For a few hours or a few days. A year if I was miraculously lucky, but not speaking Middle English and not having any math or engineering skills to get me in good with a royal court somewhere would limit my ability to feed and shelter myself. And even then, there's the plague and malnutrition thing to worry about.
@@chrismath149 Of course they were aware of natural remedies that provided respite from pain---the poppy is the first thing that comes to mind----but the knowledge was rudimentary at best, and served them mainly in the preparing of analgesics---or local anesthetics----rather than anything in the realm of what we know as "general anesthesia"...The latter is a remarkably new part of medicine, only beginning with the use of ether in the later 19th century---and its administration was incredibly haphazard and dangerous....There is a reason why we have anesthesiologists----licensed doctors of anesthesia---because it is a fairly advanced science---comprehensive knowledge (or lack of it) can be the difference between life and death for a patient....
It was really hard to get a wifi signal, most vending machines didn't have Sprite or Pringles and sports was only broadcasted to pubs, not homes. So times were really tough.
@@iamnathanael2132 Only if you're referring to the early medieval era, in which "dark ages" is a term used to describe a lack of archeological evidences or texts from those eras when compared to later on.
During the same Era described here; the Native populations of the Americas - from what is now Canada to the southern-most tip of South America - flourished and thrived; enjoying a far higher degree of true civilization, robust health and abundant wealth than did Europe and did for thousands years in total
The Americas hadn't even entered the Iron Age when the Europeans came - they still used obsidian weapons at times, or stone tools. Proper settlements were rare in North America and even the empires of south america could do little against European man-at-arms.
@@masterzombie161 Most Islamic countries ( _and most European countries_ ) have been using *bidets* for hundreds of years, and it is much more "sanitary" to "wash" out your _private parts_ than to simply just _wipe_ . Most of the older homes ( _built 20 years ago_ ) here in Europe, all have "bidets" installed right next to the toilet. New modern built homes do not however.
Toilet paper is actually a bit disgusting because you don't really get clean while using it and it's not good for the environment. Using toilet paper is similar to using a towel to get rid of visible dirt instead of washing your hands. Just because the dirt is gone doesn't mean your hands are clean.
Anna Commena did record an event based on the treatment of Heretics. which was written in her history titled, 'The Alexiad". One of the last events she recorded happening under the reign of her father, the Emperor Alexis Comenna, was on the arrivals of those confessing the Cather faith. In this case, the Emperor found out what was happening to the Cathers, and set up a ruse. He had two fires set. Those of Orthodox faith, but declared Cather, would go to one, and those that demanded they were Cathars another. In reality, it worked to weed out simple followers from the faithfull Cather. In traditional Roman fashion, those that were Orthodox were sent home, and the Emperor proceeds to have religious debates with the Cathar Faithful. This does a great job of both shedding light on the period, while also showing a possible alternative to life under the Roman Catholic sway.
Depends on which part of the Middle Ages you are talking about. During the Meieval warm period life expectancy went up and the population did really well. Then came the black death.
I feel like in a past life I was some Medieval night or some epic Celtic warrior fighting battles and shit. I have such a strong connection to the culture lol.
So many people today who think violence is at an all-time high mainly because they think the world is "god-less" need to see this video. I've been telling people for years we live in the safest times ever...
The first scene of the people on the stake in the clip has nothing to do with the middle ages, that was during the reign of Mary Tudor and that is not the middle ages but the new time or renaissance
I can't survive winter without wearing 2 layers of well insulated everything, so no I could not survive walking around in a burlap sack with my feet covered in mud surviving solely off raw onions and dirty water
Child mortality is HUGE in the USA because like my country Australia, thousands are ripped apart and pulled out of their mother’s body every year. Love from Australia 🇦🇺
Well my ancestors must have survived all of those horrible ordeals in the Middle Ages, at least long enough to create the next generation. I am the evidence of that.
This video is utter nonsense. Just about every point made is BS. Once you survived infancy and early childhood, the average life expectancy was about 55-60. In a battle, the victor would slaughter the losing side? Uhhh no. That was extremely rare. Generally, the casualty rate was low, especially compared to 19th and 20th century warfare. And what's the deal with lumping the Renaissance in with the middle ages? In some ways the Renaissance period was worse. One thing they got right was the fact that peasant life improved after the black death due to all the "job openings." Peasants actually had leverage for once.
The real difference was that people were physically tough but chronically ill. They could do hard manual labor while feeling aid that would put us all in bed.
I mean.. They had the plague, we have children being shot down in schools. They had cruel religious acts. We have planes flying into buildings and bombers trying to spread hate. They had wars with swords, we have nuclear bombs ready to fire at any time. It evens out
I'll still take living in 2019 over the Middle Ages. Great point, though. It really does show that technology changes but human nature never truly does.
Delmond Conagher Maybe because they're not godamn-infants anymore???? A typical "No-Shit-Sherlock" remark. So much so, I almost enjoy the stupidity of it all. A funny thing happens to me every time I have a meal: I stop feeling hungry as soon as my stomach is full. Fascinating!
