@ryanm7832 their existence wasn't secret. The order was pretty well known and feared. They were secretive in their motives and methods, but not their existence.
If that is true then you did an absolutely awful job of paying attention in school. Even if all you learned was basic math then that is already more than AC can ever teach you.
So what you're saying is that you have no marketable skills, didn't learn basic arithmetic, are barely literate, and can't offer anything of value to society, but you learned that some guys in the ancient Middle East smoked hash and accepted assassination contracts from a video game and a documentary? Weird flex, but okay.😂
@@joshuacamacho9755he means history. There's a lot more historical accuracy in old ac games than in most middle school/high school history classes, especially when it comes to history from the 1400 to mid 1700s, and even with middle eastern history in the newest game assassin's creed mirage, in that game there's alot of information about the slave rebellion
AC def crazy ,especially 2 (I think) When you see the triangle , and it fits 72 mini triangles in it and you find out that there are 72 core religions or sumn , and the triangle is the strongest structure.... also it arises in teaching me about the masons & what not
The part where Saladins two most trusted bodyguards revealed themselves as sleeper assassins was crazy awesome. Imagine the horror Saladin must have experienced in that moment....
And we still cannot control them……go figure…..it’s not religious…..it’s cultural….different…..African cultures….like the Arabs…..are tens of thousands years old….europe was under ice 9 out of ten times…..cavedwellers
all you say in this video is historically incorrect, according to studies of history nothing of these statements happened and the persons and roles stated in this video are all mixed up and ironic, and the dates are not correct
@@GlockSurvival-c6sFirst of all, the original commenter didn’t write the script, so the idea that he was inaccurate is absurd. Secondly, you clearly don’t know what the word ironic means. Thirdly, if you don’t like it, you are free to watch any of a billion other videos on TH-cam.
Psst....oi, "Auto-correct" has substituted "word" for "World" in your comment, it's a sneaky f-cker, "Auto-correct" assumes that it has control of what you type....
I'm super surprised that you didn't mention the fact that the cool hidden wrist blade from the game ACTUALLY DID exist and was actually used... they invented and manufactured a type of dagger that was kind of a gravity assisted design that activated by swinging their hand around or flicking their wrist. It wasn't widely used and difficult to make, but they did exist, and some were found, and many were directly mentioned in sources. The design was just kept a secret forever until the discovery, but I think the military banning them or deciding they're "impractical" helped wipe out our knowledge of them even further. I guess it's not really that relevant to the topic and would have added more time to the video, but I think it's still worth mentioning it, and it should have been mentioned in the video because I really truly believe from being a historian and reading sources, and seeing pictures of the artifacts, that this kind of blade was used in at least one of or maybe even all of the attacks that you talked about in the video. It's just an interesting fact to know...so I let everyone else know because I knew it.
21:21, actually to the contrary. You use the drug to focus on the task and not worry about everything that could happen. I knew a few people that used to graffiti in really dangerous places, and they say when they are sober, they are thinking of everything that could happen when they are high thinking of the work
Personally I think it depends on the "drug" and the person. I can't stand anything having to do with weed. But I've tried others with amazing success. One in particular that most folks (imho) couldn't stay on task to save their life. But of course these days it's far to dangerous to use. I personally don't have any desire to wake up dead. The risk FAR outweighs the benefits!!! So I'll leave y'all to it. Y'all be safe out there!!
@@abitoffcenter383 it’s interesting you say that I have adhd, I would argue that most people that are neurodivergent use weed to stick to the task they are doing. Like I cannot focus on a individual task unless I am high
And you obviously have no idea how to make a film. If you were paying attention the speaker was referencing how long the fight has gone on andnhow it has carried over into modern times. Hence the modern section of video. Get a life.
The creators of the video is trying to educate a modern audience by trying to illustrate the roots of their thinking and ideology. The creators are pairing some of today's events with the historical contexts from which they came.
At the beginning, it would have been good of them to cover the evidence that the temple knights (Knights Templar) seem to have been working with them. Possibly as far back as 1080 A.D. But there's better evidence that their relationship started somewhere between 1090 & 1110. Just like in the video game, the knight were digging under the temple mount hoping to find relics and/or treasure from the time of Solomon. Unlike the video game though, it seems, from what I've read, that they had a much more cordial & mutually beneficial relationship with the Assassins.
You should read David Livingstones work specifically his Ordo Ab Chao series of books. He goes really indepth into the origin and activities of the Templars as well as their interactions and cooperation with the assassins and what it led to.
@@RadzeefRamlinope. Sobriety sucks. If I'm stoned, I don't have to deal with people. People make life miserable. I'm happiest when I'm high and walking through the woods. I'd take that over sober human interaction, any day. Maybe when people learn not to be trash, that'll change.
They are destroyers, not builders. Destruction takes a minute. Building takes a lifetime. One inherits death. The other inherits eternal life of love and family.
@@agoogolofgeeseEzio trilogy is where it’s at. Unity got a lot of hate but if they stuck with that and perfected it things could have been so much better
@@agoogolofgeese i really like rogue and odyssey even origins,but i hope they just give us a ezio game bring him back brnig back the assassin story and give us italy in all its glory like they did with greece in odyssey..
I don’t see the correlation between men who hit a specific target and people who blow up a building of innocent bystanders those two things are inherently different
Huh? Flawed logic. Why? Killing one innocent man is as evil as a room full of innocents. There are no "degrees of malevolence"... the only difference is being a paid mercenary/assassin or a religious zealot.
@@LostInMarxism at no point during that video did they say the assassins was walking around killing innocent people they were in a war that’s not the same as me going into a Walmart or whatever the British equivalent is and setting off a bomb killing thousands of innocent people
Did that dude just defend terrorists? 19:46 Yes, its impressive. Thats why im here, but the way these people are in awe and are reverent, its like they never considered that these assassins legitimately created and maintained a ruthless cult.
The man who cannot be pictured whom created the cult that became a religion, was a terrorist warlord in his days of the 7th Century, ...it is one of the reasons why many terrorists are from that religion, because that concept is completely allowable and enshrined within its teachings, for those types of humans with that innate mindset.
