So sad that in the US, the history channel just shows Ancient Aliens and Pawn Stars. While TLC (used to be known long ago as The Learning Channel) is nothing but modern day FREAK shows. TH-cam and TH-camrs like your self are the last bastions of what is R E A L H I S T O R Y! EVERYONE should learn and know this stuff! Doesn't matter where you live. This is not just European history. It's the history of the world and the human race! Please, I beg of you, don't stop! Keep the real fire of Knowledge burning bright on TH-cam!
eurosensazion Oh I know euro. I am ashamed to be a us citizen sometimes. Because of what we put on TV that is considered "educational" and "informative". You look on the wiki page for history channel, you see that DISNEY pretty much owns it. It's like they're trying to dumb down my countrymen to a point they're nothing but mindless consumers. I dont like the time I live in. It's honestly a very depressing age. To think it's supposed to be the age where we should be smarter but looks like it's all going backwards!
I'm Canadian so we watch pretty much the same channels and yes it's sad what's on tv now. Sure miss the past. Yeah, seems that time now is more depressing. It's like a battle who can present the biggest bull on tv or say the biggest bull. People are not like they use to be. I barely watch tv besides for sports these days. Everything else i garbage and degrading.
@@sagivalia5041 Do you even study history? Ok im gonna explain to you about the franks (which is now modern day france) rebelled againt's their monarchy and cut their heads off, because france is broke and the people are starving, so they got angry and rebelled (english is not my first language)
It is good for everyone to know about history when compared to the crap of Netflix, no worries we will be the ones who will survive the current dark ages
@Mr Sir Georgia guidestones, I thought they were like a modern 'stone henge' built in America during the 1980s Something to do with the church or a Christian group, or something like that . I remember seeing a story in national geographic or one of those kinda magazines last year, but cant remember the full story about them.
@Mr Sir sounds quite interesting, I haven't heard about a 'beast system, is that an American thing? ( I'm from England btw ) but I'm intrigued to learn more. So I will look for some information that ISN'T from national geographic .
@Mr Sir theres not a whole lot of information about them, the info about the people or person who payed, has apparently been destroyed , so nobody knows. There may be a time capsule buried underneath it But nobody knows if or when it's meant to be opened. Theres a lot of conspiracy theories regarding the stones. Apparently money was no object, when the project began. So the funders had plenty of money. It seems really strange that something so prominent, hardly anything is known about it. It's in several languages, its been attacked and damaged by vandals, apparently done by people believing certain conspiracy theories.. I don't know what to make of it. I agree with some of the things inscribed, Population is too high, but nothing we can do about it, Like you pointed out, it would mean killing millions of people To lower the population to the numbers it gives...
There must have been something so eerie about living in a small medieval hut right next to a massive ancient temple. Knowing that whatever civilization that existed there before you was just way more advanced and wondering why no one can build these kinds of structures anymore.
What makes this doc (and others that you have done) so watchable is not just the evenhanded approach to the history, but your excellent use of illustrations/photos to go with it. It makes the subject matter come alive.
Pretty sure the roman senate used storytellers and historians to spread terrible rumors about all emperors who resigned or were executed if they didn't like them. Same was probably true for Caligula. Caligula got it bad.🤔 And so did Diocletian.
To be fair why would you say it like that. A city Perishing it makes sense for him to think about his chicken. If he said Rome had fallen and he thought it was his chicken that would be pretty sad
2 years late but just wanted to say that this was a fantastic video. I’ve always been interested in the dark ages and this video managed to expertly condense the onset of this period right through to the emergence of the Renaissance and I learnt a hell of a lot throughout it. It’s channels like this that help to keep history alive and relevant today.
Justin Tupholme only problem is that the comment section is the exact opposite. It’s dismaying to read some of the comments. It’s almost as if nobody learned anything from the video.
Hi, In the end of the "collapse of Rome" video you recommended this and other video's as they kind of picked up where that video left off. That was really useful and triggered me to keep watching. I would love a video that picks up where this one left off, essentially you'd then have Europe covered from 800BC until modern age. This creates some more structure. I will be watching some other video's from this channel now, and if they end up being as good as these you'll have found yourself another patreon supporter.
It's always weird when people gloss over the emperors during the crises of the 3rd century and jump straight to diocletian. Aurelian literally saved the empire from collapsing.
@@MegaTang1234 It's also unfair to gloss over Gallienus and Claudius Gothicus, both of whom were more than competent in their own right. Gallienus especially did a lot to stop the bleeding so to speak.
@Some Weeb Not even close. He spent pretty much his whole reign being one of the few people keeping it from falling apart. Ironically, the other big ones were Odenathus and Postimus due to the added stability they all provided in their respective areas. Not to mention Gallienus was also the one who reformed the military to rely more on cavalry, which bought the empire a good bit more time with the added responsiveness. He definitely wasn't as effective as Claudius Gothicus, Aurelian, or Probus after him, but almost everything going on at that point was well in motion before he became emperor. There was realistically nothing he could've done that would've stopped the various incursions or the inflation.
Well, most historians agree that the Dark Ages only encompass the fall of the Roman Empire (476) to Stamford Bridge (1066), after which the High Middle Ages takes place (1066-1453). But yes, this just goes to show how much of an influence the Romans had on Europe, and then how much Europe has influenced the rest of the world.
@@French408 99% of historians would not use the term "dark ages" at all, except for in reference to specific societies, like "Greek Dark Age." It's more of a pop history term. When historians talk about a dark age, they're referring to a gap in the historical record. As far as the Roman world goes, it's mostly just early angle Saxon Britain in the 5th and 6th century.
@@histguy101 Nor did I claim that. But yes, you're right. Historians call the time of 476 to 1453 the Middle Ages. Not really sure what you meant after that. Far more than just Britain was affected and for a lot longer than just the 5th or 6th century.
@@French408 What do you mean by "was affected"? I say Britain, because it's the only place that has a gap in the historical record, with no surviving contemporary sources. In the rest of the Roman world, people continued to write, and there continued to be historians.
@Karna Surya Putra well yeah, it was only in western Europe, too, even Eastern Europe (well, southeastern, because East Rome) was doing okay back then. China and India have had successions of bright and dark ages but both tend to be shorter and less dramatic than what was going on in the north and western mediterranean in Europe.
@Karna Surya Putra do you mean that in India there was a dark age after the collapse of the Indus Civilization but before the arrival of the Aryans, that took place even before the fall of Atlantis (the Minoan kingdom?) If so, good thing to point out but I seriously can't decipher your comment otherwise lol
@@demilembias2527 Even then, not all Europe was "dark". Ireland preserved writing, culture and art, they were a light in these days. The visigothic kingdom was also quite luminous. The Eastern Roman Empire kept the light of Rome too. The Frankish kingdom was... doing okay. It was the land of the Ostrogothic kingdom, aka Italy, that was covered in darkness.
I so envy the people who witnessed the golden age of Rome. Just imagine being able to see places like the pyramids or Athens in their full glory not to mention the city of Rome itself.
@@anthroposlogica9379 dark ages 3 actually, the first one (by Eurocentric reckoning at least) was when the original bronze age civs of the Medditeranean (like the minoans) were wiped out without much of a trace. and again that's only in Europe, in China and India it was different. When America collapses, places like China and Japan may decline too, I'm thinking this time it could be India and various African countries like Nigeria that rise up in its place but who knows.