“Life got better for them. And all it took was the death of hundreds of millions of people.” That statement is seriously haunting. Well done, thanks for the great videos.
Actually, people usually washed at least once a week. In some cities, it was even law. And I'd say this video is exaggerating a bit. But yeah, it was certainly a lot harder to live than now. I think that disease and infections would be the biggest risk for us to die of though.
@@peachvanilla9833 Like I said, and some others too. Most people did wash at least once a week. They didn't get the germs thing, but they didn't like to smell bad either. They thought diseases were spread by miasma... aka, bad smells. However, their cities were terribly smelly of course... but not so much the people.
@@gunthergerster6471 Do we really think now that medieval people who had such beautiful art, poetry and architecture did not notice when something had a bad odor? Even "primitive" civilizations that are alive nowadays keep their bodies clean and free of bad odors
I really appreciate this video, as a 47 year old who romanticized the middle ages in the early 80s after watching the quest for the holy grail and playing d&d type games. I said to my dad it would be cool to be a knight back then and he wisely pointed out that no, no it wouldn't. He's 74 with Parkinson's and Alzheimer's now but i'm going to mention your video to him.
I can honestly say I'd rather be alive in the dark ages than now. Living an extremely long time too comfortably and waiting to die for 20 years is a lot more frightening to me than what I know of history. Closest thing to freedom ever tasted by human beings barring hunter gatherer days is most likely iceland circa 900 AD. We are all just modern peasants now plugged into the machine. In the end the powers that be will have leeched a vast majority of your labor out of you.
@@kievanrus9434 you do have a point. I hate that I work as hard as I do with very little to show for it. Make all kinds of efforts, be as efficient as possible, do people favors, and you just get shit on by people who don't appreciate it or can't ever be satisfied.. which is to say, wealthy people. I can't blame them, if I was wealthy and gainfully profiting from other people's work I'd probably be the same way. It's my hope that in the next 30 years we figure out ways to extend lifespans with some meaning. In my 20s I'd always say I'll be dead by 55. Well i'm hoping i'm only halfway there now but only if there's any quality at all, and judging by my genes there probably won't be. The other thing is 4 years ago I married a woman with 4 kids, special needs 3 of them, and I want to be around and useful for them. Unfortunately I feel like they don't appreciate it either. And one final thing, i hate how modern life requires you to be on call 24/7. Facebook Twitter texts cell phones instant messaging, if you don't answer immediately you get accused of not caring and "disappearing." I'd rather wait for the king's messenger and get an ink pen letter than have to deal with everyone wanting everything at once. Rant over.
@@cygnustsp People have never been more free than now. But it's up to you to use the chance. Or let society bury you. Modern life doesn't require you to be on Facebook and whatever. You're allowed to disappear if you like. And it's up to you if you listen to other people or not. ;)
@@cygnustsp be grateful for the things you do have. You probably have a roof above your head, clean water and some food. A lot of ppl even to this day don’t have that..
It`s stupid anyway. First it starts with a Straw man-argument (as if Hollywood or others movies would really depict the Middle ages as heaven on earth) and then it paints a picture of the Middle ages (mind you a period of around 700 years) being all hell on earth. th-cam.com/video/fcVwcvWePhU/w-d-xo.html
@@Astuga Middle ages are always depicted as beautiful and glorious, only the more educated showed it how dark it was, you would see the same thing with the Roman's, who are shown to be decadent and slavery addicted. Your argument is a strawman.
No, you won't. Because your gun will finally break or run out of ammo. They have bows and crossbows. They have swords, axes and maces. And... They really know how to use them. You, on the other hand have no clue how to handle it properly. Life sucks, eh?
Thank you. That and the fact that that's in childbirth is unnatural, and is created by medical malpractice. It has become a staple misogynistic media that wants to glorify the disposable mother. In the middle ages you can say it was about them respecting sacrifice. Men died in war. This still carried on today's media. Four people value destruction instead of creation so they make false equivalence
@Joe Smith Carbs are made of sugars. You're thinking of specific types of sugars. But honestly, they had few veggies and little meat. Not a good way to live.
@dachicagoan Well I'm a peasant. Born one and will die one. Just like most of the 90% So what's with that profile photo? I should send you a shirt. I'm positive you earn more income doing what...lol with no shirt. :P
I did a life count of potential death moments that modern medical intervention thwarted. I should have died 4 times. That realisation made me very very grateful to be a 20th century baby.
Nemesis861965. If you think people had it easy back then, you’re wrong. Being a Caucasian male in the upper class was the best thing you could be back then. You had the most safety, rights, luxury and choice, while every other group was oppressed in some way.