You mean, kinda like here in America? We like to throw the word “terrorist” around at others as if our government doesn’t fit that word to a T. We are terrorists, we have AND use invasion forces, and our government outright admits it spies on and deceives it citizenry.
Good vid, but it was jarring to keep having all the recent video clips stuffed in there. There were a couple times there was a late 12th century date shown on screen and then rifles and cars... Only a couple times did it feel like it served a purpose.
Fascinating observations! Have you ever considered how historical inaccuracies in media influence our understanding of the past? Additionally, what do you think are the challenges in balancing historical authenticity with modern storytelling techniques in documentaries or films?
A TRUE example of what happens when a big nation threatens a small nation ! ... 😊👍 They were small in numbers, but, managed to put fear in the hearts of some of the greatest, and, most powerful nations, of that time !. .. 😊👍
Culminating in the war on insurection freedom fighters..just insertca narco economy sell weapons to em,then call it terror ..and the insertion of the war on drugs and narco economics upon every place they destabilise teach em to sell drugs to the USA youth they are protecting by the war on terror . Let them sell drugs to them so they can sell weapons back to the freedom fighters. .then....whenever they get beyond control..they call them terrorists .a construct .bizzario..suffer apple pie drug users. Collateral..we got concentration camps in Palestine being bombed by boeing,Lockheed Northrup.. Palestine is a USA aircraft carrier.....bunker busting 2 ton bombs on refugee camps. And leveling the land so they can't return to tents. Cus the command centres are all under refugees and hospitals ..wow
Boils my blood the CIA central south America and middle east situation .sell arms to the Saudis so we've got Arabs to fight properly.....teach em opium..same in golden triangle.vietnam. then ..Peru n columbia .noriaga.panama ..Iran..Olie North. The war on drugs and insurection at root is a a war against the American kids they are holding to random on pretext to usher in these 2 false psywar masterclasses. They are the market for the narco economics they installed. All figured into that plan. No conspiracy. .....all bases covered. Simple ones ard best.
Seeing the correlation and underlying similarities with the original Assassins Creed game specifically is awesome. I loved this video. If it was actually possible for Follywood to NOT screw it up, I'd love to see a movie made of this, maybe more than one.
Pretty crazy because in turkey the story about salahaddin and his bodyguards also happens but not with salahaddin but with the sultan of the seljuks. I think the researchers got some translations wrong. Because the leader of the assassins name was hassani sabbah. In the book of john man nothing about this is written too. Only that they had a truce. So i really don't know where they got so much wrong information in a documentary like this. What a shame
This video brilliantly explores the real-life counterparts to the legendary assassins of the Dark Ages, shedding light on the deadliest special forces of that era. The historical insights and attention to detail make for a captivating watch, offering a fascinating glimpse into the shadowy world of covert operations in medieval times. Kudos to the creators for bringing this intriguing piece of history to life!
They lie about stuff deliberately. They were in egypt and they are arabs! Hassan al sabah is from yemen! There is no Persian state! It was the Seljuks! Who were allies of the Abbasids Arabs in Baghdad!
Legend says that they dispatch 400 hundred assassins to Mongolia in order to shank the Great Khan. But they failed in their disguises because every single one of them are Arabs and no Asians, so they're all rounded up in a roadside and stomped to death under the horses of a Tumen (a whole Mongol division of 10,000)
@@rezasatan they dressed like mongol horsemen but when they arrived at a rest stop they were arrested because their mongolian speech have a thichk iranian accent.
Why,?......the war on terror and drugs should be nullified as war legitimisation and public acceptance of war for oil strategic areas. Against peasants. Cus it's saving the white bread psy fodder from scary .and from fear of savage genocidal campaigns. Ie Israel and Russia....and the whole of south a x central America .wherever the CIA go they leave em narco economy to give currency for to purchase guns by s we cling drugs to the USA youth that they are saving from scary. Ie .. insurrection freedom fighters...IE terror. That were taught narco economics by cia so they can fight the insurrection ,sorry. ""terror""..got to get it right. And ...so the world turns ...the war on drugs and terror pyramid scheme ..go figure
speaking as an ismaili muslim , he(Aga khan) is not the decendent of hasan bin sabah but the imam of ismailis at that time .hasan bin sabah was not an imam ,he was missionary of ismaili imam.
I'd beg to differ with Si-Fu Julian Hitch with all due respect of course but Hash, of which the main psychotropic component is THC. THC can (not always) INCREASE the user's ability focus. Trust me I've done extensive....wait what was I talking about? Seriously tho there are diminishing returns however. Overuse of any substance is a problem, all things in moderation. Including drug fueled assassinations.
I’ve been in Masyaf castle in the year 2000 while visiting my father’s hometown Muhrada, an ancient orthodox Cristian town 25 km northwest of Hama city.. Syria it’s amazing with the vast historic places and sites one can visit! As an example, very close to the town one can visit the Apameia ruins that have Roman architecture . Sadly the city of Apameia, once the second largest Roman city in the near east has been destroyed by a big earthquake in the 6th century AD
is it now impossible to make a doc without banging music and fast sounds and imagery? The Assasins and the people who knowledgeably tell us about them deserve better than this rollerdisco of sensation. I had higher expectations of Chronicle.
You guys have nothing to do with islam nor the original Ismailis. Your current leader Aga Khan is an English puppet and the set of beliefs is far away from anything islam. That's something both Sunnis and Shias agree upon.
why thats you a batini sect pure and simple and in the wuest of the 7th imam ..a complete fantasy ...there is one Islam pure and simple without this imam fantasy I do not understand how today 20224 you can believe that God is crazy and movie watcher to create such dramas and fiasco stories simplicity my dear why shall god play games with us hide and seek come on do not be naive u remind me of a friend who one day decided to be shia and start to doubt evrything based on fantasies for me either be muslim or do not be a simple choice no obligation whatsoever but trying to play the clever always lead to worse things easy believ or not
Hi there! I’d like to know, apart of my congrats and greetings for this documentary, the narrator’s name! Don’t want to look like an obsessed ( chasing him ) but he is one of my fav and best voices I’ve ever heard on TH-cam, by far! I really look forward to your response. Peace 🙌
I’m Iranian and here are some facts about assassins that are told nowhere( I know some of these from lord of alamout and Idk how credible the book is). Hashashin was their name because they were medicine producers. There are many herbs in that area that even to this day are used as medicine. The reality of their intention wasn’t religious war(at least during hassan sabah era) the goal was to pick a creed and change so that restore iranians original traditions and culture before Islamic era.most of the assassinations weren’t as easy as planning and killing the target. They would study for years to reach to become a high status person and reach a position close to important political figures. As a part of their beliefs they did work out once a week. Even the regular followers had strong physic and when they fought they conquered many bigger armies with small number of warriors. Idk how they are compared with today’s terrorists, they didn’t kill regular people they. Just so you can imagine Nizam al mulk was prime minister in one the strongest countries of that time. It’s like we see presidents and ministers from USA Russia UK etc get assassinated.
