American Reacts to the History of England
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Now that I have learned about the extensive history of Great Britain and the incredible reach of the British Empire it is time for me zoom in a little deeper. Today I am excited to learn and react to the History of England. I am both a bit embarrassed and yet happy to say that I have absolutely no idea what I am about to learn about English history. If you enjoy my reaction feel free to leave a like, comment, or subscribe for more videos like this!
Never call someone from Scotland or Wales English, and never call anyone from England Scottish or Welsh.
Not unless you don’t mind getting a smack in the mouth.
Those three just love to hate each other 😁
@@petebennett3733 my mum is Scottish ,my (step) Dad is Welsh and I was born in England , politics and sports are "fun " conversations in our family.
@@petebennett3733. Yes, we do have a love/hate relationship. 😆
@@kirstygunn9149. I bet you do.
I'm shocked that there was no mention of Alfred the Great! He was such an important figure in the history of Britain.
There was a mention of him as the King of Wessex but not by name.
No point crying over burnt 🍰.
@Baked Biehn I am sure what you say is true however for a completely ignorant twit like myself I still have acquired at least some understanding and grounding on the subject. From this mistakes can then be identified and corrected - all part of the learning process.
@@morrison37171 without Alfred there’d be no England. He laid the foundations to make the dream of a united England possible. Without him who knows what these isles would look like today.
@Baked Biehn True, but at least it was said to be an over view. All credit to the guy for at least looking with an open view to non American general teaching.
1066 was an extremely important date in our history. It was the first and last time that the land mass known as England was defeated and taken over in war. William the Conqueror, also known as William of Normandy, or William the first was the person who had the tower of London built to help defend his new acquisition.
Except of course for the glorious revolution of 1688.
Or William the Bastard… my personal favourite moniker
He also ended slavery in Britain, anyone who owned a slave would pay a fine to him, the lords of the day eventually got around it by declaring their slaves free men in service to the lord of the manor-Serfs - no rights and just a new way of owning slaves.
@@mehere6865 he did, which was a good move. But should be pointed out it wasn’t done for any moral or ethical reasons. Was purely a tactical move to strengthen his own position.
Here in Hastings we call him William the bastard. 'Cos he was!
If you want to find out who all the King’s and queens of England were, I recommend watching ‘Horrible Histories Kings and Queens song’. Also if you want to learn more, just watch any Horrible Histories. That’s how we learnt our history as kids in primary school and it all still slaps 😌😂
Absolutely seconding this! Frankly Horrible Histories generally does a rly good job of explaining British history in an accessible way
As a middle aged British woman with two teenage children... I also suggest the Horrible Histories books and first few seasons of the TV Show to adults just starting to gain an interest in British history. It is a great way to introduce topics that you can use as a springboard to then expand your research in what interests you. Be warned the songs will be burned into your memory for the rest of your life.
i know EVERY lyric!
such a banger song
I would like to suggest Elanor Farjeon's book of rhymes about the Kings and Queens. Ms Farjeon is also the person that wrote the lyrics to the song/hymn "Morning has broken" - made famous when Cat Stevens added music to it.
Yessss
Correction: the romans weren’t blocked by a wall, they built a wall known as Hadrians wall which is located entirely in Modern day England, which kept out the those they deemed “savages” which is now modern day Scotland and a small section of Northern England
Also Spain English conflict: yes the battle of the Armada but does an American not know the Spanish+French+Dutch helped them win the American Revolution
They never beat great britain, they signed a treaty and sued GB for smashing there country up.
Though the Romans did eventually expand into Scotland. They built another wall, the Antoine walk, north of the Central belt but also built settlements and forts in the Southern Highlands.
And castles weren't to protect the English from invaders - they were built by the Norman invaders to keep the locals subjugated.
And many slaves too.
@@wessexdruid7598 100% correct. it does annoy me when Videos like these skip over a lot of the Tribal conflict and Kingdoms that use to make the collective name called England. (these Tribal / Lord/Barons areas developed into what we call constituencies in the modern age who represented in the commons, this was before MPs even became a thing , it was lords and Barons in the commons(nobles really) funny enough it wasn't really for peasants) and as you put one king william didn't want the peasants to revolt so he built castles for the lords/barons to hold the kingdom for him, in many cases replaced Barons that were more loyal to the new king William.
This made me laugh so much, our History is crazy, and it’s not until someone trying to figure it out, that you realise just how complicated and intriguing the UK is God I’m proud.
Boudica (also written as Boadicea) was a Celtic queen who led a revolt against Roman rule in ancient Britain in A.D. 60 or 61. As all of the existing information about her comes from Roman scholars, particularly Tacitus and Cassius Dio, little is known about her early life; it’s believed she was born into an elite family in Camulodunum (now Colchester) around A.D. 30.At the age of 18, Boudica married Prasutagas, king of the Iceni tribe of modern-day East Anglia. When the Romans conquered southern England in A.D. 43, most Celtic tribes were forced to submit, but the Romans let Prasutagas continue in power as a forced ally of the Empire. When he died without a male heir in A.D. 60, the Romans annexed his kingdom and confiscated his family’s land and property. As a further humiliation, they publicly flogged Boudica and raped her two daughters. Tacitus recorded Boudicca’s promise of vengeance after this last violation: “Nothing is safe from Roman pride and arrogance. They will deface the sacred and will deflower our virgins. Win the battle or perish, that is what I, a woman, will do.”
Like other ancient Celtic women, Boudica had trained as a warrior, including fighting techniques and the use of weapons. With the Roman provincial governor Gaius Suetonius Paulinus leading a military campaign in Wales, Boudica led a rebellion of the Iceni and members of other tribes resentful of Roman rule. After defeating the Roman Ninth Legion, the queen’s forces destroyed Camulodunum, then the captain of Roman Britain, and massacred its inhabitants. They went on to give similar treatment to London and Verulamium (modern St. Albans). By that time, Suetonius had returned from Wales and marshaled his army to confront the rebels. In the clash that followed-the exact battle site is unknown, but possibilities range from London to Northamptonshire-the Romans managed to defeat the Britons despite inferior numbers, and Boudica and her daughters apparently killed themselves by taking poison in order to avoid capture.
I'm pretty certain Anglia in a sense being from the Angles, in their own language their name being spelt Engle, where the name England comes from meaning Land of the Angles.