" They may have been illiterate , but that doesn't mean they were stupid."....Love that !..a whole lot of what we term 'learned people' these days, needs to know this lol
The average peasant had a lot of skills the average post-modern man or woman doesn't have. Most adult peasant women would have known how to spin, weave, dye, and sew clothes, preserve meat by drying and salting, prepare a meal over an open fire in a hearth, treat the ill with herbal medicine, and after awhile be skilled in midwifery; men would have been skilled in archery particularly if they had lived in England where archery practice was mandatory, known how to hunt for small game (as well as known which animals they were forbidden to hunt). Both genders would have known how to keep pigs, chicken, and oxen and how to slaughter them as well as how to dry and salt them (no vegetarians then at least by choice), plough fields, plant seeds, and tend fields. They would also be much better at memorizing and reciting what they had heard.
No. Middle Ages ran from the 5th Century (Fall of Rome) to the 15th Century (fall of Constantinople/New Rome...or I've seen 1492 as the year of the end of the Middle Ages).
Kinda sucks that they’re using it like Old Norse society was the same as, say, the Anglo Saxon society in this video, but I can’t really complain since it’s my favourite show.
"Noble knights on noble steeds, beautiful ladies with pointy hats..." Only if you were very, very rich. A common person would more than likely be plowing a field with oxen or doing some other laborious task, or possibly be a serf, which would be absolutely miserable. To make things worse, even though you'd be better off as a Nobleman since you wouldn't have to deal with famine and starving in the winter, your diet would be less healthy than that of the lower classes, who ate mostly vegetables. Basically, medieval peasants were what people now would call "involuntarily vegetarian" because meat was a luxury, and only noblemen or the king himself could hunt by law (the _Charter of the Forest_ proves as such); hunting animals as a peasant would get you imprisoned or even publicly executed in some cases, even if you were starving.
Wrong, wrong and... wrong. If people died young that had an impact on median life expectancy. So if we say 30 as a median life duration, we have to take all those dying at a very young age in consideration. So for every baby dying, there is an "old" one surviving. Middle Ages had a fair share of old citizens, even people aged 80 and more. They were lucky of course, but not so rare. Also, Middle Ages is a VERY long time period and living in the years 900 or 1400 are two totally different things. For example, peasants were almost slaves in the 900's, they were free men (and often land owners) in the 1400's... So you made a disastrous shortcut here. Oh, and by the way, people were clean and used soap. Middle Ages also saw the creation of universities... And women had way more prerogatives and freedom than they had in the Renaissance. You still think it's a terrible time to live?
Of the 40+ comments I''ve read here you're the second person I've encountered to actually know the facts and point out the blatant mistakes in the video. It's worrying how people will just eat up about everything you tell them.
Where on Earth did you get your current infant/toddler mortality rate stats? I'm not seeing anything in Europe or the US under 2.2% Once I heard ".0002%" I couldn't watch any longer. That's so incorrect.
forensic science and technological advancement help to prove innocence and give litigation a sense of objective justice. logic and science provide what law and judgement lack. so nahh
@djhavok101 Michael Foucault Crime and Punishment - read it. Innocence incriminated is more important than criminals being punished - basic universal principle of criminology
Paco 25.000 vs 00.001 or 250/1000 vs 1/1000 or is it that the statistics are impossible to calculate assuming census records back in the middle ages, what few there were, are mostly gone?
Same! A few scenes are from the show Vikings and I think I recognized Elizabeth (people being burned at stake but that's not a medieval movie), and Monty python search for the holy grail. Lord of the rings and the hobbit as well
This video doesn't understand how average life expectancy works. Around 5:00 they mention that the average life expectancy for peasants was 25-30 year. That doesn't mean that if you were a 24 year old peasant, you were about to die (which is kind of what the video implies). The reason the middle ages (or modern third world countries) had those super low ALEs was because of the high infant death rates that they mentioned earlier in the video. If 25% of the population died at the age of zero, and another 25% died before the age of four, then the ALE of the population would be greatly lowered (almost cut in half). But if you made it past that stage, into adolescence, your life expectancy would be much higher. It would still be lower than modern first world countries but it wouldn't be 30 years old.
In my family ancestry we had knights,also I have no allergies, (except latex)strong constitution. Graced with endurance, so my chances are pretty damn great!!!!! And I keep my mouth shut even while drinking when I rarely do.
Do you think you'd survive in the Middle Ages?
No
nobody survived.
I think I would I know how to speak latin so thats atleast something I could speak if I was teleported back then I understand medieval morals etc
For a few hours or a few days. A year if I was miraculously lucky, but not speaking Middle English and not having any math or engineering skills to get me in good with a royal court somewhere would limit my ability to feed and shelter myself. And even then, there's the plague and malnutrition thing to worry about.
Nope
Oddly enough nobody did survive the middle ages 😁
Nobody survives now. We can't live forever! But just usually much longer!
I survived
BS Afghanis been here since the stoneage lol
Christopher Foret Not the same ones, or else their arthritis must be killing them by now. Haha
The plauge did
The fact is that all of us living today had relatives that did survive. Question is: would they survive a 60 hour work week.