Thanks, but there is no evidence supporting the idea of restoring ancient religions, and it doesn't seem to be the case-it is simply a distortion and fabrication of history driven by personal desires. Their primary goal, especially under Hassan-i Sabbah, was rooted in a specific religious and political mission tied to the Ismaili sect of Shia Islam. He aimed to establish a purist Ismaili state and spread his interpretation of Islam!. The comparison to modern terrorism is merely a Western perspective, fueled by resentment and jealousy. What else could be expected from them, really?-Nothing 🤷♂️
I find this adds to my understanding of the extreme antagonism between Sunni and Shia. The recent attack of IS on Irans funeral followers demonstrates…..it’s still there
No it was mainly political, and the recent fightings between Sunni and shia in the last 20 years is an exception in Islamic history not the rule,that sectarian infighting was once every couple of centuries fuled mainly by politics, recent sectarian infighting was fuled mainly by Israel who see United Muslims danger to them
They lie about stuff deliberately. They were in egypt and they are arabs! Hassan al sabah is from yemen! There is no Persian state! It was the Seljuks! Who were allies of the Abbasids Arabs in Baghdad!
@@Bibliotecanatalie You are wrong, the area was Shia before the invasion of Seljuks that converted to Sunni Islam in order to justify their occupation of Mesopotamia. Those that still stayed true to their Shia faith were Persians, and due to risks to their lives they isolated themself in the mountains. Stop turkifying everything and steal other peoples history, I have even heard turks say that Saladin was a turk, and have recently made a turkish serie about him to brainwash the people into believing that 😂 The whole world knows he is a Kurd, even says so from all the books from his era especially in the biography that his close friend (Beha Ed-Din) wrote in year 1234 mentions this, ask anyone in Egypt and they will know. Why do you think there are so many mosques called al-akrad in the middleeast? Because it means mosques of the Kurds! It was a persian prince that invited the Seljuk to help him take over the Persian empire for himself from his brother, this lead to the turkic people to get to power after betraying him and stealing the power for themself. So how can you deny that there were no Persian state? But I have seen people try to cover up the identity of Kurds, the oldest people tribe in Mesopotamia, and tried to pass them on as "mountain turks" in order to steal their lands, ban their names, language, history and music by oppression and massacres... So I shouldn't be surprised by anything at this point.
@@BibliotecanatalieThe official and court language of the Seljuk government was Persian, and the Seljuk kings used Persian names even though they were Turks. Names like Ki Khosro and Ki Qabad
The book I read on this said that their leader that ran this organization was called "The Old Man in the Mountian" He controlled the training and all the intrigue.
I know the story of Hassan i Sabah very well. What's missing here is the fact, that Hassan had 2 groups of men. One group was smoking Hash, and, when they were high, they were brought into "the gardens of delight" - which they believed, is paradise. Young women, music, - everything. These were the Assassins, the "Hashishins" - but, on duty, dope was nit used. Then Hassan had a second group, which didn't like being soldiers, - who had the capacity for "more" - these were thought in the spiritual ways and secrets. Hassan was a clever man. He knew, whom he can use as an Assassin, and whom he could teach the spiritual ways. But, the Assassins were the active, political killers, a deadly force. That's, what's missing here. Greets. Tom.
Indeed they did,in order to stay safe from the Templars.The Order of the Temple was getting an annual large amount of money so as to leave the Ismaili alone,not persecuting them or besieging their castles and keeps.They were no real match for Knights Templar.And they knew that even if they assassinated the Templar Grand Master,the Order would simply elect someone else at his post,continuing his goal,so there was no real point killing him anyway...
@@ΓρηγορηςΓυροπουλος That's pretty much what happens after every assassination which is why it's never been an effective way to build empires. Someone else always just takes their place.
43:00 it's supposed to be April 28th, 1192, so why keep showing clips of modern cars in the streets?? Fire your Editor please. Totally broke the immersion for me! Typical Ubisoft!!! 🤦
@@unoe4481 Nah the assassins live on, their remnants are living in Portugal. They managed to kill several high officials of the mongols leading to the power struggle, thus scattering mongol unity. However their castles stod 0% chance against the fire power of cannons, forcing them to leave. Maybe after that they may still have had an hand in European affairs in return for land or protection, but we will probably never know to what extend.
@@romanhama5377 Hardly "live on" if there's nothing but scraps left. The Mongols couldn't take Hungary, they could not have taken the rest of Europe, even Arabia (Not the the Levant) was a struggle for some of them.
I first heard about the assassins via William Burroughs Jr. which was a much different and strange doorway into this information/history. Uncle Bill created quite a character out of The Old Man of the Mountain.
Wrong, it was mainly political rivalries back then , Seljuk lords who were both Sunnis fought eachother more than they fought shia, also Europeans Christians fought eachother more than they fought Muslims
Al Mulk didnt have an empire, It was Seljuk Turks’ empire and al Mulk was a Vizier. Interesting how the video maker omits that absolute fact and bends the true history. Makes the rest of the video quite uncredible…
43:15 They say it’s 1192, showing Jerusalem with electricity and a close up of parked cars. The assassins might have been on hashish, but the guys making the documentary are on speed 😂
One important detail was left out: the practice of being an assassin comes from the Sassanid Persian Empire’s military practices, which was practiced on the Khalif Omar Ibn Khattab by Pirooz Nahavandi, a captured Sassanid military strategist. Iranians globally associate bravery and courage with the Assassination of Omar by Pirooz and celebrate it annually, regardless if you’re Shia or typically agnostic which most Iranians are.