Gan still in the Geordie dialect is directly from Old English either meaning run or go.
She was Iceni anglo saxon not celtic
@@grahammorters4715she wasn’t Anglo Saxon!
@@jsmithmultimediatechAlso means the same in Scotland
@@grahammorters4715 Mate wtf are you talking about, the Icenis were Celts, this is like 400 years before the Anglo Saxons turned up
I’m British and my ancestry was actually traced back to viking chiefs Azlock and Ozlack. This was very interesting because my grandparents surname is Haselock which obviously is incredibly similar sounding
Never feel embarrassed about not knowing something, the only thing that matters is that you’re making an effort to now 👌 Most people can’t be bothered to learn their history, as an American your family roots probably come from the British Isles or Europe 😎
Ignorance is the ability of not to want to learn or question what we are told. He has made an effort. It would take an historian a lifetime to learn about British history. As equally so with European or other nations histories.
The Normans were not really "French". They were the descendants of Viking invaders who eventually accepted the French king as their overlord - but they kept fairly independent. They adopted the French language and French culture - but they were not, strictly speaking, actually French or Frankish...The name Normandy (and the Normans) is related to its settlement by Vikings - aka "Northmen"...
Exactly
Norse
I bet the English were thrilled when they found out their French overlords were also Vikings too.
@@hareecionelson5875 lol...well if there was an England then, I'm sure they did...lol
I am 68 in London and did not know that or realise The Tudor Dynasty came from The War Of The Roses.
I live north of Manchester and we still have a local roman road with a roman cross
Alfred is an important king and not mentioned in the film ! Aethelstan was his grandson, but Alfred did all the work.
Clearly Alfred did not do *all* of the work because, at his death, half the territory now known as England was ruled by the Danes. He did part of the work but the idea of a unified England was essentially his (imparted, legend has it, in a dream by St Cuthbert of Lindisfarne).
Edward the Elder, Aethelflaed (Lady of the Mercians) and Aethelstan did the rest and, even then, subsequent kings (Edmund, Eadred, Edwig and Edgar), had to win back territory lost to other Viking invaders who divided Aethelstan's England again by setting up the Kingdom of York which lasted several decades.
The War of the Roses between the houses of Lancaster and York for the throne of England was the inspiration for the Game of Thrones books and series.
It was also part of the nook the white queen.
Hadrian's wall to keep the wild northerners out played a part, too :)
@@RCassinelloHow so?
@@ianmatthews3041 Well ... there was this wall built to keep wild people from the north out of the realm.
@@RCassinello Nope!
It was to Control the Passage of People Crossing over!
Game of Thrones was based on real events from Scotland and England, even the seven Kingdoms, the enemy across the sea, the Great wall and the barbarians to the north.
Wales has a national animal of dragons and believe it or not Scotland's national animal is the Unicorn.
The red wedding really happened in Scotland.
England was Albion, Ireland was Hibernia, and Scotland Caledonia.
the lion and the unicorn were fighting for the crown,
the lion beat the unicorn and chased him round the town
@@ianprince1698 The Lion is real, the Unicorn is make-believe. Is that a childhood fable or something???
@@daveofyorkshire301 that rhyme I learnt as a child.
It's not popular now, but it's nursery rhyme that I knew in the early 1970s and goes back to the 1600s. It's about the relationship between England and Scotland.
@@daveofyorkshire301 - i guess in the middle ages even the lion was a legendary animal. No one in England would have seen one since the Romans left.
A lot of heraldic animals were just exaggerated retellings of real ones. The cameleopard was a giraffe, the manticore was a tiger, the unicorn may have been the retelling of someone once seeing a rhinoceros and passing the story on by word of mouth.
England and France are like squabbling siblings. We're more alike than either would care to admit, but we've been stuck next to each other for so long our tiny differences really irritate us 😅
I am not related in any way to a French person, thank you.
Calm down Barry lad.
@@matteoj226 Apologies, I went "off my head" with that reckless comment.
Oh God, I shouted at the TV so much when watching this. But well done for wanting to learn.
Your thoughts about living on an island as opposed to a larger continental landmass sums up what it is to be British. As Churchill said; "We have our own dream and our own task. We are with Europe, but not of it. We are linked but not combined. We are interested and associated but not absorbed. If Britain must choose between Europe and the open sea, she must always choose the open sea.”
That's a fabulous statement by Churchill.
So he explained Brexit in a nutshell
@@scarba yup
SPOT ON THIS NEEDS TO BE REMEMBERED AND ENFORCED!! 👍💪👊🤬🏴🇬🇧
And then he took a lead role in the formation of the European Community.
I bet the native Americans would disagree with your assessment that US history starts at the revolutionary war 😉
I'm pretty sure that your country has some really interesting history before the European arrived
Not to mention the fact that British Colonies were there for over 100 years before the revolution, so they do have history
I 'm actually quite staggered with the amount of complete insensitivity towards Native American history, as much as possible it was destroyed and buried.
Agree totally. Ignored the Spanish influence in Florida and the French (which he has already seen) and the Louisiana purchase and then Alaska and Hawaii.
@@patsydf Well if this is the case, I'm somewhat staggered by the complete insensitivity from the British towards the Australian Indigenous, I mean it was only 200 years odd that the British went to Australia. So much of a muchness!
Yep and the Australian indigenous would disagree with when Australia's history began, which the British seemed to define!
Game of Thrones was based know the 15th century "Wars of the Roses", although Margaret of Anjou didn't do the Naked Perp Walk and Elizabeth Woodville didn't control dragons.
The map of Roman Britain suggests Cornwall was part of it, but like Wales & Scotland it was a Celtic region outside their control
The first King of England was Æthelstan, Grandson of Alfred the Great of Wessex, which is often a shock to people who somehow think the Guillaume la Batard (William I the Bastard/Conqueror) is the beginning of the Monarchy.
Celtic Britain was extremely scary for the Romans, for Romans Britain was some strange island on the edge of the known world where the Celtic Druids still practiced human sacrifice.
The Celts of the European continent had become slightly Romanised whereas Britain hadn't, so Britain was completely alien for the Romans.
There's records of Celts in Britain harassing Roman soldiers then hiding in marshes and bogs then goading Romans to following knowing the Romans couldn't fight effectively in those conditions.
