Very Scary People on HLN network. They did BTK in their second season. Not going to be indepth as biographics will most likely be. But while your waiting.
8. Matt Damon [team america]
@@scottydu81 Maaht Dayymun..
He's already done Anton Lavey
@@brigadierblue221 that was Aleister Crowley
Would love to see this guy do some figures from Norse and Greek mythology
they do it
I've been waiting for this since u started biographics
Atila and huns win Roman Empire, saved nations of Europe.
Atila Destroyer of Aquilonia and builder of Cremona.
Atila knew 4 languages.
Roman Empire was the dark, killer and barbarian empire.
Atila and the huns were educated, gracious and just but very hard nation. A Roman prisoner was able to reach a strategist position. Lived as a servant with pleasure at the Huns, than as free one in Rome! This is a fact. It is possible to read it in Priskos writing.
At the Huns the knowledge, the humanity, the justice and the expertise counted, not the natal right.
Nonsense and drivel
@@surfdocer103 Only Facts!
Hey Simon, if you are looking for a somewhat forgotten genius, who could use a little Limelight, I have the Guy for you. Henri Lefebre, he was speaking out against people like Le Corbusier in the City Development strategies and led quite an Interesting Life. Hope you like the Idea. And thank you for making these videos
You should do a biography about the sea peoples. Even though not much is known about them they completely changed human history.
Gengis khan is probably the reincarnation of attila the hun. They both are so similar to eachother, banded rival clans together,rode on horse backs to battle, and killed there brothers at a young age.
A mongolok a hunoktól tanulták.
A Mongolok a Hunoktól tanulták és a Mongolok is ügyesek.
No, Attila was Hungarian.
Attila and Genghis Khan are alike
also their burial being shrouded in death and mystery
When you finally get rid of the annoying Goths but then you get a rude awakening of why theyve been crossing your border in droves
@@ellameyer8151 You really going to do this?
But they never really got rid of them
@@ellameyer8151 you should change your name to Tipp-Ex. Or Wite-Out if you are American
Love that profile picture @TheJaviferrol
@@ellameyer8151 It's funny because you'll correct someone for something so pointless, something I can guarantee they knew anyway making your correction pointless, but you yourself don't know that the bible has numbered verses. You just look stupid.
Can we do a biographics on Admiral Yi Sun Shin. He is a legend in Korea and even was admired by Horatio Nelson.
Extra History have a great series covering Admiral Yi if you haven't already seen it
@@Duncan23 it's a great series too.
Check the channel kings and generals, they did a video series on the imjin war. They are my favorite historical channel, iam sure you will love it.
@@Duncan23 Extra credits is amazing.
Love the animations.
Man, those pall bearers REALLY got the shot end of the stick lol
haha..totally..
i would assume it would be people that volunteered for the "honour" to do it or slaves..
@@wawerukamau6242 right lol and as you say, that might be stretching the definition of volunteer
So the people who buried him and then were killed, were killed by someone who still knew the location right? Now im really convinced that the coffin is no longer there.
Hey Simon, can you do a video on William Fairbairn? He was one of the most badass dudes ever, getting into over 600 street fights by the age of 55 while being a British beat cop in turn of the century Shanghai. He designed his own knife that you can still get today and was just a fascinating individual! Love all your channels, thank you!!
Liaten gentlefolk, the scythians are mentioned here. In India, they are called sakas, they were a predecessor of kushanas, a xiongnu tribe, therefore huns are the same as xiongnus.
Love this guy,was waiting when Simon would make a biographics of him
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Was doing my genealogy recently and found him as one of my ancestors. Very interesting find and brought me to want to learn more about him. All of this was such interesting information!
How the hell did you find that out ?
@@Ryan-kn6xd easy when you have family that does tons of DNA tests and have connections to help you do your own research as well.
@@millercalenThat's funny cause the huns are notoriously hard to pinpoint genetically so you were probably duped especially if you did your own research.
Sing it with me...
Let's get down to business!
"To defeat, the huns!! Huh!"
@@KingofAwesomness14 Did they send me daughters?!
@@rhesareeves5 When I asked, for sons!
@@bladudemovies You're the saddest bunch I've ever meet!
@@rhesareeves5 but you can bet before we're through
FUN FACT: Attila is the inspiration to Shan Yu from Disney’s 1998 film, Mulan.
You don't say.
Wasn’t his name Attila the Hun in the movie ?
Besides their enemy in Mulan are Huns too.
No.
Is that why they had to get down to business?
Play historical deduction games, and you'll come to the conclusion that either Alexander or Genghis Khan were the "greatest" warlords in history. Alexander conquered the Persian Empire who kept Attila at bay, who bent the Romans to his will, who defeated Hannibal. Genghis Khan was too late to fall into this stupid game I just played, but his nomadic chaos would've been petrifying. I forgot about the Mughals and Mehmet, dammit.