You Persians try to claim everything, no the practice did not come from the Persians. You just wanted to say what you just said. Do you still cope hard after the Muslims defeated the Romans and Persians? You should be happy that it happened. Shia sect is a deviancy from Orthodox (Sunni) Islam.
There is a story about hasan al sabbah, nizam al molke and omar khayam which says they were childhood friends and they promised each other that they would become important people when they grow up. Iranian people refer to them as three school friends
Honestly, I don’t know why I gave it a thumbs up, but the real history on the assassin Creed dates back to the beginning of humanity pretty much. Just so you have the correct information.
@@thomasbell7033 Different symbols of earth histories. To the earth It’s just one big memory, but truth be told there’s not much to be said about them.
I guess you missed the part where they explained that these people are the first in the history of humans to be called assassins. That fact is why they are saying it began with them. Chronicle writers are fully aware that there were people who killed others for profit, theological, or political reasons. Those people, however, were not referred to as assassins. 😒
It does but Hassan Sabbah shaped it and gave it a proper organisation. It was perfected by him. Jews did use suicide attacks against Romans but not on an enterprinorial level. Hassan turned it into a proper John Wick from Max Payne.
This was probably the most successful guerrilla group that history has and truly earned the term ancient black ops.
Lol. No. Just the most well known, which begs the question, were they really that good if we know so much about their victims 500-1000 years later?
@ryanm7832 their existence wasn't secret. The order was pretty well known and feared. They were secretive in their motives and methods, but not their existence.
@teyanuputorti7927 they were not as great as the Shinobi though
@@OttoOctavius77 good point
@@ryanm7832 there still here tho
I thank Abstergo for making this video available.
Also thanks AC for teaching me more then school ever did even if it was a work of fiction
If that is true then you did an absolutely awful job of paying attention in school. Even if all you learned was basic math then that is already more than AC can ever teach you.
So what you're saying is that you have no marketable skills, didn't learn basic arithmetic, are barely literate, and can't offer anything of value to society, but you learned that some guys in the ancient Middle East smoked hash and accepted assassination contracts from a video game and a documentary?
Weird flex, but okay.😂
@@joshuacamacho9755he means history. There's a lot more historical accuracy in old ac games than in most middle school/high school history classes, especially when it comes to history from the 1400 to mid 1700s, and even with middle eastern history in the newest game assassin's creed mirage, in that game there's alot of information about the slave rebellion
Well you obviously didn’t learn proper grammar - we can deduce that much at least 😂
AC def crazy ,especially 2 (I think)
When you see the triangle , and it fits 72 mini triangles in it and you find out that there are 72 core religions or sumn , and the triangle is the strongest structure.... also it arises in teaching me about the masons & what not
The part where Saladins two most trusted bodyguards revealed themselves as sleeper assassins was crazy awesome. Imagine the horror Saladin must have experienced in that moment....
BUT WHAT A GANGSTER SALADDIN WAS HE SURVIVED ALL ATTEMPTS AND WENT CAMPAIGNING ALL OVER
Surely, saladin would have had the sleeper cells executed for treason?
@@IFAMILYIH gangster is maybe too little, one of histories finest men. Coming from a dutchy is even more impressive
He forged an alliance with the assassins later on against the crusaders
And we still cannot control them……go figure…..it’s not religious…..it’s cultural….different…..African cultures….like the Arabs…..are tens of thousands years old….europe was under ice 9 out of ten times…..cavedwellers
notice how this is a better story than the last few assassins creed games were. they need to make games from real history stories like this.
all you say in this video is historically incorrect, according to studies of history nothing of these statements happened and the persons and roles stated in this video are all mixed up and ironic, and the dates are not correct
@@GlockSurvival-c6sFirst of all, the original commenter didn’t write the script, so the idea that he was inaccurate is absurd. Secondly, you clearly don’t know what the word ironic means. Thirdly, if you don’t like it, you are free to watch any of a billion other videos on TH-cam.
Lol
@@GlockSurvival-c6sno these things did happen lol
must've not played mirage then because its closest to this story and close to the first assassins creed game.
DUDE, its so cool hearing that the world assassin basically means weed head lol. this really puts ac 1 in new light though, makes me want to replay it
Stoner life
The followers of the hashish! bom!
Hashashims. Yeah thought everyone knew that. It's mentioned in film . several times.
Psst....oi, "Auto-correct" has substituted "word" for "World" in your comment, it's a sneaky f-cker, "Auto-correct" assumes that it has control of what you type....
@@Christopherogley u want a cookie?
I'm super surprised that you didn't mention the fact that the cool hidden wrist blade from the game ACTUALLY DID exist and was actually used... they invented and manufactured a type of dagger that was kind of a gravity assisted design that activated by swinging their hand around or flicking their wrist. It wasn't widely used and difficult to make, but they did exist, and some were found, and many were directly mentioned in sources. The design was just kept a secret forever until the discovery, but I think the military banning them or deciding they're "impractical" helped wipe out our knowledge of them even further. I guess it's not really that relevant to the topic and would have added more time to the video, but I think it's still worth mentioning it, and it should have been mentioned in the video because I really truly believe from being a historian and reading sources, and seeing pictures of the artifacts, that this kind of blade was used in at least one of or maybe even all of the attacks that you talked about in the video. It's just an interesting fact to know...so I let everyone else know because I knew it.
I knew
Witch edition of the game was it in? I'm thinking of purchasing one
Thank you! Added knowledge is always a good thing.
Thank you do you have sources of this truth?
Inyetesting do you have any picture or pictures ?
With me being a big Assassin's creed fan I knew I'd enjoy this thanks very much 👍👍👍👏👏👏
Excited to listen to this while I go to sleep!:)
No sleepi time
Same here! Sleep well 😅😊
That’s the plan, but then I always watch 😂
When you wake up you'll be an assassin sleeper agent!
Facts
21:21, actually to the contrary. You use the drug to focus on the task and not worry about everything that could happen. I knew a few people that used to graffiti in really dangerous places, and they say when they are sober, they are thinking of everything that could happen when they are high thinking of the work
It's truly in the way that you use it.