You didn't grow up on a farm. Ask me how I know ☺
Of course they would. Given enough anti-depressants, possibly other drugs, and some alcohol. Mind numbing makes wonders.
Could YOU survive working dawn to dust outside farming every single day of the week???
Kievan Rus istg
60 hour work week is for rookies lol
I could never live in any era that did not know anesthesia
DRONE AGE RAGE actually you could, because you wouldn’t know it was possible, thus not know what you’re missing
Both ancient and medieval surgeons used anesthesia - drugs are not a modern discovery.
@@cmichelle9986 good point!
@@chrismath149 Of course they were aware of natural remedies that provided respite from pain---the poppy is the first thing that comes to mind----but the knowledge was rudimentary at best, and served them mainly in the preparing of analgesics---or local anesthetics----rather than anything in the realm of what we know as "general anesthesia"...The latter is a remarkably new part of medicine, only beginning with the use of ether in the later 19th century---and its administration was incredibly haphazard and dangerous....There is a reason why we have anesthesiologists----licensed doctors of anesthesia---because it is a fairly advanced science---comprehensive knowledge (or lack of it) can be the difference between life and death for a patient....
I'm so glad I didn't have to live through that ! Thanks 👍
It was really hard to get a wifi signal, most vending machines didn't have Sprite or Pringles and sports was only broadcasted to pubs, not homes. So times were really tough.
Well, it ain't called 'The Dark Ages' for nothing.
It's not called the dark ages
@@iamnathanael2132 Only if you're referring to the early medieval era, in which "dark ages" is a term used to describe a lack of archeological evidences or texts from those eras when compared to later on.
"i'm not dead" "yes he is" idk why that shit got me
i wouldn't wanna live in those times unless i was King and had a Huge and powerful army
I would not have survived life in the middle ages. My life was saved by doctors twice in my lifetime.
Id last all of about half an hour before I became the subject of a witch trials. No thanks!
during the middle ages, witch trials really weren't a thing. Now the renaissance, that's when we'd all be getting a bit crispy
@Terry Cupboards My bad!
Are you a Witch?
During the same Era described here; the Native populations of the Americas - from what is now Canada to the southern-most tip of South America - flourished and thrived; enjoying a far higher degree of true civilization, robust health and abundant wealth than did Europe and did for thousands years in total
No they did not.
The Americas hadn't even entered the Iron Age when the Europeans came - they still used obsidian weapons at times, or stone tools. Proper settlements were rare in North America and even the empires of south america could do little against European man-at-arms.
Reason number 1
No toilet paper that’s all I need to know.
Miss T.E.A. Man they got to step up their game son!
@@masterzombie161 Most Islamic countries ( _and most European countries_ ) have been using *bidets* for hundreds of years, and it is much more "sanitary" to "wash" out your _private parts_ than to simply just _wipe_ . Most of the older homes ( _built 20 years ago_ ) here in Europe, all have "bidets" installed right next to the toilet. New modern built homes do not however.
Toilet paper is actually a bit disgusting because you don't really get clean while using it and it's not good for the environment. Using toilet paper is similar to using a towel to get rid of visible dirt instead of washing your hands. Just because the dirt is gone doesn't mean your hands are clean.
Anna Commena did record an event based on the treatment of Heretics. which was written in her history titled, 'The Alexiad". One of the last events she recorded happening under the reign of her father, the Emperor Alexis Comenna, was on the arrivals of those confessing the Cather faith.
In this case, the Emperor found out what was happening to the Cathers, and set up a ruse. He had two fires set. Those of Orthodox faith, but declared Cather, would go to one, and those that demanded they were Cathars another.
In reality, it worked to weed out simple followers from the faithfull Cather. In traditional Roman fashion, those that were Orthodox were sent home, and the Emperor proceeds to have religious debates with the Cathar Faithful. This does a great job of both shedding light on the period, while also showing a possible alternative to life under the Roman Catholic sway.
>> "The Middle Ages aren't like Hollywood films." Uses Hollywood films to show us the real Middle Ages.
100 years from 2020,
"Why you would not survive in 2020"
They were at war all the frigging time.
I'm not dead...yes you are...
Depends on which part of the Middle Ages you are talking about. During the Meieval warm period life expectancy went up and the population did really well. Then came the black death.
I feel like in a past life I was some Medieval night or some epic Celtic warrior fighting battles and shit. I have such a strong connection to the culture lol.
So many people today who think violence is at an all-time high mainly because they think the world is "god-less" need to see this video. I've been telling people for years we live in the safest times ever...
It should be common knowledge that this video is wrong, no one "needs to see this video".
The Black Plague literally killed like 69 million people in Europe also if I lived in the middle ages I would wanna be warrior so a knight or King
Damn. Medieval times make the world of Game of Thrones seem like paradise
What about the medieval period ELSEWHERE? Like, NOT Europe?
everywhere else but the west is still in the middle ages hun
@@Ziemniaczekful Nah. China and South America are having the Industrial Revolution part 2.