When you say goths i just imagine an army of emos...
The Roman empire would still be here LOL!
@Mary Knighingale pfft goths have a great taste in music
Hey Fry How it going with that girlfriend of yours.
Goths aren't emo, south park will teach you
@@gew2510 lol
There's some interesting characters across Chilean history, I would recommend the naval battle of Iquique where a captain ( Arturo Pratt) jumped ships to battle the enemy when his ship (la esmeralda) was about to sink
Pretty cool stuff
Nah trash
Been waiting for this one a long time !
Me too
14:17
After this, Atilla had his eyes set...
Very far apart.
Surely you do Ned Kelly next (if you haven’t already) quite an interesting Aussie story
I recommend the extra credits series on him since biographics hasn’t done one yet
@@LR0311 beat me to it. Extra credits has a great library of videos 10-10 would recommend.
Holy crap I was going to comments to suggest this exact thing 😳
It would be very interesting to see his biography
We hear in lreland love Ned kelly
I was missing you channel. In my locality we have a' lunatic let loose ' who looks exactly like the sketch of Attilla the Hun portrayed in your video.
Alexander, Atilla, Genghis Khan. What is it about singular great people uniting warring tribes and conquering everything in site for a little while before dying and their entire empire vanishing? It seems happen a bizarre amount of times.
Edit: also worth mentioning that they all die in some weird and completely anticlimactic way.
Slow and steady wins the spaghetti
great men comes and goes. their empire rises and falls
I have read accounts from diplomats met him. They claimed he would present himself as a simple man, sitting upon pillows on the ground with furs and a simple table, while he would treat his guests like royalty.
I love this bald guy
No religion critisism here
Just interesting stories
He's objective, and that's all that is required because religion criticises itself.
Well, he might not directly, in this video.. but he manages to give Christianity it's due in sly ways 😂
@Ruturaj Shiralkar ahhahaha
The transition to your sponsors are spot on.
Although it can /may never be proven, just based on the war they lived, the way they fought, and the way they thought, Attila was an ancestor, maybe even a great, great,, great, uncle-grandfather of Ghengis Khan. Either that or Ghengis Khan was the reincarnation of Attila the Hun. They both came from the Asian Steppes, in fact one of the reasons why the Chinese built the Great Wall was to keep the Huns from invading China. Fun Fact:if you're a boy and your given the name of Attila, in Hungary it is considered a great honor. Learned that from a friend from Hungary.
Hungarians aren't more Hunnic in ancestry than other central Europeans.
I mean they were definitely culturally related and likely shared dna of ancestors as many still do today.
Go back far enough and none of it seems to matter
Attila is shared among Turks and hungarians tho lol
Anyone else love the way Simon says 'Empire'
He's british... he's at the delightful end of the word empire :D
The Pope probably threatened Attila by revealing his DMs.
It is more likely it was his chest of gold told him to go away.
LOL
He threatened to dig up his old racist tweets
I’m done with the internet lol
@@ShadowDragonGT Cool, see you tomorrow.
I so enjoy your videos. Wonderful distractions from the pressures of the day.
Where Are The Age Of Empires 2 Boys?!
and girls
As a Age of empires 2 and Total War Attila players, I see that absolute win
I am hooked on these videos.
Something I like about these videos is that the actual truth of the history is always sought as much as possible, and if something isn't matter-of-fact, it's never portrayed that way.
Its interesting to think this is the same sinon who is the ultimate Blaze host in the Business, with co-host Eta/Charles.
One minute hes Blazing and talking back and forth with Eta and the next he puts on the teachers jacket and informs us of things we should have learned more about in school.
Attila the man with an excuse for everything! What a life, great video.
smsh
You have to understand Attila's Tribes' context in Northern China and Southern Mongolia.
The Han built a wall because of him. They were ousted from East Asia militarily. Which caused the migration West.
The Huns never invaded Denmark or controlled it. The English didn't leave Denmark (Jutland and Anglia) for Britain due to the Huns; they were facing coastal flooding and then they were hired to put down intra-Celtic problems. Payment issues changed the deal and so England was founded by Jutes in 449 CE. Large amounts of Angles (many being island and coastal dwellers) then also Frisians joined in (they were also coastal and island dwellers). Many Saxons, Swedes and Norwegians also came over through the 500s.
I honestly never get tired of these videos 😅. I highly appreciate what you do ❤
The Scourge of God is such a badass nickname. Like The Impaler or The Hammer lol. Only, cooler
I think it would be interesting to do a biography on John Wilks Booth, the man who assassinated President Lincoln.
*allegedly
Randy Lahey Business Blaze cult follower present...allegedly? No, for real.
I think he clearly did yet escaped.They claimed to kill him to save face.