Personally I think it depends on the "drug" and the person. I can't stand anything having to do with weed. But I've tried others with amazing success. One in particular that most folks (imho) couldn't stay on task to save their life. But of course these days it's far to dangerous to use. I personally don't have any desire to wake up dead. The risk FAR outweighs the benefits!!! So I'll leave y'all to it.
Y'all be safe out there!!
@@abitoffcenter383 it’s interesting you say that I have adhd, I would argue that most people that are neurodivergent use weed to stick to the task they are doing. Like I cannot focus on a individual task unless I am high
@@adh...lemonwaffles5660 its all in your head.
Says the junkie before death
Who decided it was a good idea to show cars and modern day outfits on people in the cutscenes? Kills the aesthetic
And you obviously have no idea how to make a film. If you were paying attention the speaker was referencing how long the fight has gone on andnhow it has carried over into modern times. Hence the modern section of video. Get a life.
The creators of the video is trying to educate a modern audience by trying to illustrate the roots of their thinking and ideology. The creators are pairing some of today's events with the historical contexts from which they came.
Probably someone without a time machine lol
Uhm... no @@manuellubian5709
Same thing I'm thinking
At the beginning, it would have been good of them to cover the evidence that the temple knights (Knights Templar) seem to have been working with them. Possibly as far back as 1080 A.D. But there's better evidence that their relationship started somewhere between 1090 & 1110.
Just like in the video game, the knight were digging under the temple mount hoping to find relics and/or treasure from the time of Solomon. Unlike the video game though, it seems, from what I've read, that they had a much more cordial & mutually beneficial relationship with the Assassins.
You should read David Livingstones work specifically his Ordo Ab Chao series of books. He goes really indepth into the origin and activities of the Templars as well as their interactions and cooperation with the assassins and what it led to.
@@ThatGuy-sc5rx
Thank you.
I'm more focused when I'm high on Marijuana than when I'm sober
I,TS called paranoia
same
Problem is you have to keep tacking more to gain the same effect.
It should not be implemented in your normal life.. should only be used as entertainment...
Being sober is still the best option to live
@@RadzeefRamlinope. Sobriety sucks. If I'm stoned, I don't have to deal with people. People make life miserable. I'm happiest when I'm high and walking through the woods. I'd take that over sober human interaction, any day. Maybe when people learn not to be trash, that'll change.
They are destroyers, not builders. Destruction takes a minute. Building takes a lifetime. One inherits death. The other inherits eternal life of love and family.
Before creation comes destruction
@@jeffkidd2959 and after destruction comes creation stfu 🤣
Depends, if they are destroying people who are more destructive than themselves, than what they do ultimately contributes to life. Just indirectly..
@@jeffkidd2959how
@jeffkidd2959 that's Hindu theology not muslim😂
im going to jump on assassins creed now while watching this 😂😂😁😁
What’s your favorite one?
i bought Black Flag on release day and more than a decade later I’m still obsessed with it..
@@agoogolofgeeseEzio trilogy is where it’s at. Unity got a lot of hate but if they stuck with that and perfected it things could have been so much better
😂😂😂😂Same!!!!
@@agoogolofgeese i really like rogue and odyssey even origins,but i hope they just give us a ezio game bring him back brnig back the assassin story and give us italy in all its glory like they did with greece in odyssey..
@@agoogolofgeese black flag was awesome too.. i have them all so i spend a little time each day playing them all.
@5:12 whats with the dance music 🕺🏻 😂😂😂😂.. tough he will start moving and dance on stairs
😂😂😂😂😂😂
The order of Assassins definitely raved to hypnotic techno while smoking hash 🕺🪩🪩
I don’t see the correlation between men who hit a specific target and people who blow up a building of innocent bystanders those two things are inherently different
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Huh? Flawed logic. Why? Killing one innocent man is as evil as a room full of innocents. There are no "degrees of malevolence"... the only difference is being a paid mercenary/assassin or a religious zealot.
@@LostInMarxism at no point during that video did they say the assassins was walking around killing innocent people they were in a war that’s not the same as me going into a Walmart or whatever the British equivalent is and setting off a bomb killing thousands of innocent people
The 2 implore a common thing, terror tactics that cause psychological effect.
@@marckennethcabanero7467 but that’s kinda expected between 2 entities that are at war and both know there at war
I've been waiting a long time for this episode
That jujitsu guy seems a little too enthusiastic. Maybe excuse yourself to go to the bathroom if you meet him at a party
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I’m guessing you’d probably find him in the bathroom chopping up lines
Dude is low-key a a Assassin himself.
Had no clue assassin's creed was so accurate to the real assassin's
Oh, aye. Could have used a few more feathers back then though.
The first one of course. The entire game was based on the mediaval hashshashin order.
American?
Especially the one that's based in feudal Japan
Oh wait...
that jujitsu guy really stabbed that dude
I’m here for the people who noticed how big a goober he is. Dude pulled out a Bowie knife
"a psychological dent"...understatement of the millenia.
Did that dude just defend terrorists? 19:46
Yes, its impressive. Thats why im here, but the way these people are in awe and are reverent, its like they never considered that these assassins legitimately created and maintained a ruthless cult.
The man who cannot be pictured whom created the cult that became a religion, was a terrorist warlord in his days of the 7th Century,
...it is one of the reasons why many terrorists are from that religion, because that concept is completely allowable and enshrined within its teachings, for those types of humans with that innate mindset.
You mean, kinda like here in America? We like to throw the word “terrorist” around at others as if our government doesn’t fit that word to a T. We are terrorists, we have AND use invasion forces, and our government outright admits it spies on and deceives it citizenry.
To me they Seem less ruthless then ragular islam
@vikingdrengenspiders7875 let me guess, "regular islam" in ur mind is about bombing and terrorism isn't it.
@@ziadabeed623 yes
Great post. I found it fascinating.
Fascinating to the point that no one Persian person is in the post 😂😂😂
The australian blade expert was my favorite part
Good vid, but it was jarring to keep having all the recent video clips stuffed in there. There were a couple times there was a late 12th century date shown on screen and then rifles and cars... Only a couple times did it feel like it served a purpose.
Yeah I thought the same, made no sense at all.