Nobody gets out of life alive
I like how the thinks we dont know about the black death or childbirth war and violence and sicknesses.
Born too late to experience the middle ages, born too early to experience the 41st Millennium. Life is good.
The best😎
2:04 made me laugh so hard. after i was like bruuhhhh
Thank you Jesus for letting me live in this day and age
Nobody survives life. What kind of a stupid title is that?
Several clips from the movie “Black Death”, with Sean Bean.. interesting movie.
The first scene of the people on the stake in the clip has nothing to do with the middle ages, that was during the reign of Mary Tudor and that is not the middle ages but the new time or renaissance
Before entering that 'magic' time machine, make damn sure you also
have some on your person before you leave. I'd do it. Providing.
Make me a sandwich wench! Ah the good old days. I loved the 80's
The bloodiest most violent century was the 20th century... We are not far removed from the middle ages in much of Africa.
My ancestors obviously survived it or I wouldn’t be here today, neither would anyone else watching this!
"Ate bread, porridge and vegtables"
= Me now
I can't survive winter without wearing 2 layers of well insulated everything, so no I could not survive walking around in a burlap sack with my feet covered in mud surviving solely off raw onions and dirty water
What about solitary families who lived in the wilderness, far away from kingdoms and towns?
Well, if you can survive your teens I reckon you could survive middle age..
Child mortality is HUGE in the USA because like my country Australia, thousands are ripped apart and pulled out of their mother’s body every year. Love from Australia 🇦🇺
Me, my sister and 5 of my friends would've died during child birth along with children without modern medicine. Children could've been cut out.
My ancestors survived, they live in my attic now
We should be proud to be here
Well my ancestors must have survived all of those horrible ordeals in the Middle Ages, at least long enough to create the next generation. I am the evidence of that.
Its wrong to say they had no antibiotics. They had bread poultices, Honey and garlick to name just three.
8:55 I believe that is called St. Augustine’s fire
If one of us was born and raised back then, we would have just as good of a chance. Vice versa
5 commercials in 10 minutes....
The Green new deal wants to take us back to that - a seriously pre-industrial society.
I thought Washington died from pneumonia.
This video is utter nonsense. Just about every point made is BS. Once you survived infancy and early childhood, the average life expectancy was about 55-60. In a battle, the victor would slaughter the losing side? Uhhh no. That was extremely rare. Generally, the casualty rate was low, especially compared to 19th and 20th century warfare. And what's the deal with lumping the Renaissance in with the middle ages? In some ways the Renaissance period was worse. One thing they got right was the fact that peasant life improved after the black death due to all the "job openings." Peasants actually had leverage for once.
The real difference was that people were physically tough but chronically ill. They could do hard manual labor while feeling aid that would put us all in bed.
1000 years from now " Why You'd Never Survive in the early 2000s"
LOL So true.
9/11
The problems with the coronavirus in 2020.
I might nit survive 2020
COVID-19
This is why I laugh when people complain and say the world is worst than ever now.
Red Pill; NO WAY
*It is worse!! They keep downsizing my Oreos!!*
actually it is the best we have had so far.
I mean.. They had the plague, we have children being shot down in schools. They had cruel religious acts. We have planes flying into buildings and bombers trying to spread hate. They had wars with swords, we have nuclear bombs ready to fire at any time. It evens out
I'll still take living in 2019 over the Middle Ages. Great point, though. It really does show that technology changes but human nature never truly does.
"Infant mortality rate drops once kids leave infancy"
Delmond Conagher
Maybe because they're not godamn-infants anymore???? A typical "No-Shit-Sherlock" remark. So much so, I almost enjoy the stupidity of it all.
A funny thing happens to me every time I have a meal: I stop feeling hungry as soon as my stomach is full. Fascinating!
@@Cantbuyathrill 😂😂😂😂lol all the way from faraway Norway ✌
Sylwia in Norway I love Norway!
makes sense.
every 60 seconds a minute passes
“Life got better for them. And all it took was the death of hundreds of millions of people.”
That statement is seriously haunting.
Well done, thanks for the great videos.
I would've died just by the stink of everything and everyone.
Your nose would get used to it very fast actually
Actually, people usually washed at least once a week. In some cities, it was even law. And I'd say this video is exaggerating a bit. But yeah, it was certainly a lot harder to live than now. I think that disease and infections would be the biggest risk for us to die of though.
I can’t do smells so, I wouldn’t survive. They didn’t like taking baths because they feared that’s how germs 🦠 enter your body
@@peachvanilla9833 Like I said, and some others too. Most people did wash at least once a week. They didn't get the germs thing, but they didn't like to smell bad either. They thought diseases were spread by miasma... aka, bad smells. However, their cities were terribly smelly of course... but not so much the people.