The Romans only wanted Britain due to the high amount of Tin, which was important for making steel weapons, armour and tools.
Roman soldiers hated being stationed on this cold rainy island to the north
there are stories about how the cornish ate the romans.. they would tie one soldier up and make him watch whilst they ate the rest and then let him go so he could go and tell his superiors
@@Alloya I don't like the thought of this as a Cornishman, but good to be informed! Thanks. We don't do this these days. Tyler, great video.
From "Heart of Darkness" when the characters are sailing out on the Thames estuary on their way to Africa: “And this also,” said Marlow suddenly, “has been one of the dark places of the earth.”
Don't worry, even we British are not aware of lot of it, we're taught in schools mostly about Prehistoric Britain, Romans, Vikings, Saxons, War of the Roses, Tudors, Elizabethan era (Shakespeare), Victorian era and the world wars. Mainly because as you've discovered here, there's a hell of a lot to even glaze over, let alone deep dive into.
My school didn't want to teach English history until A-level. We learnt European history - mainly French and American History.
Well I worked in education and I know that it's changed a lot since I was in the system. At primary school, we were taught about the stone age, the iron age, lake dwellers right up to the Norman Invasion. My secondary school history included British and European history, including social reform, wars of independence etc. All this in State school.
Then Thatcher changed the curriculum.
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I'm assuming you will not see this as many other won't either but I need to get this of my chest as there were so many problems. First of all, I hate summaries as they miss so much, this missed out so much of the Spanish conflict, the Viking conflict, and so so so much more. The English language is not French and old English, it's actually Old English, Old Norse (mother to our language), French and Old Latin. Hence why it's so difficult. It missed out so much detail of King John and the Magna Carta not to mention that as I've seen some people say, the Norman's weren't strictly French as a Viking Warrior turned French Noble man was actual named Rollo a Viking ruler, not French. The only reason why William beat our King was because they marched so long and far, and we're weakened, lossed many in casualties from the battle with Hardrada that William defeated us. Great Britain, as we know it, did come to exist until the early 1700s (18th century). I find there were many inaccuracies in this informative video. It is, for the most part, correct but missed out so many other important historical events and information.
I sympathize with your sentiment, but I believe summaries have their place. Not everyone wants or has the time to watch a two-hours long documentary on the history of a nation, which will also miss a lot because there's always more to learn and learning history is a never-ending rabbit hole.
That's not to say I wouldn't want a History Re-Summarized on England from OSP, because I personally like their presentation style and would love to see Blue go into more detail and take more time to properly explain certain things, but I don't hate summaries as a concept, especially for people who are just starting to dip their toe into a topic.
Of course, Tyler should watch more about the history of England than this video. This should just be a starting point, not the whole story.
(Also, gonna be pedantic here : English has a lot of vocabulary from Latin, either Classical, Ecclesiastical, or New Latin, but not so much Old Latin. Old Latin was spoken before Rome was an empire.)
'Who was living there already, I'd be interested to know' - he literally just told you before you asked that question: The Celts 🤣
There were several layers of settlement before the Celt, back to interglacial nomadic groups crossing Doggerland.
@@rosemarielee7775 True dat. But he was specifically asking who was there when the Romans arrived :P
@@rosemarielee7775 yes but by the time the Romans showed up, those layers were culturally if not politically unified as Celtic speaking tribes
You can check out the history of the English Language. It's far more complicated than Anglo Saxon and French. Thrown in some Latin, Greek, German, Dutch, Norse and various other words and expressions picked up from trading around the world and the Empire 😁
Here’s a link to the history of English: th-cam.com/play/PLbBvyau8q9v4hcgNYBp4LCyhMHSyq-lhe.html
I think all of Europe has a bit of Norse - the Vikings came up with the compass points. And then we did a lot of nicking words from wherever was popular or learned at the time and we DIDN'T SORT THE SPELLINGS OUT. Kids who learn to read in English learn much more slowly than those doing it in languages where they kept tidying up.
Also you have the languages of Galic, ( Scotland and Ireland ) and Welsh which are some of the oldest languages in Europe. Also Manx and Cornish.
@@rockybateman2904 and the Britons of Elmet,Rheged, and Strathclyde..present day West Yorkshire, Cumbria and present day Ayrshire and Galloway...😊
Such as French and Indian words like 'Cha, Bungalow, Jodhpurs......
It's quite amazing, the history of the British Isles.. I can leave my home here in Wales, drive 5mins and there's ruins of a roman town just there... sitting in a field.
The current royal family claim descendance from William the Conqueror- but there have been several breaks- so they aren't any more related to him than the average English person.
Um, no, I don't think so. They're mostly German.
England, like most of Europe, was inhabited by Celtic tribes, but they were also invaders in previous centuries. Before them, various other neolithic people lived in what came to be called England. Stonehenge and many other stone circles in Britain date back to the time of the ancient Egyptians (3000 BC) but we know very little about them.
There were the Celts. Then the Romans. Then there were the Saxons. Then the Vikings. And then the Normans.
The Celts moved North and West and kept themselves pretty much to themselves.
The Romans were active in England.
The Saxons came mostly to South East England.
The Vikings carried out raids and some of them stayed.
The Normans took over pretty well all of the British Isles, including Ireland.
You can see the influence of all the invasions on the English language.
@@emmajones8590 Not most..there were Cetic tribes. from france etc..Scots and the others think they are unique
Iron Age tribes, not Celtic. The Keltoi were German.
There were people before the Celts!
@@emmajones8590 Nah there were people here before the Celts arrived, they were just wiped out
We tend to think of "King Alfred the Great" of Wessex as the turning point that starts the whole England thing. He was the grandfather of Aethelstan who eventually completed the job. Although since then there have been some lesser adjustments over time to the actual borders with Scotland and Wales.
You left out the main turning point that brought us here 1066
yh aethelstan was the king of the english this was the title of the king till 1066 when william i became king of england and not the king of english
@@antonygill5104 England existed for centuries before that bastard seized the throne. Though, after the Normans finished subjugating the English, they began many of the invasions that started the formation of the UK and the bitter hatred for England that still exists in many Welshmen, Scots and Irish people today so I guess you're not totally wrong.
@@antonygill5104 1066 has no relevance to the creation of a unitary state in England which existed fully formed from the 900s.