I really appreciate that this video didn't just bash on Christianity the whole time as many other dark ages videos do, but rather gave a balanced and well put presentation
I know enough of history to do this video half asleep. The Dark ages are very mid-late iron age that show some amount of regressing of knowledge, medicine was moving backwards a result of the church inference and wanting to limited the knowledge, The creation of the serf class by Christianity resulted in using cheaper fabrics for clothing with the exception of the noble and church. More types fabrics where more common in early periods, everything from linen, wool, thistle, nettle and a couple other native plants and animals with a few of the other being bought through trade with the better clothes coming from the north where tailoring was a needed for survival. Wool being the most valuable fabric and this even including some of the better methods of raising the temperatures of forges and forging of weapons, the Roman acquired much of the metal working knowledge from the Goth who managed to gain that knowledge from the Swedish. The roman empire could not handle Christian Universalism and it resulted in bad choices by the emperor that resulted in the sacking of Rome. Roman power was very based upon being roman and and preying and oppressing anybody who was not roman. Countries of had to adept to deal with the weaknesses of universalists religious beliefs. Roman fell to migrants who where allowed to own and keep weapons and where allowed entrance for claiming to be Christians. Christian after adapting burned the village of any migrants and slaughtered them for trying to migrate to their territories without their permissions. Roman pagans unadapted a result of the new Christianity beliefs with other people still wanting to end the threat of the roman empire who used Christianity to their advantage. The roman empire could not erase centuries of hate , genocides and abuses towards other peoples and kinds and the tribes who pushed them out of their kingdoms still wanted to fully destroy Rome still being a threat to their freedoms , independence and lives. Their crimes where not erased by becoming Christians. The roman empire was the most hated empire in Europe.
Probably a reasonable introduction from the perspective of empires, but "seamless" does not make it realistic. For some people empires are horrible and for others it is a blessing. He is for example touching into some of the newer theories about why the Vikings started plundering, and that it was maybe provoked by Charlemagne. His attempt to block the Vikings from their traditional trade was probably also very provokative. There was other proud cultures around europe that was never wiped out by the Roman empire, and was just waiting for a chance to break free because their position in the empire was not felt as a great reward. The stability of an empire always depend on equality between all members of it that is the only thing that can create unity in the long term. Rome was primitive in many ways even if taxes can bring impressive monuments, so for many it was a relief when Rome fell apart. The Vikings was probaly sad for loosing an important trading partner for their iron production. The roman empire did not have the best education for finding, mining and purifying metals, so they had to trade it or steal it (this is maybe just a theory). It all depends of whose perspective you choose. That said it is still a good introduction from the perspective of empires, allthough it is not clear what is defined here as "education". Was the development of ship technology by the Vikings a result of education over generations? What education qualify to be called "education"? I am all for international cooperation and meaningful regulation, in fact our future depend on it, but it is often empires that makes the biggest mistakes that hurt countless people.
Thease history videos are my favorite on this channel and im always excited when a new one is uploaded. Great job with the video, i always learn so much from them. Keep up the GREAT work
Another jewel of knowledge found on youtube. Thank you for educating people that seek this kind of easy learning. Its like a book with great pictures that helps visualising and get a bit of a feel for the times that were so different. This is a great combination the way you did this. Okidoki...enough praise...watch more
To be honest your narration made more sense why historical buildings were left abandoned and explain what happened to historical figures. I feel like I'm immortal who witnessed the world coming from the dark ages until today. Meaning we struggled but we have gone this far in getting somewhere in life.
A common mistake is that barely anyone could read and write which isn't exactly true, during the middle ages the standard that was used to determine literacy was how many people could read and write Latin because it was considered the most important language because it was universal, a similar thing happened after the Normans took over England, the official language was French and all the nobles spoke french so the literacy level was based on that, but there is evidence that shows that many commoners could read and write at least a basic level but in the common language, but unlike Latin which was the same everywhere, their spelling and grammar could vary from region to region.
Don’t agree. I think in the US we’re closer to the end of the Republic Era and ripe for an all powerful “emperor” to step in and make things right. We want instant fixes and are tired of the democratic process.
Concerning Christianity: My father (he is a historian) often discussed this period with me during my school days. And it seems for Constantine the Great there was not only religious, but a lot of economical motivation too. The religious/spiritual institutions of that time consisted of more than a hundred different gods, all with their own temples and rules of worship which of course required funding and would make the benevolence of their gods (i.e. of the people worshipping them) dependent on those contributions. By eleminating hundreds of gods and centralizing religion you could therefore save a lot of wealth and at the same time make political navigation of these aspects of ancient roman culture easier. I think it is a very good indication that Constantine himself converted to christianity only late in his life, even with his visions form staring into the sun and all...
"By eleminating hundreds of gods and centralizing religion you could therefore save a lot of wealth and at the same time make political navigation of these aspects of ancient roman culture easier." That's interesting - I never thought of it that way. I was wondering if by making Rome the center of the Church were they trying to assert Rome's position as a center of religious authority. I know that Constantinople became the counterweight to Rome and developed into the religious center for the Eastern part of the Roman Empire and that the Hellenic Greek culture of the time was regarded as superior in a lot of ways.
@A waterfall one thing you should know about religion, it has always being used in order to give greater power to states/ people via the the common people.
The Christian religion was also very appealing and satisfying to pagans dissatisfied with a complex of ritualistic cults. Moralistic monotheism was tremendously appealing by contrast; psychologically, politically, intellectually, as is very evident in the culturally roman fathers of the church. Platonism for the people, as nietszche said. It combined the moral seriousness of greco-roman philosophy with the story and prophecy and supernaturalism of myth and folklore, specifically and appropriately hebrew who of course had the tradition of one god and a millennial revolution in values conveniently at hand.
Imagine being born while Rome was still a city. Never knowing how great it would become. They were only a small speck of the greatness yet to happen and all of that still nothing compared to the achievements made in modern times. Really mindblowing stuff.
Yes, but the achievements of modern times are all built on what came before. How many of us, if we were suddenly transported back to the Stone Age or even the classical world, could even survive in that environment, let alone make any advancements? Our civilization may be vastly more advanced than any that came before it, but it's only because those people laid the foundations that more recent generations were able to build on. Their achievements gave rise to ours, and so ultimately our achievements are partly theirs, even if they couldn't have dreamed of how far things would progress over the course of the next two millennia.
@Spookwriter77 We could use your argument against the people you consider to have built the foundation of civilization, and it would be an eternal loop.
@atilla415 " the real dark age was the collapse of the bronze age" ? What makes you think/say that ? Before the bronze age was the neolithic, the last of the 3 stone ages, which wasn't exactly a *light age * .. The reason why the time after the collapse of Rome and before christianity became established is known as the dark ages simply because Rome was a light* philosophy, theatre, people around the known world within the empire wrote about everything, after the Germanic invasions, an illiterate pagan people who couldn't write, meant nobody got any info or knew what was happening in middle and western Europe. Thsts why those centuries are known as the 'dark ages' , because the lack of info , information is light* no information is being in the the dark. Without a bronze age we wouldn't have had the iron age.
@kev WHUFC hey don’t bash the 3 stone ages, people were talented back then in making everything out of rocks! They even ate rocks, made them into meat and vegetables! No kidding, they even had pet rocks! Took them on walks and stuff!
Excellent commentary on definitely one of the most intriguing periods in human history. Scintillating and at the same time entertaining and insightful. Good job.
Regardless of how you feel about how things went down, I think one thing we can all be thankful about is that history happened exactly the way it happened. Because if you think about it for a moment, non of us will be here today watching this video had some major event in history taken a different turn. The further back in time you go, the more true this is. An entirely different set of people would be alive today and the circumstances would be radically different. The most important thing about studying history is learning from it, not getting all worked up because things didn’t go the way you would have preferred.
We only really know a little between the Romans leaving, and the early Saxon kings like Penda or Offa. The history books don’t get much better until Alfred and the House of Wessex, although you might have thought that continental texts might have said a few things to backfill the Anglo Saxon Chronicles.
This video is so informative/helpful, thank you very much for all of your hard work in making it possible; and a big thank you to the patron who financed it too!
@@jacob2790 If your blind. How could people not see this coming? Maybe too busy with work to look around so they end up getting their information from government run media.
It’s crazy how advanced the Roman Empire was before it’s rapid decline by the 5th century AD. Compare it to what came after. Art, architecture, and society in general all completely regressed. Just insane how something breaks down like that.