@@gunthergerster6471 Do we really think now that medieval people who had such beautiful art, poetry and architecture did not notice when something had a bad odor? Even "primitive" civilizations that are alive nowadays keep their bodies clean and free of bad odors
I really appreciate this video, as a 47 year old who romanticized the middle ages in the early 80s after watching the quest for the holy grail and playing d&d type games. I said to my dad it would be cool to be a knight back then and he wisely pointed out that no, no it wouldn't. He's 74 with Parkinson's and Alzheimer's now but i'm going to mention your video to him.
I can honestly say I'd rather be alive in the dark ages than now. Living an extremely long time too comfortably and waiting to die for 20 years is a lot more frightening to me than what I know of history. Closest thing to freedom ever tasted by human beings barring hunter gatherer days is most likely iceland circa 900 AD. We are all just modern peasants now plugged into the machine. In the end the powers that be will have leeched a vast majority of your labor out of you.
@@kievanrus9434 you do have a point. I hate that I work as hard as I do with very little to show for it. Make all kinds of efforts, be as efficient as possible, do people favors, and you just get shit on by people who don't appreciate it or can't ever be satisfied.. which is to say, wealthy people. I can't blame them, if I was wealthy and gainfully profiting from other people's work I'd probably be the same way. It's my hope that in the next 30 years we figure out ways to extend lifespans with some meaning. In my 20s I'd always say I'll be dead by 55. Well i'm hoping i'm only halfway there now but only if there's any quality at all, and judging by my genes there probably won't be. The other thing is 4 years ago I married a woman with 4 kids, special needs 3 of them, and I want to be around and useful for them. Unfortunately I feel like they don't appreciate it either. And one final thing, i hate how modern life requires you to be on call 24/7. Facebook Twitter texts cell phones instant messaging, if you don't answer immediately you get accused of not caring and "disappearing." I'd rather wait for the king's messenger and get an ink pen letter than have to deal with everyone wanting everything at once. Rant over.
@@cygnustsp People have never been more free than now. But it's up to you to use the chance. Or let society bury you. Modern life doesn't require you to be on Facebook and whatever. You're allowed to disappear if you like. And it's up to you if you listen to other people or not. ;)
@@kievanrus9434 yeah but I would rather be alive today cause we have modern medicine and stuff
@@cygnustsp be grateful for the things you do have. You probably have a roof above your head, clean water and some food. A lot of ppl even to this day don’t have that..
If we're supposed to take this video seriously why all the Monte Python clips? LMAO!
It`s stupid anyway. First it starts with a Straw man-argument (as if Hollywood or others movies would really depict the Middle ages as heaven on earth) and then it paints a picture of the Middle ages (mind you a period of around 700 years) being all hell on earth.
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Whoever did the fact checking was phoning this in.
@@Astuga That's a great video, thank you for sharing it, I really appreciate your kind, intelligent response.
@@hillbillyilluminati8253 You're probably right about that. Thank you for your comment.
@@Astuga Middle ages are always depicted as beautiful and glorious, only the more educated showed it how dark it was, you would see the same thing with the Roman's, who are shown to be decadent and slavery addicted. Your argument is a strawman.
Queen Mary's time wasn't the middle ages, that was the Renaissance period
Thank you!
The video was saying that religious persecution didn't end with the Middle Ages-It continued through to the Renaissance
@@nancyomalley9959 that's not the title of the video
@@davidjohnston9028 I know that-I'm just repeating what the narrator said
@@nancyomalley9959 Fair enough
life for most people was " nasty, brutish and short"
Like the people...
Thomas Hobbes
Today it's Nasty, brutish and long
I will do fine because I will have my *BOOM* stick with plenty of quality ammo from
S-Mart.
Shop Smart! Shop S-Mart!
@@Awesomemusic19 Damn! Thanks for the correction.
tecums3h I was just finishing the quote because I love the evil dead trilogy so much!
Just beware - the beautiful girl can get real ugly really fast.
No, you won't. Because your gun will finally break or run out of ammo.
They have bows and crossbows.
They have swords, axes and maces.
And... They really know how to use them.
You, on the other hand have no clue how to handle it properly.
Life sucks, eh?
Laying in the cozy bed viewing the hardships. Now going back to sleep
I did it while eating ice cream. My suffering's worse than yours.
It’s been discovered that peasants actually had a much better diet than previously thought. A lot of these facts are not accurate.
Thank you. That and the fact that that's in childbirth is unnatural, and is created by medical malpractice. It has become a staple misogynistic media that wants to glorify the disposable mother. In the middle ages you can say it was about them respecting sacrifice. Men died in war. This still carried on today's media. Four people value destruction instead of creation so they make false equivalence
@Joe Smith Carbs are made of sugars. You're thinking of specific types of sugars. But honestly, they had few veggies and little meat. Not a good way to live.
@@laurent1144 lots of grain amiritem
“All it took was the death of hundreds of millions of people.” *cuts to ad*
Peasants makes up 90% of the population now.