He is said to have seen a vision of St Cuthbert of Lindisfarne who told him to go and do it.
A man after my own heart. Love facts and how life evolves. History is so interesting and complex.
I love these videos because I really want to jump through the camera and explain all his questions
I live in York. used to be the capital of Northumbria. The whole city has a wall guarding it that was built by the romans. We also have a famous medieval street called that Shambles and it was the street that influenced Diagon ally in Harry Potter.
Tyler you need to check out Boudica, Queen of the Iceni.
The Victorians created a version of their image of her which is often used to represent "Britannia".
Britannia is the name the Romans called the area of the UK that was conquered as part of the Roman Empire.
It probably comes from the name Pritain Island which supposed to mean Island of tin or pewter. Becouse Romans and probably also Greeks used to trade tin from the Island.
How ironic
Scandinavia - A lot of the English language has Norse (Viking) origins. Place names like York were Viking settlements (Jorvik). Then the names ended up in places like New York.... originally from a Viking name. Days of the week like Wednesday (Odin), Friday (Frey) and Thursday (Thor). The Vikings were also in North America FAR before Columbus and other Europeans.
Queen Boadicea was one tough broad and a thorn in the Roman side.
Yes Spain and England fought. The Spanish Armada was wiped out by the English. As comedian John Cleese (Monty Python fame) said "The Spanish are building a new armada. It will be glass bottom so they can see their old armada".
More on the days of the week Tuesday is tyr's day -> god of war
Friday could also be freyja's day
Vikings: what is now Newfoundland, in Canada.
I went to a tourist center in Almansa Spain and they had a section about the British fighting with them. They even had The Times newspaper cuttings on what happened. The Brits with the Duke of Marlborough (1701-13), stopped France dominating Europe. You probably know about it.
The whole of the Wirral on Merseyside was a Norse stronghold.
I watched some egrets flying over the river to Tranmere, Birkenhead yesterday. Tranmere is Norse and means the place of cranes (egrets) in English.
@@sophiabee8924 - Cool. Thanks.
William the Conqueror was promised England by Edward the confessor, after he held him captive, but Harold Godwin reneged on the deal, so when Edward the Confessor died, in 1066, Harold declared himself king. He fought a fierce battle at Stamford Bridge, and had to then immediately March down to Hastings to fight William. The battle was close, but Harold was then shot and killed by an arrow. As depicted in the Bayeux tapestry. William declared himself the victor, and proceed to loot, subdue and terrorize the English. Their descendants looked upon England as just their conquest, really, for a few hundred years. To Richard the Lionheart for instance, England was just a bank that he could keep dipping into for money. The antics of his brother John instigated the Magna Carta at Runnymead, which aimed to protect the rights and privelidges of the aristocracy. A lot happened in those 300 years, before Edward the third started attempting to subdue and conquer Wales and Scotland. They were not officially a union until the Scottish king James 6th became James 1st of England after Queen Elizabeth the First died, without children, leaving the son of Mary Queen of Scots as king of the Union of English and Scots.
When this programme was made, Scotland was thinking of going independent.
The whole of mostly England is riddled with Roman settlements.You get some also in Wales and Scotland.Also many British names of towns have their origin from Rome.
yep! I'm from Manchester, we get our name from the latin name for the fort Mancunium, potentially coming from either 'mamma' meaning breast since we're on a big ole hill, or some have also suggested it comes from the name of a local river goddess. Whatever the case, the people of Manchester have been known as Mancunians more or less since and to this day 😁
Although I do not know all of this I do remember learning some of it in school and I am an American 🇺🇸 but I may be in the low percentile. I loved history and it was always my favorite subject in school. I also had a strange fascination with England, Great Britain/UK but particularly England. My family lineage on both sides is traced back to Primarily England and Ireland but also France and Germany. My favorite vacation I ever went on was when I went to England and France. While i only saw a small portion of England I was in love with its history and looked forward to going back someday. My favorite place there was in Windsor where Windsor castle is. I absolutely loved that area and found it so charming. What’s crazy is I actually grew up in a small town in upstate NY USA called Windsor.
You appear to confuse Britain with the UK; these are not synonyms.
England = a country within the island of Great Britain; England shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north and is part of the United Kingdom.
Great Britain = large geographical island in the British Isles comprising three small countries: England, Scotland, and Wales.
United Kingdom = country and kingdom consisting of four smaller countries: England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.
English = belonging to or relating to England, or its people: Englishwoman, Englishman.
British = belonging to or relating to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, or to its people (English, Scottish, Welsh, and Northern Irish) or its culture.
Englishwoman = me.
Hope this helps. xx
I think it was a Jay Leno show where he went walk about with a map and asked Americans to point out various countries. So he asked someone who would be about the right age to have gone to Vietnam if he could point to Vietnam so he did. No sir thats Canada.
An important point to remember is that the vast majority of the population could not read or write. Only the nobles and the clergy got the education necessary to write books. It wasn't until 1870 that the Education Act became the very first piece of legislation to deal specifically with the provision of education in England and Wales.
England and its people were/are basically a hybrid of ancient British/Celtic/Brythonic, Angles/Saxons/Jutes, a small amount of Roman, a bit of Viking/Danish, and then a sizeable part of Norman French (who themselves were, as I understand it, orignally Vikings who settled in Northern Gaul).
Culturally Roman but not genetically, not alot of Romans colonized Britain because:
1. It was considered a backwater province full of rebellions
2. It was out of the way for trade
And when Rome declined many of the Romans that did live there fled from the Anglo Saxons.
The north of England was more anglo-danish than anglo-saxon by the time the normans arrived. But the northern lords refused to bend the knee so the norman armies marched north and decimated the population. The scourging of the north is rarely mentioned in history lessons, though the north-south divide in England endures to this day, socially and economically (though the south hasn't always been on top: the industrial revolution was mostly in the north, which is why if you look at a satellite map of England at night the belt from Liverpool through Manchester to Leeds and Bradford outshines most of the southern counties even now. There's only really London and its commuter zones that light up down south. And Birmingham in the midlands).
@@nagillim7915 that event you're talking about is called "the harrying of the North", it's pretty interesting because the North had a rebellion under Godwinson due to taxes, his own brother led this rebellion, then went to Norway to convince Haradra to invade England.