The fall of the western empire in 476 was a political event. The collapse of classical civilization and the onset of the Dark Ages occurred in the middle of the 6th century and had two very different causes. Specifically: the Justinian Plagues (541-750) and a cometary impact event in c. 535, which together created a perfect storm. Europe was significantly depopulated, agriculture collapsed, international trade collapsed, the climate deteriorated, and forests overgrew the farmland (hence all those medieval stories of kings hunting deer and wild boar in dark forests).
All the information presented should be perceived as facts not the truth. As we know it, history is written by those in power and by those who want to flourish and was really driven by greed, unlike those who just want to tell the truth to their children and to keep away from trouble as much possible as and keeping their faith to their creator. That is by the way the history that was passed on by generation to generation. Luckily though we can piece together the fragmented history of our dwelling called earth. This is much bigger and really can accommodate all of us if we know how to share, peace and let’s spread good vibes. From the land of Ophir now known as the Philippines.
@@willylo4090 I cannot stress this enough. Ancient history is written by an enclave of greed driven story tellers. But if you poke around hard enough, you can see what happened.
Its a fact. Remember when the moors invaded, they increased the literacy rate, as reading and writting was usually reserved for priests, even nobles didnt read nor write with the exception of kings.
@** pointless, for those not lettered in Latin, sure. But saying "couldn't read" instead of "couldn't read Latin," communicates something very different to many who will take the first statement as meaning '...were completely illiterate.'
He who knows the past knows the future, or in this case the present. "Every now and then I read Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, and when I look out on America today, the similarities are frightening." Martin Luther King Jr, Atlanta, Georgia, February 4, 1968.
00:40 - Rome 12:45 - Fall of Rome 16:00 - Europe in 500s 17:35 - Clóvis and the merovingians 21:38 - Eastern Roman Empire 24:50 - Islam 26:05 - Carolingians 31:57 - Europe in 810s 32:30 - Vikings 34:34 - Frank empire splits 35:44 - Vikings in England 36:30 - Magyars 39:55 - Catholic Church and crusades
I personally love hearing about Rome, but I feel that you may have spent a bit of a long time on it for some people who just wanna learn about dark ages. You may wanna rename the vid to "the fall of Rome and the dark ages"
Unfortunately, recorded history was not as lush in this period comparatively. You won't ever find the same level of detail about Dark Ages European history as classical Roman history. Less people could read and write, society was heavily fractured, and God knows the amount of history we lost through the constant sacking and warfare that was dominant in the period. To understand the Dark Ages, it was necessary to spend time describing how it came to be which was a huge paradigm shift from Romanization to European successor kingdoms.
@@reidparker1848 Lmao every filthy barbarian that led to the fall of Rome immediately regretted it after. Every single one. They had snuffed out the light and now they were doomed to darkness.
@@porjos Medieval Europe is Roman. The whole continent became Romanized. They practiced Roman law, spoke Roman languages, dressed Roman, practiced Roman religion, etc. There weren't these great changes for the people living. Society did not really change that much. Even the Germanic rulers in the west we're still using Roman titles for their hierarchy, like "Patrician," "Duke," "Count," "Caesar," "Imperator" and so on. Rome, Ravenna, and Constantinople continued to be the most important cities in Europe throughout the middle ages, along with all the other major Roman cities which continued to be major population centers. And it's not true about recorded history. The vast majority of classical writing took place during the Hellenistic period and the late Roman Republic. More people were writing in the 6th century than the 2nd or 3rd centuries. The "Golden age of Latin Literature" begins with Cicero and ends at Augustus' death. The "Silver age of Latin" ends around the time of Trajan.
Thank you for all the work you put into this video. I clicked on due to an interest in the title. When I noticed it was a self composed documentary and not a televised "quality" I though "oh no" as so many of the latter are you staring at a small handful of images over and over while the naration focuses on a strongly bias, somewhat "out there" point of view. I was pleasently surprised! Wonderful imagery and content. Thank you.
Think about that this documentary doesn’t even scratch the surface of scratching the surface of a very small part of an era. European history is so complex and complicated! And to think we’re still the same people as we were back then, we just live in the American Empire nowadays. Can’t wait for this shit to blow up, be part of the history like our forefathers were. :)
Fantastic job man. Great documentary - I will be watching the others on your channel now. One thing you could have mentioned when speaking about the Catholics is actually that the Christians (monks specifically) carried a lot of the knowledge and pursued literature whilst the world around them was very uneducated.
I still don’t get how Charlemagne could think that conversion by the sword was a good idea. It’s just begging for false conversion and dissent in your back
I understand that a history lesson about a specific place and time needs to stay focused to make sense of the narrative being discussed, but I always wish that at least some global perspective is included. For example, the fall of the Roman empire - what were the Chinese doing at this time? What was going on in Russia? What was happening in Africa or the Americas during this time? A "dark age" for one region could be a "golden age" for another. Having a sense of the ups and downs of the various civilizations around the world during significant historical events can be quite enlightening about how humanity and the world at-large has evolved.
@Ken Wilhelm Musk I'm seeing alot of riots, alot of corrupt government officials, and alot of corporate greed. Somethings wrong, and it's not we the people.
I am astounded by the number of ignorant and racist comments on this video. This is a very well made video on History. The commenters on this thread are poison.
I realize that Asian history is hardly dark in that time period. I mean, it was a golden age in the Byzantine Empire and in the Islamic world, and China reached an apex during the Tang dynasty.
*The Dark ages is a Myth* *The Byzantine Empire was the Eastern Half of the Roman Empire that never collapsed and after Justinian's Restoration much of it was restored and consisted of large parts of Europe.* *The Carolingian Rennaisance would happen in the 8th century as well and that restored the Western Roman Empire and revived all the old Greco roman knowledge*
It's a eurocentric and essentially western European concept. The fall of the western roman empire was experienced as a disaster there and then and upon reflection, a dark age, because it infamously was. It doesn't extend to the whole world or middle ages. Nobody of learning ever suggested it did. That would be asinine.
The Dark Ages was for Rome taken by the Germanic tribes yet the Eastern Roman Empire endured with many advancements. Just over 1000 years for Eastern Roman empire till it's collapse. Truly a dark time for Europe to let the fall of the East in 1423 be taken over by the Ottomans.
@Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin True, much of their time was spent just keeping their empire intact through costly wars and paying their enemies not to attack them.
Dark ages started from the year 500AD to 1400AD. Get yr facts right do not blame ottoman and the muslims. On the contrary it is the ottomans tt help bring the rennaisaance to the europe. Ths wht happens whn u watch TV too much and get yr info from anti islam website
@@harunrasid2094 Turks brought absolutly nothing! Zero! On the other hand Arabs did. They loved ancient Greek civilazation and thanks to their copys of Greek books a lote of them survived ! But please , don't mentiom the Turks again. They took the area hundreds of years back?
Have you ever seen a blackamoor sculpture its symbolic design was crafted to show them as light bringers in the dark ages light meaning enlightenment growth structure.
I disagree, good sir. But I do believe we are on the cusp of a new dark age - one brought about by environmental destruction and nuclear conflict. Don't believe me? Take a trip in a time machine to the next time a Retar- erm, Republican is leading this country.
@Peter we’re due for a dark age. I’m actually looking forward to it. Don’t get me wrong, it’ll be terrible. Lots of people will be killed for what today passes for misdemeanor behavior or less, But judging from the left/right comments on this page, and the vitriol we see in the press and directly from politicians, maybe we need a dark age where everyone, liberal and conservative, are butchered equally. Maybe we can then remember we’re on the same side and work together when the dark age finally passes.
@@lewstone5430 Yeah, but it's not going to a dark age like in Europe. America is just becoming overrun with third worlders and eventually will become a third world country. The western values and culture will be lost and it will probably never come back.
@polifatts today, right this second, this country is over 70% white so no, not getting overrun by minorities or “third worlders”. That’s conservative propaganda. Political corruption and severe economic depression’s (plural) will do the trick though, and I blame both Democrats & Republicans for those issues.
@@lewstone5430 We are not talking about this second, but will happen at the current rate of demographic change. Blame who you want on letting the third world in. The fact is, they are coming none the less.