100% propaganda
Very good documentary full of facts. Learnt so much about the original assasins
Fascinating observations! Have you ever considered how historical inaccuracies in media influence our understanding of the past? Additionally, what do you think are the challenges in balancing historical authenticity with modern storytelling techniques in documentaries or films?
A TRUE example of what happens when a big nation threatens a small nation ! ... 😊👍 They were small in numbers, but, managed to put fear in the hearts of some of the greatest, and, most powerful nations, of that time !. .. 😊👍
Culminating in the war on insurection freedom fighters..just insertca narco economy sell weapons to em,then call it terror ..and the insertion of the war on drugs and narco economics upon every place they destabilise teach em to sell drugs to the USA youth they are protecting by the war on terror . Let them sell drugs to them so they can sell weapons back to the freedom fighters. .then....whenever they get beyond control..they call them terrorists .a construct .bizzario..suffer apple pie drug users. Collateral..we got concentration camps in Palestine being bombed by boeing,Lockheed Northrup.. Palestine is a USA aircraft carrier.....bunker busting 2 ton bombs on refugee camps. And leveling the land so they can't return to tents. Cus the command centres are all under refugees and hospitals ..wow
Boils my blood the CIA central south America and middle east situation .sell arms to the Saudis so we've got Arabs to fight properly.....teach em opium..same in golden triangle.vietnam. then ..Peru n columbia .noriaga.panama ..Iran..Olie North. The war on drugs and insurection at root is a a war against the American kids they are holding to random on pretext to usher in these 2 false psywar masterclasses. They are the market for the narco economics they installed. All figured into that plan. No conspiracy. .....all bases covered. Simple ones ard best.
That's big country influences small country.. nutshell
Seeing the correlation and underlying similarities with the original Assassins Creed game specifically is awesome. I loved this video. If it was actually possible for Follywood to NOT screw it up, I'd love to see a movie made of this, maybe more than one.
Pretty crazy because in turkey the story about salahaddin and his bodyguards also happens but not with salahaddin but with the sultan of the seljuks. I think the researchers got some translations wrong. Because the leader of the assassins name was hassani sabbah. In the book of john man nothing about this is written too. Only that they had a truce. So i really don't know where they got so much wrong information in a documentary like this. What a shame
Never knew, clever stuff. Keep us upto date. Can't know enough. JimBrit
This video brilliantly explores the real-life counterparts to the legendary assassins of the Dark Ages, shedding light on the deadliest special forces of that era. The historical insights and attention to detail make for a captivating watch, offering a fascinating glimpse into the shadowy world of covert operations in medieval times. Kudos to the creators for bringing this intriguing piece of history to life!
They lie about stuff deliberately. They were in egypt and they are arabs! Hassan al sabah is from yemen! There is no Persian state! It was the Seljuks! Who were allies of the Abbasids Arabs in Baghdad!
Narrator’s voice, just perfect!!! Does anyone know the name of this gentleman?!
Legend says that they dispatch 400 hundred assassins to Mongolia in order to shank the Great Khan. But they failed in their disguises because every single one of them are Arabs and no Asians, so they're all rounded up in a roadside and stomped to death under the horses of a Tumen (a whole Mongol division of 10,000)
Many of them were Iranians, not Arabs, of course there were Arabs among them.
@@rezasatan they dressed like mongol horsemen but when they arrived at a rest stop they were arrested because their mongolian speech have a thichk iranian accent.
@@rezasatanthey warent mongols tho
@@rezasatan if i live in mongolia, my beady eyes would've been raised in suspicion if I saw 400 middle-eastern looking people dressed in hoodies.
They're Persians bro, 😂😂😂
Where did the video creators find the documentation or historical written information for this story?
Wikipedia
Yup. Also, showing Mishteret Yisrael as today's equivalent of Salah ad-Din's "bodyguards" is stupid and insulting.
Listening as I take my hour walk
13;00 be careful if someone drops something in front of you
Living your best life
Great video. Thanks
Interesting fact, the Agha Khan is a descendant of the Old Man of the Mountain. Conrad should have ordered in instead.
Why,?......the war on terror and drugs should be nullified as war legitimisation and public acceptance of war for oil strategic areas. Against peasants. Cus it's saving the white bread psy fodder from scary .and from fear of savage genocidal campaigns. Ie Israel and Russia....and the whole of south a x central America .wherever the CIA go they leave em narco economy to give currency for to purchase guns by s we cling drugs to the USA youth that they are saving from scary. Ie .. insurrection freedom fighters...IE terror. That were taught narco economics by cia so they can fight the insurrection ,sorry. ""terror""..got to get it right. And ...so the world turns ...the war on drugs and terror pyramid scheme ..go figure
Yeah and now the global seat for the nizari ismaili imamate is in Lisbon.
@@carlosmelo6220 how so?..the hashashims?.
speaking as an ismaili muslim , he(Aga khan) is not the decendent of hasan bin sabah but the imam of ismailis at that time .hasan bin sabah was not an imam ,he was missionary of ismaili imam.
This documentary connects the old days to the present,that's why we have seen the ambulance which is the ultimate finality of the Assassin's Creed.
I'd beg to differ with Si-Fu Julian Hitch with all due respect of course but Hash, of which the main psychotropic component is THC. THC can (not always) INCREASE the user's ability focus. Trust me I've done extensive....wait what was I talking about? Seriously tho there are diminishing returns however. Overuse of any substance is a problem, all things in moderation. Including drug fueled assassinations.
Yeah, but it can also make you paranoid. Not good for an assassin
Still, Nazis and Japanese chose meth instead.
I’ve been in Masyaf castle in the year 2000 while visiting my father’s hometown Muhrada, an ancient orthodox Cristian town 25 km northwest of Hama city..
Syria it’s amazing with the vast historic places and sites one can visit!
As an example, very close to the town one can visit the Apameia ruins that have Roman architecture .
Sadly the city of Apameia, once the second largest Roman city in the near east has been destroyed by a big earthquake in the 6th century AD
44:14 "Cash me outside, how 'bout dat ? ... 🙃" 😂😂😂
is it now impossible to make a doc without banging music and fast sounds and imagery? The Assasins and the people who knowledgeably tell us about them deserve better than this rollerdisco of sensation. I had higher expectations of Chronicle.