Yes except that the Normans were overwhelmingly native French with just the ruling class being partly of Viking descent
@@the98themperoroftheholybri33 Yes, but what about inter-marriage during the 350 years when the Romans occupied? Isn't that why the population is referred to as Romano-British? Isn't it also true that, whilst the northern parts were subject predominantly to military occupation by ethnically diverse legions from far flung parts of the Empire (e.g. the Middle East and North Africa), the most southerly parts of the island were settled domestically by a denser population with actual cities (rather than just forts with a satellite vicus attached), a lot more villas and farms?
Scandinavia is broadly regarded as Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and sometimes Finland and Iceland.
Britannia (the goddess of warfare and water) was the name given to the UK by the Romans, hence Britain. The United Kingdom is the name after Edward I conquered Wales and James vi of Scotland inherited the throne and became James I . Edward the Confessor (of the big crown) had been in exile in Normandy with his mother Emma of Normandy. She had been married to king Aethelred ii and later to Viking king Canute. Edward kind of promised William the Bastard, Duke of Normandy his crown. However Harold Godwinson had himself crowned at Westminster abbey the last Saxon king and had to march up to Yorkshire to fight the Viking Harold Hardrada, and won. Then had to march hundreds of miles back down to Hastings to fight another battle with William Duke of Normandy. This time he lost and was killed by an arrow to the eye. His wife Edith Swan neck searched the battlefield until she found him. William the conqueror who then ruled from 1066, was quite evil, killed and burned and took people's land from them. And that is history...........
Rollo, from the show Vikings, was the great great grandad of William the Conqueror. Rollo caused so much shit in France that King Charles the Simple gave him the chunk of land he named Normandy, basically Land of the Northman.
One American who was reacting to the "Difference between UK GB England ...." said that they did not know that "England"(GB) was an island.
A Castle is a Fortified Residence. Most of the supporters / high born soldiers who came over to England from Normandy were rewarded by William by being given Titles and Land. They needed to protect their land from the locals and rivals. That class of nobles and aristocracy were all French speakers for several centuries. King Edward III was the first King to speak English as his first language. But English any way was an ever evolving language.
The US has an expression to denote the elevated class (tongue in cheek) of certain people by saying "They came over in the Mayflower".
We have a similar expression ... "They came over with the Conqueror" 👍😎
I don't wish to be pedantic,"Pedantic Lady" but shouldn't " any way" be one word in this context?
"If you zoom out far enough, North America is an island"
Ah, American geography.
Sigh
I can't even put into words how much I appreciate you trying to learn about European history.
Btw Romans were at one point, around year 100 AD, pretty much spread out through the whole continent+Northern Africa and Middle East.
Wow, seeing your reaction, this video really badly explains things for a history newbie. Quick summary:
-In Roman times, the original inhabitants of England were Celts (like Irish and Scottish people today) called Britons. The Romans sort of conquered them and called the province Brittania, but then left when the Roman Empire collapsed (oversimplification) in 410 and Germanic peoples from Scandinavia and Germany came over.
-The Germanic peoples called Angles, Saxons and Jutes migrated over in the 400s to 600s, and created several kingdoms while fighting and repelling the original Celtic and Romanized Britons who got pushed to the west (what is now Wales).
-Viking invasions happened in the 800s to the 1000s. The Vikings (also called Danes bc most were from Denmark) set up kingdoms in eastern and northern England. In response, the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex conquered remaining Anglo-Saxon kingdoms and fought the Vikings for a century before having all of England under Anglo-Saxon control around 1040.
-In 1066, the next-to-last Anglo-Saxon king of the House of Wessex, Edward the Confessor, died without a son, so powerful noble Harold Godwinson took the throne. King Harald Hardrada of Norway, the last Viking king, tried conquering England but was defeated and killed by Harold Godwinson.
-Then, Duke William of Normandy (the Normans were descendants of Vikings who had settled in northern France, become christianized and assimilated into French/Frankish culture), who was basically an independent ruler even though he was supposed to be subordinate to the king of France, invaded England, defeated Godwinson and the Anglo-Saxon and established a dynasty of French-speaking kings and aristocracy at the head of England for hundreds of years.
Sam Revlej This is all makes really good sense, but to put your final paragraph into full context for American readers, we need to mention, or indeed confirm, that Duke William of Normandy is widely known in history as William the Conqueror (becoming William 1st) and the defeat of Harold Godwinson (King Harold) took place on October 14th 1066 and is known as the Battle of Hastings
@@gregcoles6555 True, true, I forgot to be precise in my haste to oversimplify.
Thanks.
I have cut 'n pasted your excellent summary.
Also, Edward the Confessor had promised his throne to William, but apparently playing more than 1 horse he hadnt ordered it to his nobles. The Normans were also descendants of Danish Viking, who under the great Rollo (in Danish Rolf or in Old Danish Hrólfr) laid siege to Paris a few times for ransom, until the French king gave him, what became Normady (land of the Northmen) in 911. It is said, that at the time of William the Conqueror Danish was still spoken in the streets of Caen.
Modern English is a hodgepodge of Old Celtish, Roman Latin, Old Danish and Norman French, that baked for a few hundred years. So like the Brits themselves its a very mixed breed.
And as a Dane, I still shudder, every time I hear about "King Canute". English speakers really butcher that name. His name was Knud with a hard k at the start and a soft d at the end, called "den Store" or "the Great". But apparently English speakers are incapable of pronouncing the kn and soft d sounds.
I love how this is like the most basic knowledge in England that basically everyone knows but step across an ocean and suddenly it becomes a complicated mess
I came across your video you posted yesterday it popped up on my feed. I watch other American reactors who react on similar U.K. history, cultural and comedy, so I thought I’d check you out.
Very impressed with your reaction, great video yesterday and today.
Don't forget the founding of the US was during Queen Elizabeth the 1st reign. The US state of Virginia is named after her as she was 'the virgin queen' without a husband or heir.
You crack me up. Keep it up!
generally, most english look to alfred the great as the first king of england. he stopped the vikings from taking over ALL of england. academics would not agree with this. However he is the most famous of the anglo saxon kings.
The composition of Great Britain can't change as that is a geographical area, but the UK could change if Scotland gains independence.
England didn't exist at the time of the Romans as that was name given later to the 'Land of the Anglisch (English) Speaking People" and English didn't exist as a language yet.