@Peter it’ll take centuries at this rate to overtake Whites. Also, there are people of color who have adopted US customs. Personally I don’t see immigration as the problem but then again I can’t see the future either.
Growing wealth inequality, out of touch ruling class, decaying infrastructure, bloated heavy industry; loss of traditional values, religious and ethnic tensions and global warming forcing people to migrate North. The 21st century is going to be wild tbh
You mentioned that Caligula (Little Boots) made his horse a priest. This is incorrect. He made his horse a Consul (answering only to the Emperor) because he disliked the Senate immensely and took every opportunity there was to belittle and humiliate them and even went so far as to bring back the treason trials that his uncle, Tiberius had started.
Since this is a history of the dark ages you should have included how Diocletian introduced the terminology associated with the medieval period. Things like diocese, Duke, count, and prince all have their origin at this time. So does the systems of counties and duchies.
Amigo, excelente trabajo, de verdad lo haces muy bien, muchas gracias, estos trabajos son necesarios. My friend, this is such a great work, thank you, a lot. This kind of work is so useful
Even at the height of its power, the Roman Empire was in a "great danger". Their "unstoppable collapse" took 400 years. I think we just like crying for the Roman Empire for what reason I don't know.
What is more remarkable, is that you cry for something, which collapse made space for the birth of French, English, Spanish, German, modern Italian cultures, and freed all the rest smaller, which would be suffocated under this slave-driven militarist beast.
@@stanislavdaganov574 Big things always collapse, there is no exception in human history. And the "freed ones" usually behave according to a weird mixture of the habits of the collapsed big regime (in this case its the Roman Empire), and a set of new elements created by the other minions (in these case they are the cultural units that you've mentioned). In the Roman Empire example, this process of 'collapsing' took ages, or we tend to call a quite long time with this name. Similar to nowadays: We are always in crisis, and there is always a reason for it; it's either because of the wars or because of the capitalist system and nowadays because of the virus. I think this habit of complaining is to prevent the ordinary people from demanding their share within the system. What you called 'slave driven military beast' doesn't sound 'historical' to me, it rather sounds contemporary; it's not something died in the past, it's still alive, smaller yet more sophisticated and sinister versions are all over. We are nothing but the children of Rome I guess.
We called "Belle Epoque" the period of peace and colonialism before World War 1. I guess it will be called the "Second Belle Epoque" or something like that.
Let's see, some pretty big factors in the fall of Rome, which had such an impact that we know the time afterward as The Dark Ages; Foreign Occupation ✅️ Allowing occupiers to become citizens ✅️ Government Corruption ✅️ Financial Incompetence/ Difficulty ✅️ Expensive, unnecessary wars ✅️ Civil War... ☑️? I really hope we don't collapse after only 250 short years in existence, but we are definitely playing with fire on several fronts in that regard.
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So sad that in the US, the history channel just shows Ancient Aliens and Pawn Stars. While TLC (used to be known long ago as The Learning Channel) is nothing but modern day FREAK shows.
TH-cam and TH-camrs like your self are the last bastions of what is R E A L H I S T O R Y! EVERYONE should learn and know this stuff! Doesn't matter where you live. This is not just European history. It's the history of the world and the human race!
Please, I beg of you, don't stop! Keep the real fire of Knowledge burning bright on TH-cam!
There once was a time History Channel did show stuff like this. Pre 2005
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Oh I know euro. I am ashamed to be a us citizen sometimes. Because of what we put on TV that is considered "educational" and "informative".
You look on the wiki page for history channel, you see that DISNEY pretty much owns it.
It's like they're trying to dumb down my countrymen to a point they're nothing but mindless consumers.
I dont like the time I live in. It's honestly a very depressing age. To think it's supposed to be the age where we should be smarter but looks like it's all going backwards!
I'm Canadian so we watch pretty much the same channels and yes it's sad what's on tv now. Sure miss the past. Yeah, seems that time now is more depressing. It's like a battle who can present the biggest bull on tv or say the biggest bull. People are not like they use to be. I barely watch tv besides for sports these days. Everything else i garbage and degrading.
Bro. 600 pound life is an achievement of man. Don't ever discredit that
I seriously gave up watching cable television at the dawn of reality tv.
29:30 - "The Franks felt uncomfortable overthrowing the monarchy.."
*Give it some time.*
I see what you did there😂😂😂
What did he do? I didn't understand@@slightlyexistential1640
@@sagivalia5041 Do you even study history? Ok im gonna explain to you about the franks (which is now modern day france) rebelled againt's their monarchy and cut their heads off, because france is broke and the people are starving, so they got angry and rebelled (english is not my first language)
@@sagivalia5041 they did the french revolution, overthrowing the monarchy in 1769
@@slightlyexistential1640 the French aren't entirely Franks. They are also gauls
It's weird that we probably know more about Roman history than the average Roman citizen trying to deal with the collapse of the Western Empire.
@Not Dave's Channel Yea that’s crazy. We know the outlines though, not the everyday life.
It is good for everyone to know about history when compared to the crap of Netflix, no worries we will be the ones who will survive the current dark ages
@Mr Sir Georgia guidestones, I thought they were like a modern 'stone henge' built in America during the 1980s
Something to do with the church or a Christian group, or something like that .
I remember seeing a story in national geographic or one of those kinda magazines last year, but cant remember the full story about them.
@Mr Sir sounds quite interesting,
I haven't heard about a 'beast system,
is that an American thing? ( I'm from England btw )
but I'm intrigued to learn more.
So I will look for some information that ISN'T from national geographic .
@Mr Sir theres not a whole lot of information about them, the info about the people or person who payed, has apparently been destroyed , so nobody knows.
There may be a time capsule buried underneath it
But nobody knows if or when it's meant to be opened.
Theres a lot of conspiracy theories regarding the stones.
Apparently money was no object, when the project began.
So the funders had plenty of money.
It seems really strange that something so prominent,
hardly anything is known about it.
It's in several languages, its been attacked and damaged by vandals, apparently done by people believing certain conspiracy theories..
I don't know what to make of it.
I agree with some of the things inscribed,
Population is too high, but nothing we can do about it,
Like you pointed out, it would mean killing millions of people
To lower the population to the numbers it gives...
There must have been something so eerie about living in a small medieval hut right next to a massive ancient temple. Knowing that whatever civilization that existed there before you was just way more advanced and wondering why no one can build these kinds of structures anymore.
What the hell are you talking about? Medieval houses were a improvement compared to roman building in Central Europe.
Not in the dark ages@@Crshcourse-qy9zo
@@Crshcourse-qy9zo yet people travel from all around the world to ogle these shitty buildings
You mean like the pyramids? Lol
What makes this doc (and others that you have done) so watchable is not just the evenhanded approach to the history, but your excellent use of illustrations/photos to go with it. It makes the subject matter come alive.
You sure know the empire is giving its last breath when an emperor resigns to grow cabbages.
Pretty sure the roman senate used storytellers and historians to spread terrible rumors about all emperors who resigned or were executed if they didn't like them. Same was probably true for Caligula. Caligula got it bad.🤔 And so did Diocletian.
the guy was sane, at least he lived a good live.
ricky sanchez Diocletian did nothing wrong
Egg T the ya why you have to put them to the sword or on the cross upside down.
Fun fact: That same emperor met the avatar multiple times! Although, his cabbages were destroyed every time their paths crossed
Where was Gondor when Rome fell?
In Ethiopia
Where was Gon.....
The walls of Gondor have never been breached....until that one time.
Damn this made my day. Thank you
He was helms deep
“Hey emperor! Rome has perished!” “NO! Not my Chicken!”
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To be fair why would you say it like that. A city Perishing it makes sense for him to think about his chicken. If he said Rome had fallen and he thought it was his chicken that would be pretty sad
@@nulolove but the fact he was relieved is the point
I have 3 chickens i can relate
Lol imagine his guards, like "Screw this douche, where is he living? "
2 years late but just wanted to say that this was a fantastic video. I’ve always been interested in the dark ages and this video managed to expertly condense the onset of this period right through to the emergence of the Renaissance and I learnt a hell of a lot throughout it. It’s channels like this that help to keep history alive and relevant today.