News flash: 90% foreverif you mean economically and politically. Lifestyles and methods have changed, but...
@dachicagoan Well I'm a peasant. Born one and will die one. Just like most of the 90%
So what's with that profile photo? I should send you a shirt. I'm positive you earn more income doing what...lol with no shirt.
:P
@@pollyannwilliams9237 Will you be my poor wife! Hahaha
@@chris7brook Uhm. Maybe.
1. Diamond ring.
2. You'll have to except I'll need a gf at all times.
3. That's pretty much it.
@@pollyannwilliams9237 Baby, wtf is a goddam gf? Yeeeeeeeeeehaw
lot of these "facts" are wrong peasants did not live in squalor they bathed and most of them kept their clothes clean
Also, knowledge of herbal remedies , skilled midwives and the occasional medical help from local monasteries were great help to the poor.
@@evinnra2779 *some help
Ironically though, excluding the black death, life expectancy Was actually better than it has ever been, about 5 years more than Roman times.
I do dislike one sided histrory grundge. The protestants were just as bloody as the Catholics.
just ask yourself 1 question: what was the date of the protestant reformation/ birth of the protestant church
I did a life count of potential death moments that modern medical intervention thwarted. I should have died 4 times. That realisation made me very very grateful to be a 20th century baby.
Because I'm a depresed black gay boi that is addicted to his smartphone
If you’re not an upper class white male in this era, you’re fucked.
@@kirbyhatesincels917 And yet there you both are... blathering from the comforts of the west, I presume? Cry me a river.
Gökotta.
Someone can’t handle facts. Cry more.
@@kirbyhatesincels917 : Yeah. YOU!
Nemesis861965.
If you think people had it easy back then, you’re wrong. Being a Caucasian male in the upper class was the best thing you could be back then. You had the most safety, rights, luxury and choice, while every other group was oppressed in some way.
I wouldnt survive. Im too feisty. And I would probably be burnt at the stake for witchcraft. Lol
Elaine Hinton lol
@Barber of Seville one could still be burned for heresy.
Just think somewhere back then were two of YOUR ancestors........a man & a woman who made babies that survived all of that hardship...amazing!
I don't think you did the maths right. More like THOUSANDS of ancestors
what if they still died young?
" They may have been illiterate , but that doesn't mean they were stupid."....Love that !..a whole lot of what we term 'learned people' these days, needs to know this lol
too bad now days its the opposite.
The average peasant had a lot of skills the average post-modern man or woman doesn't have. Most adult peasant women would have known how to spin, weave, dye, and sew clothes, preserve meat by drying and salting, prepare a meal over an open fire in a hearth, treat the ill with herbal medicine, and after awhile be skilled in midwifery; men would have been skilled in archery particularly if they had lived in England where archery practice was mandatory, known how to hunt for small game (as well as known which animals they were forbidden to hunt). Both genders would have known how to keep pigs, chicken, and oxen and how to slaughter them as well as how to dry and salt them (no vegetarians then at least by choice), plough fields, plant seeds, and tend fields. They would also be much better at memorizing and reciting what they had heard.
@@EvelynElaineSmith is there a book that describes the nuances of life in medieval Europe?
@@SuperWush, I particularly like David Howarth's 1066: The Year of the Conquest (1978), which tells what life was like in an English village in 1066.
@@EvelynElaineSmith thanks for this info!!
Why keep showing clips from Vikings? Wasn't it set about half a millenia before the Middle Ages?
No. Middle Ages ran from the 5th Century (Fall of Rome) to the 15th Century (fall of Constantinople/New Rome...or I've seen 1492 as the year of the end of the Middle Ages).
Digging all the Vikings scenes.
Kinda sucks that they’re using it like Old Norse society was the same as, say, the Anglo Saxon society in this video, but I can’t really complain since it’s my favourite show.
@@THETalesFromTheAbyss wtf
@@TheGirlSusy He's an incel. Just jealous that no women will speak to him.
Wait! You’re telling me infancy death rates drop as they leave infancy? Go figure?
Interesting to know that Europeans were previously disadvantaged too....who could be kept responsible for that?
You won't survive in the 21st century either. As Hank Sr. sang " I'll never get out of this world alive".
I survived the 20th - I'm sure there's people around now who will survive the 21st.
@@ImranKhan1976 The idea of the song is everybody going to die, just a matter of when.
doesn't seem that anyone survived the middle ages. do you know anyone.
"Noble knights on noble steeds, beautiful ladies with pointy hats..."
Only if you were very, very rich. A common person would more than likely be plowing a field with oxen or doing some other laborious task, or possibly be a serf, which would be absolutely miserable. To make things worse, even though you'd be better off as a Nobleman since you wouldn't have to deal with famine and starving in the winter, your diet would be less healthy than that of the lower classes, who ate mostly vegetables. Basically, medieval peasants were what people now would call "involuntarily vegetarian" because meat was a luxury, and only noblemen or the king himself could hunt by law (the _Charter of the Forest_ proves as such); hunting animals as a peasant would get you imprisoned or even publicly executed in some cases, even if you were starving.