Aethelstan was the first king of all the English but later dynasties were not his descendants. The current Monarchy are descendants of the Electress Sophia of Hanover.
William I was a Norman who had invaded, which is why he replaced the Anglo-Saxon aristocracy with Normans.
The vote to leave the EU polarised the countries of the UK. Scotland & N.Ireland voted to stay - and Wales's vote to leave was swung by the number of English retirees who live there. That has left internal strains on the UK - if one union can be left, why not another?
IMHO it's only a matter of time, now - and I say that as someone born 'British', of English, Welsh & Irish roots who married a Scot. The break up of the UK will diminsh all of us - and further damage our influence and economies. It angers me that the nationality I was born with is likely to be taken from me, by ignorance and lies.
Also Anglo Saxon kings weren't in power through purely bloodlines, often they'd be voted in by the other nobility if the heir was considered incompetent or not worthy
@@wessexdruid7598 well that's not strictly true, it's due to the SNPs incompetence and blaming Westminster for their own mishandling of things, so they lie and push for a referendum, it failed once so they just keep trying to push again and again, I truly hope Scotland wakes up to the SNP and realise they're a nationalist part in name only, they're a globalist party who want to exchange England (a partner with shared history and culture) with the EU (a master who doesn't care about anyone).
I personally want English independence from the UK, we bear the brunt of everything and receive very little in return but everyone hates us for it, it's about time we let everyone else hold the bill
The Queen is not a descendant of Aethelstan but she is a descendant of Alfred the Great (source google)
@@Sahaib3005 Through Æthelflæd?
You are like abreath of fresh air! Everyone outside of the USA thinks that Americans don't know anything about anywhre outside of North America..... seems we were right huh?! Good for you for being open to learn. On behalf of Brits everywhere I thank you!!!
Pre-Roman Briton was home to the tribes of Iron Age Celts, ruled by local Kings and overseen by the higher ranking class of Druids.
Good afternoon from Wessex! There's a ton of ancient stuff in England wherever you care to turn your eye. The small town I live in is the burial place of two of King Æthelstan's uncles who were bigwigs in the Royal House of Wessex before England's unification. Stonehenge is just up the road and we're still not entirely sure how they built it with 5000 year old technology. Down the road in the other direction is a 2000 year old chalk engraved figure in a hillside called "The Cerne Giant". He's instantly recognisable by the large club he's wielding over his head and the large erection he's sporting. There is a local legend that barren couples could conceive if they made love on his engraved ding-dong on the night before May-Day. If you like history, folklore, mythology and a very tangible sense of being able to touch the past then England should definitely be on the bucket list.
Right,I'm off fer a cuppa tea. Cheers bruv! 🇬🇧👍
The Vikings settled in both England and Scotland and many areas of North East of both countries are full of Viking place names. Some places adopted a lot of the Viking language and many English words and slang are from the Vikings.
Regarding Royal families, it was common for Royal families throughout Europe to swap daughters amongst each other plus a lot of cousins marrying each other, so they are mostly all related to each other to some degree.
And they were always fighting each other as well.
The Normans beat the Anglo Saxons in battle and took over England, they didn't let them in.
There are many place names in northern England and lowland Scotland which come from Celtic ( Brythonic - Welsh) too. All over England even, cf Dover which comes from the word 'dwfr' which means 'water'. ( 'dwr' in modern Welsh).
@@marythurlow9132 That is true. My local town is Dumbarton (Dun Britton - fort of the Britons) and was a major centre for a kingdom that stretched from Scotland to North Wales. The Vikings also ruled the far West and the Hebrides (inner and outer) and the Isle of Man. Their rule eventually evolved into the Lord of the Isles which lasted for a few centuries.
Scottish town and mountain names are predominantly Celtic but the far North West, the North East and a few other areas have Viking names. The United Kingdom is a hotch potch of names derived from Anglo Saxons, Normans, Vikings and Celts but I was trying to emphasise that the the Vikings did not just raid but also colonised and settled and interbred and became part of the country in the same way as various immigrants became Americans.
@@UnknownUser-rb9pd That is true.
Big Ben is the bell inside, the tower it's self is called the Elizabeth tower
This was a brutal watch, the sheer lack of listening skills and ignorance is rough, but I shouldn’t have expected any more from an American, at least this American wants to learn.
Look at a map Tyler. Normandy still currently a region of France. In those days it was a Dukedom. Most of the current French regions were individual Dukedoms or Kingdoms with their own rulers. France itself was a much smaller and separate entity. However, many of the Dukedoms, etc. gave fealty to the King of France.
William was the Duke of Normandy. Of course he's going to need his own Army and bring over his own people he can trust to take charge of different parts of Country. He can't do it all personally. Otherwise he'll end up dead within a couple of days 🙄
The Angevin Empire wasn't really England ruling bits of France, it was really a French dynasty that ruled both England and parts of France. It was common for the "English" kings of that time to actually spend most of their time in France.
Yeah the majority of Plantagenet kings wouldn't have identified as "English", at least not until King Henry IV who was the first to speak English as his first language.
Also there were the Burgundians who were French nobility who were on the English Crown's side for rulership of France, its believed by some that the concept of an army uniform came from the Burgundians who required all soldiers to wear a blue uniform and red X on their chest and backs (with their heraldry and badges displayed elsewhere), every man from Knight to simple man at arms had to adopt this dress within their army
Richard the Lionheart famously barely lived in England 😂 more happy to crusade and live in France.
@@jamesswindley9599 Also, remember his Queen, Berengaria, never even set foot in England.
@@jamesswindley9599 yeah he was literally an Occitan king. Wasn't even particularly Norman thanks to Eleanor.
Small correction:
The English crown did not pass from Elizabeth I to James I&VI (two royal numbers to account for both England and Scotland) due to Elizabeth not having a male heir, she didn't have an heir, period.
Edit: Corrected spelling error
EliZabeth.
@@lizbignell7813 You're right, my bad. Corrected the comment
Thank you. As you can see it is my name too!
@@lizbignell7813 Yes, I can see ^^
Accidently used how her name is spelled in my native language (German), so I can assure you no disrespect was intended
howdy from texas, loving this journey . i knew a lot of this from looking it up on my own, feel like i agree that we didnt really learn this stuff in school here. maybe the problem is retaining information but still lol.