2 years late? this topic show stuff that happened many many centuries ago.
Unfortunately There was no mention of The Moors
No flashing lights, no loud talking, just the history. A1 sir
Thank you sir, for doing your part in trying to prevent a future idiocracy.
One should never give up hope.
Too late unfortunately
nathan moore such as?
What about the current idiocracy?
Future?
Nice to have some balanced and undramatic perspective on a complex story.
Justin Tupholme only problem is that the comment section is the exact opposite. It’s dismaying to read some of the comments. It’s almost as if nobody learned anything from the video.
Advocatus Diaboli
Agreed. The amount of right wing hand wringing is insane.
*Wut part, did dat CocSucker Jesus, play in ALL of this?*
@@ngusumakofu1 As the old saying goes, "Nothing good ever came from reading the comments." 😏
Schechter Arts Lol it certainly feels like that
Hi, In the end of the "collapse of Rome" video you recommended this and other video's as they kind of picked up where that video left off. That was really useful and triggered me to keep watching. I would love a video that picks up where this one left off, essentially you'd then have Europe covered from 800BC until modern age. This creates some more structure.
I will be watching some other video's from this channel now, and if they end up being as good as these you'll have found yourself another patreon supporter.
"Diocletian was Rome's first strong emperor in a while"
>no mention of aurelian
Thank you for bringing it up lol. His reign was brief, but "strong" may describe Aurelian better than any other emperor
It's always weird when people gloss over the emperors during the crises of the 3rd century and jump straight to diocletian. Aurelian literally saved the empire from collapsing.
@@MegaTang1234 It's also unfair to gloss over Gallienus and Claudius Gothicus, both of whom were more than competent in their own right. Gallienus especially did a lot to stop the bleeding so to speak.
@Some Weeb Not even close. He spent pretty much his whole reign being one of the few people keeping it from falling apart. Ironically, the other big ones were Odenathus and Postimus due to the added stability they all provided in their respective areas. Not to mention Gallienus was also the one who reformed the military to rely more on cavalry, which bought the empire a good bit more time with the added responsiveness. He definitely wasn't as effective as Claudius Gothicus, Aurelian, or Probus after him, but almost everything going on at that point was well in motion before he became emperor. There was realistically nothing he could've done that would've stopped the various incursions or the inflation.
I love how the fall of western Rome started the dark ages and the fall of eastern Rome ended the dark ages
Well, most historians agree that the Dark Ages only encompass the fall of the Roman Empire (476) to Stamford Bridge (1066), after which the High Middle Ages takes place (1066-1453). But yes, this just goes to show how much of an influence the Romans had on Europe, and then how much Europe has influenced the rest of the world.
wrong the dark ages ended before the fall of eastern rome
@@French408 99% of historians would not use the term "dark ages" at all, except for in reference to specific societies, like "Greek Dark Age." It's more of a pop history term.
When historians talk about a dark age, they're referring to a gap in the historical record. As far as the Roman world goes, it's mostly just early angle Saxon Britain in the 5th and 6th century.
@@histguy101 Nor did I claim that. But yes, you're right. Historians call the time of 476 to 1453 the Middle Ages.
Not really sure what you meant after that. Far more than just Britain was affected and for a lot longer than just the 5th or 6th century.
@@French408 What do you mean by "was affected"?
I say Britain, because it's the only place that has a gap in the historical record, with no surviving contemporary sources. In the rest of the Roman world, people continued to write, and there continued to be historians.
Just so everyone knows, the dark ages only refers to the early Middle Ages, not the entire Middle Ages!
@Karna Surya Putra well yeah, it was only in western Europe, too, even Eastern Europe (well, southeastern, because East Rome) was doing okay back then. China and India have had successions of bright and dark ages but both tend to be shorter and less dramatic than what was going on in the north and western mediterranean in Europe.
@Karna Surya Putra do you mean that in India there was a dark age after the collapse of the Indus Civilization but before the arrival of the Aryans, that took place even before the fall of Atlantis (the Minoan kingdom?) If so, good thing to point out but I seriously can't decipher your comment otherwise lol
@@demilembias2527
Even then, not all Europe was "dark".
Ireland preserved writing, culture and art, they were a light in these days.
The visigothic kingdom was also quite luminous.
The Eastern Roman Empire kept the light of Rome too.
The Frankish kingdom was... doing okay.
It was the land of the Ostrogothic kingdom, aka Italy, that was covered in darkness.
I agree!
oh! i didn't know that! thx
I listen to these documentaries again and again just sucking up all the knowledge, thanks so much for making these, hope you make many more.
Who is here in 2024
Me
I so envy the people who witnessed the golden age of Rome. Just imagine being able to see places like the pyramids or Athens in their full glory not to mention the city of Rome itself.
You are witnessing it right now.
Let's go, dark ages 2!
Eh, would still have been an awful existence, even if you were wealthy, during that time period. Would love to be a fly on the wall for a day though.
@@anthroposlogica9379 dark ages 3 actually, the first one (by Eurocentric reckoning at least) was when the original bronze age civs of the Medditeranean (like the minoans) were wiped out without much of a trace. and again that's only in Europe, in China and India it was different. When America collapses, places like China and Japan may decline too, I'm thinking this time it could be India and various African countries like Nigeria that rise up in its place but who knows.
@@demilembias2527 y'know you make sense, I hadn't considered that. Here's to you!🍻
I really appreciate that this video didn't just bash on Christianity the whole time as many other dark ages videos do, but rather gave a balanced and well put presentation
The Vatican should be abolished!! It caused and is causing the current destruction!!
Abrahamic Religions deserve to be bashed.
I know enough of history to do this video half asleep. The Dark ages are very mid-late iron age that show some amount of regressing of knowledge, medicine was moving backwards a result of the church inference and wanting to limited the knowledge, The creation of the serf class by Christianity resulted in using cheaper fabrics for clothing with the exception of the noble and church. More types fabrics where more common in early periods, everything from linen, wool, thistle, nettle and a couple other native plants and animals with a few of the other being bought through trade with the better clothes coming from the north where tailoring was a needed for survival. Wool being the most valuable fabric and this even including some of the better methods of raising the temperatures of forges and forging of weapons, the Roman acquired much of the metal working knowledge from the Goth who managed to gain that knowledge from the Swedish. The roman empire could not handle Christian Universalism and it resulted in bad choices by the emperor that resulted in the sacking of Rome. Roman power was very based upon being roman and and preying and oppressing anybody who was not roman. Countries of had to adept to deal with the weaknesses of universalists religious beliefs. Roman fell to migrants who where allowed to own and keep weapons and where allowed entrance for claiming to be Christians. Christian after adapting burned the village of any migrants and slaughtered them for trying to migrate to their territories without their permissions. Roman pagans unadapted a result of the new Christianity beliefs with other people still wanting to end the threat of the roman empire who used Christianity to their advantage. The roman empire could not erase centuries of hate , genocides and abuses towards other peoples and kinds and the tribes who pushed them out of their kingdoms still wanted to fully destroy Rome still being a threat to their freedoms , independence and lives. Their crimes where not erased by becoming Christians. The roman empire was the most hated empire in Europe.
@@masterlee9822 sounds like you have a God-shaped hole in your heart
@@jeffrooturantula2081 In the name of truth such a label should always be embraced.
Amazing job with these videos. I love how you explain history through maps and beautiful artwork that tell a seamless story.
Probably a reasonable introduction from the perspective of empires, but "seamless" does not make it realistic. For some people empires are horrible and for others it is a blessing. He is for example touching into some of the newer theories about why the Vikings started plundering, and that it was maybe provoked by Charlemagne. His attempt to block the Vikings from their traditional trade was probably also very provokative. There was other proud cultures around europe that was never wiped out by the Roman empire, and was just waiting for a chance to break free because their position in the empire was not felt as a great reward. The stability of an empire always depend on equality between all members of it that is the only thing that can create unity in the long term. Rome was primitive in many ways even if taxes can bring impressive monuments, so for many it was a relief when Rome fell apart. The Vikings was probaly sad for loosing an important trading partner for their iron production. The roman empire did not have the best education for finding, mining and purifying metals, so they had to trade it or steal it (this is maybe just a theory). It all depends of whose perspective you choose. That said it is still a good introduction from the perspective of empires, allthough it is not clear what is defined here as "education". Was the development of ship technology by the Vikings a result of education over generations? What education qualify to be called "education"? I am all for international cooperation and meaningful regulation, in fact our future depend on it, but it is often empires that makes the biggest mistakes that hurt countless people.