To the best of my knowledge, you'd never survive life in any age. We are all born terminal. Gotta love the title!
Lol. Ikr.
Yep. Around 100% of the folks born during the middle ages are dead now.
Plot twist: all our ancestors survived the Middle Ages
David Diaz not the ones who lived during the Middle Ages
...or those who were born before but lived long enough to experience the Middle Ages.
Bitter truth: they all died in the middle ages.
Wrong, wrong and... wrong.
If people died young that had an impact on median life expectancy. So if we say 30 as a median life duration, we have to take all those dying at a very young age in consideration. So for every baby dying, there is an "old" one surviving. Middle Ages had a fair share of old citizens, even people aged 80 and more. They were lucky of course, but not so rare.
Also, Middle Ages is a VERY long time period and living in the years 900 or 1400 are two totally different things.
For example, peasants were almost slaves in the 900's, they were free men (and often land owners) in the 1400's... So you made a disastrous shortcut here.
Oh, and by the way, people were clean and used soap.
Middle Ages also saw the creation of universities...
And women had way more prerogatives and freedom than they had in the Renaissance.
You still think it's a terrible time to live?
Of the 40+ comments I''ve read here you're the second person I've encountered to actually know the facts and point out the blatant mistakes in the video. It's worrying how people will just eat up about everything you tell them.
@@CertifiedFreshMemes Thanks !
Where on Earth did you get your current infant/toddler mortality rate stats? I'm not seeing anything in Europe or the US under 2.2% Once I heard ".0002%" I couldn't watch any longer. That's so incorrect.
Denise Mertz -- I just looked it up and found 4 deaths per 1000 in Europe, 2016. At -- indexmundi.com
Good on you for quitting right there. The rest of the video didn't get any better, at all. Just false 'fact' after false 'fact'.
I do believe that crime- solving forensics has improved since medieval times. Really takes the fun out of murder.
forensic science and technological advancement help to prove innocence and give litigation a sense of objective justice. logic and science provide what law and judgement lack. so nahh
@djhavok101 an informed one. I study law. People used to be incriminated based on their looks ! Enough saif
@djhavok101 Michael Foucault Crime and Punishment - read it. Innocence incriminated is more important than criminals being punished - basic universal principle of criminology
Lets give the audience data that cant be calculated then compare.
25% vs .001
LOL
Ha!
Paco 25.000 vs 00.001 or 250/1000 vs 1/1000 or is it that the statistics are impossible to calculate assuming census records back in the middle ages, what few there were, are mostly gone?
"Bring out yer dead! Bring out yer dead!"
So we can eat them. :P
@@dddux "I'm not deeeead!!'
' Shut up you'
'Hey he's not dead!!'
'Well he nearly is. **THWACK**
you could at least share the name of the movies shown on your videos, i would like to watch them you know!?
Same! A few scenes are from the show Vikings and I think I recognized Elizabeth (people being burned at stake but that's not a medieval movie), and Monty python search for the holy grail. Lord of the rings and the hobbit as well
I think I've seen close to all of them. Shoot me a timestamp and I'll help you find it.
Seriously? Too many mistakes and half truths.
They didnt survive their time, we wont survive ours. Death is inevidable and history is repeating itself.
This video doesn't understand how average life expectancy works. Around 5:00 they mention that the average life expectancy for peasants was 25-30 year. That doesn't mean that if you were a 24 year old peasant, you were about to die (which is kind of what the video implies). The reason the middle ages (or modern third world countries) had those super low ALEs was because of the high infant death rates that they mentioned earlier in the video. If 25% of the population died at the age of zero, and another 25% died before the age of four, then the ALE of the population would be greatly lowered (almost cut in half). But if you made it past that stage, into adolescence, your life expectancy would be much higher. It would still be lower than modern first world countries but it wouldn't be 30 years old.
Woman "taking their rights for granted" nowadays...Lol whatever you say dude.
Dark ages: Am I a joke to you?
西西. Nope you are a beast
The HU!
No. They would of killed me. Because I see👽👽👽🛸🕊🙏
Loved the Monty Python and The Holy Grail footage. My favorite movie of all time.
Basically, life sucked and was dangerous before the Industrial Era.
Ok but how did my parents exist if my great great great great grandma died?
All I can say about this vid is....4commercials in a 10min vid,and that's a shame get it together grudge
Dena Cogswell why u write this? educate your self , then come on internet..
@@spaceartist1272 I am educated I just have an opinion different than your own have a good day
Some people put like 30 in short vids but yea 2 should be the maximum for 10 min
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In my family ancestry we had knights,also I have no allergies, (except latex)strong constitution. Graced with endurance, so my chances are pretty damn great!!!!! And I keep my mouth shut even while drinking when I rarely do.