Useful Charts channel has good videos of royal family trees that strike a balance of brevity and comprehensiveness.
Great reaction mate! Love your enthusiasm and eagerness to learn. In fairness to the maker of the video you are reacting to, it's almost impossible to condense the story into a half hour show, fully get your confusion over what would be obvious if the original video explained it fully.
Hey mate... from Australia :D I just wanted to let you know, I learned about you from Ryans channel during his last live stream.... so I thought I'd come over and see what you do.... glad you are a bit different from Ryan... I mean us Aussies have pretty much adopted him and his beautiful family lmao..... so WELCOME TO THE FAMILY..... you'll find Aussies and our cousins in NZ, the UK etc. are extremely loyal... we don't mind if you 'take the piss out of us'.... as long as it's with humour.... we love educating US citizens who don't tend to get taught a lot about the world... it makes us happy :D Keep up the good work mate #thumbs up
William the conqueror was a French noblemen of Viking decent
Spookily enough they called the first William "William I" when there was a second William (II) I don't think they could make it any simpler. Now if they they had numbered them 3, 6, 2 ,1, 7, 4 I could understand your confusion.
You should react to "Every Country England Has Ever Invaded: Visualized" by RealLifeLore. its incorrect and misleading in some places but gives a very good overview of the power and success of the British army and navy throughout history.
Nicely Done YOU ! Enjoyed this….thank you 👍✨🤗
Here's an interesting fact: Big Ben is the name of the bell inside the tower not the tower itself. The tower is called The Elizabethan Tower after Queen Elizabeth II.
Americans always think of London and the Queen, Downton Abbey and Harry Potter - all very sedate and genteel. Here's another view of the English for you: the Atherstone Ball Game - th-cam.com/video/LxM2SejTCg0/w-d-xo.html
Hey hey. I am a British person who just wanted to say, that I am very much enjoying watching your videos. I lived in the US (in Michigan) for a few years as a child - mid 1970s - so with that, plus a number of subsequent visits to the US, and many American friends, I fully understand the gap in knowledge and perspective, that you are exploring. You do this very well. And you come across as someone with intelligence, humour and kindness, as well as being just INTERESTED in our country and its culture. You occasionally get some details wrong for a short while, but you usually bring it back around to the real facts. I think it is actually quite important for people to be open to other (and/ore related) cultures, the way that you clearly are. Thank you again, this is brilliant work that you are doing.
Ignorance is forgivable. You're already ahead of the curve....
The original inhabitants were mainly celts. Their empire actually stretched all the way to Rome and beyond, but it was when the city of Rome was sacked by the Celts, they decided to get organised!
One thing they skipped over was the English civil war, which helped shape the relationship between the royals and the people in the present day
Yup, overlooking for the moment that the Cromwellian 'parliament' charged the king with treason and chopped he head off in public.
Apparently Americans learn the British history from Disney films 🤣
Your just showing your own ignorance.
the original english were the beaker people. By the time the Romans arrived, the people spoke a celtic language, the remnants of which is the Cornish language. The official language after William the 1st for hundreds of years was Norman French, which differs from Modern French. It is a language on the Channel islands (Jersey, Guernsey, etc) where it is taught in schools, though English is spoken normally.
The Cornish language is very close to Welsh. Cornish & Welsh speakers can understand each other.
Thank you for mentioning the cornish, we get forgotten in many of these history videos.
No, the original English were the Anglo-Saxons (English being a modernisation of Ænglisc). The Beaker Culture actually originated in the Eurasian Steppe and displaced the native people of ‘England’ in the late Neolithic or early Bronze Age.
Well, if we want to be more accurate, the beaker people were the original Welsh.
The ‘original English’ were the Angles and Saxons, who came much later; only after that invasion did ‘England’ and ‘the English’ exist on the British isles.
Up until then, all of Mainland Britain (what we now call ‘Wales’, and ‘England’ - including Cornwall) was inhabited by Welsh Celts, who were predominantly descended from the Beaker people, and mixed with the Gaelic Celtic peoples after their migration from Europe.
While the North of Britain (what we now call Scotland) and the sister isle across the sea (that we now call Ireland) were inhabited by Gaelic Celts, who were predominantly descended from the Celts of Europe, which is why there is similarity and indeed commonality between modern Welsh, Scottish, Irish (and also Cornish) languages and cultures, but why the Welsh language, and Cornish language, seem so different compared to the Gaelic languages of Scotland and Ireland.
Long before the original ‘English’ ever came to the British isles, were the Celts, who were also immigrants to these lands but became the staple culture here after their migration, and became what we now know as the Welsh, Scottish and Irish (though predominantly the Gaelic peoples of Scotland and Ireland, as while the Welsh were also Celtic of culture by that time, they actually originated from the native inhabitants, the Beaker or ‘Brythonic’ peoples).
Beaker people, or ‘Brythonic’ peoples were the original inhabitants of the British isles (as far as we can currently tell), and were the ‘original’ Welsh, prior to the coming of the Celts and the assimilation of Celtic culture.
They appear to have migrated to Britain from the Iberian peninsula during the ice age, establishing themselves as the first known inhabitants, and speaking a language that we now modernly call ‘Brythonic’, from which Welsh was born.
Cornish is also a descendent of this language, as Cornish was actually initially branched from the archaic Welsh language, from the time prior to the Anglo invasion when mainland Britain was inhabited mainly by ‘Welsh Celtic’ tribes, such as the Iceni; however after that invasion, when the celts were pushed to the north and west, and what would later be called ‘England’ was taken over and inhabited by the original English, the geographical and cultural shift caused a split in the language and culture and the two naturally evolved over time into two distinct cultures and languages that we now call Welsh and Cornish.
Hope that helps xxx
@@WhiskeyInATeacup1111 I was talking about the land which is now England
I highly recommend the British History Podcast: it goes into incredible detail, is very accessible, and very entertaining.
A useful video about many things of historical lineage including a particularly good one on the royal bloodlines of England is Useful Charts.
William of Normandy wasnt "let in". He is called William the Conqueror for reason.
The "subject to possible change" bit is because a lot of Scottish people are keen to gain full independence for Scotland. Prior to the Romans were various Celtic tribes. The Celts got pushed to the north and the edges of the island, leading to the separate Scottish, Welsh, and Cornish people. That Norman King William is best known as William the Conqueror.