I am a nizari ismaili and there are a lot of sources which defame our community's history, i would encourage others to take a look at us today
You guys have nothing to do with islam nor the original Ismailis. Your current leader Aga Khan is an English puppet and the set of beliefs is far away from anything islam. That's something both Sunnis and Shias agree upon.
why thats you a batini sect pure and simple and in the wuest of the 7th imam ..a complete fantasy ...there is one Islam pure and simple without this imam fantasy I do not understand how today 20224 you can believe that God is crazy and movie watcher to create such dramas and fiasco stories simplicity my dear why shall god play games with us hide and seek come on do not be naive u remind me of a friend who one day decided to be shia and start to doubt evrything based on fantasies for me either be muslim or do not be a simple choice no obligation whatsoever but trying to play the clever always lead to worse things easy believ or not
Ohh nice documentary, thank you so much!
Assassins Creed Black Flag is my favorite game ever
Worst game out of all of them !!!
@@i2308Mattit’s ok to be factually wrong Matt
Why is Matt wrong ? That game was piss poor compared to the others
I think Black flag is class!! One of my favourites.
@@wulltaylor just like your opinion
Hi there!
I’d like to know, apart of my congrats and greetings for this documentary, the narrator’s name!
Don’t want to look like an obsessed ( chasing him ) but he is one of my fav and best voices I’ve ever heard on TH-cam, by far!
I really look forward to your response. Peace 🙌
Religious wars depress me
Nah....they're fun
Without them we wouldn't know who's god is bestest
All modern day war depress me
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They are more of a reflection of man than religion.
My new favorite channel!!!
Older than dark ages.
Still around.
I’m Iranian and here are some facts about assassins that are told nowhere( I know some of these from lord of alamout and Idk how credible the book is). Hashashin was their name because they were medicine producers. There are many herbs in that area that even to this day are used as medicine. The reality of their intention wasn’t religious war(at least during hassan sabah era) the goal was to pick a creed and change so that restore iranians original traditions and culture before Islamic era.most of the assassinations weren’t as easy as planning and killing the target. They would study for years to reach to become a high status person and reach a position close to important political figures. As a part of their beliefs they did work out once a week. Even the regular followers had strong physic and when they fought they conquered many bigger armies with small number of warriors. Idk how they are compared with today’s terrorists, they didn’t kill regular people they. Just so you can imagine Nizam al mulk was prime minister in one the strongest countries of that time. It’s like we see presidents and ministers from USA Russia UK etc get assassinated.
Thanks, but there is no evidence supporting the idea of restoring ancient religions, and it doesn't seem to be the case-it is simply a distortion and fabrication of history driven by personal desires. Their primary goal, especially under Hassan-i Sabbah, was rooted in a specific religious and political mission tied to the Ismaili sect of Shia Islam. He aimed to establish a purist Ismaili state and spread his interpretation of Islam!.
The comparison to modern terrorism is merely a Western perspective, fueled by resentment and jealousy. What else could be expected from them, really?-Nothing 🤷♂️
M sleeping n want to watch the visuals too so I'll watch it later.
Excellent work here
I find this adds to my understanding of the extreme antagonism between Sunni and Shia. The recent attack of IS on Irans funeral followers demonstrates…..it’s still there
No it was mainly political, and the recent fightings between Sunni and shia in the last 20 years is an exception in Islamic history not the rule,that sectarian infighting was once every couple of centuries fuled mainly by politics, recent sectarian infighting was fuled mainly by Israel who see United Muslims danger to them
@42:51 28 April, 1192 Fade out and in to screenshots of modern cities and vehicles.
The assassins was born in Egypt's and went underground everywhere they needed service...
They lie about stuff deliberately. They were in egypt and they are arabs! Hassan al sabah is from yemen! There is no Persian state! It was the Seljuks! Who were allies of the Abbasids Arabs in Baghdad!
@@Bibliotecanataliejust like Arabs love to name the Persian gulf as Arab gulf.. get over the reality man
@@Bibliotecanatalie You are wrong, the area was Shia before the invasion of Seljuks that converted to Sunni Islam in order to justify their occupation of Mesopotamia.
Those that still stayed true to their Shia faith were Persians, and due to risks to their lives they isolated themself in the mountains.
Stop turkifying everything and steal other peoples history, I have even heard turks say that Saladin was a turk, and have recently made a turkish serie about him to brainwash the people into believing that 😂
The whole world knows he is a Kurd, even says so from all the books from his era especially in the biography that his close friend (Beha Ed-Din) wrote in year 1234 mentions this, ask anyone in Egypt and they will know. Why do you think there are so many mosques called al-akrad in the middleeast? Because it means mosques of the Kurds!
It was a persian prince that invited the Seljuk to help him take over the Persian empire for himself from his brother, this lead to the turkic people to get to power after betraying him and stealing the power for themself.
So how can you deny that there were no Persian state?
But I have seen people try to cover up the identity of Kurds, the oldest people tribe in Mesopotamia, and tried to pass them on as "mountain turks" in order to steal their lands, ban their names, language, history and music by oppression and massacres... So I shouldn't be surprised by anything at this point.
Assassin was born in Iran, there are still their castles in Iran
@@BibliotecanatalieThe official and court language of the Seljuk government was Persian, and the Seljuk kings used Persian names even though they were Turks. Names like Ki Khosro and Ki Qabad
loved the doku but why would you cut in scenes with cars between reenacted medievel scenes (43:17 e.g.)LMAO
As an Assassin's Creed player-fan, this was a huge interesting story. Thank you! ❤
@9:50 stiletto @10:10 slashi @10:24 goregeous
I expected Simon whistlers voice and was shocked when it wasn't 😂😂😂😂
The book I read on this said that their leader that ran this organization was called "The Old Man in the Mountian" He controlled the training and all the intrigue.
Thx, i really enjoyed this video. It teached me more than i knew.
Brilliant doc ❤❤❤
Very educative subject ❤
I know the story of Hassan i Sabah very well. What's missing here is the fact, that Hassan had 2 groups of men. One group was smoking Hash, and, when they were high, they were brought into "the gardens of delight" - which they believed, is paradise. Young women, music, - everything. These were the Assassins, the "Hashishins" - but, on duty, dope was nit used. Then Hassan had a second group, which didn't like being soldiers, - who had the capacity for "more" - these were thought in the spiritual ways and secrets. Hassan was a clever man. He knew, whom he can use as an Assassin, and whom he could teach the spiritual ways. But, the Assassins were the active, political killers, a deadly force. That's, what's missing here. Greets. Tom.
correct 100%
Whats with the cars at 43:20
Didn’t these guys pay tributes to the knights Templar at some point?