@@randylahey8434 no not allegedly it’s a fact
I was just looking for this! Thanks for the upload!
Love your videos. I’d like to see biographies of Mozart, Bach, and Beethoven
I like that the thumbnail for this video isn't a drawing of Attila but a picture of the mongol Qulan Gal
from Assassin's Creed.
I wish you replaced my teacher
Excellent episode. Thankyou Bio team.
I kind of find similar Attila the Hun to Genghis Khan tween the Huns and Mongols biosimilar looking culture but kind of different.
They have a similar source in northern asia
Attila was more mysterious and unknown
Guys we found Hun capital city in modern Mongolia u can chech 2020 dragon city of hun
Dudes, Genghis was mongolic while Atilla was turkic, not the same. Atilla is actually an widely used name on all turkic lands
@@ParkVonGun True, but steppe peoples often influenced one another. Even his title of Khan is derived from a turkic term for steppe Kings and generals, not to mention that there are mongolic people who adopted turkic culture and language and some even converted to Islam which was a factor in dividing the the Mongol empire into Islamic and non-Islamic states.
Bro I love just poppin you on in the background while I work learn new stuff all the time 👏🏻👏🏻
I will not stop asking.
*Please do a video on the Civil War General William T. Sherman: Hero or War Criminal(Title Suggestion)*
Definitely a hero
Smells like something is burning.
Big fan of the southern barbecue.
Both. Hero for what he did to the Confederacy (they deserved it); war criminal for what he did to Native Americans.
@@pyromania1018 Why? Both were enemies of the Union
This guy will take horses in trade in pretty much _any_ era. If he can survive his own constant war efforts through the early and mid-game he can be a pretty good trade partner and ally. Until you eventually pass him in tech and nuke him for the victory.
Flavius Aetius sounds like a friend of Biggus Diccus.
Simon my new YT dealer. This man ghosts folks then drops dime after dime outta nowhere and no matter how irritated i am i always indulge greedly. Well played simon.
I think it's safe to say Huns are related to mongols and turkic.
The Xiongnu from Mongolia/Manchuria predates the Huns in Europe (as they showed up 200 years later from the northern borders of China). Many scholars have debated for years and many now are in a agreement that they’re the same confederacy who have reached Europe. The Russian anthropologist (1960s) provided the ethnological details of the skulls and the skeletal remains when visited the Hunnish and Avar cemetary sites in Hungary and Romania. Most of Hunnish elite leaders had a striking resemblance to modern Manchurians and the elite Avar skeletal remains with central Mongolians. He has also noted that the most of calvary remains were either intermixed or homogenous. Overall, it had a higher Turkic related remains. What’s interesting about his report is that all the elite/leader skulls were purely Mongoloid/East Asian.Huns, Avars and conquering Hungarian nomadic groups arrived into the Carpathian Basin from the Eurasian Steppes and significantly influenced its political and ethnical landscape. In order to shed light on the genetic affinity of above groups we have determined Y chromosomal haplogroups and autosomal loci, from 49 individuals, supposed to represent military leaders. Haplogroups from the Hun-age are consistent with Xiongnu ancestry of European Huns. Most of the Avar-age individuals carry East Asian Y haplogroups typical for modern north-eastern Siberian and Mongolian Buryat populations and their autosomal loci indicate mostly unmixed East Asian characteristics.
I would seriously enjoy a video on Andreas Hofer, the rebel of Tirol
Very interesting and educational video, I learned a lot about Attila the Hun, and I really thought I knew everything about this man! Thank you for sharing this video with us!
Love watching this after i just played total war Atilla all day
A bio for Árpád or Álmos would be nice
They are his descendants.
And their descendants are in European Nobility in general.
Three Simon Whistler video uploads in a few minutes. Excellent.
What did Attila say to his wife after coming home from Rome?
"Hun! I'm home!"
I shouldn't have laughed at this ..
"Hunny, im home!"
That's not very hunny
Haha very hunny
🤡
I would love to see a Biographics on BG Robin Olds and his bulletproof mustache.
Remember seeing him on night at the museum
The Huns were also terrifying in appearance. They would wrap leather cords around children's skulls forcing them to grow elongated skulls like a xenomorph and many used scarification on the face to prevent facial hair.
Let me complete your paragraph to make true...
"ACCORDING TO ROMAN SOURCES, The Huns were also terrifying in appearance. They would wrap leather cords around children's skulls forcing them to grow elongated skulls like a xenomorph and many used scarification on the face to prevent facial hair."
There are other sources too you know, notably Chinese and Persian that paint a completely different picture.
Attilla the Hun?? The guy in the thumbnall is a Mongolian assassin from Assassin's Creed!
That's because both are Asian
The energy just drops in every commercial break lol, its like "sigh*, here go again War Thunder yadiyada" hahaha
Would love to see the story of Captain Cook