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I thoroughly enjoyed this. You did an excellent job of putting together a very interesting overview that helps put things in order and perspective.
Thease history videos are my favorite on this channel and im always excited when a new one is uploaded. Great job with the video, i always learn so much from them. Keep up the GREAT work
MelssuperC Thank you, I'm definitely gonna keep it up. Glad you're liking it!
Another jewel of knowledge found on youtube. Thank you for educating people that seek this kind of easy learning. Its like a book with great pictures that helps visualising and get a bit of a feel for the times that were so different. This is a great combination the way you did this. Okidoki...enough praise...watch more
Read a book this is very simplified knowledge lacking many many many facts.
I don't know if it's just me but I feel like everything immediately after the fall of Rome feels like a fever dream.
I agree
Persecution will happen again before Jesus comes ! Don’t be fooled ! Study your Bible !
@@alittlepieceofheaven9911 um wut
@@alittlepieceofheaven9911 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
Because you might not be well versed on 5th -7th century history.
To be honest your narration made more sense why historical buildings were left abandoned and explain what happened to historical figures. I feel like I'm immortal who witnessed the world coming from the dark ages until today. Meaning we struggled but we have gone this far in getting somewhere in life.
What have we got to? We're still a bunch of warring tribes.
@@ChrisJohannsen Still people hiding wealth and information.
This is one of my favorite channels on TH-cam, so thank you and keep it up!
An awesome channel. I've watched more than 20 documentaries of you and not finished yet!
Thank you!
A common mistake is that barely anyone could read and write which isn't exactly true, during the middle ages the standard that was used to determine literacy was how many people could read and write Latin because it was considered the most important language because it was universal, a similar thing happened after the Normans took over England, the official language was French and all the nobles spoke french so the literacy level was based on that, but there is evidence that shows that many commoners could read and write at least a basic level but in the common language, but unlike Latin which was the same everywhere, their spelling and grammar could vary from region to region.
That sounds really interesting, thank you from 3 years later!! (:
Awesome! Your history doco’s are the best on TH-cam. Thank you for your outstanding work ❤
The beginning sound frighteningly similar to today...
0hn0haha yup strap in...
that's what I was thinking imagine taking one of those Left wing Nut jobs & ( Civilian ) & putting them in power as president / King. scary thought
Don’t agree. I think in the US we’re closer to the end of the Republic Era and ripe for an all powerful “emperor” to step in and make things right. We want instant fixes and are tired of the democratic process.
"Commudus caused Rome to descend from a kingdom of gold to one of rust and iron." He reminds me of Trump!
@@charlestruppi7793 Yup
Concerning Christianity: My father (he is a historian) often discussed this period with me during my school days. And it seems for Constantine the Great there was not only religious, but a lot of economical motivation too. The religious/spiritual institutions of that time consisted of more than a hundred different gods, all with their own temples and rules of worship which of course required funding and would make the benevolence of their gods (i.e. of the people worshipping them) dependent on those contributions. By eleminating hundreds of gods and centralizing religion you could therefore save a lot of wealth and at the same time make political navigation of these aspects of ancient roman culture easier.
I think it is a very good indication that Constantine himself converted to christianity only late in his life, even with his visions form staring into the sun and all...
"By eleminating hundreds of gods and centralizing religion you could therefore save a lot of wealth and at the same time make political navigation of these aspects of ancient roman culture easier."
That's interesting - I never thought of it that way. I was wondering if by making Rome the center of the Church
were they trying to assert Rome's position as a center of religious authority. I know that Constantinople became the counterweight to Rome and developed into the religious center for the Eastern part of the Roman Empire and that the Hellenic Greek culture of the time was regarded as superior in a lot of ways.
@Gary York Calm down bro, we're talking about history. Nobody's wondering who the true god is, we're just asking questions about actions in the past
@A waterfall
one thing you should know about religion, it has always being used in order to give greater power to states/ people via the the common people.
The Christian religion was also very appealing and satisfying to pagans dissatisfied with a complex of ritualistic cults. Moralistic monotheism was tremendously appealing by contrast; psychologically, politically, intellectually, as is very evident in the culturally roman fathers of the church. Platonism for the people, as nietszche said. It combined the moral seriousness of greco-roman philosophy with the story and prophecy and supernaturalism of myth and folklore, specifically and appropriately hebrew who of course had the tradition of one god and a millennial revolution in values conveniently at hand.
@@ishmaelforester9825
Nietzche was a fool
So glad you made a video, you tackle these subjects really well.
Eggplant Eggs Thank you
Imagine being born while Rome was still a city. Never knowing how great it would become. They were only a small speck of the greatness yet to happen and all of that still nothing compared to the achievements made in modern times. Really mindblowing stuff.
Yes, but the achievements of modern times are all built on what came before. How many of us, if we were suddenly transported back to the Stone Age or even the classical world, could even survive in that environment, let alone make any advancements? Our civilization may be vastly more advanced than any that came before it, but it's only because those people laid the foundations that more recent generations were able to build on. Their achievements gave rise to ours, and so ultimately our achievements are partly theirs, even if they couldn't have dreamed of how far things would progress over the course of the next two millennia.
@Spookwriter77 We could use your argument against the people you consider to have built the foundation of civilization, and it would be an eternal loop.
It's crazy to be alive just at the point of our fall.
The Neocons are celebrating.
Thank you for taking the time to make this.
This is one of my favorite channels now. Keep it up.
The real dark age was the collapse of the bronze age
Thank you for giving me another rabbit hole of history to go down
@atilla415
" the real dark age was the collapse of the bronze age" ?
What makes you think/say that ?
Before the bronze age was the neolithic, the last of the 3 stone ages, which wasn't exactly a *light age * ..
The reason why the time after the collapse of Rome and before christianity became established is known as the dark ages simply because Rome was a light* philosophy, theatre, people around the known world within the empire wrote about everything, after the Germanic invasions, an illiterate pagan people who couldn't write, meant nobody got any info or knew what was happening in middle and western Europe.
Thsts why those centuries are known as the 'dark ages' , because the lack of info , information is light* no information is being in the the dark.
Without a bronze age we wouldn't have had the iron age.
What bronze age collapse ?
do you mean everywhere around the known world ?
or just a certain country or region ?
@@kevwhufc8640 I'm sure he is referring to the Sea People invasion which indeed put us back a couple hundred years.
@kev WHUFC hey don’t bash the 3 stone ages, people were talented back then in making everything out of rocks! They even ate rocks, made them into meat and vegetables! No kidding, they even had pet rocks! Took them on walks and stuff!
Excellent commentary on definitely one of the most intriguing periods in human history. Scintillating and at the same time entertaining and insightful. Good job.
Scary how many of these issues are very similar to what the United States is experiencing right now
32:05 He said the thing!!!
Said what?
Regardless of how you feel about how things went down, I think one thing we can all be thankful about is that history happened exactly the way it happened. Because if you think about it for a moment, non of us will be here today watching this video had some major event in history taken a different turn. The further back in time you go, the more true this is. An entirely different set of people would be alive today and the circumstances would be radically different. The most important thing about studying history is learning from it, not getting all worked up because things didn’t go the way you would have preferred.
Yes and no. Society isn't perfect, and in some parts of the world it's a total nightmare for some people.
Spoiler alert, I haven't gotten that far in history yet
No event in history is small...
God guides all. I tire of people treating faith as of no more consequence than randomly selecting an ice cream flavor.