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Indeed they did,in order to stay safe from the Templars.The Order of the Temple was getting an annual large amount of money so as to leave the Ismaili alone,not persecuting them or besieging their castles and keeps.They were no real match for Knights Templar.And they knew that even if they assassinated the Templar Grand Master,the Order would simply elect someone else at his post,continuing his goal,so there was no real point killing him anyway...
@@ΓρηγορηςΓυροπουλος That's pretty much what happens after every assassination which is why it's never been an effective way to build empires. Someone else always just takes their place.
@@MrBottlecapBillthat's why Genghis Khan killed everyone. 😂
This group is where the creed we all know and love is created
I appreciate your disbelief in the rumors regarding Assassins.
Altair ❤
43:00 it's supposed to be April 28th, 1192, so why keep showing clips of modern cars in the streets??
Fire your Editor please.
Totally broke the immersion for me! Typical Ubisoft!!! 🤦
...plugging in Israeli police. 🙄
Interesting documentary
In fact, so deadly, that the Mongols, ended them, for good
One particular Mongol. The great Khan himself. Their ruthlessness was no match for his.
Maybe that should be the last assassins creed game to end the franchise ac mongol even the crusaders got hit
@@unoe4481 Nah the assassins live on, their remnants are living in Portugal.
They managed to kill several high officials of the mongols leading to the power struggle, thus scattering mongol unity.
However their castles stod 0% chance against the fire power of cannons, forcing them to leave.
Maybe after that they may still have had an hand in European affairs in return for land or protection, but we will probably never know to what extend.
as if mongols were not ruthless
@@romanhama5377 Hardly "live on" if there's nothing but scraps left.
The Mongols couldn't take Hungary, they could not have taken the rest of Europe, even Arabia (Not the the Levant) was a struggle for some of them.
Great 👍
The one expert kept on showing back grip knife techniques but i think front grip thrusting would be more useful.
Reverse grip or ice pick grip as it's sometimes called makes it easier to conceal the blade behind your arm from someone you're facing
I first heard about the assassins via William Burroughs Jr. which was a much different and strange doorway into this information/history. Uncle Bill created quite a character out of The Old Man of the Mountain.
Political assassins is still in operation
The new leader of Saudi Arabia 😂
Has founded the new creed the white sekt
Yeah by nato operatives
All that death over silly religious differences, sad. Still fascinating,
It's control...power.
Not really dude 😎
It's about politics, power... Gunpowder...
If there was no power politics, there would have no killings
Wrong, it was mainly political rivalries back then , Seljuk lords who were both Sunnis fought eachother more than they fought shia, also Europeans Christians fought eachother more than they fought Muslims
Great video
Interesting subject, shame made like the shows in today's tv. Older documentaries were much better, also narrated normally.
20:59 tell me youve never done drugs without telling me you’ve never done drugs
Why are we talking about ancient times and the crusades WHILE SHOWING MODERN AMBULANCE AND CARS???
Propaganda campaign at work. Divided and rule.
Thank you for this documentary. From iran
Im from the ancient city if Tyre. That city been to hell and back. The torah can tell you much about it
Jerusalem too . Mean every other week is army outside.
From the darkness, we serve the light.
We need them now
Very WELL done, The actual Truth is revealed
Al Mulk didnt have an empire, It was Seljuk Turks’ empire and al Mulk was a Vizier. Interesting how the video maker omits that absolute fact and bends the true history.
Makes the rest of the video quite uncredible…
Exactly.. they even lie about the Assassins who are Arabs.
@@BibliotecanatalieYou Arabs are not Shiites, we Iranians are Shiites.
Oh my god! I saw the documentary on the TV a decade ago!
43:15
They say it’s 1192, showing Jerusalem with electricity and a close up of parked cars.
The assassins might have been on hashish, but the guys making the documentary are on speed 😂
This ancient history documentary is proof that humans have always been extra, especially when it comes to building temples.
their one great weapon is fear. fear and terror. their two greatest weapons are fear and terror.....
One important detail was left out: the practice of being an assassin comes from the Sassanid Persian Empire’s military practices, which was practiced on the Khalif Omar Ibn Khattab by Pirooz Nahavandi, a captured Sassanid military strategist. Iranians globally associate bravery and courage with the Assassination of Omar by Pirooz and celebrate it annually, regardless if you’re Shia or typically agnostic which most Iranians are.
You Persians try to claim everything, no the practice did not come from the Persians. You just wanted to say what you just said. Do you still cope hard after the Muslims defeated the Romans and Persians? You should be happy that it happened. Shia sect is a deviancy from Orthodox (Sunni) Islam.
Idk, the comparisons to terrorism are a little sus to me…
If you can't draw parallels from then to now i don't know what else to say
Intro goes so hard!
I didn’t knew London had so many assassins 🔪
They'll be the death of us all. Flood us, rule us, kill us.
I really wanna know who are more powerful, Ninjas or Assassins?
All of this was true, I was the weed
There is a story about hasan al sabbah, nizam al molke and omar khayam which says they were childhood friends and they promised each other that they would become important people when they grow up. Iranian people refer to them as three school friends
Honestly, I don’t know why I gave it a thumbs up, but the real history on the assassin Creed dates back to the beginning of humanity pretty much. Just so you have the correct information.
And what is your source for this?
True 😊
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Different symbols of earth histories. To the earth It’s just one big memory, but truth be told there’s not much to be said about them.
I guess you missed the part where they explained that these people are the first in the history of humans to be called assassins. That fact is why they are saying it began with them.
Chronicle writers are fully aware that there were people who killed others for profit, theological, or political reasons. Those people, however, were not referred to as assassins.
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It does but Hassan Sabbah shaped it and gave it a proper organisation. It was perfected by him. Jews did use suicide attacks against Romans but not on an enterprinorial level. Hassan turned it into a proper John Wick from Max Payne.