Although not a majority since a referendum was held which I assume u know but just for people outside the uk or GB
@@connoryoung8951 well, not a majority at the last referendum, but I wouldn't be too surprised if there wasn't another one sometime in the next few years.
@@jamesdignanmusic2765 it appears as if they will continuously try for independence no matter how many times its voted against, worst part is people in my family will ether be forced to move or lose there jobs due to what they do for work and its them and thousands of others in scotland.
i was in school during the last one so they got us to do months of studying for it even tho we where just too young to vote, scary that with all the votes that happen its usually the ones who cant vote that end up being the most informed.
There is also the future probable reunification of Ireland, given the demographic divide has levelled off as between Unionists and Nationalists, making a future Referendum likely to result in a vote for reunification.
I commend you on your search for knowledge sir! And I'm learning right along with ya, that video is DENSE with info damn
Aethelstan was a great king and the first king of England and a kind of UK. He was talking about William 1st or William the Conquerer who was from France but descended from a group of Vikings who settled in France hundreds of years before. You were the conquering army in America in a similar way to the Anglo Saxons and Vikings in England.
The British Isles go back quite a way before the Romans. Julius Caesar landed near Hastings in 55 BC in Pegwell Bay, Thanet, not far from the International train station … built more than two thousand years later. There’s a big rock on the beach near Hastings where he was supposed to have landed - and where my and my friends ate fish and chips once all the while thinking that the rock was quite big but not big enough for Caesar to have stepped on it when he landed and used it to commemorate the event.
The Norman claim was also Viking related. Vikings or Norsemen, settled in France and became the "Normans". American history, along with Canadian, Australian, New Zealand etc are actually just continuations of "British" history if you look at it that way. William replaced the English barons with this own men. And PS, this is very, very simple explanation of a much more complex history.
I can't believe Alfred the Great was not mentioned. I would consider him the first King of England.
@tyler rumple i really enjoy your content. I started watching your videos from Tyler Bucket learning Canada history. Found Tyler Rumple learning about UK. Also Tyler Walker and Norway history. Is there other channel i havent watched?
Now that you've done the History of England, you should do the same for Scotland, Wales and Ireland! Those on the 'Fire of Learning' Channel are pretty comprehensive and similarly illustrated to the one you've used for England, if a little long... However, one thing they don't put across so well is that the climate of much of Scotland is very different to England, Wales, Ireland & France, etc. This is not so much because it is any great distance away, as the curvature of the Earth is such that it is actually around a corner, so far as much of England is concerned - and that probably explains more than anything why the Romans and early English attempts to conquer Scotland failed - and why the Viking invasions did not! (The Romans did actually have summer camps well into the Scottish Highlands, but the lack of infrastructure such as roads prevented their permanent occupation). If you can find siuitable footage of it, you may wish to do a reaction to "Up Helly Aa," which is an annual fire festival held in the Shetland Islands, to commemorate their Norse Heritage. Similar fire festivals also take place throughout Eastern Scotland actually, with the town of Stonehaven celebrating each coming New Year with the hurling oif fireballs through its streets; and even Edinburgh has a hilltop 'Beltane Festival,' that is similarly related.
Perhaps owing to its generally more established population and earlier civil infrastructure that had come, thanks to the Romans; it also appears that France took a more intelligent approach to spreading its influence - whilst the English simply marched up north, hoping for the best! This is illustrated by the fact they forged diplomatic relations with Scotland, though of course this also had the desirable effect of making it easier to quell any English ambitions to invade France! It is certainly true that the successful Norman Conquest culminating in the Battle of Hastings in 1066 was one of the key moments of English history. There was a significant influx of Norman/French immigrants in England after that time and indeed, some of these slowly expanded into Northern England and into Ireland, over the next seven or eight centuries! Indeed, my own family name most likely has French origins and is associated with wood workers - who were lured into these areas by the availability of such employment and indeed, the bulk of their descendants remain in Irish Plantations territory, today!
I've seen someone asking the american public and they don't seem to know much about their own country
I think the same can be said about all County's, not just the US. A lot of people don't know about their own history of their country's.
@@debrasalmon2498 Europeans tend to study history, and know the history not just of their own Countries, but of a sizeable portion of the world. They are more conscious of history. They live in Countries where history surrounds them, in buildings, monuments, museums etc..
I'm Welsh ( Wales) and we have our own language which is spoken by about 25 % of the country
30% now apparently
William I, usually known as William the Conqueror and sometimes William the Bastard, was the first Norman king of England, reigning from 1066 until his death in 1087. A descendant of Rollo, he was Duke of Normandy from 1035 onward. Wikipedia
Have you considered starting a patreon, with exclusives and longer edits? etc
It only takes 14 hours (traffic dependent 😁) to drive from the top of the mainland to the bottom.
I think almost every UK museum you visit contains Roman artifacts.
Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire) has clearly taken inspiration directly from the history of Britain. Hadrian's wall was clearly the inspiration for The Wall with the wildlings (the Scots irl) being kept out by a big wall. Westeros is even shaped almost exactly like the British isles with the Iron Ilands being located where the Isle of Man would be and the capital of King's Landing being located on the east coast, slightly further north than where London would be.
I always thought that it was taking inspiration from the anarchy and war of the roses too
Enjoyed thanks
Right, I’ve watched him for days, I’m now convinced he doesn’t want to learn, he just loves the sound of his own voice.
Even when something has been explained in minute detail, if it is detrimental or negative towards the USA, the same old phrase that a lot of yanks use pops out, "Well, that can't be right".
ive never met any american who isnt an entertaining airhead. ...and ive lived and worked over there.
I'm starting to wonder if the goldfish memory thing is an act. Especially given his stuff elsewhere on TH-cam.
There are plenty of British-made movies and series that represent particular events, attitudes and identities. If you wanted to diversify your content you could include some of these to analyse how Brits tell stories about themselves, especially if they focus on a subject you have acquired prior knowledge of.
Cornwall & Devon were one of the few sources of tin at surface level, as it had escaped the effects of the ice age, and was necessary for the Bronze Age to have taken place. It was mined from 1800BC. Merchants travelled to get the tin. The romans then came to the British Isles for its tin, copper, gold, silver, iron & lead deposits, stripping it of muvh of its natural resources.
The Magna Carta.. A document no one ever took any notice of.