The Dark Ages were much darker in some areas than others, for sure. The British view is wildly different from the continental view.
How so?
Adrian Bradey The Vikings.
We only really know a little between the Romans leaving, and the early Saxon kings like Penda or Offa.
The history books don’t get much better until Alfred and the House of Wessex, although you might have thought that continental texts might have said a few things to backfill the Anglo Saxon Chronicles.
@@linguatutors he wont answer. Hes just throwing statements around, true or false as they may b
Well, yes but surely not in England. The Byzantine Empyre was doing great.
This video is so informative/helpful, thank you very much for all of your hard work in making it possible; and a big thank you to the patron who financed it too!
It's kind of terrifying when you think about what's going on in the country now. A lot of parallels
These are some of the things humans do, after hundred thousand years of evolution.
@@jacob2790 the hi 6
It's being done on purpose, that's the worst part
@@rcherLansky everything looks like it was done with purpose in hindsight though..
@@jacob2790 If your blind. How could people not see this coming? Maybe too busy with work to look around so they end up getting their information from government run media.
It’s crazy how advanced the Roman Empire was before it’s rapid decline by the 5th century AD. Compare it to what came after. Art, architecture, and society in general all completely regressed. Just insane how something breaks down like that.
It was the lead!
It’s happening again now
Was it? Was it really?
The fall of the western empire in 476 was a political event. The collapse of classical civilization and the onset of the Dark Ages occurred in the middle of the 6th century and had two very different causes. Specifically: the Justinian Plagues (541-750) and a cometary impact event in c. 535, which together created a perfect storm. Europe was significantly depopulated, agriculture collapsed, international trade collapsed, the climate deteriorated, and forests overgrew the farmland (hence all those medieval stories of kings hunting deer and wild boar in dark forests).
Amazing work. Thank you. Pls keep them coming. I have learned so much more from your channel than I ever did in school.
"Only 1% could read" - The reference is latin, does not mean that they could not read in their own local languages
I assume they did not have yet written language in the latin vocabulary...
All the information presented should be perceived as facts not the truth. As we know it, history is written by those in power and by those who want to flourish and was really driven by greed, unlike those who just want to tell the truth to their children and to keep away from trouble as much possible as and keeping their faith to their creator. That is by the way the history that was passed on by generation to generation. Luckily though we can piece together the fragmented history of our dwelling called earth. This is much bigger and really can accommodate all of us if we know how to share, peace and let’s spread good vibes. From the land of Ophir now known as the Philippines.
@@willylo4090 I cannot stress this enough. Ancient history is written by an enclave of greed driven story tellers. But if you poke around hard enough, you can see what happened.
Its a fact. Remember when the moors invaded, they increased the literacy rate, as reading and writting was usually reserved for priests, even nobles didnt read nor write with the exception of kings.
@** pointless, for those not lettered in Latin, sure. But saying "couldn't read" instead of "couldn't read Latin," communicates something very different to many who will take the first statement as meaning '...were completely illiterate.'
He who knows the past knows the future, or in this case the present. "Every now and then I read Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, and when I look out on America today, the similarities are frightening." Martin Luther King Jr, Atlanta, Georgia, February 4, 1968.
A college history teacher, mid 90s, told my class that we are heading into a new dark age. After the events of the past 2 years I think we might be.
This is really well done. I learned a lot here that I never learned from the "educational" system. Thank you.
@Mr Sir Charlotte Iserbyt, right?
“Diocletian was the best leader Rome had in a long time.” FoL. Aurelian “Am I a joke to you?!”
00:40 - Rome
12:45 - Fall of Rome
16:00 - Europe in 500s
17:35 - Clóvis and the merovingians
21:38 - Eastern Roman Empire
24:50 - Islam
26:05 - Carolingians
31:57 - Europe in 810s
32:30 - Vikings
34:34 - Frank empire splits
35:44 - Vikings in England
36:30 - Magyars
39:55 - Catholic Church and crusades
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I personally love hearing about Rome, but I feel that you may have spent a bit of a long time on it for some people who just wanna learn about dark ages. You may wanna rename the vid to "the fall of Rome and the dark ages"
Unfortunately, recorded history was not as lush in this period comparatively. You won't ever find the same level of detail about Dark Ages European history as classical Roman history. Less people could read and write, society was heavily fractured, and God knows the amount of history we lost through the constant sacking and warfare that was dominant in the period.
To understand the Dark Ages, it was necessary to spend time describing how it came to be which was a huge paradigm shift from Romanization to European successor kingdoms.
@@porjos so you're saying that it's not the true history of dark ages
@@porjos
Don't credit the Romans for everything. "Successor kingdoms" screw the Romans.
@@reidparker1848 Lmao every filthy barbarian that led to the fall of Rome immediately regretted it after. Every single one. They had snuffed out the light and now they were doomed to darkness.
@@porjos Medieval Europe is Roman. The whole continent became Romanized. They practiced Roman law, spoke Roman languages, dressed Roman, practiced Roman religion, etc. There weren't these great changes for the people living. Society did not really change that much. Even the Germanic rulers in the west we're still using Roman titles for their hierarchy, like "Patrician," "Duke," "Count," "Caesar," "Imperator" and so on.
Rome, Ravenna, and Constantinople continued to be the most important cities in Europe throughout the middle ages, along with all the other major Roman cities which continued to be major population centers.
And it's not true about recorded history. The vast majority of classical writing took place during the Hellenistic period and the late Roman Republic. More people were writing in the 6th century than the 2nd or 3rd centuries. The "Golden age of Latin Literature" begins with Cicero and ends at Augustus' death. The "Silver age of Latin" ends around the time of Trajan.
Watching the fire of learning channel really is akin to the comfort of sitting by an actual fire. A fire holding of the frigid cold of ignorance.
Corrupt and inept people in power led to the downfall. So, EXACTLY what is happening in America today. And the UK for that matter.
And china.
@@ricky-sanchez oh yes, fuck the CCP. The Chinese government is a piece of shit and Xi looks like Whinny the Pooh.
Thank you. I have wanted to listen to history from the dark ages. You put in the leg work. So This was a fantastic video! Thank you
Thank you for all the work you put into this video. I clicked on due to an interest in the title. When I noticed it was a self composed documentary and not a televised "quality" I though "oh no" as so many of the latter are you staring at a small handful of images over and over while the naration focuses on a strongly bias, somewhat "out there" point of view. I was pleasently surprised! Wonderful imagery and content. Thank you.
I just discovered this channel... How did I live without this?
Think about that this documentary doesn’t even scratch the surface of scratching the surface of a very small part of an era. European history is so complex and complicated! And to think we’re still the same people as we were back then, we just live in the American Empire nowadays. Can’t wait for this shit to blow up, be part of the history like our forefathers were. :)
Hearing about the fall of Rome always makes me weep
Real
I see many parallels to USA gov't. Well done. Thank you.
Hear my boy, that for which you reach is far from what you grasp.
@@jacob2790 parallels are parallels, he ain't wrong riddle boy
@@mysteryY2K just because there is correlation doesnt mean there is causation.
I used to watch history on tv now I exclusively watch on TH-cam
This was awesome. You're a good narrator bro
32:07 "this fire of learning" I see what you did there :)
Very educational. The information flowed in order so that it was easily understood. Great video. Thanks!
Fantastic job man. Great documentary - I will be watching the others on your channel now. One thing you could have mentioned when speaking about the Catholics is actually that the Christians (monks specifically) carried a lot of the knowledge and pursued literature whilst the world around them was very uneducated.
I still don’t get how Charlemagne could think that conversion by the sword was a good idea. It’s just begging for false conversion and dissent in your back
I think he cared more about conformity
Worked for the Conquistadores
That's honestly what most of history had been
I understand that a history lesson about a specific place and time needs to stay focused to make sense of the narrative being discussed, but I always wish that at least some global perspective is included.
For example, the fall of the Roman empire - what were the Chinese doing at this time? What was going on in Russia? What was happening in Africa or the Americas during this time?
A "dark age" for one region could be a "golden age" for another. Having a sense of the ups and downs of the various civilizations around the world during significant historical events can be quite enlightening about how humanity and the world at-large has evolved.
We’re living in the modern time of the “Dark Age”
Not really.
I really enjoyed this. Mustve taken you forever to make. It shows. Great job🤘😎
Who watched this to try learn what's going to happen to the west.
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too many variables, there hasnt been a real ampire since the 19th century
@@GrexTheCrabasitor What ever that empire was, it's dead now, or dying.
@Ken Wilhelm Musk I'm seeing alot of riots, alot of corrupt government officials, and alot of corporate greed. Somethings wrong, and it's not we the people.
@Ken Wilhelm Musk So we should just ignore the signs and carry on with everyday life right? That's what the Romans did...
I am astounded by the number of ignorant and racist comments on this video. This is a very well made video on History. The commenters on this thread are poison.
I realize that Asian history is hardly dark in that time period. I mean, it was a golden age in the Byzantine Empire and in the Islamic world, and China reached an apex during the Tang dynasty.
*The Dark ages is a Myth*
*The Byzantine Empire was the Eastern Half of the Roman Empire that never collapsed and after Justinian's Restoration much of it was restored and consisted of large parts of Europe.*
*The Carolingian Rennaisance would happen in the 8th century as well and that restored the Western Roman Empire and revived all the old Greco roman knowledge*
It's a eurocentric and essentially western European concept. The fall of the western roman empire was experienced as a disaster there and then and upon reflection, a dark age, because it infamously was. It doesn't extend to the whole world or middle ages. Nobody of learning ever suggested it did. That would be asinine.
Absolutely fantastic. A great thumbnail presentation of that era. Concise, and accurate. Kudos.
The Dark Ages was for Rome taken by the Germanic tribes yet the Eastern Roman Empire endured with many advancements. Just over 1000 years for Eastern Roman empire till it's collapse. Truly a dark time for Europe to let the fall of the East in 1423 be taken over by the Ottomans.
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@Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin True, much of their time was spent just keeping their empire intact through costly wars and paying their enemies not to attack them.
Dark ages started from the year 500AD to 1400AD. Get yr facts right do not blame ottoman and the muslims. On the contrary it is the ottomans tt help bring the rennaisaance to the europe. Ths wht happens whn u watch TV too much and get yr info from anti islam website
@@harunrasid2094 Turks brought absolutly nothing! Zero! On the other hand Arabs did. They loved ancient Greek civilazation and thanks to their copys of Greek books a lote of them survived !
But please , don't mentiom the Turks again. They took the area hundreds of years back?
Have you ever seen a blackamoor sculpture its symbolic design was crafted to show them as light bringers in the dark ages light meaning enlightenment growth structure.
It was only dark in the west. The eastern world thrived with science, philosophy, trade.
What a great video! You have answered many of the questions I've often wondered about👍👍👍
Fantastic documentary. One of the best outlines of history I've ever seen.
Those mediaeval time was not really dark . Dark ages are right now and we live in it , darker than any time in the past
I disagree, good sir. But I do believe we are on the cusp of a new dark age - one brought about by environmental destruction and nuclear conflict. Don't believe me? Take a trip in a time machine to the next time a Retar- erm, Republican is leading this country.
Beautiful images.
Rome fell from within, just like the west is falling now. A dark age could be on the horizon
@Peter we’re due for a dark age. I’m actually looking forward to it. Don’t get me wrong, it’ll be terrible. Lots of people will be killed for what today passes for misdemeanor behavior or less, But judging from the left/right comments on this page, and the vitriol we see in the press and directly from politicians, maybe we need a dark age where everyone, liberal and conservative, are butchered equally. Maybe we can then remember we’re on the same side and work together when the dark age finally passes.
@@lewstone5430 Yeah, but it's not going to a dark age like in Europe. America is just becoming overrun with third worlders and eventually will become a third world country. The western values and culture will be lost and it will probably never come back.
@polifatts today, right this second, this country is over 70% white so no, not getting overrun by minorities or “third worlders”. That’s conservative propaganda. Political corruption and severe economic depression’s (plural) will do the trick though, and I blame both Democrats & Republicans for those issues.
@@lewstone5430 We are not talking about this second, but will happen at the current rate of demographic change. Blame who you want on letting the third world in. The fact is, they are coming none the less.
@Peter it’ll take centuries at this rate to overtake Whites. Also, there are people of color who have adopted US customs. Personally I don’t see immigration as the problem but then again I can’t see the future either.
Thanks for covering this fascinating and often overlooked part of history!!!
Growing wealth inequality, out of touch ruling class, decaying infrastructure, bloated heavy industry; loss of traditional values, religious and ethnic tensions and global warming forcing people to migrate North. The 21st century is going to be wild tbh
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You mentioned that Caligula (Little Boots) made his horse a priest. This is incorrect. He made his horse a Consul (answering only to the Emperor) because he disliked the Senate immensely and took every opportunity there was to belittle and humiliate them and even went so far as to bring back the treason trials that his uncle, Tiberius had started.
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He practiced beastiality. Horse was true.
Since this is a history of the dark ages you should have included how Diocletian introduced the terminology associated with the medieval period. Things like diocese, Duke, count, and prince all have their origin at this time. So does the systems of counties and duchies.
Excellent as always...Thank you!
When the discussion on Vikings began, Tenpole Tudor's "Wunderbar " got stuck in my head.
Whew! 1500 years of history went by REAL quick in this video. That was good.
Amigo, excelente trabajo, de verdad lo haces muy bien, muchas gracias, estos trabajos son necesarios.
My friend, this is such a great work, thank you, a lot. This kind of work is so useful
Love the accuracy and depth of explanations!
nice how you worked in the "fire of learning" , 32:12
This is a perfect intro to the 867 start date in Crusader Kings 3
Great painting in the beginning by American Thomas Cole: Course Of Empire: Destruction 1837
"nasty, brutish, and short" comes from William Manchester's phenomenal book titled: A World Lit Only By Fire
It was actually originally said by Thomas Hobbes in his work Leviathan.
Even at the height of its power, the Roman Empire was in a "great danger". Their "unstoppable collapse" took 400 years. I think we just like crying for the Roman Empire for what reason I don't know.
What is more remarkable, is that you cry for something, which collapse made space for the birth of French, English, Spanish, German, modern Italian cultures, and freed all the rest smaller, which would be suffocated under this slave-driven militarist beast.
@@stanislavdaganov574 Big things always collapse, there is no exception in human history. And the "freed ones" usually behave according to a weird mixture of the habits of the collapsed big regime (in this case its the Roman Empire), and a set of new elements created by the other minions (in these case they are the cultural units that you've mentioned).
In the Roman Empire example, this process of 'collapsing' took ages, or we tend to call a quite long time with this name. Similar to nowadays: We are always in crisis, and there is always a reason for it; it's either because of the wars or because of the capitalist system and nowadays because of the virus. I think this habit of complaining is to prevent the ordinary people from demanding their share within the system. What you called 'slave driven military beast' doesn't sound 'historical' to me, it rather sounds contemporary; it's not something died in the past, it's still alive, smaller yet more sophisticated and sinister versions are all over. We are nothing but the children of Rome I guess.
Obviously, they weren't called the "dark ages" during their times. Only in retrospect. I wonder what terms history will judge our current times with.
We called "Belle Epoque" the period of peace and colonialism before World War 1. I guess it will be called the "Second Belle Epoque" or something like that.
Let's see, some pretty big factors in the fall of Rome, which had such an impact that we know the time afterward as The Dark Ages;
Foreign
Occupation ✅️
Allowing occupiers to become
citizens ✅️
Government Corruption ✅️
Financial Incompetence/
Difficulty ✅️
Expensive, unnecessary
wars ✅️
Civil War... ☑️?
I really hope we don't collapse after only 250 short years in existence, but we are definitely playing with fire on several fronts in that regard.
In America listening to this in Febuary 2021. Feeling a little nervous.
Why am I so intrigued by history? I have no connection to them yet I do. Your story is based upon history